Lugathim never expected this.He had just discovered a method to invade the Human Realm—only to be instantly obliterated by someone he had never even accounted for.
As his mechanical body began to shut down, he force-sent every piece of battlefield data back home.
Even if he died…Raygalzeva-sama had to know.
This world… hid something terrifying.
The moment he sent the transmission, the systems in his body went completely offline.
Izumi stood over the corpse of the mechanical lifeform, unable to guess what kind of material the thing was made of.Even after being smashed deep into the crust, it showed almost no signs of damage.
Unable to make sense of it, Izumi simply stopped thinking and tossed the entire body into his System storage.
From using the temporary power-up card to killing Lugathim, the entire thing had taken… barely a minute.
Az-Dakaha's power was simply too overwhelming.A Little Garden "Three-Digit" was practically an invincible existence in this world.
Even Raygalzeva, the feared apex of the EXE World, wasn't worth mentioning.
Not to mention—Izumi had used only a fraction of his abilities.
Since a few minutes remained…well, not doing anything would be totally out of character.
With that thought, Izumi raised his head toward the rift in the sky.
The dimensional crack Lugathim had created.
He must've intended to invade the Human Realm through interconnected worlds.
Unfortunately for him, he ran into Izumi.
And that was the end of that plan.
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EXE World – Mechanical Throne Palace
In the heart of a colossal palace, a seven-meter-tall black giant, with five mechanical eyes glowing on its head, received Lugathim's final transmission.
Raygalzeva watched the entire battle.It took only a few seconds.
But the moment Lugathim was effortlessly obliterated, all five mechanical eyes flashed wildly.
"Such a terrifying existence… on Earth?"
"We'll need to reassess."
Just as he spoke, Raygalzeva suddenly sensed something.Its enormous body jerked upright as it turned toward a certain direction—
Lugathim's territory.The place he had opened the dimensional channel.
From that direction… an ominous, soul-freezing power surged forth.
Before Raygalzeva could prepare—
A beam of light pierced through the rift and shot straight into the EXE World.
It was Izumi's attack.
He had decided to go all-out.
And used Khvarenah – The Radiance of the Sovereign.
The strongest Fire-Light Authority.A power capable of igniting the fuse of apocalypse—and erasing one-third of a world.
EXE World had no one capable of stopping Izumi.
Not Raygalzeva.Not Melvazoa.Not even combined.
If they dared invade Izumi's world, they deserved to taste his wrath.
Explosive, divine power roared from Izumi's body—
The supreme Fire-Authority: Khvarenah – Radiant Crown of the Sovereign.
He hurled it directly into the spatial crack.
"Khvarenah."
Izumi's voice echoed across the entire EXE World.
Countless mechanical lifeforms looked up—A blinding radiance swallowed everything.In the next instant, the entire world fell into a state of mass-shutdown.
Using Lugathim's territory as the epicenter, one-third of the EXE World became a sea of light.
Then, the divine firestorm spread—destroying everything in its path.
Raygalzeva and Melvazoa burst from their palaces, fleeing into space.
Even they were stunned.
Their elite creations—Dulmad, the hundred-meter aquatic titans,Hazilrius, the robed lieutenant-class mecha priests,and countless other mechanized abominations—appeared beside them.
They all stared at their burning planet in speechless horror.
Every mechanical lifeform fell into a hard-shutdown.
Silence blanketed the void.
The scale of the devastation was unimaginable.
Lugathim had been Raygalzeva's personal subordinate—and his territory one of the most prosperous regions.
And that was exactly where Izumi's attack landed.
Lugathim's Five Calamities were annihilated.Hundreds of thousands of mechanical lifeforms erased.
Dulmad's connected region was devastated. Half their legions were reduced to ash.
Even Raygalzeva's own territory was ravaged.
If he hadn't reacted in time, he too would've been scrapped.
Being hit directly… would've meant total annihilation.
Looking down on the burning world, Raygalzeva's voice trembled.
"Pull back all frontline forces.""We must completely revise our strategy regarding that world."
Even Raygalzeva felt fear.
He had assumed Earth was insignificant.Even that dragon in the dimensional fissure had been nothing more than an insect.
But then… a single human appeared—and wiped out one-third of their world with one attack.
How could they not feel terror?
Melvazoa, his younger brother, didn't object at all.He had suffered direct damage as well.
Their entire faction had been crippled by Izumi's attack.
Invading another world was no longer an option.
Now, they had to worry about the High Elven Deities watching from the shadows—
The virtuous god Leshentorasand the Holy Mother Goddess.
With their world in chaos, those deities would absolutely strike.
Which meant—
Conquest could wait.Survival came first.
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Back on Earth
Izumi had no idea that a single attack had triggered cataclysmic butterfly effects.
The EXE invasion halted.Earth had gained breathing room.Other worlds' invasions continued, but none were as dangerous as EXE.
Izumi had, unknowingly, saved Earth from a near-certain apocalypse.
But the one who caused the chaos?
He felt nothing.
After firing Khvarenah, Izumi exhaled, refreshed.
He had already held back.If he'd used full power, he wouldn't have stopped at one-third of the world.
Little Garden rules didn't apply here.If he used the true, unrestricted Khvarenah—
The EXE World would've been erased.
That world held not only mechanical evil gods, but mountain deities as well.Izumi didn't intend to destroy it completely.
Seeing the crack slowly close, he sighed.
Time was almost up.
He dashed toward Eriri and the girls.
When Izumi returned, Eriri and the others were still unconscious.
With a glance at his two clones, he dismissed them into his storage, then collapsed onto the ground.
The small pocket-world around them was fully shattered.
He wondered how many people had died this time.
The school was going to cry blood.
Feeling a twinge of sadness, Izumi shook his head and stopped thinking.
He took out the protective charm.
It had already fully recovered.