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Chapter 403: Thirty-Seven Percent
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2026-04-03 23:25:28Katherine drilled faster.
The modified mining laser cut through Manhattan's ancient bedrock at six feet per minute, double its rated capacity, because Katherine Sterling did not believe in manufacturer specifications and had recalibrated the device with the aggressive optimism of a woman who had once shot down a flying fortress with a sniper rifle.Jack descended in the elevator cage, the Hollowsmith's data chip plugged into the gauntlet's analysis port. The partial blueprints for t
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The Billionaire Alpha's Revenge Chapter 404: The Engraver's Mark
Jack burst out of the borehole into the parking garage they had converted into a staging area, the gauntlet smoking on his left hand and the compass vibrating hard enough to blur. Katherine was waiting with two Void Kindred guards and a medical kit she clearly expected to use."Debrief on the move," Jack said, striding past her toward the armored transport. "We have bigger problems than I thought.""I heard the bigger problems. An egg. Under Times Square. Sixty feet across." Katherine fell into step beside him, matching his pace with the long, confident stride of a woman who had been keeping up with cosmic catastrophes for years. "I have already ordered Aaliyah to map the full extent of the Engraver's network using the gauntlet's sonar data. Preliminary results are not encouraging.""How not encouraging?""The network extends beyond Manhattan. It reaches under all five boroughs, into New Jersey, and as far north as Westchester. The Engraver has been carving a gat
The Billionaire Alpha's Revenge Chapter 403: Thirty-Seven Percent
Katherine drilled faster.The modified mining laser cut through Manhattan's ancient bedrock at six feet per minute, double its rated capacity, because Katherine Sterling did not believe in manufacturer specifications and had recalibrated the device with the aggressive optimism of a woman who had once shot down a flying fortress with a sniper rifle.Jack descended in the elevator cage, the Hollowsmith's data chip plugged into the gauntlet's analysis port. The partial blueprints for the Source Code's compression partition scrolled across his vision in three-dimensional wireframes, each one more impossibly complex than the last."The partition was not built," the Utterance observed through their shared consciousness. "It was grown. The Weavers seeded it with self-replicating mathematical structures that evolved over billions of years into a living prison. Rebuilding it from forty percent blueprints would be like reconstructing a human brain from a photograph of the skull
The Billionaire Alpha's Revenge Chapter 402: The Clockmaker's Warning
The drill was not a drill. It was a repurposed mining laser that Haley had somehow acquired during the chaos of the Mouth crisis, allegedly as a "backup plan" for opening stubborn champagne bottles. Katherine had modified it into a cutting tool that could slice through basalt at three feet per minute, which was both impressive and agonizingly slow when the compass needle was screaming at Jack to go faster."Eight hundred feet is a long way down," Ben Carter observed from the command center, his vampire eyes tracking their descent through a network of hardened cameras that Aaliyah had threaded into the borehole. "At this rate, you will reach the target in approximately four and a half hours.""We do not have four and a half hours," Jack said, standing in the cramped elevator cage they had rigged inside the shaft. Katherine was beside him, her tactical suit sealed, a void-sniper rifle slung across her back. The gauntlet on Jack's left hand pulsed with a steady amber glow, th
The Billionaire Alpha's Revenge Chapter 401: The Compass Needle
The compass burned against Jack Sterling's hip like a coal pulled from a dying fire.He stood in the Obsidian Lab's corridor at six in the morning, three days after fusing the cracked Genesis Coin, the dormant Void crystal, and the shattered dark-gold sword into something he did not yet fully understand. The warm disc pulsed against his thigh through the pocket of his jeans, its needle vibrating with a fine, persistent urgency that matched his heartbeat.Down. It pointed down. Through the reinforced floors of Sterling Tower, through the bedrock of Manhattan, through the geological strata of the planet, all the way to the deepest partition of the Source Code where something ancient and unknown was slowly, patiently decrypting itself.Thirty-two point seven percent. That had been the number three days ago."Thirty-four point nine," Aaliyah reported from her terminal when Jack walked into the command center. The young hacker looked like she had been assembled from s
The Billionaire Alpha's Revenge Chapter 400: The Coin, The Crystal, and The Blade
Three days after the Infinite Mouth crisis.Jack stood in the deepest sub-level of Sterling Tower, in a room that Aaliyah had dubbed the Forge. It was not a grand chamber of cosmic significance. It was a converted maintenance closet with reinforced walls, a single bare light bulb, and a workbench covered in the wreckage of his career.The cracked Genesis Coin. The dormant Void crystal. The fractured dark-gold sword.Three broken weapons. Three chapters of a story that had taken him from a despised son-in-law to the owner of the universe's central bank and back to zero."You are staring at them again," Katherine said from the doorway. She was dressed in a sharp grey business suit, her hair pulled back in a severe bun. The Ice Queen was in full operational mode, having spent the last seventy-two hours designing the regulatory framework for the Infinite Market with the relentless efficiency of a woman who had once restructured a Fortune 500 company during a hostile
The Billionaire Alpha's Revenge Chapter 399: The Cost of Victory
The med bay of Sterling Tower was a controlled disaster.Marcus lay in a regeneration tank, his body submerged in a viscous, golden fluid that Dr. Miller had synthesized from the last reserves of Origin Blood extract. The Shield Guardian's injuries were severe: seventeen broken bones, three ruptured organs, and a nervous system that had been partially rewritten by Collector binding code before his bloodline rejected it. He would live, but he would need weeks to fully recover."Weeks he does not have," Katherine murmured, studying Marcus's vitals on the holographic display beside his tank. Her own injuries were minor by comparison, cuts and bruises from fighting inside a cosmic monster with nothing but scavenged debris, but the dark circles under her eyes spoke of a deeper exhaustion.Jack sat in a chair beside the tank, his dead Valkyrie-Apex armor removed and replaced with a simple grey t-shirt and jeans. Without the armor, without the Genesis Coin's glow, without th
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