Chapter 105 Zoe Discovers Her Final Alteration

• The silence inside the mansion was heavy, almost tangible, as if the walls themselves were holding the breath of secrets too old to be spoken. Every step Zoe took echoed through the empty halls, a reverberation that reminded her, at every moment, of what she could no longer ignore: the power within her. It was not just memory, nor resilience, nor simple survival instincts. It was something deeper, more visceral—something Ethan had hidden with extreme care, calculating the precise moment to allow it to emerge.
• The key was in front of her. Literally and symbolically. A small piece of metal, delicately engraved with complex symbols that spoke of a language Zoe was only beginning to understand. She had found that artifact days earlier, lost among layers of laboratory reports and implant protocols in the old Sellarés files, as if someone had left it there on purpose, waiting for her to reach it. For weeks she had studied it, turning it over in her fingers, tracing every inscription with her eyes, attempting to decipher its purpose, realizing more with every moment that it was no ordinary object.
• And now she understood it with absolute clarity.