Chapter 25: Ch 25: Search for something New- Part 1
The skies over Verizon had stilled.
Where once a storm of burning clouds and tearing earth threatened to wipe the planet from existence, now there was silence.
The deadly waves of destruction had ceased—but the price had been high. Forests were charred, cities cracked open, and the planet’s core had become dangerously unstable.
Though the catastrophic explosion had been halted, Verizon was no longer a place fit for life.
Nova knelt in the heart of the ruined arena, steam rising from his skin as the last vestiges of aether burned out from his exhausted system.
His breaths came slow, deliberate. The world didn’t crumble beneath him anymore—but it was quiet in the way dying things often were.
Above, the sky shimmered and parted as Nyx’s retrieval ship broke through the clouds.
[Nova, I’m lowering the boarding platform. Your vitals are dropping. Get on, now.]
Her voice rang out over the internal commlink, calm but clipped,
He staggered up, wiping the blood from his mouth. "Status?"
[Running emergency scans now...Most of your aether is sealed.]