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179 - Truth
Inside the MinivanThe doors slid shut.The noise of the crowd disappeared.For a few seconds, no one spoke.Annabelle was the first.Her voice was steady, yet tight.“Start talking.”Serafina leaned forward from her seat.“What happened?”Annabelle didn’t raise her voice too much.“You disappeared in front of us.”She proved but everyone was quiet.Adams looked at the others.Lorenzo gave a small nod.Baxter exhaled slowly.Erica rubbed her palms together like she was still grounding herself.Aleric stared at the floor.Adams spoke first.“We didn’t leave.”Serafina frowned.“Clearly.”“We were taken.”Annabella’s brows drew together.“Taken how? There was no explosion. No smoke… nothing. Yes u guys just disappeared with Lucas”Baxter answered this time.“The air shifted.”Annabelle’s eyes sharpened.“Yes,” she said quietly. “It did.”That was the last thing the ladies remembered.The chandelier lights flickering.The temperature had dropped cold and freezy. She has led Sera to go co
178 - Back From The Brink
The crowd had reached the tipping point.Not violent, but dangerously ecstatic.Phones were rising faster than hands could hold them. Streams were multiplying. Someone had already zoomed in close enough to capture the reflection in Adams’ eyes.Then…A sharp horn cut through the noise.Once.Twice.Firm.The crowd turned.A sleek matte-black mini celebrity van rolled into view, escorted by a second vehicle with uniformed private security. The doors bore a subtle crest that was unmistakably elite.The side door slid open smoothly.Out stepped Seraphina Smith.She scanned the scene once looking for traces of the people she left in the hospital that suddenly disappeared.Behind her emerged Annabelle Smith, elegant, older, but carrying the same steel in her posture. And then…Ashley Blackley, Adams’ all poised secretary.Tablet already in hand. Eyes immediately locked on Adams.Security fanned outward in a controlled sweep.“Clear a path,” Ana said calmly.She didn’t shout.The authority
177 - Returned As Legend
Erica’s smirk hadn’t even fully formed when Adams turned.High above the street, stretched across the glass body of the skyscraper, was his face.Dark suit. Subtle tie. Calm expression. The kind of composure that didn’t shout power, it owned it.BUSINESS INDUSTRIALIST ADAMS SMITHRECORDED NET WORTH: $190 BILLIONThe numbers rotated slowly beneath his image. Markets. Holdings. Infrastructure projects. Renewable grids. International logistics corridors.Adams stopped breathing.His lips parted slightly.“…No,” he whispered.Lorenzo followed his gaze, and swore under his breath.Baxter blinked rapidly. “That’s you.”Aleric’s voice came out thin. “That is definitely you.”Adams stared at the screen like it might correct itself.It didn’t. Traffic continued. Vendors shouted. Engines coughed smoke into the sky.But the world had changed slightly. Because someone else saw it too.A young man standing near a bus stop looked from the billboard… to Adams… back to the billboard.His eyes widened
176 - Back In Country A
Adams woke to the sound of traffic.Traffic. Car horns blaring in uneven impatience. An engine coughing somewhere nearby. Voices arguing faintly in a language that felt suddenly, painfully familiar.He sucked in a sharp breath and immediately regretted it.Pain flared through his chest, real pain, raw and unfiltered. His ribs ached. His throat burned. His head throbbed with the dull insistence of a body that had limits again.He was lying on concrete.Rough and cold. Adams forced his eyes open. Grey sky and overcast. Smog hanging low in the air. A cracked sidewalk beside a half-finished building, rebar jutting out like exposed bone. Faded posters peeling from a wall across the street.Country A.His heart began to race.“No way!!!,” he whispered.He pushed himself up, slowly, clumsily, and nearly collapsed again when his legs shook beneath him.There was no strength to catch himself. No system adjusting balance. No invisible force compensating.Just him. Human!!!“Adams!!”Erica’s
175 - She Wished He Died: An End To All Madness X
The scream of the system was no longer contained.It tore through Kogi like a living thing, a soundless shriek that bent structures, twisted gravity, and peeled the sky apart layer by layer. The ground beneath them fractured into geometric plates, rising and falling as if the world itself was breathing its last, uneven breaths.Elizabeth staggered, not from weakness, but from feedback.The system resisted her.“No,” she said sharply, extending both hands. Symbols ignited in the air, vast arrays of code and alchemical constructs unfolding at once. “Stabilize. Anchor to Primary Subject.”The world lurched.Adams felt it then, the pull.Not temptation. Not persuasion.A hook.Something deep within him responded, an old reflex the system had etched into his bones long before he could speak. Power surged toward him, trying to re-seat itself, to crown him whether he consented or not.His knees buckled.Erica screamed his name as he collapsed forward, hands digging into the broken ground.
174 - Afraid IX
The presence announced itself without sound.No ripple. No flare of power. No distortion of space.It was simply there. Adams felt it before he saw it, an old gravity pulling at something buried deep in his chest, something that had once answered to hope. The system reacted late, hesitantly, as though unsure whether it was allowed to acknowledge what had entered its domain.Elizabeth stiffened.That alone told Adams everything.From the fractured air ahead of them, a figure emerged, not formed by light or summoned by code, but walking, as though he had always existed just beyond sight and had merely stepped forward.Lucas.Older than the man Adams remembered. Thinner. The arrogance he once wore so easily had eroded into something rawer, almost desperate. His hair was streaked with grey now, his eyes ringed with exhaustion that no power could erase.“Adams,” Lucas said, voice cracking.The sound of his name from that mouth hit harder than any blow Elizabeth had dealt.Erica inhaled sha
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