Chapter 324: Battle of Wills
My dagger didn't hit flesh. It didn't hit bone. It hit the concept of authority.
The Purple Crown hovering above the Parasite King's head was the source of his Administrator privileges—the code that allowed him to rewrite the Spirit Realm. When my [Void Cut] connected, it didn't slice the crown in half.
It deleted it.
SHATTER.
The sound was like a stained-glass window being smashed by a sledgehammer. The crown exploded into millions of violet pixels that rained down like digital snow.
"NO!" The Parasite King shrieked.
His form, which had been stabilizing, sud denly violently decompressed. The static noise around him ramped up to a deafening volume. Without the Crown to anchor him to the World Tree's logic, he was just a foreign virus in a system that now recognized him as a threat.
[System Notification: Administrator Privileges Revoked.]
[World Spirit: Rebooting...]
