Danrito, become a consultant for the Millennium Game!

The captain walked to a collapsed ruin, endured the uncontrollable dizziness in his sight, reached out and began to dig the collapsed area.

After digging for several minutes, the captain's trembling hands lifted a mechanical artifact from the ground. It was black with a red center, like a single sheet of metal. But the captain knew without a doubt that he had found it. This was the 'mission objective' General Caesar had spoken of.

"Finally found it~ I'm so tired."

Hikari rubbed his eyes tiredly. Staring at a screen for a long time, even hundreds of screens, was always tiring. But hard work paid off. Even though it was just a tiny gadget, Hikari still managed to retrieve something from the ruins with his own skills.

It was a 'Program Sublimation Key' with a silver tail, very similar to the satellite debris exhibited by the Ancient Civilization Research Society.

"Caesar's men have indeed arrived, but they certainly couldn't have guessed that I've already found 'that thing'~"

Hikari put her hands on her hips proudly. "As expected of me! It's me who can turn the tide! Hurry and bring this thing back so I can study it carefully!"

When Caesar's Solid Snakes troops staggered out of the ruins, they thought they would have to play hide-and-seek with the drone swarm again, but they were surprised to find that the drone swarms that were staggering around seemed to have disappeared?

"……What happened?"

Both sides felt they had found what they needed and hurriedly left the ruins. When the captain realized that the two team members who went to activate the military factory had lost contact, this strange feeling became even more serious.

After reporting that they had found the "mission target," the captain led the remaining team members to the underground military factory for reconnaissance. When the scarlet-glowing mechanical puppets of the military factory appeared in the ruins, the captain felt the same as his team members.

'Perhaps, we have indeed unleashed a demon?'

Not daring to linger any longer, the captain turned and left. As if sensing something, the puppets wandering outside the military factory all raised their heads and looked in the direction the captain had left.

346. The Cassette That Shouldn't Exist

"Hmm~ The internal structure of this key is really interesting."

Danrito looked at the purple cassette in front of him. This was the key he created by analyzing the opponent's body during the battle with Ark. It was based on his understanding of the existence of his opponent 'Ark'.

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In the previous battle, Danrito wanted to use this key, which was of the same origin as the opponent Ark, to read the attack and then destroy him. However, he did not expect that the opponent Ark did the same thing as him during the battle.

"That guy named Yak is actually able to do the same as me, analyzing the opponent's power in battle and using it for his own benefit."

Danrito snorted. It was within the game realm, and he had engaged in battle in his Collapse state. Unexpectedly, after feeding all the data to the blank cartridges for learning, some of it had been contaminated by the malicious AI, Ark. This had caused Ark's clone to hide within it, and while constructing the game content through the blank cartridges, it also constructed itself.

As for the battles that take place in the data space, it can be said that both sides are fighting each other in the form of data, and the plundering between data is impossible to completely defend against no matter how careful you are.

Furthermore, the key Danrito saw at the Ancient Civilization Research Society's booth after the battle was identical to the key on Ark's belt, with whom he had battled in the gaming realm. This meant that the data Danrito had copied from that key might have already contained Ark's information from the very beginning.

"However, the Program Sublimation Key is a tool used by Kamen Riders from another era. Although I already know this from the data I read, it is still shocking."

Danrito put down the 'genm' cartridge in his hand and recalled the battle he'd had with Ark in the gaming world. Perhaps that was the driver used by the knights of that era, but judging by Ark's performance, Danrito couldn't help but feel that this was the enemy the knights of that era would have faced.

"Maybe I got into trouble when fighting this guy, so this is the outcome?"

Danrito recalled the other two driver-related items on the Ancient Civilization Research Society's booth. Both the gun and the dagger bore obvious signs of damage from battle. He imagined their owners had suffered a similar fate to the belt.

"Just now we saw an enemy from beyond the universe, and now here comes an AI knight from tens of thousands of years ago. I really can't be idle for a moment~"

Integrating the Dream Key in his hand, the previous "Hiden Zero-One Secret" cartridge, and the knowledge stored in his mind, Danrito activated his own game domain. With his powerful strength and a little caution, even if that Ark popped up again, he would be pinned to death in the game domain and unable to escape.

However, after that escape, there was probably nothing left in the cartridge. And just as Danrito had expected, when he opened the Hiden Zero-One Secret Cartridge this time, the Knight Ark was gone, and the red and black malicious space was gone too. All that remained was the room that Danrito had seen at the beginning, which looked like a modification workshop.

“Where are all the imported data…”

Danrito looked around and saw that this workshop-like area was connected to the office on the other side. Judging from the nameplate on the table, this room seemed to be the office of a president as well.

"Haha~ The owner of this room is also the president? What a coincidence." Danrito walked up the stairs and reached out to pick up the wooden triangular sign: "Hiden or Ren?"

There was no such guy in his memory, nor did he know about the Hiden Company that researched artificial intelligence. Danrito put down his name tag, sat on the large boss chair, and reached out to open the computer in front of him.

"It turns out to be here."

The computer in front of Danrito recorded the information he had put in like an electronic file. In this computer, Danrito found a file named "Yak".

"Hmm... an artificially intelligent super satellite that has awakened its own consciousness and is attempting to destroy humanity." Danrito narrowed his eyes. "It absorbed the technological singularity of the four 'Thunderbolts of Destruction' and materialized its data into a god-like being..."

"Unforgivable!"

Danrito slammed the table and stood up, angrily saying, "You actually call yourself a god in front of me? Or a guy who became a god through data like me? This is unforgivable, Ake!"

After standing up and pacing around twice, Danrito sat down again and continued to review the information on his computer. "What then? As a Kamen Rider of that era, it's impossible for him to just leave this guy, who is obviously the final boss, alone, right? Did the Kamen Rider of that era ultimately fail?"

As the data investigation deepened, the history recounted in "Hiden Zero-One Secret" began to emerge. After Ark absorbed the technological singularity data that destroyed Thunderbolt and became the Evil God, the knights of Hiden's faction began a grueling battle. Ultimately, the "02 System," designed to surpass "Ark-Zero," was annihilated before its completion.

"...so miserable?"

Danrito frowned, sensing something was amiss with this information. Could those Kamen Riders, always saving the world and others, fail so easily, surrendering the very world they guard to destruction?

"wrong."

Danrito leaned back, his eyes no longer focused on the information before him, or even on the room itself. He closed his eyes and spread his divine power outward, encompassing everything within the game realm.

"Something doesn't feel right here."

thump.

thump.

thump.

Danrito could hear his own heartbeat.

After closing his eyes, Danrito could feel more clearly a strange feeling, an... extremely awkward feeling spreading within his gaming area.

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Danrito stood up with his eyes closed, trying his best to capture the 'strangeness' that was spreading everywhere in the game.

One step, two steps.

Danrito walked resolutely in one direction, completely unconcerned about bumping into anything. The room he imagined in his mind was slightly distorted, like a distorted image. Then, Danrito stopped, closed his eyes, and threw a punch: "Get out here!"

boom!

A sound like a mirror shattering echoed, but no music played. After the sound of shattering glass, Danrito opened his eyes.

Beyond the small president's office lay the boundless void of the universe. Danrito raised his head and gazed into the presence before him without fear.

A mass of insubstantial color, as brilliant as the starry sky.

"Sure enough, this is the real 'Hiden Zero One Secret'."

Danrito looked at the vast galaxy of colors and laughed, "This isn't my game cartridge at all. It's just an 'Opatz' that looks just like my game cartridge."

In Kivotos, many materials called "Opatz" circulate, such as the Nebra Disk, Nimrud Lens, Phaistos Disk, Crystal Haniwa, etc. These things classified as "Opatz" originally meant "artificial objects that should not exist."

"This 'Hiden Zero-One Secret' isn't the true history of 'Kamen Rider Zero-One'. It's just a 'history that shouldn't exist' that you've distorted, right?"

"If I acknowledge the 'false history' in that computer, I'm afraid it will cause some unspeakable consequences. What a terrifying creature! How can it even erode history?"

Danrito raised his hand, and like a detective who had solved a puzzle, he pointed his finger directly at the ball of color in the void before him.

"Isn't it you I saw outside the universe? You're such a haunting ghost! Even these so-called unearthed relics contain your remains."

Danrito frowned. The ball of color in front of him didn't make any movements, nor did it make any bewitching sounds, as if... it was just a remnant soul acting according to orders.

"This thing doesn't even have a name, so it's hard to call it." Danrito thought for a moment and said, "Since it's a ball of paint, I might as well just call it 'color'."

"How did this color thing manage to release this kind of pollutant into Kivotos despite my interference?"

Danrito's mind raced, and he immediately thought of a suspicious candidate: "Could it be... the Sukumikai?"

"—Absolutely not! Mr. Danrito! I can guarantee you that!"

After ejecting the cassette, Danrito found a deserted spot and sent out a signal. He questioned the man in black who had arrived for the appointment, and then received a promise from the man in front of him, sweating profusely.

"Mr. Dan Lidou, this is a serious matter. We will never lie about such a matter."

Heifu raised a hand in a gesture of oath, and assured Danrito in front of him: "I hope to see how you can use your 'mystery' to provide a solution when facing that unknown artificial intelligence, but I absolutely do not want that unspeakable existence to descend upon Kivotos—"

At this point, Heifu looked at the Hiden Zero-One Secret in Danrito's hand. With just one glance, Heifu saw through the true nature of the cartridge: "Is this your transfer cartridge? No, this is...Oupaz?"

"You recognize it clearly."

Danrito didn't dislike the occasional annoyance; the few minor inconveniences were insignificant. The rest of the Shumikai, aside from the dragon fruit-haired woman, were truly annoying, and were eventually stomped out by Danrito. The others were more interested in observing Danrito's research, and since they hadn't bothered him for so long, Danrito felt a little better about the Shumikai.

"A counterfeit that looks like the real thing feels completely different. And since you mentioned the erosion of 'color', it's naturally distinguishable."

Kurofu cast a cautious gaze towards the cassette held by Danrito, a look of deep worry in his eyes. "Then...how did Colors notice this Kivotos? We shouldn't have made any public moves, right?"

"It's probably thanks to your acquaintance, Beatrice." Danrito twirled the cassette in his hand. "Before that woman left, she must have done something that drew Color's attention to this place, right? Now, that creature in space is heading here."

"That woman..."

There was a look of horror in the man in black.

"However, I slightly adjusted the speed of time within the surrounding tens of millions of light years. The 'color' shouldn't arrive that quickly."

The look of horror in the man in black clothes' eyes became even more intense.

"No wonder the masters have been saying recently that the constellations in the sky are so strange. It turns out they're all due to the extraordinary skills of Mr. Danrito." Heifu bowed in submission. "I understand. The Numerology Society will begin its full preparations."

"Don't go yet." Dan Lidou waved his hand, asking Heifu to slow down his pace. "I heard that Caesar has been making a lot of small moves these days. Since you are the one behind them, why not tell me some of their intelligence?"

"Caesar is already trapped, so he's nothing to you, is he?"

Although Heifu knew that Caesar's special forces had brought back the so-called "mission target", he still did not take it to heart. For Heifu, all of Caesar's actions were just to provide him with the last observation data. As for Caesar's revenge on Danrito, the outcome was as clear as Gojo Satoru's battle with Sukuna.

Danrito looked at the black suit in front of him as if he were an idiot. "Since I extracted the 'color' contamination from Ark's key, why wouldn't you think that the so-called 'mission target' they recovered wouldn't have it?"

Heifu felt that his breathing was a little difficult.

'boom---!'

Danrito, clad in his God Billion armor, kicked open the door before him. This was once the Caesar Group's final offensive base, but now it lay in ruins. Torn mechanical soldiers, all bearing the Caesar PMC logo, lay scattered across the entrance. What had once been Caesar's last line of defense was now visibly shattered.

"My body was torn apart by brutal violence..."

Danrito raised his keyboard sword and roughly pushed open the last door. This was the conference room, but the large wooden table in the center had been split in half, and guards lay scattered across the floor. In the corner, President Caesar lay sprawled, his lower body missing, the broken section still sizzling with sparks—the other half seemed to be hanging from the ceiling.

"Hey, President of Caesar, this is the first time we meet."

I'm not the one who can save you.

Danrito walked through the mess and looked at President Caesar, who had only a little energy left on the ground. The beheaded President Caesar looked at Danrito in front of him with difficulty, as if he wanted to say something.

"...Caesar lost."

Caesar's president was exhausted. He could feel a terrible virus eating away at his brain, squeezing out the last bit of his consciousness. He took in the purple giant before him. "General... He's wearing that belt..."

Dan Lidou rushed over, grabbed him by the collar, and asked sternly, "Where did that General What have you been to?"

"millennium……"

President Caesar, who was about to say something, felt his eyes gradually turning red. From Danrito's perspective, after President Caesar said two words, his eyes began to turn a dangerous red. He then stabbed the keyboard sword in without hesitation, ending the guy's life.

"A thousand years."

Danrito's expression grew colder. He dropped the half-robot in his hand and looked towards Millennium Academy. "Someone's coming, a troublemaker."

347. Malicious Erosion

"Sister, the Millennium is very quiet today."

Sitting on a bench by the roadside, Xiaolu comfortably sipped his milk tea. The work on "Legendary Sword Chronicle," which he had been working so hard on, had finally come to a close, and all that remained were just some finishing touches. No wonder Xiaolu looked so relaxed.

"Maybe they all went to see the Ancient Civilization Research Society's exhibition, or attended a lecture?"

Xiao Tao was leisurely playing the game console in her hand. The little animals on the game console were killing all around among a group of alien demons. Blood flowed like a river, and the demons were terrified wherever they went.

"Youyou rarely goes out to the game center. I heard that the nearby arcade fighting competition has started again. We need a match that can hold its own. It just so happens that Youyou's strength is very suitable for it."

Xiao Tao clicked on the game console in her hand. After becoming an official game developer, Danrito did not hesitate to squeeze the potential of all of them during work, not to mention students - he simply treated them like office animals, like cattle and horses!

"Hey... I'm finally free from this overtime hell. I even have the energy to play games~"

Putting down the game console she had completed, Xiao Tao let out a long sigh: "I never realized how enjoyable my free time was before. I only learned to cherish it after I lost it."

"Sister, are we officially starting work yet? Is it really that scary?" Xiaolu reached out and rubbed her sister's head. "Although I was really nervous when the deadline came, I felt like I was about to fly..."

"I was so busy that I even forgot to sign in for the game every day—"