INFINITE REWIND: THE APEX HUNTER CHRONICLES: VOLUME 4 - GOVERNANCE

GOVERNANCE Infinite Rewind: The Apex Hunter Chronicles, Book 4Power was never just personal. The moment you matter, you become a piece on someone else's board.The data crystal Ethan Cross carried out of the Echo Room has made him a target three times over. The Olympus Guild wants it. The World Hunter Council wants it. The Remnants want it kept out of both their hands - and Ethan is caught holding evidence everyone with real power would kill to control.His clearance numbers keep defying classification. After the Montreal Fracture, the WHC elevates him to C-rank and Division Zero receives official recognition - resources and scrutiny arriving in equal, unwelcome measure. Ethan finds himself in rooms he was never meant to enter, culminating in his first international Hunter summit in Geneva alongside Sera, where he meets SS-rank Hunters for the first time. They aren't what he expected. Less raw power on display, more patience - forces of nature that learned to wait.One of them is Marcus Vane. His curiosity about Ethan is immediate, and obvious enough that Ethan clocks it instantly for what it really is: a performance, aimed directly at him.Then the summit turns into a crime scene.A coordinated assassination attempt targets three A-rank delegates, engineered to detonate a war between Hunter guilds. Ethan sees it coming - barely - piecing together Caspian's intelligence with a death-and-rewind that buys him a single early look at the assassins' positions. He saves two of the three targets.The third dies. Across seven rewound timelines, Ethan is ninety seconds too slow every time.What he doesn't realize until the dust settles: the assassination wasn't the goal. It was leverage - built to force through a WHC vote granting the Council sweeping authority to classify and restrict any Hunter ability deemed "destabilizing to global order."The category they've just defined fits Ethan's profile exactly.