Chapter Forty
Chapter Forty-One
Chapter Forty-Two
Chapter Forty-Three
Chapter Forty-Four
Chapter Forty-Five
Chapter Forty-Six
Chapter Forty-Seven
Chapter Forty-Eight
Chapter Forty-Nine
Chapter Fifty
Chapter Fifty-One
Chapter Fifty-Two
Chapter Fifty-Three
Chapter Fifty-Four
Chapter Fifty-Five
Chapter Fifty-Six
Chapter Fifty-Seven
Chapter Fifty-Eight
Chapter Fifty-Nine
Chapter Sixty
Extras
Copyright © DAMIEN R JAMES (2024)
First Edition June 2024
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CHAPTER ONE
9 Days left…
Silas
Bye Silas… you can do this without me… I believe in you.
Save our people.
Save Alzera-Kar…
I couldn’t push down that last moment I saw Jezz no matter how hard I tried…
I was lost in my own daydream while Madeem worked on my gear. As I lay on the stretcher underneath the neon blue lights of his cyber workshop, I drowned in my own thoughts. I was lost—it’d been three whole days now... People thought my mopey attitude was because I was grieving, but honestly, it wasn’t that at all. Because as much as everyone at Prism Point believed she was gone, I knew Jezz was out there somewhere, and it was up to me to find her.
I couldn’t get her out of my head. That fae wolf girl was my companion, my friend, my other half. I’d never met anyone like her. Since the first day we met I knew she was different. She was an atypical girl, grounded, strong willed, brave, warm-hearted, and silly when she wanted to be. Jezz was unwavering and unafraid to speak her mind to the enemy population at large. She was also an eccentric little dare devil, which made me adore her all the more.
My thoughts went back to the first time we met. I remembered it like it was a few minutes ago. Orcs were trespassing on human lands, and she was tied up like cargo with Jeglar’s brother and their captain Rogar. A bunch of enraged, ready, orc warriors hunting humans to overclock as cyber soldiers was all too common for Jezz, so she wasn’t afraid of those brute heads one bit. In fact, she used me as bait to distract them, so she could free herself and end them for good.
I remembered first seeing her fight, graceful yet ferocious. She had power in every strike, and speed like I’d never seen before. She was nimble, efficient, and precise, a seasoned fighter and overseer for the human race. And even though she was fae-blooded, she fought for the people of Senterra with all of her might. Her kindness was unyielding to the suffering of my humans. The girl had the power of intimidating me no matter how much I denied it. She swung confidence around like her natural armor, and it was impossible not to be drawn to her strength. I’d made the mistake of underestimating her once before, and after she tossed me over her shoulder like a rag doll, I didn’t make that mistake again.
We had grown inseparable over the time we’d spent together. She had shown me the secrets of Senterra, guided me in the art of leveling up, and trained me in how to take everything Thalian had to offer, including all of her precious items. We had traveled together, fought together, and laughed together.
I think that was what I missed the most…
“Almost done, brutha,” Madeem said, his narrow goggles zoned in on the intricate wiring on my right arm. In the three days I’d been traveling without Jezz, I’d taken another sleeve and modified it, being one step closer to getting the perfect exo suit, The Punisher. Madeem used his electric needle to fix the joint of my cyber gear, the last cyber monster I fought snapping his large jaws right into it. Luckily the giant fish hybrid didn’t bite clean through, or I would have needed more than just a tune up.
