Lukas uses his past underworld connections to track the flow of Vane capital and specialized contraband.The Ghost in the Sub-LevelsThe high-security executive suites of the Core operated on a pristine, transparent ledger where every watt of energy, every credit transaction, and every data packet was cataloged with absolute precision. But Lukas Kian was not just the chief architect of the Core’s utopian infrastructure; long before he met Daniel, long before he helped build a multi-species metropolis out of the ashes of the old world, he had been something else entirely.He had been a ghost in the machine.Deep beneath the subterranean transit levels, far below the jurisdiction of the loyalist enforcer patrols and the glass-paned conference rooms, lay the ancient, unmapped utility corridors of the pre-integration city. The air here smelled of damp concrete, ozone, and stagnant oil. It was a place where municipal algorithms could not reach, and where the digital fingerprints of the sur
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