Super God: The Foundation, Starting by Inventing SCPs

Yet its strength far exceeded anything an ordinary person could imagine. After only a few blows, it had smashed a deep dent into the alloy armor.

At this rate...

SCP-173 would soon punch through the Gluttonous Battleship's armor and get inside.

In the livestream chat, powerful figures from various native planets felt their scalps prickle at the sight. Cold sweat streamed down their backs!

They couldn't help it!

SCP-173's abilities were simply too bizarre.

Common sense could no longer explain them.

A conceptual neck-snapping ability, movement through space that defied physical laws, strength enough to pierce alloy armor... Every one of those abilities lay beyond their understanding!

And they realized that the Foundation, which could contain SCP-173,

must be an organization of unimaginable power.

[Sengoku: I can't imagine how vast the Foundation must be to contain SCP-173. Judging by its designation, the Foundation has at least 173 anomalies!]

[Tatsumaki: These anomalies are far stranger than the monsters in our world.]

[Hiruzen Sarutobi: The Gluttonous army has bitten off more than it can chew. The Foundation is far beyond anything they can provoke. If I were them, I'd withdraw immediately.]

[Ying Zheng: Withdraw? Impossible! They worship death, and a soldier's duty is to follow orders. Even if every last one of them dies, they won't retreat!]

[Vegapunk: What wonderful research material! If I could study it, I might discover the source of its strange abilities!]

[Orochimaru: Agreed! I'd love to study it too.]

[Child Emperor: Count me in!]

[Ash: Are you all insane? You actually want to study that thing?]

[Misty: Someone who hasn't won a championship doesn't get to speak!]

[Ash: ...]

[...]

Jiang Chen watched the livestream chat and quietly committed Vegapunk, Orochimaru, and Child Emperor's names to memory.

The Foundation did need vast numbers of researchers

to study, analyze, and experiment on anomalies. He could buy researchers from the system store with popularization points, but the abilities of those low-level researchers—even the high-level ones...

couldn't compare to those three.

If the opportunity arose, Jiang Chen could consider recruiting them into the Foundation. Who knew? They might discover something extraordinary.

While Jiang Chen considered recruiting Vegapunk and the others, General Feng, commanding the Gluttonous flagship, saw that SCP-173 was about to smash through the alloy armor...

He immediately gave his subordinates an order: "Deploy a thousand-man Gluttonous combat squad."

"Surround SCP-173 from every angle. Hold it there, no matter what."

"Make sure at least ten pairs of eyes are on SCP-173 at all times."

General Feng paused, then continued, "According to the video, the Foundation will come to retrieve it within forty-eight hours at the earliest."

"We must hold out until the Foundation arrives!"

"Carry out the order!"

The Gluttonous were a beastlike species with powerful muscles and formidable fighting strength, but most were not particularly intelligent. Apart from Gluttonous King Shi, Generals Feng and Lei had the sharpest minds in the entire species.

Thus, although General Feng was not among their strongest fighters,

he had been made commander of the advance fleet.

At his command, Gluttonous combat teams flew out of the battleships aboard small space shuttles and headed straight for SCP-173.

The livestream had already shown them how strange SCP-173 was.

They could not help fearing that eerie statue of concrete and rebar. But orders were orders. It did not matter that SCP-173 lay ahead.

Even against a stranger anomaly, they would charge without hesitation.

It was this fearless spirit that had set them apart from countless others and won Death God Karl's favor, transforming them from raw-meat-eating beasts...

into a civilization capable of interstellar warfare.

Soon!

Thanks to the excellent performance of the small space shuttles Death God Karl had provided, over a thousand Gluttonous warriors arrived at the platform where SCP-173 stood.

Following General Feng's orders, they surrounded SCP-173 from every angle.

Then they widened their eyes and stared at it without blinking!

With over a thousand warriors, they could easily keep dozens or even hundreds of pairs of eyes trained on SCP-173 at once. That was more than enough to immobilize it completely!

And just as the video had described, SCP-173 stopped moving. It stood on the alloy deck like an ordinary statue.

Only then did General Feng, aboard the Gluttonous flagship, let out a long breath.

Now we just have to wait for this so-called Foundation to come and contain it.

General Feng was not alone. The powerful figures from native planets watching the livestream also breathed sighs of relief.

In their minds, SCP-173's threat level dropped considerably.

After all, despite its many inexplicable abilities, SCP-173 had an obvious weakness: once someone looked directly at it...

it lost the ability to move.

A weakness that obvious was easy to exploit.

[Sengoku: They finally have it under control. SCP-173's weakness is far too obvious. Without it, this thing would be terrifying!]

[Red-Haired Shanks: I wonder whether Observation Haki works on it. If it does, its threat level drops even further.]

[Neji Hyuga: I don't know about Observation Haki, but the Hyuga clan's Byakugan would definitely be SCP-173's nemesis!]

[Sasuke Uchiha: The Sharingan too!]

[Pain: The Rinnegan is SCP-173's nemesis as well.]

[Monster King Orochi: My Dragon-level monster Gyoro Gyoro is SCP-173's true nemesis! With her around, any number of SCP-173s would be no problem.]

[Tatsumaki: Did you see that, Child Emperor? Record Gyoro Gyoro's abilities and threat level. It'll help us eliminate her later.]

[Child Emperor: Understood!]

[Monster King Orochi: ...]

[Black Sperm: If every anomaly has a weakness as obvious as SCP-173's, containing them will be much easier.]

[Metal Knight: Based on the available data, that appears to be the case. I therefore conclude that the Foundation can't be too powerful. At most, it's on par with the Angel Civilization.]

[Doflamingo: Agreed!]

[ay5: Boss is right!]

[...]

Jiang Chen read the increasingly relaxed livestream comments, and a disdainful smile touched his lips.

Ignorance really is bliss!

Anyone and everyone thinks they're SCP-173's nemesis? Unbelievable!

You think far too highly of yourselves.

Oh, forget it! Why argue with them? Let them enjoy their smug little moment. I hope they're still this confident once they truly understand how terrifying anomalies can be!

When the next anomaly I invent appears, I hope you can still laugh!

You think eyes are the answer?

When the time comes, you'll wish you could gouge yours out.

In Meleon Celestial City, within the Angel Nebula...

"Your Majesty, Yan's death cannot go unanswered!"

Holy Right Wing Zhixin held her Flame Blade and spoke indignantly to Kesha, who sat upon the throne. "The Gluttonous army must pay!"

"Yan died because they invaded Earth!"

Of all the angels, Zhixin had been closest to Yan.

To Zhixin, Yan had been both mentor and friend. In a sense, Yan had guided her onto her path. Without Yan, Zhixin would not be who she was today.

If Holy Kesha had not stopped her, Zhixin would already have unleashed a god-slaying Flame Judgment upon the Gluttonous army in her fury.

At Zhixin's words, not the slightest ripple crossed Holy Kesha's delicate, doll-like face. Just as before...

she sat on her throne with an air of languid ease.

Expressionless, Holy Kesha stared at Yan's body floating before her.

Only Heavenly Foundation King He Xi knew that Holy Kesha was nowhere near as calm as she appeared. She was devoting every bit of her processing power...

to trying to repair Yan's body.

The effort demanded so much processing power that even Holy Kesha, with her fourth-generation divine body, had to give it her all.

She had no attention left to answer Zhixin!

[Attempting to repair Yan's divine-body data... Repair failed... Warning: data at the neck is corrupted... Continuing repairs...]

[Warning: Holy Knowledge Treasury... Third-generation divine-body data at the neck is corrupted... Restoration impossible!]

[Allocating Meleon Celestial City's maximum processing power, Sky Blade VII's maximum processing power, Holy Body's maximum processing power, Angel Star's maximum processing power, and every angel warrior's maximum processing power...]

[Continuing repair attempts... Repair failed... Neck data for Yan is corrupted in all databases...]

[Void Engine restart failed!]

[130 million attempts made. All failed!]

[...]

"Stop, Kesha!"

As Holy Kesha continued trying to repair Yan's body, Heavenly Foundation King He Xi's voice rang out softly. "Yan has fallen in battle!"

"That conceptual neck-snapping ability is beyond our current understanding!"

"Don't waste any more processing power."

He Xi had stood beside Kesha through their rise from weakness for more than thirty thousand years. She knew Kesha was not as cold as she appeared.

On the contrary, she treasured her comrades more than anyone.

But as the Angel Nebula's chief deity, Kesha had to seem cold and unfeeling.

It was the only way she could better protect her warriors.

Yan's death had shaken Holy Kesha deeply. The moment she returned to Meleon Celestial City, she had spared no cost in drawing on every source of processing power!

She had tried to bring Yan back to life.

She had not even dealt with the severed dark-energy communications—an issue that could bring down the Angel Civilization itself.

He Xi's words brought Holy Kesha back to reality. Yan, who had accompanied her for seven thousand years, had truly fallen in battle.

No matter what Kesha did, she could not bring her back.

Grief filled Holy Kesha's heart, but her face showed nothing. She still wore that cold expression that kept everyone at a distance.

[Searching for all information on Yan. Generating data for transfer to the Holy Knowledge Treasury: Ideal Divine Kingdom!]

[Searching... Collecting... Collection complete... Uploading... Upload successful!]

[Welcome home, Yan!]

Ideal Divine Kingdom was a special database Holy Kesha had created within the Holy Knowledge Treasury. It stored the data of every angel who had fallen in battle...