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Chapter 14 - The Awaken

The pure white light of Chaos emerged from the ground, converted, lay down on the ground, and faded away from life. The sound of the bell rang throughout the Earth's surface, James standing there, unfazed by what was coming out. The sharp winds blow burning air, heating the surroundings. 

"As long as last we finally met... later model"

She flew from the portal, spreading her burned wings. Her dark dress covered her entire body, with a dark figure behind her, and snow-white hair.

["James, this is broadcasting from the destroyer. Fall back! do no-"]

[signal blocked]

"huh?" James confused. "C'mon work you damn solver...."

On the spacedestroyer, troops and soldiers are arming themselves with thousands of other warships.

"Something blocked the signal, ready the dropods and mechs!" the boss said.

"We gotta go also." Clare said.

"No, don't risk your life; our priority now is to get 404 back."

"Clare, we don't have time for this. I can't leave him alone." Kiries dashed to the exit, grabbing Clare, but before she could do anything, A shock dart hit her neck

"Sorry, kid, you aren't ready." V load another electric bullet.

"You... coward..." 

Back on earth, James takes his weapons out of their sheaths, his claws crack their knuckles. Charged in without thinking, he slashed and slashed, the girl in front of him seemed to avoid the attacks easily, phasing from here to there.

His targeting system predicted where he would throw his sword, right from behind where she appeared. James twisted his body; his straight blade flew into a stone pillar that grew from the ground, bouncing off and hitting the ground. Teleported, he cut the pillar in half and what was behind it. In a moment, he saw her above his blade. 

"Cut..." her voice quiet like a drop of water hitting the ocean in the night. don't know what happened. Everything happened faster than a normal human can see. James's body is split into five parts. The ground was open with cut marks. She snapped her fingers, and white fire blew him away. 

Stumbled on the ground. He attached his body back. turning off his eradication mode, he switched back to combat mode. "What's going on..." He punched his chest "Work, goddamn solver!"

"What's wrong, newcomer?" the angel moved closer to him. "Your technology doesn't work on me... I am just a thing that can't be reasoned with." The shadow figure behind her unleashed an invisible beam, shooting out of his core from his body.

James reformed his body, pulling the old shell using kinetic field, transforming it into a giant Orbital rail cannon. He deleted the whole area of 10km wide in front of the barrel of the gun, the bullet shredded and ground everything it passed. He broke the weapon into particles, and he dashed to the girl. She unleashed a cutting wave with billions of unseen slashes. His body vaporized, his core pumped out dark liquid to regenerate, keeping up with the damage sustained every second.

Atoms are cut into smaller pieces, explosions destroy the surroundings. James lifted his legs, moving slowly with each heavy step.

"I misjudged you... You are stronger than those tried," she laughed wickedly.

More and more cuts slashed the area. It's like walking in a flame tunnel made for rockets. Compared to a normal human, they would be gone instantly.

[Scanning...]

"I don't get it... that thing's attack... they are so fast..." James thinks to himself, "No... they bypass... they ignore the distant.... that's why... magic huh? Well, let's break this"

[Phase teleport: suppressed] - [Switching to alternative mobility system]

James flashed behind the angel, and the ground crumbled with his footsteps. His arm grabbed the shadow figure behind her, while getting slashed trillions of times. "YOU DIE!" his blade stabbed through both of them. 

The creature's scream shattered the space as light leaked out from the blade entrance.

[all systems recovered]

He ripped the shadow down, splitting it in two, and his eyes fired superheated beams. shooting the angel down to the ground, creating a portal.

"I'll send you back to Hell, Demon!" as her body slowly sank to the melted rock. James summons more drones and weapons to fire at her, all enhanced with the power of absolute solving.

"You're cute, but one mistake, you go alone..." the voice of a girl echoed behind his back. She's there, speaking softly.

His eyes widened, the laser beam stopped, and the hole left no one inside.

He turned around, creating his blades, but they were all destroyed by a dark spear with no sharp end. A snowflake was placed on his chest, assimilated into his core.

[system compromised]

[suppressed]

From the Sky, A pole pierced his body, slammed him onto the ground. His weapons disintegrated into nothing.

"Auughh..." James got up, his eyes glitching. His body stopped regenerating. trapped in one place with an object that shattered his spine.

The angel walked up to him. "You are brave. With the upgrades and unbroken body. their hero..?"

"I will kill you..." he puked dark liquid.

"Darling, D-blood ain't the strongest thing in this universe, I want the original cube. But no matter how hard I dig into the chaos of murdering humanity, or sacrificing myself to gain a powerful goal. It is no use..." She begins to laugh maniacally, "It doesn't matter anymore, I waited for this day for a very long time now!" She grabbed his neck. "Many years ago, before they engaged in creating the Death-Core project, they tried to fuse a human with that D-blood technology. I lived like an animal, so stupid to sign that contract, so idiotic to believe they could bring me back."

"You're... the first one..."

"That's right, you can call me like that, I found the power from another world, I craved for more, I became the most feared thing across the fire realm, and now with you, I will become a true god of this world."

[system brea- error error error error error error error error error error error error]

[... Core fused...] her face flashed on his eyes before he blacked out.

[rebooting...]

The fleet of Space battleships lined up around Earth, soldiers and mechs loaded on shock-resistant belts, 

["Earth's movement undetected"]

["ready to launch troops"]

Clare and Kiries watched the screen inside their room. Kiries is paralyzed, unable to do anything.

With the green light flicked, carriers fired down their landing pods and cargo. Soldiers armed with the strongest gear and technology's power break through the burning atmosphere.

"Armored Task Destroyers landed."

loud thumps followed by micro explosions to unleash giant robots. Drones assembled, field camps built from their gears.

["All ground troops deployed, proceed to phase 2"]

Their body cams streaming to the screens of the fleet, the leaders, and the man responsible for this operation.

The soldiers, whose names are unknown, are marching with their artificial companions, reaching the last motion detected on the green planet.

"Drone 13# got visual." Soldier#1

"It's him. All unit 7 on me, the rest clear the surfaces." Commander,

they moved to the valley of silence, passing through the ruins of this castle, finding James on the ground, motionless, on his knees, staring at the ground.

"We got eyes on the target." The soldier's voice rang through the speaker on the battleship. The screens display his worn-out body.

They approached him, guns aimed at his head, and the mechs surrounded the perimeter. "Core still active. begins to detain and recover." A soldier gets closer, takes out an attaching device. He was slowly reaching for James's arm, for him to get lifted off the ground by a chokehold.

All the soldier immediately stepped back, keeping their distance.

"What's going on!" -the boss 

James cruelly snapped the neck of the live on his hand. His body decayed, turning into a new outfit for James. 

"Hahahaha!" his left side of his hair turned darker. "Time for you all to die," the chanting roar, and the soldiers retreat with their weapons firing at him. Bullets and lasers bounced off his body. His new outfit, with a long coat, flew with the wind flowing through the battlefield. A pair of new arms formed as he levitated off the ground.

"All units regroup!" The soldier got punched, his body split in half as he flew into the mech. James teleported from one to another, ripped off a guy's head, pulled off a man's ribcage from afar, and killed the next one with his tail, peirced from his head down to splatter the poor man's body all over the place. active solver, imploded every soldier on the ground, he dived to a mech, it tried to shoot back but was quickly disposed from spikes that crashed from within the cockpit. using magic power to grant the rest of the pilots a painful death by crushing them into nothing.

"I know you're all watching this... his body belongs to the angel of calamity now... nowhere to hide. Humanity will fall under my hand, Zerion." They laughed maniacally, summoning their army once again. Soldier across the world are now in danger, their lives are at risk of becoming their power.

Clare, Kiries, V, and the rest of the people watch in horror. "She got him... she waited for him all along..."

"Clare... what can we do now...?"

Zerion watches the carnage around themselves, smiling at the lights coming. Their feet stepped forward, but stopped.

"Hm?" his fist punched at the face, breaking a nose. James is still somewhat in control. 

[stop] taking control of his right arm, he breaks through the chest, grabbing his core. Zerion grabbed the loose arm. trying to hold back what he is trying to do. 

"You can't escape." [suppressing]

James managed to take out the Absolute solver attachment. His eye opened beneath the right one, giving what was left of his consciousness to the Solver in his core, and blasted the cube far away.

"You are strong, perhaps I'll let you see your loved one die using this little eye."

Hand on the ground, the calamity Icon appears to summon the lost ones, the invisible entity possesses the fallen soldiers. Three Titans are now in control of Xeon, Isan, and Jzon, rising from the dark world portal.

"This is exactly what I wanted... after all these years, I finally have the power of the strongest entity. And it's only a matter of time before I get my hand on the origin cube."

Zerion laughs maniacally, hands in the air, leading the army of the dead, growing more every second.

communication device echoes with screams and gun sounds of the forces across the world.

"DAMMIT!" The boss broke the glass table, "Unit 00... that's where you've been doing..."

"Boss, we detected a Solver V4 signal, it seems he yanked it off, even though that thing can now fully use"

"How can we recover it?"

"There's one unit still alive near the area."

["Delta-144, can you copy? We need you to get the designated object and teleport it to the mothership, if you can hear us."]

"Now we need to pray."

Clare and Kiries got let out.

"This is bad, guys..." V said, "This is over what I could do."

"I'm speechless..." Clares looks at the screen

"I think they will get the Solver back in no time. But now we have to worry about whether He or she will do next"

They look at Kiries, seem sad, and furious.

"Kiries we-"

"I want to go out..."

"What?"

"I want to do something. He's my only one I love... So this time I tried to be nice. finish what your experiment on me and make me complete..." Determined, she clenched her fist until it bled.

V looks at her, and she smiles. "Aight, kid." V and Kiries get to the boss's office, and they discuss the problem. Clare opened her tablet, the screen displayed the static, and the big No signal words in the middle.

["Object teleported"]

"This is our best plan currently. i hope you are ready Kiries"

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