All Chapters of System Activated: Divine Talent Granted : Chapter 531
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The heavy concrete wall slid away. The thick metal doors of the Red Outpost opened with a loud, grinding screech. SCREEECH.Sergeant Cross lowered his hands. He stepped back. He raised his massive plasma machine gun and aimed it at the dark hallway. Sweat ran down his dirty face. His heart beat very fast. Thump. Thump. Thump.Behind him, Maya and the other six soldiers of Squad Zero raised their rifles. They were ready to die.In the center of the room, next to the giant, spinning silver rings of the Gravity Engine, stood Commander Oliver.Oliver did not sweat. He did not shake. His right hand was wrapped in a bloody white cloth, terribly burned by dark magic. But his left hand held his heavy black pistol perfectly straight. He pointed the gun at the open door.The humanoid strategist—the Wraithborn King—had said he was coming. He had told them to open the door.They waited. The air smelled like hot metal and old blood.One second passed. Ten seconds passed. Sixty seconds passed.The
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"I am here, Oliver," Iris's voice came through. She sounded weak, but determined."I need you to alter the frequency of the city's blue energy dome," Oliver calculated rapidly. "Do not make it a solid wall. Make it a kinetic net. The orbital satellites are going to fire straight down. The lasers will destroy the enemy ships in the sky. The burning ships will fall. Your energy shield must catch the falling, burning metal so it does not crush the civilians.""A kinetic net?" Iris asked, her voice shaking. "Oliver, catching thousands of tons of falling metal will require impossible energy! It will break the city grid!""I am routing all power from the outer walls to your shield," Oliver said, swiping his hand through the blue light. "You will have the power. You must have the strength.""I will hold it," Iris promised."Captain Ren," Oliver called out."Ren here, Commander," the tough female soldier answered. She was on the ground inside the city walls."The Wraithborn will not just stay
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"Do not rest," Oliver said. "Ren. The surviving monsters from the falling ships are landing in the ruined zones. Execute flanking maneuver. Close the vice."On the ground, Captain Ren smiled a hard, deadly smile."Advance!" Ren roared.Thousands of human soldiers, wearing heavy adaptive armor, ran out of their hiding spots. They did not charge straight ahead. They ran in a massive circle, trapping the confused, burning Wraithborn monsters that had survived the fall.The monsters were dazed. They were burned. They had lost their commanders.The human soldiers fired their weapons in perfect rhythm. Pew-pew. Pew-pew.The bright blue lasers cut down the surviving beasts without mercy. When a monster tried to strike back, the human adaptive armor instantly hardened, turning silver and bouncing the sharp claws away.It was not a battle. It was a mathematically perfect execution.Oliver watched the blue hologram in the basement of the Red Outpost.He watched the massive cluster of red dots i
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The heavy bullet flew from Commander Oliver’s black pistol. It flew perfectly straight. It was aimed exactly at the center of the Wraithborn King’s pale face.But the King did not bleed. He did not die.The humanoid monster simply raised his dark, smoky hand. He did not move fast. He moved with impossible, magical grace. The metal bullet stopped in mid-air. It froze exactly one inch away from the King’s glowing red eyes.The King smiled. It was a thin, cold smile. He opened his hand, and the heavy metal bullet dropped to the concrete floor. Clink."We will finish this game later, Commander Oliver," the King whispered. His voice was smooth and terrifying. "The board is not ready for the final move."The King stepped backward into the dark hallway. His body melted into thick purple smoke. The smoke blew away in a sudden, cold wind. He was gone.Oliver slowly lowered his gun. He did not shake. He did not breathe heavily. He looked at the floor. His soldiers, Sergeant Cross and Maya, were
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Billy’s smile vanished. He put down his energy drink. His hands began to shake as he typed on his keyboard. He ran a deep diagnostic scan on the dark magic coming from the black metal.The blue grid on the screen changed. It turned into a 3D map of the solar system.A thick, bright purple line shot out from the picture of the coin. The line traveled off the planet, up into the dark purple clouds of the Rift, and split into a million tiny lines across dimensions."Oh my god," Billy breathed. He covered his mouth. "Boss... the coin is not just listening. It is screaming.""Explain," Oliver ordered."It is a beacon," Billy cried. "It is a giant, magical lighthouse! Ever since you touched it with your bare hand, it has been recording your unique energy signature. It is broadcasting your exact location to every single monster in the universe!"Oliver looked down at the pulsing black coin. Thump. Thump."It is drawing them here," Oliver said smoothly. "Intentionally.""Yes!" Billy panicked.
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"Let him send them," Oliver said. He touched his heavy black pistol resting on the desk. "I will kill them. But I will not surrender my intelligence advantage. We monitor the coin. We control the data. We do not abandon it."Iris took a step back. She shook her head slowly."You are so cold, Oliver," Iris whispered. A single tear rolled down her dirty cheek. "You calculate lives like they are just numbers on a piece of paper. You are willing to risk the entire planet just to win a game of chess against a monster.""I am willing to risk the planet because it is the only way to save the planet," Oliver corrected her. "The probability of human survival without the coin's intelligence is 14.2 percent. The probability of survival with the coin's early warnings is 31.7 percent."Oliver placed his bandaged hand near the glowing coin."Thirty-one is greater than fourteen," Oliver said. "The debate is over. The coin stays on my desk."Iris stared at him for a long time. She realized she could
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The underground command room was very dark. The only light came from the giant blue hologram in the center of the room.On the heavy metal desk, the alien coin beat like a dark heart. Thump. Thump. Thump.Commander Oliver sat in his large black chair. His right hand was wrapped in thick white bandages. The bandages were soaked with dark red blood. His hand burned with terrible pain. The dark magic of the coin had eaten his flesh. But Oliver did not care. Pain was just a number. It was a variable. He ignored it.Oliver stared at the glowing blue map of the planet Sigma-12."Boss," Billy the hacker said. His voice came from the floating video screen. Billy looked very sick. He had not slept in days. "The coin is pulsing again. The frequency is changing. The jagged purple line on the graph is going straight up.""I see it," Oliver said softly. His gray eyes were as cold as winter ice. "The humanoid strategist is giving a new order. The Wraithborn King is moving his pieces.""Where are th
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Iris's voice came through the radio. She was still at the central power core. "I am here, Oliver.""I need you to link your magic to the orbital energy grids," Oliver said. "The satellites will drop a wall of blue fire. You must keep the fire stable. Do not let it spread and burn our own soldiers.""I will stabilize the fire," Iris promised.Oliver looked at his digital clock. The red dots were very close."Captain Ren," Oliver said. "Do you see the two tall black rocks at the entrance of the narrow path?"Ren looked down the canyon. The purple fog was thick, but she could see the two giant rocks. They looked like a dark doorway. "I see them, Commander.""That is the red line," Oliver said perfectly. "Do not shoot until the first monster crosses the line between those two rocks. If you shoot too early, the enemy will spread out. You must let them bunch together.""Copy that," Ren said. She raised her rifle. "Hold your fire, soldiers! Wait for the red line!"The canyon grew very quiet.
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The explosions did not hit the monsters. They hit the earth."Maya is not there to shift the gravity," Oliver calculated aloud. "But kinetic force can mimic a gravity shift if concentrated properly."The ground in the canyon was already weakened by the wild Rift magic. The concentrated fire of fifty heavy turrets shattered the rock completely.CRACK.A massive, deep sound echoed through the canyon. It sounded like a glacier breaking.The ground beneath the giant Goliaths simply gave way. A massive sinkhole, thirty feet deep and a hundred feet wide, opened up in the middle of the path.The heavy Goliaths, carrying their massive rock shields, lost their balance. They fell forward, tumbling down into the deep, jagged hole. They crushed the smaller monsters hiding behind them."The ground collapsed!" Ren cheered. "They fell in!""Do not stop," Oliver commanded. "Now, aim your railguns into the hole. Fire at will."The human soldiers stepped forward to the edge of the sinkhole. They aimed
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The war room was finally quiet. For the last forty-eight hours, the room had been a place of noise. It had been filled with screaming alarms, loud explosions, and the voices of dying soldiers. Now, there was only the soft hum of the large computer servers.The air in the room was cold. It smelled like burnt metal, hot coffee, and dried blood.Commander Oliver stood next to his heavy black desk. He did not sit down. He did not sleep. He was looking at his right hand.His right hand was a terrible sight. The alien coin had burned away his skin. The flesh was cracked and black. A white medical robot had wrapped his hand in clean, thick bandages, but the dark red blood was already pushing through the white cloth.Oliver did not feel sorry for himself. He watched the blood spread on the bandage. He calculated how much blood he was losing. It was 0.2 ounces per hour. It was an acceptable loss. He did not need his right hand to think.Captain Vance sat in a chair in the corner of the room.