[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want-":3,"chapter-my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-26":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","My Streaming Life With SSS-Rank Girls With Want My Kids",{"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},1457646,1905,"Chapter 26: Rankless (1)","my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-26",26,"\u003Cp>The time fracture had a radius of three meters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai knew it because he had counted the steps from when Jameson activated it to where the ground started to feel different — not visually, but in the way weight distributed when stepping. Like walking on ice that wasn’t cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Being inside the radius was a disadvantage for anyone fighting with normal spatial logic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai didn’t fight with normal spatial logic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the space inside the radius is unstable in all directions, then the instability is consistent. Predictable. I can work with predictable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jameson saw him enter the radius and his eyes calculated for 0.4 seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’s inside. That’s a mistake. No one voluntarily enters the fracture field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He launched soul fire directly — not from where he was physically, but from the angle the time fracture redirected: forty-five degrees to the left of the actual visual trajectory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai was no longer there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had moved the moment he saw Jameson’s right shoulder tense — the micro-movement that always preceded soul fire, three centimeters of preparation that Jameson probably didn’t know he made.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fire passed eight inches from his side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heat was real. Enough to feel it on the skin of his right arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Metal-melting temperature. If it connects, it’s not a hit. It’s the end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It won’t connect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jameson repositioned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He entered the radius. That means he calculated something I didn’t calculate. What?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He launched shadow dominion — not as a projectile but as an area, expanding it in a two-meter radius from his position. The shadow sought contact surface, any point on Kai’s body to adhere to and begin the slowing process.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai saw it expand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two-meter radius. Moves from the center outward. If I move away, it follows. If I move closer...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He moved closer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He entered the shadow’s radius before it finished expanding — into the only blind spot of any area expanding from a center: the center itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shadow passed over him like water over stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai reached a meter and a half from Jameson.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Too close. The time fracture doesn’t work at this distance — it needs space to redirect. Soul fire needs channeling distance. The shadow just passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’s inside my guard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jameson processed it in the same second Kai was already acting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Straight jab to the solar plexus — not at full power, with the exact angle that interrupts diaphragmatic breathing without breaking anything. Enough to make the next cycle of magical channeling cost twice as much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jameson absorbed the strike with an instinctive soul fire barrier — not an attack, a reflexive defense, the kind developed over four years of combat when the body learns something is coming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soul fire in defensive mode was less temperature, more mass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai felt the impact on the knuckles of his jab like putting his hand into something that resisted more than expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reflex barrier. Good. That means he reacts defensively before attacking when something comes fast. I’ll use that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stepped back two paces — outside the immediate radius of the fracture, but not outside the full field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jameson caught his breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That hit should have hurt more. He has reflex barrier permanently active at this system level. I didn’t know that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What else don’t I know?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[GarcíaFTW: REFLEX BARRIER. KAI JUST DISCOVERED A PASSIVE ABILITY JAMESON DIDN’T MENTION]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[NocheEterna99: Kai stepped back two paces. He’s logging data, not retreating.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[StreamerHunter: +478% chat bonus. The bar keeps rising.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[xSorinx: Jameson is calculating too. This fight is as much mental as physical.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Pedro_Sierra: ε=ε=ε=ε=ε=┌(; ̄◇ ̄)┘ DATA DATA DATA]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Deral_Bleattler: Jameson’s chat dropped to +41%. His viewers are watching this and switching channels.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[User_7741: (ง’̀-’́)ง LET’S GO KAI (ง’̀-’́)ง]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jameson changed strategy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Close combat is his domain. I can’t win there. I need distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He launched a wave of area enchantment — not the lust version, the offensive version the system unlocked at maximum level: a psychic pressure that traveled like sound, affecting the cognitive processing of any entity in its radius.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slowing of thought. Confusion of priorities. The kind of effect that made hunters describe contradictory sensations after facing him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai felt it arrive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not as confusion — as noise. The kind of background noise that appears when there’s too much simultaneous information and the brain has to filter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is what affected the hunters. Not combat magic — cognitive interference magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How do you handle cognitive interference?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The answer came from twelve years of training before his brain finished formulating the question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Breathing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai exhaled slowly from the diaphragm — the pre-combat concentration technique he had used in the dungeon’s memory room, the same one he applied before every important fight. It emptied the environment. Reduced sensory input to the essential.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The noise didn’t disappear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it went from foreground to background.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He lunged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not in a straight line — Jameson had the time fracture to redirect linear attacks and the shadow dominion to slow direct approaches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Diagonally. Changing the angle every two steps in a pattern that wasn’t random but based on Jameson’s micro-movements — anticipating the reaction instead of reacting to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jameson launched soul fire at the point where Kai would be according to the trajectory of the first step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai was no longer going there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He changed on the second step — knee bent, lowering center of gravity, the kind of direction change that in a normal human required full deceleration and in someone with twelve years of hip work didn’t.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fire passed over his shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Third step: lateral shift with the heel pivot he’d been correcting since Chapter one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fourth step: inside the time fracture radius again, but this time from a different angle — Jameson’s right flank, where the shadow dominion took longer to reposition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jameson turned to compensate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai was already striking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elbow to the right side — the angle strike he’d used against the corrupted A-rank bear in Chapter four, adapted for a human-sized target. Not at the ribs — at the point between ribs and hip where the body has no bone protection and the impact transmits directly to the nervous system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reflex barrier of soul fire activated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai expected it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pulled the elbow back half a centimeter at the moment of contact — enough that the barrier absorbed less than it would have from a full strike, enough for the real impact to still land behind the barrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jameson doubled over at the side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That landed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai didn’t follow up on the side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Knee to the right thigh — not to the bone, to the outer muscle group that controls lateral balance. The same break point he’d identified on the A-rank bear, adapted to bipedal anatomy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jameson lost weight on his right leg for 0.6 seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In 0.6 seconds, Kai had time for three things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He chose the most useful one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Palm strike — open-palm strike to the sternum, upward, using full body weight rotating from the hip. Not to break. To displace the center of gravity backward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jameson stumbled back three steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The time fracture radius moved with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai exited the field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It hurts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jameson processed the pain with the part of his brain that four years in Aethon had trained to separate sensation from function.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Side. Thigh. Sternum. None critical. All enough to affect the next movement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How is he dodging the time fracture? The field should disorient his approach angles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai wasn’t dodging the time fracture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was using it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every time he entered the field, he used the instability of space to make his direction changes unpredictable even to himself — which made them completely unpredictable to any system trying to anticipate them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’s turning my advantage into his variable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s... that shouldn’t be possible without understanding how the fracture works on a technical level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When did he learn it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the last two minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[NocheEterna99: JAMESON JUST REALIZED KAI LEARNED TO USE HIS TIME FRACTURE IN TWO MINUTES]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[GarcíaFTW: TWO MINUTES. IN COMBAT. HE LEARNED THE ENEMY FIELD IN TWO MINUTES.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[StreamerHunter: +521% bonus. New ability unlocking in real time.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[xSorinx: Kai’s panel shows a new black bar that wasn’t there before. Still unnamed.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Pedro_Sierra: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) what could it be what could it be ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Viewer_J_112: I’m switching channels]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Viewer_J_441: me too]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Deral_Bleattler: JAMESON’S CHAT IS ABANDONING HIM LIVE]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Chat bonus — Jameson: +12% — in free fall]\u003C\u002Fp>",1415,"2026-06-06T02:17:06.772Z",1,"novelbin.me","ea61837f389c366bf834fbdf3e49be2afecbb005d0ce71d2d86aab15ef8a7182","my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-27","my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-25",110,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmy-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--cover.jpg"]