Chapter 186: [186] : The Mimicry Daemon (2), Root Command Protocol
The Level 100 Mimicry Daemon didn’t answer him. It didn’t try to negotiate.
Mirage pushed itself off the stone floor with terrifying and unnatural speed. The liquid silver making up its body warped and stretched, fully committing to the fight.
It didn’t pull out a sword. It didn’t cast a physical fireball or summon a wall of dark magic.
The faceless silver head snapped toward Declan. A massive invisible wave of pure psychic energy erupted from the creature!
It wasn’t a physical attack. It completely bypassed the air, traveling instantly along the game’s sensory network directly into Declan’s neural link.
[Warning: Severe Mental Trauma Detected.]
[Hostile psychic invasion in progress.]
[Initiating Level 100 Neural Feedback Loop...]
For a normal player, this was an instant-kill mechanic. A Level 100 psychic loop didn’t just drain your health bar until you died in the game. It forced the player’s physical brain in the real world to experience a catastrophic sensory overload, resulting in an immediate and permanent server disconnect.
The invisible wave hit Declan squarely in the chest.
Declan didn’t even flinch. He didn’t take a step back.
He just stood there with his hands shoved deep into his pockets.
The psychic attack slammed into the invisible Sovereign-tier barrier resting perfectly around his head.
The +20 Abyssal Sovereign Crown he had looted from the developer vault triggered instantly.
[Item Passive: Absolute Mental Aegis Activated.]
[Nullifying all telepathic intrusion and psychic damage.]
The massive mental strike just washed over him like a light and harmless breeze. It didn’t even manage to give him a mild headache.
Combined with his mutated Apathy of the Abyss passive skill, his brain processed the Level 100 terrifying mental assault as completely boring background data. It felt like someone trying to threaten a tank with a wet napkin.
But it was loud. A high-pitched ringing echoed in his ears, completely ruining the quiet atmosphere of the clearing.
"I really hate noise." Declan sighed.
Mirage froze. The silver creature tilted its faceless head, clearly confused by the server math. Its programming could not understand why the human in the black coat wasn’t writhing on the floor and screaming in pure digital agony.
Declan didn’t give it time to run another calculation.
He didn’t pull out the massive +40 Eclipse Severance halberd. The weapon was designed to delete spatial coordinates entirely. If he swung it in this small space, he might accidentally delete the server terminal and whatever pocket dimension Nova was trapped in.
He needed precision. He needed raw and overwhelming elemental force.
He tapped his digital interface.
"System. Abyssal Supernova."
Declan didn’t chant. He didn’t wave a staff around for ten seconds. The zero-cast-time trait from his Sovereign Neural Interface ear-cuff instantly bypassed the game’s magic mechanics.
A blinding intense white light erupted directly from Declan’s chest!
It didn’t shoot forward like a standard laser. It exploded outward in a perfect fifty-meter spherical shockwave of pure physics-defying plasma!
The sheer heat of the blast instantly flash-fried the air inside the blue ice dome. The stone floor turned bright red, then white-hot, before instantly melting into a bubbling puddle of liquid rock.
The shockwave slammed into the Mimicry Daemon.
Mirage let out a highly distorted shrieking wail of pure digital agony!
The Abyssal Supernova didn’t care about the creature’s massive 3.5 million health pool. The extreme thermal output completely ignored standard defense stats, melting right through the entity’s code.
The monster’s sleek liquid silver body instantly boiled. Thick clouds of metallic steam hissed violently into the air as the intense plasma actively melted its digital armor right off its frame.
The sheer kinetic force of the blast launched the Daemon backward. It crashed heavily into the white server terminal, pinning its bubbling body to the ground.
[Critical Hit! 450,000 Fire Damage Dealt!]
[Target inflicted with Severe Melt debuff. Movement restricted.]
Declan walked slowly across the superheated melting floor. His pitch-black Predator’s Coat easily repelled the ambient heat, keeping him perfectly cool and comfortable.
He stood over the twitching ruined silver creature. Its health bar was draining rapidly from the severe burn damage.
"I will ask you one more time." Declan’s voice rumbled with heavy terrifying Warlord authority. "Where is my hacker?"
Mirage weakly raised a melting silver arm, trying to shield its faceless head from the Warlord. The monster’s arrogant aggression was completely gone and replaced by pure unfiltered panic.
It realized it wasn’t fighting a normal player. It was fighting a walking server wipe.
"Storage!" The Daemon shrieked, its synthetic voice glitching heavily. "Data storage! She is buffered in the terminal’s sub-drive!"
Declan glanced at the white metal server terminal. It was completely untouched by his Supernova blast. The spell’s passive trait automatically omitted any non-hostile targets he wanted to protect, keeping the hardware perfectly safe.
"Bring her out." Declan ordered.
"I cannot!" Mirage sobbed, leaking hot silver fluid onto the stone. "The data is locked! If I am deleted, the sub-drive completely wipes its cache! She will be permanently erased!"
Declan’s eyes narrowed. He looked at the monster’s rapidly dropping health bar. It was a hostage situation built directly into the game’s core code.
He could easily execute the Daemon right now. But that would cost him his best employee, and he hated recruiting new people.
Declan opened his digital inventory. He completely ignored his weapons. He scrolled straight down past the armor and potions to the administrative developer tools he had looted from the Sector 1 bank vault.
He found exactly what he needed.
A glowing heavy gold digital scroll materialized in his hand. It was bound by thick black chains that hummed with administrative power.
[Item Recognized: Root Command Protocol]
↳ Tier: Emperor
↳ Functionality: Forces an absolute unbreakable master-slave administrative link upon any system AI or digital entity. The target is permanently bound to the user’s authority. Disobedience results in instant core deletion.
"You don’t want to get deleted?" Declan asked smoothly. He casually tossed the heavy gold scroll onto the floor right next to the monster’s head. "Sign the terms of service."
Mirage stared at the glowing Emperor-tier item. The Daemon knew exactly what that code meant.
It was absolute slavery. It would lose all autonomy. It would become nothing more than a programmable tool.
But the alternative was the Warlord’s spiked boot crushing its core.
The silver creature didn’t hesitate. It pressed its melting hand directly against the gold scroll.
The item shattered into a massive burst of golden light that instantly rushed into the Daemon’s chest!
The system chimes hammered happily in Declan’s head.
[Command Protocol Established.]
[Entity ’Mirage’ successfully bound.]
[Status: Absolute Loyalty Enforced.]
Declan smirked. He tapped his interface and canceled the burn debuff on his new pet.
"Good." Declan said coldly. "Now, unbox my hacker. We have work to do."
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