Chapter 16: Assignment Black
There was no briefing. No escort. No mission title on his wristband.
Just a coded ping:
ASSIGNMENT: BLACKEscort Priority Asset from Drop Point Echo-6 to Sector 6 Hub. Discretion Mandatory.Authorization: LEO — C. VIREX
Rook didn't hesitate.
He packed a plain field kit. No uniform. No badge.
The drop point was 200 meters past the edge of Hero District 3, where the repulsor walls grew weaker and the city turned to ash.
District 6 was known by another name:The Gutter.
It was where defectors, failed experiments, and burned agents went to disappear.
Or die.
Even the drones didn't patrol there anymore. The Hero Association marked it "hostile low-priority" — a bureaucratic graveyard.
Rook moved alone through the concrete alleys, boots silent, senses burning.