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Ambushed by Ghosts The tip of the ghostly blade struck my back with a screech like fingernails dragging across a chalkboard, tearing through the night. It passed straight through my Super Suit as if the suit did not exist, then stopped hard against the Proximal Manipulation field holding me in the air. Cold spread outward from the impact point, then seeped into every living thing nearby. For me, it caused less harm than a shallow scratch. But every blade of grass within twenty meters died…-
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Less Than an Hour to Live “Little Lin? Is that really you?” The moment I landed, I was surrounded by people. And this was exactly why I had never considered coming to the trailer park earlier: awful neighbors. “Yes, Grandma Zhao,” I said to the wrinkled, squat, fully armed old woman climbing out of a half-destroyed trailer. “It’s really me.” I stopped just beyond her reach. Not because I was especially worried about the rusty shotgun roughly aimed in my direction, but…
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Adaptive Regeneration or Enhanced Regeneration I flew out of the base, everyone inside moving in my eyes like they were trapped in slow motion. I was getting used to using super-speed even during downtime. Contrary to what novels often described, it did not make conversation difficult. The frequency of sound did not actually change, at least not as long as I stayed still. Every sound simply lasted longer from my perspective, and that only took a little adjustment. The greater bodily control and…
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Becoming a Superhero These days, most people have played a role-playing computer game at least once. Even someone like me, who had almost no interest in games, had tried one or two out of curiosity. After more than a week of living through the real version of a “game,” I could confidently say that reality resembled those games I barely remembered about as much as watching an action movie resembled actually shooting a gun and being shot by one. Cheng Rui’s near-death experience had shaken Chi…
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Target: “Trailer Park” More tests followed with more soldiers. Many soldiers displayed, to varying degrees, major enhancements to weapon performance. Similar to the first test, some leaned toward accuracy, some toward firepower, and some caused ammunition counts to increase, replenish themselves, or last longer. Repeated testing showed that, for most soldiers, if they changed to a different model of weapon, the effect dropped sharply. With the same type of weapon, the effect mostly remained…
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The Word of Invention, the Word of Power Directly granting someone magic was the portion of those treaties most often violated by certain parties, and such violations often triggered catastrophic wars. So Liya did not do that. Rather than forcing healing energy directly onto Cheng Rui’s body, she exposed him to her own energy and allowed it to form naturally, as magic did. Better still, the emerging pattern was only one among many. It overlapped with the abilities already inside Cheng Rui,…
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A Beautiful Two-for-One Trade The beam tearing through the air was as loud and dazzling as lightning. Cheng Rui stood in the shadow of his tower with his eyes closed, still frowning as he tried to hide from the portion of the glare scattered through the air. Chi Li was basically immune to heat at this point—actually, heat strengthened her—so the two of us stood there and witnessed the full power of Cheng Rui’s laser tower in operation. I called it a laser because I was fairly certain the…
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Where the Tower Stands, We Stand When the lightning towers proved ineffective, the enemy did not ease its attack. Imagine an entire stadium full of furious football fans charging a referee. The referee has made a painfully, obviously terrible call, refused to reverse it, and ruined their team’s chance at the championship. Now imagine that the furious crowd is made of monsters who desperately want to eat human flesh. By a rough estimate through superhuman perception, at least twenty-five…
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He Was a Hero Boom. Boom. Boom. Yes. Everything arrived exactly as expected. The instant the tower rose high enough to surpass the surrounding buildings—mostly an old theater that had not quite finished collapsing—magical lightning struck it. Several gigajoules of electrical energy arced in dazzling brilliance, powerful enough to instantly vaporize a quarter ton of steel or melt a main battle tank into slag. The enemy wanted to destroy Cheng Rui’s work before it was finished. The…
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Building the Giant Tower Six demons rushed me, trying to draw my attention, while dozens of ghouls curved around our fight and headed straight for the slowly rising tower behind me. On the far side of Cheng Rui’s creation, Chi Li was busy holding off wave after wave of ghouls and ghoul infantry. The enemies used speed, swarm tactics, and the fact that they were not using fire magic to try to wear down the red-haired witch, break through her defensive spells, and reach their target. Whoever…
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