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
- 531 tA breath later, the horror wave swept over us, echoing off and refracting off the obdurate hull of this ancient battle mountain. One of the engineers turned on the vivic pump, and sprayed a jet of the vivic flame into the air. We all watched in fascinati
- 530 tThere was a subtle s.h.i.+fting and swirling all around us, energies moving that had been very, very still for a long time.t"It's hissing!" Percy pointed out sharply, squinting at it.t"Paint it with vivus," I snapped, Paten and Host snapping out, go
- 529 tThere were s.h.i.+ps from at least a thousand different races here, a fair chunk of which we'd never heard of, and histories going back at least a hundred thousand years, to the dawn of the Ruk domination of the galaxy and the fall of the goblins. W
- 528 t"Twelve," Dorva stated, looking over to Philia, who nodded the same.t"Fifteen," Bluma stated firmly, shaking her golden head. She had looked a bit incongruous in Umbran blacks, given her appearance, but right now the aura of authority
- 527 tEnraged, the remaining two-thirds of the Mekker Third Fleet, who had been expecting a virtual cakewalk, took up positions to Omega Sanction the planet, while thousands of Imperial Novas and the newer Crescents walked a continual flaring of EMP's to
- 526 t"That antiproton beam cost us a bunch of carapaces."t"Hey, how was I to know that they were a decent s.h.i.+elding material for blacksuits?" He heaved a few of the more intact corpses of the creatures through the Rift, where the foren
- 525 tFor whatever reason, the s.h.i.+p we were on had drifted free from the cl.u.s.ters of s.h.i.+ps visible in front of us, and was spinning out on its own, away from the drifting ma.s.ses.tHundreds of great stars.h.i.+ps, of all sizes and makes. Thousands.
- 524 Director Grossmer's face was ashen as he finished with his Oath. He probably had more information than most on what was involved with an Oath on the Corunsun. As it turns out, all the senior Security heads had also sworn Oaths on the Corunsun, and ha
- 523 "Your reaction is unexpected." The hovering drone followed me smoothly through the opening, watching as I trailed the cable behind me. "Were you aware of me?" "The Seal Lock in its chamber above is absolutely free of dust. Not a m
- 522 -How'd it go, Mother?- Anatolia /asked me coolly. -He's willing to give me a half a trillion credits to help me set up GAMT tech production here and take some property off his hand with a small irradiation and Warp signature problem.- A cascade
- 521 He was trying to keep a straight face, but the words hurt, despite his very thick skin. -No, you can't just shake off my words, and even if I am a few zeroes from being a player at your level, I am deadly enough to kill you by looking at you. Squirm.- "
- 520 We couldn't hit every planet in the sector, but by Tek, we could hit a bunch of them. Hooking Tek in through the Marks.p.a.ce, our Curses providing conduits of faith and belief to power him up and represent the will of millions of organics, perhaps billi
- 519 Transit to Ja.n.u.s III would have taken the Mekker Fleet a week. Lack of any news or signals happening at that point would prompt something to come here to investigate what was going on. It was time enough to melt down large chunks of forty different ves
- 518 If the Tekrons could put death to good use, why couldn't we? "I'm on board," I agreed. -Ready, Mom?- Nina /sent me. -Yep,- I /replied, toting my load of annihilation. s.p.a.ce opened in front of me, leading right out into the starry void, held at bay
- 517 I broke Fifteen in Rantha Hag, much to my bemus.e.m.e.nt. Once again, I was left with nothing to do except what I created for myself. Only this time, it was even stronger. Ronnie was already at Fifteen and was taking charge on the tech tree. While I could
- 516 Blinded, unconscious, dead, and post-Ten psions went flying like chaff. The living fetched up against walls, their souls pinned there like ants by the force of the magic streaming past and through them, and all the tech. Mana, the Breath of the Land, was
- 515 The last, last thing the Old Men ever expected to happen in their precious training facility was the Incursion Alarms going off. The Mountain was Interdicted with the best psitech available to the Empire. It was inspected regularly in detail for signs of
- 514 I had been inside the Mountain most of a year now. I had been a pretty naughty girl, given all the systems I'd suborned, the brainboxes like Bob I'd Branded, the nasty surprises and self-destructs I'd thoughtfully rendered inoperable, and the amount of
- 513 Fuzzy was off to the stars with his own fleet... a fleet that was constantly growing as the Tribute made more. All it needed was raw supplies at this point. We were in a flurry of activity with the constant upgrades. TL 13 stuff making the stuff that coul
- 512 In less than one day, fifty-seven a.s.sa.s.sins scattered across the Empire vanished with their kill teams. White smears were all that were found of most of them. The next day, a hundred and six more vanished. Very quietly, a.s.sa.s.sin teams on active mi
- 511 Nadir's Sword Plan swept out, and opened a Rift on the back end of the Mountain's nameless frigate. Tesla Rantha stepped through instantly, waving her hand to seal the Rift less than two seconds after it was opened. A shuttle was quietly swoopin
- 508 I'd watched many cyberpathers go diving, and of course had no problems doing the tech side of things myself, as I'd invented the whole Goldilocking shtick with the gold in my hair. Scarletlocking didn't sound right, after all. Still, that i
- 507 s.p.a.ce shuttles don't exist in, ah, a vacuum... er, they had to get resupplied eventually. Recycling only goes so far, even with the technology of the future here. As this thing was pretending to be decrepit to casual scans, it couldn't be gle
- 506 Bering Briggs was one of the Natural Explorers. He was silly eager to get to Ten, get himself an Alias-cla.s.s Explorer, and go jetting out into the void, see all the wonders and horrors out there, and arrange for big enough hammers to hit them in the fac
- 505 So, the Goldilocks crews had managed to track down this place on Kragamaore as a major hub of where the information was sent. It had involved infiltrating and directly cracking open the public welfare systems of the fifty largest worlds in this subsector,
- 504 -I have the Braincase telemetry,- Sheba's sly razor of a voice confirmed it was operational. -Look for any codes or maintenance that have to be done to keep this place active, and any self-destructs we need to disable.- he /replied promptly. There w
- 503 Without speaking with the Free Brothers, he never would have known the method to suppress his Helices to the extent that the sensors could not pick him up, as long as he did not move too quickly. Without the Ranthas, he would never have learned about the
- 502 Voids can hide from everybody but the Land, and one another... and the widespread genetic tests and databases maintained by the public health organizations of the Empire. It took half a million man-hours of intensive searching through all the many systems
- 501 There were literally tens of thousands of Marked who spent downtimes in MMO's precisely designed to imitate Legionnaire armor and capabilities. They didn't have the reflexes of true Legionnaires, but that was fine; they were there to generate id
- 510 The pressor beam shoved me through the tube, skirting just in between nihilor cores and nihilaen plates. The tube opened on the far side, auto-opened as the Fill promptly undid the disintegration effect, and removed all visible signs of anything having ha
- 509 Getting into the place was going to be annoying, but it was part of the job. Being the Dark Angel shooting the enemies of the Empire was just going to have to be on hold for a while. Hey, I was being nice. They were already looking for me, and I was going
- 500 The Sun Strike came with it, and blew Battlemaster Chaerus' skull apart in an explosion of whiteness whose bloom didn't quite reach the ground. Squad Five saw her grab their Battlemaster's armor by the girth with her s.h.i.+eld-bearing off
- 499 "Sir, we have a problem." Battlemaster Chaerus sneered when he heard the clipped relay coming over his armor's relays, while his gyro gun blew explosive rounds into the position of the Imperial Marines he was currently crossing, blood and g
- 498 "Hurz, you can't be her," he puffed out, staring at me with bulging bloodshot eyes, me so nicely backlit by the dying explosion and colorful clouds in the distance. My Soulsword vanished, and Chalice extruded her full normal blade, gold wit
- 497 This area was pretty much crawling with goblins. Since it was where so many of their blocky, flaming troop transports had landed, and the ma.s.sive teleport formation to download them from the Rock that housed most of them had been set up, that wasn'
- 496 The longer I fought here, the more plugged in I was to the information channels of the defense as Imperial Forces with Marked among them filtered down and in, pumped that data into Marks.p.a.ce, and cycled it through the Strategos to give insight and advi
- 495 It was plain to the drow matron that this song was about fear, and it was infectious, sinking into the minds of the goblins and spreading along their racial psyche... and it was being fed into their com system, too, helping perpetuate it further, faster.
- 494 "I'm afraid that my patience has a limit," the flawlessly beautiful and undefeated Bladewitch Mistress of the drow replied as she continued towards me, weaving her way through four goblins who all lost their heads in pa.s.sing. "Happil
- 493 The Portal was buried in the side of a hill, untouched for a few thousand years, and long overgrown by plantlife, dirt, and scree tumbled down. That didn't stop it from activating, and sending all that matter in the way out into some trackless subdi
- 492 I listened to Ronnie berate me, getting that ma.s.sive irritation at the pressure heaped upon her off her chest very sympathetically, and after several minutes of unrepeated insults and condemnations at putting all this on her, she finally took a breath a
- 491 -Mom!- -Morning, squirt. What you bugging the ExLite at the top of the stack with today?- -You are so full of yourself. Duh, I made Ten.- As if /messaging me direct in Marks.p.a.ce wasn't proof that she at least was past the Resonance stage. -Cool! S
- 490 An hour had pa.s.sed. The white in the atmosphere was starting to fade. I was sitting on a Disk in midair, watching as the city below crumbled like sand castles falling to time. Ma.s.sive craters were opening in the ground as durasteel fractured and fell,
- 489 "You have proof of this?" Inquisitor Hrom pressed. "You must be out of contact with high command. They received copies of the Mechanist reports an hour or three ago. Someone pulled it out of the Mechanists' Magentsecure archives and pl
- 488 They went into the tunnel, up the stairs there, and plowed into hundreds of Warped coming to reinforce the a.s.sault, who were blown into pieces by more of the Techmeister's rockets. They went up further, bounding up flights of stairs, along a long c
- 487 The three psions present all hid their swallows, feeling the brus.h.i.+ng of those Helices like a great and deadly siphon, ready to drain away all of their power and render them no more than any other man. Expending psionic energy while touched by the Hel
- 486 I was moving faster than they were expecting, and blowing the key parts of the factories open on enough of a delay to get me a minute or more of lead time before things went totally kablooey was enough time for me to be a mile or more away from the impact
- 485 The incoming corridor was about ten feet wide, plenty wide for evacuating bunches of people mutated by the Warp who hadn't bathed in a couple years. It also had plenty long range of fire when you are shooting banefire'd autolasers and holding do
- 484 There was a big push of Warped coming in, bodies in heavy worksuits that had been painted and st.i.tched with patterns and runes of devotion to the Warped powers, breath masks against fumes dipped in blood and ichor wrought from corpses and making the cou
- 483 Pretty soon, there were pictures of my nigh unto perfect a.s.s hanging all over the galaxy. I had stingers and tails in some, I had burning black wings edged in gold in others, I had floating glowing horns from my Halo Crown, and the unreal Arakne Arms we
- 482 The quiet you want, the peace you need, Your roars and anger give no heed, Chaos calms and burns away, Warp begone, its final day, A whispered sigh. Souls in torment, now be released, Demon's raving now is ceased, Life is come to drink and feast, Dea
- 481 It meant that simply sailing through deep s.p.a.ce as if it was a wide-open ocean was actually extremely dangerous... and although the things seemed to avoid the gravity strings the Phlos represented, it didn't mean they HAD to. If they parked on top
- 480 "No s.h.i.+t?" She was vaguely impressed. "Well, that sounds fairly ominous..." "Here's our racial advancement template." I activated the Band she'd slipped on her wrist in imitation of my own, the holo came up, and
- 479 It started to burn inside the unoccupied command nodule inside as I leapt off it into a pair of giant-sized, four-armed xenos cyberdead, Faith batting away razored power-tails plated in adamant, stroking lightning down the tail of one and blowing that apa
- 478 -Sama, I think it's about time you took a trip home,- Briggs /reported to me from thirty thousand light years away. -Oh?- I /answered Mah Fuzzy, having complete agreement on why such a thing would be worth my time. -Ah, the OTHER reason is that I thi
- 477 There were several things going on which rather confused the Umbrans and Coronals. First, there were actually a dozen Silent Sisters on the Silent s.h.i.+p, carrying their cryo-frozen cargo off to Tellus to be strapped into brain boxes and help power the
- 476 She almost gaped at me. "Warp Sorcery?!" Her horror at the very idea was totally apparent, and what would follow that would be blasphemy and bullets. "Throne, no." I rolled my eyes at her before she could start a tirade, and now the ot
- 475 "Arranged marriages?! Mother, this is the far future and grimdark, where they treat people like s.h.i.+t and... oh!" Jonah's grin got lopsided.I beamed. "Glad you understand that you're going to be spending a lot of time with some
- 474 "Oh, no, no." I waved my hand. "Forsaken aren't Psions. They are just like the rest of you and I, can't send out psionic power at all. And you know most Forsaken are Nulls, just like me. Got all the psychic presence of a rock.&quo
- 473 -A Silent s.h.i.+p has just entered Kodolfis.p.a.ce.-It had been a year of slow and steady expansion for Rantha Corp, with the occasional explosion, stray 'borgs 'going cyber' and not at all sent by the Mekkers, things falling from the sky
- 472 Turning around and finding a woman in your chair is bound to surprise just about anyone, even a twenty-percent cybered middle manager like Jamon Dralfi-2C, a nameless drone working for Kadalfi Production, Ltd, a maker of specialty metals and pre-fab moldi
- 471 I had some interesting discussions with the forensic teams carting stuff off, as I had some fairly good ideas on what all the stuff was used for... and at least sixteen different items went on one-way trips to the sun when they were deemed to be pa.s.sive
- 470 "I've already taken the liberty of killing the entire crews of all six s.h.i.+ps, and they are being fed to the recyclers by the maintenance cyborgs as we speak." Both men blinked. Yeah, the Love Potion#8 wasn't quite as bad as #9, but
- 469 I was hustled to the Castle politely but firmly, and they didn't really bother to speak to me anymore. I just put the Seal away, smiled politely back, and got sent to where I wanted to go.They had muttered into their comlinks and sent word ahead, but
- 468 The nearest Seat system with a proper s.p.a.cedock for refitting was Kolosti Minor. The crew was a bit surprised to hear that the whole fleet would be going in for a refit, and the harvesting of slaves was going to have a slight delay. It was easy enough
- 467 There were raspberries being thrown everywhere in Marks.p.a.ce when the Glorious b.a.s.t.a.r.d finally blew open a h.e.l.lgate near a certain spatial anomaly juxtaposed near a couple handy Beacons showing nearby. The cyborg converter/a.s.sembly line/slave
- 466 There naturally was no way we could reach them in time, even if we did spread the news of the invasion throughout the Sector. A whole ma.s.sive arm of the Sector Fleet was dispatched, and they would probably get there in time to catch the Xenos in-system,
- 465 Now, that wasn't to say I didn't see things. Like other Ranthas who had snuck peeks at the Warp, our eyes were juiced to behold the wonders of the soul and universe, and yeah, we could see just about everything. Succubus full True Seeing kicked
- 464 I could feel the change in s.p.a.ce on my Null, even stranger than heading into the Underweb in Gloom. This was a place incredibly reactive to psychic will and pressure, the mishmatched convergence of astral planes and their eventual destinations, all cra
- 463 The area of the officer's quarters was needlessly overdone and elaborate, with trophies of conquests and kills here and there. There were stuffed and mounted beasts, broken helms and cracked armor, at least three crowns, a collection of flags hanging
- 462 All our Swords got busy locking down the spatial coordinates on the other side, while we got busy plying said Swords against the startled drow guards lazing about there, and their cyber-slaved mechtoys, and murderhounds and reapercats and random corsair r
- 461 That guy there was a Fifteen. I advanced on the corsair with a smile as he harried his mercenary lord opponent, that experienced fellow looking fatalistic at his lack of luck on getting this fellow on the draw. Krazn Oyqifix, as my purloined memories and
- 460 I rolled my eyes at her as the drums began to build up, and made a shooing motion. "At least wait until the chaff are dead."She paused, probably astonished that I dared talk to her, but Rantha, Dauntless, her Intimidation attempt sailed right pa
- 459 "Look at that one's face. He must be constipated.""She obviously hasn't had s.e.x in ages.""Yeah, he's about to lose it. Ten credits he goes barmy.""You're on! How about that one? He still thinks wear
- 458 The necrochymists were the masters of the drow biosciences and alchemy, truly twisted mad intellects who'd happily sacrifice whole worlds to their experiments into the nature of life and souls without batting an eye.They were certain to operate on th
- 457 Celestia's fist pounded into the gut of the armored Warlock opposite her, totally surprising the idiot at just how hard she could hit it, as she yelled, "Incoming!"All of these drow were equipped with gravity-benders, giving them impossible
- 456 Not a thousand of them, I judged. The true elites would come in as the numbers dwindled, with the very best not coming in until two thousand or less remained."Now, you all are the prey," I whispered, but my voice carried to everyone. "You c
- 455 This... this is a very Good place, he realized, and smiled despite himself as he looked around at the white stone, gentle carvings, signs and sigils as old as humanity, but with none of the rigid air and authoritarian power of the Empire's heraldry.O
- 454 With a swirl of axiomatic crystals, a Pentahedral was suddenly promoted to Hexagonal, a Natalar to Pentahedral, and a Cube to Natal Star... all in perfect shape, of course."Enjoy the fun, b.i.t.c.h!" I laughed as the Axiomatics kept right on fig
- 453 Crystalline streams of energy were flowing past us as the energy of the ones we'd slain on manifesting either dispersed or fed back to the ones behind us. Low-ranking Axiomatics were infused with the energy of their superiors and instantly promoted,
- 452 The shockwave of disruption dashed across the field, and even the holos broadcasting overhead fritzed for a moment before cameras out of range picked up the views from new angles.The charging manrippers locked up and folded over, cras.h.i.+ng and tumbling
- 451 We were often operating above the kundi swarm, dancing on their heads and sh.e.l.ls, stabbing and crus.h.i.+ng down into them, as often as we were on the ground. Just crus.h.i.+ng their lower legs would send them falling haplessly down to be crushed or im
- 450 The exploding puff-mouths and lilly-flies were also very unwelcome, especially when we weren't allowed to bring ranged weapons in, for pain of death.Swords that could throw Sharding attacks against foes using their own ranged attacks were one of thos
- 449 "You are probably all going to die."It was drow, but they all had translators, or they wouldn't be here. Heads rose, locked on me as I spoke coldly, clearly."You are fighting swarms and hordes, which move with one purpose, one mind. Yo
- 448 The snipers got to find out about the odiousness of the Deflect Arrows Feat-line.This was one of the basic ki-based missile-dodging abilities. Yes, you could use the ability without ki, and it worked against pretty much anything from the speed of an arrow
- 447 Celestia resisted the urge to feed the grinning, disdainful drow his teeth with her usual impa.s.siveness. She grabbed up the four registration tokens and walked back to us... and the experienced drow gladiators had given us careful berth, despite themsel
- 446 Annihilation of the goblins of the Proxima system was complete and merciless. They were of no use alive, and would still be annoying even when dead.However... their s.h.i.+ps and stations represented a lot of infrastructure and raw materials that was very
- 445 "The drow are having a celebration."We all looked over at Celestia's words. As the one with the most experience in the world of fighting and duels, she was always looking at the events and happenings at the periphery, giving us new places t
- 444 Jensa's opponent was a battle chimera, a drow who'd basically bio-modded himself right out of sanity and was basically nothing left but a killing machine. Bone grafts, explosive muscle growth, launchable bone spikes, some tentacles for gripping
- 443 Walking through a drow city was an exercise in looking threatening enough that someone wouldn't casually want to mess with you. If you didn't look threatening enough personally, then whoever you were affiliated with had to be threatening enough
- 442 Since there was no arm or body behind me swinging a sword with TK, no Strength bonus, just damage dice. Total damage dice possible was d6/Caster Level, so 12d6. Even if I could manipulate thirty swords, the total amount of force was spread out among all o
- 441 With the Harmonic Drive ensconced in ever more s.h.i.+ps, ever more details on its use, and an ever-expanding array of Phlo Rivers to follow and use, exploration of the surrounding systems began to explode in details never undertaken by the survey s.h.i.+
- 440 It was quickly decided that the exploring Ranthas would try to make their way to the closest node cities of the drow. From there, it would be much less difficult to either arrange pa.s.sage to Gloomheart and link up, or come out from Gloomheart.There wasn
- 439 He gaped despite himself, and I politely told him to wipe the Mark. He centered his Helix on it, and the connection was disrupted instantly, the magic in it leeched away and gone a breath after that. The ink was still there, the vestigial pattern was read
- 438 "You have a way in and out of the Gloom," he pressed, and I nodded."I could open a Portal into and out of the Gloom right here," I stated calmly, alarming them all. "Actually, I think that would be marvelous. We could trade back a
- 437 I smiled slightly. "Well, that will to a large extent be dependent upon you, Brother.""I see." He was silent for a long minute, while we sat there kneeling to him, trying to figure us out. "You say we are... kin?" I could tel
- 436 -Let's go, girls. I have a guide.-Purple hair meant an interest in poisoning, slow torture, and biomorphing. This a.s.shole was a master poisoner and torturer, now shaking in the throes of utter pleasure none of his drugs would ever be able to duplic
- 435 Chalice slit s.p.a.ce between xX and yX, and a dark opening was opened surgically in the Veil before me. Without the slightest hesitation, Celestia, Jensa, and Keva stepped forward into it with me.The second I stepped through, Briggs smashed it shut, and
- 434 "The Tekrons are a threat we can address when it is time to address them," Duke Rimval intervened firmly. "The Goblins are there, they are threat we can deal with right now if we must, barring what we find out in the surrounding systems.&qu
- 433 "Partially," I said, nodding at him. "However, there is no chance whatsoever that the goblins do not have a listening post in the system, probably somewhere in the asteroid belts, from which they are tracking everything going on, and likely
- 432 TL 12, Harmonic Drive and basic Tachyon Drive came online. The math finally made sense once we started thinking in That Direction, and the engineering looked like total freaking magic, as weird science must. But it worked, so those not a Twelve did not co