Kapitel 72: The Thirteenth Ambition

Lucien LaRue paced the length of the SilverWave Innovations conference room, his fists clenched and his face flushed with barely contained fury.

The previous day's events replayed in his mind like a haunting nightmare. The laughter, the absurd animations, and Ethan's smug face on the screen mocking him were infuriating. SilverWave's carefully constructed plan had failed and imploded in the most humiliating way possible.

Ethan had corrupted SilverWave's servers and left them reeling with reputational damage. The fallout was immediate. Their software and app users had flooded SilverWave with complaints, bogging them down in a mess of negative reviews, plummeting their once-pristine ratings overnight. It was as if Ethan had turned SilverWave's public image into his personal punching bag.

Lucien found himself in this meeting room with his Ascendants, a handpicked team of Low Star Soldiers he had long trusted to help him in similar situations.