All Chapters of Reborn in the Apocalypse: My Level-Up System : Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

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chapter 31

Ronan hated waiting. His whole body was built for immediate action, and standing still in the neon dark of The Obsidian Lounge while a crowd danced around him felt like burning time he didn't have. Every second his boots stayed planted was another second Ara stayed lost.Silas kept a firm grip on his sleeve, eyes locked on the VIP booth by the stage. "Don't move," he said, barely audible over the bass. "Push now and the whole place locks down. Watching him is our best shot right now."They stayed in the shadow of a concrete pillar, watching Kenan work the room. He seemed completely untouched by the chaos outside. He moved through the lounge like he owned the block.Then something shifted. He set his glass down, checked his watch, and gave his security a small nod. Ronan and Silas tracked him down the VIP steps. He didn't head for the exits or the bathrooms—he slipped past a heavy curtain and pressed his hand against a panel on a wall that hadn't looked like a door a second ago. It sli

chapter 32

Ara had a thousand questions stacked up—how had a technician like Silas cracked military-grade security, ridden a beam sixty thousand feet up, and broken into the most secure cell block on the whole ship? But the moment she opened her mouth, Silas cut her off, fingers already flying across his console as he jacked a wire straight into the junction box powering her cell."Save it," he said, breathless. "No time. We're on a dead clock."He threw everything he had at the lock, but the system fought back hard—every few seconds the encryption rewrote itself, throwing up a new wall just as he broke through the last one.Then a klaxon tore through the ceiling speakers, washing the room in flashing red. Ship security knew he was in.Sweat ran down Silas's face as his hands kept moving, and across the glass, Dr. Alistair Ramsdale just watched, his expression flat."This is a waste of energy," the old man said, his voice cutting through the alarm. "There's no way out of this block. You're only

Chapter 33

They got back to the hideout at four in the morning. The city outside had gone quiet. Inside the vehicle the silence pressed against Ara’s ribs until every breath felt deliberate.After the beam tube blew, they had searched for another way to Silas—maintenance shafts, backup lines, anything. Before they found a blueprint, NexMind guards flooded the corridor below and opened fire. With Ramsdale to protect they ran, leaving Silas behind in the ship.When they pulled into the garage under the safehouse, Ronan turned and took Ara’s hand. He didn’t speak. Something solid held between them while the rest of the night came apart.Still holding hands, guiding Ramsdale between them, they moved toward the entrance. Guns came up out of the dark. Safeties clicked off.“Stand down! Identify yourselves!”A flashlight snapped on. Daniel’s face appeared behind it, eyes wide, then he lowered the weapon. Milana and Maksim lowered theirs too, breath leaving them in the same moment.They checked her over

chapter 34

It took a full day to track down the engineer Dain had mentioned. The wait was brutal, as every tick of the clock felt like a hammer strike. Out in the city, small things kept shifting: security protocols changing, strange power grid flickers, all of it pointing to a system closing in on its final phase.Ara, Ronan, and Dain left for the outskirts early that morning in an unmarked car, trying to stay off the surveillance grid. Daniel and the twins stayed behind, still working every angle they had to get a signal off Silas’s wristband or catch anything coming down from the ship.Back at the safehouse, tension was fraying fast. Maksim leaned against the table, arms crossed, staring at the countdown on the wall display.“Three days,” he said, voice flat and bitter. “Less than two day until day eight, and we don’t even have a confirmed lead. We’re out of time.”Milana looked up from her console. “A little hope wouldn’t kill you, Maksim. Ara and Ronan have something solid. If Ramsdale’s ol

Chapter 35

Patrick let out a long, heavy sigh, stepping between the barrel of the gun and his unexpected guests. He held up a hand, looking at the young man in tactical gear with a calm, tired authority.“Stand down, Leo,” Patrick instructed softly. “Lower the weapon. They aren’t corporate hitmen.”The young man hesitated for a second, his eyes narrowing as he scanned Ronan’s intimidating frame and Ara’s lingering aura, before slowly lowering his handgun and placing it back into its holster.Dain stared at the young man, a wave of profound envy and bittersweet sadness washing over his weathered features.“You have a son, Patrick,” Dain murmured, his raspy voice trembling slightly as he expressed his genuine gladness that Patrick had managed to keep his family intact and live with his son in quiet seclusion.The old scientist looked down at his own trembling hands, deeply lamenting how much he had missed his own son over the decades of his imprisonment and failed timeline jumps. He spoke with a q

The ticking Glass

Ronan stood in the corner of the strategy bay, arms crossed, a deep frown on his face. Next to him, Daniel sat beside Ara, who was typing furiously on Silas’s damaged computer, trying to stabilize what was left of the connection. Behind them, the twins argued about what Silas’s message actually meant—Maksim was sure it meant slaughter was coming, Milana thought it was a coded warning about their next move.Ara ignored them, eyes locked on the glowing terminal. She was trying to trace where the message had come from, pulling a location out of the corrupted data, but it wasn’t cooperating. The signal kept bouncing across dozens of proxy servers and encryption loops.Daniel leaned in. “He could be in an active holding facility right now,” he said, low and urgent. “If they made him send that message, they might already be moving him. We need to act fast, before they wipe the trace.”Ara gritted her teeth and pulled up her interface, searching for a stronger intrusion skill. The firewall

The countdown

Back at the hideout, the air still smelled like sewer water, copper, and wet concrete. Silas groaned as Ara straightened his arm out, trying to work the spasm out of his shoulder. She rinsed a towel in a basin of lukewarm water, wrung it out, and pressed it against the bruise on his bicep. He flinched hard, jaw tight, biting down whatever sound wanted to come out of him.“Sorry,” she muttered, easing off the pressure a little.“It’s fine,” he said, though his voice said otherwise. “Keep going.”Daniel pulled up a crate and sat across from them, his face grim in the low light. “What else did you get out of those players, Silas? Did they know who put them there?”“They didn’t even know each other at first,” Silas said, wincing as she adjusted her grip. “Except a few—some cousins, a couple of brothers. NexMind grabbed them off the street, out of their apartments, off their jobs, wherever, and none of them knew why at the time. It wasn’t until they were all stuck in the same block toget

chapter 38: welcome old friend

**[ 09:23:34 ]**The red numbers of the countdown hung, throwing a dull red glow over the cracked dashboard of the jeep. Every second that ticked past felt like it cost something.Ronan gripped the wheel hard enough that his knuckles had gone white, jaw set, brows pulled down into a scowl. “You sure you pulled the right coordinates, Silas? Or are we just driving toward the edge of nowhere?” he asked, voice rough over the sound of tires on uneven ground.He kept the jeep moving down a rough coastal road on the far edge of Telenburgh, pavement long gone to gravel and sand and weeds, cliffs on one side, gray ocean stretching out on the other under a sky.They’d been driving over two hours now and still hadn’t reached wherever Ryan and Elena were supposedly holed up. Silas’s tracker kept pointing them to this stretch of coast. Nobody could figure out why. Why would two of NexMind’s best hunters be sitting out here, in the middle of nowhere, less than twenty hours before the world was su

Chapter 39

All seven of them were cuffed, hands locked behind their backs with kinetic shackles, being shoved down a stark white corridor by a squad of armed NexMind guards toward the holding block. The floor was polished so clean it threw back the overhead lights in long, cold streaks, and every footstep echoed twice as loud as it should have.Near the front of the line, Ara lifted her head and started in on the man leading them. “So where’s your girlfriend?” she asked, voice dripping with mockery. “She finally wise up, or is she just hiding somewhere?”Ryan didn’t bother turning around as he stepped through the double doors. “Elena’s on a different assignment,” he said. “One that actually matters for the deployment.”“Ah,” Ara said, tilting her head with a cruel little smile. “So she’s running errands for your corporate daddy while you play warden. Good to know.”That made him stop. He turned to face her slowly, laughed, dry and condescending. Told her she was pathetic, that she could’ve h

chapter 40

The second Elena stepped into the light, something in Ara’s chest twisted. Just looking at her face, dragged up memories Ara had spent a long time trying not to touch. The manipulation. Finding out about her and Ryan. And that last second, the one that never left her, when Elena had shoved her straight into a crowd of the dead and walked away without looking back, not even a glance over her shoulder.Her hands curled into fists so tight her nails cut into her palms. It took everything she had to keep her face still.Elena caught it. She always noticed things like that. She stopped in front of Ara’s cell and leaned against the frame, a slow, mocking smile spreading across her face. “Look at you, Ara,” she said. “Some things really don’t change. You’ve always been a prisoner to those noble little ideals of yours. Now you’re just literally behind bars too.”She let that sit for a second, eyes drifting over the rest of them like she was cataloguing something. Ronan’s size. Daniel’s stan

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