[Welco to your System Factory]
[Access Ti Remaining: 11:59:55]
"Phew... That was close." Adrian fell onto the lush grass of the Factory, letting himself catch a desperate breath. Jumping into his pocket dinsion mid-combat was a risky gamble in terms of the rules, but it was the only way he could have survived that magma bomb. He didn’t regret it one bit.
’I just hope this move doesn’t disqualify ,’ he thought, his mind racing. According to the official Galactic Clash rulebook he had assimilated, a fighter was only disqualified if they forfeited, died, or left the arena boundaries for a prolonged period.
But ’disappearing from reality’ was a grey area. The only problem now lay in whether their system assud he was still present.
Adrian monitored the situation via a small piece of invention he had left before departing. He heard the announcer’s voice crackle with clear intent.
Adrian breathed a heavy sigh of relief. "That ans I can actually do it." It was cheating, undeniably. Using an external dinsion to rest and strategize mid-fight was the ultimate unfair advantage.
But in a fight against a fifteen-ter-tall magma golem that could crush him like a bug, fairness was a luxury he couldn’t afford. As the old Earth saying went: If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying.
After being guaranteed that it wasn’t over, Adrian decided not to waste ti. He first spent a chunk of TP to instantly repair his armor, the nanites swarming over the crushed plating and restoring it to pristine condition in seconds.
He then retrieved a high-grade recovery pill from his [Inventory], the very last of his stockpile. He swallowed it, and a wave of cool, healing energy washed over him. It only took a second for his broken ribs to knit and his body to feel whole again.
He was ready to continue. But he couldn’t just return to the Arena to be crushed again. The first and foremost reason for visiting the Factory was to co up with a plan.
With enough preparation, he could win any battle, and the Golem was not an exception. A ntal thought took Adrian to his workshop.
"While he kept chasing , I managed to map out his whole body," he muttered to himself. "Now is a good ti to examine it."
Using the Holographic Design Studio, Adrian constructed a perfect, 3D wirefra model of STONEDESTROYER, detailing every little mark, vein of magma, and stony joint the Golem possessed. The process required intricate work for perfection, so it took him close to ten minutes of his precious ti.
Adrian looked at the model. He had a simple yet effective plan to slay the giant. It was based on basic structural engineering.
The Golem wasn’t just magic; he was a physical construct. His joints worked together like a complex machine, a system of levers and pulleys powered by magma.
Each movent or disruption in one area could trigger an equal or opposite reaction on so other side. If he hit the right spot at the exact right mont with enough resonant force, he could create a cascading structural failure.
After several minutes of frantic analysis and calculations, identifying stress points and mana flow junctions, Adrian finally had a half-plan.
"Now, I test it."
***
Reappearing in the Simulation Chamber, Adrian replicated the arena in the white room. Every stone, every crater, every detail was recreated to the core.
He then projected a fully functional, AI-driven copy of STONEDESTROYER into the center. He placed himself in the rubble where he was before his disappearance and then Adrian began the simulation.
He tested out all his calculations. He employed mana grenades to destabilize footing, his mana gun to overheat specific magma veins, and his Resonant Fist to shatter critical joints.
Most of the simulations ended in his death, or inability to fight anymore. But a good number succeeded. Adrian wasn’t satisfied with "good enough."
He ran more iterations, accounting for other variables, including the Golem having hidden stone or molten-related abilities he hadn’t seen yet.
Hours passed within the chamber, which was only minutes in the real world due to the ti dilation of the simulation. But finally, Adrian was done.
After destroying the simulated StoneDestroyer for the 24th ti, finding the perfect sequence of attacks, he ended it, returning the room to its original state.
"Ti to complete that Quest. Exit Factory."
***
The arena was silent. STONEDESTROYER remained still and alert, a statue of patience amidst the destruction.
The ten-minute tir was ticking down to its final seconds. Surprisingly, the viewer count hadn’t dropped; in fact, it had risen. Millions of beings were still stread to the match. It was a big battle, a mystery, and they didn’t want to miss the mont the rookie either reappeared or was shad.
Their wait paid off.
A blue light flickered into existence above the crater. A blue-black figure floated there, his armor gleaming, looking cleaner and stronger than before he had vanished.
STONEDESTROYER looked up, a slow, pleased smile cracking his stony face. "You finally returned. Good. I would have been disappointed if you fled. Now... let us continue where we stopped."
He didn’t give Adrian any ti now. He closed his massive fist, forming a molten boulder the size of a house, and hauled it at blinding speed.
"Tch, predictable."
Adrian was ready. He didn’t try to dodge as that would be difficult against the homing rock. He simply disappeared once again, but this ti he didn’t leave the arena.
[Translocation]
The mont that command left him, he vanished from the path of the boulder and reappeared instantly behind the Golem’s massive neck.
STONEDESTROYER sensed him and began to turn, but he was already too late. Adrian raised his Mana Gun and fired a point-blank, high-frequency blast directly into the junction where the Golem’s neck t his shoulder.
~ZZEEOW!~
The blast didn’t pierce; it overstimulated the magma vein, causing a montary paralysis. STONEDESTROYER twitched, his movent arrested.
Adrian didn’t stop there. He dropped, activating his thrusters to accelerate downwards. He landed on the Golem’s back and delivered a Resonant Fist to the spine, shattering the stone plating. He bounced off, appearing at the back of the right knee, delivering another bone-jarring strike. Then the left elbow. Then the hip.
He was a blur of motion, striking each weak point he had practiced on in the simulation with flawless precision. His attacks immobilized the Golem, disrupting the flow of mana that allowed the giant to move.
STONEDESTROYER roared in frustration, trying to swat him, but his limbs wouldn’t obey. He could do nothing as Adrian chipped him down, bit by bit, a master sculptor destroying his own creation.
Adrian kept going at astonishing speed. Only when he had achieved all his objectives, fracturing every major joint and destabilizing the Golem’s core, did he make his final move.
He leaped high into the air, tossing a cluster of high-explosive Mana Grenades he had prepped in the Factory. They adhered to the cracks he had made.
~BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-CRACK!~
The explosions rang out in a deafening chain reaction, blowing chunks of obsidian from the Golem’s body and severing the final connections holding him together.
STONEDESTROYER swayed. He tried to take a step, but his legs crumbled. With a final, low groan of defeat, the fifteen-ter titan fell.
~THOOOOOOM!~
The impact caused a massive dust cloud that swallowed the arena. When it cleared, STONEDESTROYER lay in pieces, his core dimming as he signaled his resignation.
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