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Chapter 171. The Still World
When Jonah opened his eyes, he stood alone in a world that looked both alive and dead at the same time. The air was not moving. It was like frozen glass. The dust in the wind was hanging in place. The clouds above were trapped mid-spiral, half curled like stiff fingers. Everything was silent. Everything was still. Jonah blinked slowly. His own breath echoed too loudly in his ears. He took a step forward and the ground under him rippled like soft light, not earth.He whispered, “Where am I?”No answer came. Not even an echo.He looked around and saw New Crest stretched before him, but it did not look like New Crest at all. Half the city glowed blue. The other half glowed red. The colors touched each other like two halves of a broken world trying to fit.The sky above had the same split. The left side was soft blue, calm and warm like dawn. The right side was harsh red, sharp like a blade. The colors met at the center of the sky, swirling in a silent circle that never moved.Jonah
Chapter 170. The EMP Dawn
The sky turned white before anyone touched it. Morning light had not yet risen, yet the plains shone as if the sun had fallen onto the earth. The towers around New Crest began to tremble one by one, shaking like tall glass trees afraid of a coming storm. Birds scattered. Dust lifted. Every metal surface hummed at once.Jonah felt the change before he heard it. It hit him like a sharp spike pushed into the center of his skull. He stumbled forward, pressing both hands over his eyes. The hum around him twisted into a long scream that only he could hear.Lisa rushed to him, catching his arm. “Jonah! What’s happening? Talk to me!”He shook his head, breath ragged. “Someone activated something, something big. It’s coming from the north grid.” He swallowed hard. “It’s cutting through everything. All connections. Every line. Every pulse.”Lisa felt the cold spread through her fingers. “Then we stop it.”Before Jonah could answer, another wave of pain hit him. His knees buckled. He collapsed
Chapter 169. Collapse Signal
The night in New Crest did not feel like night anymore. The sky was too bright, too restless, too alive with colors that did not belong to nature. Red veins crawled through the darkness like cracks in glass, stretching from the distant plain toward the city like fingers searching for something soft to crush.Jonah stood on the edge of the central tower balcony, his breath unsteady. The hum inside his chest trembled like a broken heartbeat. He kept pressing his hand against his ribs, trying to calm the wild rhythm that shook through him.Lisa stepped beside him, worry in her eyes. “Jonah, talk to me. What are you feeling?”He closed his eyes and whispered, “The network is splitting again. Something is breaking inside the Breath-Born. A command is pushing through them. Something old. Something wrong.”Lisa swallowed hard. “Is it Olos again?”Jonah wanted to say no. He wanted to promise her that the unity they built would hold. But the truth twisted in his voice. “It feels like him. It
Chapter 168. The Return of the Hunger
The city felt wrong the moment Jonah opened his eyes. He sat on the edge of the tower platform, staring at the horizon. The sky looked normal. The wind brushed softly against the metal rails. People moved far below like tiny shadows, confused and tired but trying to believe in a peaceful day.Yet Jonah felt something rising inside him like a second heartbeat, something slow and heavy and red.He tried to breathe it away. He tried to pretend it was nothing. But every time he blinked, he saw the same thing behind his eyelids, a single eye glowing red in the darkness, staring back at him.“Not again,” Jonah whispered. His voice shook. “Not again, please.”A soft metal footstep sounded behind him.Lisa approached carefully, watching him the way someone watches a loved one who is pretending to be fine. “Jonah?” she asked. “Are you alright?”He forced a smile. “Yes. Just tired.”Lisa studied him with eyes that already knew the truth. “You’re not lying very well today.”He looked away. “Som
Chapter 167. Breach of Trust
The scream of the hum hit Jonah before the sound even reached the city.It slammed through his skull like a blade of heat. He staggered, gripping the edge of the tower platform as the air shook around him.Lisa ran toward him. “Jonah, what is it? What’s happening?”Jonah pressed both hands to his temples. “The network is shaking, someone is hurting it.”The hum rose again, sharper, louder, full of fear and pain. The towers on the plain flickered in panicked waves of blue and gold. The veins in Jonah’s arms glowed like dim lightning, pulsing with the same erratic rhythm.Lisa grabbed his arm. “Sit down. You’re not steady.”“I do not have time,” Jonah said through clenched teeth, pulling away from her. “They are calling me. They are crying. I must answer.”He started running toward the steps that led down to the street.“Jonah, slow down!” Lisa yelled as she chased him. “Tell me what is wrong!”He did not slow. “One of the towers turned red. It is burning from inside. Something is push
Chapter 166. The Red Bloom
Jonah stood on the balcony of the council hall, feeling the breeze brush against his skin. The sky above New Crest was pale blue, soft and gentle. The people below walked slowly across the streets, whispering, smiling, trying to believe the peace was real.For a moment, Jonah let himself breathe. A calm breath. A human breath. Then something inside his chest twitched.A sharp pain. A pulse that was not his. Jonah grabbed the railing. “No.”The hum changed.It started as a soft tremble under his feet, then grew louder, deeper, vibrating the stone walls around him. Birds scattered into the sky. Children stopped playing. People froze in fear.Lisa ran out onto the balcony. “Jonah, what’s wrong?”He did not answer. He could not. His jaw clenched as another violent pulse hit him from the inside like a hammer made of fire.He whispered, “Something’s coming.”Lisa grabbed his arm. “From the towers?”But Jonah shook his head slowly, sweat running down his face. “No. From the plains.”A deep
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