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Chapter 397: The Orphan's Auction

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Marcus was holding. Barely.

His golden shield was dead, but his body was not. The Shield Guardian bloodline poured everything it had into raw, biological defense, and Marcus stood between the five converging Collectors and the fragile cluster of Principal Creditor fragments like a human wall. Each hit he absorbed cracked bones and tore muscle, but each crack healed, slower and slower, the regeneration burning through his reserves.

Katherine fought beside him with nothing but her tac
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    Nine hours until the Engraver completed its network.Jack stood at the mouth of the borehole in the parking garage staging area, staring down into eight hundred feet of darkness. The crystallized time lattice began at four hundred feet, a boundary layer between the mundane geology of Manhattan and the sixty-five-million-year-old nursery built by a dead cosmic being's final act of love."The drill can get us to the lattice in two hours," Katherine reported, checking the modified mining laser's power cells. "But from there, we're on foot. The crystallized time is too dense for mechanical cutting.""The gauntlets can handle it," Jack said, flexing his repaired right hand. Katherine had replaced the burned circuit with a jury-rigged bypass that reduced the gauntlet's efficiency to forty-five percent but eliminated the overheating risk. Mostly."I'm coming with you," Katherine said. It was not a question."So am I," Marcus added, hefting his shield despite the bl

  • The Billionaire Alpha's Revenge   Chapter 409: Sixty-Five Million Years

    Old Fragment arrived at Sterling Tower forty-seven minutes later, carried in Korvin's massive grey arms because her papery body had deteriorated to the point where walking caused her to shed flakes of ancient existence like a tree losing its leaves in a windstorm."Set me down by the blueprints," she wheezed, her crumpled-paper lungs rattling. "And do not drop me. I am older than most of the atoms in this building."Korvin placed her in a reinforced chair beside the holotable with surprising gentleness. The seven-foot Rendered leader had brought eleven engineers, all of whom were studying the combined blueprint hologram with expressions of deep, professional terror."This is the full partition design?" one engineer asked, a compact female Rendered whose fractal tattoos shifted in geometric spirals."Complete," Mercy confirmed. "Forty percent from the Hollowsmith. Sixty percent from Elias Sterling's hidden reliquary. The Supernatural Ledger integrated both dataset

  • The Billionaire Alpha's Revenge   Chapter 408: The Architect's Ghost

    Katherine arrived on the thirty-second floor seventeen minutes later, carrying a portable lab station, three neural interface cables, and a thermos of coffee that she thrust into Jack's hands with the wordless efficiency of a woman who had been managing crises for so long that caffeine delivery was an automated reflex."Haley, sit still," Katherine ordered, attaching sensors to Haley's temples. "I need baseline readings before I can design a countermeasure.""I am sitting still. Mostly. My left foot is tapping but that's because I'm nervous, not because an ancient void-entity is using my brain as a radio antenna." Haley paused. "Although now that I say it out loud, it sounds worse."Jack stood by the window, the compass in one hand and the coffee in the other, watching the Manhattan skyline with eyes that saw more than glass and steel. Through the gauntlets, he could perceive the faint shimmer of the Engraver's harmonic field, an invisible web of crystallized-time fre

  • The Billionaire Alpha's Revenge   Chapter 407: The Mother's Frequency

    They made it back to Sterling Tower in fourteen minutes. Marcus drove because Katherine was running real-time analysis on the crystalline disc through a portable scanner she had built from a modified tablet and three paperclips, and Jack was busy not dying.The gauntlets were still hot. The left one had cooled to a manageable warmth, but the right gauntlet, the one that interfaced with his Origin Blood, was radiating heat waves visible to the naked eye. Jack kept his hand out the window of the armored SUV like a dog enjoying a breeze, except the breeze was keeping his fingers from fusing into a single lump of melted alloy."The disc's data architecture is extraordinary," Katherine murmured, not looking up from her scanner. Her gold-flecked eyes reflected scrolling lines of void-language code that the gauntlet was translating in real time. "It's not just blueprints. It's a living mathematical organism. The equations are self-referencing. They evolve as you read them."

  • The Billionaire Alpha's Revenge   Chapter 406: Holes in the World

    The first Absence construct reached Jack in less than a second.It did not punch, slash, or bite. It simply existed at him with violent intent. Where its hand passed through the air, the air ceased to be. Molecules of nitrogen and oxygen were not destroyed but un-existed, leaving pockets of absolute vacuum that collapsed with sharp, painful cracks.Jack threw himself sideways, the left gauntlet flaring as he channeled the Utterance's awareness through the Void crystal. The construct's hand passed through the space where his head had been, and the rubble behind him dissolved into grey nothingness."They erase what they touch!" Jack shouted. "Do not let them make contact!"Marcus was already moving. Despite his fractures, the Shield Guardian threw himself between Katherine and two charging constructs, his golden shield deployed at maximum extension. The constructs hit the shield and recoiled. The Guardian's kinetic barrier did not block their erasure, it was not ph

  • The Billionaire Alpha's Revenge   Chapter 405: The Elias Frequency

    Marcus discharged himself from the medical level against Dr. Miller's explicit and profanity-laden objections, pulled on a set of tactical pants, strapped his battered golden shield to his back, and limped into the command center with the grim determination of a man who had decided that dying on his feet was preferable to healing on his back."Do not even start," Marcus growled when Katherine opened her mouth. "Something just psychically groped my brain through the pack bond. I am not going back in the tank.""You have eleven unhealed fractures.""I have had worse.""When?""Right now."Jack stood at the holotable, both gauntlets glowing, the compass projected in mid-air between them. He had been studying the three-dimensional map of the Engraver's network for forty minutes, cross-referencing it with the Hollowsmith's partial blueprints and the Utterance's fragmented memories of its own prison."The Absence is working on two fronts," Jack announced

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