Recap – Chapter 49: Hunter's Instinct
The fragile alliance was already unraveling. Kael, Aaron, and Milo tried to regroup while Elena began her own deadly game of cat-and-mouse to keep the USB out of enemy hands. But Leonid's forces had spread through the forest, forcing everyone into a dangerous scramble. Just as Kael confronted a stranger in the trees — a man whose calm, measured presence set every instinct on edge — the crack of a rifle split the air. It wasn't his shot. The man recognized whoever had fired, and his chilling words made one truth clear: they weren't hunting. They were being hunted.
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The silence after the gunshot was worse than the sound itself.
It pressed in from all sides, a suffocating stillness that made the forest feel less like a place and more like a trap.
