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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.
00:02:13Wait, I'm still in here.
00:02:15Team 4 alert.
00:02:20Team 4 alert.
00:02:32Team 4 alert.
00:02:34Team 4 alert.
00:02:35Team 5 alert.
00:02:36Team 4 alert.
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. Activated.
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.
00:04:26That'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?
00:05:20Kill confirmed. Initiating card draw.
00:05:23Defeating monsters? Triggers a draw?
00:05:33Ability acquired. Shockwave. Basic tier. Slot 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.
00:06:31That's D-level ability user. Trained. Coordinated. Practiced. If that's the baseline...
00:06:38Where am I trying to go?
00:06:50More abilities. More range. More.
00:07:08Look.
00:07:09You.
00:07:21Good morning.
00:07:22You.
00:07:37I'm not.
00:07:37I'm not.
00:07:38I am still raging.
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?
00:08:34A civilian demonstrating ability.
00:08:38That contradicts a century of awakening biology. The instruments are the reliable variable here, not some rift zone anomaly.
00:08:45Three independent scans, Hargraath.
00:08:46Then 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?
00:08:58Merit is our standard. Not bloodline. Not test scores.
00:09:04Find him.
00:09:12What are you?
00:09:21Cole Brennan?
00:09:23Who are you?
00:09:29Pinnacle Academy. Admissions office.
00:09:33The Chancellor wants to meet you. Tomorrow.
00:09:44Pinnacle Academy.
00:09:45Pinnacle Academy. You think they don't screen their applications?
00:09:50No ability. Not low. Zero.
00:09:55That's what's on your file.
00:09:58They're not going to make an exception for a delivery boy because he got lucky near a rift.
00:10:03Stop staring at it.
00:10:05Your bag's been sitting there for 20 minutes.
00:10:07Food gets cold.
00:10:19Not to prove anything.
00:10:21Not to them.
00:10:23Not to him.
00:10:26Pinnacle has Class D rift acts.
00:10:29Restricted zones.
00:10:31Places that don't show up in any civilian database.
00:10:33But in those rifts, something happened in there.
00:10:36That 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.
00:11:18No uniform.
00:11:19What are you doing in here?
00:11:21Meeting with Director Reynolds.
00:11:23I'm here to see the director.
00:11:25Reynolds?
00:11:30What?
00:11:31Did 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.
00:12:07I 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.
00:12:17The entrance exam.
00:12:19Prove your worth.
00:12:20I 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, he 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, ready 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.
00:13:01Set 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.
00:13:26Biggest 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, 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, is 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.
00:14:19Cole 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.
00:14:35And Pinnacle has D-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.
00:14:51My 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.
00:15:02Begin.
00:15:03Good.
00:15:03A public fight.
00:15:05Everyone watch.
00:15:06If I win this, nobody will say I bet long.
00:15:25D-Rank fire at that output?
00:15:28This needs to be called.
00:15:29Watch.
00:15:32Every throw, same wind-up, same angle.
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 at the same time?
00:16:22Not at the same time.
00:16:24One amplifies the other.
00:16:51Winner, Cole 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, his ranking, his name.
00:17:07I'm not here for any of that.
00:17:10Cole Brennan enrolled.
00:17:21An 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, no ability history, no 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, E rank, then 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.
00:18:10You 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.
00:18:25Their world is so far from mine.
00:18:29Eighteen years of being told I'm nothing.
00:18:32And now I'm holding this.
00:18:39Come on.
00:18:41You just fought a D rank.
00:18:42And now your hands won't stop.
00:18:44I still don't know what you are.
00:18:46But whatever this is, thank you.
00:18:56You're in now, Brennan.
00:18:58Don't screw it up.
00:19:03Third day in.
00:19:05Still feel like I'm trespassing.
00:19:12Hey.
00:19:13You lost?
00:19:15Cafeterio staff entrance is on the south side.
00:19:17You think he cheated?
00:19:18Has to be.
00:19:19No way a zero beats a D rank legit.
00:19:23They don't have to like me.
00:19:25They just have to see what happens next.
00:19:35Coal.
00:19:37Solo drills.
00:19:38Far lane.
00:19:39Fine by me.
00:19:48He's stacking them.
00:19:50Shockwave opens the lane.
00:19:51Flame follows through.
00:20:06Two abilities.
00:20:07That's what I've got right now.
00:20:09Have to make them work until I can get more.
00:20:10You're burning through the practice surface.
00:20:12Sorry.
00:20:13I'll move to the far end.
00:20:15Six days to the expedition.
00:20:17Every rep is one less thing I have to figure out in the field.
00:20:40Team up with your classmates.
00:20:42Your score will be calculated by your team's kill counts.
00:20:49Alex.
00:20:50Fire support.
00:20:51Marcus.
00:20:52Shield coverage.
00:20:54Jenny.
00:20:55Speed.
00:20:55Lily.
00:20:56You're in.
00:20:59My family's remote analysts have already pushed the Ash Flats modeling to your terminals.
00:21:03Spawn rates.
00:21:04Weaknesses.
00:21:05Safe routes.
00:21:05Follow the algorithm.
00:21:07We clear the field.
00:21:08Wow.
00:21:10Whole outsourced team playing the game for you.
00:21:13Hardcore Derek.
00:21:14Should I clap for your analysts?
00:21:31Solo operation is permitted.
00:21:33All students must participate.
00:21:36Going in alone?
00:21:37Good luck out there.
00:21:39Ordinary.
00:21:40I was going in alone either way.
00:21:43That's so.
00:21:49Northeast corner.
00:21:51Higher concentration.
00:21:52Right move.
00:21:54Two abilities.
00:21:56One weak.
00:21:57I really hope that's enough.
00:21:58One leap.
00:22:00One.
00:22:02One.
00:22:04Two.
00:22:08Two.
00:22:08Two.
00:22:10One.
00:22:17One.
00:22:21Two.
00:22:33Good. Less noise. I can finally focus on the killing.
00:23:00The more you want is not going to be.
00:23:04That is why you have to throw a kill.
00:23:06You have to keep the kill.
00:23:09This is the reason why you have to kill clone.
00:23:15You are too.
00:23:20The ability to use clone clone is a unique weapon.
00:23:24Kill confirmed. Card draw initiating. Windblade. Shockwave opens it. Flame closes it. Not the other way around.
00:23:43Kill 14 confirmed.
00:23:52Fire!
00:24:02Current collection, 5 abilities. Slots, 2 of 2.
00:24:075. First time I'm choosing my own fight. Not reacting. Choosing.
00:24:135 cards, 2 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. All teams, report to the command center.
00:25:09North East 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 Brannan. Solo operation. 30 confirmed kills.
00:25:35That's... not possible. Our family AI calculated the physical ceiling.
00:25:3922 kills. Maximum. 30. Solo alone? That breaks the model.
00:25:46Wow. Just enough. So 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.
00:26:24We are requesting a full review under chapter 7.
00:26:371 kills. 7 kills. 15 kills. 22 kills. 30 kills.
00:26:45Feed is clean. No manipulation. 30 solo kills confirmed.
00:26:50The Northeast sector. That zone is outside the optimal routing parameters. He 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. E-Rank accessed. 5 kills and tomorrow clears it. Okay. 5 more.
00:27:29questions.
00:27:29Mores Goals
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 eight total.
00:27:50I got four, which is fine for E-Rank.
00:27:53Earth Tremors don't stack kills fast.
00:27:55But you were solo, and 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, you're in the school.
00:28:34What's the argument?
00:28:35Apparently several.
00:28:37Derek can argue with the ranking board.
00:28:39There 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 completely like a robot.
00:28:55Why?
00:29:00Training tomorrow.
00:29:01You want to run drills?
00:29:02I want to see what you actually do with the flame shockwave combo.
00:29:08Sure.
00:29:09I've spent every day here running the math on every conversation.
00:29:13What they want, what it costs me.
00:29:16But I think I've just made my first friend here.
00:29:24Wait.
00:29:26Three?
00:29:27I'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.
00:30:00Is 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?
00:30:23I planned fire and ice.
00:30:26Not this.
00:30:28If this hits something that can dodge fire but not ice, or the other way around, it can't
00:30:33dodge both.
00:30:34You need to be on my team for every expedition from now on.
00:30:39Take this.
00:30:50Take this.
00:30:54This morning I had a ceiling.
00:30:56Two slots, eight combinations.
00:30:58I 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.
00:32:26You're F-rakes.
00:33:09Jake!
00:33:11Jake!
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.
00:33:43And 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 think we'll be here.
00:34:39I'm gonna beat up.
00:34:40I'm gonna beat up.
00:34:42I never let me get back.
00:34:50I'm gonna beat up.
00:34:54I took the ghast.
00:34:55There was a huge difference.
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.
00:46:43You think...
00:46:51I'll try not to finish anover.
00:46:51Because you arecity and your heaven's position to have to be seen.
00:47:16The floater, he'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, put her where the fight comes to her, not where she has to
00:47:31chase it.
00:47:32Derek, left side suppression, Madison, 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.
00:47:46Then I'm captain.
00:47:52I've watched all three of tomorrow's opponent's bracket footage.
00:47:56Have you?
00:47:57You've never done team combat.
00:47:59Why should your formation work?
00:48:00I'm not taking orders from an ordinary, then take suggestions from someone who did the
00:48:05homework.
00:48:06Or we improvise tomorrow and see how that goes.
00:48:23I had it.
00:48:24Move.
00:48:47we won we got lucky next round that won't be enough he's not listening every time i call a
00:48:54direction he goes the opposite just to show me he doesn't have to we cannot go into a central academy
00:48:59team fight like this same as last time we adjust as we go they run a rotating cover pattern
00:49:12their two shield fuser cycle with their ranged attackers if we let them set up we're playing
00:49:17defense the whole match i'll handle you can't handle both shield rotation solo and we none of
00:49:26us can that's the point i'll improvise
00:49:58one more loss and we're out third match is central academy brandon's team
00:50:06cole's formation had answers for what western just did we didn't use
00:50:10she's right cole how did you clock the shield rotation three days ago before we'd even seen
00:50:16their footage i cross-referenced their last four matches the second shoulder always comes in on a
00:50:22four second delay it's drilled not reactive cole had it he had it three days ago he covered my retreat
00:50:29he saw their targeting pattern before i did i don't like it you don't have to like it
00:50:35the relay runner in their pattern that was the break point yes you saw that in the footage
00:50:43third match northern region qualifier what's the formation for central academy five person rotation
00:50:51sophia anchors center you pressure their left from distance don't close madison holds the right
00:50:57corridor jake runs interference on their relay runner i connect the zones he's not convinced i'm right
00:51:03he just ran out of ways to prove i'm wrong that's enough we can work with that
00:51:17central academy's secondary squad three of last year's semi-finalists pinnacle hasn't won a
00:51:23against roll in six years derrick hold fire until you see the left relay break not before i know
00:51:30what about me you're fastest chase the relay runner don't let them anchor their rotations
00:51:37easy nothing about this is easy already planned
00:51:44now
00:52:09jake now
00:52:17pinnacle academy team victory
00:52:21there it is two seconds that's your limit i'll take it
00:52:26good call on the relay runner we actually yeah we got it that's i didn't know it would feel like
00:52:33that
00:52:33decent team win but team fights are formations solo is different
00:52:39i watched the footage so did my coaching staff they didn't see what you saw
00:52:45semi-finals see you there
00:52:50b rank fire fire domain 16 tournament fights 15 wins the one loss was a draw technical
00:52:56he's never been stopped i 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 b rank fire that means his output's at what three four times what madison had
00:53:19about three so your ice thing won't reach him gone before it gets there which version do you think
00:53:24he'll use the one that looks like he's going easy on me every ability he has is built to end
00:53:30a fight fast
00:53:31he doesn't play defense because he's never needed to
00:53:37i think there's a seam i just don't know what it looks like yet
00:53:48i'll try not to end it too fast
00:53:51semi-final special recruit cole brandon no registered rank versus two-time champion brandon chase
00:53:59b rank fire specialist
00:54:06good combinations you're actually trying
00:54:24you've got one slot left that you haven't shown me
00:54:27i've been counting whatever it is it's not going to be enough
00:54:30but i'm genuinely curious what you pull out
00:54:34one slot left make it count
00:54:45whatever the last slot is i'd like to see it
00:54:50come on cole
00:55:01five
00:55:24legendary tear
00:55:35legendary tear
00:55:36five
00:55:37five splots
00:55:37how are you ordinary
00:55:39i'm not sure ordinary was ever the right word
00:55:41no
00:55:42i don't think it was
00:55:53that's what five feels like
00:55:55all of it at once
00:55:57tomorrow's a different problem
00:56:09brandon had no answer for the five ability sequence
00:56:12nobody's going to
00:56:13sophia will have an answer
00:56:15that's the problem
00:56:15then 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
00:56:39d rank access
00:56:41that's what's on the other side of tomorrow
00:56:45not the trophy
00:56:46not the title
00:56:48the door
00:56:52you okay
00:56:53yeah
00:56:54yeah
00:56:56liar
00:56:57liar
00:56:59she finished her semi-final in 90 seconds
00:57:01telekinesis 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
00:57:33the environment control is earlier than i can counter with sequencing alone
00:57:37is that a problem
00:57:38i'm working on it
00:57:40you promised
00:57:41if 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
00:58:06cole brernan
00:58:07pinnacle academy special recruit
00:58:09entered this tournament unranked
00:58:10zero rank to the championship round
00:58:12and sophia veil
00:58:13pinnacle's first seed
00:58:14c-rank telekinesis
00:58:15five-year undefeated record
00:58:17full ability use is permitted
00:58:19ready
00:58:20ready
00:58:20yes
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
00:58:46some of them
00:58:47let me show you the ones you didn't
00:58:53in here
00:58:54i move everything
00:58:55you move yourself
00:59:03she's faster than i thought
00:59:04every time i clear a path
00:59:06she'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
00:59:13but i'm not done
00:59:15stop
00:59:16you can't break this
00:59:21dad
00:59:22mom
00:59:23not yet
00:59:25everything
00:59:26now
00:59:27not enough
00:59:44then let's finish it
00:59:51yeah
01:00:02i can't
01:00:03i'm done
01:00:04winner
01:00:04cole brennan
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
01:00:24power doesn't care where you come from
01:00:27but today
01:00:28it chose you
01:00:29d rank rift access
01:00:30effective immediate
01:00:32champion
01:00:33okay
01:00:33but that's not why i'm here
01:00:35d rank opens tomorrow
01:00:38that's what matters
01:00:39whoa
01:00:49you earned it
01:00:50so 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
01:01:09then at least we'll have the best view
01:01:15yo if the plan is save the world or get expelled
01:01:18can 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 rake access now
01:01:32good
01:01:33we'll be waiting
01:01:35you
01:01:42you
01:01:43you
01:01:43you
01:01:43you
01:01:43you
01:01:43you
01:01:43you
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