Chapter 332 The Ruptured Cage
Chapter 332 The Ruptured Cage
Natalie’s POV
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The titanium jaws of the hydraulic cutter bit into the reinforced frame of my door with a grinding shriek that tore through the canyon air.
Sparks burst outward in violent sprays, scattering across the side mirror and flickering briefly against the green haze still hanging inside the cabin.
Each pulse of pressure from the machine deepened the sound until it became less like cutting and more like something alive being slowly crushed into submission.
They were precise.
They believed the door was the obstacle.
Not me.
Not what had just awakened inside.
The suppression gas still lingered in thick coils inside the vehicle, neon–green and suffocating, but it no longer hold authority over the space.
Something had changed.
Every nerve in my body felt sharpened.
My fingers tightened around the kinetic blade Flynn had hidden beneath the console. The weapon felt lighter than it should have as if my body itself had become the primary instrument of violence.
Then the door gave way.
Cold wind rushed in immediately, slicing through the green fog and briefly scattering it into uneven layers.
For a fraction of a second, the world inside the cabin and the world outside overlapped in a chaotic collision of frost as, suppression gas, and raw mountain wind.
That was the opening they needed.
The lead mercenary moved instantly.
He was tall, armored in layered tactical gear designed for extraction rather than open combat.
His respirator masked most of his face, but the scar along his jawline was visible even through the filters. His movements were trained, efficient, and aggressive as he lunged through the opening, both hands already reaching toward me with the intent to secure, restrain, and extract.
“Target secured–pull the-
His command never completed.
I didn’t think.
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There was no transition between intention and movement.
The blade in my hand moved upward in a tight, controlled are, but I didn’t use the edge. I used the pommel.
It struck the underside of his respirator with explosive force, a blunt impact that shattered the filtration unit instantly and snapped his head backward against the reinforced frame of the vehicle.
A burst of blood sprayed across the inside of his visor as his body collapsed for ward, then slid lifelessly out of the doorway and onto the asphalt below.
Behind him, the second mercenary reacted too late.
“She’s not suppressed!” he shouted, voice cracking as he scrambled backward across the hood of the vehicle. The target has a live core–she’s active-!”
He never finished the sentence.
I stepped forward.
My boot hit the asphalt, and the canyon answered immediately.
The loose gravel along the edges of the highway fractured into jagged ice structures, each shard forming in response to the uncoiled aura pouring out of me.
The second mercenary lost his footing instantly.
His body slid off the hood and hit the ground hard, scrambling to recover but unable to stabilize under the pressure of Nyx’s fully awakened field.
“Sean. Susie. Keep the cloths sealed over your faces. Stay down! My voice carried across the cabin.
Inside the transport, I didn’t look back.
I couldn’t afford to.
Not because I doubted them but because my attention had already split across too many fronts.
Down the canyon lane, through the fog and smoke of the ongoing engagement, Asaw Baron.
Fifty meters out.
A moving shadow of controlled destruction.
He had just finished the last guard in his immediate path, his movements precise and absolute, but his head had already snapped toward the rear formation the moment the suppression gas deployed.
Even from this distance, i could feel the shift in his frequency.
He was coming back.
Fast.
But the strike cell had planned for that.
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So they didn’t try to stop him.
They delayed him.
From the rear unbranded transport, hidden in the logging line, a third operative triggered a heavy kinetic system.
The sound came first.
A deep mechanical thud that didn’t belong to small arms or human movement.
Then the deployment fired.
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A silver–laced steel mesh net erupted into the canyon air, expanding outward like a manufactured storm.
It was wide, heavy, and designed to entangle anything moving at high speed withina controlled radius.
I moved instantly.
Leftward.
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redirect the net away from the children’s transport, ensuring it did not intersect their cabin of breach their But the mesh was too wide, too fast, and too precisely timed.
anyway.
e of the net slammed into my left shoulder plate with enough force to drag my entire body sideways.
oots skidded across asphalt, friction tearing sound through the canyon as I fought the momentum, but the mesh wrapped ter than expected, locking around reinforced fibers and pulling me down.
Thit the ground.
Hard.
The moment the silver–laced mesh made full contact with my system, everything changed again.
Suppression surged through the weave like a living current.
Γ
A thousand white–hot impulses slammed into my core channels at once, each one designed to destabilize wolf frequency alignment.
Nyx responded immediately with a violent, defensive snarl that echoed through my ribs like thunder.
Her golden light fla
through it.
But the
TO
anfield, trying to burn through the mesh, trying to reject it, trying to exist
stuttered.
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Then flickered again.
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“Get her into the rear bay” the mercenary commander shouted, coughing violently as he pushed himself upright. Blood stained his tactical liner, but his voice carried urgency sharpened by panic. “Forget the convoy the Alpha is closing in–move!”
Two more operatives rushed forward from the logging line.
They didn’t hesitate.
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