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The Power Of Ten: Sama Rantha Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the The Power Of Ten: Sama Rantha novel. A total of 531 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Power of Ten – The Missing Tens – Sama Rantha, Vol I – HagbornChapter One – Rebirth
The Power of Ten – The Missing Tens – Sama Rantha, Vol I – HagbornChapter One – Rebirth and DeathWhere am I?I looked around dazedly, trying to get my foggy thoughts together. It was hard to think.I thought… I thought I had been reborn. I thought I was a b
- 301 Eight hours later...My destination was Habberblok, which was about five miles away. As usual, I preferred to skate the distance rather than hop a ride, as I didn't own a ride yet, paranoia reasons and everything.There were people walking short distan
- 302 "What's more, there's six ways into the Hole, and three thousand years later, there's still six ways into the Hole. Some smart guys have thought they had a Good Idea at times, and tried to seal the entryways. After various suicides, my
- 303 Going Upspire wasn't all that hard, commercial lifts existed everywhere. But the mountains of the Upspires towering over the bloks below definitely gave them an inferiority complex, entirely by design. s.h.i.+t flowed downhill, after all.Still, stuff
- 304 She gaped at me, and the head that was turning into a horror. She looked down at her Band at my glare, swiped down for the read on his Band, and got the table. "Table 4-C, party of six, five here!"I looked at the layout of the place, and Skated
- 305 "Yeah, psi-actives are a bit paranoid other psi-users will use such an access point against them. Not so much a problem with Nulls, 'cause we gots no telepathy to be pulling that s.h.i.+t on one another. It's just an alternate communication
- 306 The next day...I eyed my Band as the alarm rang on it, blaring in my head for my attention."What's up, My Queen?" I responded with a mental tap on it. "Someone's pet Canary Kriko get away?" I knew he'd be looking that up
- 307 The room also had quite a few spideroids in it, festooning it in even more webs than before, although there didn't seem to be a queen here."Agent Rantha, no need to engage. We will be there shortly," the sergeant's voice sounded in my
- 308 He was going to say something, remembered the room above, and shut up."When she gets close, we're going to blow the explosives on her until she's dead. I'll count down the kill numbers, if you can voc-code set three, set two, and Eight
- 309 The main fighting was a lot closer now, and this definitely wasn't the only place with wall to wall fire. Ah, there we go, strobing laser fire was starting to reach here, harmless at this distance, but still visible and... there we go, it was coming
- 310 I checked the prices of platinum on the Boole, and it wasn't bad. I'd have to find some that was Energized, as the rote stuff probably wasn't suitable for magic, only for tech use.I was probably going to have to enchant my bones a lot if I
- 311 I nodded slowly, meeting each and every one of their eyes. "Yep." And let that sink in. "And just imagine when they come looking for a blade baby... and find six of 'em. And me."Their faces all changed, visualizing that. Mindclaws
- 312 "Here is the first lesson for you. I have your backs."I grabbed Jimo's arm, yanked it to me, activated the vibroknife, and plunged it into his forearm.He screamed as it bit through the flesh, carved into the bone, blood and muscle flying ev
- 313 "So, My Queen, what wonderful stuff do you have for me to do today?"The fact I actually stopped by the office instead of just calling him up didn't get any more response out of him than anything else. Such a master of the unflappable, as im
- 314 Termites broke the Underspire areas up by Node Zones. Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.Node Zones were areas where the Boole worked, and so our positions could be tracked, files uploaded, downl
- 315 My escort was watching me as we walked past the cleaning tanks, the dissection tables, bone removal, blood filtering and storage, organ packaging, the flensing stations, the chop-and slurry vats, and the final destination of the boilers and processors tha
- 316 What were the odds a kill team was NOT following me and using me as bait to draw out whoever was doing this?Pretty low, I guessed.Well, that was fine. Given the nature of the opponent, I rather expected to take out the hounds before the rabbit, but that w
- 317 "So, who's in charge of you lads?" I asked, sweeping my eyes over the ranks of cyber-undead in view, keeping my position between the bridge and the room behind me. All avenues out were basically blocked by corpses with gleaming tech embedde
- 318 "Hey, Pops, got a minute?"The flimsy came down, the stogie smoke puffed, and Head of Blok Security Pawlie stared at me and the boys behind me suspiciously. "You again." He sounded defeated. "What, the ghosts up top aren't eno
- 319 "Yeah, the insurance premiums on dead Master Mentats are really high," I agreed. "Easier to slap on a Tau and occasionally expend a few Downspire idiots then a Mentat.""Truth!" he said, pointing at me with his fork, and divin
- 320 Full auto hard and hot light walked up his body in fiftieth of a second pulses, ending with his throat and the spine behind it, blood-red banefire doing all the work as the guy dropped whatever he was going to throw back at us to stop us, and fell back in
- 321 It was a very subtle psychic pressure, tilted towards using the internet for positive purposes. It also exerted pressure away from Artificial Intelligence, as vacuum circuits relied more heavily on human interaction, which in turn developed human minds an
- 322 My Gold and Green organization had expanded to three bloks over the course of the past year. We also had scooped up three abandoned factories and were Making Stuff, in addition to slowly grinding down the rooms in the Top Fifty of Habberblok to put in hyd
- 323 It took about an hour for the response team from the Runners' allies to show up, armored buses and carriers crammed with shooters hurtling our way, looking to reinforce, get some payback, see who dared mess with them, or avenge their buddies.We weren
- 324 "We're going to change a bit of the focus of the whole organization today, so listen up."I had everybody's instant attention. I didn't often address them in person vocally, so me showing up to do so was something important, and du
- 325 To say I had some contacts in high places was not a misnomer.First of all, about six months ago, I went to a high-end restaurant, rented a room for my lads to see what it was like to eat there, and while they dined, a number of men and women came in, got
- 326 The key element to both products was not the end product, or even how they were made. It was the environment, the people, and how the entire area had been treated.This was a universe with a highly restricted presence of Good, entirely by the designs of th
- 327 The fighting continued. Sharkey spent money to bring in elites, Sun Shots blew them to bits, and we struck back on the ground.He was bleeding money and territory, and his income was plummeting. Gangs were abandoning him (and really wis.h.i.+ng they could
- 328 I had been doing consistent work as a Termite for something like three years now. My Queen had said that his superiors would get irritated if he promoted me to Tier Three Termite too quickly, and anyways, there was a s.h.i.+tload of Back Files to go throu
- 329 The scenery in this direction was... interesting, in its own way.The original city had naturally been built outside the mines that drove the raw production power of the planet. Those mines had also been worked out over the millennia, all the metals and or
- 330 The s.h.i.+eld Wall of the current mining district rose in front of me.Duracrete pillars were embedded into a trench a thousand feet into the underlying rock. Immune to corrosion, only the most mindless battering over years and decades could drive a hole
- 331 Now, Null Psions didn't regain PP like Powered did. Powered just Meditated or went to sleep, got all their PP back without issues as Renewal pa.s.sed and did its transcendent thing. Null Psions (and Null Casters) instead had to take ability score dam
- 332 The mines went down a long ways, supposedly all the way to Sunken Sea located so far below the surface, away from the alkaline metals that would turn it into toxic sludge.Those deep pits were emphatically sealed, as any contamination of the water source o
- 333 It was somewhat more difficult to cut the teeth out then when I was on the surface, but for the purposes of mucho dinero I persevered. -Okay, Brekko, tell him to turn off the Interdiction for about ten seconds at 6:57 mark.--Relaying,- my vastly amused Gh
- 334 -Where did you get the number from?- he /asked me, interested.-It is the number of girls missing from Wendlerton Academy in the incident where I came here.-I /felt him purse his lips. -You know what happened to them?- he had to /ask.-They are waiting to b
- 335 Good ol' Mom had used me to set the standard for the Hag Rantha race, I was the Exemplar Lite thereof. She had left out all the extreme s.h.i.+t that had been forced upon her, and actually given me the advancement profile. These girls of mine were thus C
- 336 Now, it was time to take data and make some impossible deductions from it.I didn't get my Ranks of knowledge by studying Imperial Axiomatic Modular Technology. No, I downloaded them right out of the Akasha, that psychic network that connects all of the h
- 337 So, time to exploit OTHER tech trees. Like, vat-growing humans.My Racial Levels were sick and grossly overpowered and cost six times a normal humanoid advancement schema. But instead of a 'create false persona, grow it, and twist it to Evil upon maturity
- 338 It was time.My eyes popped open.I could feel the Curse percolating across the Marks of the six I'd spread out among the girls. No interference, no contamination, no infiltration, no corruption.I teleported across to Garmaspire, flowing around the Interdi
- 339 "You're in a tech-verse, not a fantasy realm, as you doubtless figured out. Furthermore, it's the grimdark universe dominated by the Four Warp G.o.ds: Klaw, jRaztl, Amourae, and Riggibuhl." All the hands went up at the same time. "No, it's not Warha
- 340 The megcity sprawled out before them, with a tiny dot for my holdings, and literally thousands of other factions at work throughout the city, many of them in shades from the bottom third of the Alignment grid.Naturally it also swiveled in 3d and displayed
- 341 Talent Names began to slide in place, representing the full breadth and diversity of the human genome. Everybody tended to be naturally good at something, even if it was incredibly trivial. Once you started catering to that Talent, well, working a job you
- 342 "Good morning, everyone. I know some of you had to swap a s.h.i.+ft to come in here, and I thank you for your time and understanding."The people here were mostly dressed in greys, off-whites, and light tans. Mentat colors, as they liked to say. They had
- 343 "...please see the corruption resistance results in table 14-b...""Yes, the speed and conductivity is less than Mechanist Standard. That is THE POINT.""The working life of a circuit is indeed a fifth of the normal circuits. But if you will inspect pa
- 344 I reviewed the data being sent to me from the bare bones. Kyler Merschoen, son of a high-ranking executive in the Bitte Conglomerate, was suspected of Corruption. Investigate and eliminate if true.His mother was a low-ranking Mentat, and with their money,
- 345 I looked at my Band, and noted the signal had dropped. That was a big surprise. Unfortunately for the thaumaturgic static, it didn't block Marktells. You needed an actual full-blown Ward to do that.And I had six other Bands I could shunt it through anywa
- 346 Yeah, he was still alive, but his Soak and whatever unholy blessings he had were gone, and vivic fire was burning on him. He kind of looked at me in a crazed daze as I came in, buried Chalice right between his eyes, and as he stared at me, I Flared her.Hi
- 347 Serena turned to glance at me, too. She was dark-skinned, dark-haired, high cheekbones, and just radiated an atmosphere of calm. She was also a stunner who spent eight hours a day underdiving for Karma, and dragging My Queen along to get him to Seven.I cl
- 348 "Really?" His eyes flashed. "So, someone could pay me to become a Citizen, huh..."He had been a teenager the first time I'd run into him, actually about my age. I'd been using him for years, and a dozen of my Marked were under him, running all over
- 349 I caromed over the ramp as Fyr, whooping with glee as my Ride went airborne. I aimed Wobble across my chest and fired a Sun Shot at the gunner on Grilnos' wheels, and his brains went flying in the other direction before his multi-gun got within six inche
- 350 I crossed right over the top of the death hauler, sunroof sliding open. Not even looking up as Wobbler aimed, I dumped a Sun Shot into the fuel core of the flamethrower. Yeah, that petrol looks pretty, but pretty explosive, y'know?The fire-t.o.s.s.e.r sc
- 351 Vivi and Inigo worked together more than my others, as remote information/tech user combined with hands-on infiltrator made for a great team. Vivi especially had a lot more responsibilities ongoing, as she was smack dab in the middle of database managemen
- 352 Brekko got up slowly, turned around and looked at the other Sources, all of whom were brought in after him.His soulclaw snapped up. It was golden, edged with green. A big s.h.i.+ft from where he'd once been, able to include others he didn't know as peop
- 353 So we walked, and we talked. There were endless places to stroll to, and the destination wasn't all that important... which didn't mean I wasn't being fed hints and suggestions from the cheering section all the time.I told him to go first with the life
- 354 Jomrin Min sighed as he stared at the cot next to him.He was doing his mandatory two years required for Citizens.h.i.+p, and just prayed that he wouldn't get sent to any active duty company. He hadn't tested out with the reflexes needed for flying, arti
- 355 Several months pa.s.s...It had been a good fight, and an enthusiastic one.Jimo had fallen under Briggs' wing as a power armor enthusiast, and gone into the dueling. Given the inordinate toughness of my soulclaw boys, and the ability to empathic transfer
- 356 The tube lifted me up smoothly to the Arena floor. The roar of the crowd washed over me, enthusiastic and bloodthirsty, looking to see some machine-men blowing one another apart.They kind of broke and faltered when I was revealed there. Mask covering half
- 357 "Good morning to you all. I am Colonel Sama Rantha. You may have heard of me."I could read the trepidation and fear on their faces like a book. It was well-deserved. In the past year, I had made a splash in Ja.n.u.s Prime's military forces, especially
- 358 Of course, with power came knowledge and responsibilities.I had Philius and Sir Dorval as information sources if I was so inclined to pursue things, but they tacitly kept hands off my operations, and I didn't inquire into the things they were doing other
- 359 The fast Leveling paradigm started with the ants.The combatants had to have a Vajra, and both heat and acid resistance, because they were operating outside the city. Their rides had to be s.h.i.+eld-filtered to keep the alkali dust out of anything moving,
- 360 Weeks and Levels later..."Hold!" s.h.i.+era sang out, and everybody instantly froze in place.Everybody was on foot now. Riding in a hoverwagon, on a Disk, or flying didn't expand your lived-line. As a result, all teams had to have some form of lightfoo
- 361 Continent-wide Ma.s.s Warp Incursion Zone, Restricted.I wiped away the drool. Oh, oh...So that's why there were four varieties of mutant native insects... they'd been to the Incursion zone and/or eaten things tainted by the Warp, like, uh, Warp marauder
- 362 I watched the Haze change colors with the underlying elements of the plateau and different energies dominant in areas. My Trembling Domain flashed past hundreds of veins of ores and elements Energized with different powers, sinking into the stones and ext
- 363 Briggs pulled out Beat with a screech of protesting metal, and his Hammer thumped in happiness. Behind the impa.s.sive surface of his mask, Briggs sighed to himself.His Oath was discharged! It was a both a huge wave of accomplishment was.h.i.+ng over him,
- 364 The Warped were screaming, slugthrowers were filling the air with hand-held thunder, cloven hooves and heavy feet were slamming the ground, crude engines roaring... and Beat was moving like cracks of thunder, meat compressing and bone rupturing, while Cha
- 365 Nearly solid warpfire came screaming down at Briggs, eating at the air, s.p.a.ce, whatever. The demons he was educating screamed in fear and terror, but didn't get out of the way in time as it came wailing down and ripped them to shreds.Naturally, his So
- 366 Much time and Karma later...-So, what have we got?- I /inquired of everyone. The conversation was downloaded to a tight Boole, and back up into the private Marks.p.a.ces of the girls' teams.There was a Map of the Warpzone up in our heads, but the boundar
- 367 "So, this place wasn't even designed by the Warp, was it?" I conjectured aloud, allowing my eyes to go deeper, looking into the pulses of energy that formed this place and its boundaries, definitely sweeping out from the direction we were heading. Brig
- 368 Beat came down, and BOOM, it was like a gong going off as the Hammer came down. The staggered head exploded, took out its foreparts with it, and Briggs continued right on down to the ground, burning Great Sluggor spraying ahead of and around him. The shoc
- 369 I held down the Marine from getting up, reached up to his forehead with Grym, and the healing light stayed in place, s.h.i.+mmering into his third eye and playing down inside his armor, out of sight. However, rippling bands of black and yellow swirled up
- 370 Captain Donnal considered the image of this man lifting up an APC with one hand and smas.h.i.+ng it down on a demon nearly as big. With his own strength.He had the sudden urge to very much not come to grips with this Ancient."The Ancients I have met on t
- 371 You couldn't fly drones in the Warp zone, you needed actual pilots. So, Azure and her fliers were having the time of their freaking lives here.Making up TL4-5 stuff was incredibly easy. A few printers could run off parts basically constantly. With no nee
- 372 Captain Donnal was not surprised, given the position of the planet, although the nature of the Warp Zone might have called for a Battalion being stationed here, given its size. The bureaucracy of the Empire at work..."My circ.u.mstances and method of tra
- 373 Captain Donnal stared, and subconsciously glanced back in the direction of the Warp Zone. "They can manifest a mindclaw, but not psychic powers?" he asked specifically."A mindblade is a transpsionic discipline. As it can exist even in an anti-psionic f
- 374 Shelbi nodded and held out her hand. "Use your blade and show me what you are looking at."The same lines of force, whitish-silver in color, snapped up, and Captain Donnal belatedly recognized them as a diffused mindblade. Shelbi's hand closed over Mar-
- 375 "Captain, the main reason you or anyone else never noticed the difference is because they are keyed to the bloodline you have been given, so a standard psion could not activate them, and they are mechanically part of the weapon, not psionically crafted,
- 376 -Hi, Mom!-#5, who often helped with Marktell stuff, looked over at the voice as I was carving and shooting my way through a company of Corrupted PG from someplace called Orkrivar, if the defaced colors and insignia were a proper guide. So far, I had seen
- 377 My Bad Girls kept me cheerfully informed about their seizure of power. It actually went pretty smoothly once they identified all the Amourean cultists and hard-line loyalists and bodyhoppers... not that doing that hadn't taken a bit of effort. Still, the
- 378 The brothel was taken down quietly, and in literally seconds.It was a Midspire location, discrete and out of the way, not flas.h.i.+ng its location at all. Behind its doors, however, was a posh and luxurious establishment willing to cater to all the norma
- 379 I handed over the vial of mostly clear gooey fluid. Duke Rimval took it with an uncertain expression, and the datachip with it. Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting."I believe our research should
- 380 A few months pa.s.s...-That reconfigurable fusion core is a thing of beauty,- I /complimented Briggs.-The Mekkers are going to be p.i.s.sed you figured out how to make the tech,- he /replied affably.At the same time, other thoughtstreams were discussing f
- 381 Descending the steep black slopes of the crater wall wasn't actually that difficult. Briggs and I treated it like a skiing trip, comparing the paths down we both worked out, and turned it into a 120-mph race to the bottom as the Waveskating Steps bowed t
- 382 "No bioma.s.s," I muttered."Stripped right clean by something," Briggs agreed. "A virus would have left inorganics behind, something...""So, a biovore?" I looked back at the ten-mile plain of gla.s.s around the s.h.i.+p. It had been shooting at en
- 383 The guards with their jetpacks and anti-grav swore as she plunged off the mile-high Spire in a power dive. The extra two hundred kilos of goodies in her Ma.s.s.p.a.ck helped her velocity nicely, as did the air splitting before her Diamond Vajra. They migh
- 384 As a psion attached to an Umbran Striker Team was hurriedly arranged to rendezvous with Kaylee Rantha, one of her sisters across town was standing in a parade line.Jensa Rantha had reached Six and Charisma 30, and popped open her Reincarnation to find out
- 385 All over Ja.n.u.s Prime, a ma.s.sive surge of viruses that were going out on the TC control systems were stopped simply by the whole system shutting down instantly.Hover vehicles bleeped as suddenly they were on their own guidance systems. Drivers grabbed
- 386 Warp energies crackled against necroic offsets, gravity drives realigned as the Veil shuddered and snapped itself shut, the backwash of dimensional travel momentarily keeping s.p.a.ce swimming with imbalances and disturbances that had to settle down.The m
- 387 Tabitha's enemy fleet had come into reals.p.a.ce first. The additional data locked down the arrival of the second fleet to within a one second margin of error, and Tiffany was shooting forwards to the spread point at maximum thrust, while all the capacit
- 388 "Admiral Ontif, this is Captain Melvin of the Pride. Sir, we are operating dark under Umbran directives to resupply and bring the reserve fleet out of mothball. I believe with the Rantha Directives being go, we should be in the clear now? Yes, confirmed,
- 389 "There's probably multiples of them. I imagine they came swarming out of all of them as fast as they could, layering on top of one another if they had to, building up in the shadow of the s.h.i.+p until they were given the order to go in all directions
- 390 "So... we're going to be mas.h.i.+ng on robots, service droids, internal defenses, and death traps, depending on how much s.h.i.+t has been repaired."We both looked up and down at the size of this place. If this place had any kind of production tech, a
- 391 He heard the calls in Marks.p.a.ce, and Serena's smooth /voice came through to all her Marked, including him, -We have nuclear launches, the bloks will be sealed.-He felt her eyes on him. She was out there, and she had been trying to get to him, and now
- 392 Multiple cerevores tried to infiltrate the civilians they rescued, but couldn't escape the notice of Lepido, whose hisses of distaste were basically a death sentence, or the spirits of the Ghost Knights and their hungry mind blades.One unlucky Null had a
- 393 She focused on that gash across his face, and her Clawed fingers came down over his ruined left cybereye. "We don't have the time or power to spare for regeneration right now, so you're going to have to make do."He sort of grunted as a sharper-then-ra
- 394 Everything had been eerily silent as we climbed. Both Briggs and I found it uncomfortable, as a good excuse to go bouncing around and killing bots would certainly liven up a climb of many miles.Instead, the quietly horrifying endless rows of shattered and
- 395 Electricity hissed and popped, dumped into the lock, and disengaged the magnetics holding it shut. Before it could reboot, I hooked it with that finger, and pulled it open, my second hand darting into the side of the partially-ejected safe to sever the po
- 396 "Pretty mangled," Briggs observed, visor up and looking around. The Corunsun Pendant was exposed on his chest, and he had one hand ungloved to show the Ring, expecting it would be useful here.This place had indeed been pretty beat up. All the computer s
- 397 So, the s.h.i.+p's AI was happy to provide us with schematics and support once we got up coms with us, and even advised us on a proper format for a databand until it found out we were using vakker-tech to better withstand the pulses of the Throne field s
- 398 The Death Moon lit up like a dis...o...b..ll backed by an Omega Sanction laser.---There had been a lot of energetic discussion about the name of the place. Death Star was ruled out because it couldn't actually blow a planet up, only set swathes of it on
- 399 -Colos is an effing moron,- Captain Tiffany Rantha /huffed, and Anatolia sent just a twinkle of a :rollseyes: back.Happily, Anatolia also had the other mental gifts of a Rantha in the form of high mental Stats and enhanced emotional understanding and fine
- 400 A jet-black s.h.i.+p, quiet as a ghost, even its drives baffled and barely visible, slid past his windows, pa.s.sing within fifty yards of both bios.h.i.+p and dreadnought. Precise saber beams hissed out, and the mult.i.tudes of organic cables, psi-enhanc