Maya sat on a log, her posture relaxed as she observed the figure before her.
The Immortal King knelt before her, bowing deeply. His skull pressed against the dirt, his entire skeletal frame trembling.
"Kill me. Please."
The voice screeched out, desperate.
Maya poked at him with a stick.
"Kill me. Please."
She poked again.
"Kill me. Please."
"Awww," Maya said, tilting her head. "It’s broken."
She poked him one more time, but he just kept repeating the same words, his voice hollow and mechanical.
"Well, that’s a shame," she said with a sigh.
She stood up from the log and approached him, extending her hand and placing it gently on his skull.
"Chrono Saltation," she uttered.
A massive clock materialized above the Immortal King.
The hands began to spin. Slowly at first, then faster. And faster. The ticking grew deafening, the hands becoming a blur.
It spun so fast it seemed to be running out of time itself.
The clock began to disintegrate, golden particles scattering into the air like dust. So did the Immortal King - his bones crumbling away, dissolving into nothingness along with the clock.
...
Maya found herself standing in the void filled with floating golden clocks once again.
"Now let’s see..." she muttered.
She began gesturing with her hands, and the clocks responded, shifting and rearranging themselves around her.
"Found it," she said, reaching out and pulling one of the clocks toward her.
Inside its face was the Immortal King - or rather, his history, his secrets, everything he had tried to hide.
"Let’s see what you’re hiding."
She observed the images flowing through the clock, her expression growing thoughtful.
"Hmm." She held her chin. "He actually put his army in the apocalypse worlds?"
She watched as the truth unfolded before her. The Immortal King hadn’t just been killing captives on Earth. He had been hunting down entire worlds - taking advantage of the time dilation and bountiful high level monsters and people to fuel his resurrection.
"No wonder he could revive so fast," she murmured.
It made sense now. There weren’t enough high-ranking people on Earth that would always allow the Immortal King to revive so quickly. But apocalypse worlds? Those were filled with monsters, survivors, entire civilizations struggling against extinction. And if they all died, there would be more after the world looped, literally an endless supply.
"That being said..."
Suddenly, the area collapsed.
The clocks shattered. The golden void crumbled away. Maya found herself standing in an endless expanse of pure void.
She wore a nervous expression. It’s this place again, she thought.
At that moment, she noticed something before her.
A massive azure dragon.
The dragon glanced at her, and the weight of its gaze pressed down on her.
Maya faced it without flinching.
Her expression grew serious. That aura... it was just like the Eternal Flame.
She gritted her teeth. These people really weren’t going to leave her and her brother alone.
The clocks in her eyes began spinning faster and faster, golden light intensifying as she prepared to...
"Is this your so-called masterpiece?" the dragon scoffed, its voice resonating through the void.
Maya’s eyes spun even faster, her power surging...
"How boring," the dragon murmured.
The scene shattered into millions of pieces.
...
In the real world, Maya jolted upright from the ground.
"What’s happening?" she wondered, clutching her head. Her head throbbed. Her vision swam.
Wasn’t I just about to capture the Immortal King with Cipher?
She looked around, disoriented. The barrier she had created was gone. The undead army was also gone.
Suddenly, she heard a loud roar.
She looked up.
Huge creatures flew across the sky, their massive forms casting shadows over the land below.
"Dragons?" she wondered aloud.
She stared at the sky, her left eye clock flickering unstably for a few seconds before shutting down.
"What the hell is going on?"
...
[Name: Cipher]
[Level: 779 (251,000/779,000)]
[Species: Majin]
[Class: Cheater]
[Health: 32,000/32,000]
[Mana: 3200/3200]
[Strength: 320]
[Stamina: 320]
[Agility: 320]
[Intelligence: 320]
[Stat Points: 297]
[Cheat Points: 7740]
[Skills (17/82): Instant Death (Legendary), Resurrection (SSS), Mana Dominion (SSS), Heavenly Phenomena (SSS), Dominion of Will (SSS), Pain Tolerance (SS), Battle Instinct (S), Berserk (S), Aura (S), Regeneration (A), Mana Recovery (A), Shadow Assassin (A), Battery (A), Penetration (C), Sword Mastery (D), Dagger Throw (D), Voice Transmission (D)]
[Unique Skill/s (2/2): Will Of The Absolute (Transcendent), Demon World Domain (World)]
Inside the spiritual sea, Cipher observed his stats.
While he was killing the Immortal King over and over again, he was still gaining exp, which allowed him to level up over a hundred levels. He distributed his stats as well as rolled for cards while killing him, continuing until he entered S rank with 320 in all stats and awakened S rank aura.
After that, he didn’t bother distributing them anymore as they were far from the limit of his current rank. He still continued rolling for cards and got quite the number.
He was itching to use them but forced himself to stay calm.
He decided to distribute the stats first. Equal distribution across the board - 74 to each stat, saving the remaining point for later. With a thought, he allocated them.
All stats were now at 394 points.
Now that he was done with the stats, it was time to move on to...
[Owned Cards: Commit (108), Optimize (70), Import (100), Exploit (90), Merge (88), Fork (90), Delete (100), Class (85), Patch (120), Mirror (88), Rework (90), Seed (99), Blank (100) & Export (105)]
He was loaded.
With this number of cards, if he couldn’t become invincible, then no one could. And that wasn’t all - throughout the whole ordeal, he had leveled up 17 major realms. That meant he could roll for cheats that many times.
He summoned the cheat shop.
There weren’t any useful cards or packs left as he had already bought them. As for the voucher, it was Reroll Surplus - it reduced the reroll price by 10 permanently. He bought it for a thousand points.
He wondered how it worked. Was it recurring like the others? If he could buy it ten times, couldn’t he get free rerolls forever?
He shook his head. It was time for rolling for cheats. He would think about that later.