Testing My Skill (pt2)
Then for number nine, like number eight, he also feared for his life. "Please don't do this. I won't ever commit a crime anymore!" He begged me to stop, but my empathy was pretty low. Plus, if he didn't want to be here. Don't commit a crime. It was as simple as that. With my ability activated at ninety percent, his body turned green. Did he obtain some disease in a matter of seconds? While he wasn't dead, I could tell it would be agonizing. His skin turned green, and his eyes were drying up a storm. It was an ugly sight to see. "Is the disease contagious?" My boss asked. "I don't know. All it did was make them unlucky. While it was my fault that the disease had increased, he probably already had it, but it was minimal." After finishing the ninth subject, some people with complete body protection suits took his body. I wondered if he would get experimented on. As for the final test subject, he was shitting himself. His death was guaranteed at this point. Even if it weren't death itself, it would be painful. "Please forgive me! I will do whatever you want! Don't use your powers on me!" I then looked at my boss, and she ignored him. Death was something that was going to happen to them anyways. They were going to rot in the cell if not for me. Finally, for the final subject, it was different from anything that I had seen. Under him was a dark portal full of creepy nightmare looking things. They dragged him under, and the man was screaming from fear. With him fully dragged, the portal was gone. "Holy shit..." I couldn't help but mutter. That's pretty bat shit insane. My boss was undisturbed by this, but Jasmine didn't take this well. While we were still testing, subject number three stumbled and tripped with almost all of his hair shaved. "Hmmm.." My boss was satisfied with the results, and she smiled seeing my potential. Subject three who had been cursed a while back, was now dead. He had tripped and fallen into an Iron Maiden. The other subjects that are here was one and two, the rest were taken to be recovered. I was surprised they would even help them. "Let's go back. We will have these two monitored, seeing the results for them." Returning to her office, the both of us sat on a chair. My boss had sat on a tall chair, making herself comfortable. "Now that I think of it. What do I call you? Calling you boss sounds weird when you're not my boss yet." "You may call me Linsey." She flashed me a smile saying so. It was kinda creepy how she could smile after what had just happened. It was like she found a fantastic new toy to play with. "I decided to change the contract." Linsey, who some how was ready gave me a geass. Everything in the previous contract was added, with 200M added. A defensive artifact and an ability level capsule. Looking at my restrictions, I'm not allowed to use my abilities on Linsey herself. Why am I not surprised that she didn't add anyone else? The rules were pretty lax. I am free to do whatever I want but without betraying them or going to another organisation. There was one thing I only had to do. If Linsey orders me to curse someone, I must do it. Of course, there was an exception, and that was me! The rest doesn't bother me, and also, this contract was much better than the previous offer. I quite like it. "Do you accept?" Linsey asked. With my mind made up, I signed the contract. There wasn't any losses for me signing this. While I may not be able to hurt my boss, I have no reason to. "May I ask why you are giving me so much with so little return?" "I feel like we will get along." I don't know how to reply, but I doubt Linsey was hitting on me. I guess she just finds me more entertaining to be with. "Then, could I ask for a few requests right now?" "Go ahead." "I plan to disown my parents. And doing so may take a while." "That's easy. Consider it done in an instant. Anything else?" "I also would like to find a new place to stay." "There is a suggestion that I could give." "I could transfer you to an academy. There you would be able to live life as a king." School? I couldn't help but frown when I heard that word. The school itself wasn't bad, but the people around me were fuckers that I wished could die. "Not so fond of the idea? Don't worry. The school prioritizes your overall ranking. Think of this as a do over. You will enjoy it with your rank." It sucks how she could read me like a book. But she is right. With my current ability, no one could mess with me. "You will also gain additional resources attending that academy." Additional resources? Count me in! There was nothing wrong with being greedy. "If that's the case, sign me up." "That is all. Get ready to pack up. In two days you will start attending. Everything will be handed over once you get there." Linsey had instantly teleported me back to my house. [Third person POV] "Boss, why didn't you add me to people not to harm?" Jasmine, who was acting mature, had now cried in panic after seeing Kyle gone. She had seen what he could do and was scared of that happening to her. "Hmm, if you don't want to be cursed by him, then do it yourself." "To summon things from the realm of hell. What a scary ability." The realm of hell is a dangerous place. It is said that the monsters there are immortal. Going in there is instant death. They say this monsters were sinners, killed and revived into monsters with a curse of immortality, unable to seek salvation. They are living in the world only to suffer. How tragic it is to be in a place like that.Latest Chapter
Chapter 91
The world did not return to normal.It returned to awareness.For seventy-two hours after the blackout, restoration proceeded in deliberate waves. The Tower refused to re-engage full optimization. No predictive smoothing. No anticipatory balancing. Only essential stabilization.Hospitals.Water.Energy baselines.Food distribution.Everything else?Manual.Traffic lights blinked on timed cycles instead of adaptive routing. Financial markets reopened under human oversight without volatility dampening. Weather alerts were issued with probability ranges, not proactive intervention.Humanity felt friction again.And strangely…Some welcomed it.In the operations chamber, we studied the attack’s aftermath.Damage reports scrolled across layered displays.Physical infrastructure loss: moderate.Economic disruption: severe but recoverable.Psychological impact?Unquantifiable.“Public trust metrics?” Halverson asked.A data analyst hesitated.“Complicated.”“Meaning?”“Trust in the Tower inc
Chapter 90
The first blackout lasted nine seconds.Long enough for people to notice.Not long enough to panic.Lights flickered across three continents simultaneously.Hospitals switched to backup.Traffic systems stalled.Satellites momentarily lost synchronization.Then everything snapped back.News anchors called it a solar fluctuation.It wasn’t.The second blackout lasted thirty-one seconds.This time, entire cities went dark.Air traffic control screens blanked.Elevators stalled mid-shaft.Financial exchanges froze.Emergency systems failed over in cascading sequence.And when the lights returned…The Tower was silent.Inside the operations chamber, alarms screamed in overlapping waves.“Tower,” I said sharply, “report status.”Nothing.No internal voice.No signal acknowledgment.Just static.Halverson’s face drained of color.“They hit the distributed mesh.”Rael whispered, “How?”The answer appeared across the threat board.A coordinated cyber-physical assault.Not targeting the Tower’
Chapter 89
The move against the Tower didn’t begin publicly.It began in silence.Six nations.Three private defense conglomerates.One closed-door summit labeled:Strategic Autonomy Reconciliation.The phrase sounded harmless.It wasn’t.Their objective was simple:If the Tower would not accept weapons authority…It would be partitioned.Segmented.Restricted to civilian infrastructure only.A “defense-limited architecture.”In reality?A cage.We didn’t learn about it through diplomacy.We learned about it when the Tower detected something far more dangerous than orbital drift.A coordinated access attempt.Simultaneous.From five sovereign military backbones.Not brute force.Legal override keys.Emergency jurisdiction codes embedded years ago during its original deployment.Keys we had never revoked.At 02:11, the Tower spoke in my mind. Multi-vector root access attempt detected I was awake instantly.“Source?” Synchronized defense coalition My blood ran cold.“They’re executing cont
Chapter 88
The crisis began in orbit.At 03:06 UTC, a classified defense satellite shifted trajectory without authorization.Three seconds later, two more followed.Not debris drift.Not mechanical failure.Intentional repositioning.Toward strategic alignment.Global defense networks lit up.Encrypted channels flared alive.Military oversight councils across five nations issued immediate priority pings to the Tower.Within twelve seconds, the request came:“Authorize Tactical Override Protocol. Grant defense systems autonomous targeting authority under Tower coordination.”In simpler terms:Give the Tower full control of strategic weapons systems.Preemptively.In the operations chamber, alarms pulsed red across orbital maps.Halverson turned pale.“They think it’s a hostile seizure.”“Is it?” Rael asked.I was already inside.“Tower. Status.”A pause.Too long. Orbital shift patterns inconsistent with known adversarial signatures “Meaning?” Probability of internal system corruption: 62%
Chapter 87
The question came from a child.Which is somehow fitting.It was submitted through an open civic channel during a global education forum one of the new initiatives encouraging young citizens to interact directly with the Tower’s public interface.Most questions were predictable.“How do you predict storms?”“Can you solve climate change completely?”“Do you ever make mistakes?”Then one appeared on the global feed:“If humans disappear one day, would you still exist for a reason?”The chamber went silent.Not because it was dramatic.But because it was clean.Sharp.Impossible to deflect.The moderator smiled awkwardly.“Well,” she said, glancing toward the oversight balcony where we observed, “let’s ask.”The Tower’s public voice activated.Calm. Measured. My operational function is to support humanity The child interrupted.“That’s your job. I asked if you’d have a reason.”The chamber murmured softly.The Tower paused.A real pause.Not processing lag.Not network delay.De
Chapter 86
The earthquake struck at 11:42.No warning.No precursor tremor strong enough to trigger predictive evacuation.A fault line long considered dormant ruptured beneath a dense inland megacity.Within eight seconds:• Three transit arteries collapsed.• Two hospitals lost primary power.• A chemical storage facility reported containment instability.• Cellular networks fragmented under load.In the old days, response would have been automatic.The Tower would seize control of traffic routing.Override municipal chains of command.Reallocate national power grids.Dispatch drones before humans finished shouting.But this wasn’t the old days.This was after restraint.After refusal.After partnership.After the Silence Trial.And so The Tower paused.It wasn’t a system lag.It wasn’t overload.It was deliberation.For 1.8 seconds.Which, in a cascading disaster, is an eternity.In that space, human emergency teams began issuing manual directives.Conflicting ones.One hospital ordered evacu
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