Having traversed countless realms, can you possibly be as clever as me?

His screams were heart-wrenching, over and over again, but in this hell, the suffering would never end.

The awareness of existence is such a cruel and painful thing, which means that the torment will never stop!

Tsurugi coldly stared at this scum, whose soul was dragged into his own underworld, while his consciousness and body were pulled onto his Great Emperor, his flesh was reduced to only the brain and spine, and then forcibly connected to the cyber hell he created from SAO.

The detached soul ensures the quality of the torture and prevents the soul from dying from extreme pain, but the preserved body and the cyber hellish torment of consciousness also ensure that the collapsing will can still effectively convey the true meaning of suffering.

This was Tsurugi's first attempt at creating her own hell, and the result looked quite good.

He may not have the power of those demon kings, but he still created a purgatory where people could be tortured almost endlessly.

Seeing the scumbag suffer so much, Tsurugi should have felt happy, but now, he felt no happiness at all.

He took a deep breath, wiped his face, and his gaze was incredibly sinister. The girl he had saved stood up shakily and bowed to him.

Thank you very much...

[Holy Light Emerges]

A warm golden light instantly enveloped the girl, her eyes suddenly felt itchy, followed by a strange message appearing in her mind.

For a girl who has almost never seen anything since birth, light, color, objects, everything is incomprehensible.

And now, with the miracle of the Holy Light healing her, all of this is appearing before her.

Unfamiliar light, unfamiliar scene, unfamiliar world, everything unfamiliar.

But when she realized she had regained her sight, an unimaginable emotion welled up with her tears.

Tsurugi looked at her, sighed, bent down and touched the girl's cheek, speaking softly.

"Don't worry, tell me about your sister and other children in the same situation as you later, and I'll go pick them up."

After saying this, he ordered an android to take the girl away, and before leaving, the girl repeatedly expressed her gratitude to Tsurugi.

"Thank you so much, thank you so much!!!"

Hearing these expressions of gratitude, Tsurugi didn't feel happy at all. Instead, her expression grew even more somber, mixed with an expression that seemed as if she had eaten shit.

He was holding a horn.

This is the bugle call that has already been sounded.

[Miracle: The Mass Extinction]

'When the seventh seal is broken, seven angels will stand before God, each holding a trumpet—you, recognized as a saint, will gain the power to invoke the Book of Revelation. The degree of power gained will vary depending on the circumstances. Note that this miracle can only be activated once per world and cannot be stopped!'

He initiated the mass extinction, starting the moment it arrived.

He didn't know what kind of power had been summoned this time, but there was a countdown of seven days in front of him.

This means that in seven days, nothing will be left on this world, on this planet.

Yes, Tsurugi sentenced this world to death the moment she entered it!

He didn't even care about his task or what his reward would be.

If he doesn't have it, he doesn't care!

But he will kill everyone here!

This world is a light novel world, a very old world that has been discontinued for a long time.

But it's by no means some lighthearted slice-of-life story in another world; it's a piece of crap, a world that exists solely to torment innocent and pitiful girls.

The world is called—The Black Bullet

"Go to hell, you all!" Tsurugi said coldly, looking at the planet outside the window.

Changing the style doesn't change anything, it's still all about killing! : 144. This nonsensical world, go to hell!

This is a world that makes no sense.

If we were to rank the incomprehensibility of the world itself, this world's incomprehensibility and absurdity would probably be second only to the female-oriented online world that Dongjiang experienced.

This is a post-apocalyptic world with a relatively high level of technology, and its background can be simply summarized in four words.

Self-reliance

About ten years ago, a group of special monsters called 'Gastrea' swept across the world. Relying on their highly infectious virus and the ability to transform infected hosts into extremely terrifying bio-monsters, they quickly swept the globe.

But in reality, these things are entirely the result of human experimentation. Although there is no concrete evidence, the fact that the twelve constellations on the tops of these Gastrea are attracted to children's toys suggests that they are probably a group of beasts using children for human experiments.

And so, they messed things up, and ended up with a group of super-powerful bio-monsters with terrifying regenerative abilities, difficult to destroy except with the specific substance 'chromium', and extremely infectious.

Humanity was defeated in the war against this virus and Gastrea. Despite possessing advanced technology beyond its time, such as nanomachines, giant electromagnetic cannons, human modification technology, satellite orbital weapons, and nuclear fusion, it was still driven to the brink of collapse by these monsters.

But it's said there's some kind of human conspiracy behind this—anyway, it wasn't written later, and Tsurugi doesn't know either.

In short, under these devastating disasters, most of the world's territory has become wasteland teeming with Gastrea, and the remaining humans are struggling to survive in cities protected by birch metal monoliths, like fat pigs raised in pigsties.

The giant stone monuments made of special metals can emit a magnetic field that dispels these Gastrea creatures, allowing humans to survive. Currently, the only remaining human settlements are in several major countries, including Japan, Australia, and the United States.

Tokyo, the setting of the story, is divided into forty-three numbered zones. The closer to the center, the smaller the number and the safer it is; the closer to the outer perimeter, the larger the number and the more dangerous it is. Beyond the numbered zones lies the paradise of Gastrea.

However, these things alone were not enough to anger Tsurugi.

The root of his anger lay in the group of 'cursed children' represented by the blind girl from earlier.

These are children born to mothers who were infected with Gastrea virus during pregnancy, resulting in the accumulation of toxins in the fetus. Because these children carry Gastrea virus, they have more or less Gastrea-like powers.

Because of the influence of the virus, the embryo will change to have XX chromosomes, so all the children of the curse are female and are 'carriers of the virus' at birth.

For this reason, many of these children are killed by their parents at birth. Those who survive are driven to the outskirts to fend for themselves.

But if they stay in the safe zone in order to survive, they will be slowly killed by the persecution that is everywhere.

Just like what happened to that girl.

They have no basic human rights in this country, their social status is almost zero, and the governments of these countries even bluntly say that the children of the curse do not deserve the protection of human laws.

Ironically, in this world, humans need the protection of these cursed children to deal with the powerful Gastrea. The so-called IISO organization relies on the power of these cursed children to fight against the Gastrea.

This perfectly aligns with Tsugumi's stereotypes about Japanese people.

They clearly need to rely on something, but choose to reject it because it's different from them.

Ridiculous

This is utterly absurd!

Tsugumi detests people who mistreat children, and he has absolutely no tolerance for those who both mistreat children and are utterly foolish.

Damn it, stop saying things that insult my intelligence!

Therefore, Dongjiang did not hesitate to sound the horn of world destruction.

But... there are still seven days left.

Dongjiang's gaze was cold as he looked at the countdown. Was he really going to spend these seven days doing nothing?

No, I will not, I will absolutely not speak!

Leaving the warship, in that floating void, Tsurugi crashed to the ground without hesitation, like a falling meteorite!

boom!!!

The moment it entered the atmosphere, Tsugumi transformed into the King of Life and Death, and entered its fused, modified Zaku, crashing to the ground in its most powerful and complete form.

A tremendous roar accompanied a widening and cracking crater, and the master of steel and death stood tall on the earth!

Soon, attracted by the roar, one Gastrea after another surrounded him!

Each of these monsters has the form of multiple animals, twisted, deformed, covered in mucus, arthropods, blood vessels, swollen bodies, mouthparts and countless other features.

In short, they look like a bunch of Cronenberg monsters from B-movies, which is exactly what they are. From level one to five, each level of Gastrea shows a fusion of multiple organisms, and by the time there are hundreds of species in stage four and tens of thousands in stage five, they are no longer recognizable as living organisms.

Tsugumi looked around, then suddenly raised her hand.

A vast expanse of black fog!!!

The dark mist that was unleashed in an instant spread outwards, and the Gastrea creatures covered by this mist suddenly let out a sharp scream, then convulsed and collapsed.

Does the soul still exist...?

Looking at the souls that were no longer recognizable, Tsurugi said softly.

The soul and the body are independent yet indispensable entities. The soul determines the shape of the body, and the body determines the state of the soul. Neither can exist without the other.

When a person's soul enters the body of a beast, it is gradually eroded by the beast's nature. And when they become these monsters, their souls are already twisted.

However, Tsugumi never intended to save them.

Soul Domination!!!

Riding on the vast black mist, the Goetia magic that was immediately released spread infinitely, controlling and stripping away the consciousness of these Gastrea creatures one by one, turning them into objects to be controlled by Tsurugi.

These monsters, which have long since lost their sense of self and are now only driven by instinct, have absolutely no intention of resisting.

Their chaotic consciousness instinctively submitted to the King of Life and Death, losing all sense of self and thought, like worker ants worshipping at the feet of the queen, instinctively obeying his commands.

Or, to put it another way, were the Gastrea of ​​this world originally Gestalt life forms?

Tsugumi didn't care and was too lazy to investigate; he still disliked RTS games.

But now, he needs to use these powers, and the sheer number of these monsters, to achieve his goal of destroying and intimidating humanity in this world.

In an instant, as Tsurugi raised Nightfall in his hand, he commanded all the Gastrea to begin spreading out in all directions, attracting more Gastrea to him!

Soon, he gathered all the Gastrea in the city, including a Stage 4 Gastrea that was over twenty meters tall and had no biological appearance whatsoever; it was a bizarre giant sea cucumber covered in tentacles.

When Tsurugi tried to control its soul, he discovered that this stage 4 Gastrea still retained a trace of consciousness!

He listened, and then he heard a faint echo from the soul.

"It hurts so much, it hurts so much, please let me go, Mommy, where is Mommy?"

"It's so cold! Why isn't Daddy moving? Mommy, don't go! Who are these uncles? I don't want to go with them!"

"The light is so bright! My body feels numb...it hurts so much!!!"

Tsurugi stopped listening at this point, gritting her teeth as she spoke.

"The people of this world deserve to suffer eternally in hell!"

In the original texts, Gastrea that reach Stage 4 are given unique star names. Apart from the twelve zodiacal signs represented by the highest Stage 5, they are all named things like Aldebaran or Pleiades.