His Unwanted Wife Returned as a Boss
had dissolved, the crystal plague had receded, and the world was breathing again—but the air tasted of copper and abandonment.
"Hope," Silas called out, his voice cracking as he climbed the steps from the village square. He looked at the empty space where the god-thing had stood. "The Deep-Space Arrays... they’ve lost the signature. The Andromeda Prime is breaking up in the upper atmosphere. We won over, Hope. The Debt is canceled."
"It’s not canceled, Silas," Hope whispered, her eyes fixed on the red-glowing terminal. "It was Refinanced."