All Chapters of System Activated: Divine Talent Granted : Chapter 491
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Chapter 490
The Wraithborn jumped into the back of the crowd. They began to slash with their long knife-fingers. Blood sprayed onto the dirty ground. People fell. The screaming grew louder, turning from fear into pure horror."Sir!" Vance yelled in the command room. He pointed at the screen. "The shield is broken! Sector 7 is open! The enemy is inside the perimeter!"Oliver's eyes darted across the screens. He saw the red dots mixing with the green dots. He saw the purple lightning in the sky getting wilder. The storm was closing in."Pod 3, launch," Oliver ordered calmly, pressing a button. Pod 3 flew up, narrowly dodging a lightning strike. "Pod 4, launch. Pod 5, wait... launch."Vance grabbed the edge of the table. "Sir, what about Pod 7?! The monsters are right next to it!"Oliver pulled up the camera feed for Pod 7. He saw the mother, Mary, inside the door, reaching out. He saw the father, Thomas, on the ground outside, trying to crawl up the ramp. He saw thirty other people still outside, s
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Oliver slowly raised his eyes. He looked at Vance. There was no anger in Oliver's face, but his look was so heavy that Vance took a step back."Do you think I wanted him to die, Vance?" Oliver asked softly."I... I don't know, sir. You didn't even blink.""I did not blink because if I blink, we all die," Oliver explained. His voice was firm. "I saw his face too. I saw the mother. I saw the child. I know their names. Thomas, Mary, and Leo. I know everything about them."Vance looked confused. "Then why?""Because if I gave Thomas four more seconds, the purple lightning would have destroyed the pod," Oliver said. "Thomas would die. Mary would die. Leo would die. And ninety-seven other innocent people would die in a ball of fire in the sky. I killed one man to save one hundred. I will carry the ghost of Thomas for the rest of my life. That is my job. That is the burden of command. You cry for the one man we lost. I fight for the hundred we saved. Do you understand?"Vance slowly looked d
Chapter 492
The command room was completely silent for only three seconds.Oliver held his heavy black pistol. He was ready to leave the room. He was ready to fly up to the Iron Star and hunt the monster in the sky. Captain Iris was standing next to him, breathing hard.Then, the whole room went dark.All the bright white lights turned off. The giant computer screens on the walls went black. The humming sound of the big machines stopped. Everything died."What is happening?" Iris asked. Her voice was loud in the sudden dark.A loud alarm started ringing. It was not the city siren. It was a new sound. BZZZ. BZZZ. BZZZ.Red emergency lights flashed on. The red light made everyone look like a ghost.Captain Vance typed very fast on his keyboard. His hands were shaking again. "Commander!" Vance yelled. "We have a massive problem! The main power is gone!""I can see that, Vance," Oliver said. His voice was cold and calm. He did not yell. He never yelled. "Tell me why.""The Wraithborn," Vance said. "T
Chapter 493
They walked deeper into the machine room. The air was getting hot.Up in the command room, Oliver watched everything through the cameras on the soldiers' helmets. He saw the green night-vision screens. He saw the map of the Nexus."Vance," Oliver said without looking away from the screen. "Show me the heat map."Vance typed. A new map appeared. The whole Nexus room was glowing bright red."Commander," Vance said. His voice was shaking. "There are too many. The drones cannot kill them all. It's a nest."Oliver watched the numbers. He counted the red dots. Fifty. One hundred. Two hundred."Jax," Oliver said into the radio. His calm voice spoke directly into Jax's ear. "Stop moving. You are walking into a trap.""A trap, sir?" Jax whispered back. "These are just dumb monsters. They only know how to bite and scratch.""They are learning," Oliver said. "Look at the ceiling. Above the main generator."Jax looked up. His green helmet lights shined on the ceiling.The ceiling was completely c
Chapter 494
The heavy spike shattered a massive glass tube. Glowing green liquid poured out like a waterfall. It splashed onto a group of fifty charging Wraithborn. The liquid was highly acidic. The monsters melted into black puddles. They screamed in terrible pain."Now," Oliver commanded. "The path is clear. Run straight ahead. Fifty yards. The main control desk is there.""Run!" Jax shouted.The six remaining soldiers ran. They fired their guns behind them. They sprinted past the burning bodies of the monsters.They reached the big metal desk. There were three large, heavy red levers on the desk. They were the manual reset levers for the power grid."Jax," Oliver said. "You must pull all three levers at the exact same time. Not a second late. Not a second early. If you fail, the system will overload and blow up the entire city.""Kael, grab the left one!" Jax ordered. "Soldier Two, grab the right one! I have the middle!"The three men grabbed the heavy red handles.Behind them, the ocean of mo
Chapter 495
The command room was quiet. It was too quiet. A few minutes ago, the room was full of alarms. It was full of shouting. Now, there was only the soft hum of the computers. The bright white lights were back on. The giant screens on the wall glowed in the dark room.Commander Oliver stood like a statue. He still held the heavy black pistol in his hand. He looked at the giant screen. The screen showed the Iron Star. The huge spaceship floated high above the planet Sigma-12. It looked safe. But Oliver knew the truth.A monster was inside the ship. Captain Iris was hunting it.Oliver slowly put the pistol back on the table. The metal made a soft clack sound."Commander?" Captain Vance whispered. Vance was shaking. His uniform was wet with sweat. "What do we do now? Do we send more soldiers up to the ship to help Captain Iris?"Oliver did not look at Vance. He kept his cold eyes on the screen. "No," Oliver said. "Captain Iris has her orders. She has her weapon. She has five minutes to find t
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"I know you are busy, boss," Billy said. He typed very fast on his keyboard. His fingers moved like lightning. "You are looking at the sky. But I am looking at the dirt. I saw the monsters attack the power grid. I saw them steal the data. I recorded everything.""And what did you find?" Oliver asked. He stopped writing. He gave Billy his full attention."I found a pattern," Billy said. His face became very serious. He stopped smiling. "Commander, the Wraithborn are not just a bunch of angry bugs. They are a network."Billy pressed a button. A new video played on the screen next to his face. It was the video of the monsters in the Power Nexus, from Captain Jax's helmet camera."Look closely," Billy said. He paused the video. He pointed a dirty finger at the screen. "Look at how they move. When Captain Jax shot his heavy gun, he made a giant noise. A normal animal would run away from the loud noise. But these monsters did not run away. They stepped back exactly two paces. At the exact s
Chapter 497
"We have to warn them!" Vance yelled. "We have to call the other colonies!""I will call them," Oliver said. "But a warning is not enough. We must take preemptive measures. We must act before the enemy moves."Oliver sat down. He put his hands on his keyboard."Open a secure channel to General Thorne on Delta-9," Oliver ordered. "And open a channel to Commander Hayes on Echo-4. Put them both on the speaker.""Channel open, sir," Vance said, his hand shaking on the switch.Two voices filled the room."Oliver?" an old, deep voice said. It was General Thorne on Delta-9. "What is going on? We are reading massive energy spikes from your planet. Are you under attack?""Oliver, report," a sharp female voice said. It was Commander Hayes on Echo-4."Listen to me very carefully," Oliver said. He spoke slowly. He wanted them to hear every single word. "A massive Wraithborn army is hiding on Luna-Prime. They number in the millions. They have our defense codes. They will launch a full-scale assaul
Chapter 498
The command room was as cold as a grave. Captain Vance stood in the corner. He was shaking. He was looking at the giant main screen. The screen was empty. Ten minutes ago, the giant spaceship called the Iron Star was on that screen. Now, there was only black space and floating pieces of burning metal.Commander Oliver sat in his large black chair. He did not cry. He did not shake. His face was a mask of gray stone. He looked at his hands. They were clean. But in his mind, they were covered in the blood of four thousand innocent people. He had killed them to save the rest of the solar system. He had killed Captain Iris."Commander..." Vance whispered. His voice was broken. "They are gone. The ship is gone.""I know, Vance," Oliver said. His voice was completely flat. "The Brain is dead. The multi-front attack on the neighbor colonies is stopped. We won that hand.""We won?" Vance asked. He sounded angry. Tears rolled down his face. "Four thousand people are dead! Iris is dead! How is
Chapter 499
It started as a soft scratching sound. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Then, it grew louder. It sounded like a million sharp knives hitting the rocks.Jax looked down. Through the purple fog, the red wave arrived.The Wraithborn ran into the dark valley. There were thousands of them. They were completely black, shaped like giant spiders made of hard smoke. Their red eyes glowed in the dark. They ran on the walls. They ran on the ground. They climbed over each other.Since their Brain was dead on the Iron Star, they were not marching perfectly anymore. They were wild. They were angry. They were starving.They saw the twenty glowing blue decoys walking in the middle of the road.The monsters screamed. SCREEEEECH! The sound hurt the soldiers' ears. The monsters charged at the robot decoys."They are in the pass," Jax whispered. He held his heavy rifle tight. "The front line is passing us. The middle line is directly below us. The back line is entering the valley."Up in the command room, Oliver