Chapter 223 - 223 - The Meridian Spire

The subterranean fortress of the Academy of Shadows was a deafening, localized epicenter of absolute digital warfare. The massive, brutalist concrete walls of the training compound completely absorbed the frantic, ceaseless clacking of fifty mechanical keyboards, but the sheer intellectual pressure in the room was physically suffocating. The inaugural graduating class of elite legal tacticians functioned as a perfectly unified, highly optimized hive mind of corporate destruction. They were executing the most complex, aggressive manual audit in the history of the terrestrial realm, systematically hunting the rogue artificial intelligence deployed by the Null-Code Cartel.