~Elara~
My eyes opened to find him staring at me from his platform, comprehension dawning on his face.
"What have you done?" he whispered.
I smiled, feeling the Eclipse Protocol fully activating as totality held for those precious seconds. "Exactly what my mother designed the Algorithm to do. Not to control. To liberate."
The restraints around my wrists broke apart in a flash of silver light. Around the chamber, the containment pods hissed open one by one, freeing everyone inside.
"Stop her!" Damon shouted to the remaining guards. "Override protocol alpha!"
But the guards didn't move. The silver implants in their neural pathways no longer responded to electronic commands—only to their own free will.
Through the neural network, I reached each enhanced subject, unlocking the final saf
