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The Titan Protocol Rise Of The Cyborg King
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00:08Ladies and gentlemen, it's recycling time!
00:14Today's fresh meat, Mania!
00:21Goes up against our very own janitor, the Scavenger!
00:27Odds are 1 to 20!
00:31Get your bets in now!
00:36Move, just like before.
00:46Look at that rook. Still thinks he's human.
00:50Trying to run cold steel on flesh and blood muscle memory.
00:53What an idiot.
00:55Hey, scrap metal!
00:58Your dignity is cheaper than a two balloon down here!
01:02Either kill it, or turn it to its shit!
01:08Take your pick!
01:27The pain you are feeling is just data.
01:31Rake.
01:32The pain you are feeling is just data.
01:38Parse it. Use it. Backdoor protocol initiated.
01:42You are now clear to read the opponent's energy. Frequency.
01:52Where am I?
01:56The last thing I remember.
02:00Silas' smile and the lights at the top of the bone cage.
02:13Vitals restored.
02:15Neural splicing initiated.
02:18Activating mania protocol.
02:20What is this? No!
02:23Stop thrashing.
02:26The spinal splicing hasn't set.
02:29Stay still unless you want to be permanently paralyzed.
02:35Irene?
02:37It's you?
02:38What?
02:39Biological tissue survival rate, 37%.
02:43Cybernetic compatibilities, 89%.
02:45Higher than projected.
02:47Mr. Silas will be pleased.
02:49Bravo.
02:50Reorn from a pile of rotting flesh and scrap metal.
02:53Rake, or should I say, mania.
02:56Welcome to your new life as the latest property of Titan Heavy Industries.
03:00Silas!
03:01I'll kill you!
03:02Kill me?
03:03With the hands I gave you?
03:05Dr. Irene finished the calibration post-haste.
03:08The audience at the bone cage is dying to see our new toy.
03:12Kill me, Irene.
03:15For old time's sake.
03:16Death is a luxury, Rake.
03:17And I can't afford the price tag.
03:19Live.
03:20Become a monster.
03:22Because only a monster can tear other monsters apart.
03:26Anesthesia wearing off.
03:28Initiating pain tolerance test.
03:30Level 7.
03:32Ah!
03:34Ah!
03:35Ah!
03:35Ah!
03:35Ah!
03:36Ah!
03:36Ah!
03:37Ah!
03:37Ah!
03:37Ah!
03:39Ah!
03:40Ah!
03:44Ah!
03:45Ah!
03:46Ah!
03:48That is the weak point.
04:06It's damaged.
04:08Energy is leaking.
04:12Lock onto that frequency.
04:14Absorb it.
04:29Interesting.
04:30Interesting.
04:31Not just luck, huh?
04:39All you are feeling is just data.
04:42Data?
04:43It's all data!
04:44Oh!
04:46Oh!
04:52Oh!
05:04Ah!
05:05Yeah.
05:09Oh!
05:11What?
05:12I'm going to see you.
05:12Oh!
05:12Oh!
05:35Catch, rookie.
05:37You made the bookies bleed today.
05:39Consider this your cut.
05:41I don't need your charity.
05:42Charity, this is an investment.
05:46You've got a little spark in you.
05:47Unlike the real scrap metal in here that'll be spare parts by tomorrow.
05:51That siphoning trick of yours, where'd you learn it?
05:54Figure it out yourself?
05:56None of your business.
05:58Listen.
05:59In here, everything that moves is locked down by a chip.
06:02Man, what a convenient little loophole, huh?
06:07Does he know about Irene's back door?
06:10Don't overthink it.
06:11I don't know how you did it, and I don't care.
06:12All I know is, anyone who uses that trick either becomes an ace real fast, or gets dragged off to
06:17recycling even faster.
06:19And looking at you right now, I'd bet five cans of premium lube you won't survive the next melee.
06:25What's your point?
06:26A trade.
06:26I teach you how to actually use that tin suit of yours instead of letting it drag you around.
06:30In return, in the next melee, I want you to draw the aggro.
06:33Help me take out Butcher Berg.
06:35His cybro kidney?
06:36Exactly my model.
06:38How do we do this?
06:39First off, forget about muscle memory.
06:41Your tendons are hydraulics now.
06:42Your bones are titanium.
06:45What you need to feel is pressure feedback, torque data, and energy flow.
06:49Pain is the teacher.
06:50Data is the bible.
06:51Now, get up and try to punch me.
06:53Do it the way your system calculates is most efficient, not the way you think feels natural.
06:57Too slow.
06:58Your logic is garbage.
07:00You're using your brain to command the arm.
07:03Again, feel the energy flow.
07:05Anticipate, don't react.
07:20Surveillance system overrun.
07:30Stress fractures at the spinal splints.
07:3337% wear on the left activator.
07:36Taking it all head on again.
07:37You never learn how to dodge, do you?
07:39Pain signal suppression threshold has been lowered.
07:42Energy is prioritized for damage repair units.
07:49I'm sorry, Rake.
07:50I have to make you hate me.
07:52It's the only way Silas will believe you're a pure weapon.
07:55The only way he'll give you the time and the space to grow.
08:00You have to get faster, stronger, before they catch on.
08:08Basic maintenance for unit money are complete.
08:12Survival probability for next engagement project to increase by 5%.
08:15Expect significant gains in asset utilization and data yield.
08:19Welcome to the meat grinder!
08:21The rules are simple.
08:23Last man standings.
08:25Today's special prospect.
08:27Can the rookie, Mudia, survive the first three minutes?
08:32Raise your back!
08:45Anticipate.
08:47Don't react.
08:55That's it!
08:59Don't stop!
09:00Keep the rhythm!
09:01Keep moving!
09:25Now, kite him under that suspended crane on the east side.
09:29The floor's cracked over there.
09:43Thanks, rookie!
09:48Kade, you are...
10:01Deal's done. The rest is on you.
10:27You're the last one left, Scrap! Without Kane, you're nothing!
10:33The data says...
10:35The hydraulic regulator in your right knee hasn't been serviced in 97 days.
10:39Wear and TAGE is at 37%, way over spec.
10:42What?
10:44Anticipate. Trajectory correction 0.3 degrees. Evasion energy cost optimum.
10:53I'll tear you apart!
10:56Kane talks softly. Feel the energy flow, like an irregular heart.
11:01Now, I'm taking the win!
11:11Let's go!
11:14Pain is just data. Static. Purged.
11:22The winner is...
11:24Mania!
11:25Clear the floor!
11:48Deal's done. The rest is on you.
11:51You had a deal with the wardens. You used me as bait to buy your early exit.
11:56What else? You think I'm running a charity down here?
11:58Everything has a price tag in this place.
12:00I teach you how to survive. You help me grab spare parts.
12:03Fair trade.
12:04Berg kept this in good shape.
12:07Pristine tech like this will fetch a hell of a bounty.
12:16He's right. Nothing comes for free in this hell hole.
12:20Damn it.
12:22Don't give me that sour look.
12:24The shit I taught you.
12:27Anticipating.
12:28Feeling the energy flow.
12:30Letting system think for you.
12:32It was all real.
12:34You've at least got the juice to sit here and interrogate me.
12:37Instead of turning into scrap metal like Berg or...
12:39Getting sucked dry like Iron Jaw.
12:42Mania! Report to prep room one immediately.
12:44You have a guest.
12:47Watch your six, rookie.
12:49Take that cold, dead look you had when you gutted Iron Whore
12:52and weld it to your face.
12:54When a guest comes all the way down to this sass pool looking for you,
12:57it only means two things.
12:59Either they're tossing you into an absolute meat graner
13:02or someone is paying top dollar to watch you suffer a slow, agonizing death
13:06for their entertainment.
13:14Ladies and gentlemen!
13:17Welcome to the crossroads of evolution!
13:22Tonight, a miracle of savage growth goes up against the future of precise calculation.
13:29Rising from the scrap heap,
13:31Mania challenges our ultimate martial masterpiece,
13:36The Hunter Alpha!
13:37Odds are one to twenty.
13:40Will instinct tear through logic?
13:42Or will technology crush the wild?
13:46Will length of the alma beans get better than anything.
13:58Anything, exactly?
13:59Can we get out of task at home that has сорied the healthiest Alfaro in?
14:00I'm missing out of task at home that is neces university.
14:16I'm missing out of task at its non-profit cost at building the intention he and continually
14:19shield overload window rake or should i say mania your little tricks are quite amusing
14:25your opponent is the hunter alpha its weak point is in dorsal sector three
14:430.5 seconds now
15:00door for sector three only shot
15:20marvelous dr irene it appears our creation has exceeded the parameters of its stress test
15:27now then prepare phase two
15:33the data shows that the energy spike mania unleashed in the final 0.3 seconds of fascinating
15:40that falls well outside the standard prediction parameters of your pain conversion model
15:44there is indeed a margin of error
15:50i have flagged the data anomaly for subsequent analysis
15:54a margin of error the fact remains mania's two victories have validated that choice
16:02validated entirely correct
16:06fossils on the board were entertained by tonight's spectacle you mean they want to know how much of
16:11the will hidden inside is actually left and whether it truly obeys the next bout schedule the executioner
16:17the executioner that psycho who gets off on torturing and butchering gladiators a walking armory of heavy
16:24execution tech my dear doctor if he cannot withstand this level of pressure then his so-called evolutionary
16:31potential is just another failed prototype waiting to be recalled remember irene you are my sharpest blade
16:38understood mr silas
17:01you have to live no matter what
17:12adaptive stress test phase two serial number sc 95 subject mania parameters survival duration extreme
17:21pressure response systematic interference tolerance test initiated
17:48kane execute coordinated interference directive r7 begin
17:57the follow-up supply protocol for your spinal inhibitors and the safety of that little collection of yours in the
18:04outer ring
18:08depends entirely on your cooperation you have three seconds
18:26interference
18:28kane you
18:29it's part of the coordination test look out the root command is coming
18:33i can't block it entirely but i'm trying to wedge open a conflict window
18:36time to activate the level one compliant protocol module
18:40let's see if this beast still remembers who holds the leash
18:45obey kneel await recycling
18:49no stop
18:51get out
18:52with my head
18:58overwrite it use the pain conversion protocol i gave you
19:02treat the obedience signal as pain
19:05absorb it convert it now
19:07power
19:08power
19:29my turn
19:51Opposing Unit Executioner Functions Terminated
19:54Test Subject Mania, Survival Confirmed
19:57Test Designation S02 Logging Complete
20:02Beautiful, Far Exceeding Expectations
20:04Send Him To The Maximum Spec Maintenance Bay
20:08And Have Our Little Interference Collaborator Wait Outside For Him
20:15They Found My Sister
20:17Used Her As Leverage
20:19Push The Button Or Lose Everything
20:24I Pushed It
20:26I Know
20:28You Know
20:29I Know You're Not Silas
20:30You're Just Another Monster On A Leash
20:33But He Used That Leash To Yank You Into Biting Me
20:37And That Pissed Me Off
20:41This Is Payback For Pushing The Button
20:47You Taught Me Everything Here Has A Price Tag
20:49I Scrap Your Arms
20:51We're Square
20:53Fair
20:58Piss Off And Go Fix Your Arms
21:00Use Those Spare Parts You've Been Hoarding
21:03I Didn't Leave You Breathing So You Can Stand Around Feeling Sorry For Yourself
21:06I Left You Alive So You Can Use Those Eyes
21:09And Watch
21:10Watch Me Tear Them Apart
21:12Right Along With The Leash They've Got Wrapped Around Your Neck
21:39Look Here
21:40Under The Peak Impact Of The Level One Compliance Protocol
21:44The Subjects Physiological Tolerance Threshold Was Forcibly Elevated By 300%
21:49The Data Is Indeed Staggering Silas
21:51But Unpredictability Equals Risk
21:54The Board Requires Assessible Controllable Risks
21:56Not A Ticking Time Bomb
21:58Risk?
21:58No
21:59This Is Value
22:00All We Have To Do Is Package This Unpredictable Evolution In The Most Addicting Commodity On The Market
22:05Effective Immediately
22:06Effective Immediately All Real Time Biometrics
22:08Combat Telemetry And System Logs For MENA Are Hardwired Into The Security Committee's Tier One Oversight Protocol
22:16Do Not Do Anything That Might Cause Me Or The Board To Harbor Even A Shadow Of A Doubt Regarding
22:22Your Neutrality And Loyalty
22:23Are We Clear, Dr. Irene?
22:26Crystal Clear, Mr. Silas
22:29Silamis Is Treating You Like A Cash Cow Now
22:32An Exhibition Match
22:34Basically They Want You To Perform Your Evolution For The Cameras
22:37He Knows I'll Fight Back
22:39Even If You Don't He'll Make Sure You Do
22:41Next Opponent Is The Adapter
22:44It's A Synthetic Beast With An AI Core
22:47Where It Learns Your Attack Patterns On The Fly And Shifts Tactics
22:50The Company Wants To Use It To Force Out Your Absolute Ceiling For Learning And Adapting
22:55Irene's Been Put Under A Microscope
22:57But She Managed To Slip A Message Through
22:59The Seam In Sector 3 Of The Arena Floor Sits Right Over An Old Primary Power Conduit
23:03Apply Enough Localized Pressure
23:05And It Caves
23:10Understood
23:27Ladies And Gentlemen
23:29Welcome To The Newest Spectacle Of New Eadol
23:32The Opening Night Of Nirvana
23:34Tonight Is A Clash Of Intellect
23:37In This Corner
23:39The Savage Miracle Who Crawled From The Scrapyard Of Hell
23:43Forging Himself A New With Steel And Sheer Will
23:45Mania
23:46And His Opponent
23:47The Absolute Pinnacle Of Titan Heavy Industries Achievements
23:51In Artificial Intelligence And Battlefield Adaptability
23:54The Adapter
23:57This Is The Ultimate Trial
24:00Primal Instinct Versus Digital Intellectual
24:02Tonight
24:03Let Us Witness Together
24:05Will The Beast Tear Through Logic
24:07Will The Beast Tear Through Logic Or Will The Algorithm Tame The Wild
24:09Let The Match Begin
24:25Learns Fast
24:27Is He Fighting Himself
24:31Give Us Some Real Action
24:34Now Is The Time Rookie
24:35Give It Something New To Chew On
24:37Hit It With The Counter Joint Lock From The 7 Footwork Drill I Taught You
24:41But Intentionally Delay Your Strike By 0.1 Seconds
24:50Attack Pattern Unrog Discontinue With Previous Data Sets
24:54Suspected Tactical Deception
24:56Learn This
25:10Target B Has Entered Autonomous Tactical Optimization
25:13Learning Rate Exceeding Projections
25:16The Opening Is In The Micro Second It Thinks
25:26The Arena Floor The Seam Between Sector 3 And Sector 7
25:30An Old Primary Power Convent
25:32Violent Vertical Impact Caused It To Cave In
25:50We're Going
26:02We're Going
26:04We're going down together!
26:08Behaviour understanding in progress.
26:46We have to go along!
26:56We must be sure of this.
26:58We must be sure of this.
26:59We must be sure of this.
27:09This isn't standard protocol
27:11Hi-Res scan
27:12Comply
27:25The fight three hours ago
27:28Was a master class
27:33Tell me
27:34How does a gladiator
27:37Know exactly where to strike
27:39At second 127
27:42Pressure variance
27:44He didn't know
27:45He felt it
27:47Through movement
27:49Through impact
27:51Through damage
27:55A fascinating theory
27:59Perhaps someone guided it
28:01Initiate level max neural scan
28:04Mr. Simus
28:06This will destroy him
28:08You'll lose everything
28:09The project
28:10If it breaks
28:11It wasn't worth keeping
28:31Ineralde scan
28:33Initiated
28:42Where am I
28:43Am I dead
28:45No
28:47This is the far shore
28:51An encrypted buffer zone I built
28:55We're safe
28:55We're safe
28:55For now
28:57But time is short
28:58The buffer is unstable
28:59Silas could find us at any moment
29:00Irene what the hell are you playing at
29:02Is this a game
29:02Or just another one of Silas' tests
29:04I'm trying to save you
29:06Rake
29:07Then I went to Silas
29:08I offered him
29:09I offered him the king protocol
29:10A plan to create weapons
29:12By merging the brains of dying champions
29:14With machinery
29:16I staked my entire research clearance
29:18And my freedom as collateral
29:21Just to get him
29:22Allow me to preserve and use your brain
29:24The modifications
29:26The pain
29:27It was real
29:28I had no choice
29:29I had to turn you into a monster
29:31So you could logically survive
29:33So you'd have a chance to get close to him
29:35To take revenge
29:37Those crude mechanical arms
29:39They were the most inconspicuous scrap parts I could find
29:42And the back door
29:43The pain conversion
29:44Was that part of the plan too?
29:46It's a weapon
29:47But it's also your lifeline
29:50I modified the core protocol
29:52So you could absorb agony
29:54And your opponent's energy
29:55Turning them into your own power and clearance
29:59But I have to be careful
30:00He can't suspect a thing
30:02Until tonight
30:04He ran out of patience
30:05How long
30:07Can we stay here?
30:10About three minutes in real time
30:11But conctionation is accelerated here
30:13We have roughly three hours
30:16We have to act before he makes his move
30:18Act how?
30:19I'm still locked in a cage
30:20Covered in chips and chains
30:22The key to those chains
30:24Is hidden in the protocol I modified
30:27Use your consciousness to override their root protocols
30:30But you only get one shot
30:32Once you trigger it
30:34Silas will know instantly
30:36We must have the next step ready before then
30:39These are internal vulnerabilities Cain helped me verify
30:42And you?
30:44You need to win over your own people
30:46Cain was the first
30:47But he won't be the last
30:48Many of these gladiators are like you
30:51The company's discards
30:55What do I need to do?
30:57Keep performing
30:59Make Silas so obsessed with his perfect creation
31:04That he can't bring himself to destroy you
31:06Meanwhile
31:07I'll find the physical location
31:09And final defense codes for the hub
31:11You'll be exposed
31:15I never expected to leave this place alive
31:19But you have to, Rake
31:21You must walk out of here
31:23And then you burn every inch of this place to the ground
31:27Time's up
31:28Listen, Rake
31:29Once you leave here
31:30Find your allies
31:31And if the day ever comes
31:33Don't forgive me
31:37Irene!
31:38I command you to live!
31:48I've read the scan reports
31:49They're clean
31:50So clean
31:51In fact, they're almost
31:52Boring
31:53So, Dr. Irene
31:55Are you telling me those inexplicable leaps in adaptability
31:58Were merely side effects
31:59And interface glitchers of the biological nerves?
32:02Scientifically, yes
32:03However, from a risk management perspective
32:06I recommend increasing the observation frequency of Mania
32:09And embedding an independent tracking subprogram
32:12It will report only basic vitals and location
32:14For recovery purposes
32:17A tracking subprogram
32:19Interesting
32:21This back door of yours
32:23Could you bypass it?
32:24I cannot
32:25This subprogram will exist independently of the King Protocol
32:28The keys will be generated by the Security Committee
32:30And written into read-only hardware
32:32I am merely providing the integration scheme
32:34This is to eliminate any lingering doubts
32:36You or the board may have, Mr. Sivas
32:38The hardware read-only lock is a viable solution
32:41But it must be implanted during Mania's next deep maintenance cycle
32:46We need at least 48 hours for preparation
32:52Excellent
32:53We'll proceed with your plan
32:54Prepare the hardware lock for the next maintenance
32:57In the meantime
32:58The exhibition matches continue
33:00Who is his next opponent?
33:02The Punisher
33:03The objective is to test Mania's sustained armor-piercing abilities
33:08And his energy consumption curve
33:09It's scheduled for next week
33:12Fine
33:13Dismissed
33:14The old energy processing sector
33:16Usually just two lazy guards
33:18The pipes in the back lead to the perimeter wall
33:21Past that is Scrapyard
33:23The wall's rigged with new high-voltage sensors
33:27Irene said we need the final defense codes for the Nexus
33:29That thing is at the very bottom of the central control tower
33:33Physically air-gatted from the network
33:34Unless someone blows the tower or opens it from the inside
33:38She said she'd find a way
33:40But she needs time
33:41And a distraction so big the guards can't ignore it
33:45A distraction?
33:47You want to pull something during the next match?
33:49Too obvious
33:50Silas is watching
33:51I'm not pulling anything
33:53I'm going to win
33:54But I'm going to win in a way
33:56That makes him bleed
33:59Meaning?
34:00The Punisher isn't cheap
34:01I'll stay within the rules
34:03But I'm going to dismantle it
34:04Piece by piece
34:04In the most wasteful way possible
34:06I'll turn every sensor
34:07And every plate of armor
34:08Into unrecyclable trash
34:09Tell me
34:10Won't the responsible board members
34:11Breathe down Silas' neck?
34:13Won't they divert more resources to watch me?
34:15Won't the tower guards be pulled
34:16To bolster the arena's security?
34:18You'll need enough juice
34:20You have to manage your consumption
34:21Or you'll drop before you finish the job
34:23The energy
34:24I'll find a way
34:35Routine inspection for the upcoming system upgrade
34:37Kane
34:38Out
34:42Tracking chip
34:43Read-only hardware
34:44Implanting next week during maintenance
34:47Unbipassable
34:48But the transmitter's power module
34:50Can be remotely overloaded and fried
34:51It's a last resort
34:52Understood
34:53Send me the data on the next opponent
34:55I'll transmit it to your terminal shortly
35:08Ladies and gentlemen
35:10Welcome back to Nirvana
35:12Tonight, mania
35:14Steps into the concrete jungle
35:16To face a lurking predator
35:18The Punisher
35:19Let's see if the hunter shreds the prey
35:22Or if the prey bites back
35:24Log his terrain utilization efficiency
35:26And his instantaneous reaction lines
35:29When ambushed
35:30Let's see how he performs
35:32In an asymmetrical environment
35:39Every time he moves
35:41His seventh step deliberately avoids that loose floor plate
35:43In the southeast corner of sector 5
35:45There's a decaying power line under there
35:47Step on it and it triggers a local out blackout
35:49He knows the terrain's weak points
35:50He's no meathead
35:51Let's see how he deals with that spider's legs
36:03He's sending a signal
36:05It means back to the wall
36:08Rebellious
36:09Looking for our own
36:19Die
36:28Watch
36:39Are we done
36:40With this
36:42Pathetic little game
36:52Silas
36:54Have you seen enough
36:56From up there on your throne
37:00Watching us burn the last shreds of our humanity
37:03As fuel for your machine
37:05I am rake
37:06And we the trash
37:08You slice in half
37:10And stick back together with cold steel
37:12We are not standing here today
37:14To perform for you
37:15Silas
37:16The throne you stole from our flesh and blood
37:18It is time
37:20To give it back
37:22To make it happen
37:25To make it happen
37:27To make it happen
37:49Explanung
37:50To make it happen
37:52Now, the tower. Jam all channels. Go!
38:25Chains are broken! With me, here!
38:39Irene, open it.
38:41B2-C7 corridors. Security locks disengaged.
38:46Hold on.
39:09Go blow that door.
39:15Charge! Come on, guys! This way! Let's go!
39:25We can't stop! Break through! Spread into the streets! We're sitting ducks here!
39:29Dammit! Their firepower's too heavy! We need to throw them off!
39:33Go! Go! Go!
39:33Not just luck, huh?
39:51Fire! Open fire on all attackers, including those vermin!
39:58Go!
40:06Looks like we're gonna have to do this the hard way.
40:08No problem. I was hoping to say that.
40:11Go!
40:16Come on, guys! This way!
40:20Rake. Hound Squad.
40:22Simus is private force.
40:24Over 60% adaptation. Weakness.
40:27Relies on centralized tactical link.
40:28Frequency. Sent. Jam it!
40:35Target rage burner confirmed.
40:38Target rage burner confirmed.
40:38Priority captured.
40:39In case of extreme resistance, disassembly authorized. Move.
40:55In case of extreme resistance, disassembly authorized. Move.
41:09The main force is in the safe zone. Fall back! Now!
41:14Just...
41:15A little longer.
41:16OF COURT.
41:23I don't know.
41:24I don't know.
41:25I can't.
41:29Yeah.
41:32I can't.
41:33I can't.
41:36I can't.
41:37A little longer.
41:40IT'S IN.
41:41I.
41:41Do not.
41:41I can't.
41:42The main force is in the right place.
41:48Target severely damaged. Priority, secure the nexus. Withdraw!
41:58Rake, answer me! Rake!
42:23Scouted it. Affronted assault equals suicide. The walls are active. The power source is deep underground. No chance to brute
42:29force it.
42:29The only potential gap is every 120 seconds when the Northeast 3 auxiliary power gate pulses for 0.8 seconds,
42:36but it's heavily guarded.
42:37Scraping fragments of their internal comms. Fewer guards than expected.
42:42Silas pulled most troops to suppress other city riots and fortified the tower top. He doesn't think we'll ever reach
42:48the gates.
42:52Irene, any word?
42:54Last signal ping came from deep inside the tower. After that, nothing.
43:02Only noise will move her to the panels.
43:07She's waiting for us.
43:21We've been spotted!
43:25Welcome, my dear works. Your journey has been exquisite.
43:30As a reward, I open the gate to your end.
43:33No need to batter your heads against the walls.
43:36Come.
43:37I await you at the top to give this grand drama of evolution a finale worthy of its scale.
43:49He's right.
43:51It's time to right the ending.
43:53But who holds the pen is still undecided.
43:56Let's go!
44:14Take cover!
44:22Draw their fire.
44:23Give me three seconds!
44:29Now!
44:41No!
44:43The dark red main feedback line controls the entire defense loop.
44:50This is me.
45:03Impressive intuition, my creation.
45:05You know how to exploit the system's old wounds.
45:08But the real welcome lies ahead.
45:12Oh, and do check the time.
45:19That bastard!
45:21Then we kill him before it hits zero!
45:34The lift is locked. Needs level two clearance.
45:46We force it.
45:53Rake! I've breached the firewall. Stalling activation.
45:59It's too massive. Redirecting to self-destruct.
46:03Buying time!
46:08Rake!
46:09Syrus found me. He's engaging.
46:13My dear Irene.
46:14You'll be erased.
46:22Irene?
46:24Kane, change the charge.
46:27Northeast. Third column base.
46:35Oh, what?
46:52You've arrived. Look at you.
46:52I'm an old man.
46:58I am an old man.
47:05You've arrived. Look at you.
47:08broken yet magnificent a form forged by pure survival instinct far more beautiful than any
47:16design rake the divine vessel the energy core directly behind the chest irene hold on
47:31still clinging to hope that traitor is already dissolved into data
47:46damn it the energy gap is too wide resonance again seventh pulse struggle is part of evolution
47:53meaningless struggle is just noise now the seven
48:24your order is complete bullshit
48:50stop eight minutes that's all it takes
48:54to turn everything below into ash and you will die here
49:03go to hell
49:08it's a quantum cascade virus it's rewriting the code as it spreads
49:20irene rake take it
49:26i'm sorry rake what is this
49:36even the nexus core
49:49damn it stopping the program requires multiple biometric keys and majority board authorization
49:54impossible forcibly recutting the core output would trigger a chain explosion enough to destroy half the city
49:59the only option rewrite the directive revert the overload to a less populated zone
50:13that's my new world my order no one takes it from me
50:33it's over
50:34it's over you me this tower and the filth below we all become the foundation of a new world
50:42russian too late fight head on this body won't last
50:47wait what irene gave me
50:51the console is just his tool the tower itself is the lock
51:01oh baby what what are you doing
51:14now in the name of irene in the name of this body and all the pain borne by heaven and
51:20earth
51:20die
51:21oh
51:24oh
51:25oh
51:28oh
51:28oh
51:28oh
51:28oh
51:28oh
51:28oh
51:34oh
51:34oh
51:34oh
51:34oh
51:34oh
51:34oh
51:34oh
51:34oh
51:35oh
51:42oh
51:44oh
51:47oh
51:48oh
51:48oh
51:48oh
51:51oh
52:04The core's energy mostly shot skyward, following your and Dr. Irene's guidance.
52:15Our people, butcher, informer, none made it up here.
52:31When clearing the hall's ruins, I found this.
52:38Maybe what she desperately preserved in her final moment.
52:59And now, what do we do?
53:02Silas is dead, the tower's gone.
53:06But the city is in chaos.
53:09No food, water, medicine, or order.
53:13No food, water, medicine, or order.
53:24Freedom!
53:25No!
53:26No!
53:26I'm used.
53:32I'm used to Queen's Glacier, she used to make the power pedal test for another day.
53:37You
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