All Chapters of Systems Made me Lord of the City : Chapter 121
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The Meteor and the Marble
Chapter 121The sky above Aethelgard shattered.When Adrian Black disabled the safety limiters on his System’s flight modules, he didn’t just break the sound barrier. He obliterated it. He was a streak of blinding gold and violent red light tearing through the rain-choked clouds at Mach 5.The G-force was a physical titan sitting on his chest, trying to crush his ribs into powder. The friction of the atmosphere was so intense that the outer edges of his kinetic shield were superheating, turning the air around him into a cone of glowing plasma."Adrian! Your core temperature is at four hundred degrees!" Cora’s voice shrieked in his earpiece, barely audible over the deafening roar of his own velocity. "Your jacket is literally on fire!""I never liked this jacket anyway," Adrian shouted back, his teeth gritted in a feral, agonizing smile. "Distance to target?""You're crossing the city perimeter now! Entering the Dead Wastes. But Adrian... the Iron Guard is already there. They’ve depl
Ultimate Drain
Chapter 122 The bullets didn't just stop. The red Lazarus energy bleeding from Adrian's pores infected the kinetic shield. When the projectiles hit the invisible barrier, they were instantly superheated and violently repelled. The bullets ricocheted back at ten times their original velocity, melting through the Iron Guard's heavy blast-armor like it was made of wet paper.Soldiers screamed, dropping their weapons as their own crossfire tore their formation apart."I don't have time for this," Adrian sighed.He raised his right hand and snapped his fingers.[ GRAVITY WELL: OMNIDIRECTIONAL CRUSH. ]The gravity in a hundred-yard radius instantly multiplied by a factor of forty.Every single Iron Guard soldier was slammed face-first into the irradiated mud. Their weapons were crushed flat. The tires on the massive transport trucks blew out simultaneously with deafening pops, the heavy chassis grinding into the dirt.Only the crane holding the Goliath bomb remained upright, specifically s
Haunting Decisions
Chapter 122With a final, agonizing push, Adrian crushed the marble of compressed explosive energy out of existence. It vanished with a soft, anti-climactic pop, leaving nothing but a wisp of ozone and falling flakes of steel casing.Adrian dropped to the floor of the reactor cavern, gasping for air. His muscles trembled. His shirt was soaked in sweat.But the pain was gone. The red glow was gone.He looked at his hands. They were steady. The golden light of the System pulsed warmly, purely, beneath his skin.He had done it. He had burned the corruption to contain the bomb.Suddenly, the massive blue reactor of Node Gamma hummed. The terminal lights flashed.[ SYSTEM STATUS: PURGED AND PURIFIED. ][ UNEXPECTED FEEDBACK LOOP DETECTED. ][ HOST HAS SUCCESSFULLY INTERFACED WITH ALL THREE FOUNDATION NODES VIA KINETIC RESONANCE. ][ LAZARUS CODE ASSIMILATED. ]Adrian slowly stood up, frowning at the blue text floating in his vision. "Assimilated? What does that mean?"[ THE ARCHITECT'S MAS
Hire A Cleaning Service
Chapter 124"What are you doing?!" Julian shrieked as the suit's servos engaged without his command."I'm the Administrator now, Julian," Adrian said, his golden eyes piercing through the screen. "I control the grid. I control the Foundation Nodes. I even control the Lazarus code running your fancy white suit."Julian tried to move his arms, but the suit refused to obey him. It was locked in a rigid, standing position."The game is over, brother," Adrian said, leaning into the camera. "I am revoking your mayoral privileges. The Spire is on lockdown. Every door is sealed. Every elevator is disabled. You are going to sit in that room, in that suit, until I decide what to do with you.""You can't do this!" Julian roared, thrashing uselessly inside his metal prison. "I am the Overseer! I am the future!""You're obsolete," Adrian corrected. "Goodbye, Julian."The screen went black.Adrian dropped the Captain's phone into the mud. He looked around the desolate, toxic wasteland, and then tow
Another Older Lena
Chapter 124 Adrian walked up the steps, his boots making no sound."Lena," Adrian said gently. "Are you hurt? Did the Iron Guard touch you?""Touch me?" Lena sniffled, wiping her nose with a lace handkerchief. "Oh, Mr. Adrian, they did much worse. They wore muddy boots on the Persian rug in the foyer. And the Ming dynasty vase in the hallway, it’s shattered. Completely shattered into a thousand pieces."She looked up at him, her chin quivering, looking so utterly weak and vulnerable that Adrian felt a sudden, fierce wave of protective rage."I spent three hours polishing that vase yesterday," Lena whispered tragically. "And the hydrangeas, they shot the hydrangeas with plasma rifles.""I will buy you a new vase, Lena," Adrian promised, placing a comforting hand on her frail shoulder. "I'll buy you a dozen Ming vases. I'll buy you the entire country of China if you want it. The men who did this are in jail, and their boss is currently being used as a high-tech paperweight.""You promi
The Command Center's Pest
Chapter 125 The basement command center was buzzing. Cora was sitting in front of a curved bank of monitors, her arm moving way too fast as she typed.When Adrian walked in, she didn't turn around."Julian is still locked in the Apex suit," Cora reported, pointing to a live feed of the pitch-black penthouse. A thermal camera showed Julian standing rigidly in the center of the room, completely paralyzed. "His heart rate is elevated. He's panicking. I've completely severed the Spire from the municipal grid. He can't even open the blinds.""Leave him in the dark," Adrian said, pulling up a chair and sitting down backward, resting his arms on the backrest. "Let him think about his life choices.""The city is stabilizing," Cora continued, bringing up news feeds. "The Vanguard withdrawal is complete. The Iron Guard has officially surrendered to the precinct captains who are loyal to Officer Graves. The streets are cheering your name, Adrian. You're trending globally.""Of course I am," Ad
Creepy Old Thang
Chapter Next Adrian pinched his thumb and forefinger together in thin air.The centipede stopped dead, hovering a millimeter above his skin, trapped in a localized bubble of absolute zero gravity and halted momentum."Got you," Adrian breathed.But the drone didn't just stop. It reacted.To Adrian’s absolute shock, the tiny machine adapted. The metal casing rippled, vibrating at a frequency that directly countered Adrian's kinetic stasis. The drone began to slowly, agonizingly push its way through the gravity field, fighting against the power of the City god himself."It's chewing through my gravity," Adrian said, his eyes widening. He poured more power into the stasis field, his golden eyes burning. The metal tray beneath the drone crumpled under the ambient pressure, but the drone kept pushing forward."That's impossible!" Cora yelled, jumping out of her chair. "Nothing can break a System-level stasis lock!""Someone taught it how," Adrian gritted his teeth.With a fierce surge o
Tea Time
Chapter 128Being a demi-god, Adrian Black was quickly discovering, came with a ridiculous amount of paperwork.It had been twenty-four hours since he absorbed the Foundation Nodes and claimed the title of Administrator. The Black Estate’s command center was running at maximum capacity. Cora Vance had six monitors glowing with municipal data, and Joe was currently trying to figure out how to order bulk groceries using a hacked City Council credit card.Adrian stood in the center of the room, eyes closed, bathed in the soft blue glow of the screens. He didn't need a monitor. He was currently filtering the traffic light grid in Sector 5 directly through his cerebral cortex."They're backing up on 4th Avenue," Adrian murmured, his hands resting in his pockets. He twitched his index finger. "System. Extend the green light cycle by twelve seconds. Route the commercial trucks down the industrial bypass."[ COMMAND ACCEPTED. TRAFFIC FLOW OPTIMIZED. ]"You're micromanaging traffic now?" Cor
Little Excursion
Chapter 129Adrian took another sip of his coffee. "She's a saint, Joe. And she makes the best tea. I could see how terrified she was after the mess made yesterday. If anyone ever hurts that woman, I will compress their skull into a diamond and wear it on a ring.""She makes a mean scone," Joe agreed, stuffing one into his mouth."System," Adrian said, setting the cup down. "Plot a route to Sector 3. The Aegis Works factory."Adrian turned and strode out of the command center, his mind already shifting back into combat mode. He marched down the hallway, heading for the front doors.He stepped onto the freshly polished hardwood floor of the foyer.[ SYSTEM ALERT: ENVIRONMENTAL ANOMALY. ][ FRICTION COEFFICIENT: 0.0001% ]Adrian’s heavy combat boot hit the wood.There was absolutely zero traction. None. It was like stepping onto a sheet of wet ice covered in Teflon.Before his superhuman reflexes could even register the lack of friction, Adrian’s feet flew entirely out from under him.
Renovation Needed
Chapter 130Generators hummed in the darkness and worklights illuminated massive, ancient assembly lines that had been cleared to make room for sleek, modern server banks and 3D-printing stations.And standing between Adrian and the servers was a mercenary crew.There were twenty of them. They clearly weren't Iron Guard, and they weren't Vanguard. They wore matte-black gear with no insignia, and they carried weapons Adrian had never seen before, heavy, boxy rifles hooked up to battery packs on their backs.The man who seemed like the leader, a bald man, stepped forward."Adrian Black," the mercenary growled loudly. "You're trespassing on private property.""I am the Administrator," Adrian replied with a shrug like it wasn't odd to be there. "All property is my property. You built a bug that tried to bite me, gentlemen. I’m here for the exterminator's fee.""Kill him," the leader ordered calmly.The twenty mercenaries didn't fire bullets. They fired their boxy rifles.WUB-WUB-WUB.Inv