Kingpin (Chapter 3)[18+]

Guilt shadows every keystroke as the hacker delays training his eager replacement, haunted by a lost love and syndicate traps. A fabricated debt—enforced by cold steel—binds him to Jericho's brutal fraud machine, dreams turning to nightmares. Lured into a clandestine lair pulsing with forbidden rituals, ancient power beckons with a grotesque bargain.

One sip from the shadowed calabash unleashes terror—will he pay the horrifying price for greatness? In the empire's heart of darkness, survival demands a soul-shattering choice that could crown or crush him.