Chapter 151

"Kael, answer me! If Arthur vents the secondary valve, can you shunt the load? Can you dump this ghost-fire back into their own infrastructure?" Lucien’s voice was ragged, stripped of the corporate polish that had once defined his every syllable.Kael’s chest hitched. The violet light beneath his skin pulsed rhythmically, a sickly, bioluminescent heartbeat. "If I shunt it... it doesn't just go away, Lucien. It forces the system to consume itself. It’s a closed-circuit suicide pact. The Directorate loses everything, but I… I’m the wire. I’m the path of least resistance."Arthur kicked a piece of debris aside, his boots crunching on shattered glass. "So, let’s be clear. We blow the valves, the system collapses, and you potentially evaporate. Is that the trade?""That’s the trade," Kael whispered, his vision blurring."It’s not a trade if you aren't around to spend the currency," Lucien snapped, stepping between Kael and the console. "There has to be another way. A buffer. A proxy.""The

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Chapter 152

"A proxy?" Kael’s laughter bubbled up, dry and brittle, like autumn leaves caught in a turbine. "Look at me, Lucien. Do you see a proxy? I am the terminal, the wire, and the fucking fuse. There is no middleman left to hire."Lucien gripped Kael’s shoulders, his fingers digging into the thin, sweat-soaked fabric of Kael’s shirt. "I didn’t spend three years stripping away every piece of corporate shrapnel in my life to watch you turn into a martyr for a dying grid. There’s always a variable. You taught me that yourself."Arthur slammed his fist into the wall, a shower of sparks cascading over his shoulder as the plasma cutters outside bit deeper into the primary bulkhead. "The variable is closing, you two! We have maybe three minutes before those Cleaners are inside and turned into a sieve of lead. Lucien, get off him. Kael, if you’re the fuse, how do we blow the base without turning you into a firework?"Kael tilted his head, his gaze unfocused as he stared into the ultraviolet spectru

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Chapter 153

The bulkhead shrieked as the plasma cutter carved a jagged, molten line through the steel. Glowing sparks showered the room, casting long, dancing shadows against the slick walls of the Central Spire."Three minutes, they said," Arthur growled, his voice tight with a jagged edge of desperation. He checked the magazine of his sidearm, the mechanical click-clack sounding deafening in the narrow chamber. "That was two minutes ago. These Cleaners don’t believe in patience."Lucien didn’t look back at the door. His eyes were locked on Kael, whose skin shimmered with that terrifying, rhythmic violet hue. "Kael, look at me. Don't look at the grid. Look at me. If you’re the fuse, we pull the fuse. We don’t burn it."Kael’s breathing was shallow, his chest hitching with every beat of the unnatural light beneath his skin. "You don't understand, Lucien. I’m not just the fuse anymore. I’m the circuit. To disconnect me is to flatline the entire local infrastructure—and me with it. The Directorate

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Chapter 154

"The Director didn’t build a system, Lucien. He built a cage, and I’m the lock," Kael whispered, his eyes widening as the violet luminescence surged, tracing the veins in his neck like liquid lightning."Then we break the cage, we don't pick the lock," Lucien retorted, his voice vibrating with a desperate, unyielding authority. "Arthur, how much coolant is left in the primary line?"Arthur didn’t turn around, his focus glued to the shuddering bulkhead as the metal began to warp inward from the heat of the Cleaners' torches. "Enough to freeze a mountain, or boil us alive. Why? What are you planning?""Kael, listen to me," Lucien said, gripping Kael’s jaw firmly, forcing him to meet his gaze. "If you are the circuit, then you have resistance. Resistance creates heat. If we vent the coolant into the server core while you’re synced, the thermal shock will fracture the connection before the system can dump the load through you. It’ll be a clean break."Kael let out a ragged, wheezing laugh

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All Chapters of The Alpha's Forbidden Heir: Chapter 151 - Chapter 154

Chapter 151

Chapter 152

Chapter 153

Chapter 154