Chapter 85: Tadville's Dawn

One year later. The sun rose over a city transformed. Tadville was no longer a battleground of shadows, a chessboard for clandestine powers vying for control. It was a city breathing, thriving, its steel and glass arteries pulsing with a newfound vitality. The change was palpable, not just in the gleaming new skyscrapers that pierced the skyline, but in the very air—cleaner, lighter, filled with the hum of prosperity and peace. At the heart of this renaissance was the Pearl Group. Under the...