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Chapter 44: Emergency Shutdown

Author: Felix
last update publish date: 2026-06-10 08:51:05
The world was pixelating at the edges.

The sound wasn't a roar; it was a sustained high-frequency scream that felt like a Blue Screen of Death for the human soul. Golden energy, raw and uncompressed, was geysering out of the shattered manifold, turning the air into a shimmering, lethal soup of ionized magic.

[CORE_STABILITY: 12%] [THERMAL_RUNAWAY_DETECTED]

"Xander! Get up!" I screamed, but my voice was swallowed by the hum.

Xander was on his knees, his face twisted in agony. The silver tuning fo
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Sereia using her own body as a conductive wire and Xander as the grounding wire to avert the meltdown crisis and neutralize Elara's threat—I was holding my breath writing this! But the countdown in Greenland has been pushed forward! Hurry and throw your Power Stones at me!

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