Chapter 133 - Another War Is In The Way

The atmosphere inside the International Institute, once marked by silence—the kind of silence broken only by the steady hum of machines and the low, murmured exchanges between researchers—had fractured into raw chaos. Alarms shrieked in every corridor, their sharp wails bouncing off sterile metal walls until the sound seemed to claw at the ears. Crimson warning lights pulsed in jagged rhythm, painting the glass partitions and steel doors in stuttering waves of blood-red illumination. Each flare announced, again and again, the undeniable presence of danger.