...filled the entire command room, creating frequency vibrations that nearly shattered Abby's eardrums!"Ugh, my ears! Axel, this sound is getting into the central system! He's bypassing our fortress firewall like it's just a swinging saloon door!" Abby screamed while clutching her throbbing head."Chill, By. It's just a cheap hologram, why are you acting like you're being cursed?" Axel replied casually. He stared at the Supreme Boss's face on the giant screen with a bored expression. "Hey, Boss! What's up? You here to offer us doomsday insurance or something?""AXEL... YOU ARE AN ANOMALY THAT MUST BE ERASED. THIS WORLD HAS RULES, AND YOU JUST BROKE THE GAME BOARD!" the Supreme Boss's voice was incredibly heavy, causing the glasses on the table to shatter into pieces."Rules? Whose rules? Your rules where you slaughter people whenever you feel like it?" Axel stepped forward, standing right in front of the golden eye projection. "I'm just fixing what's broken, Boss. If you don't like i

... a blast of golden energy instantly split the sky over the Mount Salak crater!BOOOOMMMM!A single strike from Axel’s iron pipe—which had been Critically enhanced a thousand times over—landed squarely on the crystal dragon's main snout. The sound was no longer just an explosion; it sounded like the world was being forcibly torn apart. The dragon's ten heads suddenly went rigid, then slowly began to crack until they finally exploded into millions of black jewel shards that evaporated instantly into the air."Drop dead, you overgrown worm! You want to play with fire with me? Go learn from an exploding stove first!" Axel landed casually on the still-smoldering crater floor, slinging his iron pipe over his shoulder like a laborer who had just finished a massive contract job."Axel! Hey, do you hear me?! Get back here now, you idiot! It’s a trap!" Abby’s voice shrieked through the intercom in Axel’s ear, so loud it made him wince."Geez, Abby! Turn down the volume a bit, I’m going deaf

"... and opened a secret path to the bowels of the earth that I've modified into an underground paradise, you idiot! Don't look so panicked!" Axel shouted loudly, his voice booming amidst the dust swirling from the ground collapse in front of the Absolute Fortress gate."Holy shit, Axel! I thought we were actually going to die because of that earthquake!" Abby emerged from behind a cloud of smoke, waving her hands. Her face, smudged with soot, couldn't hide the sparkle in her eyes as she saw the giant hole. "Did you seriously build all of this while I was busy sleeping last night?!""Of course, Abby! Did you think I was just staring blankly while sharpening iron pipes?" Axel grinned widely, standing tall at the edge of the pit, which turned out to be a giant elevator equipped with anti-gravity technology. "I used Conceptual Critical to turn the wreckage of yesterday's aircraft carrier into the foundation of this underground city. Look down there!"Abby peered into the hole. Her eyes n

...and gripped the pulsing fusion core inside his heart cavity, but the overflowing golden energy from Axel's body instead burned that shadow hand into space ash that scattered in all directions!"Damn, you think your scrap metal hand can touch my heart?!" Axel spat into the void, his eyes flashing wildly as if he had just swallowed the sun. "I'm the Architect, you idiot! You want to delete me? Come here, I'll delete your existence from the server first!"The giant soldier roared, its voice no longer thunder, but a digital distortion that pained the ears. "SUBJECT AXEL... SYSTEM ERROR... MUST... BE... RESET...""Reset my ass! I'm the one who's going to reformat this whole crazy system!" Axel clenched his fist, triggering a golden energy explosion that caused the shadow soldier's body to crack into a thousand pieces. "Conceptual Critical... Total Data Deletion a Thousand Times!"BOOOOMMMM!The giant shadow exploded into pixel particles that vanished into the darkness of outer space. Ax