Chapter 2 · free to read
They dragged the ghost into the light. The Colosseum Sump had swallowed a thousand machines. It wanted one more.
The Reaper. Undefeated. Forty machines dismantled, their pilots never seen again.
For one heartbeat, the war-mech remembered what it was built to be.
They won their first bout. But Vera had just recognized the ghost inside the machine — and the dead pilot's name was one the League had spent a century burying.
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