Past 1: Chapter 4 Part 3 The Fool's Stratagem

PAST 1: SHEREE BACKSTORY Chapter 4, Part Three: The Fool's Stratagem The battlefield dungeon inside the crumbling ancient abandoned temple grounds violently shook as Princess Sheree sprinted away, escaping solo into the blinding grey smoke screen. Watching her dark silhouette safely disappear across the breaking building stones, Reaper 800 immediately pivoted his posture, his intense blue eyes narrowing beneath his white tech-skull mask as he locked his radar tracks onto the immediate threat coordinates. Reaper 800: "Hey, Liang Huàn and Remielle Dan! You deal with those silver-disguised dark knight impostors right now before they can activate their dark parameters to become the Sacrifice Chimera monster!" King Aurelius: [Stepping forward smoothly, his golden plate armor casting brilliant refractions as he pulls a complex, high-tech tactical device straight from his wide waist scabbard belt] "Miss Remielle Dan, please take this! Because this device actually will stop them from completing the sacrifice protocol! That way, it is actually not a permanent cure, but it will completely paralyze their alchemical armor systems. When you locate and destroy the central sacrifice core, they'll never transform again!" Remielle Dan: [Her natural white angel wings flaring violently as her mechanical weapon wings hover over her shoulders, snatching the paralysis device with a fierce shonen grin] "Understood, King Aurelius! I am most aware because I am half-Enchainer myself! I'm gonna clamp this device onto their armor plate layouts and beat the absolute crap out of those fake monsters right now!!! Chrono Overdrive!!!" While Remielle and Liang Huàn aggressively moved in to lock down the paralyzed dark knights, the massive 15-foot biomechanical giant Enchainer-Alpha forcefully blew the grey smoke away, his bone-skull faceplate flaring wildly with dark blue fire aura. He unleashed his absolute maximum power, throwing a relentless barrage of heavy cosmic strikes that cratered the stone tiles and shattered the breaking brick structures into dust, trying to crush the remaining vanguard leaders. He was roaring with supreme, arrogant laughter, completely believing he had overwhelmed his targets. But Reaper 800 and King Aurelius dropped their grand sovereign postures instantly, executing an unhinged piece of god-tier shonen trolling! They intentionally began acting like absolute clueless fools, flailing their arms around and screaming theatrically to pretend they were completely weak and outmatched. Reaper 800: [Widening his eyes in a hyper-exaggerated cartoon panic] "Oh goodness gracious! Look at the absolute size of this giant monstrosity! My boots are literally shaking! I think we are completely and utterly doomed! We are outmatched, old buddy!" King Aurelius: [A giant comedy sweatdrop forming on his white hair ponytail layout] "Oh dear me! Lord Reaper, you're totally right! He looks so big and scary! Please don't hurt us, Mr. Big Boss Monster! We are just two helpless old men!" Enchainer-Alpha bought the act completely. He screamed in triumph, pushing his mechanical systems to their absolute limits to finish them off. But after five solid minutes of swinging his colossal frame and burning his dark blue fire, his hollow black hole chest core violently stuttered. Alpha dropped his hands, panting heavily with deep mechanical gasps as his systems hit a total exhaustion threshold. Enchainer-Alpha: "Huff... huff... see?! I told you... I am a Triple-S Rank boss entity! You bugs... can never survive my maximum output—" Suddenly, the smoke cleared completely, and Alpha’s mechanical optical sensors widened in absolute, jaw-dropping horror. Standing right in the center of the crater, completely untouched without a single scratch on their gear, were Reaper 800 and King Aurelius! They stood tall with their arms crossed with supreme confidence, looking like absolute aura farmers as their massive, world-shaking cosmic auras flared sky-high. Reaper 800: [Brushing a tiny spec of ash off his long black trench coat, letting out a devastating shonen roast] "Is that seriously all you've got? Wow. I’ve seen baseline training bots put up a better combat metric than that. You threw everything you had for five whole minutes, and you barely even generated a breeze. You are clinically weak like a fragile butterfly, Alpha. Deal with it." King Aurelius: [Giving a sophisticated, mocking elf chuckle] "Honestly, Mr. Big Boss Monster, I am deeply disappointed. We faked a panic attack and pretended to be clueless fools just to see if that things in your stolen weapon cache gave you any real power, but you're just a hollow shell. Your aura tracking files are completely pathetic compared to a real god." Enchainer-Alpha: [His programming completely snapping in an unhinged, pride-shattered shonen rage face as his bone-skull faceplate turns bright red] "GAHHHH!!! YOU TOYED WITH ME?! YOU ACTED LIKE FOOLS JUST TO FARM MY AURA?! I WILL TEAR THIS ENTIRE DIMENSION APART!!!" Alpha screamed, completely losing his mind as he lunged forward for one final, desperate strike. But the two kings didn't move an inch. They simply shared a sharp, synchronized shonen smirk. Reaper 800 & King Aurelius: "Fusion Technique: SHADOW BURNING SWORD!!!" Moving with instantaneous light-speed coordination, Reaper 800 unsheathed his colossal plasma scythe Broadblade while King Aurelius drew his magnificent golden greatsword from his waist belt. They crossed their blades in mid-air, initiating a legendary elemental fusion. Aurelius’s white and yellow Spectro light perfectly locked into Reaper’s dark red and dark purple Havoc flames, creating a monumental, reality-shearing blade of pure cosmic energy that sliced straight through the center of the battlefield grid! 💥 KABOOOOOOOOOOOM!!! 💥 The cataclysmic impact detonated with the force of a dying star. The massive energy wave sliced Enchainer-Alpha completely in half, causing his biomechanical body layer and hollow black hole core to explode into a towering pillar of light! The monumental blast cleared out every trace of void corruption from the ancient temple grounds, completely obliterating the boss until nothing but floating dust remained. As the smoke settled, Reaper 800 and King Aurelius slowly sheathed their blades, stepping forward to bow their heads. As the solemn Aeon of Soul, Reaper 800 brought his gloved hands together, offering an elite, respectful soul prayer to their fallen opponent to give him some proper respect as a true Void Hunter vanguard. Reaper 800: "May your code find peace in the cosmic stream. Rest in peace, Enchainer-Alpha." King Aurelius: [Nodding his white ponytail elegantly as he finishes his prayer] "Rest in peace. Honestly, Lord Reaper, we were testing that boss, and he really is weak like a butterfly. We all knew that the second we checked his aura metrics back behind the boulder. If he had faced standard soldiers, he would have easily beaten them to a pulp. But trying to pair a butterfly against two literal Aeons? That’s like comparing a piece of cake to a giant pie. An absolute piece of cake." [The temporal screen snaps back to the live IPC broadcast studio lounge, where the watch party is completely losing its mind over the fusion technique victory.] Boothill: [Slamming both cybernetic fists onto the table, his gears whirring wildly] "HOLY FUDGING SHIRT! Did you see that element blend?! The Shadow Burning Sword just completely turned that giant into scrap metal! That was absolute gold!" Acheron watched the screen with wide, deeply impressed eyes, her cheeks blushing even harder as she recognized the true, devastating majesty of King Aurelius's broadblade arts. Aventurine simply smiled, collecting his pile of gold coins with a clever smirk, while Madame Jade slowly picked up her dropped ledger pad, completely stunned by the sheer, unhinged power gap between a Triple-S Rank boss and two trolling Aeons under the pulsing light of the Time Crystal!