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Chapter 131 - Chapter 131 – Forty-Two Metres

Three days into the C-zone support tier work, something changed.

Not in the missions. Those were running cleanly. Dorath's team moved through zone eleven's harder contracts with the efficiency of four people who had stopped needing to negotiate roles mid-fight, and Kai's right flank position had become less a placement and more a direction—the zone's eastern section where the crosscurrent energy ran densest and the creature territory overlapped in ways that produced unexpected contact patterns. He was learning that section the way he had learned things his whole life: by being in it enough times that the unexpected became the anticipated.

The missions were not the problem.

The problem was what the system had been quietly accumulating across those three days without telling him.

He found it on the fourth morning when the system ran a background update at first light.

Framework loading: 87%

 Passive sovereign pressure events: 3 logged (uncontrolled)

 Duration: avg 2.1 seconds

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