Killing Gods
If you had Super Powers, would you be a hero? Would you try to become a God? What if the God's were afraid of Humans? The Super-Apocalypse destroyed cities, leveled mountains, and killed billions. Now the small enclaves of Humanity are organized into Empires under the remaing Supers. Earth entered an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity, but it was a peace bought by the near extinction of Humanity. Shin is a 15 year old boy attending a Military Academy, trying to do well in his studies and focus on his future as a Space Force Specialist. He lives in a world obsessed with becoming stronger, and people can! The talented earn the right to unlock their genetic potential, and enter the elite brotherhood of the Augmented. Why do the Supers push humans to become stronger? What dark secrets do they hold about Earth's place in the Meta-Verse? Can Supers protect the Earth from the dark gods hunting for it, or will it be up to the humans they are desperately augmenting? Shin doesn't know it, but his potential is 0, so it will be tough. Will he uncover the secret to Killing Gods?
Mech Dramatics
They were already rocketing up and back at an oblique angle, quickly increasing the distance between them. Both Mechs still flew faster in a straight line than doing complicated moves.
"Why did that blast damage it so badly?"
"Because we fired it in the same direction as he was travelling, so he was exposed longer than if he was already moving away from the blast."
This made sense to Shin, since lasers and photons basically moved at the speed of light, you could only dodge before they fired, or minimize how long the beam was on you.
"So you've created a glaring weakness, but the sword is on the ground, and there is no way I can aim this railgun while flying," Shin said.