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
- 431 The rock-boring machine was using the mishmash of psitech and weird science unanimously dubbed Beacon Tech in honor of the mentalists who did most of the work. Instead of Shaping away the rock in front, it liquified it, and pumped it out back into molds w
- 430 Whether they had sought for them or not, the survivors had Leveled up once or twice just making it through this time... and a Three or Four, even if a non-combatant, made an elite workforce member with the right training.Training came VERY quickly with an
- 429 "You are alluding to more." Well, it definitely was not un.o.bservant."Potential divinity," I agreed."There are no G.o.ds.""You have a different term for the pre-eminent ent.i.ties of the Warp? Subst.i.tute G.o.ds as a generic catch-all for beings
- 428 "Finite and non-finite existences. Demons of the Warp are technically Eternals. Barring extreme outside force, they simply will not die, and can reform themselves and live anew. They have several major weaknesses that do not generally allow that to happe
- 427 I wanted to do a great many things. So much exciting stuff! At this time, I was still unfortunately on a tether, as I had to get back and give my addicted greater demon his fix or he would go off his rocker, and n.o.body really wanted to see what he could
- 426 One strategic conclave in Marks.p.a.ce, leaving out numerous parties who would dearly love to be involved..."What prompted the interest of Dark Elvar beyond mere piracy?" Duke Parablum asked, brow furrowing. It wasn't like drow raiders were a new threa
- 425 What it all really meant is that the ones with white hair were the wimpiest, and the ones with off-white hair could be dangerous. They pa.s.sed around Psychic Weapons like candy, and no true drow would handle something less then QL20 Masterwork if at all
- 424 The Strategic Table...-We have a confirmed Kappa scenario!- /rang out through the local Marks.p.a.ce, was decoded for actual measurement, and then was spread basically around the whole planet within seconds.Anatolia focused on the relayed images from the
- 423 He was truly mediocre as an Admiral, barely worthy of his braids. The fact he had achieved his rank was due to longevity and luck for never being involved in a truly dangerous fleet action before.If it had not been for the Ranthas, he would likely be dead
- 422 "Admiral." She stopped precisely to greet him, offering a perfect salute that should have gone down in textbooks. Her voice sent thrills down his spine, and he swallowed again.He found himself on his feet, despite having planned to remain seated when sh
- 421 n.o.body bothered to go out past the heliosphere except sleeper s.h.i.+ps, as there was literally no reason to, ever. Pointless travel time, spots of superheated plasma, magnetic storms, and psychic and Warp fluxes heartily encouraging you to stay back in
- 420 Four needle beams stabbed down as the Widow's Bite came out of cloak. The alarms on the elvar sunsail screamed in dismay at the abrupt appearance of a human cloaked s.h.i.+p atop them, and they were unable to believe it had approached them so close and n
- 419 I was watching everything, juggling and fine-tuning the machine that was rising with distinctly superhuman levels of intellectual ability. Briggs was doing the same, with emphasis on different sectors, and really doing more managing then I was since I was
- 418 "I understand you have a matrix of souls that you use with your soulstones. Don't expose any souls caught in them to vivic fire. They will be dispersed and returned to the Land. It is not the Warp, but they are still circ.u.mventing the Law of Death, an
- 417 Sama Rantha, Fighting Action Scientist! Reed Richards wishes he could figure FTL tech and subsystems while engaging in ma.s.s slaughter and wide-scale coordination of logistical efforts military and otherwise...The Marks.p.a.ce meant I was needed for cogn
- 416 Prosecuting internal treachery while there is a war going on is fraught with danger. The forces you are purging tend not to like it when they are getting swept away, and are likely to do all sorts of silly, petty things, in response... like blowing up s.h
- 415 An alarm went off in Mechveister Kiang Fo's sidebrain. It was an annoying distraction, given that he was overseeing the dissection of one of the fleshtanks scavenged from the xenos attacks. The parpsychic means by which they channeled their plasma cannon
- 414 -Individually they are impressive, but their tactical doctrine sucks, and without psi-power, their big hits are not very impressive,- /sniffed Bastrid, reporting on the Obsidian Serpents' to Anatolia's Strategic Circle and me. -They initially weren't v
- 413 A series of disparate tactical decisions were made over the course of the next few days.Here, a certain segment of the Xenos was sh.e.l.led and diverted from their course. There, a thrust of the armored cavalry eliminated some of the Xenos fleshtanks, and
- 412 There was nothing to do but kill them and fall back, kill them and fall back. The wide-open plaza, free of obstructions, was ideal for this, as literally every shot would hit something if it went far enough. What was important was the coordination of Sun
- 411 It was a fairly bad situation.They were vastly outnumbered to begin with. Half the Planetary Guard in the city was compromised and pslaved straight off. The Brain Ward was taken offline, the Mentat presence in the city was. .h.i.t with multiple terrorist
- 410 All that telepathy was winging down into the deeps of the alkaline seas. Far be it from me not to be the curious kitten and see where it was all going to and coming from. While I could understand Aklo, the thoughts of the cerevores were totally illegible
- 409 Devilsight let me see through any darkness as if it were bright day. I could even see normal colors, straight through the spectrum.Smokesight and cloudsight let me see through suspended particulate matter of water or earth, respectively, while Devasight w
- 408 Even as we were still prosecuting an all-out war, we were building, conniving, and grabbing power.------"Duke Corunsun." Duke Parablum carefully a.n.a.lyzed the Ducal Seal Briggs had allowed him to examine, and after long moments handed it off to his da
- 407 -What's this about Huldeiver?- I directly /asked Kylee Rantha. She was one of Inigo's helpers, robbing from the rich and giving to us, tracking down those a.s.sholes who thought they were hidden and so could do wicked things without anyone knowing, and
- 406 Teleport Foci were all in place. We could Teleport from the Blast Wall all the way to the s.h.i.+p in one go, although I hadn't put it inside the s.h.i.+p because Not Stupid. We had to cross the Warding Zone to teleport away, which actually meant having
- 405 "Your choice of weapon layout is notably more efficient then we have observed in the past," the Tribute informed us."Outstanding. You'll know it's us if our weapons are Sun-charged as we leave. Record these spectrometer readings." A dozen or so opti
- 404 -Oh, no s.h.i.+t,- I /laughed as Celestia's feat was relayed to me. -Okay, she arranged for a dead biomech. What's that got to do-?-Crim was /grinning in Markchat. -Well, the sergeant and the two mechs that took down the t.i.tan drafted her into splitti
- 403 He blasted the wall again, and the smoke wasn't even clear before she dove through it, swinging off to the side, and he did a head-dive, turning his seven-foot-plus figure in a very unexpected somersault, jetpack roaring to break his momentum and hover i
- 402 The carapaces of even the base Xenos were remarkably resistant to laser fire, both reflecting and ablating much the most common weapon of the human Planetary Guards that were their most dangerous opponents.Sun Shots empowering hot plasma, heavy neutrons,
- 401 Drifting cold and silent and cloaked amid the tumbling orbital debris, the Widow's Bite ran the offense of the Threshold Stations mercilessly.West and East Threshold Stations could fire in support of Back Threshold, as could North Threshold and South Thr
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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,
- 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-
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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