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The demon’s jagged claws tore into the soldier’s chest plate. Without the magic to harden the glass, the obsidian cracked. The demon raised its pale, faceless head, preparing to bite the soldier’s throat out. A massive, heavy blade pierced the demon’s chest, lifting it entirely off the young soldier and throwing it backward into the mud. Marcus stood over the fallen soldier. He held his giant obsidian spear with both hands. The violet fire on the tip was completely dead, leaving only a massive, heavy, jagged piece of black glass. "GET UP, SOLDIER," Marcus commanded, his voice grinding loudly. He offered a heavy metal hand, pulling the gasping human back to his feet. Marcus turned to face the swarming horde of demons. He could not dance through them anymore. He could not burn them to ash with a wave of his hand. But he was still a two-ton machine of solid gunmetal. "BRACE YOURSELVES!" Marcus yelled to the line. Marcus gripped his heavy spear like a massive baseball bat. He pla
Chapter 437
The sky above the ruined Obsidian Spire was a bruised, dark purple, heavy with the terrifying promise of the Archangels' system reset. The glowing white loading bar stretched across the horizon, ticking relentlessly upward. Elijah, the King of the Grey, was fighting for his life halfway up the shattered tower, a frail human boy wielding a bent iron bar against an army of gray metal grunts. But down below, at the very base of the ruined city, another desperate battle was unfolding in the shadow of the muted magic. The white Inhibitor Spire was broken. The high-pitched sound that suppressed all magic had ended when the Obsidian Spire crashed into it. But the magic had not returned. The shockwave of the collision had temporarily paralyzed the local physics engine. The Ley-Lines were disconnected. The air was dead. For the first time in a decade, the warriors of the Grey Domain were completely, utterly mortal. Marcus, the Iron Marshal, stood in the muddy, ash-covered courtyard at the
Chapter 436
Elijah bent down and picked up the heavy, bent iron bar with his trembling hands. He forced himself to stand up straight. He stood on top of the mountain of broken bodies, a lone, bleeding, exhausted boy holding a crooked stick against an army of gods. "Is that all you have?" Elijah whispered, spitting blood onto the glass. "Come on."Eight minutes passed. Elijah was moving entirely on instinct. He did not feel his arms anymore. He did not feel the cuts on his legs. His mind was a quiet, dark room, focused only on the swing of the iron bar. He was a machine of survival. He was the Primal Instinct made flesh. He knocked a Sweeper backward. He crushed a helmet. He kicked a shield. The pile of bodies in front of him was now six feet high. It was a literal wall of meat and iron. The remaining Sweepers were struggling to climb over it. The choke point was almost completely blocked. Elijah leaned heavily on the bent iron bar, using it like a crutch to stay standing. He was swaying on h
Chapter 435
Elijah’s muscles burned as if they were filled with battery acid. Every time he swung the massive iron bar, his human left arm screamed in agony. His right obsidian arm was heavy and sluggish, the dark glass chipping and cracking with every heavy impact. A Sweeper slipped past his guard. The soldier swung a heavy fist, encased in a metal gauntlet, and punched Elijah directly in the jaw. Elijah’s head snapped back. He tasted blood. His vision blurred, filled with dark spots. He stumbled backward, his heel catching on a piece of broken glass. He almost fell. If he fell, they would swarm him. They would trample him into the dirt, march up the stairs, and smash the server box. "No," Elijah whispered. He thought about the memory of Arthur, the old ghost in the bakery. He remembered the smell of the yeast. He remembered the warmth of the oven on a cold day in Sector 4. He thought about Lyra. He thought about the moment she had melted her own human face to become a shadow, just so she
Chapter 434
Elijah walked to the edge of the broken balcony. He looked down at the thousands of gray-armored soldiers swarming over the massive pile of rubble that used to be the bottom 150 floors of his city. They were climbing like ants, their heavy boots kicking up dust and broken glass. They were heading for the main breach. The massive, jagged crater halfway up the ruins that served as the only path to the throne room. It was a natural choke point. The gates of the fallen fortress. Elijah did not wait for them to reach him. He jumped. He did not fly. He simply let gravity take him. He fell through the cold air, dropping fifty feet down into the jagged ruins of his own city. He landed heavily at the choke point. His boots slammed into the broken stone and glass, kicking up a cloud of gray dust. His human knees buckled slightly, but he forced himself to stand straight. He stood in the narrowest part of the ruins. The walls of broken glass rose high on either side of him. There was only one
Chapter 433
Elijah collapsed onto his back, staring up at the dark sky. Ten minutes. He just had to lie here and breathe for ten minutes. It sounded so incredibly easy. But nothing in the Crucible was ever easy. High above the Earth, the golden light of the Seventh Sphere turned a dark, angry, violent crimson. The High Council of Archangels had watched their perfect system reset get shattered by a bullet. They had watched their ultimate control fail. They realized they could no longer rely on magic, or logic, or digital commands. The simulation was too corrupted. The firewall was broken. If they could not delete the server with a command, they would break the hardware with their bare hands. A massive, deafening horn blew from the Heavens. It was not a beautiful, musical sound. It was a harsh, ugly, terrifying blast that shook the mud and the mountains. "Kid!" Commander Hayes yelled, her voice suddenly tight with fear. "Look up!"Elijah forced his heavy, tired eyes open. He looked up at the
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