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
- 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
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.+
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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'
- 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
- 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
- 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