All Chapters of The Son-in-Law Who Was the God of War: Chapter 11
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Chapter 11
Zane stepped out of the Chen compound, the early afternoon sun doing nothing to mitigate the cold resolve in his eyes. Liya was safely contained, her terror-induced compliance confirmed by the hidden micro-sensor he'd planted on her desk. Mr. Chen was busy manipulating the mortal media to blame the Zhangs for the Museum heist, creating the perfect smoke screen. The battlefield was prepared.His objective was singular and urgent: Asset Sigma.The Scions had deployed a superior operative specifically to target the Containment Key (Liya). Zane could not allow this asset to familiarize itself with the campus environment or the city's power structure.Search Protocol: Temporal Shift and Divine CodeZane slipped into a large, deserted campus parking garage, the silence broken only by the hum of the air conditioning units. He needed to find an operative who was actively trying to conceal themselves.He initiated his search, combining his two most powerful utility skills:Temporal Shif
Chapter 12
Zane did not take a car. He was operating at 70% Core Power, and the Temporal Shift (Lv. 2) was his only way to traverse the city's chaotic streets in seconds. He focused his mind, pushing the limits of the mortal shell.Temporal Shift: Full Activation.The city blurred into streaks of light and color. The cars became slow-moving obstacles, the people frozen snapshots of motion. In the space of three breaths, Zane had covered three miles, arriving at the deserted East Wing Student Union—the site of his original humiliation and now the stage for his most critical battle.The area was silent, eerily devoid of the police presence one would expect after the Museum heist. The silence confirmed Zane's dread: This was an Obsidian Hand operation designed to be unnoticed.He burst through the main doors, his eyes immediately locking onto the primary energy signature: Liya. She was standing in the center of the vast, dusty lounge—the very spot where he had scrubbed wine stains just days ag
Chapter 13
The fist charged with the malevolent, raw power of the Dormant Containment Unit was rocketing toward Zane's face. Liya, eyes blazing with ecstatic, purple light, was determined to end the life of the "zero" who had dared to control her.Zane was pinned, critically injured, his Core Power plummeting from 40\%. His body was too slow to dodge, and his shell integrity was too low to absorb the impact. This was the end.But the Commander’s mind, honed by millennia of warfare, never accepted defeat."System! Execute Zero-Point Gambit!" Zane roared, the command ripping the last ounce of air from his burning lungs.[Warning: Zero-Point Gambit is an unstable, self-destructive protocol. Requires full Core Power commitment.]"Commit! Use the fall damage! Inject the remaining Core Power into the Unit's source code!"In the fraction of a second before Liya’s blow landed, Zane didn't try to defend himself. He let the Temporal Shift (Lv. 2) run one final, devastating prediction: the exact mom
Chapter 14
Liya Chen drove a borrowed, nondescript utility van—one of the Chen family’s logistics vehicles—at terrifying speeds through the deserted industrial roads toward Warehouse 7. Zane lay inert on the passenger seat, his body unnaturally still, wrapped in a blanket salvaged from the back. The silence in the van was broken only by Liya’s ragged breathing and the distant wail of emergency sirens heading toward the Student Union.I broke him. The thought hammered at her. She wasn't processing the god-war; she was processing the shock of her own, accidental violence. She had aimed for control, and she had achieved utter, devastating destruction."Hold on, Zane," she muttered, gripping the wheel until her knuckles were white. "We're almost there. You said this was the only place."The Commander's Last CommandZane’s mind was a black, chaotic void. His consciousness was reduced to a flicker—a single core process fighting the systemic failure of his mortal body.[Host: Zane (Ares)][Core
Chapter 15
Liya Chen stared at the flashing red warning on the Sanctuary's main console: ACTIVATION OF REGIONAL CHAOS ANCHOR IN 12 HOURS. The message was clear, absolute, and terrifyingly precise. In half a day, the city—her city—would become the launching pad for a global Scion invasion.She looked down at Zane, who was completely unconscious, his breathing shallow but steady. He was a dying god encased in a broken shell, and she was the only one left to operate his fortress.Twelve hours. I almost killed him. And now I have to save him, or the world ends.The guilt and terror transformed into the icy focus she usually reserved for ruthless political maneuvering. She had been the most effective Student Council President for a reason: when faced with chaos, she prioritized the objective.Stabilizing the CommanderLiya's immediate priority was Zane's mortal shell. She dragged him onto a clean metal table near the central pillar—the brains of the Sanctuary. She used her phone’s flashlight to
Chapter 16
The wind howled through the skeletal frame of the decommissioned Hillside Radio Tower. Liya Chen stepped out of the utility van, the cold air stinging her cheeks. In her right hand, she gripped a heavy industrial wrench; in her left, a modified Chen Family security tablet.She looked up. The tower was draped in the same subtle, shimmering distortion field she had seen in the Faculty Lounge (Chapter 11). This was Asset Sigma’s nest.Insight (Lv. 1): Identify the primary frequency of the distortion field.Her mind flickered. The world turned into a schematic of overlapping waves. She saw a pulsing node halfway up the tower—a small, black box grafted onto the rusted steel."I see you, Professor," she whispered.The Duel of WitsAs she approached the base of the tower, a series of micro-drones detached from the structure, hovering like angry hornets. They didn't fire. Instead, the speakers on the drones crackled to life with Dr. Elias Thorne’s smooth, academic baritone."Miss Chen
Chapter 17
The utility van’s front tires hit the molten slag and disintegrated with a sickening pop. Liya screamed as the vehicle pitched forward, metal screeching against the liquefying asphalt. The momentum sent the van into a violent roll, flipping twice before slamming into a concrete divider.Inside the wreckage, the world was a blur of smoke and the smell of ozone. Liya hung upside down, strapped into her seat, the Insight (Lv. 1) skill making the pain of her bruised ribs feel like a cold, analytical data point.Through the shattered windshield, she saw him.The Executioner did not walk; he glided. He was a mountain of obsidian armor, his black-bladed glaive trailing sparks against the road. He was a Scion of the high order, a creature built not for infiltration, but for the absolute erasure of divine sparks."The Key is damaged," the Executioner rumbled, his voice a tectonic shift. "No matter. The anchor requires only the spirit, not the shell."He raised the glaive. The air around
Chapter 18
The skyline of the city was hemorrhaging. A violent, bruised purple light pulsed from the heart of the municipal Power Station, casting long, distorted shadows that seemed to move independently of the people they belonged to. On the streets, the Panic Index was manifesting: drivers abandoned cars, sirens wailed without purpose, and a low, subsonic thrum made the very air feel like it was vibrating with needles.Zane leaned on Liya as they approached the perimeter fence of the station. He was a wreck of a man, his skin pale and shimmering with a fading golden light, but his eyes remained fixed on the objective."The Executioner’s glaive," Zane rasped, nodding toward the heavy black blade Liya was dragging. "It’s not just a weapon. It’s an Access Key. The Scions don't use locks; they use resonance. That blade is tuned to the Anchor's frequency."Liya looked at the Power Station. The main gates were reinforced steel, guarded by private security teams now paralyzed by the Anchor's psy
Chapter 19
The air in Sub-Level 9 didn't just vibrate; it fractured.Zane’s body was no longer a human vessel; it was a containment unit experiencing a terminal meltdown. The golden geometric patterns of the Divine Code on his skin turned a blinding, violent white, the light bleeding through his pores and eyes."Zane, stop!" Liya screamed, her fingers still fused to the black glaive as she was pulled toward the monolith’s screaming white core. "You’ll die!""I was never meant to survive this shell, Liya," Zane’s voice was no longer his own. It was a layering of a thousand battlefield echoes—the voice of Ares. "I was meant to survive the war."[CORE BREACH INITIATED.][MORTAL SHELL INTEGRITY: 0%.]) [DIVINE SPARK: UNBOUND.]With a sound like a star collapsing, Zane’s mortal body—the "Son-in-Law" who had scrubbed floors and endured the Chens’ scorn—literally evaporated. In its place stood a pillar of pure, incandescent white fire that solidified into a towering, spectral figure in archaic, c
Chapter 20
The sunrise over the city was blindingly clear. The purple bruise of the Chaos Anchor was gone, replaced by a pristine, golden morning that felt almost insulting in its serenity.Liya Chen climbed the final rung of the service ladder, emerging from the cooling vent into the cool air of the Power Station’s rear lot. She was covered in black soot, oily sludge, and the dust of a disintegrated god. Her designer blazer was ruined, her hands blistered, but her spine was steel.She was alone. Physically.But internally, the world was noisy.[SYSTEM CALIBRATION COMPLETE.][HOST: LIYA CHEN (THE KEY).][RESIDENT SOUL: ARES (STABILIZING).][CORE POWER: 100% (SEALED). ACCESSIBLE POWER: 1%.]Zane? Liya thought, the name echoing in the vast, new architecture of her own mind.I am here, came the reply. It wasn't a voice; it was a sensation of warmth in her chest, a faint pulse of golden light behind her eyes. Dormant. Waiting. The shell is gone, Liya. I am merely the blueprint now.Liya took