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They Called Me Worthless Until My Cards Destroyed Their Academy New
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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?
00:01:30I know.
00:01:35I know.
00:01:39I know.
00:01:56Level 3 alert. Evacuate immediately.
00:02:00Rift collapse on 5th and Meridian. Ceiling tube inbound.
00:02:09Go throw the hearthic's tracking.
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 is this?
00:04:11Defeat monsters. Draw cards. Grow stronger.
00:04:16I can get abilities? Me? I'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?
00:04:31No!
00:04:32Beginning 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 1 or 2.
00:04:44What is this?
00:04:45What is this?
00:04:51It's coming.
00:05:00Back off!
00:05:10I-I-I have an ability?
00:05:14No!
00:05:20Kill confirmed. Initiating card draw.
00:05:23Defeating monsters? Triggers a draw?
00:05:33Ability acquired. Shockwave. Basic tier. Slot 2 of 2. Equipped.
00:05:41Full.
00:05:51You're alive? That mark. Are you an ability user?
00:05:58I don't know.
00:06:03Move.
00:06:23Always. Run!
00:06:32That's D-level ability user. Trained. Coordinated. Practiced.
00:06:36If that's the baseline, where am I trying to go?
00:06:49More abilities. More range. More.
00:07:21Thanks.
00:07:24Thanks.
00:07:32Go!
00:07:35I can't.
00:07:35Come on.
00:07:41You're gonna.
00:07:41You're going to play.
00:07:46Kill confirmed, card draw, ice shot, basic tier, current collection, three abilities, slots, two of two, three abilities, two 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 three.
00:08:28Which 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.
00:08:45Three independent scans, Hargrave.
00:08:47Then the scans confirmed it. He has no ability.
00:08:50If he genuinely has these abilities and we leave him unmonitored,
00:08:54what happens the next time the rift opens in a populated area?
00:08:58Merit is our standard.
00:09:00Not 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.
00:09:32The Chancellor wants to meet you, tomorrow.
00:09:44Pinnacle Academy.
00:09:46You think they don't screen their applications?
00:09:50No ability.
00:09:51Not low.
00:09:53Zero.
00:09:55That's what's on your file.
00:09:57They're not going to make an exception for a delivery boy because he got lucky near a rift.
00:10:02Stop staring at it.
00:10:05Stop staring at it.
00:10:05Your bag's been sitting there for 20 minutes.
00:10:08Food gets cold.
00:10:19Not to prove anything.
00:10:21Not to them.
00:10:23Not to him.
00:10:26Fiendism.
00:10:27Pinnacle has Class D rift axe.
00:10:29Restricted zones.
00:10:31Places that don't show up in any civilian database but in those rifts something happened
00:10:36in there.
00:10:36That envelope is an invitation.
00:10:38It's a door.
00:10:44I'll go.
00:11:09No badge, no uniform either.
00:11:12Is he ordinary?
00:11:17No badge, no uniform.
00:11:20What 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, did a rift open near your house?
00:11:33You looking for someone to come deal with it?
00:11:36Nobody said I needed a uniform to walk down a hallway.
00:11:39My 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.
00:12:03I still don't fully understand it.
00:12:04The Brennan name is in this building's founding records.
00:12:08I need to verify your abilities.
00:12:10Not because I doubt what I saw on the footage.
00:12:13Because this academy has to see it for itself.
00:12:16Tomorrow.
00:12:17The entrance exam.
00:12:19Prove your worth.
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.
00:12:33He's not even wearing a uniform.
00:12:38Ladies and gentlemen.
00:12:40He 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.
00:12:53Tests.
00:12:53Certifications.
00:12:54Years of training.
00:12:55And Reynolds just hands this guy a pass.
00:12:59So I asked Reynolds to let me go first today.
00:13:02Set the bar.
00:13:03Remind everyone what 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.
00:13:21Show us what Reynolds risked her reputation for.
00:13:25Big throw.
00:13:27Biggest he's got.
00:13:28You can see it coming from across the room.
00:13:31His whole body loads up before he lets go.
00:13:33One shot.
00:13:34He'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.
00:13:48You picked the biggest dummy on the floor.
00:13:51Held the fireball an extra second.
00:13:54So everyone could see it.
00:13:55So.
00:13:56Was that it?
00:13:59You have no idea what you're walking into.
00:14:02People with real training walk into D rank rifts 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.
00:14:19Cole Brennan.
00:14:21It'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.
00:14:34She has to.
00:14:35And Pinnacle has de-rag rift access.
00:14:38That's where they were last seen.
00:14:40That's why I'm here.
00:14:42This is the only shot I've got.
00:14:44Don't blow it.
00:14:52My academy fire record was set at 14.
00:14:54My father held the school record before that?
00:14:57And you're showing me that?
00:14:59Guess we'll see.
00:15:00Standard duel.
00:15:02Begin.
00:15:03Good.
00:15:03A public fight.
00:15:05Everyone watch it.
00:15:06If I win this, nobody will see I don't belong to.
00:15:25D rank fire at that output?
00:15:28This needs to be called.
00:15:29Watch.
00:15:32Every throw, same wind up, same angle.
00:15:35He can't steer it once it's out.
00:15:36And between shots, his hands drop.
00:15:39He has to reload.
00:15:40That's all I need.
00:16:01You got lucky.
00:16:02That's all that was.
00:16:03You're still doing the same thing.
00:16:07All just power, no adjustment.
00:16:09He 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.
00:16:24One amplifies the other.
00:16:26Number one.
00:16:27Number two.
00:16:40Number four.,
00:16:42one explosively.
00:16:52Winner, Cole Brennan!
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.
00:17:14This institution can accept.
00:17:16We have thresholds, ability requirements that exist for a reason.
00:17:22An 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.
00:17:34Neither did Price.
00:17:35This academy has one standard.
00:17:37Can they perform?
00:17:38F rank access.
00:17:40That's the first door.
00:17:41Behind that, E rank.
00:17:43Then D.
00:17:43D rank is where mom and dad disappeared.
00:17:46I just got one step closer.
00:17:48So we're giving a permanent seat to someone whose file reads zero.
00:17:51This isn't enrollment.
00:17:52It's charity.
00:18:03No reading at all.
00:18:05Not even a trace.
00:18:06Next.
00:18:07Zero.
00:18:08Not low.
00:18:09Zero.
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.
00:18:18And look where that got.
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.
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.
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.
00:19:35Coal.
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.
00:19:53Oh.
00:19:54Oh.
00:19:54Oh.
00:19:55Oh.
00:19:56Oh.
00:19:57Oh.
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.
00:20:21Oh.
00:20:22Oh.
00:20:24Oh.
00:20:24Oh.
00:20:25Oh.
00:20:25Oh.
00:20:26Oh.
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.
00:21:08Wow.
00:21:10Whole outsource team playing the game for you.
00:21:13Hardcore Derek.
00:21:14Should I clap for your analysts?
00:21:31solo operation is permittable.
00:21:34All students must participate.
00:21:36going in alone good luck out there ordinary I was going in alone either way
00:21:43that's so northeast corner higher concentration right move two abilities
00:21:55one week I really hope that's enough
00:22:32good less noise I can finally focus
00:23:05on the killing
00:23:24kill confirmed card draw initiating wind blade shockwave opens flame closes it not the other
00:23:33way around kill 14 confirmed
00:24:02current collection five abilities slots two of two five first time I'm choosing my own
00:24:09fight not reacting choosing five cards 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
00:24:3510 confirmed sector 2 northeast quarter clean sweep
00:24:53alpha team Derek Ashford 10 confirmed kills
00:24:57Derek Ashford team 10 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
00:25:16that can't that can't be right cole brannan solo operation 30 confirmed kills
00:25:34that'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 super computer of yours can't keep up with the delivery guys muscle memory
00:25:53system glitch prints
00:26:07well done
00:26:19the surveillance feed for the northeast sector covers 40 minutes of active expedition time
00:26:25we are requesting a full review under chapter 7
00:26:371 kills 7 kills
00:26:3915 kills
00:26:4122 kills
00:26:4330 kills
00:26:45feed 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
00:26:54he 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 from the briefing
00:27:13rank 20
00:27:14e-rank access is next
00:27:16e-rank accessed
00:27:17five kills
00:27:19five kills in tomorrow
00:27:19thursday
00:27:20ok
00:27:21five more
00:27:40hey sit 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 eight total
00:27:50i got four
00:27:51which is fine for e-rank
00:27:52earth tremors don't stack kills fast
00:27:55but you were solo
00:27:56and you got 30
00:27:57what route did you run?
00:27:59northeast sector
00:28:01boundary zone
00:28:02the boundary zone?
00:28:04most teams avoid it because
00:28:07wait
00:28:08that's exactly why you went there
00:28:13you drew out a kill route didn't you?
00:28:16after the briefing
00:28:17when everyone left
00:28:18sat there and mapped it
00:28:20yeah
00:28:22that's insane
00:28:24that'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
00:28:33you're in the school
00:28:34what's the argument?
00:28:35apparently several
00:28:37derek can argue with the ranking board
00:28:38thank you
00:28:39there 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
00:28:51every step
00:28:53that's not
00:28:54completely like a robot
00:29:00i'm not a robot
00:29:00training tomorrow
00:29:00you want to run drills?
00:29:02i want to see what you actually do with the flame shockwave combo
00:29:08sure
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
00:29:15but i think i've just made my first friend here
00:29:24wait
00:29:26three?
00:29:27i'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
00:29:42morning
00:29:43show me the combo
00:29:45you haven't even warmed up
00:29:47i warmed up thinking about this
00:29:49show me
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
00:30:21you didn't plan that?
00:30:24i planned fire and ice
00:30:26not
00:30:27this
00:30:28this hit 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
00:30:40take this
00:30:54this morning i had a ceiling
00:30:56two slots
00:30:57eight combinations
00:30:58i knew every angle
00:31:00i knew every angle
00:31:00now i don't know what this can do yet
00:31:02that'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
00:31:38i'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
00:32:40and
00:32:46Let's go.
00:33:27that's different that was yeah we come back with a better plan maybe a third person
00:33:37i need to go deeper solo again you can't sustain tremors at that depth and what i've got right
00:33:45now it's not enough i need what's deeper in there i'll be here when you get back three abilities
00:33:54all three in a real fight not a drill
00:33:58yesterday with jake the fog just sat there now it's moving jake said he'd be here when i got back
00:34:31so
00:34:37so
00:34:39so
00:34:41so
00:34:58Kills confirmed, card draws initiating, support ability acquired, common draw, not what I need, keep going.
00:35:35I don't know if flame cuts through that or just disappears into it.
00:35:44Mom, I'm coming.
00:36:30I've hit it so many times, yet he's not hurt at all.
00:36:33Not yet.
00:36:35No.
00:36:54Elite creature defeated.
00:36:56Card draw initiated.
00:37:07Ability acquired, lightning storm, advanced tier, slot configuration available.
00:37:16Partial match detected.
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, not nearby, here, in this rift, ten 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.
00:38:29An unregistered ordinary at rank 12, after four months, using abilities with no documented
00:38:33training 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.
00:39:30Monster 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.
00:39:55Same 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.
00:40:17You want to fight?
00:40:19Fine.
00:40:25He's reddit.
00:40:27Good.
00:40:34What?
00:40:35That's...
00:40:36You have lightning storm?
00:40:39I earned it.
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.
00:41:23I never was.
00:41:30Top 10.
00:41:31Cole, you're in the top 10.
00:41:32I saw it.
00:41:33Rank 10.
00:41:34I also saw rank 8.
00:41:36Who's at 8?
00:41:38Madison Frost.
00:41:39They 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.
00:42:45She 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.
00:43:23But 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.
00:44:07Winner.
00:44:07Winner.
00:44:08Cole 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, 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
00:44:48System upgrade
00:44:50Ability slot 4 unlocked
00:44:55There it is
00:45:05The 4th 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
00:45:47Central Academy
00:45:48Two time defending champions
00:45:56Pinnacle's bracket must be thin this year
00:46:03You've been champion for two years
00:46:06That's right
00:46:06Then 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
00:46:14I'll try not to end it too fast
00:46:18That was either very smart or very dumb
00:46:20Probably both
00:47:16Floater
00:47:16He's not filling gaps he's threading them
00:47:18Look 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
00:47:29Put her where the fight comes to her
00:47:30Not where she has to chase it
00:47:32Derek
00:47:32Left side suppression
00:47:33Madison
00:47:34Right side defense
00:47:35Jake flanks when they overcommit
00:47:40Why are you calling positions?
00:47:42You're not the captain
00:47:42We don't have a designated captain
00:47:45Then 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
00:47:58Why should your formation work?
00:48:01I'm not taking orders from an ordinary
00:48:03Then take suggestions from someone who did the homework
00:48:06Or we improvise tomorrow and see how that goes
00:48:22I 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
00:48:52Every time I call a direction he goes the opposite
00:48:55Just 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
00:49:09We 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
00:49:25And we none of us can
00:49:26That's the point
00:49:27I'll improvise
00:49:28I'll improvise
00:49:44I'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?
00:50:14Before we'd even seen their footage
00:50:17I cross-referenced their last four matches
00:50:19The second shoulder always comes in on a four second delay
00:50:23It's drilled, not reactive
00:50:25Cole had it
00:50:25He had it three days ago
00:50:27He covered my retreat
00:50:29He saw their targeting pattern before I did
00:50:31I don't like it
00:50:33You don't have to like it
00:50:35The relay runner
00:50:37In their pattern
00:50:38That was the break point
00:50:40Yes
00:50:41You saw that
00:50:42In the footage
00:50:43Third match
00:50:44Northern region qualifier
00:50:47What's the formation for Central Academy?
00:50:50Five person rotation
00:50:51Sophia anchors center
00:50:52You pressure their left from distance
00:50:54Don't close
00:50:55Madison holds the right corridor
00:50:57Jake 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
00:51:25Derek, hold fire until you see the left relay break
00:51:29Not before
00:51:29I know
00:51:30What about me?
00:51:32You're fastest
00:51:32Chase the relay runner
00:51:34Don't let them anchor their rotations
00:51:35Easy
00:51:37Nothing about this is easy
00:51:39Already planned
00:51:43Now
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00:52:23Two 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.
00:52:31That's, I didn't know it would feel like that.
00:52:33Decent team win, but 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. See you there.
00:52:50B-rank fire.
00:52:52Fire domain.
00:52:5316 tournament fights, 15 wins.
00:52:55The one loss was a draw, technical.
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, I looked him up.
00:53:14B-rank fire.
00:53:15That 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.
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.
00:53:39I just don't know what it looks like yet.
00:53:43Brandon!
00:53:45Brandon!
00:53:46Brandon!
00:53:47Brandon!
00:53:49I'll try not to end it too fast.
00:53:51Semi-final.
00:53:52Special recruit Cole Brannon.
00:53:54No registered rank.
00:53:55Versus two-time champion, Brandon Chase.
00:53:59B-ranked fire 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.
00:54:50Come on, Cole.
00:55:02Five.
00:55:25Legendary tier.
00:55:31Brandon Chase unable to continue.
00:55:33Winner, Cole Brennan.
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.
00:55:43I 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.
00:56:09Brandon 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.
00:56:30I forfeit.
00:56:31I forfeit.
00:56:38Okay then.
00:56:40D-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.
00:56:55Yeah.
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?
00:57:38I'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.
00:58:14Don't hold back tomorrow.
00:58:17Don't hold back tomorrow.
00:58:20Yes.
00:58:37she's adjusting to his combinations in real time first opponent all tournament who can do that to
00:58:42her you really did figure out answers to my answers some of them let me show you the ones you
00:58:49didn't
00:58:53in here i move everything you move yourself
00:59:03she's faster than i thought every time i clear a path she's already built the next wall
00:59:08too many vectors need to change the equation you're the strongest person i've fought
00:59:13i mean that but i'm not done stop you can't break this
00:59:21dad mom not yet everything now not enough
00:59:44then let's finish it
00:59:51yeah
01:00:01i can't i'm done winner cole brennan
01:00:06champion
01:00:12you won
01:00:15you're the strongest i've ever fought
01:00:19does the promise still stand about the secret
01:00:25power doesn't care where you come from but today it chose you d rank rift access effective
01:00:31immediate champion okay but that's not why i'm here d rank opens tomorrow that's what matters
01:00:49you earned it so did you this season
01:00:52i was stuck in a cage for so long cole you ripped the door off the hinges and showed me
01:01:03the possibilities
01:01:04in d rank rifts nobody wins it might be a one-way trip
01:01:10then at least we'll have the best view
01:01:15yo if the plan is save the world or get expelled can we start by getting me some help with
01:01:19these my
01:01:20back is literally screaming right now did you pack the entire cafeteria jake
01:01:30he has d rake access now good we'll be waiting
01:01:34you
01:01:36you
01:01:41you
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