Mash-up Anime World: Creating the SCP Foundation to Contain Anomalies-Chapter 306 - 300: Killing the Mastermind Behind the Chaos Splitters
Chapter 306 - 300: Killing the Mastermind Behind the Chaos Splitters
The Chaos Splitters squad was completely wiped out and transformed into zombies.
It was also time to deploy the Mobile Task Force.
If the Mobile Task Force didn't show up now, it would start to look suspicious.
The Nine-Tailed Fox unit, fully armed, headed to the site for containment.
Meanwhile, in the surveillance footage, the Plague Doctor wearing the Possessed Mask version was seen heading outside.
Three zombie entities (SCP-049-?) were following the Plague Doctor.
The other zombies began wandering the site, feasting on the corpses on the ground.
The D-Class personnel, whether dead or alive, being bitten by the zombies, all began exhibiting the same homogenized phenomenon.
Indeed, these things were truly zombies.
The Mobile Task Force Nine-Tailed Fox swiftly arrived at the site and started shooting without hesitation.
After all, anyone moving inside the site now was either an anomaly or a D-Class.
There was no psychological burden at this point.
Unlike the zombies depicted in movies, the zombies created by the Plague Doctor wearing the Possessed Mask could not be stopped merely by destroying the brain.
Their spines had to be severed to halt them completely.
The Plague Doctor wearing the Possessed Mask did not display particularly violent emotions upon seeing the Nine-Tailed Fox.
Instead, the Possessed Mask began attempting to hypnotize and brainwash the Nine-Tailed Fox.
This showed that even while wearing the Possessed Mask, the Plague Doctor still retained a portion of its self-awareness.
Its goal remained purely to "treat the plague."
As for creating zombies—
Given the Plague Doctor's mindset, it was understandable.
According to what the Chaos Splitters knew, the outside world had already been completely overrun by the "plague."
Out of every ten people, three to four were infected.
Given the vast human population on Earth—
The number of "patients" was unimaginably high.
The Plague Doctor treating each one personally was clearly unrealistic.
Thus, it simply created zombies—beings capable of autonomously "treating" other patients.
By spreading zombies,
the world would, in its own way, be cured.
It was just as expected: once the Plague Doctor learned that the outside world was plagued, it would inevitably go berserk.
Meanwhile, the Possessed Mask was simply malevolent, aiming to destroy humanity.
Because the Nine-Tailed Fox knew in advance the traits of both the Plague Doctor and the Possessed Mask,
they handled the situation skillfully.
Although the Plague Doctor was fast, it couldn't make direct contact with the Nine-Tailed Fox personnel.
After all, the Nine-Tailed Fox was completely sealed inside biological exoskeleton armor.
Thus, contact death couldn't occur.
Moreover, the Nine-Tailed Fox personnel's tactical goggles and headsets automatically blurred out the image and sound effects of the Possessed Mask.
With the W-grade memory supplement in use,
cognitive pollution was also extremely slow.
Before long, all the zombies in the site were eliminated.
The Nine-Tailed Fox surrounded the Plague Doctor, attempting to suppress it.
Haruto watched the footage, silently waiting.
Now, the Chaos Splitters plan was just one step away from completion.
If the Plague Doctor wearing the Possessed Mask left the site, then it wouldn't be long before a global zombie apocalypse erupted.
Judging from the mastermind's two previous interventions, it was clear that this individual wanted to plunge the primary world into chaos, keeping the Foundation busy.
Thus, it would be easier for them to fish in troubled waters.
However, with the Possessed Mask version of the Plague Doctor suppressed at the site,
their painstaking plan was about to die prematurely.
If it were just regular Chaos Splitters members interfering with the Nine-Tailed Fox, it would only be sending them to their deaths.
The mastermind had already witnessed the Mobile Task Force's power.
If the plan was to succeed, he would have to act personally.
During the prolonged suppression and standoff,
on the surveillance screen, one of the already-dead Chaos Insurgency members suddenly twitched unnaturally.
The next moment, a faint red light seeped out from the heart of this Chaos Insurgency member.
Haruto sneered.
As cautious as you are, you still exposed yourself!
"The World!"
Without hesitation, Haruto activated the power of The World, freezing time.
The light halted; the world dimmed; time stopped flowing, and everything fell silent.
Haruto walked unhurriedly toward the site.
He bypassed the area where the Nine-Tailed Fox was fighting the Plague Doctor with the Possessed Mask.
Instead, Haruto moved to a less noticeable corner behind the battlefield.
There, from the heart of the dead Chaos Splitters member, a trace of red was seeping out.
Haruto smiled.
Next, his irises filled with dazzling, rainbow-like colors.
The death lines of everything around him surfaced.
Even within the blood-red shadow, a death line emerged.
Haruto clicked his tongue in amazement.
The fewer the death lines, the harder the entity was to erase.
Once an entity reached the "divine" level, death lines would disappear, leaving only a death point.
Judging from this, this being was already close to divinity.
One had to admit—this guy was indeed good at lying low. With such tremendous power, he could probably sweep through most worlds. Ordinary worlds would have no means to resist him.
Unfortunately, he came to the primary world and ran into Haruto.
Casually, Haruto pulled a short blade from his Divine Might space.
The blade slashed across the death line.
The next moment, the sound of a shattered death line echoed.
In the still world, a violent scream rang out.
The blood-red shadow disappeared, replaced by a human figure.
He fell out of the shadow.
Haruto casually grabbed him.
The next moment, the Blacklight Virus engulfed the figure, devouring him without leaving a trace.
After devouring the mastermind, Haruto successfully read his memories.
What surprised Haruto was—
this guy was indeed a transmigrator from outside the world.
But what Haruto didn't expect was—
this guy was actually a remnant of the Reincarnation Hall.
The world where the Reincarnation Hall resided had been permanently erased by the Sevenfold Destroyer.
During its escape, the Reincarnation Hall itself had been ambushed by Haruto, who tore away a large portion of its supreme divinity.
Logically, all Reincarnators affiliated with the Hall should have been wiped out.
Even those Reincarnators who weren't currently in the Hall's world—
after completing missions in other worlds, they would have had to return, only to be fed to the Sevenfold Destroyer.
That world was now just a shredder—nothing that entered it survived.
Yet, this guy was an exception.
The mastermind Haruto captured was once ranked first on the Reincarnation Leaderboard.
There were countless rumors about this top Reincarnator within the Hall. But no one had ever seen his true form. Because he was a true master at lying low. Due to his cautious nature, he had a fixed contact within the Hall.
He was extremely wary of world-jumping.
Each time before returning to the Hall, he would first communicate with his contact. However, after completing a mission, when he tried to contact his informant—
he received no reply; it was like a stone sinking into the sea.
Immediately, he made a decisive decision.
During the process of being pulled back to the Hall's world,
he forcibly unleashed his power, tearing open spatial guidance, and escaped into the multiverse.
Eventually, he fell into the primary world.
As the top Reincarnator, he had been granted an SSS-level innate ability: Assimilation and Plunder.
This ability had two stages: assimilation and plunder.
In the assimilation stage, he could control other beings, depending on the target's cognition level, power level, and conceptual strength, he could exert varying degrees of domination.
It was like having invisible friends—during the assimilation stage, the beings worked for him.
If the assimilation lasted long enough, or if he helped the assimilated, earning their heartfelt recognition, the process would speed up.
After assimilation, the plunder stage would begin.
At that point, he could steal the characteristics of other lifeforms for his own use.
The previous Broken God ascension incident—
was essentially a test to probe the Foundation's strength and to attempt to assimilate the reorganized Broken God.
However, he had underestimated the Broken God's transcendent status—
and the terrifying power of the Foundation.
Previously, he hadn't even known what supreme divinity was.
Fortunately, he was cautious enough; seeing the Broken God's ascension go wrong, he fled immediately.
Later, after the Foundation resolved the Broken God crisis, he decisively abandoned all anomalies and Chaos Splitters agents he controlled.
Using a plundered ability, he hid inside the body of an ordinary human.
The purpose of this current operation was, as Haruto had guessed, to plunge the world into chaos using the Plague Doctor and the Possessed Mask, giving humanity a huge disaster so he could fish in troubled waters.
After all, the Foundation's strength had traumatized him.
Unfortunately, in the end, he couldn't outmaneuver Aleister.
Aleister saw through him, and Haruto reeled him in with a baited trap.
After eliminating this Reincarnation Hall remnant and reading his memories, Haruto walked to the battlefield and casually removed the Possessed Mask from the Plague Doctor.
Then, he crushed two condensed lavender bombs.
After dusting off his hands, he released the power of The World.
Time resumed its flow.
The battlefield fell into silence.
The condensed lavender diffused into the air, calming the Plague Doctor, who clutched its head and exited its berserk state.
Meanwhile, the Possessed Mask, now in Haruto's hand, looked confused.
It had no idea how it got separated from the Plague Doctor!
