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Chapter 558
The red light flashed in the dark tunnel. Commander Oliver and Captain Jax walked toward the light. The ground beneath their boots shook with a deep, heavy rumble. The ancient gears inside the walls made terrible grinding noises. GRIND. CRUNCH. The Overlord was waking up deep inside the planet.The air was so hot it felt like standing inside an oven. Jax was sweating heavily. The sweat ran into his eyes and burned. He wiped his face with a dirty hand.Oliver did not sweat. He did not show any heat. His right hand was still wrapped in thick white bandages. The bandages were dark red with his own blood. But Oliver walked with perfect, smooth steps. He held his combat knife in his left hand. His eyes stared straight ahead into the flashing red light.Suddenly, Oliver stopped.He raised his left hand. He closed his fingers into a fist. That was the military signal for 'stop and listen.'Jax froze instantly. He held his breath. He gripped his empty plasma rifle tightly. "Commander?" Jax w
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BEEP.The disc glowed blue. It instantly froze the floating rock in mid-air. The rock stopped moving. It became a solid, steady platform."Jump," Oliver ordered.Jax ran to the edge and leaped. He flew across the empty black space. He landed heavily on the frozen floating rock. He caught his balance.Oliver jumped next. He landed softly next to Jax.SCREEECH!Five Wraithborn sentries phased out of the wall behind them. They jumped onto the starting platform. They saw the humans escaping."Keep moving," Oliver said. He did not look back.He threw the second silver disc. It hit another floating rock, thirty feet further out. The rock locked into place with a blue flash."Go!" Oliver said.Jax jumped. He barely made it. His boots slipped on the dusty stone, but he grabbed the edge and pulled himself up.Oliver leaped gracefully. He landed perfectly in the center of the rock.Behind them, the sentries jumped from the starting platform onto the first floating rock. They were fast. They ran
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Oliver reached to his helmet. His main system was still disconnected, but he had manual controls. He flipped a small switch. His visor turned on its thermal camera. The dark world turned deep blue.Oliver looked at the solid stone wall behind them. Inside the solid rock, three bright orange shapes were moving.They were Wraithborn monsters. But they were not digging. They were swimming through the solid stone as if it were water."Wraithborn sentries," Oliver analyzed quietly. "They are using the heavy Rift distortions in this chasm to phase through solid matter. They are ghosts until they decide to attack.""They are inside the wall?" Jax whispered in horror."Yes," Oliver said. "They are waiting for us to step close. Then they will reach out of the stone and pull us in. If they pull you into the solid rock, the magic will wear off, and you will be instantly crushed inside the stone."Jax backed away from the wall. He moved closer to the edge of the bottomless pit. "We are trapped.
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The computer screen flashed bright red. UPLOAD PROGRESS: 99%The Wraithborn King smiled. His pale, broken face looked like a nightmare. "You have ten seconds, Commander Oliver," the King whispered softly. "Save the sky, and kill your people. Or save your people, and let the God burn the world."Oliver stood in the control room. He held his heavy black pistol. He looked at the red lever on the wall. He looked at the glowing computer screen. He listened to the sound of Captain Iris crying over the small radio on the desk.Captain Jax raised his fists. He was ready to attack the King, even if it meant dying."What do we do, Commander?" Jax panicked. "We cannot let the Overlord take the sky!"Oliver did not sweat. He did not shake. His mind worked like a perfect, cold machine. The King had given him a math problem with two terrible answers. But Oliver knew a secret about math.If you do not like the answers, you change the equation."Five seconds," the King laughed. "Make your choice."Ol
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The two heavy drones slammed head-first into each other at maximum speed. The impact was massive. Their thick armor crumpled. Their diamond drills tangled together and shattered. Sparks exploded everywhere. The two drones sparked, smoked, and died."Two down," Oliver noted calmly.But the other two drones were already locking onto Oliver.They charged him from the left and right. They were trying to catch him in a pincer movement.Oliver did not run. He stood perfectly still in the center of the room. He held his combat knife.He watched the two drones rushing toward him. He calculated their speed. He calculated the distance.Ten feet. Eight feet. Six feet."Now," Oliver whispered.Oliver did not jump away. He stepped exactly one half-step backward.The two massive drones missed him by two inches. They rushed past him.As they flew past, Oliver slashed his combat knife outward in a perfect, horizontal arc.He did not try to cut their thick metal armor. He aimed perfectly for the smal
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"We are trusting patterns," Oliver corrected him. "Patterns never lie."They walked for another hour. Oliver’s right hand was throbbing with horrible pain. Using the Echo Sense was draining his physical energy. He felt weak. But he did not stop. He did not slow down."Commander," Jax said softly from behind. "Can I ask you a question?""Speak," Oliver said, keeping his eyes on the dark path ahead."Back there in the cavern," Jax said. "The King said he was going to kill us. He said the golden door needed a sacrifice. Did you... did you put the coin in the door?""No," Oliver said cleanly. "I shot the coin with my plasma rifle. I caused a localized magical explosion to break the King’s spell."Jax stopped walking. He stared at Oliver’s back. "You shot a magic bomb right next to your own hand? Sir, you could have blown your own arm off. You could have died.""The probability of my death was extremely high," Oliver admitted."Then why did you do it?" Jax asked. His voice was full of conf
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