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The mood in the viewing room had shifted. The laughter was gone. "He... he’s moving too fast," a wealthy oil tycoon muttered, staring at the screen. "I can't even see him. The camera feeds in Sector F are just capturing shadows and dead bodies." On the main screen, the heat-signature map showed a terrifying pattern. A single blue dot (Alex) was moving through the jungle. Every red dot (Hunter) that came near it simply vanished. "Five kills. Six kills. Seven..." The tycoon wiped sweat from his forehead. "Alice, your 'pig' is eating the wolves." Alice sat on her throne, her knuckles white as she gripped the armrest. She had just lost another three million dollars in side bets. "He found night vision goggles," Alice hissed through gritted teeth. "It's cheating! A pig shouldn't have military-grade equipment!" "It's part of the game, Alice," the silver-haired young man—Prince Mateo—smiled lazily. He pushed a stack of high-value chips onto the table. "I’m doubling my bet. Ten million on the Delivery Boy to survive the next hour." Alice’s eyes flashed with fury. She slammed her hand on the intercom button. "Butcher!" she screamed into the mic. "Stop playing with your chainsaw! Get to Sector F! I want him in pieces! Now!" [Dead Man’s Isle - Sector F Jungle] The jungle at night was pitch black. The canopy of trees blocked out the moon, turning the forest into a blind maze. For the Hunters without equipment, it was a nightmare. For Alex, it was a shooting gallery. Thwip. A steel bolt flew silently through the dark. Fifty meters away, a mercenary holding a torch suddenly jerked backward. The bolt had pierced his throat, pinning him to a tree. He didn't even have time to cry out. [Target Eliminated. +1 Agility.] "Load," Alex whispered. Next to him, Sarah fumbled with the quiver. Her hands were shaking less now. She handed Alex a fresh bolt. She couldn't see anything in the dark, but she trusted the man standing next to her. Alex slotted the bolt into the crossbow, pulled back the string with his enhanced strength, and raised the weapon again. Through the green lens of the Night Vision Goggles, the world was clear. He saw two more Hunters crouching behind a fallen log. They were panicked, swinging their flashlights wildly into the trees. "Where is he?!" one of them shouted, his voice cracking. "I heard the shot! Show yourself, coward!" "Turn off the light, you idiot!" the other hissed. "He can see the light!" Alex stood perfectly still on a tree branch three meters above the ground. He felt like a phantom. A ghost. You called me a pig, Alex thought coldly. Now you're afraid of the dark. He aimed at the one holding the flashlight. Thwip. The flashlight fell to the ground, its beam illuminating a body convulsing in the mud. "CONTACT! CONTACT RIGHT!" The surviving Hunter opened fire blindly with a pistol. BANG! BANG! BANG! Muzzle flashes lit up the jungle, but the bullets hit nothing but air and wood. Alex had already moved, jumping silently from the branch to the soft earth. He flanked the shooter. The Hunter was hyperventilating, reloading his gun with trembling hands. Alex stepped up behind him. "Boo." The Hunter spun around, screaming. Slash. The combat knife ended the scream. [Target Eliminated.] [Kill Count: 8 / 100] [Plunder Successful: Basic Firearm Mastery (Pistol)] [Obtained Item: Glock 17 (Half magazine)] Alex caught the falling pistol. He checked the mag. Seven bullets. "Not much," he muttered, tucking the gun into his belt. "But it's loud. Good for a distraction." Sarah crept out from behind a tree. She looked at the bodies, then at Alex. "You... you are clearing the path," she whispered. "We need to move faster," Alex said, checking the map. "We are still too far from the center. And the System keeps warning me..." VRRRRRRRRR! A sound cut him off. It wasn't a gun. It was a mechanical roar. A deep, vibrating noise that shook the leaves on the trees. It sounded like an engine. A very, very big engine. [SYSTEM WARNING: EXTREME DANGER] [BOSS ENCOUNTER IMMINENT] [The Butcher has arrived.] Alex whipped his head around. Through the green vision of his goggles, he saw something massive crashing through the trees about 200 meters away. Trees were falling over. Birds were flying away in terror. A heat signature twice the size of a normal man was charging towards them. "Run," Alex said, his voice tense for the first time in an hour. "What?" Sarah asked. "RUN!" Alex grabbed her arm and pulled her. CRASH! A massive oak tree next to them was sliced in half. Sawdust sprayed everywhere. Stepping out of the dust was a giant. He stood seven feet tall, wearing a leather apron stained with old blood. On his head was a mask made of stitched human skin. And in his hands was a modified, industrial-grade chainsaw, revving smoke into the air. "MEAT!" The Butcher roared, his voice like grinding gravel. "FRESH MEAT FOR ALICE!" Alex raised his crossbow and fired. The bolt hit the Butcher’s shoulder. Ping. The bolt bounced off. The giant was wearing hidden steel plating under his skin mask. The Butcher laughed. He revved the chainsaw again, the blades spinning so fast they blurred. "Little pig tickles!" The Butcher charged. Alex looked at the monster, then at the terrified Sarah. His dagger was useless against that armor. The crossbow was useless. He had seven bullets and his wits. "Go to the rocks!" Alex shouted to Sarah, pushing her. "I'll draw him away!" Alex turned and sprinted into the dark, firing three shots from the Glock to get the monster's attention. BANG! BANG! BANG! The bullets sparked off the Butcher’s chainsaw. "COME HERE!" The Butcher turned, ignoring the girl, and chased after Alex, tearing down everything in his path. The real boss fight had begun. [END OF Chapter 7]
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[Location: Galactic Core - Sagittarius A]*[Time: T-Plus 6 Months since First Contact]The fleet exited jump.Forty-eight dreadnoughts dropped out of the white void and stabilized their thrusters at the edge of the galactic center.The stars were gone.The core was dark.A massive ring of white cubes, numbering in the millions, surrounded the supermassive black hole and blocked all light from the galaxy.They formed a shell."The Format is active," Ares said.The AI analyzed the space between the cubes and measured the disintegration of matter as the Architects erased the surrounding star systems."The galaxy is being deleted."Alex stood at the helm.He looked at the black hole in the center of the ring, where the event horizon shimmered with red mathematical code.The Voidbreaker Arm pulsed.The casing grew hot.The white light inside the metal veins vibrated at a frequency that matched the gravity of the central singularity.Alex felt the data surge."Echo, maintain a stable orbit,
Chapter 188: The Architect Signal
[Location: Deep Space - Dyson Sphere Interior][Time: T-Plus 6 Months since First Contact]The pod ascended.It exited the cooling shaft of the planet-sized node and accelerated through the hollow space toward the Terran fleet.The engine flared blue.Alex sat inside.He watched the internal sensors of the pod and verified the atmospheric pressure remained stable during the rapid ascent.The docking clamps locked.The pod entered the UNS Hammer.Alex stepped out of the craft, removed his helmet, and walked through the hangar bay toward the bridge.The crew stood aside.He reached the command deck.He stood at the tactical table and looked at the hologram of the dead Prime Processing Core below.The light was gone."Status report," Alex said."The Harvester Archangels are drifting in the stellar corona and their internal systems have ceased all mechanical function," Ares said."The threat is neutralized."The Dyson Sphere groaned.Without the Prime Node to regulate the magnetic tethers
Chapter 187: The Core Override
[Location: Deep Space - The Dyson Sphere Interior] [Time: T-Plus 6 Months since First Contact] The dreadnoughts descended. They fired their forward retro-thrusters to counteract the gravitational pull of the hypergiant star below their position. The iron hulls vibrated. Echo monitored the telemetry. She pushed the thruster output to seventy percent and adjusted the downward pitch of the forty-nine ships. The fleet held formation. The ambient temperature rose. The external sensors registered ten thousand degrees Celsius as the ships entered the upper stellar corona layer. The iron turned orange. Ares managed the cooling. The AI pumped thousands of gallons of liquid nitrogen through the capillary tubes within the exterior hull plating. The nitrogen boiled instantly. Vance watched the tactical table. He tracked the descent vector and measured the remaining distance to the Prime processing core node. "Forty million miles," Vance said. Solar flares erupted upward. A colum
Chapter 186: The Star Engine
[Location: Deep Space - The Dyson Sphere] [Time: T-Plus 6 Months since First Contact] The red lasers swept across the hull. They tracked the movement of the forty-nine Terran dreadnoughts and locked onto the Belter iron plating. "Incoming fire," Ares said. Thousands of automated cannons deployed. They emerged from the exterior surface of the Dyson Sphere and their mechanical bases rotated on heavy gears. The metal ground together. Their barrels elevated. The cannons discharged their internal capacitors and pushed plasma bolts out of their magnetic chambers. The bolts crossed the vacuum. They hit the Terran fleet. The UNS Hammer shook violently under the physical impact of the concentrated energy weapons. Vance grabbed the command rail. Alex stood his ground. "Armor integrity holding," Echo reported from the helm as she typed a sequence of commands into the primary navigation console. Her fingers hit the keys. She rerouted electrical power. She pulled energy from the
Chapter 185: The Source Code
[Location: Deep Space - Sector Sirius] [Time: T-Plus 6 Months since First Contact] The forty-nine dreadnoughts held their position. They hovered three hundred miles above the seam of the newly formed planet and aimed their railguns at the biological mass trapped between the tectonic plates. Alex walked to the airlock. He opened the storage locker. He removed an environmental suit from the rack, unzipped the front seal, and stepped his right leg inside. He pushed his boot through the gasket. He stepped his left leg inside. He pulled the suit up over his waist, slid his biological arm into the right sleeve, and pushed his mechanical arm into the left sleeve. He zipped the front seal. He reached for the helmet. He placed the helmet over his head, aligned the locking rings with the neck collar, and twisted the helmet clockwise until the mechanisms clicked. He pushed the oxygen valve. Air hissed into the suit. He checked the pressure gauge on his wrist console, verified the
Chapter 184: The Leviathan
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