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Chapter 78 — The First Counterattack

Author: Monica Wild
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-06-25 20:11:58

The summer morning over Vesper City looked deceptively peaceful.

Sunlight spilled across the skyline, turning the glass towers downtown into sheets of gold. Traffic moved steadily beneath the elevated highways. People hurried to work carrying coffee cups and briefcases, unaware that somewhere inside the city, a war was quietly changing direction.

Inside the safe house, however, no one was paying attention to the weather.

The atmosphere in the room felt heavy.

The kind of heavy that settled over
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