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Chapter 112: The Aftermath of the Heart

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The containment chamber of the Aether’s Heart was no longer a theater of war; it was a sanctuary of cooling machinery and soft, rhythmic pulses.

The high-frequency alarms had ceased, replaced by the low, soothing hum of thousands of server fans working in unison to dissipate the residual thermal energy of the failed "Total Harvest."

The air, thick with the scent of ozone and burnt insulation, was slowly clearing as the automated atmospheric scrubbers purged the room of the chaos that had nearly
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