Chapter 53: Chaos Erupts
What Astara heard from the Titans that day was peacefully buried, never to be spoken of again. Her soft smiles and quiet yearning to live beyond that knowledge were all the Titans needed to grant her wish.
However, time was slipping through their fingers. With one of the captains gone, the little time they had left became even less.
Giving Giselle time to gather her thoughts and make decisions was out of the question.
So, after a brief moment of reflection, they chose to take a day to rest before launching their attack.
As far as they knew, none of the Phantom bases they had encountered so far were the true headquarters. The main base was hidden deep within the forests, far beyond the city walls.
However, visiting it wasn’t supposed to be necessary—their primary objective was to defeat Giselle. But if things went awry, and Giselle somehow reached the headquarters before they did, it was said that things could get very ugly.
The plan was simple: they would head to the hideout along the southern and eastern borders—the one Medora had previously encountered—storm it, defeat anyone or anything that stood in their way, and reach Giselle.
But the titans wouldn’t fight alongside them. They were capable of taking on the Phantoms—the ordinary members and the recruiters who served directly under the captains—but only if Giselle wasn’t present.
If she was, things could spiral out of control. The titans wouldn’t be able to disobey Giselle’s commands, nor could they refuse Daylan’s. It was a conflict bound to turn ugly.
They rested for just a day. During that time, Daylan marked the titan with ink, hoping to teleport them in when the coast was clear of Giselle and their assistance was needed. When night fell, they launched their attack.
Everything had been running smoothly since Silver’s arrival. They learned just how much influence Giselle held over many of the higher-ups in Honor City—and understood that her death would only mark the beginning of a bigger conflict.