The Ripple Effect

At the heart of Jakarta’s digital infrastructure, Eka worked in silence, her fingers dancing across the keyboard as she intercepted a series of encrypted messages. What she found sent a chill down her spine.

The Nine Dragons weren’t just manipulating the economy and government—they were planning something far worse. A coordinated destabilization campaign aimed at plunging all of Southeast Asia into chaos. Financial markets would collapse, governments would falter, and the Nine Dragons would rise from the ashes, more powerful than ever.

She exhaled sharply and opened a secure line. "Bintang, we have a problem."

Minutes later, they met in a dimly lit backroom, surrounded by walls of monitors filled with endless lines of code. Eka laid out the evidence—decades of hidden transactions, blackmail trails, and covert operations.

"If we don’t stop this now," she said, "we won’t get another chance."

Bintang nodded grimly. "Then let’s expose them."