The Manghai Catastrophe

The year 2024, Black York City, Manghai Tower.

The Manghai Tower. The tallest tower in the modern world with a shocking height of nearly 1000m. Built with never-before-seen technology and cutting-edge security system. This very tower is one of the most important buildings in the world.

It poses as a trading center, and the top floors are the homes of many world leaders and billionaires. One might think that focusing such power and wealth in one place is foolish, but it's not when we talk about the Manghai Tower! This tower successfully evaded five terrorist attacks and countless cyber-attacks.

Its military strength is comparable to a wealthy country due to the sponsorship of the world's richest tenants. The biggest money transfers, the most important decisions, and the biggest information market in one place. This is the Manghai Tower. The biggest information haven in the world, only available to the very top!

Saying that an atomic bomb can't leave a scratch on this place would be no exaggeration! It is said that even the smallest fly can't escape unscathed once it harms the mysterious residents of this tower. Thus, no wonder that the world is in chaos, now that this very tower is in complete ruins!

On this day, the world's safest place got destroyed by one person. At the same time, hundreds of millions lost their money, global inflation reached record heights, and the flames of anarchy got reignited. The world got thrown into chaos, and modern society collapsed. The destruction of the Manghai Tower caused disasters that not even the top experts were able to predict.

All of this was engineered by one person! This event will be remembered as the legendary Manghai Catastrophe. The year when humanity almost ceased to exist as a race! Hundreds of millions of casualties and all of this will be linked to one name, Noah Reiner. The perpetrator of the Manghai catastrophe, the most notorious criminal in the world!

His name will go down in history as a symbol of fear and the enemy of humanity. Various religious texts will remember this name as the sole harbinger of the apocalypse! Millions of cultists will worship him as the demon god. Centuries later, parents will use his name as a scare tactic to make their kids behave.

Behave properly, or else Noah will take you away. That is what they would say, not knowing that Noah was once a living person! But what about Noah himself? What was his motive? What is his origin?

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The year 2024, Black York City, Manghai Tower after its destruction.

Amongst the ruins of the Manghai Tower, on top of a ruined and cracked white marble pillar. There sat a teenager around the age of 20. His natural silver-colored hair paired with his silver eyes and black clothes made him look like a troublemaker, and the silver ear piercings only further strengthened this image.

Currently, this man was surrounded by five military helicopters, yet one couldn't help but think that the situation was not that dangerous, seeing that the target himself sat there with a leisure smile on his face. This man was none other than Noah Reiner! Noah slowly stood up and waved his hand as he started speaking in a mocking tone.

"Hmm? Whose orders are you even following? I'm sure that I killed the captain."

"Orders? Do you think we need orders? Look around you! Do you think we need an order to kill you?!" Shouted the leader of the helicopters through the megaphone, seeing that Noah acted as if his life wasn't in danger.

"No? I was just surprised that you all made such a stupid decision on your own. I collapsed the world's safest building all by myself and turned the world upside down. Did you think that I wouldn't think about the military helicopters that were a part of the security?"

Said Noah as he snapped his fingers. In the next second, the five military helicopters blew up almost at the same time. "That's what I call the perfect firework."

The torn-off head of the team leader stopped before his feet as he was about to leave the scene. Noah stopped for a second and picked up the head with a wide smirk on his face.

He looked at the torn-off head, which perfectly captured the last moments of the terrified team leader. Shock, horror, and the instance of realization are all captured in a single moment. Noah put down the head and rolled it over to the scattered body parts of his subordinates.

"He must've had a million thoughts at that moment." Mumbled Noah with a nostalgic voice.