In an instant, ding-ding-ding—countless communication signals rang out within the Demonkin Association’s transmission hub.

And then, in the next moment.

The signal connected.

Without another word, Mechanus grabbed that mechanical insect, yanked it toward him, and tore into the transmitter with an urgent, furious roar:

“Hey!! Hey!! Which one of you is an Operator!! Don’t you dare fold-jump me again!! Someone’s impersonating me! The order you received is fake!! I’ll say it again: stop sending people over!!”

Inside the communications hub.

The Operators listened to the “Vice President” voice coming through the line, glanced at one another.

Smirks appeared simultaneously on their faces.

Oh, really!

Turns out Mechanus did have foresight! He warned someone might hack the signal to confuse them, and sure enough—here it comes!

“Heh.” one Operator responded mockingly:

“Not bad, you can mimic our Vice President’s voice so well. Looks like you put in some effort. Impersonating the Vice President? Hahahaha, calling the thief a thief—what a slick trick!”

Mechanus was about to explode with anger.

“Listen clearly! I am your Vice President! I am Mechanus!!”

He snarled:

“My identity code is 0352372! Get your superiors over here right now!!”

The Operators sneered one after another;

one of them picked up the transceiver and said:

“Well, even stole the ID code so neatly, huh? You want to meet our superior? Hahahaha, are you kidding? Do you think our superior is someone you can see just because you say so?”

“Don’t waste time arguing with him. Giving a mechanical insect permission to impersonate the Vice President—really shows a severe lack of intelligence. Leave it to me;

I just downloaded a whole compendium of profanity for all the major species from the info vault. Been waiting for a chance to use it…”

Then, in the next instant.

A barrage of ancestral curses and family insults erupted from Mechanus’s side. Nᴇw novel chapters are publɪshed on N()velFire.net

The “mom count” was off the charts!

On average, every three sentences mentioned his mother, two mentioned his father, and they routinely used his smallness as a metaphor!

Mechanus trembled all over as he listened.

“I… I… I damn—”

“What ‘I’ are you talking about? You think if you ‘oof’ it’ll change the reality of your pathetic smallness? You think if you ‘woof’ you can replace Dog’s place in our hearts?”

“You… you…”

“What ‘you’—have you looked in a mirror? To be that ugly you must’ve worked hard at it. What sin did your parents commit? Don’t they ever cry? The Dark World already has plenty of hideous creatures, and you’re bent on dragging the bottom of the world even lower?!”

“I damn—”

“Do you have no shame at all? Ugly as you are and still coming out to lie to people—honestly, I have never seen someone so… shameless!”

“Aaah—aaah—”

Mechanus howled to the sky, so furious he could no longer hold it in;

a mouthful of blood suddenly exploded from his lips.

Blood sprayed five paces.

Already mentally shattered by that human earlier, and now verbally pummeled by his own subordinates for over ten minutes—no amount of psychological fortitude could withstand that.

He clutched his chest, shoved the nearby mechanical insect away, and shakily pointed toward Lynn on the distant head, quivering as he stammered:

“I… I… I will not share… share…”

Pff—

A second mouthful of blood blasted out. Half of Mechanus’s mechanical components exploded with popping sparks and billowed thick black smoke.

His eyes rolled back;

Mechanus coughed and gurgled blood, eyes bulging, sparks crackling across his body, then he froze—deadlocked.

[Ding! You triggered a special achievement: Defeat an Enemy Without Fighting, you gained 200 base experience]

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……

Meanwhile, in the distance.

The Titan Head, who had been watching through a telescope, unusually did not erupt in rage.

The tentacles behind his skull waved left, then right, revealing that he was in a rather favorable mood at that moment.

The female skull held her telescope with satisfaction, licking her long tongue across her lips, saying:

“My daughter really found—quite a good boyfriend—”

“Calling my girl over—and treating her with this much food—really—makes one’s heart stir—”

“Don’t you think so—old man—”

[Affinity +1]

The Titan Head opened his viscous, enormous maw in a grimace and said:

“Sweet talk—sly tricks—trying to kidnap my girl with a meal—no way—”

The Unicorn Ghost King (.;

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.) said: “But I still feel that the young one’s true goal might just be to get his niece to help him deal with the Demonkin Association’s threat. I think that guy is using his niece as a weapon!”

The Unicorn Ghost King (.;

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:益:;

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.) said: “But I still feel that the young one’s true goal might just be to get his niece to help him deal with the Demonkin Association’s threat. I think that guy is using his niece as a pawn!”

“No—”

The female skull slurped her lips and watched at a distance through the telescope the endlessly arriving “food” that looked delectable.

“This is food—not a threat—they look really tasty—”

Even the Titan Head, unusually, did not argue;

he continued observing through the telescope.

The Unicorn Ghost King gaped in astonishment.

No… no way…

He had forgotten…

To beings of origin-level existence, that truly did not count as a threat;

at most it was a bit of unruly food that could be freely taken and eaten…

From their level of cognition, this was probably just some kid inviting their daughter to come back and join in devouring a bunch of squealing piglets who rushed over delivering themselves…

He was sweating heavily.

……

At the same time, inside the Demonkin Association.

Deep within the Hanging Tower’s core, in a massive underground vessel.

A vast consciousness slowly awakened.

The large-scale mobilization of the Association’s mechanical creatures had finally attracted its attention.

“What’s going on?!” that gloomy voice rumbled from the underground vessel.

“How can there be such a large troop movement?! The void fold-jumpers are all activated? Who issued the order?”

The moment it awoke, its awareness instantly blanketed the entire Hanging Tower, seeing the mass mechanical mobilization inside.

Inside the core area.

Beside that giant vessel, dozens of attendants responsible for maintaining its operation immediately dropped to one knee and said:

“Report to President: This is the Vice President Mechanus’s order. Vice President Mechanus encountered a threat offsite that requires a large combined military response, so an urgent report was sent some time ago requesting emergency reinforcement by the army.”

“Which is why there is the current large-scale mobilization.”