MY HIDDEN TALENT IS FORBIDDEN BY THE HEAVENS-Chapter 205: CALCULATED DEVASTATION

Chapter 206 — CALCULATED DEVASTATION

For a moment after the rooftop conversation, the sky felt strangely quiet.

The Jade Dragon no longer roared.

It did not charge another catastrophic beam.

Instead, the colossal creature circled slowly above the city like a storm that had learned patience. Its enormous wings moved with steady, deliberate rhythm, stirring the clouds and casting a shifting emerald shadow across districts still trying to recover from the previous attack.

Below, the city struggled to breathe again.

Emergency sirens still wailed through the streets. Firefighters dragged hoses through broken intersections. Paramedics worked frantically beside ambulances lined up along highways where evacuation traffic had stalled.

Smoke rose from several damaged buildings where the shockwaves had shattered windows and sparked small fires.

But the city was still standing.

And that meant something.

On the rooftop, the Eight remaining members of the Nine watched the dragon carefully.

Dean Xu Canglong stood near the edge of the roof, his long blade resting loosely in his hand. His breathing had steadied since the previous clash, but the exhaustion in his shoulders was still visible if someone knew where to look.

Beside him, General Han Dae-Woo rolled his injured shoulder once, grimacing slightly as the joint protested the movement.

"You ever notice," Han muttered, "how the quiet parts of fights are always worse?"

Commander Rafael Ibarra leaned against a cracked ventilation unit, wiping dried blood from his forehead with the sleeve of his uniform.

"That’s because the quiet parts mean the other guy is thinking."

Han glanced up toward the dragon again.

"Yeah."

"Don’t like that."

Across the rooftop, Dr. Elena Kovács adjusted the small holographic display floating above her wrist. Several drones circled overhead, feeding data streams back into her interface.

Numbers scrolled across the screen.

Power grid status.

Evacuation routes.

Structural stability.

She froze suddenly.

"...Wait."

Canglong looked over his shoulder.

"What is it?"

Kovács tapped her display again.

The holographic map expanded into a full projection above the rooftop.

It showed the entire city.

And the dragon.

The creature’s flight path was marked by a thin glowing line.

Kovács zoomed out.

The line curved across the city in a slow arc.

Her voice dropped.

"That’s not random."

Nyx stepped closer to the projection.

Her sharp eyes traced the line across the map.

"Power grid."

She pointed to a cluster of facilities near the industrial district.

"Substations."

Then to the river crossing.

"Bridge supports."

Then farther toward the harbor.

"Fuel terminals."

Canglong’s expression darkened.

"It’s targeting infrastructure."

Han blinked.

"You mean..."

Ibarra finished the sentence.

"It’s dismantling the city."

Above them—

The Jade Dragon stopped circling.

Its massive body shifted direction.

The creature turned toward the eastern industrial sector.

The area where the city’s main electrical grid converged before branching into dozens of substations across the metropolitan zone.

Kovács’ voice sharpened instantly.

"If it destroys the central relay hub, the entire city loses power."

Han straightened.

"Then we don’t let it."

The dragon’s wings beat once.

The shockwave rippled through the clouds.

Then the creature descended.

Not fast.

Not reckless.

Purposeful.

The dragon lowered itself toward the industrial sector like a massive emerald shadow falling across the ground.

Below, people screamed as the creature approached.

Police vehicles sped away from the district.

Workers abandoned equipment.

Evacuation sirens intensified.

The Jade Dragon hovered above the relay complex.

Hundreds of transformers and transmission towers spread across the fenced facility like a forest of steel skeletons.

The dragon studied them.

Then slowly raised one claw.

Back on the rooftop—

Canglong moved first.

"We move now."

The Eight launched into the sky.

They surged toward the dragon in a tight formation, racing across the skyline while emergency helicopters scrambled to clear their flight path.

Han accelerated through the air using short bursts of kinetic force.

Ibarra rode a rising column of seawater pulled from the harbor.

Nyx folded space repeatedly, blinking forward in short dimensional jumps.

Feng Yanrui’s phoenix flames flared bright against the darkening clouds.

Above them all, Suryavansh Rao gathered solar light like a second sunrise forming in the sky.

They reached the industrial district seconds before the dragon struck.

The Jade Dragon’s claw descended.

Not with explosive force.

But with precision.

The massive talon sliced cleanly through the primary transformer structure.

Metal towers crumpled like cardboard.

Electric arcs burst outward in violent blue flashes.

Half the district went dark instantly.

Streetlights flickered out.

Traffic signals died.

Emergency generators roared to life across several nearby facilities.

The dragon watched the electrical chaos unfold below.

Then turned its head slightly.

Toward the next target.

A bridge.

The main freight bridge connecting the industrial district to the harbor sector.

Han roared.

"Hey!"

He launched forward.

"Over here!"

The general slammed into the dragon’s shoulder with a thunderous impact.

"Titan Breaker!"

The strike pushed the dragon sideways several meters.

But the creature barely seemed bothered.

Its massive head turned slowly toward Han.

"You persist."

The dragon’s tail whipped across the air.

Han barely crossed his arms in time before the impact sent him crashing through a warehouse roof.

Steel beams collapsed around him.

The dragon continued moving.

Toward the bridge.

Nyx appeared directly in front of the creature’s path.

Her blade flashed.

"Void Crescent."

A dimensional slash carved across the dragon’s wing joint.

Emerald scales cracked.

The dragon paused.

But only for a second.

Then it kept moving.

The creature lowered its head toward the bridge structure.

Canglong’s voice cut through the comm channel.

"All units strike!"

Eight attacks fired at once.

Phoenix flames.

Solar beams.

Water spears.

Dimensional blades.

Void chains.

Kinetic shockwaves.

Every remaining member of the Nine unleashed another wave of techniques against the dragon.

Explosions erupted across the creature’s body.

Emerald scales shattered.

Crystal fragments rained down across the harbor.

For a moment—

The dragon stopped.

Smoke drifted through the air.

The Eight hovered around the creature, breathing heavily.

Then the smoke cleared.

The Jade Dragon remained.

Several scales were broken now.

Cracks spread across sections of its emerald armor.

But the creature was still moving.

Still thinking.

Still targeting the city.

The dragon’s head turned slowly again.

Toward the bridge.

Then it spoke quietly.

"Structure collapses."

Its claw descended again.

And the bridge supports shattered.

Steel cables snapped.

The massive freight bridge folded inward like a broken spine and collapsed into the river below.

Water exploded upward.

Evacuation traffic across that route stopped instantly.

Below, sirens screamed louder.

The dragon had not attacked randomly.

It had removed another artery from the city.

And it was already turning toward the next one.

The Jade Dragon had changed its strategy.

It was no longer fighting the Nine.

It was dismantling the city piece by piece.

And the Eight realized something terrifying.

They might not be strong enough to stop it everywhere at once.

[Chapter ENDS]