[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-awakening-a-10-000x-skill-proficiency-multiplier":3,"chapter-awakening-a-10-000x-skill-proficiency-multiplier-awakening-a-10-000x-skill-proficiency-multiplier-chapter-67":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Awakening a 10,000x Skill Proficiency Multiplier in the Apocalypse",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1480593,1927,"Chapter 67: [67]: The Gate Opens, Raining Spiders","awakening-a-10-000x-skill-proficiency-multiplier-chapter-67",67,"\u003Cp>Sebastian stood in the grand hall of Sanctuary and stared at the massive glowing holographic monitors projecting from the obsidian war table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heavy air of the thirty-five percent global synchronization pressed against his skull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The digital countdown hovering in the upper corner of his vision had finally hit zero. The tutorial was officially over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boss,\" Wraith’s voice buzzed over the localized comms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Assassin was perched on the highest spire of the Citadel’s outer wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You need to see this. Downtown. Now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Valerie rapidly tapped the console and shifted the primary feed to a high-altitude drone camera they had scavenged from the military convoy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The feed flickered with static before snapping into sharp focus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Downtown Metropolis was located about ten miles from their industrial sector. Usually, it was a skyline of sleek glass and steel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now, it looked like hell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Holy shit,\" Valerie whispered. Her hands dropped from the keyboard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A jagged black crack hung suspended in the air directly over the tallest skyscrapers. It was fifty stories high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn’t look like a portal. It looked like the universe had been stabbed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sickly purple light pulsed from the edges of the tear and cast a horrifying glow over the panicked city streets below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Abyssal Gate,\" Sebastian muttered. His voice was completely flat. \"They didn’t even wait for the full merge. The Void Gods are impatient.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sebastian, what comes out of a gate that big?\" Valerie asked. Her voice shook.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The standing army,\" Sebastian replied. \"Tier 2. Say goodbye to the zombies, Princess. The real bugs are here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the massive monitor, the black tear suddenly widened with a deafening noise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SCREEEECH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound distorted the drone’s audio feed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, it started raining monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They poured out of the fifty-story portal like an unending waterfall of dark metal and alien flesh. Thousands of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They hit the sides of the glass skyscrapers. Their massive claws easily punched through the reinforced windows to arrest their fall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They scuttled down the buildings with terrifying speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Void Crawlers,\" Sebastian identified them. \"Bio-mechanical spider-demons. Nasty armor, heavy physical damage, and they eat literally everything.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The drone zoomed in on a busy intersection. The traffic was completely gridlocked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thousands of civilians had abandoned their cars and tried to flee on foot as the sky tore open above them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was an absolute massacre.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive Void Crawler easily the size of a dump truck dropped directly into the center of the crowd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked like a fusion of a tarantula and a rusted tank. Its sleek carapace dripped with corrosive black slime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CRUNCH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The monster didn’t even slow down. It landed directly on top of a screaming family and instantly turned them into a sickening paste of crushed bone and red pulp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crowd erupted into pure panic. People trampled each other as they screamed and cried. The spiders swarmed the streets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The camera caught a businessman in a torn suit desperately sprinting away from an overturned bus. He didn’t make it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Crawler lunged forward with explosive speed. Its massive mandibles snapped shut directly around the man’s waist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"AGGGHHHH!\" the man shrieked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spider violently jerked its head back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SNAP!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SQUELCH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man was brutally torn in half. His lower body fell to the pavement in a spray of thick blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His upper torso remained trapped in the monster’s jaws. Wet ropes of intestines unspooled from his severed waist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The horrifying part was that the top half of the man was still alive. His arms flailed wildly as he screamed in agony.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Crawler tilted its head back to swallow him whole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Turn it off. Turn it off!\" Valerie gagged. She turned away from the screen and pressed her hands over her mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Leave it on,\" Sebastian ordered coldly. \"We need to see the deployment response.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Down in the city, the military finally engaged. A blockade of National Guard troops held a defensive line at the edge of the financial district. They were reinforced by three heavy Abrams tanks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"OPEN FIRE! BRING THOSE FREAKS DOWN!\" a tiny voice yelled over the drone’s audio.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hundreds of assault rifles lit up the dim street. The tanks fired their 120mm cannons directly into the swarm of towering spiders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the old world, that kind of concentrated firepower would have leveled a city block. In the new reality, it was a joke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heavy tank shells and armor-piercing bullets hit the air ten feet away from the Crawlers and simply stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A shimmering purple hex-grid flared to life around the monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Void Shields,\" Sebastian sighed. He rubbed the bridge of his nose. \"Physical projectiles below Tier 3 don’t even trigger the hit detection. They’re shooting spitballs at a brick wall.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The military response collapsed in less than sixty seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Void Crawlers charged right through the hail of useless bullets. One of the massive spiders leaped onto the lead Abrams tank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its scythe-like front legs plunged directly through the thick armor of the turret like it was made of warm butter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SCREEEECH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spider forcefully ripped the entire turret off the chassis. It tossed the multi-ton hunk of metal aside like a discarded toy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crew inside didn’t even have time to scream before the monster plunged its mandibles into the exposed hull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The infantry line broke. Soldiers dropped their useless rifles and ran. Their tactical training was entirely shattered by the Ethereal Plane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn’t matter. The spiders were faster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Crawler swept its massive leg through a squad of fleeing soldiers. The jagged barbs on its limb skewered three men at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The monster lifted them into the air. The soldiers thrashed and gurgled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their blood rapidly drained down the spider’s leg. It was physically absorbed into the bio-mechanical armor to heal whatever minor scratches the military had managed to inflict.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They’re wiping the whole sector,\" Wraith’s voice came over the comms again. \"Boss, they are eating the concrete, the steel, the people. They’re gathering biomass.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know,\" Sebastian said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He leaned over the war table. His silver-tinged eyes tracked the red blips multiplying on the holographic map.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They’re building a nesting ground. If those things lay eggs, the entire eastern seaboard is going to be buried under a billion spiders in a week.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We’re safe here, right?\" Valerie asked. She forced herself to look back at the screen and gripped her oak staff tightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Citadel walls are Tier 5. The golden dome vaporizes anything Void-corrupted.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We’re safe for a month. Maybe two,\" Sebastian calculated smoothly. \"But if they breed, they’ll out-scale us.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They’ll consume enough biomass to hit Level 50. Then they’ll just walk over our dome and crush this fortress under their sheer weight.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stood up straight. The exhaustion in his muscles was completely gone. It was replaced by the cold adrenaline of the coming war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We can’t just hide in the bunker,\" Sebastian said. \"We have to pull the weeds.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"With what army?\" Valerie demanded. \"Vance’s guys are out of ammo and traumatized! We have a bunch of refugees and some scrap metal golems!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We don’t need a massive army,\" Sebastian smirked. A dark glint appeared in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We just need a really big can of bug spray. Let’s go see what Galleon has been building in the garage.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1214,"2026-06-06T03:26:14.952Z",1,"novelbin.me","95e2815a5c2e47b5deef1d1f4736ea8b78ab7f935a0b2ab6a2a35ac98c9f92cf","awakening-a-10-000x-skill-proficiency-multiplier-chapter-124","awakening-a-10-000x-skill-proficiency-multiplier-chapter-66",198,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fawakening-a-10-000x-skill-proficiency-multiplier-cover.jpg"]