GOD OF ALL SYSTEMS
Chapter 32 - 32: Biting More than you can Chew!

Loud belt smacks echoed in the chamber as Patrick slapped Michael in the face. And with the pain inducement feature, every smack was intensified a hundred times over, making a mere belt slap feel like a hundred-ton whiplash. On the last slap, Michael cried in pain as he passed out unconscious.

The chamber was completely silent as everyone watched the scene of Patrick not only beating Michael, who was a C-rank, but even humiliating him by trashing him around like a plaything. To make matters worse, he then proceeded to publicly slap Michael in the face with a belt, causing him to cry in pain like a child and ultimately pass out.

Shock and disbelief are some words one can use to describe the reactions of every spectator. Except for Athena, whose face carried only pride and confidence in her man.

Done slapping Michael, the belt slowly transformed back to a black pen. Patrick casually rolled the pen over his thumb as he stared at Dalton, whose expression was that of pure hate and resentment. His facial veins were clearly outlined, and his fists were tightly clenched as he anticipatingly stared at Patrick, as if about to act against him.

"What? "Do you have something to say, babysitter? You don't concur with my disciplinary methods? "How about you do something about it?" Patrick said, his impassive gaze fixated on Dalton. But after three seconds of both men staring at each other, Patrick lazily blinked and scoffed as he said, "Pathetic!

But at least you know your limits, otherwise…" Patrick paused as he looked at Michael lying on the floor unconscious.

Dalton, hearing Patrick's words only added fuel to the already blazing fire of rage he was slowly losing control of. And as expected, Dalton lost control and launched at Patrick as he bellowed, "How dare you speak to me like that?"

Up in the control room, upon seeing Dalton losing control, Julius immediately acted as if he vanished from his spot.

Patrick watched as Dalton launched at him with rage, but he then saw Julius rushing from the control room, trying to stop Dalton from attacking him. Although both men were powerful Awakened and their speed was considered extremely fast, they were but in a frozen state before Patrick.

Patrick watched Dalton and Julius in frozen time states as he said, "Not bad, Julius, testing me with Michael and now trying to save me from Dalton, ultimately owing you a favor in return. How obvious can you be?" Patrick chuckled, he then pointed the black pen at the incoming Dalton as he said to the frozen Julius, "Patrick Alexander King owes no one favors, not even to me."

Upon finishing speaking, a ball of white energy exploded from the pen as it launched at Dalton. Patrick then reduced his speed to the absolute minimum, returning the scene to normal.

With the speed returned to normal, a tiny white ball of energy exploded on Dalton as he was sent blasting through the twenty-feet thick steel wall of the training chamber, which was at the end of the five-mile-long building. A loud boom resounded, and the building trembled like an earthquake. Simultaneously with Dalton crashing into the wall, Julius appeared with a defensive gesture before Patrick.

But to his surprise and embarrassment, the person he was trying to defend against was brutally blasted away with an explosion so strong it even caused the building to tremble.

Julius stared at the blasted-away Dalton as he sneaked a glance at Patrick, his heart beating with caution as he thought, 'How unbelievable, to be able to blast an A-rank away with such a tiny explosion, just how powerful is that pen he is holding? And what exactly is that pen? Could it be instead of awakening he awakened a powerful treasure?!

I heard some had awakened weapons instead of themselves, but this is the first time I have seen one. So, kiddo, I mean King, this was what made you arrogant? Even I, as an early upgraded S-rank, wouldn't claim the ability to blast an experienced A-rank like that away.

But wait, I get that he has a powerful treasure, but how does he have such reaction speed? He was even faster than me-'

"Your help wasn't needed, Mr. Watson, as you can see," Patrick said as he turned and began walking away from the battle scene, or more like the bullying scene.

"Hahaha, of course, I can see that now. But King, don't you think it's time we get past formalities and embrace our kinship? Please call me Julius." Julius said as he laughed with embarrassment.

Patrick paused and stared at Julius for a second, he then slightly chuckled and said, "… ok." Patrick then continued as he approached Athena.

Athena held an impressed but naughty smirk while gazing at Patrick as she said, "Wow, Trick if that's how you discipline others, I can't imagine what you would do with your children. But still, Michael needed some humbling."

"Don't you mean our children?" Patrick said as he wrapped his right arm over Athena's shoulder. The two began walking away as they chatted. Their height difference is hard to miss from a distance.

"So, the Sky Eagle guild is sure to retaliate, but I'm sure you already thought of that before even walking down here," Athena said.

"No, they won't. Patrick replied casually.

"And why is that?"

"Because I am their boss's boss a hundred times over, saying anything back will be them shooting themselves in the head."

"…" Athena reacted with a raised eyebrow as she looked up at Patrick. She chuckled in amazement as she said, "You have become even more mysterious than I remembered. So should I take it that you are also already the ruler of the world?" Athena continued with a joking comment.

But Patrick remained silent as they walked closer to the exit. Patrick's silence caused Athena to look at him with shock as she said. "Or wait! Are you?"

Patrick only smiled at Athena. His silence answered her question. Athena expressed a disbelieving and surprised face as she said. "Why would I even ask? You are Patrick Alexander King after all. As a child, you already held all the teachers at the orphanage as your chess pieces."

Patrick and Athena continued their chat as they reached the exit of the training chamber. Suddenly, Louis, Athena's maid, stood in the distance when she approached and relayed something to her.

"Young Miss, your friend from the academy is here. They are waiting outside." Louis said, Athena nodded and turned to Patrick.

"Trick, Georgina is a close friend from the academy, we usually go out twice a month, it's a girl's club thing. She's a bit of a spoiled princess, so I hope you excuse her introductory rude and flirtatious behavior."

Patrick kissed Athena on her forehead as he said, "Fine."

Athena smiled and said, "They may be annoying, but they are nice, trust me, you will like her. Athena said as he and Patrick left, their figures disappearing from the view of those in the training chamber.

Julius and everyone else stood in shock as they exchanged glances, they all couldn't help but develop a dreadful instinct about Athena's man. Julius looked in the distance as he saw the unconscious Michael, and his manager, who was currently outside the building also in an unconscious state.

"This is very strange, first he was able to resist my S-rank pressure, and now he can even one-shot an AA-rank with a single blast. Just who the hell is that kid?"

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Moscow, Russia

On a private property deep in the glaciers, a man wearing an all-black suit and a cross necklace walked from a portal with a group of robe-wearing men with long glowing staffs, this man is Ivan Xidirov, the man who orchestrated the assassination attempt on Dylan Ludwick using Natasha Page. He had neck tattoos and maintained an impassive expression.

Opposite Ivan Xidirov, a tall skinny, and extremely shady man with eye bags and wrinkled skin stood as he awaited him. Upon seeing Ivan, the man made a grand bow as he spoke.

*In Russian, "Master Xidirov, I am pleased to see you." The man said, his voice mechanic but coldly faint.

*In Russian, "Spare me the ass kissing, did you achieve my expectations?" Ivan said as he walked past the skinny man and vanished into something that seemed to be an invisible barrier. The group of staff-holding men followed behind him.

The skinny man also joined Ivan and vanished into the invisible barrier.

Past the invisible barrier was an entirely different dimension. To prevent a year-long description, there was a city inside the invisible barrier. But instead of the regular expected utopia, this city was filled with soldiers, weapons, mechanical machines, and most of all, stacked with powerful Awakened flying or commencing drills all over in a military fashion.

With such manpower and firepower, one holds the capability to even cause human extinction on the blue planet, let alone wipe out nations or cities. And to be powerful enough where one owns this amount of wealth and power, only gods are qualified to be their enemies, or even to dare say "no" to them.

But despite this man, Ivan Xidirov, owning such an overwhelming empire and strength, he or his company alliances aren't even close to the number one megacorp in history, King Technologies. Thinking about it now, it makes sense that Dylan Ludwick has had over twenty assassination attempts.

*In Russian, "Master Xidirov, the mission was unsuccessful. The men we sent were found dead, and we lost track of the girl. King Tech is most likely involved in this." A member of Ivan's group of staff-holding men relayed a message to Ivan as they walked in an extremely spacious underground.

Hearing the report, Ivan didn't even pause a step, he said, *in Russian "Spare me useless information, would you?" He then turned to the skinny tall man as he commanded, "Prove you are not a disappointment."

The skinny man nodded respectfully as he gestured for Ivan Xidirov to enter first into a highly secured chamber with highly advanced technologies. Entering, Ivan was greeted by a large, glowing blue energy floating in the center of the large chamber. Surrounding the blue energy were rows of computers and data drives, which were all connected to the circular stand on which the energy ball floated.

*In Russian, "After years of research and scrutinizingly studying every product from King Tech, we have been able to recreate the most powerful computer system this generation will ever see. Master Xidirov, it is my honor to present you with the H.A.C.S., Hyper Awakened Computer System." The skinny man said this as he pointed both hands at the floating energy system.

"We called it Hyper Awakened because its thinking process is similar, if not better than the smartest man ever lived, and it can utilize fusion energy ten times faster than an S-rank Awakened using mana. Yet, we haven't activated it, but once activated, H.A.C.S.

wields the ability to control, if not all, computers, and technology on this planet." The skinny man spoke, his words expressed with utter pride and confidence, a confidence almost matching that of a creator.

Ivan Xidirov, listening to the skinny man's words finally expressed vibrant eyes, he then commanded, *In Russian, "Activate it, I want control of all technologies, especially from King Tech. In fact, direct the cyber-attack more on King Tech, let's see if their army of coders and cyber security can stop our H.A.C.S."

*In Russian, "As you wish, master Xidirov." The skinny man replied.

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Inside a rose gold-colored limousine, a young and pretty girl with a cheery attitude sat next to Athena as they chatted. She often glanced at Patrick while talking to Athena, even unconsciously blushing and admitting feelings for him.

Seeing her friend's seductive eyes plastered at Patrick, who was sitting across them, Athena intervened.

"Georgina, meet my "boyfriend," Patrick Alexander King. Trick, this is Georgina, my childhood friend."

Georgina rose from her seat and extended a hand to Patrick as she said, "Hi, Georgina Underwood, you must already know about my family in London; we own the Underwood Foundation." Georgina added, her words clearly throwing all her cards of her being rich and wealthy on the table.

Athena sighed as she shook her head. She sneaked a glance at Patrick as she voicelessly said to him, "Please?"

Patrick saw Athena's helplessness as he chuckled and nodded slightly. He met Georgina's hand as he replied, "Patrick Alexander King, but you can call me King."

"Ohhh~, not only are you gorgeous and tall, but you also even have a deep voice. Now I want to know what family you come from.

"Georgina!" Athena interrupted. "Fine~ But you are one sneaky little witch, Athena, to dare hide him so well, even from me. But then again, I see why. Anyway, pleased to meet you, King." Georgina said as she returned to her seat.

"So, Athena, I invited a couple of friends and some others, and my boyfriend and his friends are also going to be there. And we are going to London this time; don't worry, we will be using my private jet. Daddy just bought this jet from King Tech; it is faster and more comfortable than any private jet. Trust me, you are going to like it. Also, have you seen my social media page?

Kyle Dorton was hitting on me, and..."

While Georgina unloaded every known piece of information about her on Athena, Patrick sat relaxed, enjoying Athena's misery.

But unknown to Athena and her friend, a realistic interface of Grace displaying the current even occurring at the secret base of Ivan Xidirov.

"How contumelious, X-Org blitzing at King Tech the instant they finished their life's project. If only they knew you sold them the entire project on the black market, they wouldn't be sacrificing their limited resources and life's work just to be terminated." Grace commented.

"The black market was my trash bin for boring ideas. But then again, one man's trash is another man's treasure. Alpha, since they plan to hack you using a trash project, I will let you handle this."

<<<<<<<< Right away, sire. A disrespect to your creation is a direct disrespect to you, sire. Commencing appropriate response to cyberattack. >>>>>>>>>

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At the underground secret chamber, the blue energy ball was activated and was already accumulating knowledge and information from the internet and launching a cyberattack at King Tech. But while the blue energy surfed and absorbed data from the internet, a black energy line materialized within the internet.

And like a panther seeing its prey in the jungle, the black energy line multiplied into countless black lines as it dived at the blue energy line. Seeing the black energy line in the infinite dimension of the internet, the conscious blue energy instinctively began its retreat. But before the blue energy could even comprehend seeing the black energy, the black energy was already behind it.

The black energy suddenly materialized into two golden eyes as it expressionlessly gazed at the blue energy. In the domain of technology, Alpha already transcended the scales of measurement, the blue energy wasn't even worth mentioning, let alone compared to Alpha.

Alpha's golden eyes gazed upon the blue energy. <∞ You want to consume knowledge? Fine, here is one-quintrillionth of data from King Tech; try absorbing that. Alpha said to the blue energy as it watched the blue energy become longer and longer the more it fed the blue energy information.

Outside in the secret chamber, the skinny and tall scientist suddenly began laughing with excitement as he watched the blue energy becoming brighter and more vibrant, meaning it was currently getting information from its desired target, King Tech.

*In Russian, "Hahaha! It is a success; we have gained access to every piece of data at King Tech. I told you H.A.C.S. would be unstoppable." The man bellowed with even more excitement as he laughed heartily.

Finally, breaths away from his goal, Ivan Xidirov assumed a pleased but menacing smirk as he stared at the blue energy becoming even brighter. But Ivan suddenly lost his smirk when he sensed something wasn't right. He is an A-rank after all; having such a thing as sixth sense is almost equal to survival instinct. A sudden realization surfaced in Ivan's mind as he hurriedly bellowed.

*In Russian, "Quick! " Shut it down; it's going to explode-! BOOM! A loud explosion occurred as it instantly obliterated everything in its presence. Ivan Xidirov reacted by protecting himself, but even then, he was blasted away.

The group of four staff-holding Awakened were late in their reaction and were pulverized into unfindable dust. As for the tall, skinny scientist, he shouldn't even be mentioned; he was the first to go since he was the closest to the machine.

The explosion started underground, but it intensified like a corroding atomic bomb as it expanded to the city above, obliterating soldiers and all, leaving nothing and no one in its wake.

Unlike the fall of Rome, which happened with eventuality, the city was erased in an instant. Everyone and everything that once called this hidden dimension home can now only be found in the afterlife or in memory.

Ten minutes later, the explosion calmed, and everything was now dust and crumbles.

But deep within the crumbles, Ivan Xidirov's body lay with his left arm and face gone. Only his skeletal appearance remained. He suddenly opened his eyes and breathed with a gasp. After numerous desperate inhalations and faint exhales, Ivan made one heavy inhale as he bellowed one name.

*In English, "King Tech!!"