An undisclosed location. A war room buried deep within the heart of an unknown metropolis. Monitors glow softly in the dim lighting, displaying a fractured world in chaos. The air is thick with the hum of encrypted communications and murmurs of operatives securing their next moves. At the center of it all—Dr. Sheng Xiu and Zara Malik, flanking the one entity that had waited for this moment: The Jade Dragon.
Dr. Sheng Xiu methodically flipped through the holographic reports flickering in front of him. Global instability. Power vacuums. Corporate collapses. Political factions are in disarray. The death of the Unseen Hand had not brought peace—only a battlefield with no clear victor.
He adjusted his glasses. “The Hand is finished.” His voice was measured, clinical. “But their infrastructure remains.”
Across the table, Zara Malik exhaled, arms crossed. “Then we claim it.”
A smooth, confident voice cut through the room like a blade.
“That was always the plan.”