On the outskirts of Songpa District, James Tower.
After sending the Gray Reaper into space with the Golden-Mecha-Tyranno Rocket, James had hoped to enjoy a brief respite, but he was soon busy dealing with yet another emergency situation.
“If we’re out of Object-blocking protective suits, at least use virus-blocking ones…!”
“If there are any spare flamethrowers, hurry and move them towards Gwanaksan!”
“Quickly declare a state of emergency. The American Object Association will be making an announcement soon as well!”
In the situation room set up at James Tower, staff were bustling about, issuing orders or making phone calls.
It was due to the so-called ‘Green Moon Bacteria’ crisis.
From the packs of tigers that had appeared in Korea to legendary creatures like phoenixes flying through the sky.
All creatures created by the Green Moon were turning into a sticky, dark green slime.
If they had simply melted away, it might have been a good thing for dangerous creatures like tigers to disappear, but the resulting slime was continuously devouring and multiplying from surrounding matter.
Organic materials like animals and plants.
Inorganic materials like metals and stones.
Even gases in the atmosphere.
It was truly a terrifying bacteria that consumed and multiplied from all substances.
It was like the nanomachines from science fiction that devour all matter and turn everything into gray goo.
The fortunate aspects were that the rate of multiplication wasn’t too fast, and that there were methods humans could use to counter it.
The countermeasure was simple.
Burn it with high-temperature heat!
But even this countermeasure was merely a stopgap solution.
“It’s regenerating after all.”
James sighed as he looked down at the experimental data sent from James Research Institute in America.
The bacteria, much like the ‘Blue Lizard’ in isolation at Sehee Research Institute, was reviving without a trace even after being completely incinerated.
In fact, this was within the realm of prediction.
Even when the bacterial slime was completely burned away in the field, it would stealthily reappear.
Burning was just buying time.
At that moment, a part of the map displayed in red in the situation room turned blue.
“The Red Reapers have arrived in the Gwanaksan area!”
The situation room monitors showed Red Reapers flying through the skies of Gwanaksan, burning the dark green slime.
Red Reapers flying with red sickles and hammers.
The Red Reapers were spreading from Seoul Forest to the rest of the world.
“Once again, the Earth is being saved by Reapers.”
James muttered as he confirmed reports of Red Reaper appearances from around the world.
“It’s all good, but couldn’t we do without those red sickles and hammers?”
James had a feeling that once this crisis was over, those sickles and hammers would surely cause some incidents.
James Space Station, occupied by the Green Moon.
The new retainer that had become the Green Moon itself began confidently spreading its dark green slime in all directions.
The Green Moon, mimicking the Evolution Fluid, thought it had attained true immortality.
Maximizing the Green Moon’s ability to handle birth, death, and rebirth, simple and powerful like the Evolution Fluid.
A perfect life that doesn’t die even when killed, merely returning to the cycle of life.
It had truly reached the realm of gods.
Confident in reaching the divine realm, the Green Moon decided to test its abilities on the weak god.
As the Green Moon exuded its will to attack, the dark green slime began to bubble and take shape.
The slime took on the forms of numerous animals the Green Moon had once created.
From realistic animals like tigers to imaginary creatures like dragons.
These monsters now filled the barren space that had become the Green Moon’s domain.
Despite monsters filling every direction, the Gray Reaper stood with an expressionless face, looking bored.
A tidal wave of monsters surged towards the Gray Reaper like a swarm of ants.
But the Gray Reaper, facing this terrifying wave, simply extended its right hand forward.
And then clenched its fist as if tearing through the air.
At that moment, space began to crumple and erase everything.
Truly the majesty of a god, the power of a god, the wrath of a god.
But even in the face of such immense power, the Green Moon’s confidence did not waver.
This was because it felt the Gray Reaper’s presence diminish slightly.
It was clear evidence that while the Gray Reaper could repeat that tremendous spatial slash dozens or hundreds of times, it couldn’t continue indefinitely.
On the other hand, the Green Moon’s death and birth occurred simply by existing.
Immortality without any consumption!
The Green Moon, with a confident expression, tried to resurrect the dead monsters.
But nothing happened.
Moreover, a significant portion of the essence constituting the Green Moon had disappeared.
The essence that should have eternally cycled through the ring of life had diminished.
As the Green Moon began to panic, the Gray Reaper smiled slightly, raising the corners of its mouth as if it had been waiting for this moment.
As if laughing “Hehe.”
And as the Gray Reaper spread both hands wide, monsters began to sprout from the ground.
Five-Color Candy Phoenix.
And finally, Roll Cake Tyranno.
A horde of monsters made of sweets surrounded the Green Moon.
They had all been part of the Green Moon’s ring of life, but now these monsters belonged to the ring of sweets.
The Green Moon could now see and feel it.
Deep within the Gray Reaper’s body, the sweets ecosystem that devours and transforms everything.
Seeing the Mini Reaper Garden, the Green Moon was plunged into endless terror and began to flee once again.
Just as it had fled from the Evolution Fluid.
James Space Station, transformed from a jungle to a desolate environment.
I was able to realize the solution to the Green Moon’s destruction condition after carefully observing the dark green slime.
The destruction condition for the bacteria composing that dark green slime was extremely simple.
That slime was an unstable mass of bacteria that kept dying and reviving endlessly, and I knew of an ability similar to that process.
The first thing that came to mind was the ‘Blue Outer God’s’ soul ability.
It seemed similar to the outer god’s ability to control dead Objects.
As soon as I thought, ‘Then, do I need to summon the Blue Giant to break that ‘ring of life’?’, I realized something else.
This was originally a ‘Moon’s’ ability.
Then it seems I don’t need to call the blue sphere?
If it’s an Object ability that ‘dies’ once and revives.
Moreover, if it’s a Moon-level ability, not an Outer God-level one.
It looks like it’ll enter the Mini Reaper Garden the moment I kill it.
So I was playing around with a mischievous feeling, but the Green Moon started to flee the moment it confirmed my ability.
‘Don’t run away, that’s no fun!’
I crushed the monsters made of bones and flesh with a ‘Kyuu’, but even after losing its central entity, the slime didn’t stop fleeing.
And everything began to collapse.
It started with the massive Green Moon floating in the sky.
The boundary of the Green Moon, which had formed a perfect circle, began to waver, and finally, the entire moon transformed into dark green slime and started to flow down.
The Green Moon had abandoned even its own form.
As the Green Moon completely melted away, not only the atmosphere and ground filling the space, but even space itself began to melt into slime.
Thus, even the ‘force’ maintaining the space was turned into slime and began to flee.
This caused holes to form in space, revealing the massive Earth and outer space beyond.
What could be seen was the endless universe.
The Milky Way twinkling in the darkness, the shredded debris of the space station, and the Earth filling one side of the view came into sight.
As the Green Moon’s space erosion completely disappeared, I was finally able to summon the Mini Reaper Garden.
And numerous Mini Reapers, the giant Moss Ball, and even the survivor were suddenly thrown into space like me.
The unconscious Mini Reapers began to be pulled towards Earth while floating limp, and the female survivor started to endure in the vacuum while hugging the Moss Ball.
As they were being pulled towards Earth in the endless vacuum, the Black Reapers were startled and began to protect the Mini Reapers and the survivor.
The Black Reapers made their bodies fluid-like and began to stick to the Mini Reapers and the survivor.
When all the Black Reapers had adhered, they swelled up round to form a Black Reaper sphere.
A Black Reaper sphere that blocks not only cold and heat, but even pressure changes and air flow!
But it still looked dangerous to me.
There were mountains of problems to solve, like oxygen deficiency.
So I sent the entire Black Reaper sphere to the Mini Reaper Garden.
After sending the sleeping Mini Reapers, the survivor, and the Black Reapers all to the Mini Reaper Garden, only the Golden Reapers remained.
I thought about putting them in the garden too, but they seemed to be enjoying the zero gravity, so I decided to leave them be.
As I was being pulled by Earth’s gravity, I turned my gaze towards the slime.
I could see the green slime, scattered at the cellular level, rushing towards Earth.
Does it intend to scatter and hide all over Earth?
The green slime was too widely dispersed to kill each one with spatial slashes.
Once it starts burning in the atmosphere, it’ll become even harder to track.
I took out the blue sphere from the Mini Reaper Garden.
A massive gray reaper with a blue glow emerging from the torn blue sphere.
The so-called Blue Giant.
As I began to control the Blue Giant’s body, the fuel started to be consumed at quite a rapid rate.
And I began to feel the flow of Object souls.
It was the ability of the ‘Blue Outer God’ to collect the souls of Objects that died in its domain as its own.
As we began to enter the atmosphere, the bacteria started dying off at a rapid rate.
It was the limit of the bacteria, which had an extremely unstable structure from the moment of their creation, barely qualifying as living organisms.
Perhaps the souls of the bacteria that died so easily would cycle through the ring of life and be reborn.
But the souls of the dead bacteria couldn’t return to the ring of life and began to be seized by the Blue Giant.
All the bacteria that died this way were removed from the ring of life and collected by the Blue Giant.
While the green slime was dying off, the Golden Reapers were attempting atmospheric entry in various poses.
Golden Reapers falling with their mouths wide open.
Golden Reapers falling while spinning round and round.
Golden Reapers falling curled up like balls.
Golden Reapers falling with their arms raised, facing the sun.
All the Golden Reapers were becoming comets, breaking through the atmosphere in their favorite ways.
The so-called Golden Reaper Meteor Shower!
A night when 8 moons rose in the sky.
Gray, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, purple.
It was a night of seven colored moons scattered chaotically around the large gray moon at the center.
On that night, a discarded newspaper could be seen on a quiet street.
On the front page of that newspaper was a very unusual photograph.
It was a photo of an enormous gray reaper with a blue glow falling from the sky.
Beside it were numerous Golden Reapers captured looking like comets.