SPOILERS FOR CHAPTER 138 ONWARDS

THE KING OF THE WORLD

Metal knight checked the condition of his disaster shelters, one of them had been bisected along with the Earth, another had been crushed by falling debris

If only he wasn't imprisoned, he might have been able to save them.

But their destruction was out of his control so he let go of his anguish and got back to his calculations.

While the heroes dealt with the immediate threat of the alien attackers, it's up to Bofoi to ensure that mankind could survive the death of the planet.

Once the remaining disaster shelters were at full capacity, Metal knight needed to launch them into the void of space.

At this moment, the surface of the planet is at an unstable state, eventually it will deform under gravity and when that happens the shelters need to be as far away from the tectonic calamity as possible.

Apart from that, it's almost inevitable that one day in the near future, the quadrants will stop drifting away and will be drawn together once again. The resulting collision would create a world that is inhospitable for human life for at least the next 3 billion years.

It is pretty self-evident that the shelters won't survive such an event.

The wildcard was the moon, god knows how the shattering of the Earth had affected it. Bofoi hasn't had time to run the simulations for any threat from there.

It all started with a violent shaking of the earth, Bofoi was tempted to wrap it all up to some monster of the week or natural calamity such as an earthquake but the blinding red light that accompanied the shaking was just too damn bright and was originating from outer space. A dead give away that, whatever it was, was anything but ordinary.

It was an extraordinary chance, a chance to redeem his honor and avenge his loss. To save humanity and rule over it, to be worshiped as a god.

Bofoi acted fast, while the winds were still manageable and one only had to worry about the shaking Earth. He called upon his prison guard lackey who brought him his controller which he used to summon his machines and bust out of prison.

From there he snuck into the nearest Disaster shelter and set up his base of operations.

He's been mathematically working out, for the past 4 hours, the best way to get the shelters into outer space.

At this point one might wonder why the great metal knight would work so hard to save these people. What is the point of ruling over a helpless population living in fragile little shelters that was built by Metal knight himself.

He could just save himself at this very moment, what reason is there for Metal Knight to save the human race?

Sure he can't be a king with no subjects to rule, but what can these civilians contribute to the great lord Bofoi, the first emperor of the human race, other than their eternal gratitude.

There's nothing the common folk could do to please him. He wasn't a fan of mindless entertainment and he's too old to experience the pleasures of life, in fact by his estimations he only had 7 years left to live but there was one man who may be amongst the survivors. One man who can change that fate.

Like how Bofoi dedicated his life to attain technological perfection, another man had spent his entire life chasing biological mastery and has even defeated death. Metal knight will soon have him at gunpoint, in the palm of his hand, he just has to wait for him to fall into his web.

With the combination of the pinnacle of biological and mechanical technology, Bofoi will become a god, emperor of an empire eternal.

Sure there are those that are more powerful than him now, people whose powers metal knight knows he'll never match but one day they will die and who will be there to contest him then?

It was best to keep his true goals a secret for now.

Metal knight can't let the promise of future success distract him, there is work that needs doing and currently Bofoi was short handed.

Normally he would have an army of machines at his disposal but most of them were destroyed when his previous plan to take over the world was ended by the bald headed simpleton. The few machines that remained helped him escape from his prison cell and were now busy arming explosives at the surviving disaster shelters.

That left him in an unfortunate state where he needed outside assistance to launch his own creations into space. Help from engineering giants like the child emperor and Kudo Kishi. Maybe even Genos would help out but it would take a lot to get him out of his vengeful ways.

These three will be arrogant and uncooperative at first but soon he will hold humanity hostage, and they will have to obey him.

Finally, he finished his calculation, he has 20 days to save all surviving human life. Well most of them anyway. Saving all of them would be a mathematical improbability, requiring power and precision on a scale which has never been seen in human history.

With sleepy eyes he looked to his monitor, the one showing the status of his remaining machines, their task was complete.

He turned on the encrypted quantum entangled radio he shared with Child emperor.

By the time Dotei was able to reply to Metal Knight, Bofei had already dozed off.

"Child Emperor to Metal Knight, do you read me?"

"Child Emperor to Metal Knight I repeat over."

It was unclear how long Child Emperor had been on the radio waiting for a response and it was also uncertain whether or not Dotei cared if Metal Knight was alive or not.

"Child Emperor, you thought all my bots were destroyed."

"You were wrong."

No response.

"Not talking won't change facts, dance to my tune or else. you can figure out what happens."

"Bofoi-" Dotei's voice was filled with disbelief.

Recognizing the fact that Dotei was at a loss for words, Bofoi carried on giving instructions.

"I have a speech that I require every man, woman and child alive to hear. They need to know who to thank and they need to know who's in charge. And I know you have the equipment to make that happen."

"Bofoi… this is the end of the world-" Dotei said.

"Exactly, if dreams don't come true now then they never will."

*I didn't do any actual calculations for this but it would be interesting if any of you can find out and comment how long it would actually take for the Earth's surface to either be completely covered in Magma or crack and deform under gravity if the planet was cut into 4 equal quadrants.