The Final Bargaining Chip

Above the ruins, Black-Armored Nano Kang's body began to swell.

Countless cracks opened across his armor, and swarms of pitch-black nanobots poured out, gathering into a roiling cloud of dark mist.

Every nanoparticle glimmered with violet light—the energy of timelines compressed to their limit.

"You think you've won?"

Black-Armored Kang's voice came from within the cloud.

"I served on the Council for decades and devoured seven hundred timelines. That energy is enough to reduce all of spacetime to nothing!"

The cloud of nanobots spread. Wherever it passed, space itself began to melt.

Chu Hang stood still and watched the dark mist approach, his face expressionless.

"Decades of accumulated power?"

He spoke calmly.

"That's quite an inheritance."

He raised his right hand. A golden Alchemy Array appeared in his palm.

The array spun, its runes rearranging until they formed a new structure: the core frequency of Mother Box Technology, decoded through the Alchemical Law.

"Unfortunately, there's something you don't understand."

Chu Hang curled his fingers. The array expanded in an instant, engulfing the entire cloud.

"Technology is, at its heart, a way of encoding rules. And I'm good at rewriting rules."

Golden runes pierced the dark mist, engraving a new command onto every nanoparticle.

Black-Armored Kang's will resisted, but Chu Hang's Alchemical Law acted directly on the Conceptual Layer, stripping control from him.

Three seconds later, every nanoparticle stopped spreading.

They turned as one and surged toward Chu Hang.

Each particle dismantled itself, releasing the timeline energy it held for Chu Hang to absorb.

Black-Armored Kang let out a furious roar that faded steadily away.

When the final nanoparticle vanished, his existence was erased from that dimension.

Chu Hang closed his eyes and felt the energy surging through his body.

When he opened them, his gaze settled on the young White-Clad