The Fourth Anvil: Unearthing Proto Man’s Rock Crusher Revelation
Within the meticulously documented annals of Dr. Light’s Robot Master designs, the lineage of earth-shattering power is clear: Guts Man pioneered brute force excavation, Stone Man refined mineral manipulation, and Concrete Man mastered urban demolition. Yet persistent whispers among archivists and battle-scarred veterans point towards something more – a phantom blueprint, a theoretical evolution deemed too volatile even by Light’s innovative standards: the Fourth Rock Crusher Machine.
It wasn’t the polished halls of Light Labs where this shadowy clue surfaced, but within the pragmatic, often clandestine operations of Proto Man’s independent unit. Tasked with neutralizing a rogue mining operation exploiting unstable geothermal vents deep within an uncharted tectonic plate boundary, Proto Man’s team encountered destruction patterns that defied conventional analysis.
The devastation wasn’t merely structural collapse; entire sections of ultra-dense volcanic basalt appeared pulverized into near-molecular dust fields, exhibiting heat signatures inconsistent with known plasma weaponry or standard demolition charges. Residual energy scans revealed exotic particle decay traces Light Labs had only theorized – traces faintly echoed in Stone Man’s mineral disruption wave technology but amplified exponentially.
The Clue Emerges:
During recovery operations amidst the hazardous debris field, Proto Man’s sensor specialist detected anomalous data fragments embedded within slagged circuitry – corrupted designator logs bearing Light Labs’ encryption protocols but missing from any official registry. Painstaking reconstruction revealed partial schematics:
1. “Project Anvil”: The internal designation.
2. Hyper-Kinetic Disruptor Core: A power source dwarfing its predecessors’ output, designed not just to crush matter but to destabilize its atomic lattice through controlled resonance cascades.
3. Geothermal Tap Integration: Schematics indicated direct harnessing of subterranean heat and pressure as auxiliary power/weapon modifiers – explaining the unique thermal residue.
4. Adaptive Mass Driver: Unlike Guts Dozer arms or Concrete Shot impacts, preliminary sketches suggested limbs capable of projecting focused kinetic pulses through solid earth or rapidly adapting frequency outputs to shatter specific mineral compositions on contact.
Why “Anvil” Was Shelved:
Proto Man’s analysis pointed towards inherent instability as the core reason for abandonment:
Uncontrolled Resonance: Early simulations likely predicted catastrophic chain reactions if the Disruptor Core malfunctioned – potentially destabilizing geological strata over vast areas.
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