The plan to neutralize Magnus Marlowe was a final, devastating application of the corporate and digital synergy Kael and Seraphina now commanded. They were not aiming for his life, but for his reputation, ensuring his warnings about Elias Thorne would be dismissed as the bitter delusions of a fallen magnate.
“Magnus only has one weapon left: his credibility,” Seraphina asserted, reviewing the legal strategy. “He will tell everyone that Kael Voss is a ghost, that the money is black market, and that I betrayed him to a corporate assassin. We must ensure that when he speaks, the world hears a man suffering from paranoid delusion, not an ousted executive.”
Kael, using the integrated intelligence of The Obsidian Throne, had already established a
