"Gah-?!"
Jinzo craned his neck, his entire body frozen as though struck by lightning. A wisp of white smoke even rose from the cooling pipes atop his head!
His titanium-alloy faceplate actually came unhinged from the shock, his jaw nearly crashing onto the tops of his feet!
His scarlet electronic eyes bulged, streams of data scrolling frantically within them, even throwing up garbled characters!
"S-Summoned Skull?!!"
Jinzo's voice warped completely from sheer shock, shrill as nails scraping glass.
"A greater archdemon of Dark World?! A high-ranking demon king with twenty-five hundred attack points?!"
Jinzo's head buzzed. His chips were about to explode.
What was going on?!
This was a true greater demon from the deepest Inferno of the Abyss!
Whether in seniority, bloodline, strength, or purity of darkness, he could grind a half-biomechanical psychic test subject like Jinzo into the dirt with ease!
How could a monster of this caliber possibly be a subordinate of the smiling human brat before him?!
And judging by his behavior...
Summoned Skull had not even needed a summoning circle. One snap of the fingers, and he had come eagerly running to await orders?!
Before Jinzo could recover from the shock of his worldview collapsing, Summoned Skull had already folded his arms in midair.
He looked down from above at the dwarf-like Jinzo, ghostly blue flames surging in his eye sockets. Two heavy jets of sulfur-scented white vapor blasted from his nostrils, his voice booming like a great bell and leaving everyone's eardrums ringing.
"Hmph! You suicidal lump of scrap!"
Summoned Skull's voice was cold and commanding, every word carrying unquestionable authority.
"My master thinks enough of you to take you into his deck and let you serve. That is the greatest blessing you could earn in this lifetime!"
"Countless monsters of the Abyss beg