Chapter 499
Author: Yeshua Yin
last update2026-03-07 14:49:18

It started as a soft scratching sound. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Then, it grew louder. It sounded like a million sharp knives hitting the rocks.

Jax looked down. Through the purple fog, the red wave arrived.

The Wraithborn ran into the dark valley. There were thousands of them. They were completely black, shaped like giant spiders made of hard smoke. Their red eyes glowed in the dark. They ran on the walls. They ran on the ground. They climbed over each other.

Since their Brain was dead on the Ir
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    Squad Nine fired blindly into the dark trees. Their heavy lasers hit a massive army of Wraithborn that was sneaking up in perfect silence. The monsters screamed and burned."General Thorne," Oliver said, spinning around in the blue light. He looked at the map of Delta-9. "The enemy ships are trying to land on your east pole. Move your plasma shields from the west to the east.""But the west will be totally open!" Thorne argued."There is nothing in the west but ghosts," Oliver said. "Move the shields. Two seconds."Thorne moved the shields. A massive laser blast from space hit the exact spot where the shields appeared. The human base was saved.Oliver was a machine of perfect logic. He was a god of war standing in a room of light.Captain Vance watched him with his mouth open. Vance could not believe what he was seeing.Oliver was predicting every single move the humanoid monster made. When the monster tried to flank, Oliver was already there. When the monster tried to hide, Oliver dr

  • Chapter 502

    "I did," Oliver said flatly. "And because I did, the millions of ships on the moon did not attack your planet. You are welcome.""You are a cold, soulless machine!" Hayes screamed."Commander Hayes," Oliver said. He did not raise his voice. He did not show anger. "You can hate me tomorrow. If we survive today. Look at the data I am sending you."Oliver pushed his hand forward. He sent the holographic data to the other planets.General Thorne gasped on the video screen. "By the gods... the Wraithborn are moving in organized battalions. They are forming shield walls. They are acting like human soldiers.""There is a master strategist leading them now," Oliver explained. "It is a humanoid Wraithborn. It is studying us. If we stay in one place, it will calculate our weakness and destroy us. It knows how thick our walls are. It knows how many bullets we have.""Then what is your plan?" Thorne asked."We must become unpredictable," Oliver said. His hands moved quickly through the glowing bl

  • Chapter 501

    The command room was completely dark and entirely silent.Captain Vance sat on the floor. He held his knees against his chest. He was crying softly. The tears left wet lines on his dirty face. He had just watched Commander Oliver say the words, "We lost."The Genesis Key was gone. A monster that looked like a man had stolen it from the deepest vault under the city.Commander Oliver stood by his desk. He did not move for a long time. He stared at the black computer screen. His face was like a stone mask. His hands were flat on the wooden desk.In a normal man, this silence was the sound of a broken heart. In Oliver, it was the sound of a machine rebooting."Vance," Oliver said. His voice was not loud, but it cut through the dark room like a sharp knife.Vance slowly looked up. His eyes were red. "Sir? What is the point? They have the Key. You said we lost.""I was wrong," Oliver said simply. He did not apologize. He just stated a fact. "A game of chess is not over until the King is dea

  • Chapter 500

    "If you move, fifty thousand civilians die," Oliver said. "Do the math, Captain. Keep firing down."Jax closed his eyes behind his helmet. He ground his teeth so hard his jaw hurt. He heard the screams of Squad Three to his left. He heard them dying. He heard the terrible crunching sound of the monsters.But Jax was a soldier. He turned his face away from his dying friends."Hold the line!" Jax screamed, tears in his eyes. "Keep firing into the pit!"The rest of the soldiers kept their guns pointed down. They rained fire and death upon the thousands of trapped monsters."Sir," the young soldier with the missing arm spoke into his radio. His voice was very weak. "Commander Oliver..."Oliver pressed a button. "I hear you, Soldier.""I... I can't apply the tourniquet," the boy whispered. "I'm bleeding out. They are all around me."Oliver watched the boy's green dot flashing rapidly on the screen. His heart rate was dropping. He was dying."Listen to my voice, Soldier," Oliver said softly

  • Chapter 499

    It started as a soft scratching sound. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Then, it grew louder. It sounded like a million sharp knives hitting the rocks.Jax looked down. Through the purple fog, the red wave arrived.The Wraithborn ran into the dark valley. There were thousands of them. They were completely black, shaped like giant spiders made of hard smoke. Their red eyes glowed in the dark. They ran on the walls. They ran on the ground. They climbed over each other.Since their Brain was dead on the Iron Star, they were not marching perfectly anymore. They were wild. They were angry. They were starving.They saw the twenty glowing blue decoys walking in the middle of the road.The monsters screamed. SCREEEEECH! The sound hurt the soldiers' ears. The monsters charged at the robot decoys."They are in the pass," Jax whispered. He held his heavy rifle tight. "The front line is passing us. The middle line is directly below us. The back line is entering the valley."Up in the command room, Oliver

  • Chapter 498

    The command room was as cold as a grave. Captain Vance stood in the corner. He was shaking. He was looking at the giant main screen. The screen was empty. Ten minutes ago, the giant spaceship called the Iron Star was on that screen. Now, there was only black space and floating pieces of burning metal.Commander Oliver sat in his large black chair. He did not cry. He did not shake. His face was a mask of gray stone. He looked at his hands. They were clean. But in his mind, they were covered in the blood of four thousand innocent people. He had killed them to save the rest of the solar system. He had killed Captain Iris."Commander..." Vance whispered. His voice was broken. "They are gone. The ship is gone.""I know, Vance," Oliver said. His voice was completely flat. "The Brain is dead. The multi-front attack on the neighbor colonies is stopped. We won that hand.""We won?" Vance asked. He sounded angry. Tears rolled down his face. "Four thousand people are dead! Iris is dead! How is

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