MY HIDDEN TALENT IS FORBIDDEN BY THE HEAVENS-Chapter 193: THE FIRST STRIKE OF THE NINE
Chapter 193 — THE FIRST STRIKE OF THE NINE
The sky trembled.
Not from thunder.
From nine sovereign signatures igniting at once.
The Jade Dragon had erased five cities and crippled entire military divisions. Missiles had failed. Railguns had failed. The roar had broken glass across provinces and flattened battalions.
Now—
The Nine moved.
Not as scattered powers.
As a single strike.
Above the ruined plain between shattered cities and the smoking remains of evacuation corridors, the dragon lifted its head slowly.
Its emerald eyes burned brighter.
"Insects."
It inhaled.
Emerald light condensed deep inside its throat.
If the roar came again—
The sixth city behind the Nine would disappear.
Dr. Elena Kovács’ voice echoed across the encrypted channel.
"Window confirmed. Nine-point-seven-second instability at dorsal convergence."
Everyone knew what that meant.
One chance.
If the strike failed—
The dragon would simply advance.
Astra Nyx — Dimensional Severance
The first movement came from absence.
Space folded beside the dragon’s massive back.
A thin fracture appeared in the air itself—like glass bending under invisible pressure.
Astra Nyx stepped through it.
She did not attack wildly.
Her blade appeared in silence, forged from condensed spatial distortion.
She studied the dragon’s dorsal seam for half a second.
Then she moved.
"Sever."
Her blade traced a single arc.
Space split open.
The cut did not slice jade.
It sliced the dimension the jade existed in.
For a fraction of a second—
The dragon’s scale cluster existed in two overlapping planes.
And the seam opened.
A faint line of disruption flashed across its back.
Headmaster Suryavansh Rao — Solar Collapse
The sky ignited.
Above the battlefield, clouds combusted into blazing gold as Headmaster Suryavansh Rao raised both arms.
A miniature sun formed between his palms.
Not light.
Not flame.
Compressed stellar plasma.
His robes burned with solar resonance as he thrust the sphere downward.
"Solar Collapse."
The newborn sun screamed toward the dimensional seam Astra had created.
It struck.
The explosion was blinding.
Gold plasma flooded the battlefield like a collapsing star.
The dragon’s jade scales glowed white-hot beneath the impact.
Entire mountainsides evaporated under the heat surge.
General Han Dae-Woo — Kinetic Breaker
Before the explosion dispersed—
A shadow fell from the sky.
General Han Dae-Woo descended like a meteor.
Every muscle in his body ignited with kinetic amplification as he dropped from kilometers above.
His fists crashed into the glowing seam.
"Breaker."
The impact cracked the earth.
A shockwave rolled across the battlefield, flattening emerald crystal formations and shattering what remained of nearby structures.
The dragon’s massive torso shifted slightly.
A crack spread across three jade scales.
For the first time since its manifestation—
Its body tilted.
Commander Rafael Ibarra — Oceanic Pressure
Water answered next.
Though the ocean lay far beyond the battlefield, Commander Rafael Ibarra lifted entire rivers into the sky.
Columns of water rose from shattered waterways, spiraling upward like liquid towers.
He clenched his fist.
"Tidal Crush."
The water condensed instantly into a rotating spear of immense pressure.
It slammed into the exposed seam.
Steam detonated outward as oceanic mass collided with solar plasma.
The pressure forced the solar energy deeper into the crack.
Dr. Elena Kovács — Harmonic Collapse
Hundreds of drones spread across the sky.
Dr. Kovács’ machines formed a ring around the dragon’s torso, each emitting a different frequency.
Her voice remained cold and precise.
"Phase inversion."
Soundless waves struck the dragon simultaneously.
The frequencies collided inside the crack Astra had opened.
The jade scales began vibrating violently.
For the first time—
The dragon’s emerald glow flickered irregularly.
The crystalline lattice destabilized under harmonic disruption.
Grandmaster Tenzin Dorje — Foundation Suppression
Grandmaster Dorje finally raised his hand.
The battlefield went still.
Not calm.
Heavy.
The earth beneath the dragon sank slightly under immense invisible pressure.
"Foundation bow."
Gravity multiplied.
The dragon’s enormous body was forced downward by amplified weight.
The crack widened further.
Its wing dipped lower under the sudden gravitational load.
Kaito Veyron — Void Chains
Chains exploded across the sky.
Black metal links surged outward from Kaito Veyron’s arms, glowing faintly with void energy.
They wrapped around the dragon’s cracked scales like serpents.
Once.
Twice.
Ten times.
"Bind."
The chains tightened violently.
Void energy compressed the fracture, preventing the dragon from immediately rewriting its crystalline structure.
The chains dug deep between jade scales.
Dean Feng Yanrui — Vermilion Phoenix Flame
Then came fire.
Dean Feng Yanrui rose into the air, surrounded by blazing crimson aura.
His presence radiated heat like a living star.
Behind him—
A massive phoenix silhouette formed from living flame.
His eyes burned with absolute focus.
"Phoenix Descent."
The flaming avatar dived toward the cracked seam.
The phoenix struck the weakened scales directly.
Crimson fire exploded outward, mixing with solar plasma and tidal steam.
The battlefield vanished under a storm of red and gold flame.
Dean Xu Canglong — Azure Severance
Last came the blade.
Dean Xu Canglong stepped through the smoke.
Tall.
Calm.
His sword was already drawn.
It was not metal.
It was condensed light—thin, precise, impossibly sharp.
He raised the blade slowly.
Every other strike had created force.
His created silence.
He swung.
Azure light flashed across the battlefield.
The strike carved a perfect line through the already fractured scales.
The blade passed through the seam created by Astra, widened by Han, pressured by Ibarra, destabilized by Kovács, suppressed by Dorje, bound by Kaito, and ignited by Feng Yanrui.
For one moment—
The dragon’s massive wing sagged.
The seam widened.
The Nine hovered above the battlefield.
The explosion from their combined attacks swallowed the entire horizon.
Solar plasma.
Phoenix fire.
Ocean steam.
Harmonic resonance.
Gravitational pressure.
Void chains.
Light severance.
Dust and smoke rolled across kilometers of ruined terrain.
The command bunker screens went white.
General Rao whispered,
"Did they...?"
Seconds passed.
Five.
Ten.
The smoke slowly began to fade.
The Nine watched carefully.
Something felt wrong.
The dust thinned.
The fire dimmed.
And the Jade Dragon stood.
Unmoved.
The chains had vanished.
The phoenix flames faded from its scales.
The solar plasma had dissipated.
The gravitational pressure lifted.
The crack—
Still existed.
But it had not widened.
Instead—
The jade scales were glowing brighter.
Emerald veins pulsed beneath the damaged section.
The dragon lifted its head slowly.
Its wings expanded.
The battlefield trembled again.
The dragon exhaled quietly.
Emerald light washed across its body.
The cracks sealed.
Not healed.
Rewritten.
Its voice rolled across the battlefield like distant thunder.
"Correction complete."
The Nine remained in the air.
Their strongest coordinated strike had landed perfectly.
Every power.
Every weakness targeted.
And the dragon had not moved.
Its emerald eyes burned brighter now.
And for the first time—
It looked irritated.
The dragon lifted one colossal claw.
The ground below began to split open again.
The battlefield trembled.
And the Jade Dragon prepared to answer.
[Chapter ENDS]
