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They Called Me Worthless Until My Cards Destroyed Their Academy New 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.
00:02:10Goal for storm damage.
00:02:13Wait, wait, I'm still in here!
00:02:14Wait, wait, I'm still in here!
00:02:15Wait, wait, I'm still in here!
00:02:15Take out!
00:02:32Ah!
00:02:34Ah!
00:02:35Oh no!
00:02:37Ah!
00:02:39Ah!
00:02:47I can't outrun this.
00:03:12Mom. 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...
00:04:21Hostile entity detected. 20 meters.
00:04:25That's the same one?
00:04:28First awakening protocol.
00:04:30Wait! Right now?
00:04:31No!
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?
00:04:45What is this?
00:04:51It's coming.
00:05:00Back off!
00:05:11I... 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.
00:05:34Ability acquired. Shockwave. Basic tier.
00:05:36Slot two of two. Equipped.
00:05:41Full.
00:05:51You're alive?
00:05:53That mark. Are you an ability user?
00:05:58I don't know.
00:06:03Move.
00:06:22Always. 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.
00:07:20Move.
00:07:40The blaze might go nothing.
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. 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
00:08:43rift zone anomaly.
00:08:45Three independent scans, Hargrave. Then the scans confirmed it. He has no ability.
00:08:50If 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.
00:09:00Not bloodline. Not test scores. Find him.
00:09:12What are you?
00:09:21Cole Brennan?
00:09:23Who are you?
00:09:29Pinnacle Academy. Admissions office. The Chancellor wants to meet you. Tomorrow.
00:09:44Pinnacle Academy. You think they don't screen their applications? No ability. Not low. Zero.
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. Stop staring at
00:10:04it. Your 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.
00:10:33But in those rifts, something happened in there. That envelope is an invitation. It'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. What 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?
00:11:35Nobody 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.
00:12:05The 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. The 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.
00:12:39He 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.
00:12:53Tests, certifications, years 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.
00:13:26Big throw.
00:13:27Biggest he's got.
00:13:28You can see it coming from across the room.
00:13:30His whole body loads up before he lets go.
00:13:33One shot and 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 it.
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 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.
00:14:20Cole 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.
00:14:33She has to.
00:14:34And Pinnacle has de-rag rift access.
00:14:37That'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. Begin.
00:15:02Good.
00:15:03A public fight.
00:15:05Everyone watch.
00:15:06If I win this, nobody can say I don't belong here.
00:15:25D rank fire at that output?
00:15:28This needs to be called.
00:15:29Watch.
00:15:32Every throw.
00:15:33Same wind up.
00:15:34Same angle.
00:15:34He can't steer it.
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.
00:16:00You 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?
00:16:20At the same time?
00:16:21Not at the same time.
00:16:24One amplifies the other.
00:16:51Winner!
00:16:52Cole Brennan!
00:16:58Two abilities combined.
00:17:00Interesting.
00:17:01Pure force with no control is useless.
00:17:04Derek fought for his pride.
00:17:05His ranking.
00:17:06His 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.
00:17:19Ability 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.
00:17:31No ability history.
00:17:32No 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?
00:17:42E rank.
00:17:43Then 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.
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.
00:18:09You 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 them.
00:18:26No decision.
00:18:27Do you know what happens?
00:18:29You're not being prepared.
00:18:31I am.
00:18:33That's not going to go ahead.
00:18:33I'm capable of doing this.
00:18:39You're a big one.
00:18:41I've been there.
00:18:41You're a big one.
00:18:42There's no doubt about it.
00:18:43Oh, there's no doubt about it.
00:18:44Yes.
00:18:45I've been there.
00:18:48Those days.
00:18:48There's no doubt about it.
00:18:49thank you you're in now Brennan don't screw it up
00:19:03third day in still feel like I'm trespassing hey you lost cafeteria staff
00:19:16entrances on the south side you think he cheated has to be no way a zero beats a
00:19:21d-rank legit they don't have to like me they just have to see what happens next
00:19:35cold solo drills far lane fine by me
00:19:48he's stacking shockwave opens the lane flame follows through
00:20:06two abilities that's what I've got right now have to make them work until I can
00:20:10get more you're burning through the practice surface sorry I'll move to the
00:20:14far end six days to the expedition every rep is one less thing I have to figure
00:20:19out in the field
00:20:40team up with your classmates your score will be calculated by your team's kill
00:20:49counts
00:20:50Alex fire support Marcus shield coverage Jenny speed Lily you're in my family's
00:21:00remote analysts have already pushed the ash flats modeling to your terminals spawn
00:21:03rates weaknesses safe routes follow the algorithm we clear the field
00:21:09wow whole outsource team playing the game for you hardcore Derek should I clap for your analysts
00:21:24tests
00:21:31solo operation is permitted all students must participate going in alone good luck out
00:21:38there ordinary I was going in alone either way that's so
00:21:44fourth eastern left
00:21:50east corner higher concentration right move two abilities one week I really hope that's enough
00:22:27Transcription by CastingWords
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. 5 abilities. Slots. 2 of 2.
00:24:075. First time I'm choosing my own fight. Not reacting. Choosing. Five cards. Two hands. That's the game.
00:24:29Yeah, I know, right?
00:24:32Dude, I got this new gun. It's sick.
00:24:34I can't believe we did that.
00:24:3610 confirmed. Sector 2. Northeast quarter. Clean sweep.
00:24:54Alpha team. Derek Ashford. 10 confirmed kills.
00:24:57Derek Ashford team. 10 confirmed.
00:25:00All 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.
00:25:17That can't... that can't be right.
00:25:19Cole Brannon. Solo operation.
00:25:35That's... not possible.
00:25:37Our family AI calculated the physical ceiling.
00:25:3922 kills. Maximum. 30.
00:25:42Solo alone? That breaks the model.
00:25:46Wow. Just 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 time.
00:26:25We are requesting a full review under Chapter 7.
00:26:50The Northeast sector. That 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. Page 4.
00:27:07What was that route?
00:27:09He mapped it beforehand. From the briefing.
00:27:12Rank 20. E-rank access is next.
00:27:16E-rank accessed.
00:27:185 kills and tomorrow clears it.
00:27:21Okay.
00:27:225 more.
00:27:40Hey, sit here.
00:27:41I mean, I just have questions.
00:27:46Questions.
00:27:47Yeah, sit 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.
00:28:08That'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.
00:28:21Yeah.
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.
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.
00:28:40There 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 want to run drills?
00:29:02I want to see what you actually do with the flame shockwave combo.
00:29:05I want to see what you 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.
00:29:16But 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, get 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.
00:29:51Hmm.
00:29:56Hmm.
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?
00:30:24I planned fire and ice.
00:30:26Not this.
00:30:28If 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.
00:30:57Eight 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.
00:32:33And...
00:32:34The main thing is...
00:32:35Oh...
00:32:37Oh...
00:32:38Oh...
00:32:41Oh...
00:32:46I'll kill you.
00:32:47Then...
00:32:47Oh...
00:32:51Oh...
00:32:52Oh...
00:32:53Oh...
00:32:54Oh...
00:33:09Jake!
00:33:26That'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...
00:34:02sat there.
00:34:03Now it's moving.
00:34:05Jake said he'd be here when I got back.
00:34:37I have a rocket.
00:34:39Really?
00:34:43My arm has been in the past.
00:34:47I was walking away from this thing when I got back.
00:34:52I ain't really sorry.
00:34:55I
00:34:58Kills confirmed.
00:35:00Card draws initiating.
00:35:02Support ability acquired.
00:35:04Common draw.
00:35:06Not what I need.
00:35:07Keep going.
00:35:35I don't know if flame cuts through that or just...
00:35:38Disappears 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.
00:37:08Lightning storm.
00:37:10Advanced tier.
00:37:12Slot 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.
00:37:26Not nearby.
00:37:28Here.
00:37:29In this rift.
00:37:31Ten 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.
00:38:01One 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
00:38:35rec 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.
00:38:52Well, I understand.
00:39:03Three slots.
00:39:05It's still weird having three.
00:39:07Three slots.
00:39:08It's still weird having three.
00:39:46You 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.
00:40:18You want to fight?
00:40:19Fine.
00:40:24He's reddit.
00:40:27Good.
00:40:34What?
00:40:35That's...
00:40:37You have lightning storm?
00:40:39I earned it.
00:41:03Don't follow me into rifts again.
00:41:06How?
00:41:07How...
00:41:07How do you get that power?
00:41:08I'm not here for you, Derek.
00:41:10I never was.
00:41:30Top 10.
00:41:30Cole, 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?
00:41:37Madison 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, 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, but I've fought three slot users before.
00:43:35The math doesn't change.
00:43:37More combinations, same ceiling.
00:43:43She's right about the ceiling.
00:43:45Time to move it.
00:43:47That'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, Cole Brannan.
00:44:09Plasma Storm, where 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.
00:44:49System 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.
00:45:47Central Academy, two-time defending champions.
00:45:56Pinnacle's bracket must be thin this year.
00:45:59Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
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.
00:46:32No.
00:46:47No!
00:47:15The Floater.
00:47:16He'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.
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?
00:47:41You're not the captain.
00:47:43We don't have a designated captain.
00:47:45Captain, then 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,
00:48:03then 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 fuzers 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.
00:50:25He 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.
00:50:44Third match, Northern Region Qualifier.
00:50:47What's the formation for Central Academy?
00:50:49Five-person rotation.
00:50:51Sophia anchors center.
00:50:52You 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.
00:51:30What 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.
00:51:44Now!
00:52:09Jake, now!
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.
00:52:29We got it.
00:52:31That's...
00:52:31I didn't know it would feel like that.
00:52:33Decent team win.
00:52:34But 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.
00:52:46Semi-finals.
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.
00:52:59I 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.
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.
00:53:36I 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.
00:53:51Semi-final.
00:53:52Special recruit Cole Brannon.
00:53:54No registered rank.
00:53:56Versus two-time champion Brandon Chase.
00:53:59B-rank fire specialist.
00:54:06Good combinations.
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.
00:55:01Five.
00:55:03Five.
00:55:07Five.
00:55:11Five.
00:55:11Five.
00:55:11Five.
00:55:11Five.
00:55:13Five.
00:55:15Five.
00:55:17Five.
00:55:19Five.
00:55:25Legendary Tear.
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.
00:55:53That's what five feels like. All of it at once.
00:55:57Tomorrow's a different problem.
00:55:59You crazy!
00:56:03You crazy!
00:56:09Brandon had no answer for the five ability sequence.
00:56:12Nobody'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.
00:56:20I don't know what to do with that.
00:56:30I 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?
00:57:39I'm working on it.
00:57:40You promised.
00:57:42If 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.
00:58:47Let 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.
00:59:22Dad.
00:59:23Mom.
00:59:23Mom.
00:59:24Not yet.
00:59:26Everything.
00:59:27Now.
00:59:28Not enough.
00:59:29Not enough.
00:59:43Then 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!
01:00:49You 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.
01:01:342-
01:01:36You're up.
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