Project Human Extinction Novels & Stories

Kael said carefully. "I don't doubt that. The question is whether those reasons are aligned with sustainable operation or whether you're consuming resources, including yourself, faster than they can regenerate." She stood. "You have nine days until annexation. You need nine percent additional reconstruction progress to meet Title threshold. And you just collapsed from Skill exhaustion because you used Reclaim twice in compressed timeline." She walked to the door, then stopped. "Whatever deadline you're racing against, make sure you survive to reach it. The work continues only if you're functional to coordinate it."

"What does that mean?" Nathan looked toward the tunnel stretching farther north. "Project Crimson Hunger began as an attempt to save humanity." "It ended with humanity creating something it could neither control nor understand." "Husen wasn't our first failure." The words lingered in the cold air. Sera's heartbeat quickened. "First?" Nathan nodded slowly. "There were others." "Where are they?" "I don't know." "And that's what frightens me."