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Two weeks after the gala, New Harbor is still buzzing with news and gossip. The financial district can talk about nothing else. Sonar Corporation has officially declared bankruptcy. The filing made front-page news across every major outlet.Enid's pride is shattered. The woman who once ruled New Harbor's social circles now hides in the mansion, refusing visitors. The servants have been let go. The house feels hollow.Knuckles suffered a heart attack three days after the stock crash. He's hospitalized now, stable but broken. The stress had been too much. Years of building an empire, gone in weeks.Charlotte hides from the media. Paparazzi camp outside the mansion gate, former friends won't return her calls. She's become a cautionary tale, a meme and a punchline. The woman who threw away her husband and lost everything.The once-powerful Sonar family has fallen so far the impact crater is still visible.Meanwhile, Mavis operates quietly. No press releases, no interviews and no public ap
First Slap
The Lawrence Grand Hotel hosts the annual New Harbor Elite Gala—a night where business sharks and big names flaunt their wealth and influence. Crystal chandeliers cast golden light across marble floors. Champagne flows endlessly. Designer gowns and tailored suits fill every corner.The Sonars still attend, they are desperate to appear stable despite their collapsing company. They need to project strength, find new investors, convince everyone the rumors are exaggerated.Charlotte wears her most expensive dress—midnight blue with diamonds at the throat. She forces smiles as she moves through the crowd, her face was a perfect mask. Lugar clings to her arm, pretending confidence he doesn't feel. Enid does the same, laughing too loud at jokes that aren't funny.Then a new face arrives at the entrance.He's wearing a sleek black suit, perfectly tailored to his frame. His stride is calm and measured. His expression was unreadable. He radiates power and wealth the way others radiate perfume.
Remember Me?
It starts like every other morning at Sonar Corporate Tower, with executives sip their overpriced coffee in the gleaming lobby, as assistants hurry between floors with tablets and folders. Charlotte struts through the entrance in designer heels that click against marble, drawing attention and announcing power.By 9:00 a.m., everything changes.The first email lands in the CFO's inbox with a soft ping.LOAN RECALL NOTICE: IMMEDIATE PAYMENT REQUIRED.He stares at it, confused. Clicks refresh, and another email appears. Same subject line, different bank. Then another, and another. Within minutes, his inbox is flooded.By 9:15, the color has drained completely from his face."This can't be right," he mutters, typing furiously, calling his contacts at the banks. "We had six months on that loan. We had extensions negotiated..."Nobody has answers, or rather, they all have the same answer: the debts have been transferred to new owner with new terms. Pay now or face legal action.An emergency
Phoenix Holdings
The morning sun rises over New Harbor, painting the skyline in shades of gold. It's a funny irony, considering Mavis now owns literal tons of that gold. He sits in a nearly empty café on the edge of downtown, his hoodie pulled up, with a laptop open on the scratched table. The screen glows with financial data streaming across multiple windows through a stolen network line.[Mission 2: Establish a Financial Entity.][Objective: Begin silent acquisition of Sonar Corporation debts.][Sub-Mission: Locate the other four vaults and recover Donard family assets.]His fingers move across the keyboard with precision the old Mavis never possessed. The Enhanced Intelligence flows through him like electricity, guiding every click, every calculations and every decision. Numbers make perfect sense now and market patterns reveal themselves like obvious paths through a maze.The name "Phoenix Holdings" appears on his screen—a shell corporation he'd registered an hour ago. Multiple layers of offshore
Donard's Ghosts
New Harbor's Westside district never sleeps. It's all hustle and bustle, every day, every night. Neon lights blink through smog, sirens echo in the distance. Beneath the shine and glitter sits The Vault—an infamous underground casino where criminals and politicians rub shoulders. Money moves faster than conscience here. Power changes hands before you can blink. Secrets are the real currency, worth more than chips on any table.Mavis stands across the street, wearing a dark hoodie pulled low over his face. He looks calm and ready. Just another shadow in a district full of them.The System's voice echoes in his mind:[Mission 1: Recover the Donard Fortune.][Location Identified: The Vault, Westside.]His father's hidden fortune wasn't sitting in some bank vault with his name on it. It was too obvious and too vulnerable. Instead, he'd smuggled it into this very den years ago, buried under fake identities and shell corporations. Hidden in plain sight where no one would think to look.Mav
The System Awakens
The rain slowed, then stopped.Mavis lay in the alley, his body was glowing faintly beneath the torn, blood-soaked shirt. The blue light pulsed under his skin like electricity through wires. Inside his mind, a voice rang out, calm, robotic and absolute.[Host identified: Mavis Donard.][Scanning humiliation data… Accumulated: 1,247 instances.][Betrayal Severity: MAXIMUM.][Initializing Vengeance Protocol.]Mavis's fingers twitched. The voice wasn't just speaking to him, it was doing something deeper. Rewiring him and reconstructing him from the inside out.Then he felt a sharp pain, a searing agony erupted through his entire body. Every nerve ending screamed at once. His back arched off the wet pavement. He tried to scream but no sound came out at first—his throat was too raw, his lungs too damaged.Then he found his voice when he screamed from the pains.His hands clawed at the ground, nails scraping against concrete. But underneath the agony, something else was rising. Something im
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