The impact of the extraterrestrial vanguard beast shook the foundations of Sector 9 with seismic fury, sending a massive shockwave of dust, pulverized concrete, and ionized air rolling across the battered industrial zone.
The crimson pillar of light descending from the upper atmosphere twisted violently, painting the surrounding skyscrapers in a blood-red sheen that illuminated the panic spreading through the undercity.
Deku Kwanoh did not hesitate.
While every other scavenger, mercenary, and corporate enforcer was fleeing in absolute terror from the horrifying apparition, Deku stood his ground, his posture rigidly straight, his ruined school uniform fluttering in the turbulent winds generated by the monster’s arrival.
Inside his mind, the neural interface flared with a sudden, sharp intensity.
The digital text crystallized into the precise format demanded by the unfolding chaos:
[Bully system]
New quest: Subdue the Vanguard Invader.
Assert absolute dominance over the extraterrestrial threat disturbing Sector 9.
Time Limit: 15 minutes.
Failure Penalty: Temporary paralysis of spatial-kinetic limbs.
Rewards:
Spatial Rift Shielding (Tier 2)
Mutation Density Increase x15
Corporate Intel Package (Class-A)
”An extraterrestrial invader,” Deku muttered to himself, a cold, predatory smirk carving itself deeply into his face.
“Let’s see if your spatial distortion can handle a proper lesson in discipline.”
With an explosive push that shattered the concrete beneath his feet into fine powder, Deku lunged forward.
His body moved like a blur, propelled by the raw, surging power of his newly awakened inner mutation core and the Tier 2 spatial distortion humming fiercely around his fists.
The distance between him and the towering beast closed in a fraction of a millisecond as the air itself buckled under his momentum.
The beast—a colossal nightmare of glistening obsidian exoskeleton and churning, multi-jointed tentacles—let out a piercing, screeching wail that sounded like tearing sheet metal and grinding industrial gears.
It sensed the incoming threat and lashed out instinctively, sweeping one of its massive, razor-sharp tentacles horizontally to slice the audacious human in half.
The tentacle moved at terminal velocity, warping the space around it into a shimmering, distorted wake of lethal kinetic energy.
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Instead, he channeled the full density of his mutation core, hardening his physical structure while simultaneously releasing a localized spatial shockwave from his palms.
BOOM!
When Deku’s fist collided with the massive obsidian tentacle, the impact did not sound like flesh hitting flesh; it sounded like a high-velocity meteor striking a titanium shield.
A blinding flash of white-hot friction erupted at the point of contact, sending shockwaves rippling backward through the air and obliterating the remaining windows of the nearby industrial warehouses.
For a split second, the tentacle halted its lethal momentum.
The obsidian armor cracked under the immense localized pressure, spiderwebbing outward into a thousand jagged fragments.
The beast shrieked in genuine agony, its multi-jointed form stumbling backward as it tried to process how a mere human—a creature it viewed as insignificant organic refuse—had physically stopped its strike and cracked its hardened shell.
”Too slow,” Deku whispered, his voice cutting cleanly through the roaring wind.
Before the beast could recover its balance, Deku used the compressed space-time lag to blink directly upward, scaling the vertical wall of the monster’s carapace with effortless precision.
His ruined leather shoes dug firmly into the shifting, fluid-like tissue of the creature’s back as he climbed toward its primary sensory cluster near the upper crest.
Down below, hidden behind a crumbling concrete barricade, a small group of surviving scavengers watched in paralyzed disbelief.
Among them, Pip—the scrawny kid who had surrendered his copper sack earlier—dropped his jaw so low it practically touched the gravel.
”Is… is he insane?” Pip stammered, rubbing his eyes as if he were watching a waking nightmare.
“That’s a Class-4 vanguard beast! The corporate defense squads use heavy plasma artillery just to scratch its outer hide, and that kid is beating it up with his bare hands!”
”He’s not just a mutant,” an older, scarred scavenger muttered, clutching a rusted pipe with trembling hands.
“He’s a monster wearing a school uniform.”
Up on the beast’s back, Deku ignored the chaos below.
He reached the creature’s upper crest, where a cluster of pulsating, ruby-red sensory eyes churned erratically beneath a transparent membrane.
The beast thrashed wildly, trying to buck him off by rolling across the debris and slamming its body against the remaining concrete structures.
Deku locked his legs tightly into the grooves of the armor, maintaining absolute posture even as the world spun around him.
He pulled his right arm back, gathering every ounce of spatial-kinetic energy and inner mutation density he possessed.
The air around his fist compressed into a dense, absolute black void, crackling with raw, unbridled authority.
”In my school,” Deku growled, his dark eyes burning with absolute dominance, “troublemakers get expelled.”
He drove his fist downward with the force of a falling anvil.
CRACK-BOOM!
The impact was catastrophic.
The entire upper crest of the beast imploded inward, a shockwave of dark, viscous fluid and shattered exoskeleton erupting in a wide, messy radius.
The monstrous shriek cut off abruptly, turning into a hollow, sputtering gurgle as the beast’s central nervous system was instantly pulverized.
The colossal creature went completely limp, its massive obsidian body crashing heavily onto the ruined pavement, kicking up a tidal wave of dust and debris that swallowed the street in darkness.
Deku leaped off the falling carcass just in time, landing lightly on his feet amidst the settling dust.
He stood upright, casually dusting off the ash and slime from the shoulders of his ruined school uniform, and reached down to adjust the tie at his collar with immaculate precision.
[Bully system]
Quest Completed: Subdue the Vanguard Invader.
Rewards Acquired:
Spatial Rift Shielding (Tier 2) unlocked.
Mutation Density Increased by 15%.
Corporate Intel Package (Class-A) transferred to neural registry.
A warm, golden hum of energy washed over Deku’s muscular frame, repairing the minor micro-tears in his muscle fibers and expanding his sensory perception.
Inside his mind, the newly acquired Class-A corporate intel package unfurled like a digital map, detailing the exact locations of Aether-Corp’s underground weapon refinement facilities, the security patrol schedules, and the restricted distribution routes for the Divine Tree fruits.
He smiled coldly.
The corporate elites and defense organizations thought they ruled this dystopian wasteland from their pristine floating spires, safely separated from the slums and the alien threats.
They believed they held the monopoly on power, magic, and survival.
But as Deku turned his gaze away from the smoking carcass of the vanguard beast and looked toward the towering corporate towers piercing the purple-tinted sky, he knew the truth.
The entire world was just a massive, unmanaged school.
And Deku Kwanoh had every intention of becoming its headmaster.