"My base?!!!!!"
Watching his base explode, Shadow Moon let out a shriek of anguish so piercing it warped into something inhuman.
More than twenty years of painstaking work, countless days and nights of scheming, the foundation of all his ambitions—right before his eyes, it became a rising, all-too-brilliant mushroom cloud.
Scorching blasts of air, mixed with chunks of concrete and twisted rebar, rained down, knocking the massive army of monsters behind him into disarray.
The combatants and monsters who had been so menacing just moments ago now stared at one another, their compound eyes reflecting the blinding fireball and the black castle disintegrating at its center.
They could not understand why their headquarters had suddenly appeared on the battlefield, only to explode.
"Heh~"
A soft chuckle came from a nearby pile of rubble, mingled with the muffled sound of someone coughing up blood.
Tsukasa Kadoya struggled to wipe the blood from his mouth with the back of his hand. Half his body felt as though it had fallen apart, yet he smiled.
Shadow Moon froze for a moment, then sharply turned his blazing crimson compound eyes toward Tsukasa Kadoya.
"You bastard—what the hell did you do?"
His voice sank low, trembling with the suppressed fury of a volcano about to erupt.
He could not understand how Tsukasa Kadoya had done it.
The trans-spacetime teleportation system was Great Shocker's most closely guarded secret. Access was restricted to a handful of people, and Tsukasa Kadoya was definitely not among them.
"Take a guess?"
Tsukasa Kadoya grinned, revealing a mouthful of bloodstained teeth.
He did not actually know what had happened either. He was simply delighted to see the man who had betrayed him suffer—
"Then die!"
Realizing that Tsukasa Kadoya was playing him, Shadow Moon wasted no more words. He drew a