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They Called Me Worthless Until My Cards Destroyed Their Academy RS
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00:00:0220 years ago, the Great Awakening changed everything.
00:00:075% of population awakened powers.
00:00:11They became the new Elite.
00:00:16Everyone's life is determined by the Power Test.
00:00:20It separates people into two classes, the Ordinary and the Elite.
00:00:26Power response confirmed. Elite track.
00:00:29Notify the Academy. High compatibility.
00:00:31Pass. You rise.
00:00:46Did he get nothing? Not even a spark.
00:00:48Next. Fail. It forgets you.
00:00:56Your parents were ability users, and what did it get them?
00:00:59They were failures. Disappeared 10 years ago, left nothing behind.
00:01:04And now look at you. No ability. No future. Just like them.
00:01:22Their world is so far from mine.
00:01:26Dad. Mom. Where did you go?
00:01:56Level 3 alert. Evacuate.
00:01:59Level 3 alert. Evacuate.
00:01:59Level 3 alert.
00:02:00Rift collapse on 5th and Meridian. Ceiling tube inbound.
00:02:08Co-throw to hear the extracting.
00:02:10What?
00:02:13Wait. Wait. I'm still in here!
00:02:29Wait. Wait. I'm still in here!
00:02:34Oh, no.
00:02:47I can't outrun this.
00:03:11Mom, Dad, please, help me.
00:03:36How long was I out?
00:03:44What did you do to me?
00:03:48Card draw system activated.
00:03:50Activated.
00:03:51What the? Who's talking?
00:04:09A system?
00:04:10What is this?
00:04:12Defeat monsters.
00:04:13Draw cards.
00:04:15Grow stronger.
00:04:16I can get abilities?
00:04:17Me?
00:04:19I'm an ordinary.
00:04:20This doesn't...
00:04:21Warning. Hostile entity detected.
00:04:2420 meters.
00:04:26That's the same one?
00:04:28First awakening protocol.
00:04:30Wait, right now?
00:04:31Beginning card draw.
00:04:33Come on.
00:04:34Whatever you are, come on!
00:04:38Ability acquired. Flame control.
00:04:41Basic tier. Equip to slot one or two.
00:04:44What is this?
00:04:51It's coming.
00:05:00Back off!
00:05:11I...
00:05:11I...
00:05:13I...
00:05:13I have an ability?
00:05:20Kill confirmed.
00:05:22Initiating card draw.
00:05:23Defeating monsters?
00:05:25Triggers a draw?
00:05:33Ability acquired.
00:05:34Shockwave.
00:05:35Basic tier.
00:05:36Slot two of two.
00:05:37Equipped.
00:05:41Full.
00:05:51You're alive?
00:05:53That mark.
00:05:54Are you an ability user?
00:05:58I don't know.
00:06:03Move.
00:06:31That's D-level ability user.
00:06:34Trained.
00:06:35Coordinated.
00:06:35Practiced.
00:06:36If that's the baseline, where am I trying to go?
00:06:49More abilities.
00:06:52More range.
00:06:53More.
00:07:05Bye.
00:07:07Bye.
00:07:20Uh!
00:07:46KILL CONFIRMED
00:07:48Card Draw, Ice Shot, Basic Tier, Current Collection, 3 Abilities, Slots, 2 of 2, 3 Abilities, 2 Slots
00:08:11Director Reynolds, you should see this
00:08:18This young man, pull his file
00:08:22The test says nothing
00:08:26The footage says 3
00:08:27Which one do we trust?
00:08:34A civilian demonstrating ability?
00:08:38That contradicts a century of awakening biology
00:08:41The instruments are the reliable variable here, not some rift zone anomaly
00:08:44Three independent scans, Hargraath
00:08:46Then the scans confirmed it, he has no ability
00:08:49If he genuinely has these abilities and we leave him unmonitored
00:08:53What happens the next time the rift opens in a populated area?
00:08:57Merit is our standard
00:08:59Not bloodline, not test scores
00:09:04Find him
00:09:12What are you?
00:09:21Cole Brennan?
00:09:23Who are you?
00:09:29Pinnacle Academy
00:09:31Admissions office
00:09:33The Chancellor wants to meet you, tomorrow
00:09:44Pinnacle Academy
00:09:45Pinnacle Academy
00:09:46You think they don't screen their applications?
00:09:49No ability
00:09:51Not low
00:09:52Zero
00:09:55That's what's on your file
00:09:57They're not gonna make an exception for a delivery boy because he got lucky near a rift
00:10:02Stop staring at it
00:10:04Your bag's been sitting there for 20 minutes
00:10:07Food gets cold
00:10:19Not to prove anything
00:10:20Not to them
00:10:23Not to him
00:10:26Pinnacle has class D rift acts
00:10:29Restricted zones
00:10:31Places that don't show up in any civilian database
00:10:33In those rifts, something happened in there
00:10:36That envelope is an invitation
00:10:38It's a door
00:10:44I'll go
00:11:09No badge
00:11:10No badge
00:11:11No uniform either
00:11:12Is he ordinary?
00:11:17No badge
00:11:18No uniform
00:11:19What are you doing in here?
00:11:21Meeting with Director Reynolds
00:11:22I'm here to see the director
00:11:25Reynolds?
00:11:30What?
00:11:31Did a rift open near your house?
00:11:33You looking for someone to come deal with it?
00:11:35Nobody said I needed a uniform to walk down a hallway
00:11:38My grandfather helped build this program
00:11:41My dad held the school fire record until two years ago
00:11:44Every Ashford who walked these halls earned their spot
00:11:48You looked me up
00:11:54Your file says no ability
00:11:56But surveillance caught you using flame and shockwave during the E3 rift incident
00:12:00I didn't know what was happening to me
00:12:02I still don't fully understand it
00:12:04The Brennan name is in this building's founding records
00:12:07I need to verify your abilities
00:12:10Not because I doubt what I saw on the footage
00:12:12Because this academy has to see it for itself
00:12:16Tomorrow
00:12:16The entrance exam
00:12:18Prove your worth
00:12:20I will
00:12:21I will
00:12:27That's the one Reynolds let in?
00:12:29Zero on the F-Greed assessment
00:12:31Literally zero
00:12:32He's not even wearing a uniform
00:12:38Ladies and gentlemen
00:12:39He actually showed up
00:12:41I told you yesterday
00:12:42I told all of you
00:12:43Reynolds let a civilian walk through the front gate
00:12:46And here he is
00:12:47Ready for his assessment
00:12:50Every single one of you earned your spot
00:12:52Tests, certifications, years of training
00:12:55And Reynolds just
00:12:56Hands this guy a pass
00:12:59So I asked Reynolds to let me go first today
00:13:01Set the bar
00:13:02Remind everyone
00:13:04What this place is actually for
00:13:14That's D rank fire
00:13:16Top of the class
00:13:17I've been doing this since I was 14
00:13:19Your turn Brennan
00:13:20Show us what Reynolds risked her reputation for
00:13:25Big throw
00:13:27Biggest he's got
00:13:27You can see it coming from across the room
00:13:30His whole body loads up before he lets go
00:13:33One shot he's already winded
00:13:36That was his best
00:13:37And he wasted it on a practice dummy
00:13:43That was your best shot?
00:13:45Excuse me?
00:13:47You asked to go first
00:13:49You picked the biggest dummy on the floor
00:13:51Held the fireball an extra second
00:13:53So everyone could see
00:13:55So...
00:13:56Is that it?
00:13:59You have no idea what you're walking into
00:14:02People with real training walk into D rank riffs and don't come back
00:14:05You got lucky once in some alley and you think that makes you one of us
00:14:09I don't think I'm one of you
00:14:11I think I'm here to take a test
00:14:13And you're in the way
00:14:19I'm here to go first
00:14:20Call Brennan
00:14:20It's your turn
00:14:23Demonstrate your ability
00:14:26Forget him
00:14:27Forget the crowd
00:14:28None of them matter right now
00:14:31Reynolds knows something about mom and dad
00:14:33She has to
00:14:35And pinnacle has dereg rift access
00:14:37that's where they were last seen that's why I'm here this is the only shot I've
00:14:43got don't blow it my Academy fire record was set at 14 my father held the school
00:14:56record before that and you're showing me that guess we'll see standard duel
00:15:01begin the rank fire at that output this needs to be called watch
00:15:32every throw same wind-up same angle he can't steer it once it's out and between
00:15:37shots his hands drop he has to reload that's all I need
00:16:00you got lucky that's all that was you're still doing the same thing all just
00:16:07power no adjustment he throws the same way every time and never learns mid-fight
00:16:18two offensive abilities at the same time not at the same time one amplifies the
00:16:51other
00:16:52winner
00:16:58Two abilities combined. Interesting.
00:17:01Pure force with no control is useless.
00:17:04Derek fought for his pride, his ranking, his name.
00:17:07I'm not here for any of that.
00:17:10Cole Brennan enrolled.
00:17:12This is not an outcome this institution can accept.
00:17:16We have thresholds, ability requirements that exist for a reason.
00:17:21An unregistered ordinary person in a live combat curriculum is a liability to every student in this building.
00:17:26He demonstrated two distinct offensive abilities combined under active combat conditions.
00:17:30He has no rank, no ability history, no institutional record.
00:17:33Neither did Holt when he enrolled. Neither did Price.
00:17:35This academy has one standard. Can they perform?
00:17:38F rank access. That's the first door.
00:17:41Behind that, E rank, then D.
00:17:43D rank is where mom and dad disappeared.
00:17:45I just got one step closer.
00:17:47So we're giving a permanent seat to someone whose file reads zero.
00:17:51This isn't enrollment. It's charity.
00:18:03No reading at all. Not even a trace.
00:18:06Next. Zero. Not low. Zero.
00:18:10You know what that means, right?
00:18:11It means the machine didn't even bother trying.
00:18:14Your parents scored the same tests when they were your age.
00:18:17Top marks. And look where that got them.
00:18:25Their world is so far from mine.
00:18:29Eighteen years of being told I'm nothing.
00:18:32And now I'm holding this.
00:18:39Come on. You just fought a D rank.
00:18:42And now your hands won't stop.
00:18:44I still don't know what you are.
00:18:47But whatever this is, thank you.
00:18:56You're in now, Brennan.
00:18:58Don't screw it up.
00:19:03Third day in.
00:19:05Still feel like I'm trespassing.
00:19:12Hey!
00:19:13You lost?
00:19:15Cafeterio staff entrance is on the south side.
00:19:17You think he cheated?
00:19:18Has to be.
00:19:19No way a zero beats a D rank legit.
00:19:23They don't have to like me.
00:19:25They just have to see what happens next.
00:19:35Cole.
00:19:37Solo drills.
00:19:38Far lane.
00:19:39Fine by me.
00:19:48He's stacking them.
00:19:50Shockwave opens the lane.
00:19:51Flame follows through.
00:20:06Two abilities.
00:20:07That's what I've got right now.
00:20:09Have to make them work until I can get more.
00:20:10You're burning through the practice surface.
00:20:12Sorry.
00:20:13I'll move to the far end.
00:20:15Six days to the expedition.
00:20:17Every rep is one less thing I have to figure out in the field.
00:20:40Team up with your classmates.
00:20:42Your score will be calculated by your team's kill counts.
00:20:49Alex.
00:20:50Fire support.
00:20:51Marcus.
00:20:52Shield coverage.
00:20:54Jenny.
00:20:55Speed.
00:20:55Lily.
00:20:56You're in.
00:20:59My family's remote analysts have already pushed the Ash Flats modeling to your terminals.
00:21:03Spawn rates.
00:21:04Weaknesses.
00:21:05Safe routes.
00:21:05Follow the algorithm.
00:21:07We clear the field.
00:21:09Wow.
00:21:10Whole outsourced team playing the game for you.
00:21:12Hardcore Derek.
00:21:14Should I clap for your analysts?
00:21:31Solo operation is permitted.
00:21:33All students must participate.
00:21:36Going in alone?
00:21:37Good luck out there.
00:21:39Ordinary.
00:21:40I was going in alone either way.
00:21:43That's so.
00:21:49Northeast corner.
00:21:51Higher concentration.
00:21:52Right move.
00:21:54Two abilities.
00:21:56One weak.
00:21:57I really hope that's enough.
00:22:09You guys are roo at the inside.
00:22:11You're going in super siellä.
00:22:17You're doing you.
00:22:20I'm very busy.
00:22:21Well, that's really bad you're consommate.
00:22:22Well, you're losing your software.
00:22:22Good luck to find you.
00:22:25You're looking for a little help.
00:22:33Good. Less noise. I can finally focus on the killing.
00:23:24Kill confirmed. Card draw initiating.
00:23:28Windblade. Shockwave opens it. Flame closes it. Not the other way around.
00:23:43Kill 14 confirmed.
00:24:02Current collection. Five abilities. Slots. Two of two. Five. First time I'm choosing my own fight. Not reacting. Choosing. Five
00:24:13cards. Two hands. That's the game.
00:24:29Yeah, I know, right? Dude, I got this new gun. It's sick. I can't believe we did that.
00:24:35Ten confirmed. Sector 2. Northeast quarter. Clean sweep.
00:24:53Alpha team. Derek Ashford. Ten confirmed kills.
00:24:57Derek Ashford team. Ten confirmed. All teams, report to the command center.
00:25:09Northeast sector, right?
00:25:11Yeah.
00:25:11Tags registered at 41 separate positions. That's... a lot of ground.
00:25:16That can't... that can't be right.
00:25:19Cole Brannan. Solo operation. 30 confirmed kills.
00:25:34That's... not possible.
00:25:36Our family AI calculated the physical ceiling.
00:25:3922 kills.
00:25:40Maximum.
00:25:4130.
00:25:42Solo alone?
00:25:43That breaks the model.
00:25:46Wow.
00:25:47Just enough.
00:25:48So that multi-million supercomputer of yours can't keep up with a delivery guy's muscle memory?
00:25:53System glitch, Prince?
00:26:08Well done.
00:26:19The surveillance feed for the Northeast sector covers 40 minutes of active expedition.
00:26:24The surveillance feed for the Northeast sector covers 40 minutes of active expedition.
00:26:24We are requesting a full review under chapter 7.
00:26:371 kills.
00:26:387 kills.
00:26:4015 kills.
00:26:4122 kills.
00:26:4330 kills.
00:26:46Feed is clean.
00:26:47No manipulation.
00:26:4830 solo kills confirmed.
00:26:50The Northeast sector.
00:26:52That zone is outside the optimal routing parameters.
00:26:55He couldn't have known the creature density without...
00:26:57The Northeast boundary zone's density is in the terrain briefing.
00:27:00Page 4.
00:27:07What was that route?
00:27:09He mapped it beforehand.
00:27:10From the briefing.
00:27:12Rank 20.
00:27:14E-Rank access is next.
00:27:16E-Rank accessed.
00:27:185 kills and tomorrow clears it.
00:27:20Okay.
00:27:225 more.
00:27:27Okay.
00:27:335 more.
00:27:40Hey!
00:27:41Sit here!
00:27:41I mean...
00:27:42I just...
00:27:43have questions.
00:27:46Questions.
00:27:47Yeah.
00:27:48Sit down.
00:27:49My team pulled 8 total.
00:27:50I got 4, which is fine for E-Rank.
00:27:53Earth Tremors don't stack kills fast.
00:27:55But you were solo.
00:27:56And you got 30.
00:27:58What route did you run?
00:27:59Northeast sector.
00:28:02Boundary zone.
00:28:03The boundary zone?
00:28:04Most teams avoid it because...
00:28:07Wait.
00:28:09That's exactly why you went there.
00:28:13You drew out a kill route, didn't you?
00:28:16After the briefing, when everyone left, sat there and mapped it.
00:28:20Yeah.
00:28:22That's insane.
00:28:23That's also kind of brilliant.
00:28:28Also, I'm just gonna say this.
00:28:30The ordinary thing?
00:28:31I don't care.
00:28:32You've got abilities, you're in the school.
00:28:34What's the argument?
00:28:35Apparently several.
00:28:37Derek can argue with the ranking board.
00:28:40There it is.
00:28:41Knew you weren't a robot.
00:28:43I'm not a robot.
00:28:45You walk like one.
00:28:46I'm just saying.
00:28:47You know what?
00:28:49Exact foot placement.
00:28:50Every step.
00:28:53That's not...
00:28:54Completely like a robot.
00:28:59Training tomorrow.
00:29:01You wanna run drills?
00:29:01I wanna see what you actually do with the flame shockwave combo.
00:29:07Sure.
00:29:09I've spent every day here running the math on every conversation.
00:29:13What they want.
00:29:14What it costs me.
00:29:16But I think I've just made my first friend here.
00:29:24Wait.
00:29:26Three?
00:29:28I've got three now.
00:29:32Jake.
00:29:33Get there early.
00:29:37Okay.
00:29:38I've been thinking about this since yesterday.
00:29:40Show me the combo.
00:29:41Good morning.
00:29:43Morning.
00:29:44Show me the combo.
00:29:45You haven't even warmed up.
00:29:47I warmed up thinking about this.
00:29:50Show me.
00:29:50It unlocked this morning.
00:30:01Is that a third one?
00:30:03It unlocked this morning.
00:30:05Okay.
00:30:06We are absolutely skipping warm up.
00:30:20I didn't know it would do that.
00:30:22You didn't plan that?
00:30:23I planned fire and ice.
00:30:26Not... this.
00:30:27If this hits something that can dodge fire but not ice.
00:30:30Or the other way around.
00:30:32It can't dodge both.
00:30:34You need to be on my team.
00:30:36For every expedition from now on.
00:30:39Take this!
00:30:54This morning I had a ceiling.
00:30:56Two slots.
00:30:58Eight combinations.
00:30:59I knew every angle.
00:31:00Now I don't know what this can do yet.
00:31:03That's...
00:31:04Different.
00:31:05You ever stop calculating?
00:31:08Not really.
00:31:09Must be exhausting.
00:31:12It's useful.
00:31:13Fair.
00:31:19There's a fourth slot ahead.
00:31:21I'm going to need it.
00:31:31E-rank rift access granted.
00:31:34Let's go.
00:31:36You sure?
00:31:37E-rank...
00:31:38E-rank Earth.
00:31:39I'm literally named for this.
00:31:40You're F-rank Earth that does E-rank damage sometimes.
00:31:43Same thing.
00:32:00Three slots.
00:32:02First time I've had them all loaded going into something real.
00:32:05Something's tracking us.
00:32:06Picked us up about 30 meters back.
00:32:23That would have killed three F-Rakes.
00:32:25It's E-rank.
00:32:30E-rank.
00:32:33E- Tank.æ¼”
00:32:52is Manager of Black Fistian! Poison
00:32:54hai. Dockit
00:32:56gotych uns push the
00:33:10Jake!
00:33:27That's different.
00:33:29That was... yeah.
00:33:31We come back with a better plan.
00:33:33Maybe a third person?
00:33:37I need to go deeper.
00:33:40Solo again?
00:33:41You can't sustain tremors at that depth.
00:33:44And what I've got right now, it's not enough.
00:33:47I need what's deeper in there.
00:33:49I'll be here when you get back.
00:33:52Three abilities.
00:33:53All three in a real fight.
00:33:55Not a drill.
00:33:59Yesterday with Jake, the fog just sat there.
00:34:03Now it's moving.
00:34:05Jake said he'd be here when I got back.
00:34:10I got back.
00:34:34All four in a real fight.
00:34:36Don't fall.
00:34:58Kills confirmed, card draws initiating, support ability acquired, common draw.
00:35:06Not what I need. Keep going.
00:35:24That's the boss.
00:35:35I don't know if flame cuts through that or just disappears into it.
00:35:43Mom, I'm coming.
00:35:46Mom, I'm coming.
00:35:49Mom, I'm coming.
00:35:54Let's go.
00:36:30I've hit it so many times, yet he's not hurt at all.
00:36:34Not yet.
00:36:35No.
00:36:52You know.
00:36:54Elite creature defeated.
00:36:56Card draw initiated.
00:37:07Ability acquired.
00:37:09Lightning storm.
00:37:11Advanced tier.
00:37:12Slot configuration available.
00:37:16Partial match detected.
00:37:18Name, Brennan.
00:37:19Brennan.
00:37:20Th-that is my name.
00:37:23That is my family's name.
00:37:25They were here.
00:37:26Not nearby.
00:37:28Here.
00:37:29In this rift.
00:37:30Ten years ago.
00:37:31I'm not looking for them anymore.
00:37:34I know where to look.
00:37:36What happened?
00:37:37I got lightning storm.
00:38:00It's just rankings, Derek.
00:38:01One month.
00:38:02He scored zero on the ability test.
00:38:05He delivered food for a living.
00:38:07No family legacy.
00:38:08No registered ability rank.
00:38:09No documented training history.
00:38:11No!
00:38:13How does rank 12 make sense?
00:38:21Everything okay?
00:38:23Yeah.
00:38:26The family has been tracking the anomaly.
00:38:29An unregistered ordinary at rank 12.
00:38:31After four months, using abilities with no documented training history and no ability rec on file.
00:38:36This is not a student.
00:38:37This is unquantifiable data in a system built on quantifiable outcomes.
00:38:42Unquantifiable data disrupts capital allocation.
00:38:45When investors cannot model the variable, they remove the variable.
00:38:49This is not personal, Derek.
00:38:51This is how the system protects itself.
00:38:53I understand.
00:39:03Three slots.
00:39:05It's still weird having three.
00:39:30Monster eliminated.
00:39:34Card draw available.
00:39:47You took rank 12 from me.
00:39:49You've taken everything.
00:39:52This ends here.
00:39:54Same slot, same sector.
00:39:56This was planned.
00:40:00Derek.
00:40:10Every time you win, it's luck.
00:40:14A trick.
00:40:16You're ordinary.
00:40:18You wanna fight? Fine.
00:40:25He's read it.
00:40:27Good.
00:40:34What? That's...
00:40:37You have Lightning Storm?
00:40:39I earned it.
00:40:52What?
00:40:53What?
00:41:03Don't follow me into rifts again.
00:41:06How?
00:41:07How do you get that power?
00:41:08I'm not here for you, Derek.
00:41:10I never was.
00:41:12I never was.
00:41:39We call her the Ice Queen.
00:41:41She's been rank 8 since she enrolled.
00:41:43Nobody's touched her.
00:41:44Nobody challenges Madison.
00:41:46Rank 10.
00:41:47I've been watching your ascent.
00:41:49You're systematic.
00:41:50That's unusual for someone without an ability history.
00:41:53Monthly ranking challenge is permitted above rank 15.
00:41:56You could challenge rank 8.
00:41:57When?
00:41:58Tomorrow.
00:41:59Arena 3.
00:42:01She didn't come to rattle me.
00:42:03She came to schedule me.
00:42:04That's the difference.
00:42:06She approached you?
00:42:07She's rank 8.
00:42:08Why would she bother?
00:42:10She wants to know what I am.
00:42:12That's creepy.
00:42:13Also terrifying.
00:42:15Okay.
00:42:15What are you actually going to do?
00:42:17She's frost type.
00:42:18She controls the whole arena.
00:42:19Frost abilities lock down mobility.
00:42:21She'll expect me to run flame into her domain.
00:42:23She'll have counters ready.
00:42:24So don't run flame.
00:42:28I didn't say that.
00:42:29How many hidden cards do you have?
00:42:33You're going to be fine.
00:42:34Also, you're a little scary.
00:42:46She doesn't look angry.
00:42:48That's the problem.
00:42:57This is my range.
00:42:59Everything inside it is ice.
00:43:06She's reading my loadout in real time.
00:43:09Smart.
00:43:21You have strong combinetics, but fire doesn't function well at this temperature.
00:43:25The base tier can't keep pace with the regeneration rate.
00:43:28Your fire is base tier.
00:43:30Advanced lightning storm genuinely impressive for an ordinary.
00:43:33But I've fought three slot users before.
00:43:35The math doesn't change.
00:43:37More combinations.
00:43:38Same ceiling.
00:43:43She's right about the ceiling.
00:43:45Time to move it.
00:43:48That's enough.
00:43:54What are you?
00:43:55That heat level.
00:43:57That is an upgraded fire plasma tier.
00:43:59You've had this the entire fight.
00:44:01I had it.
00:44:02I hadn't needed it.
00:44:06Winner!
00:44:07Cole Brannan!
00:44:09Plasma Storm.
00:44:10Where did you get that?
00:44:11Same place I got the rest.
00:44:12Fought for it.
00:44:13Rank 8 is yours.
00:44:17Dude!
00:44:18What was that?
00:44:21It's not fire anymore.
00:44:23It's something else.
00:44:43I've been thinking about this moment for months.
00:44:45Now that it's here, it just feels...
00:44:48Real.
00:44:49System upgrade.
00:44:50Ability slot 4 unlocked.
00:44:55There it is.
00:45:05The fourth slot changes the timing windows.
00:45:07The combinations multiply.
00:45:27You look like someone doing math homework.
00:45:29Except the homework explodes.
00:45:31How many abilities do you actually have now?
00:45:37A lot then.
00:45:45That's him.
00:45:47Central Academy.
00:45:48Two time defending champions.
00:45:57Pinnacle's bracket must be thin this year.
00:46:03You've been champion for two years.
00:46:05That's right.
00:46:07Then everyone here already knows how to fight you.
00:46:09I've been studying your footage for three days.
00:46:13You'll get your shot.
00:46:15I'll try not to end it too fast.
00:46:17That was either very smart or very dumb.
00:46:20Probably both.
00:46:32You're on the other side, but...
00:46:34You're on the other side.
00:46:47All right, that's just for no one.
00:46:51You're on the other side.
00:46:51If you keep going to
00:47:16The floater, he's not filling gaps, he's threading them.
00:47:19Look at the sequence.
00:47:23We advanced in three fights.
00:47:24Nobody on this team had a real conversation about it.
00:47:27Sophia anchors center.
00:47:28She controls the most space, put her where the fight comes to her, not where she has to
00:47:31chase it.
00:47:32Derek, left side suppression, Madison, right side defense.
00:47:35Jake flanks when they overcommit.
00:47:40Why are you calling positions?
00:47:41You're not the captain.
00:47:43We don't have a designated captain.
00:47:46Then I'm captain.
00:47:52I've watched all three of tomorrow's opponent's bracket footage.
00:47:56Have you?
00:47:57You've never done team combat.
00:47:59Why should your formation work?
00:48:00I'm not taking orders from an ordinary, then take suggestions from someone who did the
00:48:05homework.
00:48:06Or we improvise tomorrow and see how that goes.
00:48:23I had it.
00:48:24Move.
00:48:47we won we got lucky next round that won't be enough he's not listening every time i call a
00:48:54direction he goes the opposite just to show me he doesn't have to we cannot go into a central academy
00:48:59team fight like this same as last time we adjust as we go they run a rotating cover pattern their
00:49:13two shield fuser cycle with their ranged attackers if we let them set up we're playing defense the
00:49:17whole match i'll handle you can't handle both shield rotation solo and we none of us can that's
00:49:26the point i'll improvise
00:49:45i'm out
00:49:59one more loss and we're out third match is central academy brandon's team
00:50:06cole's formation had answers for what western just did we didn't use it
00:50:10she's right cole how did you clock the shield rotation three days ago before we'd even seen
00:50:16their footage i cross-referenced their last four matches the second shoulder always comes in on
00:50:22a four second delay it's drilled not reactive cole had it he had it three days ago he covered my
00:50:28retreat he saw their targeting pattern before i did i don't like it you don't have to like it
00:50:34the relay runner in their pattern that was the break point yes you saw that in the footage
00:50:43third match northern region qualifier what's the formation for central academy
00:50:49five person rotation sophia anchors center you pressure their left from distance don't close
00:50:55madison holds the right corridor jake runs interference on their relay runner i connect the zones
00:51:01he's not convinced i'm right he just ran out of ways to prove i'm wrong that's enough we can work
00:51:07with that
00:51:17central academy's secondary squad three of last year's semi-finalists pinnacle hasn't won a
00:51:23against roll in six years derrick hold fire until you see the left relay break not before i know
00:51:30what about me you're fastest chase the relay runner don't let them anchor their rotations
00:51:37easy nothing about this is easy already planned
00:51:43now
00:51:44now
00:52:09Jake, now.
00:52:17Pinnacle Academy! Team victory!
00:52:21There it is. Two seconds. That's your limit.
00:52:25I'll take it.
00:52:26Good call on the relay runner.
00:52:28We actually... yeah. We got it. That's... I didn't know it would feel like that.
00:52:33Decent team win. But team fights are formations. Solo is different.
00:52:39I watched the footage. So did my coaching staff. They didn't see what you saw.
00:52:46Semi-finals. See you there.
00:52:50B rank fire. Fire domain. 16 tournament fights. 15 wins.
00:52:55The one loss was a draw. Technical.
00:52:57He's never been stopped. I need something he has no footage on.
00:52:59I need all four slots in a sequence that doesn't exist in any match record.
00:53:03I need to invent it before Thursday.
00:53:12Okay. I looked him up. B rank fire. That means his output's at what? Three, four times what Madison had?
00:53:19About three.
00:53:20So your ice thing?
00:53:21Won't reach him. Gone before it gets there.
00:53:23Which version do you think he'll use?
00:53:25The one that looks like he's going easy on me.
00:53:28Every ability he has is built to end a fight fast.
00:53:31He doesn't play defense because he's never needed to.
00:53:37I think there's a seam. I just don't know what it looks like yet.
00:53:43Brandon. Brandon. Brandon. Brandon. Brandon.
00:53:48I'll try not to end it too fast.
00:53:51Semi-final. Special recruit Cole Brannon. No registered rank.
00:53:56Versus two-time champion Brandon Chase. B rank fire specialist.
00:54:06Good. Combinations. You're actually trying.
00:54:24You've got one slot left that you haven't shown me. I've been counting.
00:54:28Whatever it is, it's not going to be enough. But I'm genuinely curious what you pull out.
00:54:34One slot left. Make it count.
00:54:45Whatever the last slot is, I'd like to see it.
00:54:50Come on, Cole.
00:55:02Five.
00:55:25Legendary tear.
00:55:26Five.
00:55:31Brandon Chase unable to continue. Winner, Cole Brennan.
00:55:35Legendary tear. Five splots. How are you ordinary?
00:55:39I'm not sure ordinary was ever the right word.
00:55:42No. I don't think it was.
00:55:52That's what five feels like. All of it at once.
00:55:57Tomorrow's a different problem.
00:55:59You crazy!
00:56:02You crazy!
00:56:09Brandon had no answer for the five ability sequence. Nobody's going to.
00:56:14Sophia will have an answer. That's the problem.
00:56:16Then figure out answers to her answers.
00:56:18First time Derek's giving me something that wasn't a fight. I don't know what to do with that.
00:56:30I forfeit!
00:56:31I forfeit!
00:56:37Okay then.
00:56:39D rank access. That's what's on the other side of tomorrow. Not the trophy. Not the title. The door.
00:56:52You okay?
00:56:54Yeah.
00:56:55Yeah.
00:56:57Liar.
00:56:59She finished her semi-final in 90 seconds. Telekinesis doesn't need range or formation.
00:57:04Cole. Win. Whatever it takes.
00:57:07First place gets D rank access.
00:57:13My parents. They were last recorded in a D rank rift.
00:57:19I know. Let's get them back.
00:57:26You watched my semi-final.
00:57:28I needed to know what I was facing.
00:57:31And?
00:57:32You're faster than I expected. The environment control is earlier than I can counter with sequencing alone.
00:57:37Is that a problem?
00:57:39I'm working on it.
00:57:40You promised. If I win you tell me your secret.
00:57:44I said that.
00:57:46And if you win?
00:57:48I tell you anyway.
00:57:50Then one of us is telling the truth tomorrow.
00:57:59Don't hold back tomorrow.
00:58:06Joel Brennan, Pinnacle Academy Special Recruit, entered this tournament unranked.
00:58:10Zero rank to the championship round.
00:58:12And Sophia Vale, Pinnacle's first seed.
00:58:14C-rank telekinesis.
00:58:15Five-year, undefeated record.
00:58:17Full ability use is permitted.
00:58:19Ready?
00:58:20Ready.
00:58:20Yes.
00:58:37She's adjusting to his combinations in real time.
00:58:40First opponent all tournament who can do that to her.
00:58:43You really did figure out answers to my answers.
00:58:47Some of them.
00:58:47Let me show you the ones you didn't.
00:58:53In here, I move everything.
00:58:56You move yourself.
00:59:03She's faster than I thought.
00:59:05Every time I clear a path, she's already built the next wall.
00:59:08Too many vectors.
00:59:09Need to change the equation.
00:59:10You're the strongest person I've fought.
00:59:12I mean that.
00:59:14But I'm not done.
00:59:16Stop.
00:59:17You can't break this.
00:59:21Dad.
00:59:23Mom.
00:59:24Not yet.
00:59:26Everything.
00:59:27Now.
00:59:28Not enough!
00:59:44Then let's finish it.
00:59:51Yeah.
01:00:02I can't.
01:00:03I'm done.
01:00:04Winner, Cole Brennanen.
01:00:06Champion.
01:00:12You won.
01:00:15You're the strongest I've ever fought.
01:00:19Does the promise still stand?
01:00:21About the secret?
01:00:25Power doesn't care where you come from.
01:00:27But today, it chose you.
01:00:29D-rank rift access.
01:00:31Effective immediate.
01:00:32Champion.
01:00:33Okay.
01:00:34But that's not why I'm here.
01:00:36D-rank opens tomorrow.
01:00:38That's what matters.
01:00:39Whoa!
01:00:49You earned it.
01:00:51So did you.
01:00:51This season.
01:00:56I was stuck in a cage for so long.
01:01:00Cole.
01:01:01You ripped the door off the hinges and showed me the possibilities.
01:01:04In D-rank rifts, nobody wins.
01:01:06It might be a one-way trip.
01:01:10Then at least we'll have the best view.
01:01:15Yo!
01:01:16If the plan is save the world or get expelled, can we start by getting me some help with these?
01:01:20My back is literally screaming right now.
01:01:23Did you pack the entire cafeteria, Jake?
01:01:30He has D-rank access now.
01:01:32Good.
01:01:33We'll be waiting.
01:01:34Good.
01:01:38Good.
01:01:38Good.
01:01:39Good.
01:01:41Good.
01:01:42Good.
01:01:42Good.
01:01:42Good.
01:01:42Good.
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