Chapter 503: The Seven-Year Promise, The Final Duel

The encrypted file arrived without preamble, a ghost slipping through the most secure firewalls in the world to appear on Edward's terminal. It was from the Canglong Corps, the culmination of their global intelligence network being leveraged for a single, critical purpose: to unmask the leader of the Eye of Athena in Asia. Edward’s fingers hovered over the keyboard. The air in the study, usually filled with the comfortable scent of old books and Clare’s faint perfume, was now thick with...