Slaughter - Sword - Shutdown - Witness - Call for Training

Black-666 came rushing towards the stationary God of Time and God of Space. By seeing them with his eyes, he can already replicate their move sets and that's what he did

With the combination from White-999's replicated move sets, Black-666 combined them with the two being's skills

This led to a slaughter where Black-666 decimated the two powerful beinga without them having the chance to fight back because they are just stationary

Time slowed, rewinded, stopped, fast forwarded, and skipped while space warped, distorted, folded, torn, separated, and twisted

The screen already couldn't comprehend the event thag Black-666 is causing and cannot display the effect through the flatscreen, even though Sheena has already upgraded

Tenshi and the others turned to E-1, they called out to her to calm down but their voids fell into deaf ears. E-1 was enjoying herself as she's happily watching the event unfold in front of her

Meanwhile, Philip stared at the flatscreen with sharp eyes and he exuded an aura of extreme concentration

The air around him became sharp which alerted Mark and the others that they subconsciously raised their arms to guard and defend against the sharp air

They turned to Philip and they saw that he's very concentrated and the light reflecting on his eyes is clear

Philip was only holding his controller and he wasn't mashing any buttons. He just pushed the joystick forward and pressed the up button with the action button once

With this, White-999 tilted his body forwards and swiped his right foot around towards his back. He then raised his arm with a gesture on his hand as if he's holding a rod

The arra was very quiet and only the flow of the wind can be heard, along with White-999's breathing and burning aura. The battle between Black-666 and the two beings were muffled in the background

[Connected!]

Meanwhile, thr game voice had announced that a game developer has answered the call

"Hello?"

A male voice echoed in the game, which can also be heard by Mark and the others

"What? Non-existing achievements is being obtained? The Open World feature has been temporarily unlocked? But that won't happen till the second iteration of the game? Well, I can reset the game and the servers if that's what needed"

Looks like the game itself is directly talking to the game developer anf he decided to reset the game just because of what's happening in Tenshi's battle royale game

"Alright, I'll reset it. Players, I apologize for the inconvenience. Revert must be done"

The developer addressed towards the players, to Philip, E-1, and probably Justine

A hand then descended from the mess of black and white dimensions. As soon as the hand touched the space, the game will shut down and everything will be reverted

But, Philip wanted to have a little more fun befofe the game shuts down temporarily in the world

As White-999 raised his hand above his head for several seconds, yellow light flowed around his hand and slowly created a two-meter light long sword

[...!]

[...!]

[...!]

[!!!!!]

The game was alerted and it began to panic. The space began to violently shake and rumble that it affected Black-666. The two beings also woke up and began to move. The screne of the game began to glitch and showed a pixelated mess and corrupted pixels

But the space around White-999 is normal. He has entered a calm and serene state and he could only see one purpose in his next move

That is to cut

"Sword Concept: Virtual Sword Technique..."

Philip started to chant the words under his voice that no one in the room will be able to hear it except for Justine

[NOOO!]

The game voice screamed and this caused everyone who heard it feel terrified

"Shutdown"

*Shing*

In an instant, White-999 slashed horizontally across the screen

The world was separated into two

Black-666's body was also cut horizontally into half, along with the God of Time, God of Space, and the hand. All of them immediately turned into pixelated particles

Then, a huge gaping space that separated the universe and the dimension became larger and larger. The space, the void, is even darker than the black dimension that Black-666 caused

The void sucked everything inside, including the separated universe and White-999. Eventually, the screen turned black and nothing was displayed anymore

"What happened?"

Tenshi asked, not knowing what happened anymore. E-1's smiling face also disappeared and she only stared at the flatscreen with disbelief

"I lost?"

E-1 mumbled

"Is that supposed to happen? I feel like what we're doing is testing the limits of the game that it doesn't even have those features before? I can't even comprehend what happened"

Elaine gave her remark. Philip and Mark were silent and they are only staring at the flatscreen. They don't believe that it's over

Meanwhile, Sheena just kept looking at Philip. Justine was also looking at the flatscreen with the controller on her hands

It was then that a text display appeared on the screen from the darkness of the void instead of the voice reading every alert

[You have witnessed the battle between beings who are higher than the ranks of the Gods]

[You also have witnessed the descent of the Gods who provide balance in the game]

[You have witnessed the arrival of the developer, a feat that can only be done with correct codition requirements]

[You have witnessed the impending reset of the game]

[You have witnessed the emergence of a power that is foreign to the game, at least in two scenarios]

[You have witnessed the end]

[...]

[...!]

[You have somehow survived the destruction of the game from an outside force]

[This is unprecedented...]

[It's a remarkable achievement!]

[Preparing rewards...]

[Reward is unable to be provided...]

[Executing elevated access...]

Everyone that was reading the display text almost had their eyes narrowed from extreme confusion. Mark almost rubbed his temples and Tenshi couldn't process it

What does the text mean? Why are never seen before content being revealed now? Why does this situation seemed more serious and important than just being a story in the game? Why was a developer contacted? Why is a casual fighting game became more complicated?

These were the questions that swirled in the squadron members' minds, especially the Gaming Angel and she wants to know the answers

Only Philip and Justine were calm and assessing the situation carefully. It was because Philip exactly knew what was happening while Justine knew because she's still in the game, specifically her character

「 Elevated access successful 」

「 Foreign force detected 」

「 Executing force hard reset level 10... 」

「 Initializing revert... 」

「 Unblocking denied permissions... 」

「 Releasing shackles... 」

「 Assessing rewards... 」

「 Character ID: 537-NRG character difficulty has been increased from S+ to XX+ 」

「 Countdown to reset in T-minus 10 seconds... 」

「 3... 2... 1... 」

The displayed text then disappeared and showed strings of codes flying across the screen. A moment later, the usual background of the menu of the game

[•Avenue Fighters Z•]

The usual game voice also returned and shouted the game title. The gamr title also descended from the top and a blinking start button appeared on the bottom

Everyone was left speechless. Rather than thinking that there is something happening behind the scenes of the game anymore, they think that it was entertaining nonetheless from start to finish. But Philip thought otherwise

Everyone started to calm down and feel releived after the stress that they received from the action packed fights and the peculiar game system

But that changed when the upgraded flatscreen started to spark. The screen shutdown and line across the flatscreen appeared horizontally

The flatscreen was cut into half and the bottom half fell on the floor. Everyone except for Philip and Justine were surprised. Their suspicions and insights just increased about the game and towards Philip

"Uhhh..."

Sheena voiced out in nervousness because an expensive and high-tech upgraded flatscreen became broken by an unknown force

"Philip? What happened? Do you know anything about it?"

Mark started to give up suspecting Philip about everything mysterious that is happening. Since Philip has arrived in the military base, mysterious, mystical, and extraordinary occurences has been happening. This made Mark rethink of his approach at Philip's existence

"It's a secret"

Philip teased everyone and smirked at them, revealing that he has more secrets tahn what he revealed in the meeting earlier

"What?! You didn't tell use everything that you can do?! We thought we could trust yo--"

"Elaine, that's enough. Let him do what he wants"

Elaine was about to blurt out words to Philip in anger because he still kept secrets from them but Mark cut her off and stopped her

"But..."

"No buts, he's a temporary squadron member anyways. If the Old Man trusts him so much and Chris holds the Old Man to his words, then we have no choice but to believe in him"

Mark finally made sense and that made Philip happy. Although, Elaine still couldn't understand and wanted to know more of Philip's secrets

One day, Elaine will regret her greed and persona. Only E-1 knows about this as she looked towards Elaine with cold, untrusting eyes

"Sorry for breaking the flatscreen though"

Philip apologized for indirectly splitting the flatscreen into half. He didn't expect for it to happen because a character in the game did the sword slash, not him

"Ha!! So you are the one responsible for it"

Elaine tried to catch Philip's lie and bluff

"Yeah? I'm not trying to hide it"

"But you're keeping it a secret?"

"Uh huh!"

"Grrr"

Elaine became restless and annoyed. She clenched her fists and look at Philip with angry eyes

Philip could only see her as an innocent child with a facade, even though she is one of the most mature member of the squadron because of her Radar ability

"I could tell you, but we're about to have the mock tests"

"What? That's 30 minutes from now. There's no way it's cut early"

"What if it is?"

The squadron members looked at Philip with discerning eyes. They waited for a little bit to witness one of his abilities. Either Future Vision or Clairvoyance

Just then, a knock was heard from the and a woman's voice rang out

"HK-5 Squadron! Report to the training room for the mock battles!"

The squadron members' eyes widened in surprise, disbelief, and impress. What Philip said is true and his abilities are legit

They have to report immediately and that made them unable to discuss what happened to the game. Looks like the event in the game will be left unnoticed