Although Gwen and the others wanted to stop Ark, they were already at their limits. They were barely holding on to their transformations with sheer willpower. Even though they felt extremely unwilling, they could only watch as Ark disappeared instantly with the Cronus Gashat in his hand.
"Let's go back and recover first," Dan said, nodding to the four of them.
Back at the underground base of Holy City Hospital
"What should we do now?"
Elena slumped onto the table in frustration. The Cronus Gashat, the only thing capable of opposing the Game God, had just been taken away by the suddenly appearing Foundation X.
"The Game God is indeed powerful—far beyond us," Li Hua said with narrowed eyes. "But just because we can't fight it now doesn't mean we'll never be able to."
"How?" Elena rolled her eyes and asked.
Li Hua turned to look at Dan.
"In the end, the Game God is still just a Bugster monster born from a game designed by Genm.
Mr. Tan can also create games and produce Gashats. Didn't he already break Genm's game once and create the Cronus Gashat?"
"In other words," Victor added thoughtfully, "no matter how hard the game or how strong the boss is, as long as the developer can modify the underlying code, there must be a way to counter it."
"You're not wrong," Dan nodded confidently.
"Although the Game God is very powerful, as long as I can create Gashats with sufficient power, you will eventually have a chance to fight it.
But to develop new Gashats, I need enough data and Bugster virus samples.
That part will depend on you."
"I understand," Gwen said seriously, clenching her pale fist.
"We'll defeat more Bugster monsters and collect the necessary data and viruses."
Dan smiled faintly to himself and softly acknowledged her response.
Meanwhile…
The Doctors' Team began energetically hunting Bugster monsters everywhere.
At the same time, Dan officially began developing a new Rider system, while planning the progression of his story based on the original plot.
The Space Stone itself wasn't much of a concern. If Thor brought it back to Asgard, it would remain stored in Odin's vault until Ragnarok.
The Mind Stone, however, was tied to the creation of Vision, Scarlet Witch, and Quicksilver.
Tan Dao-yi didn't care whether Vision would be born without the Mind Stone—Vision had no value to him.
But Wanda's Chaos Magic was extremely interesting to him.
The ability to arbitrarily alter reality was an incredibly powerful force—a valuable sample worth studying.
He was also interested in Pietro Maximoff's super-speed.
Although Quicksilver died rather anticlimactically in Avengers: Age of Ultron—killed by a burst of bullets—that was mostly due to plot convenience. His abilities had barely been fully developed.
If used properly, super-speed could be almost unbeatable.
Therefore, using the Mind Stone to awaken the siblings' powers was both necessary and valuable.
Of course, Dan had no intention of following the original plot and handing the Mind Stone to Hydra.
Instead, he could simply find the siblings himself and approach them under the name of Foundation X, helping them awaken their abilities.
At this time, the siblings should still harbor hatred for Tony Stark, whose weapons had killed their family during bombings.
If they learned they could gain superhuman power to take revenge on Tony Stark, they would likely accept—just like when they originally became Hydra's test subjects.
Inside the Mirror Dimension
Within the Mirror Dimension, the modified Chitauri warship rested silently.
The Mind Stone and Space Stone floated in Dan's hand, emitting mysterious, profound light.
Using the power of the Space Stone together with the Mirror Dimension he obtained earlier from Ancient One, Dan had already opened the initial version of a Mirror World.
At the moment, however, the Mirror World was only a massive personal pocket dimension belonging to Dan—completely empty.
To create Mirror World Riders like those in Kamen Rider Ryuki, he would still need to design and create the corresponding Mirror Monsters.
That preliminary work couldn't be completed overnight.
Dan planned to construct a Mirror World with infinite evolutionary potential.
His ultimate goal was to make it a separate dimension—like those ruled by dimensional overlords—independent from the universe itself.
Only then could he become a dimension lord beyond the universe.
The Mirror World would need to be at least as large as Earth itself.
Even with the Space Stone and the Mind Stone, building such a dimension wasn't easy.
And Dan already had some ideas about the design of the Mirror Monsters.
So the Mirror World would have to be developed gradually…
Using Rider Chronicle, Dan activated the Space Stone's power.
Numbers formed in the air around him as solid digital entities.
From 0 to 108.
They were the Roidmude mechanical lifeforms.
[Ayo Drive, my goat less goo]
Looking at the numerical forms of the Roidmudes before him, Dan nodded slightly.
"And also…"
With a stretch of his left hand, two belts appeared.
They were the Drive Systems.
He infused them with the modified power of the Space Stone.
Inside the belts were already loaded the AI consciousness data of Krim and Banno.
Of course, they had not yet been awakened.
According to the story setup:
Krim and Banno were researchers working under Foundation X.
They created the Roidmudes and the Drive System.
Later, the Roidmudes rebelled and killed them.
Before dying, both uploaded their consciousness into the belts—although Banno's belt was still incomplete.
Dan waved his hand.
All 109 Roidmudes obtained physical bodies.
The Drive Driver was placed onto No.0 – Chase.
He then transported all the Roidmudes and the two belts into a prepared experimental base.
From afar, he watched the prologue of the story unfold.
The base exploded.
108 incomplete Roidmudes rushed out.
The leader, Heart, spoke to his companions:
"We will take revenge on humanity. Let the humans of Earth see that we, the Roidmudes, are a higher form of life beyond them."
"It is time to show humanity our power."
"Together—activate Global Heavy Acceleration."
All 108 Roidmudes rushed into the bustling streets of New York.
Their spatial fields overlapped and resonated.
The Heavy Acceleration Field expanded across half the Earth.
From New York, it stretched westward across Japan and Korea, and eastward toward the Middle East.