The tunnel lights flickered as Leon stared at the projection hovering above the command table. A glowing sphere pulsed in midair, covered in shimmering lines of blue and red code that curved and converged like a living circuit.
Nova, Raze, and Iko gathered around him in silence.
“What are we looking at?” Raze asked, squinting.
Leon zoomed in with a flick of his hand. “This is what I saw when our networks collided. The Apex’s architecture. Every node, every fragment, every piece that split when it fell.”
The sphere rotated, revealing twelve glowing points orbiting a central core.
“Twelve fragments,” Nova murmured. “And you’ve found one of them — Elias.”
Leon nodded. “That makes me two. Which means ten more are still out there.”
Raze leaned back, whistling low. “Ten more homicidal tec
