All Chapters of System Activated: Divine Talent Granted : Chapter 591
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Chapter 590
Oliver ducked perfectly under a swinging purple blade. Ren rolled to the side. But Jax was too slow. The monster swung a lower blade. The sharp purple energy sliced cleanly through Jax’s heavy armored leg."AGGGHHHH!" Jax screamed in absolute horror. He collapsed to the floor. His right leg was completely gone from the knee down. Blood sprayed across the digital floor.In the real world, lying safely on a cot in a bunker on Echo-4, the real Captain Jax convulsed violently, foaming at the mouth as his brain registered the massive trauma."Jax!" Ren screamed. She tried to run to him."Do not move toward him!" Oliver commanded. He stepped in front of Ren.The red monster raised all four of its blades, ready to chop Jax and Ren into tiny pieces.Oliver did not shoot his gun. He dropped his gun.Oliver stepped directly in front of the giant, towering beast."You wish to die for them, mathematician?" the Overlord laughed through the monster."I do not die," Oliver said softly.Oliver raised
Chapter 591
The ruined city of Oakhaven was completely dark. High above the broken buildings, the sky was a terrifying painting of dark purple clouds and golden lightning. The giant, broken egg of the dead moon hung in the air. The Overlord’s black pyramid was gone, but the heavy, evil magic still pushed down on the world.Inside the broken city hall, Commander Oliver stood alone in the dark. He looked at his right arm.He did not wear his heavy combat glove anymore. He could not wear it. The black Wraithborn metal had grown too thick. The dark magic from the alien coin had eaten away his human flesh. The smooth, pitch-black metal now covered his hand, his wrist, his forearm, and his elbow. It stopped just below his shoulder.Tiny, glowing purple veins pulsed inside the metal. Thump. Thump. Thump. It beat in perfect time with his human heart.Oliver raised the heavy black metal arm. He did not feel pain anymore. The pain had been replaced by a cold, terrible numbness. He closed his metallic fin
Chapter 592
The fast monsters tumbled across the broken concrete. They shrieked in pain and turned into black ash.In exactly four seconds, all twelve red dots vanished from Oliver’s map. "Cease fire," Oliver ordered."Targets destroyed!" Miller cheered over the radio. "Loss ratio: Zero. Ammunition used: Exactly twenty-four shots. Commander, that was flawless!""Do not cheer," Oliver said flatly. "Cheering is an emotional response. It distracts the brain. The engagement was successful, but the data is what matters. Report the enemy behavior."Miller paused. He looked out the broken window at the black ash. "They didn't try to hide, sir. They just ran straight at the noise. Like dumb animals."Oliver frowned. He looked at the blue map."They are not dumb animals," Oliver whispered to himself. "The Overlord controls them. The Overlord knows I use decoys. Why did he let them run into a trap?"Lira floated beside him. "He is testing your perimeter, Oliver. He is measuring how fast your soldiers pull
Chapter 593
"Twelve hours," Oliver whispered. He looked at the blue holographic map. He looked at the tiny green dots of Sergeant Miller and the Ghost Squad hiding in the subway."Lira," Oliver said. He turned to the pale ghost. "If the Overlord is planting anchors across the planet, he must have a central control node. A place where the magic connects. Where is it?"Lira pointed her white finger at the map.She did not point at the city. She did not point at the deep core where the vault was.She pointed at a dark, empty space on the map, about fifty miles outside the city walls. It was a place called the Black Forest. It was a dense, dead woods filled with petrified trees and thick, poisonous purple fog."The central node is there," Lira said. "It is a Wraithborn Spire. A giant tower made of pure dark magic. The Overlord is building it right now. When the tower is complete, he will use it to pull the planet down."Oliver analyzed the location.Variable A: Distance to target is fifty miles.Vari
Chapter 594
The Black Forest was a dead place. There were no green leaves. There were no birds singing in the air. There were no bugs crawling in the dirt. The trees were entirely black. They were made of hard, petrified wood. Their bare, sharp branches pointed up at the angry purple sky like the skinny fingers of a million skeletons.A thick, dark purple fog rolled across the ground. It smelled like rotten eggs and burnt metal. It was poisonous. A normal human would choke and die in five minutes.Commander Oliver was not a normal human anymore.He walked through the deadly fog with perfect, measured steps. His heavy combat boots crushed the dead, black leaves. Crunch. Crunch. Crunch.His helmet filtered the poison from the air. His dark visor scanned the forest. He looked for heat signatures. He looked for movement. He saw nothing. The forest was completely, terrifyingly quiet.Oliver looked down at his right arm.He had taken off his heavy combat glove. The thick white bandages were gone. His
Chapter 595
Oliver did not wait for Miller to answer. He walked to the edge of the glowing, jagged crack in the earth. He looked down.Two hundred feet below, he saw the secondary Rift corridor. It looked like a giant, glowing blue glass pipe buried in the dirt. But the blue glass was heavily cracked. Huge chunks of the ceiling were falling inward.Crawling all over the outside of the glass pipe were horrible monsters. They were Rift-Corruptors. They looked like giant, fat, glowing purple leeches with hundreds of tiny, sharp legs. They had round mouths filled with spinning teeth. They were biting the magical glass, eating the blue energy.Inside the broken glass pipe, Oliver saw a heavy human transport truck. It had crashed into a fallen piece of the ceiling.Oliver stepped off the edge of the cliff. He fell straight down into the glowing crack.The wind rushed past his helmet. He fell incredibly fast. He did not scream. He did not wave his arms. He held his body perfectly straight like a diving
Chapter 596
"The structural integrity is failing faster than predicted," Oliver noted calmly. "The monsters are eating the primary energy pillars."He tapped his radio. "Sergeant Miller. Where are the drones?""They are directly above you, Commander!" Miller yelled over the radio. "They are dropping into the crack now!"Through the hole in the ceiling, a swarm of twenty silver human drones flew down. They hovered in the air inside the broken tunnel."Drones," Oliver commanded through his suit's computer. "Activate stabilizing lasers. Target the primary cracks in the glass. Do not attack the monsters. Just hold the walls together."The twenty silver drones spun around. They fired bright green lasers at the broken blue glass. The green lasers were not weapons. They were hard-light stabilizers. When the green light hit the cracks, it acted like magical glue. It held the broken pieces of glass together.The shaking of the tunnel slowed down slightly."We bought exactly four minutes," Oliver calculate
Chapter 597
Oliver reached out with his black metal hand. He aimed it straight up at the falling ceiling.He did not use a machine. He did not use a gun. He used the raw, terrible magic that was slowly eating his humanity.Oliver closed his eyes. He pictured the math of gravity. He pictured the exact weight of the falling dirt. He pictured the kinetic force required to stop it. He forced the purple magic to obey his logic.A massive, invisible pillar of dark energy shot out of Oliver’s metal hand. It hit the falling glass and dirt.The ceiling stopped falling.Oliver was physically holding up the entire tunnel with one hand.The pressure was unimaginable. Oliver’s boots sank two inches into the solid blue glass floor. The muscles in his human legs screamed in agony. His human bones felt like they were going to snap. Blood poured from his nose and ears, dripping down his chin. But his black metal arm did not bend. It held the weight of a mountain."Lira," Oliver whispered through his bloody teeth
Chapter 598
Commander Oliver stood alone in the dark dirt. He was surrounded by dead, petrified trees. The trees were as hard as iron. Their black branches reached up to the purple sky like broken fingers. Thick, poisonous purple fog rolled over Oliver’s heavy combat boots.Right in front of him stood the Wraithborn Spire.It was a colossal tower. It reached so high into the sky that its top disappeared into the dark clouds of the Rift storm. The tower was not made of stone or human metal. It was made of pure, twisting black magic. It looked like it was breathing. The walls of the Spire moved slowly, in and out, like the lungs of a giant, sleeping beast.Oliver did not move. He stood completely still. He studied the Spire. He ran the math in his head."Height: Unknown. Material: Condensed dark matter," Oliver whispered to himself. His voice was completely flat. "Defenses: Unknown. The probability of traps is one hundred percent."Suddenly, Oliver felt a sharp, burning pain against his hip.It w
Chapter 599
"How do we sting a god?" Miller asked."By destroying his eyes and ears," Oliver said. "The Overlord will send advanced scouts through the Rift to secure the landing zone around this Spire. I am going to engage those scouts. I will need you to coordinate the city defenses. Do not fire your heavy weapons unless I give the order. We must hide our true strength.""Understood, Commander," Miller said. "Ghost Squad is ready. We trust your math."Oliver turned off the radio. He looked at Lira. The pale ghost was shaking her head slowly."You are crazy, Oliver," Lira said softly. "You are treating the end of the world like a game of chess. You are one man standing in a dead forest. You cannot fight what is coming through that signal.""I do not need to fight it all at once," Oliver said. He squeezed the black coin in his hand. "I just need to fight the pieces that step onto my board."Suddenly, the black coin flashed with a blinding, bright red light.BZZZZT!The air in the Black Forest twis