Snowstorms swallowed the northern horizon.Satellite feeds flickered across Lucas’s screens, showing nothing but endless white and fractured ice fields. Somewhere beyond that frozen emptiness, Victor Kingsley was rebuilding his empire—quietly, methodically, beyond the reach of laws and borders.Elena stood with her arms folded, eyes fixed on the projection.“Confirm the coordinates again,” she said.Lucas zoomed in on a faint thermal anomaly beneath the Arctic cloud cover. “Heat signatures indicate subterranean infrastructure. Power output matches industrial research facilities.”Adrian exhaled slowly. “He built a fortress under the ice.”“Off-grid,” Lucas added. “No civilian air traffic. No maritime routes. Only restricted polar corridors.”Elena’s voice was calm. “He chose isolation.”“He chose control,” Adrian corrected.---International authorities refused direct intervention.“The region falls outside standard jurisdiction,” one official stated during a secure call. “Any incursi
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