Inside the cafeteria of Ember's underground core area.
"D-Don't kill me."
In the foul air thick with the stench of metal rust and bloody smell, an Ember Organization guard cowered in a corner, staring in terror at the dreadful figure in the distance—a veritable grim reaper.
Rank 2 Upper-Tier Star Envoy from Star Envoy Association headquarters, Metal Detonation Benjamin.
As he looked at that expressionless, terrifying humanoid weapon.
The guard's mind kept replaying the nightmare-like scenes from moments ago.
First, every bullet fired at the man had exploded in midair.
Then, the metal fragments left behind by those bullets had floated around him, as if manipulated by an invisible pair of giant hands.
Finally, the sight that made hearts tremble appeared.
The bullet fragments hovering around Benjamin suddenly accelerated.
Then they pierced the heads of every resister in the cafeteria with flawless precision, effortlessly carrying out a one-sided massacre.
As for those lucky enough not to be killed by the bullet fragments.
The metal fragments remaining inside their bodies would also explode in a bizarre fashion, killing them completely.
A devil. This guy was a humanoid devil.
As an ordinary person, there was no way he could defeat such a devil!
Driven by an overwhelming desire to survive, the Ember Base guard not only threw away his weapon, but humbly begged for the other man's forgiveness.
Yet his pleas and supplications meant nothing to Mechanical Star Envoy Benjamin, who possessed only reason and no humanity.
Because people did not care whether an ant lived or died.
Click.
Benjamin's mechanical prosthetic eye gave off a faint whir as he looked at the Ember Base guard kneeling before him and begging.
The streams of data flowing through his iris seemed to be calculating something.
The next second, without the slightest pity or