The Hunt family's ancestral residence was more a private city than a mere mansion. Spread across several square kilometers atop a coastal ridge, the estate had been designed not only to project power but to embody it—an indelible statement carved into the western cliffs.
From afar, it looked almost serene: terraced walls of gleaming alloy layered behind translucent security domes, their fields shimmering faintly in the morning air.
But the closer one came, the more the impression shifted. The smooth facades concealed scanners and weapon turrets capable of reducing an armored division to slag.
The walls themselves were smart alloys that could reshape and reinforce in real time.
A wide avenue of white paving stones—each slab inlaid with programmable luminescence—led to the central complex.
