My Ultimate Sign-in System Made Me Invincible Chapter 514 I Just Clicked

Fewer than six days were left until the selected personnel would be shipped off to Lunar Base Sanctuary for their orientation. The Defense and Security branch needed to wrap up reprogramming all twelve security Synths by that cutoff, since a few would join the shuttle for the pickup mission. No issue at all. That branch had already knocked out three Synths in mere hours. Keeping up that speed, the full dozen would be ready far ahead of the transport deadline.

The remaining branches were buried in their tasks.

Infrastructure and Construction had seized control of the Emperor Class-II Starship construction and the active parts of Lunar Base Sanctuary, taking them over seamlessly.

The Lucid Ecosystem branch had seized complete command of the platform — Nova Technologies' official LucidNet site, device oversight, server backbone, and the Lucid Studio rollout set to launch in under two months. Meanwhile, Research and Development pushed forward on Liam's fresh exosuit blueprints, tackling initial designs alongside all the other projects.

The Medical branch was wrapping up the volunteer finalists. Applications had shut down. With the complete lineup in view, the picking process was now in full swing.

Operations hummed along without a hitch.

***

Days raced past, and the pre-order launch hit, with the web exploding before midday.

Nearly all the blaze burned on LucidNet. Over the four months since Nova Technologies unveiled the platform, worldwide social media habits had crossed the tipping point, settling into a lasting shift.

Rival sites weren't crashing spectacularly. They just faded in importance week by week, as user engagement drained away while key discussions migrated elsewhere. LucidNet now ruled as the spot where news broke first, responses ignited quickest, and skipping a post carried weight.

r/NovaGate, the fan-built Reddit hub, had ballooned into one of the platform's all-time biggest groups. Threads got smothered by fresher ones in seconds. Mods had quit pinning posts since nothing lingered long enough to bother.

Hype for the pre-order had simmered for days.

The raw numbers hit everyone hard. Ten thousand Lucid units. Billions craving them. Medical Nanites had elevated the gadget from must-have to lifeline for masses worldwide — not due to current nanite access, but because sharp observers knew it would channel through the Lucid network once rolled out. This wasn't merely a phone. It was the gateway.

Three days prior, a thread exploded faster than nearly any non-official Nova Technologies drop: "Let's be clear about what tonight actually is. Ten thousand devices. Approximately eight billion people with internet access. That's one device for every eight hundred thousand people. The lottery odds of winning a national jackpot are significantly better than getting a Lucid tonight. At least with the lottery, your ticket stays in the drum."

Replies mixed grim nods and bleak laughs.

One shot back: "Before the Medical Nanites announcement, people were already using multiple devices and bot networks to try to improve their odds. Tonight those same people have access to significantly more computing resources and significantly stronger motivation. Someone is definitely running this on a server rack."

Another chimed in: "Someone pointed out that Nova Technologies' selection system has never responded to bots or mass submission attempts in any documented way. Multiple people have tried. Multiple people have confirmed it doesn't work. Whatever is running the selection on their end isn't processing requests the way a normal queue system does. Nobody knows what it's actually doing."

That drew instant shares and echoes: "That's somehow more unsettling than if the bots worked."

Chats about Lucid Air buzzed in parallel.

A key calc in the last 48 hours got cited everywhere: "Lucid Air has five thousand units deployed. The lowest subscription tier allows ten simultaneous connections minimum. That means at minimum thirty-five thousand to forty thousand people tonight have access to a device running at minimum ten terabits per second. Those people are competing against everyone else using standard internet infrastructure. That is not a fair competition. It is also entirely luck-based and Nova Technologies designed it that way deliberately."

Response: "Not complaining about it. Just acknowledging it. The Lucid Air users have a structural advantage and they got that advantage by winning a previous lottery. It's lottery upon lottery. Chaotic and entirely consistent with how this company operates."

A viral note spread wide: "Nova Technologies could have sold the Lucid at any price point they chose. They could have made it available to the highest bidders and cleared the entire supply in minutes with zero logistical complexity. They didn't. The lottery system means a person with nothing has the same individual chance as a billionaire. The Lucid Air advantage exists but it's a connection speed advantage, not a wealth advantage. That's a deliberate design choice and I think people are underreacting to it."

Hundreds of thousands of responses piled up, folks debating the take before mostly buying in, willing or not.

Another thread zeroed in on the Transparency Report.

"I know exactly what tonight's report is going to show," one user declared. "Numbers that make me feel things I don't want to feel while also being completely unable to look away. Nova Technologies has somehow created a document that functions as both corporate accountability measure and emotional damage delivery system and I respect it deeply while also dreading it."

Reply: "The Transparency Report is genuinely one of the most interesting recurring documents in corporate history and it was invented four months ago. The platform metrics, the creator economy numbers, the device distribution data — it's a picture of something growing at a rate that has no comparable precedent and they just release it every month as a matter of routine. I would read academic papers about the Transparency Report."

More: "Every month I tell myself I'll read it calmly and every month I end up doing math at eleven at night that makes me either elated or devastated depending on which section I'm in."

***

Ten minutes shy of pre-order start, the net fell quiet.

Not dead silent. Data kept flowing, servers churned on. Yet the vibe flipped so sharp that any traffic watcher would spot it. Fresh posts trickled. Threads hung unfinished. Replies halted mid-stream.

All who could, froze in place.

Attention locked worldwide. Hundreds of millions gripped devices, eyes glued to a timer.

Seconds drained, and launch hit. The pre-order button popped up.

Chaos erupted instantly. First-second clicks smashed LucidNet records, outpacing past mega-spikes. The picker swallowed it smooth, no stutter.

Nova Technologies' main page lit up with a post.

Sold out.

Sellout stamp clocked under one second post-launch. Screenshots flew, posts surged, replies snowballed in minutes. That sub-second proof of 10k wipeout rocketed across the site faster than most content ever.

Vibes split fast.

Most — those braced for missing out and who did — hit back with wry chuckles, shocked only by the blistering pace despite prep.

One vented: "I clicked the link. I received the sold-out notification. I am now going to go lie down and think about my choices."

Next: "I have genuinely no idea if I was even close or if my click was processed approximately eighteen minutes after it was already over. There is no way to know. This is fine."

Another: "Every time I tell myself I've made peace with not having a Lucid and every time Nova Technologies reminds me that peace is a temporary condition."

***

Lucid Air pre-order fired up right after, open to existing Lucid holders and fresh winners via a side line. Five thousand slots. Frenzy dialed down from the main event's global storm but still torched out in seconds flat.

Lucid led as the core gadget, yet Lucid Air — packing at least 10Tbps — ranked equally vital.

A fresh face snagging both Lucid and Lucid Air shared their confirmation mails, sparking savage jealousy in those shut out of even one.

The post racked 100k likes in four minutes.

Comments hit wild and raw.

"Bro, how many people did you sacrifice for this level of luck? Please show me the way."

"The odds of this are so astronomically small that I'm choosing to believe you're not real. You're a statistical error. You don't exist."

"I can't even be mad. This is like watching someone get struck by lightning twice and both times it cured a disease they had. Genuinely impressed. Genuinely devastated."

One grilled straight: bots or multis? Answer: I just clicked.

Those words outran the post itself. Quotes, caps, reactions poured in — mixes of nods and despair. The trio turned instant legend, the perfect do-nothing key to an impossible feat.

I just clicked.

Pre-orders sealed, eyes turned to the fourth Monthly Transparency Report.

Then, no fanfare, the Monthly Transparency Report landed.