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Chapter 742
The ground violently shook. The first Stone Golem reached the doorway. The monster swung its giant, twenty-ton rock fist straight at Oliver’s back. The giant fist hit the blue energy shield. The loud noise was deafening. It sounded like a bomb exploding. The blue light flickered wildly, but it held. Oliver did not even flinch. He did not look over his shoulder. He kept pushing his magic into the jammed boulder. Two more Stone Golems stepped up. Now, three massive giants were pounding on the blue energy shield with all their strength. The noise was absolute torture. The air pressure in the cavern dropped with every massive punch. The ground bounced. The thick iron doors rattled in their frames. Inside the fortress, the civilians screamed and covered their ears. Young Sam buried his face in his father’s chest. Captain Iris stood up, holding her broken arm, staring in horror at the monsters pounding on the glass. "The shield is cracking!" Billy yelled from the computer terminal. "B
Chapter 741
The giant stone monsters marched through the black mud. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM.The sound of their heavy footsteps echoed like thunder in the massive, dark cavern. There were hundreds of them. They were fifty feet tall. They had no faces. Their bodies were made of sharp, jagged rocks. Glowing purple magic pumped through their stone joints like evil blood. Commander Oliver stood alone in the dark mud. He stood right in the middle of the ten-foot gap between the massive iron doors. Behind him, his terrified squad and the crying civilians hid inside the safe, clean Stronghold. But the doors were jammed. A huge boulder was stuck in the metal tracks on the floor. Oliver did not step back. His human left eye was cold and gray. His right eye was a burning, glowing red circle of fire. Half of his face was covered in smooth, pitch-black alien metal. He watched the stone giants coming closer. [Variable A: The enemy army is too large for a direct fight.][Variable B: The jammed boulder weighs fo
Chapter 740
"Oliver," Lira whispered sadly. "You saved them. You brought them into the Bastion of Dust. But the Overlord is not finished. He knows you hid inside my people's fortress.""The fortress walls are forty feet thick," Oliver stated flatly. "The iron is infused with pure Builder magic. The Overlord cannot break the doors with his monsters. We are secure.""He does not need to break the doors," Lira cried softly. She pointed a pale, shaking finger at the walls of the cavern outside. "He is angry. He is changing the world again. Look at the earth."Oliver narrowed his human gray eye and his burning red eye. He looked at the solid rock walls of the giant cave. The dark purple Rift magic was leaking out of the ceiling. It poured down the walls like a thick, glowing waterfall. The magic sank deep into the black dirt and the hard stone. The ground began to shake. It was a slow, heavy rumble. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. Oliver watched closely. He saw the rocks moving. The solid walls of the cavern w
Chapter 739
The red eyes burned like thousands of evil stars in the dark room. Inside the massive glass pods, the perfect clones of Commander Oliver stared at the human squad. Their black metal right arms twitched. They were waking up. The Overlord had built a nightmare army hidden deep under the earth. Private Davis screamed in pure terror. He raised his blue plasma rifle. His hands shook violently. "They are alive! Shoot the glass!" "Hold your fire!" Oliver commanded. His metallic voice sliced cleanly through the panic. Oliver did not raise a weapon. His cold gray human eye swept across the giant laboratory. He looked at the thick glass pods. He looked at the glowing blue pipes connected to the ceiling. He saw the pattern immediately. "The Overlord grew the flesh," Oliver stated with perfect calm. "But he used ancient Builder technology to keep them asleep. The machines belong to the Builders. I control the machines."Oliver walked straight toward the main computer terminal in the center
Chapter 738
The broken glass hit the stone floor with a sharp clack. Commander Oliver opened his black metal hand. The pieces of the crushed computer tablet fell into the dirt. He did not look angry. He did not look sad. Billy the hacker fell to his knees. He stared at the broken plastic. "Boss," Billy whispered. "You just hung up on the Prime Councilor. You hung up on Earth."General Vega gripped her sniper rifle. Her face was pale. "Commander! The Grand Fleet is waiting in space! If they think you are a monster, they will fire the orbital lasers. They will burn this entire planet into glass!"Oliver turned to face his squad. His human gray eye was cold. His Wraithborn red eye burned in the dark. "The Traveler Council operates on fear," Oliver stated cleanly. "Fear makes them slow. It will take them exactly three hours to align the orbital lasers. We have three hours to secure a shield.""A shield against lasers from space?" Sergeant Miller asked. "Nothing can stop those guns!""Math can stop
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Oliver forced his breathing to slow down. He analyzed the feeling in his body. The black metal on his right arm felt heavier. It felt stronger. The dark purple veins glowed brighter than ever before. The metal crawled another inch up his face. Lira was right. The coin was not just a tool. It was a living, starving parasite. It ate the fear and the death of the monsters in the water. And as it ate, it gave the dark energy directly to Oliver. It was making him stronger, but it was eating his human soul to do it. "The artifact absorbs ambient trauma to increase magical output," Oliver calculated in his mind. He forced the terrible pain away. He pushed the dark thoughts into a locked box. He slowly stood up. "Oliver," Lira whispered sadly. "You are becoming the very darkness you are trying to fight. You are a vessel for death.""I am a weapon," Oliver replied coldly. "A weapon does not care what fuels it. It only cares about the target."Oliver turned away from the ghost. He looked a
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