All Chapters of Systems Made me Lord of the City : Chapter 141
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Silly Villainy
Chapter 141Adrian expanded his awareness all around. As he keyed into his power, he didn't need to look for any code, he simply felt the earth. He felt the rumble of the subway trains, the hum of the power plants, and then... a steady, rhythmic thump-thump, thump-thump echoing through the subterranean crust of Sector 2. It perfectly matched the beating of Lena's heart."Gotcha," Adrian whispered.He opened his eyes and right then, they were blazing like miniature suns."System," Adrian commanded out loud, ensuring Lena heard every word. "Target the subterranean vault at Sector 2, Grid 44-Alpha. Reroute the city's high-pressure water mains directly beneath the vault."Lena jumped to her feet. "What are you doing?!""I'm washing the dishes," Adrian sneered.[ INITIATING MUNICIPAL OVERRIDE... ][ WATER MAINS REROUTED. PRESSURE BUILDING. ]*LMiles away, beneath Sector 2, the massive steel pipes of the city's water filtration system groaned. Millions of gallons of highly pressurized, p
Passionate Cleaner
Chapter 142Adrian couldn't hold it in anymore. He threw his head back and laughed. It was a booming, genuine roar of laughter that shook the room."Oh, Lena," Adrian wiped a tear from his eye. "You are truly a magnificent lunatic.""Release me!" she demanded. "Kill me like a man, you brute!"Adrian stopped laughing and a wicked, incredibly arrogant smile spread across his face."Kill you?" Adrian tsked, shaking his head. "No. Death is too easy. Death is messy. It leaves blood on the floor. And we both know how much you hate stains."Adrian walked over to her and placed a hand on her forehead."System," Adrian commanded. "Access the cybernetic neuro-processors in the target's cortex."[ ACCESSING... ][ FIREWALL BREACHED. ADMIN OVERRIDE ACCEPTED. ]"What are you doing to me?!" Lena panicked, her eyes darting wildly."I'm instituting a new protocol," Adrian smiled viciously. "I call it the Cinderella Protocol."[ WRITING NEW DIRECTIVES TO HOSTILE CYBERNETICS... ]"I am locking you out
What's A Failsafe?
Chapter 143The front doors of the Black Estate were gone, replaced by a temporary, shimmering field of localized gravity that kept the rain out but let the smell of ozone and wet pavement drift into the foyer. Adrian Black stood at the bottom of the grand staircase, holding a cup of espresso. He watched with profound, arrogant satisfaction as Lena, Lady of the Belmont bloodline and master assassin, furiously scrubbed the marble tiles with a toothbrush. "You missed a spot near the credenza, Lena," Adrian said, taking a sip. Lena’s cybernetics whirred. Her arm violently jerked toward the credenza, the toothbrush scrubbing so fast it blurred. A single tear of utter humiliation tracked down her wrinkled cheek. "I hate you," she whispered through clenched teeth, unable to stop her own hand. "I hope you choke on that espresso, you uncultured swine.""And I hope you get that grout clean," Adrian smiled warmly. "It’s really starting to pop."Just then, the gravity shield at the front e
Chasing Wild Ducklings
Chapter 144Joe grabbed his pulse rifle. "Adrian, you can't stop a meteor! We have to evacuate!""You can't evacuate five million people in four minutes, Joe," Adrian said softly. He didn't run. He didn't panic. He simply closed his eyes and inhaled. He felt the foundation of the city. He felt the three geothermal nodes he had bonded with. He felt the infinite, humming reservoir of the Earth's raw kinetic energy beneath his feet. "Lena," Adrian said, his eyes snapping open. They weren't just glowing, they were incandescent, burning with the power of a City God. "I want a fresh cup of coffee waiting for me when I get back."Before the housekeeper could reply, Adrian vanished. He didn't break the sound barrier; he shattered it. The sonic boom shattered the remaining windows in the East Wing as he launched himself vertically into the stormy night sky. [ SYSTEM SKILL: UNRESTRICTED FLIGHT. ][ POWER SOURCE: FOUNDATION NODES ACTIVE. ]Adrian tore through the atmosphere, ascending faste
If and Only If
Chapter 145 The Spire - PenthouseInside the pitch-black office, Julian Sterling was trapped inside the dead Apex armor. He had felt the shockwave of the orbital rod missing the building. He had heard the sonic booms. He knew he had failed. "No," Julian whispered inside his metal coffin, a tear of absolute, crushing defeat sliding down his cheek. "It was supposed to be mine."There was a loud crash as the reinforced glass of the penthouse window exploded inward. Adrian Black stepped through the shattered window, surrounded by the swirling, smoking winds of the storm outside. His eyes were burning with a terrifying, absolute gold light. He didn't say a word. He walked up to the paralyzed, white-armored clone. Adrian placed a hand on the chest plate of the Apex suit. [ SYSTEM SKILL: MOLECULAR DISASSEMBLY. ]The indestructible white armor simply unraveled. It didn't break; it dissolved into a cloud of fine white dust, cascading off Julian’s body and blowing away in the wind from t
Pretty Pod Lady
Chapter 146 The room was noisy when he entered. Joe was pacing a hole into the concrete floor, his pulse rifle slung over his shoulder, while Cora Vance was typing so fast he could barely see her fingers over the keyboards. "Tell me you saw the broadcast," Joe nearly shouted as Adrian walked in. "Tell me you just told the World Council to go take a flying leap.""I told them the city is closed for renovation," Adrian corrected, setting his espresso cup down on a server rack (earning a muffled shriek of agony from Lena upstairs, who undoubtedly sensed the impending water ring). "I also deflected their kinetic bombardment rod into the Dead Sea. The Spire is secure. Julian is taking a nap."Cora didn't cheer like he expected. She didn't even look away from her monitors. Her face was illuminated by the harsh red light of dozens of error warnings flashing across her screens. "Adrian," Cora said, her voice tight with a terrifyingly cold panic. "You shouldn't have hung up on them."Adri
The High Arbiter
Chapter 147 The woman stopped twenty feet from the porch. She looked up at Adrian with eyes that clearly weren't biological; they were solid, glowing pools of violet light, matching the energy of the dome above them. "I am High Arbiter Seraphina of the World Council," she spoke. Her voice projected directly into Adrian and Joe's auditory cortex, bypassing the air entirely. It was chillingly serene. "You are Adrian Black. An unauthorized anomaly. You have illegally assimilated Class-A Foundation tech. You will surrender the Administrator codes, and you will submit to immediate molecular disassembly.""Molecular disassembly?" Joe muttered. "Is that a fancy way of saying she's going to vaporize you?""I think she's asking me on a date, Joe," Adrian smirked. He took another sip of his coffee. "Seraphina. Lovely name. Tell your bosses in the sky that I don't take orders from glorified satellite dishes. If they want my city, they can come down here and try to take it themselves."Serap
With Tails Tucked
Chapter 148Adrian didn't attack her with gravity. He attacked her with the city itself. Beneath the estate, the massive municipal power cables surged. Millions of volts of raw, unfiltered electricity ripped out of the ground. The metal pipes, the rebar in the concrete, the ambient electromagnetic field of the entire sector, all of it bent to Adrian’s absolute will. A cage of pure, blinding blue lightning erupted from the earth, surrounding Seraphina. She gasped, trying to fold space to escape, but the massive electromagnetic surge scrambled her orbital connection. The violet fractals shattered like glass and the electricity lashed out, wrapping around her black armor, binding her limbs with chains of pure, superheated plasma. She screamed, an actual, vocal scream that tore through the air as the electricity grounded her spatial technology, frying her internal dampeners. Adrian casually floated up into the air, hovering eye-level with the captive Arbiter. She was suspended in
A Word From Space
Chapter 1495:45 AM. Fifteen minutes until sunrise. The Black Estate was quiet, save for the loud and rather ggressive hissing of a high-pressure power washer. Lena was standing in the driveway, drenched in mist, systematically blasting the scorch marks left by the Arbiter’s drop pod off the cobblestones. Thanks to the Cinderella Protocol hardwired into her cybernetic brain, she had been cleaning continuously for three hours. She scrubbed with the furious, precise energy of an assassin who desperately wanted to be committing murder, but was instead legally obligated to remove carbon scoring. "You missed a spot near the azaleas, Lena," Adrian called out from the ruined front porch. He was sitting in a plush leather armchair he had dragged out of the library, his boots propped up on a chunk of the shattered marble railing. He was holding his third cup of espresso and he looked exhausted. Lena’s power washer violently jerked to the left, blasting a patch of dirt with the intensity
Dad's Back!
Chapter 150[ REROUTING KINETIC OUTPUT THROUGH SPIRE ARRAY. ][ WARNING: ATMOSPHERIC INTERFERENCE DETECTED. ][ DISTANCE TO TARGET: 1,200 MILES. ][ REQUIRED POWER OUTPUT: CATASTROPHIC. ]"Give it everything," Adrian roared and thrust his right hand directly toward the sky. Miles away, the tip of the Spire ignited with a blinding beam of solid, golden gravity. It shot upward like a spear of pure physics, piercing the contracting violet dome and tearing straight through the exosphere. Up in Low Earth Orbit, Aegis Satellite Prime, a multi-billion-credit space station the size of an aircraft carrier, was dutifully projecting its hard-light beam downward to crush the city. Suddenly, an invisible, unstoppable force wrapped around its titanium hull. Down on Earth, Adrian’s boots cracked the marble of the porch. His knees buckled slightly under the sheer, unimaginable strain of reaching into outer space. The muscles in his arm bulged and his skin was radiating waves of heat. "Adrian!"