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Chapter 210: The Unlocked World
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2026-04-09 00:15:04The Earth didn’t catch us; it bit us.
The escape pod hit the Northern permafrost not as a vessel, but as a kinetic strike. The impact was a bone-shredding shriek of superheated basalt slamming into the ruins of the Moon Pack estate. I was thrown against the restraints, my lungs collapsing as the G-force tried to drive my spine through the seat.
Ga-chi.
The sound was faint now—a dying rattle of stone. As the pod settled into the steaming crater, I felt a violent,
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Earth didn’t catch the pod.It tore into it.Basalt and permafrost collided with a scream that sounded like the planet breaking its teeth.The impact wasn’t a clean stop; it was a structural execution. My lungs collapsed, the air driven out in a wet, silent wheeze. For exactly three seconds, my vision was nothing but a strobe of violet static and the copper taste of my own tongue.Ga-chi.The sound was faint now—a dying rattle of quartz. As the pod settled into the steaming crater within the ruins of the Moon Pack’s Grand Hall, I felt a violent, agonizing surge of heat
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The Earth didn’t catch us; it bit us.The escape pod hit the Northern permafrost not as a vessel, but as a kinetic strike. The impact was a bone-shredding shriek of superheated basalt slamming into the ruins of the Moon Pack estate. I was thrown against the restraints, my lungs collapsing as the G-force tried to drive my spine through the seat.Ga-chi.The sound was faint now—a dying rattle of stone. As the pod settled into the steaming crater, I felt a violent, agonizing surge of heat racing up my left arm. The obsidian quartz was cracking, peeling away in jagged, translucent scales. Beneath the rock, my flesh was raw, pink, and pulsing with a gold-veined radiance that looked like liquid sun trapped in skin.I could feel.I felt the biting cold of the draft. I felt the wetness of the mercury tears. I felt the crushing, hollow ache in my chest where the 1.5-meter chain used to thrum.The floor was gone. Kael was gone. And for the fi
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The lasers vanished all at once, like a fever breaking in the dark. The sudden, violent silence that followed hit harder than any scream, making my eardrums throb with a sickening, rhythmic pressure.I stood paralyzed, my ice-cold fingers still locked around the fabric of Leo’s soot-stained peacoat
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