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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.
00:00:27Beat track. Notify the Academy.
00:00:30High compatibility.
00:00:31Pass. You rise.
00:00:46Did he get nothing?
00:00:47Not even a spark.
00:00:48Next.
00:00:49Fail. It forgets you.
00:00:56Your parents were ability users, and what did it get them?
00:00:59They were failures.
00:01:01Disappeared 10 years ago, left nothing behind.
00:01:05And now look at you.
00:01:06No ability, no future.
00:01:10Just like them.
00:01:22Their world is so far from mine.
00:01:26Dad, Mom, where did you go?
00:01:56Level three alert.
00:01:58Evacuate-
00:02:00RIP collapse on 5th and Meridian. Ceiling tube inbound.
00:02:08Go throw the here the extracting.
00:02:13Wait, 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? What-what is this?
00:04:12Defeat monsters. Draw cards. Grow stronger.
00:04:16I can get abilities? Me?
00:04:19I'm an ordinary. This doesn't-
00:04:21Warning. Hostile entity detected. 20 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! Whatever you are, come on!
00:04:38Ability acquired. Flame control.
00:04:41Basic tier. Equip to slot 1 or 2.
00:04:44What is this?
00:04:51It's coming.
00:05:00Back off!
00:05:11I...
00:05:11I...
00:05:13I have an ability?
00:05:20Kill confirmed. Initiating card draw.
00:05:23Defeating monsters?
00:05:25Triggers a draw?
00:05:33Ability acquired. Shockwave. Basic tier. Slot 2 of 2. Equipped.
00:05:41Full.
00:05:51You're alive?
00:05:53You're alive?
00:05:54That mark...
00:05:55That mark...
00:05:55Are you an ability user?
00:05:58I don't know.
00:06:03Move.
00:06:05Move.
00:06:06Move.
00:06:32That's D-Level Ability User.
00:06:34Trained? Coordinated? Practiced? If that's the baseline, where am I trying to go?
00:06:50More Abilities. More Range. More.
00:07:06I'm not sure what's going on.
00:07:11I'm not sure what's going on.
00:07:14I'm not sure what's going on.
00:07:24I'm not sure what's going on.
00:07:25I'm not sure what's going on.
00:07:30I'm not sure what's going on.
00:07:46Kill Confirmed. Card Draw. Ice Shot. Basic Tier. Current Collection. Three Abilities. Slots. Two of Two.
00:07:55Three Abilities. Two Slots.
00:08:11Director Reynolds, you should see this.
00:08:18This young man. Pull his file. The test says nothing. The footage says three. Which one do we trust?
00:08:35A civilian demonstrating ability? That contradicts a century of awakening biology. The instruments are the reliable variable here, not some
00:08:44rift zone anomaly.
00:08:45Three independent scans, Hargrave. Then the scans confirmed it. He has no ability.
00:08:49If he genuinely has these abilities and we leave him unmonitored, what happens the next time the rift opens in
00:08:56a populated area? Merit is our standard. Not bloodline. Not test scores. Find him.
00:09:13What are you?
00:09:21Cole Brennan?
00:09:23Cole Brennan?
00:09:24Who are you?
00:09:29Pinnacle Academy. Admissions office. The Chancellor wants to meet you. Tomorrow.
00:09:44Pinnacle Academy.
00:09:46You think they don't screen their applications? No ability. Not low. Zero. That's what's on your file. They're not going
00:09:58to make an exception for a delivery boy because he got lucky near a rift. Stop staring at it.
00:10:04Your bag's been sitting there for 20 minutes. Food gets cold.
00:10:19Not to prove anything. Not to them. Not to him.
00:10:26Pinnacle has class D rift acts. Restricted zones. Places that don't show up in any civilian database. But in those
00:10:34rifts, something happened in there. That envelope is an invitation. It's a door.
00:10:43I'll go.
00:11:09No badge. No uniform either.
00:11:12No badge. No uniform either.
00:11:12Is he ordinary?
00:11:17No badge. No uniform. What are you doing in here? Meeting with Director Reynolds. I'm here to see the director.
00:11:25Reynolds?
00:11:30What? Did a rift open near your house? You looking for someone to come deal with it? Nobody said I
00:11:36needed a uniform to walk down a hallway. My grandfather helped build this program. My dad held the school fire
00:11:43record until two years ago. Every Ashford who walked these halls earned their spot. You looked me up.
00:11:49You looked me up.
00:11:54Your file says no ability. But surveillance caught you using flame and shockwave during the E3 rift incident.
00:12:00I didn't know what was happening to me. I still don't fully understand it.
00:12:04The Brennan name is in this building's founding records. I need to verify your abilities. Not because I doubt what
00:12:11I saw on the footage. Because this academy has to see it for itself. Tomorrow. The entrance exam. Prove your
00:12:20worth.
00:12:21I will.
00:12:27That's the one Reynolds let in? Zero on the F-Greed assessment. Literally zero. He's not even wearing a uniform.
00:12:38Ladies and gentlemen. He actually showed up. I told you yesterday. I told all of you. Reynolds let a civilian
00:12:44walk through the front gate. And here he is. Ready for his assessment.
00:12:50Every single one of you earned your spot. Tests. Certifications. Years of training. And Reynolds just hands this guy a
00:12:57pass.
00:12:59So I asked Reynolds to let me go first today. Set the bar. Remind everyone what this place is actually
00:13:05for.
00:13:14That's D rank fire. Top of the class. I've been doing this since I was 14.
00:13:19Your turn Brennan. Show us what Reynolds risked her reputation for.
00:13:25Big throw. Big throw. Biggest he's got. You can see it coming from across the room. His whole body loads
00:13:31up before he lets go.
00:13:33One shot he's already winded. That was his best. And he wasted it on a practice dummy.
00:13:43That was your best shot?
00:13:45Excuse me?
00:13:46You asked to go first. You picked the biggest dummy on the floor. Held the fireball an extra second. So
00:13:54everyone could see it. So...
00:13:56Was that it?
00:13:59You have no idea what you're walking into. People with real training walk into D rank rifts and don't come
00:14:05back.
00:14:05You got lucky once in some alley and you think that makes you one of us. I don't think I'm
00:14:09one of you.
00:14:11I think I'm here to take a test. And you're in the way.
00:14:19Cole Brennan. It's your turn. Demonstrate your ability.
00:14:26Forget him. Forget the crowd. None of them matter right now.
00:14:31Reynolds knows something about mom and dad. She has to.
00:14:35And Pinnacle has de-rag rift access. That's where they were last seen.
00:14:40That's why I'm here. This is the only shot I've got. Don't blow it.
00:14:52My academy fire record was set at 14. My father held the school record before that? And you're showing me
00:14:58that?
00:14:59Guess we'll see.
00:15:00Standard duel. Begin.
00:15:02Good. A public fight. Everyone watch. If I win this, nobody can say I don't belong.
00:15:25D rank fire at that output? This needs to be called.
00:15:29Watch.
00:15:32Every throw. Same wind-up. Same angle. He can't steer it once it's out.
00:15:36And between shots, his hands drop. He has to reload. That's all I need.
00:16:01You got lucky. That's all that was. You're still doing the same thing.
00:16:07All just power, no adjustment. He throws the same way every time and never learns mid-fight.
00:16:18Two offensive abilities? At the same time?
00:16:22Not at the same time. One amplifies the other.
00:16:26I might not be on the same time.
00:16:27I might be on the same spot.
00:16:30A game in the same time.
00:16:31It's me. It's me. It's me.
00:16:42It's me. It's me.
00:16:51Most of my Yamaha.
00:16:53All right.
00:16:53My man can fit in this way.
00:16:53The week is utilise is the same time.
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.
00:17:46I 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.
00:18:07Next. 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 me.
00:18:25Their world is so far from mine.
00:18:29Eighteen years of being told I'm nothing.
00:18:31And now I'm holding this.
00:18:39Come on.
00:18:41You 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. Don't screw it up.
00:19:03Third day in.
00:19:05Still feel like I'm trespassing.
00:19:13Hey. You 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.
00:19:35Coal. Solo drills. Far lane.
00:19:39Fine by me.
00:19:48He's stacking them.
00:19:49Shockwave 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.
00:20:43Your 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, weaknesses, safe 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.
00:21:50North East 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.
00:21:58One, two or two.
00:22:11Hold on.
00:22:16Two people.
00:22:17Two ISBN.
00:22:18Two.
00:22:18One.
00:22:19One.
00:22:21Two.
00:22:24Five.
00:22:24Five.
00:22:25Power.
00:22:25Two.
00:22:25One.
00:22:26Five.
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? Yeah. Tags registered at 41 separate positions. That's a lot of ground.
00:25:17That can't. That can't be right. Cole Brannon. Solo operation. 30 confirmed kills.
00:25:35That's not possible. Our family AI calculated the physical ceiling. 22 kills. Maximum. 30. Solo alone? That breaks the model.
00:25:46Wow. Just enough. So that multi-million supercomputer of yours can't keep up with a delivery guy's muscle memory? System
00:25:54glitch, Prince?
00:26:08Well done.
00:26:19The surveillance feed for the Northeast sector covers 40 minutes of active expeditions.
00:26:24We are requesting a full review under chapter 7.
00:26:371 kills. 7 kills. 15 kills. 22 kills. 30 kills.
00:26:45Feed is clean. No manipulation. 30 solo kills confirmed.
00:26:50The Northeast sector. That zone is outside the optimal routing parameters. He couldn't have known the creature density without it.
00:26:57The Northeast boundary zone's density is in the terrain briefing. Page 4.
00:27:07What was that route?
00:27:09What was that route? He mapped it beforehand. From the briefing.
00:27:13Rank 20. E-rank access is next. E-rank accessed. 5 kills in tomorrow, Thursday. Okay. 5 more.
00:27:23Rank 20. E-rank Chelsea.
00:27:24Rank 20. E-rank إلى deer. DAăm Punktaga.
00:27:30Whoa.
00:27:40hey sit here i mean i just have questions
00:27:47questions yeah sit down my team pulled eight total i got four which is fine for e-rank
00:27:53earth tremors don't stack kills fast but you were solo and you got 30 what route did you run
00:27:59northeast sector boundary zone the boundary zone most teams avoid it because
00:28:07wait that's exactly why you went there
00:28:13you drew out a kill route didn't you after the briefing when everyone left sat there and mapped
00:28:19it yeah that's insane that's also kind of brilliant
00:28:28also i'm just going to say this the ordinary thing i don't care you've got abilities you're
00:28:33in the school what's the argument apparently several derrick can argue with the ranking board
00:28:38thank you there it is knew you weren't a robot i'm not a robot you walk like one i'm just
00:28:47saying
00:28:47you know what exact foot placement every step that's not completely like a robot
00:28:59training tomorrow you want to run drills i want to see what you actually do with the flame shockwave
00:29:04combo sure i've spent every day here running the math on every conversation what they want
00:29:14what it costs me but i think i've just made my first friend here
00:29:26wait three i've got three now
00:29:32jake get there early
00:29:37okay i've been thinking about this since yesterday show me the combo
00:29:41good morning morning show me the combo you haven't even warmed up
00:29:47i warmed up thinking about this show me
00:30:00is that a third one
00:30:03it unlocked this morning
00:30:05okay we are absolutely skipping warm-up
00:30:20i didn't know it would do that
00:30:21you didn't plan that i planned fire and ice
00:30:26not this
00:30:28this 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 for every expedition from now on
00:30:39take this
00:30:54this morning i had a ceiling
00:30:56two slots eight combinations i knew every angle
00:31:00now i don't know what this can do yet
00:31:02that's
00:31:03that's
00:31:04different
00:31:05you ever stop calculating
00:31:08not really
00:31:09must be exhausting
00:31:11it'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
00:31:38i'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
00:32:01first time i've had them all loaded going into something real
00:32:04something'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
00:32:30and
00:32:36and
00:32:38and
00:32:40and
00:32:40and
00:32:55and
00:32:56and
00:33:09Jake!
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.
00:33:50I'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...
00:34:02sat there.
00:34:03Now it's moving.
00:34:05Jake said he'd be here when I got back.
00:34:38Wait pon there and concentrate on him.
00:34:44Destroy him.
00:34:45Give some fire quickly.
00:34:47Leave me before I got back.
00:34:52And I said no...
00:34:58KILLS CONFIRMED. CARD DRAWS INITIATING. SUPPORT ABILITY ACQUIRED.
00:35:04COMMON DRAW. NOT 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.
00:35:44MOM, I'M COMING.
00:36:01MOM, I'M COMING.
00:36:12TESTING.
00:36:30I've hit it so many times, yet he's not hurt at all.
00:36:34Not yet.
00:36:35No.
00:36:54Elite Creature Defeated.
00:36:56Card Draw Initiated.
00:37:07Ability Acquired.
00:37:09Lightning Storm.
00:37:10Advanced Teal.
00:37:12Slot Configuration Available.
00:37:16Partial Match Detective.
00:37:18Name, Brennan.
00:37:19Brennan.
00:37:20That 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.
00:37:32I'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.
00:38:02One month, he 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, an unregistered ordinary at rank 12, after four
00:38:32months, 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.
00:38:43Unquantifiable 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.
00:39:08Three slots.
00:39:10Three slots.
00:39:10Three slots.
00:39:10Three slots.
00:39:11Three slots.
00:39:11Three slots.
00:39:12Three slots.
00:39:14Three slots.
00:39:15Four slots.
00:39:15Two drops.
00:39:23Five slots.
00:39:25Five slots.
00:39:30Cinematic travelled.
00:39:32Five slots.
00:39:34Five slots.
00:39:42Five slots.
00:39:46You took rank twelve from me. You've taken everything. This ends here.
00:39:54Same slot, same sector. This was planned.
00:40:00Derek.
00:40:10Every time you win, it's luck!
00:40:14A trick! You'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.
00:40:49What?
00:40:50What?
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.
00:41:11How do you get those?
00:41:34They'll fight me, too.
00:41:41been rank eight since she enrolled nobody's touched her nobody challenges madison rank 10
00:41:47i've been watching your ascent you're systematic that's unusual for someone without an ability
00:41:52history monthly ranking challenge is permitted above rank 15 you could challenge rank eight
00:41:57when tomorrow arena three she didn't come to rattle me she came to schedule me that's the
00:42:05difference she approached you she's rank eight why would she bother she wants to know what i am
00:42:12that's creepy also terrifying okay what are you actually going to do she's frost type she controls
00:42:18the whole arena frost abilities lock down mobility she'll expect me to run flame into her domain she'll
00:42:23have counters ready so don't run flame i didn't say that how many hidden cards do you have
00:42:32you're going to be fine also you're a little scary
00:42:45she doesn't look angry that's the problem
00:42:57this is my range everything inside it is ice
00:43:06she's reading my loadout in real time smart
00:43:21you have strong combinetics but fire doesn't function well at this temperature the base tier
00:43:26can't keep pace with the regeneration rate your fire is based here advanced lightning storm genuinely
00:43:32impressive for an ordinary but i've fought three slot users before the math doesn't change more
00:43:37combinations same ceiling she's right about the ceiling time to move it that's enough
00:43:50you're going to be a good one
00:43:54what are you that heat level that is an upgraded fire plasma tier you've had this the entire fight
00:44:01i had it i hadn't needed it
00:44:06winner
00:44:07gold branon plasma storm where did you get that same place i got the rest fought for it rank eight
00:44:14is yours
00:44:17dude what 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, except 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, two-time defending champions.
00:45:57Pinnacle's bracket must be thin this year.
00:46:03You've been champion for two years.
00:46:06That'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.
00:46:18That was either very smart or very dumb.
00:46:20Probably both.
00:46:22Probably both.
00:46:29Probably both.
00:46:36I'll try not to end it.
00:46:40I'll try not to end it.
00:46:42Probably both.
00:47:17I'll try not to end it.
00:47:18I'll try not to end it.
00:47:19I'll try not to end it.
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.
00:47:29Put her where the fight comes to her, not where she has to chase it.
00:47:32Derek, left side suppression.
00:47:33Madison, right side defense.
00:47:35Jake flanks when they overcommit.
00:47:40Why are you calling positions?
00:47:42You'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.
00:47:55Have you?
00:47:57You've never done team combat.
00:47:59Why should your formation work?
00:48:01I'm not taking orders from an ordinary.
00:48:04Then take suggestions from someone who did the homework.
00:48:06Or we improvise tomorrow and see how that goes.
00:48:23I had it.
00:48:24Move.
00:48:47We won.
00:48:48We got lucky.
00:48:50Next round, that won't be enough.
00:48:51He's not listening.
00:48:53Every time I call a direction, he goes the opposite just to show me he doesn't have to.
00:48:57We cannot go into a Central Academy team fight like this.
00:49:08Same as last time.
00:49:10We adjust as we go.
00:49:11They run a rotating cover pattern.
00:49:13Their two shield fusers cycle with their ranged attackers.
00:49:15If we let them set up, we're playing defense the whole match.
00:49:22I'll handle-
00:49:23You can't handle both shield rotations solo.
00:49:25Unwin, none of us can.
00:49:26That's the point.
00:49:27I'll improvise.
00:49:45I'm out.
00:49:59One more loss and we're out.
00:50:01Third match is Central Academy.
00:50:03Brandon's team.
00:50:06Cole's formation had answers for what Western just did.
00:50:08We didn't use it.
00:50:10She's right.
00:50:11Cole, how did you clock the shield rotation three days ago?
00:50:15Before we'd even seen their footage.
00:50:17I cross-referenced their last four matches.
00:50:20The second shoulder always comes in on a four-second delay.
00:50:23It's drilled, not reactive.
00:50:25Cole had it.
00:50:26He had it three days ago.
00:50:27He covered my retreat.
00:50:29He saw their targeting pattern before I did.
00:50:32I don't like it.
00:50:33You don't have to like it.
00:50:35The relay runner-
00:50:37In their pattern.
00:50:39That was the break point.
00:50:40Yes.
00:50:41You saw that.
00:50:42In the footage.
00:50:43Third match.
00:50:45Northern region qualifier.
00:50:47What's the formation for Central Academy?
00:50:50Five-person rotation.
00:50:51Sophia anchors center.
00:50:53You pressure their left from distance.
00:50:55Don't close.
00:50:56Madison holds the right corridor.
00:50:58Jake runs interference on their relay runner.
00:51:00I connect the zones.
00:51:01He's not convinced I'm right.
00:51:03He just ran out of ways to prove I'm wrong.
00:51:05That's enough.
00:51:06We can work with that.
00:51:17Central Academy's secondary squad.
00:51:20Three of last year's semi-finalists.
00:51:22Pinnacle hasn't won a Gaganzral in six years.
00:51:26Derek, hold fire until you see the left relay break.
00:51:29Not before.
00:51:30I know.
00:51:31What about me?
00:51:32You're fastest.
00:51:33Chase the relay runner.
00:51:34Don't let them anchor their rotations.
00:51:36Easy.
00:51:37Nothing about this is easy.
00:51:39Already planned.
00:51:43Now!
00:51:45Now!
00:52:17Pinnacle Academy!
00:52:19Team victory!
00:52:21There it is.
00:52:23Two seconds.
00:52:24That's your limit.
00:52:25I'll take it.
00:52:26Good call on the relay runner.
00:52:28We actually...
00:52:29Yeah.
00:52:30We got it.
00:52:31That's...
00:52:31I didn't know it would feel like that.
00:52:33Decent team win.
00:52:35But team fights are formations.
00:52:37Solo is different.
00:52:39I watched the footage.
00:52:41So did my coaching staff.
00:52:43They didn't see what you saw.
00:52:46Semifinals.
00:52:47See you there.
00:52:50B rank fire.
00:52:51Fire domain.
00:52:5316 tournament fights.
00:52:5415 wins.
00:52:55The one loss was a draw.
00:52:56Technical.
00:52:57He's never been stopped.
00:52:58I need something he has no footage on.
00:53:00I 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.
00:53:13I looked him up.
00:53:14B rank fire.
00:53:15That means his output's at what?
00:53:17Three, four times what Madison had?
00:53:19About three.
00:53:20So your ice thing?
00:53:21Won't reach him.
00:53:22Gone 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.
00:53:38I just don't know what it looks like yet.
00:53:43Brandon.
00:53:44Brandon.
00:53:46Brandon.
00:53:47Brandon.
00:53:48I'll try not to end it too fast.
00:53:51Semifinal.
00:53:52Special recruit Cole Brannon.
00:53:54No registered rank.
00:53:56Versus two-time champion Brandon Chase.
00:53:59B rank.
00:54:00Fire specialist.
00:54:06Good.
00:54:07Combinations.
00:54:08You're actually trying.
00:54:24You've got one slot left that you haven't shown me.
00:54:27I've been counting.
00:54:28Whatever it is, it's not going to be enough.
00:54:31But I'm genuinely curious what you pull out.
00:54:34One slot left.
00:54:35Make it count.
00:54:45Whatever the last slot is, I'd like to see it.
00:54:48Come on, Cole.
00:54:57Come on, Cole.
00:55:02Five.
00:55:25Legendary tier.
00:55:26Five.
00:55:27Five.
00:55:29Five.
00:55:30Five.
00:55:35Legendary tier.
00:55:36Five splots.
00:55:38How are you ordinary?
00:55:39I'm not sure ordinary was ever the right word.
00:55:42No, I don't think it was.
00:55:53That's what five feels like.
00:55:55All of it at once.
00:55:57Tomorrow's a different problem.
00:55:59You crazy!
00:56:03Crazy!
00:56:04Crazy!
00:56:09Brandon had no answer for the five ability sequence.
00:56:12Nobody's going to.
00:56:14Sophia will have an answer.
00:56:15That'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.
00:56:21I don't know what to do with that.
00:56:31I forfeit.
00:56:38Okay, then.
00:56:39D-rank access.
00:56:41That's what's on the other side of tomorrow.
00:56:45Not the trophy.
00:56:47Not the title.
00:56:49The door.
00:56:52You okay?
00:56:54Yeah, yeah.
00:56:57Liar.
00:56:59She finished her semi-final in 90 seconds.
00:57:02Telekinesis doesn't need range or formation.
00:57:04Cole.
00:57:05Win.
00:57:06Whatever it takes.
00:57:07First place gets D-rank access.
00:57:13My parents.
00:57:14They were last recorded in a D-rank rift.
00:57:19I know.
00:57:20Let'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.
00:57:34The 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.
00:57:41If 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.
00:58:37She'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.
00:58:48Let 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.
00:59:23Dad.
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.
01:00:05Cole 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!
01:00:50You earned it.
01:00:51So did you.
01:00:51This season.
01:00:57I 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.
01:01:40Good.
01:01:42Good.
01:01:42Good.
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