All Chapters of Systems Made me Lord of the City : Chapter 151
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A Bit of Daddy Issues
Chapter 152 Jonathan Black, the Architect, the man who had supposedly died in the underwater tomb of Site B, stood at the bottom of the ramp. He looked out at the ruined lawn, at Lena picking herself up, at Joe aiming a rifle at him, and finally, at Adrian. Jonathan smiled. It was a terrifyingly familiar smile. "Hello, Adrian," Jonathan said, leaning on his walking stick. His voice wasn't a recording, it certainly didn't sound like one. And it wasn't a hologram either. It was real flesh and blood. "I see you've inherited my flair for the dramatic. Pulling a ten-billion-credit orbital command center onto your front lawn? Your mother would be furious about the landscaping.""You're dead," Adrian said, his golden eyes flickering wildly. "I saw your skeleton in the underwater lab. I listened to your final recording.""You saw a skeleton in a lab coat," Jonathan corrected, stepping onto the grass. "And you listened to a recording I made fifteen years ago to throw Silas Vance off my
The Damascus Directive
Chapter 152The front lawn of the Black Estate looked like the site of a very expensive, highly illegal alien landing. Aegis Satellite Prime, the multi-billion-credit orbital weapon that Adrian Black had yanked from the exosphere, was currently resting in a smoldering trench that used to be a prized rose garden. The black, radar-absorbent hull hissed as the morning drizzle evaporated against its superheated armor. Cora Vance was practically vibrating with excitement. She was standing on top of the downed spacecraft with a heavy plasma torch in one hand and a diagnostic tablet in the other, her electric-blue hair plastered to her forehead. "Adrian, this is a masterpiece!" Cora yelled down to the porch as she scanned the hull. "The sub-routines on this thing are lightyears ahead of what Silas had in the Spire! The quantum processors alone are worth more than the entire gross domestic product of Sector 1!"Adrian stood on the porch, leaning against a shattered marble pillar. He was h
Bad Tooth
Chapter 153 Joe frowned. "What's the Damascus Directive? Let me guess. More space rocks?""Worse," Jonathan smiled, a cold, fanatical gleam in his eyes. "The Aegis network doesn't just hold kinetic weapons. It holds the Master Override for every piece of System technology on Earth. Every android, every automated turret, every power grid, every pacemaker running on our code."Jonathan leaned closer to the bars. "If I miss my check-in, the orbital fleet will simultaneously broadcast a global EMP wave that targets biological tissue integrated with the System. The city won't just go dark, Adrian. Everyone with a cybernetic implant, everyone connected to the grid... their tech will violently detonate. Millions will die. And it will be your fault."The basement went dead silent. Lena’s hand flew to her own temple, where her cybernetic neuro-processors were housed. Joe tightened his grip on his rifle, his face paling. Adrian didn't flinch, he stared at his father for a long, heavy momen
Systems Made Me Surgeon
Chapter 154 Adrian didn't get up as sweat poured down his face. Holding a satellite was like lifting a boulder; holding a million microscopic robots in suspension inside a living human body was like trying to thread a needle while riding a rollercoaster. "Cora!" Adrian yelled into his comms. "I'm here! I heard everything!" Cora’s voice panicked. "Get the medical extraction rig down here right now!" Adrian commanded, his arms trembling from the sheer concentration. "Bring the localized EMP dialyzer! We need to scrub his blood!"Lena didn't wait for Cora, her programming overrode her shock. Whatever concerned cleaning was her job. Blood scrubbing or whatever. She sprinted up the stairs with terrifying speed, returning thirty seconds later pushing a heavy, state-of-the-art medical cart from the estate's infirmary. "Hold him still, you brute," Lena barked at Adrian, her hands flying over the medical equipment. She jammed a thick IV needle into Jonathan’s arm, hooking the tube up
The Trojan Skyscraper
Chapter 156 Moving a ten-billion-credit, multi-ton orbital satellite through the morning traffic of Aethelgard should have been a logistical nightmare. For Adrian Black, it was more or less a leisurely morning stroll. He didn't use the heavy police transports Joe had brought, that wasn't very useful in this case, he simply walked down the center of the Grand Boulevard, his hands shoved deep into the pockets of his fresh leather jacket. Twenty feet above his head, the massive, scorched black teardrop of Aegis Satellite Prime floated silently, perfectly suspended in a localized anti-gravity field. Behind him, Joe drove a commandeered Iron Guard transport truck at a crawling five miles per hour, while Cora hung out the passenger window, a tangle of fiber-optic cables draped around her neck, frantically tapping on her diagnostic tablet. The citizens of Aethelgard lined the sidewalks and stared in absolute, silent awe as their new Administrator walked a spaceship down Main Street lik
Dare To Die
Chapter 157Adrian closed his eyes. He didn't see lines of code. The System translated the digital battlefield into a spatial reality his mind could process. He was suddenly standing in a vast, infinite expanse of white space. Towering above him were massive, shifting walls of pure, solid light, the encryption labyrinth Cora had described. The walls were moving, spinning at blinding speeds, crushing anything that dared to step between them. UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS DETECTED, a voice boomed from the white sky. It was a chorus of a dozen voices speaking simultaneously, the ruling members of the World Council, speaking through their orbital AI. "ABORT CONNECTION OR FACE IMMEDIATE NEURAL TERMINATION."Adrian stood in the white void, wearing his leather jacket, his hands shoved in his pockets. "You guys need a new receptionist," Adrian hissed. "The customer service here is terrible.""ADRIAN BLACK," the Council’s voice was cold and they sounded pretty furious. "YOU HAVE CAPTURED ONE SATEL
Lets Start With the Easy One
Chapter 157Adrian slowly stood up, brushing off his leather jacket. He rolled his shoulders, the headache fading rapidly as the System cooled down. "I told my father I was going to steal the stars," Adrian said, an arrogant, satisfied smirk spreading across his face. "I figured I'd start by clearing out the trash.""That is the most baller thing I have ever seen," Joe laughed, clapping Adrian on the back. "The timer is gone. The orbital fleet is scrap metal. We won! It’s actually over!""It's a good start," Adrian agreed. "Uh, guys?" Cora interrupted, her voice suddenly dropping an octave. She was staring at her tablet again, her face illuminated by a flashing red light. "I don't want to ruin the celebration, but... it's not over."Adrian’s smirk vanished. "What do you mean?""The Damascus Directive destroyed five satellites," Cora said, tapping the screen frantically. "But there were six satellites in the quarantine network. One of them survived the EMP pulse.""How?" Joe asked.
80 Year Old Sensei
Chapter 158When Adrian took off, a lot of things happened. First, the concrete of the Spire’s plaza didn’t just crack when he jumped, it freaking liquefied. The raw, unfiltered geothermal energy of the three Foundation Nodes surged through his boots, converting the solid ground into a launchpad of pure kinetic force. With a sonic boom that shattered the remaining windows for three city blocks, Adrian rocketed upward. He was a golden missile cutting through the morning smog, aimed directly at the black underbelly of High Councilor Seraphina Cross’s dreadnought. "Adrian! The dreadnought is heavily shielded!" Cora’s voice shrieked in his earpiece, barely audible over the roar of the wind. "It’s running a repulsor-field! If you hit that at Mach 3, you’ll splatter like a bug on a windshield!""I’m not a bug, Cora," Adrian yelled back, the wind whipping his leather jacket. "I’m the windshield."Two thousand feet in the air. Three thousand. The massive, angular hull of the warship blot
Locked Outta Earth
Chapter 159The Dreadnought - Hangar BayHigh above the city, Adrian Black was putting on a clinic in the vacuum of space. The fifty plasma repeaters firing at him should have turned him into ash. But Adrian didn't just stand there and take it. [ SYSTEM SKILL: KINETIC DEFLECTION - ANGLED MIRROR. ]He summoned a curved gravity shield, angling it perfectly so that the incoming plasma bolts ricocheted off the invisible barrier and bounced wildly around the metal hangar. The mercenaries had to break formation and dive for cover to avoid their own rebounding crossfire. "You're making a mess of your own ship, Seraphina," Adrian mocked, walking slowly forward. He raised his hand. [ GRAVITY WELL: OMNIDIRECTIONAL CRUSH. ]He expected the fifty Vanguard soldiers to be instantly pinned to the metal deck and for their armor to buckle. Instead, the gravity well flared, sputtered, and died. The soldiers stumbled, but they didn't fall. Adrian frowned. The golden light in his eyes flickered,
Many Ways To Hell
Chapter 160Adrian dropped a mercenary with a spinning back kick, sprinted across the deck, and slid perfectly through the narrowing gap of the blast doors just a fraction of a second before they slammed shut, locking the remaining Vanguard soldiers in the hangar bay. Adrian stood up. He was in a sleek, dimly lit, hexagonal corridor. The hum of the massive dreadnought’s engines vibrated through the floor plates. [ SYSTEM ALERT: FOUNDATION NODE UPLINK DEGRADING. ][ SIGNAL STRENGTH: 4%. ][ ADVISORY: RETURN TO THE SURFACE IMMEDIATELY. ]"I'm not leaving without the keys to this ship," Adrian grunted, shaking out his bruised knuckles. He jogged down the corridor, following the schematic the System was piecing together from the ship's ambient electrical layout. He encountered two patrols of Void-Knights, heavily armored elites guarding the elevators. Without his wide-area gravity powers, the fights were brutal. He took a glancing blow from a shock-baton to the ribs that made him bi