Chapter 104 The First Awakening

Deep beneath the fractured earth, where light had long been forgotten, something stirred. A heartbeat—mechanical, measured, ancient—thudded within a sealed chamber codenamed Seraph-10. For over a decade, the subject within had remained suspended in biostasis, locked behind coded failsafes and lethal containment algorithms. She had been deemed unstable—too volatile for control, too dangerous to terminate.