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Author: EMPRESSBIMS
last update publish date: 2026-03-03 23:35:50

CHAPTER 76

ADAM

Three months after Toronto, we got a message that changed everything.

It came through Dr. Cross. Encrypted. Marked urgent.

"There's someone who wants to meet with you," she said over the phone. "Someone claiming to have information about Haven. About who funded the Purist movement."

"The Architect is dead. The movement is broken. What does it matter now?"

"Because according to this source, the Architect wasn't the real leader. She was a figurehead. The actual power behind the Pu
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