The initial version of the "Black Box" was a Tier Three—Black-Tech-grade "sealing artifact."
Even an existence like the Mechanical Revolution, a Catastrophe-level entity, could be isolated from the outside world.
Dealing with this army of viral machines was naturally a piece of cake.
Like amber sealed in spacetime, everything was cut off, whether in virus mode or mechanical mode.
The only one that could still move somewhat was that Level 90 boss, the Viral Machine General.
At that moment, the "mask" on its face, pieced together from countless hexagonal points of light, constantly rearranged itself. Sometimes it formed hollow eye sockets; sometimes it split open into a silent, howling mouth.
Yet whenever its mask tried to condense into something, it immediately collapsed in place.
Then, scorching heat rose up--
The heat licked across its body. The scale-like circuits no longer opened and closed, but softened like wax, sagging and dripping down. When they struck the ground, they emitted a sizzling corrosive sound. Its right-arm molecular blade was the first to collapse. Its serrated edge melted into silver fluid, sliding down along the blade and pooling on the ground into a metallic slurry that reflected rainbow-colored light.
Its face—that constantly shifting mass of liquid metal—began to boil. Bubbles swelled across its surface and burst, spraying blazing-white sparks...
[You killed the Level 90 boss...]
The Vessel Overlord revealed its true form.
Its body was forged from constantly recombining superalloy and flowing electronic plague, resembling a walking electronic abyss.
Its lower jaw split open, revealing fangs made of compressed code. Each opening and closing released logic viruses capable of corroding reality, covering several, even more than a dozen, astronomical units.
With the support of the "Supreme Algorithm," its body began expanding without limit. It soon swelled to the size of