Location: Former Dominion Surveillance Outpost – Underground Sector 7

“Are you sure this place is still active?” Serena’s voice echoed down the tunnel, the beam from her rifle-mounted flashlight slicing through the dust-heavy dark.

Dominic, once Marcus’s right hand, now a rogue operator, didn’t respond. He kept walking, jaw tight.

He hadn’t wept for Marcus.

Not once.

But he hadn’t pledged loyalty to Elena, either.

When he finally stopped in front of the rusted steel vault, he placed his palm on the keypad. A long pause. Then a hiss.

The vault cracked open.

And within it: files, maps, and a dormant AI surveillance core Marcus had built in secret—called Ghost...