Marked by the Enemy King
"If I force that bridge, I don’t just carry the power. I carry the weight of every soul connected to this grid. If they feel fear, I feel it. If they suffocate, my lungs stop. It’s not just a surge—it’s an assimilation."
Aris shoved him, not hard, but with enough force to snap Nikos’s focus back to the physical world. "Then assimilate! Become the god of this hellhole if that’s what it takes to stop the alarms. Can’t you hear that? The proximity sensor? Kalos is in the lift shaft, Nikos. He’s ten floors above us, and he’s not coming down to negotiate."
"Kalos," Nikos spat the name like a curse, his eyes flicking toward the ceilin