Chapter 19
Mind-Blowing

There is life underground.

This is in fact common knowledge to the people of Tooneria, yet it's not exactly a place that people visit often. After all, trying to locate civilizations underground isn't the easiest thing to do, but if one looks in the right place and knows how to get there, then he will find the largest underground civilization in the world, Subterrapolis.

A massive metropolis, Subterrapolis is a luxurious and high-tech location. Though the buildings were not as tall as the ones found in the surface world, many of them were still tall enough to let one know that they are important and luxurious buildings.

Bright and beautiful lights decorate the buildings and various architectures, lighting up the otherwise dark underground cavern and turning it into a bright paradise.

Highways and wide, beautifully-made pavements were seen stretching all over the place, with grand-looking vehicles running along them nonstop.

Civilians of various species can be seen throughout the city, going about their daily lives happily. Indeed, the people here all look like they are at peace. Everyone was smiling and having fun with each other, not to mention visiting various entertainment areas to enjoy themselves.

Noteworthy among the population here, however, were the presence of robots, and several of them to boot.

Walking alongside the civilians were mechanical beings of various shapes and sizes. Some of them have appearance that made them obvious they are machines, while some are androids resembling organic beings so much that it is virtually impossible to tell them apart from the real thing

The people and the robots all hung out with each other happily as if they are one big family. Children can be seen playing with robots designed to entertain them. Some people can be seen walking robotic dogs using leashes as if they are real dogs. There are even guys showing affection to attractive female androids that also returned their love to the former.

Who is that made such a majestic place possible in the first place?

Located within the center of the city was a massive high-tech best described as a futuristic castle.

Within a particular room inside the castle, a particular being can be found. To be a precise, a particular machine…

Within the somewhat dark room with dim lights, there stood a silver robot with a somewhat circular body. The robot has four long and relatively thing legs that coming out from its sides, each of them ending with clawed feet. Sticking out the top center of it is something resembling an antenna, which had a single yellow "eye" in front of the orb attached to the top. The robot's actual face consists of nothing but a single yellow eye that was partially closed.

The robot was currently looking at a bunch of holographic screens floating around him.

"Chances of the world ending if all four Endpoints erupt within a week's time…" he said in a mechanical voice. "Calculating… 95%. Chances of it affecting Subterrapolis… Calculating… 99%."

Changing to a new holographic screen, the robot read its content and summarize it out loud. "Smash Pro members are currently being hunted down. Majority has been rounded up. Chances of I Am's survival: 0%. Is Smash Pro still a threat? Highly unlikely, but circumstances may change."

Changing to another screen, he did the same thing with it. "Victory is the result of the military, with support from the group known as the Smashers. Crisis has been averted."

After the robot was done reading the contents on the holographic screens, they all disappeared, and he said, "Had the situation not been resolved earlier, this calls for my involvement."

A new screen then showed up, this time showing live footages of various parts of Subterrapolis and the people going about their businesses.

"No disaster must befall this utopia I built," said the robot. "All those that disturb the peace of Subterrapolis shall be exterminated without prejudice."

A powerful machine built since ancient times by an unknown, ancient civilization for unknown purposes…

In a battle between machines, there is absolutely without a doubt this one will completely annihilate all the others and come out as the winner.

Sporting enough firepower to lay waste to an entire planet all by itself and with a CPU so powerful that it can hack into any computer with no effort…

The world's most powerful machine and one of the 5 Abominations…

Omega…

Whereas Subterrapolis is a bustling modern day city, the opposite holds true for another city located elsewhere under the planet's surface.

Draco Lair is a more ancient-looking city, with less technological advance and a grimmer atmosphere.

The citizens, once against consisting of various species, went about their daily lives, all the while sporting humble and bored looks on their face as if there is nothing worth talking about.

Run-down buildings can be seen, some of them empty and some of them housing poor people, not to mention shady ones. Crime is also quite common, with pickpockets snatching whatever they could get their hands on from unwary passersby and rushing off before they got caught. Acts of violence happen from time to time among people for small reasons, and onlookers usually did nothing but simply watch the fights going on, sometimes even being instigators.

Every once in a while, the people would look up when shadows pass by over them. Dragons occasionally flew across the sky, a sight that was way too common in Draco Lair. Despite having lived all their lives seeing dragons appearing in and out of Draco Lair, the citizens still aren't used to this. It was as if they are living in fear of being terrorized by the dragons.

Located in the outskirts of Draco Lair was a towering rock that was more like a mountain. On the path leading up to it were dragons of various kinds. Some walked on four, while some had serpentine bodies.

Located on top of the rock was a throne made of valuable metals such as gold and silver, and seated on it was a large, intimidating dragon with shiny, silver scales, most of which stuck out like spikes. On his back are a pair of large yellow wings, and running from his head down his back was a row of red hair.

The dragon has arms, and muscular ones at that, but lacks legs. Instead, its lower half was like that of a snake's, decorated with sharp scales pointing outwards like spikes.

While seated on his throne, the dragon read a newspaper held in between his fingers. Due to the size difference between the two, the newspaper is perhaps too comically small compared to someone his size.

"Harmless volcano eruption? Is that what they're trying to tell the public?" said the dragon after reading one of the news articles on it. "If I didn't know better, someone tried to set off the Endpoints. Fool! Shadow Dragon's reports were accurate after all. I Am was indeed out of his mind! That bastard had what was coming to him, thinking he's higher than god and therefore has the right to reshape the world as he sees fit! So what if he is higher than the gods? Is he stronger than me? Even the gods fear me!"

He then destroyed the newspaper by crushing it in between his claws.

"All that I'm hearing about the surface world nowadays are idiots, so-called social justice warriors, and self-proclaimed enforcers of peace fighting for selfish reasons!" said the dragon in frustration. "Has the sun been shining on them far too long that they became morons?!"

Looking up at the ceiling of the underground cavern, the dragon said, "Is that the madness the surface has to offer nowadays? How long has it been since I went to the surface? You surface dwellers better be ready to entertain me if someday I ever decide to show my face again!"

A terrifying beast powerful enough to threaten the entire planet, and word has it that he is even powerful enough to threaten space and time.

The world's most powerful dragon and one of the 5 Abominations…

Shinryu…

Somewhere out at sea and on a certain island was a small town relatively unknown to the rest of the world, as it has nothing worth talking about.

Actually, it is better to say that a town once existed here, because said town is currently in ruins.

Dead bodies were lying around the remains of the village, and those who were still alive were badly injured.

The only ones who were safe and sound consists of five people, and they are in fact the ones responsible for laying waste to the town.

A big, fat man wearing a black boat and sporting a short black beard was sitting on a chair left behind from the destruction of a house, reading the newspaper. "Zehahahaha! Smash Pros have been rounded up and put to an end?" laughed the man after reading a certain article. "I guess they were too cocky for their own good! Surely it's no coincidence that this is reported at the same time as the volcano eruptions on Isla Nublar, Secon Island, and Piriodo! Whitebeard must be pissed as hell about his island being burned down! I can only assume that the rumors about those volcanoes being the triggers to the end of the world are true!"

Standing next to him was a muscular man wearing a luchador mask, and he clearly skipped leg day. "Really, captain?! The world was nearly destroyed because those volcanoes erupted?!" he said to the fat man.

"Calm down. That crisis has already been averted," said a skinny man sitting nearby wearing a pair of glasses that has a crosshair as its right lens. He was also polishing a rifle. "The military and the Smashers stepped in to prevent that from happening. The leader of the Smash Pros, I Am, has been killed too."

"Phew… That's good to hear!" said the luchador guy. "I thought we are all goners!"

Close by, there was an old man who seems to be on the verge of dying resting on a pale blue horse that had collapsed onto the ground, looking like it was dying as well. "We are lucky that this didn't happen…!" said the old man in a weak voice.

"It seems that nowadays, you can't go through a major incident without hearing about the Smashers!" said a skinny man wearing a top hat and holding a cane standing nearby. "They really are a magnet for these sort of things, huh?"

"Perhaps it is fate that brings them to various serious situations," said the man with the rifle. "You can say that their entire existence in this world is to get involved in such things."

"I guess you can say they are unlucky to not be able to live peaceful lives. Heeheehee…!" laughed the old man.

"If that's the case, then we should thank them for this! Zehahahah!" laughed the fat man while still reading the newspaper. "Honestly saying, it would be inconvenient if the world is to end now. There are still many things we have yet to accomplish! Becoming one of the Seven Warlords is just the beginning!"

Putting the newspaper aside, the fat man stood up and said, "Speaking of which, I think it's about time we start doing what we wanted to do in the first place! I didn't decide to become a Warlord for no reason, you know."

The luchador seemed excited when he heard this. "We're finally going to that place? All right! I was wondering when you were going to start!"

"Indeed, I was wondering when I should get started," said the fat man. "With the world going crazy nowadays ever since what Pompus Rath did, I figured we might as well begin getting crazy! I can already feel that the world we know it is going to change! Whether for the worst or the best, I don't know, but so long as we can get enjoyment out of it, that's all that matters!"

Looking at the four people around him and waving his hand in the air, he said loudly, "All right! Let's set sail! The Blackbeard Pirates are going to do something really reckless and drastic! Zehahahahahaha!"

TO BE CONTINUED

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Is your mind blown yet? Did you expect me to throw Omega and Shinryu, the only Abominations left yet to be seen previously, into your faces in this chapter? On top of that, I even threw Blackbeard and his crew in your faces! In case you forgot, Blackbeard was first mentioned in my Negima and Smash Bros. crossover Magister Saga.

Simply put: I plan to involve the Great Powers of Tooneria more often in my stories in the future. Please look forward to what I have in store for them in the future!