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The More Limits, the Stronger the Effect For the first time in more than a week, Cheng Rui began to wonder whether choosing Engineer as his second class at level five, instead of continuing to focus on being a wizard, had been a mistake. Sure, he could build cool magitech weapons and armor. Those creations could easily crush a small squad of monsters or withstand artillery fire, and when he went all out, he could make them in a cave from a box of scraps within minutes. But when he was not wearing…-
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Breaking Out of the Tunnel Compared with my other abilities, Instant Action was extremely expensive for what it did. But it was a trump card that could help in many situations, and hopefully as it leveled, it would evolve into something less costly. As for Defensive Rebound, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the defense associated with it did not have to be chosen immediately when I acquired the ability. Instead, it could be chosen for each particular “situation,” though whether…
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New Abilities Unfortunately, after more than ten additional minutes of thinking, with the weight above us seeming to grow heavier by the second, no one came up with a safe way to leave the tunnel without risking further collapse, a large explosion, or both. Beneath the ruins, given our time limit, fire magic and high-tech abilities simply could not solve the problem. Both Chi Li and Cheng Rui were willing to try some bizarre solutions, but I firmly refused. If our escape was going to cost someone…
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Buried in the Tunnel Another distant explosion shook the ruins. Several tons of fractured concrete and brick, lifted by the blast wave, howled over my head. Dust and soil sifted down through the cracks like gray rain. None of it truly fell on us while we huddled below. The invisible dome I had made stopped it. But I could still feel the enormous weight pressing above us. Most of the load was resting against the tunnel walls. Some collapsed masonry had wedged itself over narrow gaps, but what…
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Tornadoes Destroy the Artillery Positions Two high-altitude drones recorded the army’s first major battle on its own soil in decades with mechanical indifference. Images were transmitted in real time to at least seven different facilities for preliminary analysis, from theater command to headquarters in the capital, to civilian contractors, and even farther still to the drone operators themselves. Computers and humans evaluated firing accuracy and damage before sending the review back to mission…
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Artillery Bombardment Heavily guarded artillery positions had been established twenty-five kilometers from the city. Previous encounters with enemy ground forces, along with intelligence on their patrol patterns, indicated that their infantry could maintain speeds above thirty kilometers per hour for long periods and sprint up to forty kilometers per hour for short bursts. It was therefore necessary to guard against possible attacks by enemy strike teams or airborne units. The standard doctrine…
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The Army Moves Out At first, the abnormal weather around Sanguang City did not attract much attention. Heavy fog was common in Sanguang. A morning fog of such small scale hardly merited concern. Then the strangeness worsened. Out of nowhere, the local atmosphere began showing sharp rises in temperature and pressure. Humidity reached saturation within minutes. Electromagnetic interference stronger than that of the most violent thunderstorms disrupted meteorological sensors across the…
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Drawing Fire to Recover “If I can focus long enough to draw in a little fire power, I’ll recover better than before,” she said. I considered that seriously. “Does it have to be fire?” Cheng Rui asked. His mechanical voice tried to lower itself and failed. Suddenly I was not entirely sure we should be discussing our plan out loud. Then again, what choice did we have? “Could it be something else? Like lasers?” “…Maybe,” Chi Li answered, uncertain. “Lasers don’t last…
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Covering Them with Everything I Had First, I adjusted the forces acting on myself, reducing friction, weight, and the other factors pinning me down by roughly an order of magnitude. Trying that earlier had not worked. For some reason, it worked now. There was no time to investigate this unexpected blessing. Better to use it while I could. Second, I used Proximal Manipulation to reach behind myself for the thing that might prove useful. The great demon was either too relatively slow to…
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When a Mage Is Forced into Melee Once these demons were no longer limited to throwing explosive fireballs, countering their magic became much harder, Chi Li thought. As a young mage, Chi Li could understand why the invaders did not want their “pets” freely using their power in whatever form they pleased. These demons were far more than beings that could explode and ignore flame. They possessed many troublesome abilities. They could amplify entropy. They could magically interfere with…
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