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Chapter 110
The air in the Heavy Weapons Range was thick with the smell of death and dust.Silas Kapito leaned his back against a massive concrete pillar. His chest was heaving. Every time he took a breath, he felt a sharp, stabbing pain in his side. His Iron-Grey bones were fine. They were as hard as the day he forged them. But the meat, the soft, human parts of him, was failing. The Titan-Exo’s shockwaves had been like invisible hammers, hitting his lungs and his heart.Clank. Hiss. Clank. The ten-foot-tall yellow machine was getting closer. Through the dust, Silas could see the red sensor-eye of the mech scanning the room. It looked like the eye of a giant, angry insect. Instructor Vako was screaming inside the cockpit, but his words were just a blur of noise now. Vako was no longer a man; he was just a part of the machine’s rage.Silas did not run. He did not look for a weapon. He did not pray. He closed his eyes. "Silence the noise," Silas whispered to himself.The "Neuro-Sync Alpha" drug
Chapter 109
For a second, nothing happened. Silas’s small hand looked pathetic against the massive yellow leg of the mech. Vako laughed inside the cockpit, thinking he had won. But then, the sound arrived.BONGGGGGGG. It was the sound of a giant bell being hit by a hammer made of starlight.The vibration from Silas’s iron-grey bones flowed into the Titan-Exo. Because the frequencies matched perfectly, the energy did not bounce off. It was absorbed.The mech began to shake. It wasn't a normal shake. It was a violent, rhythmic shivering. The yellow paint on the mech began to flake off like dead skin. The glass in the sight-tubes shattered. The blue hydraulic fluid sprayed out in every direction."What?! What is happening?!" Vako screamed. He was being tossed around inside the cockpit like a coin in a tin box. "The controls! They’re dead!"Silas did not let go.The vibration was traveling back into him, too. He felt his teeth rattling in his skull. He felt his eyes vibrating in their sockets. A sh
Chapter 108
The air in the Heavy Weapons Range was thick with the smell of death and dust.Silas Kapito leaned his back against a massive concrete pillar. His chest was heaving. Every time he took a breath, he felt a sharp, stabbing pain in his side. His "Iron-Grey" bones were fine. They were as hard as the day he forged them. But the meat, the soft, human parts of him, was failing. The Titan-Exo’s shockwaves had been like invisible hammers, hitting his lungs and his heart.Clank. Hiss. Clank. The ten-foot-tall yellow machine was getting closer. Through the dust, Silas could see the red sensor-eye of the mech scanning the room. It looked like the eye of a giant, angry insect. Instructor Vako was screaming inside the cockpit, but his words were just a blur of noise now. Vako was no longer a man; he was just a part of the machine’s rage.Silas did not run. He did not look for a weapon. He did not pray. He closed his eyes. "Silence the noise," Silas whispered to himself.The "Neuro-Sync Alpha" dru
Chapter 107
The air in the Heavy Weapons Range was thick enough to chew. It was filled with a fine grey powder, the dust of crushed concrete pillars and pulverized floor tiles. The orange emergency lights flickered with a rhythmic zzzzt-zzzzt, casting long, jerky shadows across the room.Silas Kapito stood in the middle of a clearing. He was perfectly still. His chest rose and fell in a slow, deep rhythm. He was using the "Core-Breathing" he had taught the Dregs, but his version was much deeper, much more powerful.Ten feet away, the Titan-Exo stood like a yellow metal demon.Inside the cockpit, Instructor Vako was a mess. His eyes were wide and red, his hair stuck to his forehead with sweat. He was breathing in fast, shallow gulps. He looked like a man who had already died but forgot to stop moving."Why... won't... you... die?!" Vako’s voice screamed over the speakers. It was distorted by the metal, sounding like a ghost in a tin can.Vako slammed his hand onto the "Overdrive" button. The Tita
Chapter 106
Vako growled and pulled the trigger for the mech’s Burst-Step. The Titan-Exo’s legs hissed with white steam. It launched itself at Silas, the right claw open and ready to grab.Silas didn't dodge this time. He stood his ground. He felt the weight of his "Iron-Grey" bones. He felt the density of his marrow.As the claw closed in, Silas reached out. He didn't try to stop the claw. He used "The Catch."He grabbed the side of the metal finger. He felt the massive kinetic force of the mech’s charge. It was like trying to stop a train. Silas’s boots skidded across the floor, leaving two long, smoking tracks in the concrete. But he didn't break.His iron-grey skeleton absorbed the shock. He channeled the energy through his arms, into his ribs, and down into his legs.For a heartbeat, the twelve-ton mech and the hundred-and-forty-pound boy were equal. They stood in a dead-lock."What?!" Vako gasped, staring through the glass. "How are you holding it?!""Physics, Vako," Silas rasped. His skin
Chapter 105
The Heavy Weapons range was a place of echoes and iron. It was a vast, underground hall designed to absorb the sound of explosions and the impact of shells. The walls were made of six-foot-thick reinforced concrete, scarred by thousands of practice rounds. Rows of square pillars, each as wide as a truck, marched down the center of the room to support the weight of the Spire above.Silas Kapito stood in the center of the range. He was alone. The lights overhead were dim, flickering with a sick orange glow.CLANG. The sound of the massive steel entrance doors locking was final. It was the sound of a coffin closing."Instructor Vako?" Silas asked. His voice was calm, but it carried to the edges of the room.There was no answer for a long moment. Then, the speakers on the walls crackled to life."Do you know what happens to a tool that breaks, Silas?" Vako’s voice boomed. It was not his normal voice. It was shaking, high-pitched, and full of a jagged, sharp edge. "It gets thrown away. I
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