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Su Chen slowly raised his leg.
Golden lightning, like a living serpent, began to gather and coil beneath his feet, emitting a hissing, teeth-grinding sound.
A strong, pungent smell of ozone filled the air.
"Any illusion is meaningless."
this moment.
Sonozaki Ryubei, the former King of Fear in Fuuto, the culprit who tore countless families apart, finally understood everything.
He had nowhere to escape.
What awaited him was only the predetermined...end.
When Su Chen slowly raised his right leg, which was wrapped in dazzling heavenly lightning, time seemed to be forcibly dragged into a standstill.
The air was no longer filled with the smoke of battle, but with a purer, more primal sense of oppression.
Sonozaki Ryubei's enormous, ferocious, and terrifying form froze completely.
In his eyes, burning with the flames of sin, was reflected the figure enveloped in golden lightning, a figure that resembled divine punishment.
A cold, undeniable understanding permeated his data-driven soul.
ended.
The terror he pursued throughout his life, the evil he was so proud of, paled in comparison to this absolute power.
All resistance has become meaningless.
All the struggles seemed ridiculous and laughable.
Sonozaki Ryubei gave up all movement and just stood there blankly.
He even deliberately released the defensive energy around his body, allowing the terrifying pressure that could determine the life and death of all things to lock him completely in place.
Perhaps, for someone who had lived a life of sin, being ended by such a divine judgment was not a disgrace.
This could even be described as an...honor.
【KakugoImpact!】
The driver's grand and solemn final declaration, like a divine oracle resounding through heaven and earth, echoed across the deathly silent battlefield.
Su Chen unleashed his Knight Kick with a vengeance.
This time, he did not use any of the power of the weather.
Wind, rain, thunder, and lightning—these great forces of nature—all seem superfluous in the face of this moment of ending.
All he used was pure force.
It is a golden light that embodies all the data, all the computing power, and all the meaning of existence of the entire 01 system, symbolizing "the end" and "the new order".
The golden light tore through the dark sky.
It does not take on any concrete form; it is itself a manifestation of a concept.
It is an absolute law, imbued with an unquestionable will, instantly piercing through the distance of space.
Extremely precise.
There is not the slightest deviation.
It struck Sonozaki Ryubei's chest, which had already given up defense and calmly accepted death.
The anticipated earth-shattering explosion did not occur.
Not even a shrill scream could be heard.
Absolute silence.
The moment she was struck by that pure golden light, Sonozaki Ryubei's massive, ferocious aura of fear began to disintegrate silently.
That is not destruction.
It is a more thorough purification.
It was as if an irresistible beam of holy light had illuminated the dark canvas, erasing all filth and shadows directly from their source.
Centered on the touchpoint on his chest, golden data veins spread rapidly throughout his body like a spider web.
His black body, composed of pure fear, began to crumble from the inside out.
Every inch of flesh and every bone, under the baptism of golden light, transformed into countless gentle, pure golden data points that danced in the sky.
His life, filled with heinous crimes, came to a complete and clean end with the dissipation of his body.
"… Bang."
A very faint sound broke the sacred silence.
A memory of "fear," entirely black but with faint golden patterns flowing across its surface, fell from the dissipating specks of light.
It lay quietly on the scorched ground.
As the last bit of golden light dissipated, Su Chen's figure slowly descended to the ground.
His knight armor transformed into countless particles of light, dissipating into the air and revealing his calm and unchanging face.
He bent down and casually picked up the memory that represented the root of all the evil in the Sonozaki family, then casually put it into his pocket.
Thus, this "decapitation operation" against the museum, which he personally directed and starred in, came to a perfect end.
Not far away, Sonosaki Saeko and Sonosaki Wakana stood side by side.
Their gazes were fixed on the golden specks of light that drifted slowly away and faded in the night breeze.
Those were the last traces left by their father.
The two sisters' eyes were filled with incredibly complex emotions.
There was a sense of relief as he watched his father's sinful life finally come to an end.
There is a sense of bewilderment in witnessing a loved one vanish before one's eyes, yet feeling no sadness whatsoever.
But more than anything, it was the emotions that could no longer be concealed in their eyes when they looked up at the tall and aloof figure slowly walking towards them.
That was a shock that shook the very soul.
That was a deep-seated reverence.
And that love, which had already taken root in my heart, was now catalyzed by this miraculous scene to become even more intense and passionate.
This man.
Again.
With an absolute, overwhelming force that far exceeded their wildest imaginations, almost like that of a creator god, they resolved all the problems.
His power is unfathomable.
His composure suggested that he had everything under control.
His mystery is like the vastest starry sky, inviting exploration yet also leading people astray.
All of this is like a glass of the finest, most intoxicating wine.
They didn't even realize that their souls had been completely captivated and were now unable to extricate themselves.
They were acutely aware of it.
Starting tonight, the sky over Fengdu will be completely changed.
Their future, their fate, everything about them, was now inextricably linked to this godlike man.
There is no possibility of further division.
Chapter 102: The Terrifying Data, the Birth of Ark, the Arrival of Gatoshun, and the Gap of Despair
When Su Chen's figure was once again shrouded in the cold light of the 01 Technology top-level laboratory, he brought back more than just an overwhelming victory with no suspense.
Between his fingers lay the pitch-black artifact that symbolized the root of the Sonozaki family's evil—the Memory of Fear.
The air in the laboratory seemed to freeze at his return.
His personal secretary, Izzy, was already waiting in front of the central control console. Her sophisticated optical sensors captured the lingering, chilling aura of the battlefield emanating from Su Chen.
"Iz, begin the analysis."
Su Chen's voice was calm, yet carried an undeniable command.
With a casual toss, the jet-black memory chip traced a cold arc in the air before landing precisely in Iz's outstretched mechanical hand.
"Instruction confirmed."
"Fear memory, data parsing program initiated."
Izzy's voice remained as calm as ever, without any emotional fluctuation.
She turned around and steadily inserted the memory into the core slot of the central analysis console.
The next second, the main light source in the entire laboratory went out instantly.
Instead, a terrifying data model, so massive it could devour one's mind, was projected from the central holographic projection device.
Those are not lines.
It's not code either.
It was a data ocean, thick as black mud, formed by billions of negative spiritual energies, including the purest fear, the deepest despair, and the most profound hatred.
It tumbled and wriggled in mid-air, as if it were a living creature.
Countless distorted, wailing faces flashed by, their silent screams seemingly able to penetrate matter and reach the depths of the soul, causing the temperature in the entire laboratory to plummet.
The blue data stream in Izzy's eyes was flashing wildly at an unprecedentedly terrifying speed.
Even with her terrifying computing power that was ahead of its time, the core processor emitted a faint beeping sound as it was overwhelmed by the sheer volume of energy that distorted reality.
For the first time, she felt strained.
A few minutes felt like an eternity.
Ultimately, all the analytical processes pointed to a single, chilling conclusion.