Mistborn Final Empire Audiobook Novels & Stories

"What is your duty? To serve the Emperor's will! What is the Emperor's will? That we fight and die!"—chants from Warhammer 40,000 (videogame) (Content Warning—this chapter contains scenes of graphic violence and gore, reader's discretion is advised.) ** Ides of January, 41 AD The raw cry of—"Traitors!"—ripped through the torch-lit tunnel like a banshee’s wail. “Die!” SWISH THRUST “Urk—”

The old woman just smile but didn't answer to her question, instead she looked at the Emperor who has a sad expression glint on his eyes but immediately disappeared and replace it with an emotionless face. END OF CHAPTER 15 END OF CHAPTER 15

Not with shock. Not with anger. But with something softer. Respect. Outside the building… The sirens were getting closer. Police lights flashed through the windows. Daniel checked the final system message. “It’s done.” Emily looked at the screen one last time. Because the empire that once ruled the world… Had just been reborn. And this time… It belonged to someone who had never wanted power at all.

He was showing us the graveyard of his empire—taunting us with its heartbeat. And in the silence of that underground station, I swore I heard Skyla’s voice, defiant even now: We’ve shaken the empire. Now let’s make it fall. It’s time to take it apart, bit by bit. A loud chilling scream tore through the feed, the air on my skin standing as the screen of the laptop crackled, then finally went dead.

“It’s done. The empire is collapsing.” Adrian smiled slowly. “No,” he said. He looked toward the burning mansion. “It’s just beginning.”

The sharp crack of porcelain echoed through the kitchen. A plate slipped from Aurelia’s wet fingers and shattered against the marble floor, fragments scattering in every direction. Before she could even bend down, a sharp voice cut through the air. “Aurelia, are you blind? That’s imported porcelain! Do you know how expensive that is?” The head servant, Mrs. Rowan, stood at the doorway with her arms folded, her expression filled with disdain. Her lips curled slightly as she looked at Aurelia as if she were something stuck to the bottom of her shoe.

Raeleigh Campbell POV I tucked my legs under me on my hotel bed, the laptop open in front of me. “Hi, Rae,” Dr. Morgan says softly. Her voice was calm, like she’d done this her whole life. It was soothing. It was exactly what I needed. “How have you been holding up since the release?” she asks.

— L' I sat back and waited. Twenty seconds. His reply came back through a completely different route than the one I had used. A route I hadn't identified. He had found a gap in my system I didn't know existed. I sat up very straight. 'B minus. I breached the most sophisticated private security system on the planet and you give me a B minus.' There was a pause in the code, deliberate. 'Let me be very clear about something, Luna. I have killed men without blinking. I have built an empire that makes governments nervous. I have never in my life begged for anything from anyone.'

But the price was this endless war, for his mind, for his self, like it was never going to be quiet again. Then , right then, the heavy doors of the medical wing blasted open. Liam stumbled into the doorway, out of breath, face drained pale, like he’d seen something he couldn’t unsee. “Luna,” Liam gasped, pointing hard toward the west, “the fog just broke.” I untangled myself from Dante, fast but careful, and ran to the tall medical windows facing the ocean. My breath snagged. The Emperor of the Old World had arrived.

"You fight systems to rise. I built them to rule. Why resist?" Sake burned silk fire down my throat, loosening the knot his proximity always tied. "Because your empire's built on engineered ruins—scandals, leaks, blood like Rourke's neck. I'm no pawn for your Tokyo games." He leaned closer, scarred jaw inches from mine, heat radiating no touch—torture exquisite. "Pawn? No. Queen." Obsidian eyes bored soul-deep, half-smirk curving lethal. "I fell first, Nia. Two years past—your TED talk. 'Crisis as Catalyst.' Dissected corporate lies like a surgeon and hacked your life that night. Runs mapped, strategies stolen, Darius's files unearthed. Obsessed. Dangerous minds recognize their match."