All Chapters of System Activated: Divine Talent Granted : Chapter 301
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Chapter 301
The sky was a bruise of red and black, heavy with smoke and shadow. The land had been torn apart, with craters, fire, and the smell of blood everywhere.At the center of it all stood Oliver. His sword burned weakly in his hand, the crimson light flickering. His body trembled with exhaustion, every breath sharp and ragged. Blood ran down his arms, soaking into the dirt beneath his boots.The Wraithborn Lord loomed before him, towering, monstrous, and half destroyed. His body was cracked open where the Soulbrand had struck. Black fire poured from his wounds. Yet still, he lived. His hundreds of red eyes glowed like dying stars, furious and unyielding.And between them, lying on the ground, the chained girl’s glow dimmed with every heartbeat. Her golden light was fading fast.The wind howled through the wasteland, carrying the faint sound of battle cries from the surviving rebels in the distance. But here, at the center of the storm, everything felt still. Oliver’s vision swam. The Sys
Chapter 302
The battlefield burned like a dying sun. Light and shadow twisted together, turning the sky gold and black. The air shook with every heartbeat. The ground split open in wide cracks, swallowing fire and stone alike.At the center of it all stood Oliver, or what he had become. His form flickered between flesh and light. His armor had melted into his skin, glowing with faint runes. His sword no longer looked like steel but pure energy, alive and pulsing with the rhythm of his heartbeat.Across from him, the Wraithborn Lord stumbled, cracks spiderwebbing through his monstrous form. His countless eyes flickered weakly. Chains hung broken at his feet. Still, he fought to stand. “You… you should be dust. No mortal can hold that kind of power.”Oliver’s voice came out calm, low, and haunting. Two voices spoke as one, his and the girl’s, blending perfectly. “I’m not mortal anymore.”The Lord roared, his body twisting in desperation. “Then you are nothing. Just another abyssal husk waiting t
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Darkness swallowed everything. At first, Oliver thought he had died. There was no sound, no weight, no breath, only an endless void pressing in from every direction, then he opened his eyes.He was floating in a sea of shadow. Endless chains drifted through the air like ribbons of metal, glowing faintly red. Fragments of the world shimmered around him, broken memories, flashes of fire, screams, and light. The girl’s voice whispered faintly beside him. “You’re inside him now.”Oliver turned slowly. She was there, glowing faintly gold, her form half-transparent, her eyes calm but sad. “What is this place?”“The Titan’s heart,” she said softly. “He doesn’t fight with flesh. He drags your soul here. He makes you fight yourself.”Oliver’s jaw tightened. “Then he’ll regret pulling me in.”The darkness shifted. The void began to ripple, and from its depths, something enormous moved. A hand, made of black fire and smoke, rose from below, each finger long enough to crush a city. It reached t
Chapter 304
Rain fell sideways. Cold drops hissed where they struck the ground, turning dust to steam. Oliver’s eyes opened to a sky that was neither night nor day, a gray smear cut by flashes of dull red lightning.He lay on his back in the mud. The world around him was empty. No voices. No battle. No breath but his own.When he pushed himself up, his limbs screamed. His armor hung in tatters, half-melted into his skin. The sword lay a few feet away, its once-gold light now a faint ember.He reached for it. The metal was warm, too warm, and pulsed once, as if a heartbeat echoed inside.A whisper followed. Not a voice from memory, but something new. Deeper. “Rise, Warden.”Oliver froze. The words came from nowhere and everywhere, vibrating in his bones. He forced a breath through clenched teeth. “Who’s there?”The wind didn’t answer. He stood slowly, scanning the horizon. What he saw made his stomach twist.The land stretched endlessly, covered in black sand and fragments of bone. Shapes moved in
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The storm did not wait. Thunder crashed across the gray horizon as the second wave came.Oliver’s boots sank into wet ash. He could barely see more than a few meters ahead; the air was thick with smoke and flickering light. But he could feel them, dozens, maybe hundreds, circling just beyond sight. Each heartbeat brought them closer. He rolled his shoulders, pain grinding through every joint. “Come on then.”The first shapes broke from the haze. Smaller than the Hunter, faster, hunched low to the ground. Their skin shimmered like oil. They crawled on all fours, claws digging deep furrows into the earth.Oliver stepped forward. His sword hummed with gold fire, trembling against the wind. The first creature leapt. He cut it in half before its claws reached him. The next came from the side; he spun and kicked, sending it crashing into another. Black smoke sprayed across the mud. They came in a swarm, screaming with voices like breaking glass.Oliver lost himself in motion. Slash. Tur
Chapter 306
The rain had stopped. Only mist remained, thin veils drifting over endless sand and broken bone.Oliver kept walking. Each step sank, crunching through what looked like glass. The faint light on the horizon glowed brighter now, pulsing like a heartbeat.He didn’t trust it, but he had nothing else to follow. The land sloped downward into a long trench filled with strange black water. The air tasted of metal and ash. Above him, the gray sky twisted slowly, clouds folding into shapes that almost looked like faces.Every few minutes, the whisper inside his head tried again, soft, persuasive. “You feel it too, don’t you? The pull? It’s calling you home.”Oliver ignored it, eyes fixed ahead. His sword stayed in his hand, faint sparks crawling along the blade.When he reached the bottom of the trench, the light took shape. It wasn’t a beacon. It was a gate.Two pillars of bone rose from the earth, carved with runes that burned red and gold. Between them shimmered a curtain of light, ripplin
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The world was falling apart. The Gate screamed, a high, living sound that split the air. The light pouring from it bent like water, swallowing everything around. Sand, stone, and bones rose into the air, spinning like they were caught in a whirlpool. Mara could barely stand. The force of the wind pushed her to her knees, her hair whipping across her face. “Oliver!” she shouted into the storm.No answer. Only thunder. Behind her, Grelich anchored his staff into the ground, runes blazing blue as he poured what little magic he had left into a barrier. “We can’t get close!” he yelled over the roar. “The Gate’s feeding on itself, it’s unstable!”Garrick covered his face with one arm, squinting at the blinding light. “He went in there! We can’t just leave him!”Mara clenched her fists. “We’re not leaving him.”She took a step forward, and the ground cracked. The light lashed out, striking the earth like lightning. She jumped back just in time, eyes wide. The crater where she’d been standin
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The air hissed as both of them gathered energy again. Outside the Gate, the rebels were losing their footing.The storm had become a cyclone, light twisting like living vines around the portal. Mara dug her daggers into the ground to stay anchored. “Hold the line!” she shouted, her voice hoarse.Grelich’s barrier flickered dangerously. Sweat poured down his face. “The energy inside, it’s not stable anymore! The two of them are tearing the fabric of the Gate apart!”“Then seal it!” Garrick yelled, trying to brace a fallen soldier against the wind. “I can’t! Not while they’re both still in there!”The sound that came from the Gate wasn’t thunder, it was laughter. Deep, echoing, inhuman. The very air vibrated with it. Mara’s stomach twisted. “That’s not Oliver.”Grelich’s head snapped up, eyes wide. “No… It’s the Gate itself. It’s waking.”Inside, the fight grew wilder. Oliver ducked beneath a slash and countered, his sword biting deep into the Warden’s side. Instead of blood, black smo
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Oliver walked for what felt like hours, though time meant nothing here. The gray fog stretched in all directions, thick enough to drown thought. Every few steps, he thought he saw shapes move in it, shadows that vanished when he turned.His footsteps echoed on nothing. There was no ground, no wind, no scent. Just a heartbeat. Slow. Deep. Not his. He stopped. “Show yourself,” he said quietly.Silence, then, another step. Not his own. From the mist ahead, something stirred. A figure walked forward, barefoot, leaving ripples in the air where he stepped. His body looked human, but the longer Oliver stared, the less true that seemed. His skin shimmered like liquid metal, his eyes too many colors at once, blue, gold, red, and black, all shifting in slow rhythm.“Finally awake,” the stranger said. His voice was calm, deep, and oddly gentle. “The new chain-bearer. The last fragment of the Gate.”Oliver raised his sword. “Who are you?”The man smiled faintly. “Names are heavy things. I’ve ha
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The air in the void cracked with every movement. Oliver swung his sword through another reflection, splitting its chest in half. It dissolved into smoke, but before he could breathe, two more appeared, one with eyes of fire, one with chains of shadow winding around its arms.They didn’t roar or speak. They simply attacked. The clang of metal echoed across the glass plain.Each hit burned Oliver’s skin with heat that wasn’t real. Every strike from them felt like fighting himself, same stance, same weight, same rhythm.He parried a slash, countered with a knee, then pivoted and brought his blade down through another’s shoulder. The light burst outward, searing his face. “Enough!” he shouted, voice echoing through the hollow world. “I’ve had enough of ghosts!” But the reflections didn’t stop.They circled him, hundreds now, their glowing eyes watching, waiting. Each one looked more distorted than the last. One had horns, another wings, another a mouth filled with black flame. They wer