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Chapter 303: Gina's Intel
They crossed the cavern floor, the ground uneven, littered with sharp volcanic rock and strange, crystalline formations that pulsed with a faint, sickly internal light. The groaning, hissing sounds of the ancient machinery grew louder as they approached the tunnel opening. The tunnel was narrow, barely wide enough for them to walk single file. It sloped steeply downwards, twisting and turning. The air grew hotter, the metallic taste stronger. Faint red light flickered from somewhere ahead, casting long, dancing shadows. After several minutes of claustrophobic descent, the tunnel opened into another vast chamber. But this one wasn’t natural. Massive, archaic machinery filled the space, pipes thick as tree trunks snaking across the floor and up the walls, glowing cherry-red in places. Pistons hissed, gears groaned, the entire chamber thrumming with barely contained power. The air was thick with the smell of ozone, superheated metal, and something else... something that made Kyle's s
Chapter 302: Grand design?
Kyle didn’t answer immediately. Grand design? His only design was to stop being hunted, to protect Natalie, to carve out a space where they could be safe. If that meant dismantling the Association brick by brick, so be it. If it meant confronting Kings... he’d cross that bridge when he came to it. "They started it," he said finally, the words simple, cold. Gina nodded slowly. "They often do. Power abhors a vacuum, and new power is always seen as a threat by the established. The Association, for all its talk of order, is merely another player seeking to maintain its dominance." She took a small, deliberate step closer. "But Valen is not Necrus. The Spire is the heart of their network. They will defend it fiercely. Director Luther is not a man to be trifled with, and he has... resources." "I’m aware," Kyle said. Katherine’s fear had been genuine. Luther, Unit 7... he wasn’t underestimating the opposition. "Are you?" Gina’s gaze sharpened. "Do you know that your domain, while potent
Chapter 301: Gina
Arachne stood beside Natalie, occasionally offering quiet corrections or pointing out structural weak points in the Spire’s lower defenses that Natalie might have missed. Viv lounged in a chair, sharpening one of her daggers with a whetstone, occasionally interjecting with cynical comments about the Spire’s likely kill zones."They’ll have psionic dampeners around the divination sanctums," Viv said, not looking up from her blade. "And probably some nasty energy leeches in the conduit corridors. Standard high-security playbook. Try not to get your brain scrambled or your fancy powers sucked dry, Boss.""We won’t be there long enough for it to matter," Kyle stated, though he filed away Viv’s warning. Psionic interference was a concern.A faint chime echoed from the main hall. A soft, almost melodic sound, utterly out of place in the castle’s ancient stone silence.All four of them froze.Kyle's head snapped up, his eyes instantly alert. Arachne was already moving towards the war room do
Chapter 300: A viable backup
The quiet hum of the castle was a stark contrast to the chaotic energy still thrumming through Kyle's veins. He sat at the massive stone table in what Arachne had designated the ’war room’ – a chamber smaller than the main hall, dominated by the table and several stark, uncomfortable-looking chairs. The datachip was slotted into a battered, Guild-issue reader he’d... acquired. Katherine had been surprisingly thorough.Holographic schematics of the Valen Spire floated above the table, a complex, multi-layered structure. Red markers pulsed over designated targets: divination chambers, psionic relay nodes, primary data archives for Hunter movements across multiple sectors.’Harder target,’ Kyle acknowledged internally. The Spire wasn’t just an office; it was a fortress, the heart of the Association’s information network in the region. ’More defenses. More personnel. Higher stakes.’He zoomed in on a section labeled ’Sub-level Psi-Corp Conduits’. Intricate networks of cabling and glowing
Chapter 299: Give them a war
The alarm blared from the floor below, a shrill, insistent cry that cut through the relative quiet of the trackers’ office. Heavy boots pounded down a distant Guild corridor, the sound rapidly growing closer."Party’s over," Kyle stated, his voice flat. He glanced at Arachne, who was still at the main console. "Status?""Virus deployed," she reported, her fingers a blur across the interface. Lines of code scrolled, then screens flickered and died. "Local data corruption initiated. Their immediate tracking capabilities for this sector are offline. Spreading to networked systems will take time, but their eyes are blind here, for now.""Good enough." No time for a full system wipe. He turned towards the window they’d entered through. "Out. Same way."Viv grinned, wiping her daggers on a dead tracker’s uniform. "My favorite kind of exit. Quick and messy." She was already moving towards the window, light on her feet.The shouts were louder now, echoing from the main corridor just outside t
Chapter 298: Smash their toys?
Kyle reached for the doorknob. He didn’, wore a more formal Guild uniform, a lieutenant’s insignia on her collar. These were the trackers. Their eyest try to pick the lock. He focused, pushed a sliver of his power into the metal. The internal tum. "My turn?" She pulled a thin set of metal picks from a pouch on her thigh.Kyle shook his head. He and ears.Kyle met Arachne’s gaze. He nodded once.Arachne moved first.She flowedblers twisted, broke. The knob turned easily in his hand.He pushed the door open.Two men sat stepped forward, placing his hand flat on the metal door, just above the lock mechanism. Green energy, faint and almost invisible into the room like smoke, a silent blur. Before the woman in uniform could even register her presence, Arachne’s hand at a large console littered with datapads and steaming mugs. One was older, bald, with tired eyes. The other was in the dim light, pulsed from his palm. There was a soft click, a thunk, and the door’ younger, hair slicked back,
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