Chapter 48: Dimension of the Cosmic Ruler and the Secret of Creation

The grip of the Galaxy-Scale Black Mechanical Hand crushes all space and time of Sector 00. The Mechanical Cathedral belonging to the Creator Fleet shatters into pieces; pure silver-chrome steel melts and explodes into atomic dust under the pressure of millions of megapascals. The destructive wave emitted by The Real True Creator obliterates millions of combat drones, Computer Architects, and even the physical structures of artificial planets within microseconds.

In the midst of that destruction of reality, the reverse dimensional jump triggered by the Avenging Sword of Zakar saves Alexander Rington, Genevieve, Gabriel, Ethan, Stella, and Daniel. Ancient golden light wraps their bodies, splitting the void rift and hurling them across the boundary of the universe’s shell toward Dimension Zero—the Main Hive of The Real True Creator.

The group crashes down onto a mirror crystal plain stretching without end boundaries.

The atmosphere in Dimension Zero possesses neither oxygen nor natural gravity, but is instead infused with Ancient Pure Matter emitting a silvery-white glow. Above the airless black sky, there are no stars or planets; floating about are merely thousands of giant solar-system-scale matrix chalices containing galaxy embryo fluid from various civilizations!

"Where are we?" Genevieve whispers as she crawls up, tightly embracing baby Gabriel, who now sleeps peacefully in her chest’s embrace.

Alexander stands tall on the front line. The Avenging Sword of Zakar in his right hand vibrates rhythmically, absorbing energy from the silvery-white glow around them. Alexander’s black-gold pupils narrow sharply, piercing through a distance of thousands of kilometers across the mirror crystal plain.

"This is no longer our galaxy, Yev," Alexander says, his voice projecting a clear and calm double echo. "This is the master laboratory where all civilizations and universes are created and obliterated."

Daniel stares at his portable scanner console, its screen completely frozen. "The data system cannot read physical constants here! Time, space, and mass all do not apply in this dimension!"

Suddenly, from behind them, a small dimensional rift tears open!

A figure is thrown out from the rift, falling face down onto the mirror crystal floor. The Armor of First Creator Sins he wears is shattered to pieces, exposing a half-organic and half-machine body drenched in silver blood: Sebastian De La Croix.

"Aaaarrrgh!" Sebastian screams hoarsely as the mechanical circuits in his neck and chest explode, sparking binary fire.

Sebastian looks up, his dim eyes staring at Alexander and Genevieve with a mixture of hatred, fear, and disbelief. The Creator Fleet he glorified, the true enlightenment technology he took pride in for decades, turns out to be merely a second-rate experimental product in the eyes of the entity inhabiting Dimension Zero!

"You see, Sebastian?" Alexander hisses coldly as he steps closer to the former father-in-law and clan traitor. "You sacrificed your family, blood, and humanity merely to become a watchdog for this laboratory. And in the end, they crush you without a shred of hesitation."

"Shut your mouth, Alexander!" Sebastian roars hysterically, coughing up thick silver blood. "You people know nothing! The Real True Creators... they never intend to let sentient species survive! Every civilization that reaches a certain level of enlightenment is fated to be harvested!"

A humming sound with the power of trillions of Hertz dams all of Dimension Zero!

The mirror crystal plain beneath their feet suddenly turns transparent, revealing the contents inside the crystal floor: millions of skeletons of giant entities and ancient machines obliterated from various pre-historic civilization eras!

From the airless sky, a giant shadow without a definite physical shape, taking the form merely of a Galaxy-Scale Golden-Spiked Single Black Eye, emerges slowly, staring straight toward the six of them.

The voice of the entity is not heard through the ears, but is instead carved directly into the soul structure of every individual.

"Pureblood Rington-De La Croix Test Subjects. Sebastian’s Failed Clone. You have breached the laboratory space boundaries. Memory and Species Erasure Initiating."

Twelve continent-scale Entropy Annihilation Needles glide down from the matrix chalices in the sky, targeting the hearts of Alexander, Genevieve, Gabriel, and Sebastian simultaneously!

"Hold on behind me!" Alexander roars!

He triggers the final stage of the Dimension-Traversing War God Form! The Transcendental Silver-Gold Robe stretches wide, merging with the three-color aura belonging to baby Gabriel and Genevieve’s energy dagger!

Alexander swings the Avenging Sword of Zakar upward, holding off the impact of twelve Entropy Annihilation Needles at once! Its shockwave cracks the mirror crystal plain up to a radius of thousands of kilometers!

"Genevieve! Channel De La Croix blood into the sword’s core!" Alexander shouts as his hands begin to tremble, holding the burden of entropy radiation.

Genevieve drives her energy dagger into the hilt of the Sword of Zakar, channeling all her remaining biological power! Ethan, Stella, and Daniel also support the defense from behind!

However, the Entropy Annihilation Needles belonging to The Real True Creator continually increase their pressure power!

In the middle of that energy collision determining the fate of the universe’s existence, Sebastian De La Croix lying on the ground stares at baby Gabriel, who emits a pure golden crown glow.

"I will not let my experiment... be destroyed by this wreck of a machine!" Sebastian screams with his last remaining pride as an Architect!

Sebastian rips the Main Reactor Core from inside his own chest!

With a mad roar, Sebastian hurls himself straight into one of the main Entropy Annihilation Needles, triggering a biological antimatter self-detonation reaction that severs the focus of the creator entity’s attack!

Sebastian’s matter explosion provides a micro-gap for Alexander!

"DESTROY!" Alexander roars, the swing of the Avenging Sword of Zakar splitting the twelve Annihilation Needles until they shatter into atomic dust!

The Golden-Spiked Single Black Eye belonging to the True Creator roars in a soul-shaking frequency as one of the matrix chalices in the sky suddenly explodes due to Alexander’s energy reversal!

The mirror crystal floor beneath Genevieve’s and baby Gabriel’s feet suddenly cracks open into a bottomless black hole!

Before Alexander has time to pull his wife’s hand, the time-reversing gravitational force from Dimension Zero sucks Genevieve and baby Gabriel in, falling into the dark abyss of another universe!

"ALEXANDER!" Genevieve screams hysterically as her body separates, sliding down through dimensional layers!

"GENEVIEVE! GABRIEL!" Alexander roars, leaping in pursuit into the black hole!

However, from behind the ruins of the exploding matrix chalice, a white-haired man in an antique suit with a pair of eyes with pure golden irises perfectly identical to Gabriel’s steps out from the darkness, catching Genevieve’s and Gabriel’s bodies in the middle of the dimensional fall current!

"Welcome to the final stage of the game, Alexander... I am the First Creator of the Rington and De La Croix Bloodlines. And this baby is the key to replacin

g my position as the New Cosmic Ruler."