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Chapter 68: [68]: Deployment, The Sky-Fortress · Nov 03, 2026

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51 Chapter 51: [51]: First Contact, Tanks and Toys 2026-11-03
52 Chapter 52: [52]: The Refugee Crisis, Hive Mind 2026-11-03
53 Chapter 53: [53]: The Golem Foundry, Scrap and Skulls 2026-11-03
54 Chapter 54: [54]: The Blackout, A Spark in the Dark 2026-11-03
55 Chapter 55: [55]: The Assassin in Reality, Slippery Floors 2026-11-03
56 Chapter 56: [56]: The Trade Deal, Battery Acid and Autonomy 2026-11-03
57 Chapter 57: [57]: Expansion, The Dragon’s Heart 2026-11-03
58 Chapter 58: [58]: The Frozen North, General Iron 2026-11-03
59 Chapter 59: [59]: Avalanche, Crushing the Covenant 2026-11-03
60 Chapter 60: [60]: Velkhana, Hooking the Beast 2026-11-03
61 Chapter 61: [61]: Skyfall, The Hundred-Ton Guillotine 2026-11-03
62 Chapter 62: [62]: Iron’s Respect, The Church of the Void 2026-11-03
63 Chapter 63: [63]: Tier 2 City, The Meat-Suit Mechanic 2026-11-03
64 Chapter 64: [64]: The Cult of the Void, Disappearing Act 2026-11-03
65 Chapter 65: [65]: The Digital Plague, Deep Code Purge 2026-11-03
66 Chapter 66: [66]: The Warning Signs, Shattered Skies 2026-11-03
67 Chapter 67: [67]: The Gate Opens, Raining Spiders 2026-11-03
68 Chapter 68: [68]: Deployment, The Sky-Fortress 2026-11-03
69 Chapter 69: [69]: Urban Warfare, Absolute Zero 2026-11-03
70 Chapter 70: [70]: The Void Lord, A Hum in the Blood 2026-11-03
71 Chapter 71: [71]: Limit Break 50%, Hitting the Delete Key 2026-11-03
72 Chapter 72: [72]: The New World Order, Welcome to the Game 2026-11-03
73 Chapter 73: [73]: The Great Reset, The Level Cap 2026-11-03
74 Chapter 74: [74]: The System Cities, Targeting Sector 7 2026-11-03
75 Chapter 75: [75]: The Warlord Rises, Poisoned Logistics 2026-11-03
76 Chapter 76: [76]: The Economy of Souls, Liquid Experience 2026-11-03
77 Chapter 77: [77]: The Void’s Avatar, Purging the System 2026-11-03
78 Chapter 78: [78]: General Iron’s Call, The Kraken Skies 2026-11-03
79 Chapter 79: [79]: The Demon Lord, Orbital Strike 2026-11-03
80 Chapter 80: [80]: The Mortal Limit, Top One Hundred 2026-11-03
81 Chapter 81: [81]: The Jungle of Mirrors, Fighting the Glitch 2026-11-03
82 Chapter 82: [82]: The Guardian, Server 894 2026-11-03
83 Chapter 83: [83]: The Elemental Forge, Absolute Immunity 2026-11-03
84 Chapter 84: [84]: The Betrayal, Upward Falling Blood 2026-11-03
85 Chapter 85: [85]: Floor 90, The Bridge of Souls 2026-11-03
86 Chapter 86: [86]: The Top Floor, The Timekeeper’s Test 2026-11-03
87 Chapter 87: [87]: Man vs. Sage, Looping the Meat-Grinder 2026-11-03
88 Chapter 88: [88]: Demigod, The Chronos Heart 2026-11-03
89 Chapter 89: [89]: Return to Earth, The Saints of the Outer Void 2026-11-03
90 Chapter 90: [90]: The False God, One Thousand Gs 2026-11-03
91 Chapter 91: [91]: The Juncture, Closing the Window 2026-11-03
92 Chapter 92: [92]: The Alliance of Saints, Boiling the Ocean 2026-11-03
93 Chapter 93: [93]: Conceptual Warfare, Dust to Dust 2026-11-03
94 Chapter 94: [94]: The Sacrifice, A Tsunami of Despair 2026-11-03
95 Chapter 95: [95]: The Void King, Consuming the Divine 2026-11-03
96 Chapter 96: [96]: Earth Closed, The Juncture’s Threshold 2026-11-03
97 Chapter 97: [97]: The Anomaly Root Protocol, Juncture Scavenger 2026-11-03
98 Chapter 98: [98]: The Chained Admin, A Deal in the Dark 2026-11-03
99 Chapter 99: [99]: Simulated Deletion, The Dead Man’s Pass 2026-11-03
100 Chapter 100: [100]: Archive 001, The First Glitch 2026-11-03

The sub-level engineering bay of Sanctuary was a chaotic hazard of sparks and screaming metal.

Sebastian kicked the heavy iron doors open and strode into the massive cavern.

Valerie followed closely behind. She coughed as the thick blue smoke from the Storm Core battery hit her lungs.

”Galleon!” Sebastian barked. His voice carried effortlessly over the deafening noise of automated dwarven machinery. ”Tell me you didn’t blow up the basement!”

”Boss!” Galleon popped his head out from under a massive armored turbine.

The dwarf’s face was entirely black with soot. His beard was singed, and his eyes were wide with energy.

”Blow it up? I made it beautiful! You asked for transport! You asked for heavy fire support! I gave you a flying war crime!”

Sebastian walked past a pile of discarded railgun barrels and looked at the center of the cavern.

Sitting in the massive launch bay and hovering three feet off the ground was the Sky-Fortress.

It wasn’t a sleek jet. It wasn’t a helicopter. It looked like a massive chunk of the Citadel had been violently ripped from the walls and strapped to a jet engine.

It was a flat armored platform of pure black basalt and titanium. It was roughly the size of a basketball court.

Lining the edges of the platform were six highly illegal mana-conducting railguns.

”You built a floating brick,” Valerie said. She stared at the monstrosity in sheer disbelief. ”Sebastian, this thing looks like a dumpster.”

”Flying shapes are for cowards who obey gravity,” Galleon scoffed. He wiped grease on his leathers and patted the side of the thick stone hull.

”She doesn’t fly. She repels the earth. I hooked up the anti-gravity runes you pulled from the dungeon directly into a localized mana-engine.”

”What’s powering it?” Sebastian asked as he stepped up onto the heavy metal ramp.

”That’s the best part!” Galleon grinned. He revealed a mouthful of crooked gold-capped teeth and pointed to the center of the platform.

Encased in a thick transparent cylinder of hard-light magic was a massive frozen blue Dragon’s Heart. They had ripped it out of Velkhana.

It was pulsing slowly.

THROOM.

With every beat, thick cables of blue energy pumped raw absolute zero mana into the platform’s thrusters.

”It runs on dragon juice and terrible ideas!” Galleon laughed. ”Top speed is roughly very fast. The shielding is rated to handle indirect nuclear blasts.”

”Just try not to press the red button near the helm unless you want to violently vent the exhaust into the passenger cabin.”

”Noted. They would have a heart attack, but I love it,” Sebastian smirked.

He walked to the control pedestal at the front. It wasn’t a steering wheel. It was a flat slab of glowing runes that synced directly with his physical mana pool.

”Wraith,” Sebastian tapped his comm-link. ”Assemble the Abyss Knights. Meet us in the hangar.”

”On my way, Boss,” the Assassin’s static voice replied.

Ten minutes later, the heavy blast doors of the engineering bay opened.

It wasn’t an army of thousands. Sebastian didn’t want the liability of a massive raid group. He had hand-picked exactly twenty men.

They marched into the room in perfect unison. These were the absolute elite.

Wraith’s core assassin squad formed the vanguard. Behind them were the fifteen heaviest survivors from Colonel Vance’s military unit and the remnants of the Iron Covenant.

They had all been forcibly leveled up in the Ethereal Plane’s training dungeons.

They weren’t wearing standard military kevlar anymore. They were clad in heavy pitch-black Ethereal plate armor forged by Galleon.

They carried massive glowing broadswords and heavy repeating crossbows enchanted with explosive runes.

”The Abyss Knight Corps is ready for deployment,” Wraith reported as he materialized beside Sebastian. ”Morale is violent. They want payback for the city.”

”Good. Point that anger at the bugs,” Sebastian said.

He looked at the twenty men filing onto the Sky-Fortress.

”Listen up! We are not going down there to fight a fair war. We are going to exterminate a pest problem.”

”Stay on the platform. Man the railguns. Do not step off the edge unless you want to get eaten by a spider the size of a minivan. Clear?”

”SIR, YES, SIR!” the twenty voices boomed in the cavern.

Valerie stepped onto the platform. Her grip tightened on her oak staff.

She looked at Sebastian with her blue eyes filled with calm determination.

”I’ll handle the civilian extraction. The Valkyrie class has hard-light bridges. I can pull people out of the skyscrapers while you clear the streets.”

”Don’t burn out your mana pool, Princess,” Sebastian warned and gave her a serious look. ”If your sync rate pushes too hard, your physical brain will fry. Save some juice for the boss.”

”Worry about yourself, Drifter,” Valerie smirked faintly.

”Galleon, open the roof,” Sebastian commanded. He placed his hands on the glowing runic steering console.

”Opening the sun-roof! Try not to scratch the paint!” the dwarf yelled from the control booth.

With a deafening screech of heavy machinery, the massive titanium blast doors above the engineering bay slowly slid apart.

The sickly blood-red light of the apocalypse spilled down into the dark cavern.

Sebastian channeled a tiny fraction of his glitched mana pool into the Dragon’s Heart.

The Sky-Fortress groaned. The anti-gravity runes flared a blinding icy blue.

WHOOSH!

The sheer displacement of air knocked loose tools off the workbenches below as the massive stone platform lifted off the ground.

It didn’t hover gently. It shot straight upward with the terrifying thrust of a rocket.

They blasted out of the Sanctuary’s roof and into the bleeding sky.

The freezing wind instantly whipped at Sebastian’s black leather coat. He stood at the helm, entirely unbothered by the sheer velocity.

Below them, the safety of the golden dome shrank into the distance. Ahead of them lay Downtown Metropolis.

It was a nightmare of epic proportions. Entire city blocks were burning.

The smoke was so thick it looked like a solid black wall.

Massive dark shapes scuttled up the sides of the remaining skyscrapers. They tore through glass and steel to get to the screaming civilians hiding inside.

”Target area reached! Left flank! Skyscraper at three o’clock!” Wraith barked.

A massive Void Crawler was clinging to the side of a glass corporate tower. It was desperately trying to pry open a reinforced safe room on the fortieth floor.

”Light it up,” Sebastian commanded smoothly. He didn’t even turn his head.

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