The extraction from the Vance Manor had been executed with the surgical precision of a military exfiltration. The armored transport convoy, escorted by Elias's loyalist security detail, tore through the awakening city and plunged into the subterranean depths of the VanceTech headquarters.
We bypassed the standard medical bays on the upper floors. The threat of Nathaniel Kain’s reach meant that nowhere was safe except the absolute center of the empire.
The Titan Core server room, located five levels below ground, was a fortress within a fortress. Surrounded by four feet of reinforced titanium-carbide plating and shielded by an independent, closed-loop atmospheric system, it was designed to withstand a direct kinetic bombardment. Today, it was functioning as a sterile, high-tech intensive
