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Chapter 138. A World Without Gods
The night air was cold when Landon and Claire stepped out of the Vanguard safehouse. The city sprawled beneath them, streetlights flickering across wet asphalt. The distant hum of traffic reminded them the world kept moving, indifferent to gods, relics, and secret wars. Claire’s boots clicked against the metal stairwell as they descended, the echo sharp in the otherwise empty building.“Do you ever think about what comes after?” Claire asked without looking at him. Her hand brushed the railing, fingers tight on the cold metal. She kept her voice low, cautious, as if the walls had ears.Landon’s eyes scanned the streets. He noticed the shadows in alleyways, the irregular rhythm of neon signs, and the distant drone overhead, possibly an Iron Order patrol. “All the time,” he said. “But thinking doesn’t change much. We just respond.”Claire’s lips pressed together. She moved to the passenger side of their car, opened the door, and slipped inside. “Responding isn’t enough anymore. Not wh
Chapter 137. The Vanguard Strikes Back
The city hummed in the half-light of early dawn. Smoke rose from a collapsed warehouse in the south, a faint reminder that violence never truly slept. Claire leaned over a holographic table in the Vanguard’s Chicago safehouse, eyes flicking across streaming data. The schedules, manifests, and movement orders of the Iron Order rotated in midair. Each entry glowed red against the muted blue grid.“Here,” Claire said, pointing to a convoy route along the northern rail lines. “They’re moving relics from the docks to their central vault in the financial district. Three armored transports, fully loaded. Timed precisely to the minute.”Navarro crouched beside her, adjusting a small drone resting on his forearm. “They don’t leave a margin for error. One second off, and we trigger an automatic lockdown. No civilians, no mistakes. Got it.”Jin leaned back in the shadows of the room, fingers flying across a keyboard, pulling real-time telemetry feeds from the city’s surveillance grid. “I’ve ma
Chapter 136: Counter-Foresight
The night air in Chicago carried a metallic tang, thick with smoke from overturned cars and scorched concrete. Streetlights flickered, struggling against the chaos that had erupted across the south side. Somewhere nearby, a relic-powered gang skirmished with the Iron Order. Their shouts echoed through alleyways, followed by bursts of energy that made windows shiver in their frames. Landon Hale moved quietly, feet sliding over debris, eyes scanning, Kinetic Echo alive yet twitching like a nervous muscle. Something was off.“They’re suppressing me,” Landon muttered, his voice low, almost swallowed by the urban roar. His hands twitched as if feeling shapes in the air that weren’t there. His Echo, the sixth sense he relied on for anticipating attacks, seeing three, sometimes four moves ahead, was flaring in fragmented bursts. Shadows of the future appeared in slivers, blurred and incomplete. He couldn’t fully predict the enemy’s motion.“Predictive suppression fields,” Jin’s voice ca
Chapter 135. Relic War in the Streets
The night in Chicago’s south side was thick with smoke and neon haze. Fires burned in overturned cars. Broken windows reflected the light of flames and flashing holograms from nearby advertising towers. The smell of ozone and gunpowder filled the air. Somewhere, a siren wailed, distant but insistent.Landon crouched behind a concrete barricade at the edge of the alley. His boots were caked with ash. Every step he had taken since entering the south side had been careful, deliberate. His Kinetic Echo hummed faintly, like a tuning fork in the back of his mind, trying to predict what would come next. But tonight, the Echo was restless. The patterns it usually read, the flow of movements, the trajectory of attacks, were broken, jagged, unpredictable.Claire’s voice came through the comm in a low, controlled tone. “Positions. South side grid compromised. Multiple targets moving north along Division Street. Gang is relic-powered. Iron Order is inbound. Avoid direct engagement until I mark
Chapter 134. Fractures in the World Order
The room was dark except for the soft glow of multiple holo-screens. Landon stood at the center, arms crossed, eyes scanning the live feeds from Chicago, Berlin, and Toronto. Each window showed activity that made him tighten his jaw. Holo-maps flickered with red dots moving across cities, representing Iron Order units. Some units moved openly through streets. Others stayed in shadows, like predators circling before a strike.Claire leaned over a table, tracing patterns with her finger. “They’re not hiding anymore,” she said. Her voice was low, precise. “They’ve gone public in multiple cities at once. And governments are letting them.”Landon didn’t reply immediately. He tilted his head, watching Chicago’s shipping docks on one screen. Black-uniformed patrols intercepted a rogue cult without hesitation. The cameras showed civilians freezing, staring as if the world had shifted beneath them. No chaos. No hesitation. Just a clean, surgical elimination.“Look at this,” Priya said, tapp
Chapter 133. The Ghost General
The room smelled of stale coffee and ozone. Screens lined the walls, each flickering with data, city maps, and streams of energy signatures. The Vanguard had been awake for hours, poring over every anomaly Priya had found in Chicago’s networks. The lights hummed low, giving the space an uneasy tension. Landon stood in the center, shoulders tense, watching the monitors reflect across his face.Priya’s fingers moved across a holo-table, pulling up fragmented files she had spent the night decrypting. The room fell quiet as the streams of data converged into one name: Kade Rauth.“Landon, look at this,” Priya said, her voice low. She tapped the screen, bringing up a profile. “Rauth. Multiple military citations. Strategic brilliance. Presumed dead for over a decade. And now, leading the Iron Order.”Landon leaned in, eyes narrowing. “The Iron Order has a ghost at the helm?”“Not a ghost,” Priya said, her tone sharper now. “A general. One who doesn’t miss. Who doesn’t hesitate. Whoever th
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