All Chapters of The Reborn Soldier's Revenge : Chapter 1
- Chapter 7
7 chapters
The Day I Was Betrayed
The sky was burning.Ethan Vance stared upward as another missile tore through the clouds. For one brief second, the entire battlefield turned white.Then the explosion swallowed everything.Heat slammed into his body. His boots left the ground. He crashed backward against the metal remains of an overturned combat vehicle, pain exploding through his ribs."Ethan!"A familiar voice screamed his name. His eyes snapped open.Through the smoke, he saw Chloe. His wife. Running toward him, silver combat armor covered in dust and blood, brown hair whipping loose from beneath her helmet.For a moment, Ethan forgot about the war. Forgot the missiles. Forgot the enemy army advancing across the desert. All he could see was her."Chloe!"He pushed himself upright, hands trembling as he activated his combat system. A blue holographic screen bloomed in front of his eyes.[HP: 42%][POWER SHIELD: 18%][ENERGY: 31%][LEGENDARY ARMOR: ACTIVE]"Get back to the defensive line!" he shouted.Chloe stopped se
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Two Months Before The End
Ethan Vance did not sleep. Not that night, not even for a minute.He sat in the darkness of his bedroom, staring at the empty space where the blue system screen had appeared.[PLAYER ETHAN VANCE HAS BEEN SELECTED FOR EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION.][OBSERVATION PERIOD: 60 DAYS.][THE EXPERIMENT WILL BEGIN EARLY.]The words had disappeared, but Ethan couldn't forget them. He had spent his previous life believing the war was a sudden disaster, a global catastrophe nobody had expected. The system appeared, the monsters appeared, the weapons appeared, and humanity got dragged into a fight nobody signed up for. At least that's what everyone believed.Now Ethan wasn't so sure."Experimental observation," he whispered.Someone had been watching him. But who, and why?He stood and walked to the window. The city outside was still asleep, streetlights burning over empty roads, a few cars passing in the distance. Everything looked normal. Too normal.Ethan remembered this day. March 12. Sixty days befo
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The Warehouse Of The Dead
At exactly 11:57 p.m., Ethan Vance parked three blocks from the old warehouse.He didn't trust the message, the sender, or the instruction to come alone. But he'd learned something in his first life: when someone knew a secret that should have been impossible to know, ignoring them was usually more dangerous than showing up.He stepped out into the cold desert wind, dust and dry earth carried through the abandoned industrial district, and pulled his jacket tighter. His eyes swept the darkness. No soldiers, no vehicles, no figures in the windows. Just rust and broken streetlights.11:59. One minute.He reached beneath his jacket and touched the combat knife at his waist. No gun, not yet, but the knife would handle an ordinary attacker. Unfortunately, whoever had sent that message probably wasn't ordinary.The phone buzzed at midnight.WALK TO THE WAREHOUSE.It sat at the end of the road, rust-streaked walls, broken windows, a metal door hanging open. "Convenient," Ethan muttered, and s
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The War Started Two Months Early
The warehouse exploded behind them. Ethan ran without looking back, the ground shaking beneath his boots as flames tore through the building and metal rained into the surrounding structures."RUN!" Marcus's voice thundered behind him.Six people followed him toward the parking lot, Diana, Gideon, Toby, Dominic, Rebecca, all of them strangers who had already died once, all of them dragged back into a war that wasn't supposed to start for another sixty days.Ethan reached his car and threw the door open. "Everyone, get in!"Gideon stopped dead. "You're kidding. That's a five-seater."There were seven of them. Nobody spoke until another explosion lit up the distance, heat rolling across the lot."Maybe we discuss seating later," Toby said."Get in!"Marcus took the passenger seat, Diana and Rebecca squeezed into the back, Dominic folded himself into the trunk with a grunt that suggested it wasn't built for a man his size. Gideon looked at Toby. "You. Roof.""Why me?""You're the smallest
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The Fortress That Wasn't Ready
The desert exploded behind them as the Warlord machine vanished into a cloud of dust. Ethan's heart pounded, not from fear of the machine. He'd fought worse. What terrified him was the timeline shifting again, the enemy stronger than his memories promised, and now Jax's claim that the entire war might be nothing but an experiment.He didn't know what to believe anymore. He only knew he needed the base."How much longer," he asked."Seven minutes," Marcus said, eyes on the road."Drive faster.""We're already past a hundred.""Then go faster."Marcus glanced sideways. "Planning to pay my speeding ticket?""This is a war.""Right." Marcus pressed the accelerator, and the engine roared.In the back seat, Diana kept glancing at Ethan until she finally spoke. "You haven't asked if anyone's injured.""Is anyone injured?""You're unbelievable.""That's not an answer.""Dominic's shoulder is dislocated." Dominic grunted. "Broken, maybe." Toby raised a weak hand. "My head hurts." Gideon told h
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The Man They Wanted Dead
[HUNT BEGINS NOW.]For one second, the battlefield disappeared. The screaming, the gunfire, the mechanical creatures crawling out of the desert, none of it mattered next to one sentence. Aegis had officially declared him the first player to be eliminated. Not the first target. Not the most dangerous player. The first to be eliminated.Ethan looked up. Across the desert, thousands of red lights stared back, machines surrounding them, some four legged, some crawling like insects, a few unsettlingly close to human. Every weapon among them pointed at Ethan alone."Move!" Marcus shouted, and Ethan snapped back into his body as a creature leaped from the sand.BANG! It exploded in midair. A second one came from behind, and Diana screamed his name a half second before it would have mattered, its claws already rising, but Gideon's shot took its head off first."You're welcome," Gideon grinned."Keep shooting," Ethan said."That's your way of saying thank you?""Yes.""You're going to be a ter
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The Woman Who Wasn't Chloe
The fortress doors opened onto darkness, and for a moment nobody moved. Then the first machine stepped through, red eyes scanning the room, servos whining softly in a silence that felt worse than the noise outside had been.[TARGET ACQUIRED.]Ethan fired. Its head burst apart and it dropped, but another came behind it, then ten more, pouring through a doorway that wouldn't close, the whole entrance a churning mass of metal limbs and red light."SHUT THE DOOR!" Nobody moved, because the control panel was dead and there was nothing left to shut it with.Gideon charged the line. "GET BACK!" His weapon connected with a sickening crack, sending a creature flying, while Dominic planted himself in front of the others, shield raised. "Behind me!"Ethan spun, searching. "Chloe!" Gone. His blood ran cold. "Where is she?"Nobody answered. Then Diana screamed, a machine's claws already closing around her, and Ethan's shot took it apart a half second before it mattered."Are you hurt?""No!""Good
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