The Watchmaker's Will"
The dead furnaces flared back to life, their coal beds igniting with a brilliant, blinding blue flame that cast no smoke, only pure heat.
"You are too late," Ethan muttered toward the frozen soldiers hanging from the ropes above.
He gripped the main iron steering wheel of the pedestal, pulling it upward with a sudden burst of enhanced physical strength. The heavy granite floor began to split open, revealing a hidden, reinforced vault beneath the control desk. Rising from the darkness was a sleek, beautiful mechanism made of polished platinum, dark obsidian glass, and thousands of microscopic diamond gears.
It was the **Chronos-Anchor**—his grandfather’s final, completed masterpiece. It wasn'