Chapter 594 – The Forge That Failed
Lux stood in the dark ruins of a broken realm.
But his smile?
Still sharp.
Still glowing.
Still Lux.
The silence around him wasn't silence. It was the sound of systems breathing. Walls groaning. Forgotten data hissing through burnt-out infernal circuits. The air smelled like ash and ozone, like a machine had coughed up its own soul and left the charred skeleton behind. This was not just a ruin. This was a failed idea. A vault that lost.
The Forge That Failed.
An abandoned subspace cluster originally designed by Greed's high architects to manufacture soul-based currency algorithms. But it broke. Malfunctioned. Got corrupted from the inside out.
Or maybe it got rewritten.
Lux's boots crunched over black glass and hex-slag. Dust shimmered with residual mana. The walls twitched like the network still remembered being touched by something that shouldn't exist.
He let the shadows wrap around him like a familiar suit.
And then…
