"His heart rate is crashing."
Elias dropped his microphone and sprinted across the wooden stage.
Ten minutes remained on the Lethal Grade Assessment. Ryan Parker slumped forward. His shoulder hit the polished black wood of the grand piano with a heavy thud.
The corporate war was exacting a brutal physical toll. The Royal Court did not know about the crimson System interface. They did not know a lethal neural block was slowly crushing his windpipe.
They just saw their invincible sovereign dying in front of them.
"Get a medic in here right now," Victoria Price screamed into her radio.
"The perimeter is locked," Magnus Mace rumbled from the stage wings. "An ambulance cannot breach the crowd outside. I will carry him to the medical bay myself."
Ryan raised his shaking left hand. He held
