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Chapter 17 - THE DAY THE WORLD BURNED

Across every nation, bank screens flickered.Corporate towers froze.Government servers stuttered like dying hearts.

Then a global message appeared:

"ECLIPSE WILL FREE YOU FROM YOUR CHAINS."

A white pulse tore through every financial system on the planet.

And in three seconds:

Every debt vanished

Every loan was erased

Every credit record disappeared

Every bank server collapsed

Corporate databases melted into static

Government archives corrupted beyond recovery

People gasped.Some screamed.Others applauded.

"My debts… gone?""They wiped everything…""Eclipse freed the world!"

Avalon knew better.This was not liberation.It was war.

THE CORPORATE COLLAPSE

In the skyscrapers of Vectoria Tech and the global banking giants:

CEOs smashed conference tables

Executives screamed at data analysts

Entire market systems fell into freefall

Stocks crashed like a dying star

Governments begged Avalon to intervene

Behind panic and chaos, a darker truth appeared:

Corrupt corporations had been secretly funding Eclipse from the shadows.

Now, deprived of control, they threw everything at Avalon for protection.

The world was dividing fast.

THE REAL TARGET: ALEXION DATA VAULT

While everyone believed Eclipse attacked banks…

Their elite unit infiltrated Avalon's most secret facility:

ALEXION VAULTA subterranean data fortress.

Not meant for the public.Not meant for the government.Not meant for ANYONE except Avalon's inner circle.

Eclipse didn't want money.

They wanted secrets.

Files began decrypting:

Project Titans

Forbidden Bio-Weapon logs

Energy Stone matrix research

Aydran's old experiments

Zero's mission history

Seed Protocol data

Evidence of Avalon corruption

This was the REAL attack.

PAIN INTERCEPTS

Red alarms flashed.Steel walls shifted.A shadow moved faster than sound.

Pain arrived.

His steps were silent.His expression empty.His presence colder than the vault itself.

Eclipse operatives froze.

Pain whispered:

"Drop the drive."

A massacre followed:

Blades slicing cleanly

Bones snapping

Blood scattered across glowing screens

Only one infiltrator escaped, clutching a stolen crystal data core.

Pain activated his comm:

"Vault breach confirmed. Avalon must mobilize."

This was the moment the first battlefield became inevitable.

THE WORLD REACTS — PROPAGANDA WAR

Millions of citizens celebrated the erasure of debt.

Corporations and governments accused Avalon of failure.

Eclipse spread a global message:

"Avalon kept you in chains.We broke them."

Riots began in multiple cities.Banks were burned.Government buildings attacked.

Eclipse was transforming from a secret force…into a global revolution.

AVALON DECLARES COUNTERMEASURES

The Council gathered urgently.

"They erased FOUR TRILLION credits!""They stole classified files!""They have the forbidden research!""This is beyond terrorism!""This is WAR!"

Avalon mobilized FULL FORCE:

Mesh soldiers

Guardian mechs

Pain units

Drone swarms

City shields

Plasma cannons

The world braced for its first official battle.

TAU'S SECRET CHAMBER

Far beneath Eclipse HQ…

Tau entered a cold chamber filled with white mist.

A titanic containment tank towered above him.

Something massive breathed inside.

Glass cracked.Metal groaned.A monstrous heartbeat shook the room.

Tau whispered:

"Not yet…The world is not ready to meet Agony."

A low growl answered from the container.

Agony remained sealed—Eclipse's final card.

THE BATTLEFIELD OPENS

At dusk, Eclipse androids launched plasma fire across City-24.

Avalon shields blocked it in a single glowing wave.

Then war exploded.

Mutated bio-weapons charged, screaming.Avalon mesh soldiers counterattacked with enhanced strength.Drones swarmed the skies.Mechs clashed with androids.Pain cut through the battlefield like a silent god of death.

The world trembled.

And this was only the beginning.

he banks fell.The servers collapsed.The truth was stolen.And now the battlefield had opened.

War was alive.

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