The Labyrinth Archive

Echo locates the last known location of Leon’s active signals: an abandoned research complex buried under the city’s judicial archives. The facility has been wiped from maps. The team prepares for a deep infiltration to expose what Leon has hidden.

The wind above the city’s northern district moved like breath caught in a mechanical throat, sharp, halting, and synthetic. A steady drizzle slicked the rooftops, whispering over shattered skylights and old stone courts long emptied of judgment.

Beneath the crumbling facade of the Judicial Core Level 0 of the Civic Archive Tower, a manhole sat welded shut. The street around it bore no traffic. No footpaths. No surveillance coverage. As far as the city was concerned, the area didn’t exist.

But Echo found it.

From within the safehouse, the team stood clustered around a flat holo-display, watching the decrypted blueprints of something older than even Echo could fully verify.

“This isn’t part of any known public infrastructure,” Ryle muttered,