“How…?” Allforone’s voice, which had previously been transmitted in a multidirectional fashion, became like any other player’s voice.

Seeing Allforone’s expression of disbelief, Yeon-woo unwittingly burst out into laughter. “Don’t you know? System operators are no match for hackers.”

[System functions have been paralyzed by an unknown force!]

[Another unknown force has hacked the central information processing unit, causing huge disruption in the decoding of commands!]

[The entire system is down!]

The first unknown force applied to the Tower’s system was the Yang Sword, and the second was the Yin Sword. 

The Yang Sword was the process of fitting one into the framework of the world, so Scythe was adapted to become a part of the Tower system’s world. Essentially, Scythe acted like a Trojan horse virus. The Yin Sword forcibly influenced the framework of the world, imposing ‘one’ onto the framework. It took the role of forcibly hacking into the Tower’s system. These two approaches allowed Yeon-woo to squeeze into the system’s processes and cut everything off from within.

[The ninth-level firewall has been disabled!]

[The ninth level vaccine has been canceled!]

…

[All defenses are gone.]

[The operating system has been stopped.]

[All command functions recorded into the system have been...