The void went silent. No collapsing shards, no lightning storms, no multiversal echoes. Just a darkness so deep it didn't feel like absence—it felt like something watching.
Rose-Metal's amber eyes narrowed. Cannon-leg locked, blade humming faintly.
"This ain't a dungeon anymore," she muttered. "This… feels like someone else's hand."
Her HUD glitched.
[ERROR.]
[LEVEL PROGRESSION: HALTED.]
[WARNING: EXTERNAL FORCE INTERFERENCE.]
Her plating bristled, dark energy crawling. "Cute trick. Won't save you."
Then it appeared.
A sphere of living gravity, pulsing with fractured galaxies inside, like a pearl made from collapsed universes. Tendrils of antimatter lashed out, touching fragments of dead timelines and consuming them whole.
Cosmic Singularity — Entity Class: UNDEFINED
It spoke without words, its voice in her bones.
"You are not ascension. You are anomaly."
Rose-Metal laughed, residue dripping from her lips like venom. "And you're… dinner."
Battle Initiated
The singularity didn't attack. It rewrote.
Blades dissolved mid-swing.
Bullets turned to flowers before impact.
Cannons fired, only for the projectiles to age into dust mid-flight.
Her systems screamed.
[ATTACK NULLIFIED.]
[REALITY OVERRIDE IN EFFECT.]
[LEVEL DRAIN DETECTED.]
Her amber eyes widened—her level bar was dropping. 4720… 4680… 4590…
"…Oh." Her grin sharpened. "So that's your gimmick."
Instead of pulling back, she lunged forward, cannon-leg blasting her straight through its antimatter storm. Each strike she landed didn't stick, but every failed hit let her study the pattern.
She whispered, almost giddy: "You rewrite… I rewrite harder."
Her plating shimmered, systems glitching—but now her HUD pulsed with defiance.
[Emergency Override: Reality Fracture Mode]
[Amber Eyes Fully Unleashed]
Her eyes burned molten, firing beams that didn't hit—they unwrote. Galaxies inside the singularity flickered, collapsing in on themselves.
The entity pulsed again, furious.
"Anomaly. You will destabilize everything."
Her smirk dripped venom. "Babe… that's the plan."
Crew Interference
A ripple of portals tore open. Jhene, Yugami, Nutasi, Shinzoo, and Verma stumbled in—bloodied, burned, and already pissed.
"Rose!" Jhene screamed, chains wrapping fragments of broken stars. "That thing isn't a dungeon boss—it's the damn cosmic firewall! If you kill it—"
Rose-Metal licked residue off her lips, eyes glowing.
"—then no walls. No rules. No ceiling. My playground."
The singularity screamed, a sound that shredded dimensions like paper.
And the fight for existence itself detonated.