Normandie didn't crash through the ceiling. He simply walked through the front door, his heavy boots echoing against the marble. The automated turrets tracked him, locked on, and then—hissed into silence. He had uploaded a viral worm into the mansion’s nervous system before even stepping foot on the grounds.
They called him El Destructor De La Realeza —The Royal Destroyer. He wasn't a revolutionary with a manifesto or a hero with a heart of gold. He was a mechanical nightmare in a tailored trench coat, a man who had replaced his own heartbeat with the rhythmic hum of a stolen reactor. El Destructor De La Realeza Normandie Alleman...
With a single, gravity-defying strike, he severed the structural support of the Spire’s primary stabilizer. The room tilted. Panic, sharp and ugly, replaced the refined boredom of the guests. Normandie didn't crash through the ceiling
