[{"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-68":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},1480595,1927,"Chapter 68: [68]: Deployment, The Sky-Fortress","awakening-a-10-000x-skill-proficiency-multiplier-chapter-68",68,"\u003Cp>The sub-level engineering bay of Sanctuary was a chaotic hazard of sparks and screaming metal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sebastian kicked the heavy iron doors open and strode into the massive cavern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Valerie followed closely behind. She coughed as the thick blue smoke from the Storm Core battery hit her lungs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Galleon!\" Sebastian barked. His voice carried effortlessly over the deafening noise of automated dwarven machinery. \"Tell me you didn’t blow up the basement!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boss!\" Galleon popped his head out from under a massive armored turbine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dwarf’s face was entirely black with soot. His beard was singed, and his eyes were wide with energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Blow it up? I made it beautiful! You asked for transport! You asked for heavy fire support! I gave you a flying war crime!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sebastian walked past a pile of discarded railgun barrels and looked at the center of the cavern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sitting in the massive launch bay and hovering three feet off the ground was the Sky-Fortress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t a sleek jet. It wasn’t a helicopter. It looked like a massive chunk of the Citadel had been violently ripped from the walls and strapped to a jet engine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a flat armored platform of pure black basalt and titanium. It was roughly the size of a basketball court.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lining the edges of the platform were six highly illegal mana-conducting railguns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You built a floating brick,\" Valerie said. She stared at the monstrosity in sheer disbelief. \"Sebastian, this thing looks like a dumpster.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Flying shapes are for cowards who obey gravity,\" Galleon scoffed. He wiped grease on his leathers and patted the side of the thick stone hull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She doesn’t fly. She repels the earth. I hooked up the anti-gravity runes you pulled from the dungeon directly into a localized mana-engine.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What’s powering it?\" Sebastian asked as he stepped up onto the heavy metal ramp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s the best part!\" Galleon grinned. He revealed a mouthful of crooked gold-capped teeth and pointed to the center of the platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Encased in a thick transparent cylinder of hard-light magic was a massive frozen blue Dragon’s Heart. They had ripped it out of Velkhana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was pulsing slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>THROOM.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>THROOM.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With every beat, thick cables of blue energy pumped raw absolute zero mana into the platform’s thrusters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It runs on dragon juice and terrible ideas!\" Galleon laughed. \"Top speed is roughly very fast. The shielding is rated to handle indirect nuclear blasts.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just try not to press the red button near the helm unless you want to violently vent the exhaust into the passenger cabin.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Noted. They would have a heart attack, but I love it,\" Sebastian smirked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked to the control pedestal at the front. It wasn’t a steering wheel. It was a flat slab of glowing runes that synced directly with his physical mana pool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wraith,\" Sebastian tapped his comm-link. \"Assemble the Abyss Knights. Meet us in the hangar.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"On my way, Boss,\" the Assassin’s static voice replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten minutes later, the heavy blast doors of the engineering bay opened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t an army of thousands. Sebastian didn’t want the liability of a massive raid group. He had hand-picked exactly twenty men.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They marched into the room in perfect unison. These were the absolute elite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wraith’s core assassin squad formed the vanguard. Behind them were the fifteen heaviest survivors from Colonel Vance’s military unit and the remnants of the Iron Covenant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had all been forcibly leveled up in the Ethereal Plane’s training dungeons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They weren’t wearing standard military kevlar anymore. They were clad in heavy pitch-black Ethereal plate armor forged by Galleon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They carried massive glowing broadswords and heavy repeating crossbows enchanted with explosive runes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Abyss Knight Corps is ready for deployment,\" Wraith reported as he materialized beside Sebastian. \"Morale is violent. They want payback for the city.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good. Point that anger at the bugs,\" Sebastian said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at the twenty men filing onto the Sky-Fortress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Listen up! We are not going down there to fight a fair war. We are going to exterminate a pest problem.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Stay on the platform. Man the railguns. Do not step off the edge unless you want to get eaten by a spider the size of a minivan. Clear?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"SIR, YES, SIR!\" the twenty voices boomed in the cavern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Valerie stepped onto the platform. Her grip tightened on her oak staff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked at Sebastian with her blue eyes filled with calm determination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ll handle the civilian extraction. The Valkyrie class has hard-light bridges. I can pull people out of the skyscrapers while you clear the streets.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t burn out your mana pool, Princess,\" Sebastian warned and gave her a serious look. \"If your sync rate pushes too hard, your physical brain will fry. Save some juice for the boss.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Worry about yourself, Drifter,\" Valerie smirked faintly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Galleon, open the roof,\" Sebastian commanded. He placed his hands on the glowing runic steering console.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Opening the sun-roof! Try not to scratch the paint!\" the dwarf yelled from the control booth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a deafening screech of heavy machinery, the massive titanium blast doors above the engineering bay slowly slid apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sickly blood-red light of the apocalypse spilled down into the dark cavern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sebastian channeled a tiny fraction of his glitched mana pool into the Dragon’s Heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sky-Fortress groaned. The anti-gravity runes flared a blinding icy blue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>WHOOSH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sheer displacement of air knocked loose tools off the workbenches below as the massive stone platform lifted off the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn’t hover gently. It shot straight upward with the terrifying thrust of a rocket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They blasted out of the Sanctuary’s roof and into the bleeding sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The freezing wind instantly whipped at Sebastian’s black leather coat. He stood at the helm, entirely unbothered by the sheer velocity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Below them, the safety of the golden dome shrank into the distance. Ahead of them lay Downtown Metropolis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a nightmare of epic proportions. Entire city blocks were burning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The smoke was so thick it looked like a solid black wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Massive dark shapes scuttled up the sides of the remaining skyscrapers. They tore through glass and steel to get to the screaming civilians hiding inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Target area reached! Left flank! Skyscraper at three o’clock!\" Wraith barked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive Void Crawler was clinging to the side of a glass corporate tower. It was desperately trying to pry open a reinforced safe room on the fortieth floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Light it up,\" Sebastian commanded smoothly. He didn’t even turn his head.\u003C\u002Fp>",1074,"2026-06-06T03:26:14.952Z",1,"novelbin.me","3719614ed612bab7a90a9aab135c9481fedf9c7562066bcbe2adf4ae513733ed","awakening-a-10-000x-skill-proficiency-multiplier-chapter-125","awakening-a-10-000x-skill-proficiency-multiplier-chapter-124",198,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fawakening-a-10-000x-skill-proficiency-multiplier-cover.jpg"]