Chapter Nine: Ghost Empire
Author: ROONIE
last update2025-10-24 16:34:02
The Stratton charity gala left Milwaukee in chaos. Social media was flooded with videos of Landon Hill walking out into the night, calm and collected, while the Strattons seethed with shame.

A man once ridiculed by the city was suddenly a ghost everyone feared, but Landon wasn't enjoying it. He was focused on his work.

Claire tossed the remote aside. "Your pictures are going viral," she said. "Half the city thinks you're a vengeful angel, and the other half thinks you orchestrated it."

Landon st
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  • Chapter 294

    Landon Hale and Claire Arden were trapped inside the tiny window-washing elevator. They were plummeting twenty stories straight down toward the busy, burning streets of Lagos, Nigeria. The thick steel cables had snapped completely. There was nothing holding them up. The boiling hot wind screamed violently in Landon’s ears."Hold on to me!" Landon roared.He wrapped his massive, muscular arms tightly around Claire. He pulled her small body against his broad chest. He turned his wide back toward the ground. He wanted to take the entire, brutal impact himself. He wanted to shield her from the crashing metal. If he died, he wanted her to live.The hard, paved street rushed up to meet them. Fifteen stories. Ten stories. Five stories. They had exactly one second left to live. But thousands of miles away, in a freezing, dark stairwell in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jin was fighting a war on her computer."I have control of the portal!" Jin screamed at the top of her lungs. Sweat poured down her

  • Chapter 293

    The hot African wind whipped around them. The drop below was terrifying. Fifty stories of empty air separated them from the busy, noisy streets of Lagos.Landon saw the metal window-washing elevator cage hanging on the side of the building. It was only ten feet away.But there was a massive problem. The metal bridge connecting the balcony to the elevator cage had completely collapsed during the explosions. There was a ten-foot gap of empty air between the balcony and the safe metal cage."Landon, the bridge is gone," Claire whispered, looking down at the terrifying drop."I can jump it," Landon said confidently."Carrying me?" Claire asked, her eyes wide with fear. "If you miss, we both die."Landon looked deep into her dark, beautiful eyes."I will not miss," Landon promised.He backed up a few steps on the balcony to get a running start.Suddenly, a loud, heavy metallic crash echoed from the office behind them. CRASH!Landon spun around. The Hunter clone had found them. The evil, pa

  • Chapter 292

    The emergency stairwell inside the massive Aether Dominion skyscraper in Lagos was incredibly hot and dark.Landon Hale held Claire Arden tightly against his broad chest. His strong right arm was wrapped securely around her waist to support her weight. Claire’s twisted ankle throbbed with sharp pain every single time her boot bumped the concrete steps. She leaned heavily against his side.The building groaned loudly again. KRRRREEEEK!The floor slanted sharply to the left. The entire skyscraper was slowly tipping over."We cannot use these stairs," Landon growled, his deep voice echoing in the dark shaft. "The concrete is cracking. If the stairs collapse, we will fall fifty stories."Landon kicked the heavy metal door to the forty-ninth floor open. BANG!He stepped out into a massive, wide-open corporate office. The room was completely destroyed. The ceiling tiles had fallen. The expensive glass desks were shattered. But the most terrifying part was the view.The entire front wall o

  • Chapter 291

    Landon looked down at her. His dark eyes were filled with fierce, hot tears. "I am never leaving you, Claire," Landon said. His deep voice trembled with pure, overwhelming emotion. "Never.""You have to save the world, Landon," Claire cried softly. A tear rolled through the dirt on her cheek. "Please. Just go.""You are my world, Claire," Landon whispered fiercely.Those words hit Landon’s heart like a massive bolt of lightning.The powerful, raw emotion inside his chest suddenly acted like a giant match. It ignited the glowing white pool of Kinetic Echo magic deep inside his soul.He didn't just feel the magic in his blood. He felt it burning brightly inside his heart.Landon closed his eyes. He stopped trying to use just his physical muscles.He opened the invisible doorway in his mind. He pulled the beautiful, bright white magic of the War Resonance deeply into his own bones.He did not want to push the magic outward to hurt an enemy. He wanted to use the magic to protect the woman

  • Chapter 290

    The massive weight of the steel beam pinned her entirely to the floor. The concrete beneath her cracked under the incredible pressure. She was completely trapped under the heavy debris.Thick gray dust exploded into the hot African air, blinding everyone."Claire!" Landon screamed, his heart completely stopping in his chest.The dust slowly began to clear.Landon saw her. She was lying flat on her back, twenty feet away across a broken gap in the floor. The giant steel beam covered the bottom half of her body. She was coughing weakly on the dust. Blood trickled down her pale forehead.Landon took a step forward to run to her. But then, he saw General Kade Rauth.General Rauth had floated down from the sky. The evil general landed softly on the broken floor, exactly ten feet away from Landon.Rauth’s back was completely turned. Rauth was looking at the Hunter clone, who had landed safely on a nearby balcony.General Rauth's purple magic shield was temporarily turned off. He was comple

  • Chapter 289

    The freezing winter snow of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was thousands of miles away. But for Claire Arden, the terrifying cold was right in front of her.Claire stood in the smoky stairwell of the Aether Dominion skyscraper in Milwaukee. She was shivering. She stared at the monster standing in the doorway.The monster had Landon Hale’s exact face. It had his broad shoulders. It had his strong jaw. But its skin was deathly pale, like white paper. Thick, toxic purple veins pulsed angrily under the skin of its neck.Worst of all were the eyes. The creature did not have human eyes. They were completely solid, pitch-black pools of ink. It was the Hunter clone."Hello, Claire," the Hunter whispered. Its voice sounded exactly like Landon's deep rumble, but it was twisted with an evil, robotic hiss.Claire did not back down. She raised her silver pistol. Her hands shook, but her dark eyes were fierce."Stay away from me," Claire commanded. She pulled the trigger. Bang! Bang!The bullets hit the Hun

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