Chapter 205: The Summit of Healing

The collapse was not a slow decay, but a catastrophic implosion. Prometheus Biotech, a titan of industry that had once seemed as immutable as a mountain range, crumbled to dust in less than seventy-two hours. The first tremor hit the stock market. At 9:31 AM EST, just one minute after the opening bell, a coordinated short-selling attack, executed with the brutal precision of a surgical strike by the Shaw Group, eviscerated Prometheus’s stock value. Billions were wiped from its market cap before...