The temperature in the ruined city plummeted instantly. The heat and sulfur left behind by Gaia’s Wrath evaporated, replaced by a bone-chilling frost that crept over the melted asphalt. The sky above was no longer a battlefield of monsters and plasma fire; it had become a graveyard of jagged, bleeding dimensional rifts. From the black portals, the Reapers descended. They didn't fly. They simply floated downward like silent, weightless shadows. Thousands of them. They wore tattered, pitch-black robes that seemed to swallow the remaining light in the world. Beneath their hoods, there were no faces—only an endless, abyssal void. In their skeletal hands, they tightly gripped massive, rusted scythes that pulsed with a cold, sickly blue energy.A low, vibrating hum resonated from the Reapers. It wasn't a sound heard through the ears, but a frequency that directly attacked the soul. It made the air feel thick, suffocating, and heavy with the absolute certainty of death.Jhonatan lay flat

"—reformatted from the main database!"The voice of the AI Central buzzed like thousands of mechanical bees directly inside Jhonatan's ears. The grip of the colossal robotic hand tightened mercilessly, the hydraulic pressure making Jhonatan's skull feel like it was about to be crushed into biscuit crumbs. Beside him, suspended in the air by the other giant hand, Reymond was also gasping desperately for air. Sparks of blue electricity flew from the technician's cybernetic face, accompanied by the pungent, toxic smell of burning circuitry."Hey! Let me go, you oversized tin can! Do you think I'm some defective returned good?!" Jhonatan shouted, the veins in his neck bulging prominently against the intense pressure."Ugh... Jhon! Don't move too much, you crazy monkey! My head is getting squeezed even tighter!" Reymond groaned pathetically, his fragile mechanical hands trying in vain to pry open the super-hardened titanium fingers crushing his ribs."Shut up, Rey! I'm trying to think of

CLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG!The collision between Jhonatan’s Abyssal Sword and Aris’s Crimson Lightning Spear created a shockwave so devastating it defied human comprehension. A massive ring of distorted air exploded outward from the point of impact, violently ripping the roofs off the surrounding abandoned buildings and splitting the dark clouds above Jakarta in two. Down in the lobby of Sky-High, Sarah had to tackle Emma to the floor as the remaining glass shards rained down like deadly shrapnel.High in the air, the two Rulers were locked in a deadly stalemate. Purple-black flames clashed violently against jagged red lightning. The sheer friction between their weapons caused the oxygen around them to ignite, creating a vacuum of scorching heat.Aris’s glowing red eyes narrowed behind his sleek, pitch-black visor. He hovered effortlessly, his six corrupted wings beating with absolute grace. Despite the tremendous force Jhonatan exerted, the Warlord of Bandung hadn't moved a single inch

"—belongs to your father, Jhonatan! Don't be so stingy with your own flesh and blood!"The baritone voice vibrating from the massive glass tube shook the very foundation of the underground laboratory. Jhonatan felt his entire body lock into total paralysis. The dark purple Alpha energy, which usually answered only to his rage, was now flowing forcefully out of his chest, siphoned directly into the glowing green fluid where his father floated."Bastard! Dad?! You're seriously going to cannibalize your own son?!" Jhonatan roared, his teeth grinding against the agonizing pain of extraction. "I looked for you until I nearly died, and you turned out to be a parasite in a jar?!"The man inside the tube, Thomas, merely offered a thin, mechanical smile. His pitch-black eyes stared at Jhonatan not as a son, but as a piece of premium meat. "This world doesn't need familial love, Jhon. This world needs one, absolute Alpha. And you... you were simply a temporary vessel I used to incubate my code.

The localized blast of the Atomic Breath was not just a mere explosion of fire; it was a condensed beam of pure, annihilating radioactive plasma. The sheer heat instantly flash-vaporized the asphalt beneath their feet, turning the dark, ruined highway into a blinding, miniature sun.Sarah had to shield her eyes, violently throwing herself onto the floor of the armored truck as the immense shockwave rocked the massive vehicle, nearly flipping it over entirely. When the apocalyptic light finally died down, a thick, toxic cloud of glowing white steam hissed into the cold night air. Jhonatan stood his ground, his broad chest heaving. The red Alpha markings on his face slowly dimmed as radioactive smoke billowed from his open mouth. The terrifying silver spines on his back retracted slightly, cooling down from the extreme energy discharge. He narrowed his pitch-black eyes, staring directly into the epicenter of the blast.As the steam cleared, the Architect was actually still standing.