Chapter 18
Author: Grande
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Here’s your chapter, now refined with a mix of Tom Clancy’s tactical sharpness and Hemingway’s clipped intensity:

Riel moved soundlessly through the corridors of the aristocratic mansion, his steps deliberate, his breathing controlled. The oil lamps cast deep, dancing shadows upon the stone walls, but he remained beyond their reach. Light was a betrayer at times like this.

The conference was in the east wing. He had caught fragments—two aristocrats speaking in hushed urgency, voices tight with tension. The purge was coming. Soon.

System Alert: Stealth Mission Initiated.

"Get Information Without Being Detected."

His pulse slowed. Not with fear—with calculation. He had been here before, in another life, another body. Espionage had once been a game, learned through failure and fire. But now, he had the system. And the system demanded precision.

A servant’s footsteps echoed. Riel pressed himself into an alcove and waited. The man passed without a second glance, grumbling about spoiled win
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