"Let me handle this."
Hansen stepped forward, shielding the three girls behind him.
There was not a hint of fear on his face; instead, he wore a helpless smile, like someone watching the neighbor's brat throwing a tantrum.
"Is this the [Counter Force]'s way of hosting guests? Your temper is truly explosive."
While sighing, Hansen raised his right hand and snapped his fingers.
Snap—!!!
A wave of power, far more overbearing than the one summoned by alaya, erupted from within him!
That was not magical energy, nor was it the mystery of this world.
That was a suppression from a higher dimension, a forced rewriting of the world's rules by [Imaginary Divine Power]!
"I said... quiet."
Hansen gently clenched his hand in the void.
There were no earth-shattering explosions, nor any dazzling clashes of light and shadow.
It was merely a thought.
Those aggressive projections of Grand Servants, which had been charging over, were frozen in mid-air instantly, as if a pause button had been pressed on a videotape.
Immediately after—
Pop.
Just like a soap bubble bursting.
All the Servant projections, along with alaya's terrifying killing intent, turned into particles of light filling the sky in that instant, dissipating without a trace.
"...Eh?!"
alaya's ruby-like eyes widened in shock, her mouth agape enough to fit an egg.
The stock of Servants she had painstakingly accumulated... *pop*... just like that, they were gone?
Not even a single ripple was created!!
This isn't scientific!
This is even less magical!
Before the little girl could react, her vision blurred.
That tall figure had instantly crossed the distance of space and appeared before her.
"You... don't come over!!" alaya floated backward in fright, hugging her chest, but she couldn't help but bare her teeth.
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However, Hansen did not attack her.
He merely extended a large, warm palm and gently placed it on alaya's silver-white head.
Then, he petted her.
"Feels nice, quite smooth."
While rubbing alaya's hair, messing up her exquisite hairstyle into a bird's nest, Hansen turned his head to look at the other side.
On the other side, the blue-haired little girl gaia was staring with her big, watery eyes, curiously sizing up Hansen.
Unlike the hostility from alaya, gaia, as the planet's consciousness, was twitching her little nose, sniffing the air like a puppy.
"Hmm...?"
gaia tilted her head, and the few strands of smooth, seaweed-like ahoge on top of her head swayed.
On Hansen, she smelled something that made her feel incredibly close, incredibly at ease, and even... made her drool.
That was the Earth authority brought by [Primal Monster], the affinity with the earth granted by [Underground Sovereignty], and even more so, the natural intimacy of a gaia Angel toward the Earth's deity.
"So fragrant..."
gaia muttered to herself, a trace of crystalline drool even leaking from the corner of her mouth.
The next second, under the stunned gaze of alaya, who looked as if she were thinking, "What are you doing, you traitor," gaia lunged forward!
Splat.
The blue-haired little girl, like a koala, hugged Hansen's leg directly, rubbing against it while emitting comfortable purring sounds.
"Big brother... you have the scent of a planet on you..."
"And... you are even stronger than me..."
gaia looked up, her golden eyes filled with longing: "Big brother, hungry, want food..."
Hansen: "..."
The girls: "..."
Watching this scene, Hansen was also somewhat amused and helpless.
He had originally prepared a combo to deal with these two world-class squatters, but he didn't expect one to be subdued by a head pat, and the other to simply give up.
Just as Hansen's palms touched gaia and alaya, the long-lost system notification sound rang crisply in his mind.
[Ding! Contact made with replicable target [Counter Force · alaya]!]
[Ability 1: [Primate Defense Line (UR)]: Automatically marks and erases all major threats that could lead to the extinction of human history, isolates and eliminates abnormal timelines that deviate from the main trunk, and serves as an absolute barrier to protect the survival of civilization.]
[Ability 2: [Heroic Spirit Summoning (UR)]: Elevates the concepts of heroes born throughout human history into [Heroic Spirits], incorporates them into the [Throne of Heroes] located outside the world, and allows them to respond to summons and manifest to eliminate enemies of civilization.]
[Ability 3: [Agent of Human Order (UR)]: Bestows power and mission upon specific individuals, making them agents of civilization's will, and grants them the authority and power to interfere with reality.]
[Ability 4: [Time Overwrite (UR)]: When civilization faces unavoidable destruction, uses multiple parallel worlds as material to overwrite the current world's basic rules and historical progression, reweaving a new reality that meets the needs of survival.]
[Ding! Contact made with replicable target [Counter Force · gaia]!]
[Ability 1: [Planetary Iron Law (UR)]: The absolute law that maintains the planet's ecological cycle, indiscriminately repelling and erasing all foreign objects that damage the planet's essence and balance.]
[Ability 2: [Natural Authority (UR)]: Freely controls the planet's life energy and all natural phenomena; the manifestation of this power is the ultimate form of natural disaster.]
[Ability 3: [Earth Tactile (UR)]: Grants a portion of the planet's will and authority to specific vessels, making them agents of nature.]
[Ability 4: [Planetary Reincarnation (UR)]: Initiated when the planetary ecosystem is on the verge of collapse due to internal civilization or external threats, it forcibly resets the surface civilization and the threats together, returning the planet to its primitive state to await a new cycle of life.]
[Copying abilities...]
[...]
[Ding! Copied abilities [Primate Defense Line (UR)]... [Planetary Reincarnation (UR)] have reached max level, integrated into the main body as inherent abilities, freeing up ability slots!]
[Current used ability slots: 0 / 30.]
As the system notification faded, Hansen, like a hacker who had successfully registered backend permissions after invading a server, clearly saw the world's veins hidden beneath the Root.
The tangled, root-like lines of causality, the torrents of magical energy flowing through the planet's ley lines, the countless coordinates of Heroic Spirits engraved in the long river of human history...
Everything, absolutely everything, opened its doors to him at this moment.
"As expected of the two Counter Forces, the abilities start at UR rank; this haul... is a massive profit!"
Feeling the vast power within his body that seemed connected to the entire world, he couldn't help but silently give a thumbs up to the two little girls in his hands.
Right now, in this world full of cheaters, he was the biggest one of them all...
An admin privilege holder.
He withdrew his thoughts and looked down at gaia, who was still rubbing against his leg, and at alaya, who was still struggling tsundere-style under his hand but dared not resist.
"Alright, stop rubbing, you're getting drool all over my pants."
Hansen released a tiny bit of the planetary energy within his body.
Even just a sliver of the pure energy that leaked out was, for gaia who was composed of energy, the ultimate delicious feast.
"Wawu!" gaia let out a happy whimper, jumped up directly, and buried her face into Hansen's chest, inhaling deeply as if she were an addict.
—Hey! Have a little dignity!
—You are the planet's consciousness!
—Where is your dignity?!
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