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Chapter 637
The tunnel was as black as the bottom of the ocean. The only light came from Commander Oliver’s face.He walked at the front of the group. His left eye was human, colored a pale, cold gray. But his right eye was a burning, glowing red circle of fire. Half of his face was covered in smooth, pitch-black metal. The dark metal crawled down his neck, over his shoulder, and completely covered his right arm. Glowing purple veins pulsed inside the alien steel.Thump. Thump. Thump. The magical veins beat in perfect time with his human heart.Behind him, the survivors walked in silence. There were twenty-two terrified miners, including Foreman Cole and his young son, Sam. There were rebel soldiers, led by General Vega and the giant mutant, Rax. There was Billy the hacker, holding his cracked computer tablet. And there were the few remaining soldiers of the Ghost Squad, led by Sergeant Miller.Nobody spoke. They were too afraid to make a sound. But they were also afraid of their Commander.The
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"We did not win," Oliver whispered coldly."What do you mean?" Vega asked, stepping forward. "There are thirty dead monsters on the floor. We wiped them out.""You are looking at the bodies. You are not looking at the data," Oliver explained.He raised his black metal hand and pointed at the ash."I have fought the Wraithborn for years," Oliver said smoothly. "I know their formation behavior. Elite Phantoms rely on stealth. If they see two heavy turrets blocking a hallway, their primary protocol is to retreat and find a flanking route.""But they didn't retreat," Rax grunted. "They charged us.""Exactly," Oliver said. His voice grew very dark and heavy. "They charged us. They threw themselves directly into the line of fire. They wanted to die."The cheering soldiers slowly stopped celebrating. The tunnel grew very quiet."Why would they want to die?" Billy asked, shivering in the cold air."Because they were not an attack force," Oliver calculated. The horrible truth locked into place
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Rax slammed the heavy turrets into the stone floor. But the turrets were dead. They had no batteries.Oliver walked over to the heavy guns. He reached out with his black metal right arm. The purple veins pulsed brightly. He grabbed the thick power cables of the turrets.He pushed his own dark magic into the dead human machines.VMMMMMMM. The two heavy turrets roared to life. They did not glow blue. They glowed with bright, terrifying purple light. They were Phased Turrets now. They would shoot pure Rift energy."Turrets are online," Oliver stated. He felt a sharp pain in his head as the magic drained his energy, but he ignored it."Step Three," Oliver said, turning to face his squad. "Predictive fire patterns."The twenty rebel soldiers raised their plasma rifles. They aimed into the dark tunnel."Do not aim straight ahead," Oliver ordered sharply. "The Wraithborn squad infiltrating this tunnel are advanced units. They are not mindless spiders. They are Elite Phantoms. They run on the
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The severed head of Captain Iris bobbed slowly in the dark, hot water. Her beautiful face was pale. Her blue eyes were empty and dead.Commander Oliver stood at the front of the rusted metal boat. He stared down at her face in the water. For one single second, the entire universe stopped moving.Behind Oliver, the human rebels and the terrified miners screamed. Billy the hacker fell to his knees on the wet deck of the boat. He covered his face with his hands and sobbed loudly. "Iris! No! Not Iris!"On the high stone balcony, Prime Councilor Vane laughed. The ancient, evil voice of the Overlord boomed out of the old man’s mouth."You see, Commander?" the Overlord mocked. "You cannot save everyone. You cannot calculate a way out of grief. Your human heart is breaking."Oliver did not scream. He did not cry. He slowly lifted his eyes from the dark water. He looked up at the balcony. His left eye was human, cold and gray. His right eye was Wraithborn, burning with a bright red fire. His r
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The water was changing. It was turning thick and red. The rusted metal walls of the subway tunnel around them began to crack and bleed.The Overlord’s magic was spreading faster than they were moving. The living tunnel was swallowing them."The anomaly is not a door," Oliver calculated aloud. His voice was completely flat, even as the world turned into a nightmare. "The anomaly is a mouth. And we are driving down the throat."The walls of the tunnel suddenly flexed. They squeezed inward.SQUELCH. CRUNCH.The tunnel was trying to crush the boats. The thick, fleshy walls pushed against the metal sides of the boats."The walls are closing in!" Rax roared. He swung his bone sword at the fleshy wall. The sword cut the meat, but dark, burning acid sprayed out of the wound. The acid hit a mutant soldier, melting his armor instantly. The soldier screamed and fell into the thick red water."Do not attack the walls!" Oliver commanded. "The walls bleed acid! General Vega, focus all fire straight
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"Leave the roof open?!" Billy panicked. "Boss, you just said they drop from the ceiling!""They will drop from the ceiling," Oliver agreed. "And when they drop, we will kill them before they hit the deck. I am building a funnel. I am making them attack from the top because it is the only path I am leaving open for them. I am controlling their choices."Lira the ghost floated next to Oliver’s ear. "You are turning the boats into a trap. You are inviting the monsters inside.""Yes," Oliver whispered in his mind. "If you control the door, you control the guest.""Start the engines," Oliver commanded aloud. "Speed: Four miles per hour. Do not deviate."The heavy boat engines hummed to life. Rrrrrrm.The two armored boats slowly moved forward. They left the dim gray light of the ruined city behind. They entered the pitch-black subway tunnel.It was incredibly dark. The air inside the tunnel was thick and smelled of rotting iron and old magic. The hot water splashed gently against the metal
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