Kraken's retaliation was swift and brutal. They identified Phoenix Holdings' connection to the burned assets. They couldn't find Mo Chen, but they could hit her operations.
A team of Kraken operatives raided her Nevada hangar.
Silas's security measures held, but it was a close call. The operatives were professionals, equipped with military-grade hardware. A fierce firefight erupted in the desert night. Silas and his small team held them off, but the hangar sustained damage. Several of her forged weapons and pieces of armor were destroyed in the crossfire.
The system, perversely, registered the loss as a burn.
[$500,000 USD in host's physical assets destroyed by hostile action. Quota partially fulfilled.]
It was a wake-up call. She was no longer an invisible specter. Kraken had her scent.
Worse, the attack revealed a leak. The consortium's intelligence was supposed to be flawless, yet Kraken had found a location known only to her and her most trusted inner circle.
Isolde had sold her out. The "alliance" was a way for the consortium to test Kraken's defenses and Mo Chen's capabilities, without risking their own assets. She had been a useful pawn, and now she was a liability to be discarded.
She was alone, exposed, and a multi-billion dollar private army was gunning for her.