MY HIDDEN TALENT IS FORBIDDEN BY THE HEAVENS-Chapter 190: WAR ROOM UNDER A JADE SKY

Chapter 190 — WAR ROOM UNDER A JADE SKY

The emerald beam did not just strike.

It erased.

A line of incandescent jade tore across the sky and carved through forty kilometers of landscape before dispersing into the upper atmosphere. Mountains sheared in half. A transmission tower vaporized without debris. The air along the beam’s path crystallized momentarily into suspended green shards before shattering like glass.

Across the nation, alarms detonated simultaneously.

Air raid sirens wailed.

Emergency broadcasts cut into every channel.

The Jade Dragon’s silhouette loomed across live feeds—massive, ancient, impossible.

In underground command bunkers, hardened war rooms, and secure military facilities across the continent, officers stared at screens that refused to make sense.

General Arvind Rao stood in the central defense command chamber, a cavernous room carved deep beneath reinforced granite. The ceiling vibrated faintly from distant tectonic tremors.

He did not blink.

"Satellite confirmation?"

"Confirmed, sir. Object length estimated at six kilometers. Altitude variable. Structure composed of crystalline lattice—non-metallic, non-biological."

"Casualties?"

Silence.

Then—

"City One—eighty percent structural loss. City Two—sixty-five percent. City Three... total conversion."

"Conversion?" Rao snapped.

"Surface layer replaced with jade-like crystalline matter. Civilian movement signatures minimal."

Minimal.

Meaning unknown.

Rao’s jaw tightened.

"Mobilize all divisions. Code Black Leviathan."

Screens around the chamber lit up in synchronized response.

Missile batteries activated.

Long-range artillery unlocked.

Air force squadrons scrambled.

Naval fleets reoriented toward eastern coastline defense posture.

In a separate underground laboratory, civilian scientists in lab coats watched spectral analysis scroll across their monitors.

"This isn’t radiation."

"It’s structural rewrite."

"It’s affecting molecular bonding."

The Jade Dragon moved again.

On-screen, it shifted position above the remains of the third city. Its wings beat once—an emerald shockwave rippling outward, flattening entire suburbs beyond the primary blast zone.

Bridges twisted.

Glass skyscrapers imploded inward.

Helicopter feeds cut out one by one.

Rao’s voice cut through the chaos.

"Target its eyes."

"Sir, previous strikes dissolved before impact."

"Then adjust yield."

Outside, military airbases roared to life.

Fighter jets screamed down runways, engines howling under emergency deployment.

Pilots received targeting data mid-flight.

"Visual contact in thirty seconds."

Onboard radar screens glitched violently as they approached.

The dragon’s aura distorted electromagnetic fields.

Lock-on systems malfunctioned.

Missiles armed manually.

"Launch on my mark."

In coastal waters, destroyers pivoted their railguns upward.

High-energy projectiles charged.

Across mountain ranges, mobile artillery units repositioned toward predicted flight paths.

The Jade Dragon turned its head.

Its gaze locked onto the approaching jets.

It did not roar.

It inhaled.

The air around it condensed.

The jets fired first.

Dozens of high-yield missiles streaked forward.

They detonated upon contact.

The explosions were massive—mushrooms of fire and smoke swallowing portions of the dragon’s body.

For half a second—

The screens showed nothing but fire.

Then—

The smoke parted.

The Jade Dragon remained.

Unscarred.

Its emerald scales refracted the explosions like rain hitting stone.

It exhaled.

A wave of green pressure expanded outward.

The jets lost lift simultaneously.

Not engines.

Lift.

They dropped from the sky like broken toys.

Pilots ejected.

Parachutes deployed.

Some crystallized mid-air.

Others fell into collapsing city streets.

Rao’s expression did not change.

"Phase Two."

Railguns fired.

Long streaks of white-hot kinetic energy tore across the horizon.

They struck the dragon’s wing joints.

This time—

There was reaction.

A faint fracture line appeared along one jade scale.

Barely visible.

But visible.

In the war room, analysts leaned forward.

"It can be damaged."

"Minimal structural compromise," another added.

The dragon’s eyes brightened.

It raised one claw.

The railgun platforms along the coastline lifted from the earth.

Not exploded.

Lifted.

Crushed mid-air into compact spheres of twisted metal.

Naval destroyers fired full salvos.

Torpedoes detonated beneath the dragon’s projected flight path.

The ocean rose violently.

Waves thirty meters high surged outward.

The Jade Dragon beat its wings once.

The waves froze mid-motion.

Solid jade.

An entire section of coastline crystallized.

Rao finally exhaled.

"Redirect all artillery to defensive perimeter."

Across the nation, urban defense systems activated.

Mass evacuation corridors opened.

Armored divisions rolled into position at outer metropolitan boundaries.

Missile intercept systems recalibrated for rapid-fire saturation.

Inside a high-security research facility, a civilian physicist stared at quantum field readouts.

"It’s not absorbing energy."

"It’s overriding bonding constants."

"Every strike we make is being reinterpreted."

In the war room, a colonel turned to Rao.

"Sir... we’re not fighting an organism."

Rao nodded slowly.

"We’re fighting terrain."

The Jade Dragon rose higher.

Its massive body coiling across the sky like a moving mountain range.

Emerald lightning crackled across its horns.

It opened its jaws again.

This time—

The beam did not aim at a city.

It aimed at infrastructure.

Power grids exploded.

Substations melted.

Highways fractured into geometric plates.

The nation’s central communication hub vaporized.

Darkness rolled across entire provinces.

In the bunker, backup generators hummed louder.

Screens flickered but held.

Rao leaned over the command table.

"Deploy the resonance dampeners."

A classified project.

Built after the first sovereign awakening years ago.

Massive mobile towers designed to disrupt energy concentrations.

They rolled into position on armored platforms, forming a semi-circle along projected dragon trajectory.

Technicians activated them.

A low hum vibrated across the region.

The Jade Dragon paused.

Its wingbeat slowed.

For the first time—

It adjusted flight path slightly.

The dampeners were working.

Not stopping.

Interfering.

"Increase output!"

The towers flared brighter.

Emerald lightning flickered along the dragon’s body irregularly.

It roared again.

This time—

The sound shattered two of the dampener towers instantly.

The remaining units overloaded and exploded in cascading fireballs.

The dragon continued forward.

Rao stared at the devastation feed.

"We need something that hits its core."

A scientist stepped forward hesitantly.

"Sir... we’ve been analyzing the crystalline structure."

"And?"

"It’s synchronized."

"Meaning?"

"If we can desynchronize even a small section... structural cascade might occur."

"How?"

The scientist swallowed.

"Frequency interference. But we’d need a central anchor."

Rao’s eyes flicked to one screen.

A distant image of Azure Dragon Academy ruins.

Where a lone figure still stood against emerald light.

He did not say it aloud.

But the room understood.

The military could buy time.

They could redirect destruction.

But they could not end it.

Outside—

Armored brigades engaged the advancing shockwaves.

Tanks fired kinetic rounds into approaching jade fissures, attempting to slow their spread.

Helicopters evacuated civilians from partially intact districts.

Emergency services navigated collapsing roads.

The Jade Dragon descended toward a fourth city.

Its claws extended.

Entire apartment blocks crumbled as if made of sand.

Thousands ran through smoke-filled streets.

Sirens echoed between collapsing buildings.

A battalion commander shouted into comms—

"Hold formation! Protect evacuation lanes!"

A line of armored vehicles formed a defensive wall between advancing jade fissures and fleeing civilians.

The ground beneath them cracked violently.

Several vehicles sank into crystalline crevasses.

But the line held long enough for thousands to escape.

In the war room, Rao watched the feed.

His voice was steady.

"All forces maintain defensive priority. Civilian evacuation over offensive engagement."

The dragon roared again.

Emerald energy rippled outward in expanding arcs.

Another district crystallized.

A hospital roof collapsed.

Rescue crews pulled survivors from rubble as jade spread across streets like creeping frost.

The sky dimmed slightly.

The planetary ring above flickered faintly.

Two.

Still two.

Heaven observed.

Constraint remained distant.

This was not its battle.

This was foundation reclaiming itself.

In the bunker, alarms shifted tone.

"Sir—dragon trajectory altering. It’s turning."

"Toward where?"

Silence.

Then—

"Toward Azure Dragon."

Rao closed his eyes briefly.

"Then this is the line."

Above ruined cities, under a jade-stained sky, humanity prepared for a war it could not win alone.

Jets regrouped.

Missiles reloaded.

Artillery recalibrated.

Engineers scrambled to design new interference arrays on the fly.

Doctors triaged in makeshift field hospitals.

Soldiers held lines against creeping crystal.

And far in the distance—

The Jade Dragon coiled its massive body and turned toward the place where origin and remainder still stood.

Its emerald eyes burned brighter.

It did not hurry.

It did not rage.

It advanced.

Deliberate.

Ancient.

Inevitable.

Inside the bunker, Rao gave the final order.

"Prepare final containment grid. We hold until further notice."

The lights flickered once.

The ground trembled again.

And across the horizon—

The dragon’s shadow fell over the academy ruins.

[Chapter ENDS]