Midnight Slaughter

**Midnight Slaughter** is a solo Insane Demon, created, verified, and published by **AtomicC**, which, as of May 18th, 2022, resides on the ACOld account. It was uploaded on August 29th, 2020, and was rated 30 minutes later that night. Midnight Slaughter is heavily inspired by Dance Massacre by Hinds, using a purple colour palette as supposed to a red and orange one, with similarly structured parts, similar block designs, and an almost identical layout.

## Gameplay

0-22%

The level begins with a 1x speed mini icon part, with a black background colour with columnar structures, consisting of the "real" blocks the player is intended to land on, made with light purple shaded blocks, and the "fake blocks the player is supposed to avoid, made with transparent solid colour blocks, topped with spikes. Other elements of memory include fake orbs, custom orbs which make certain objects appear and disappear, and a single moving structure at 6%. Some other details of this part include glow on the sides of some of the structures, connector pieces between some structures, and a background effect of connector pieces that bounce up and down. At 11%, the player enters a ship portal, with square structures and moving spike corridors, with metal blocks as decoration, and thick connector pieces made with 3d blocks and coloured blocks. It's possible to obtain a coin at 16%, by flying under some of the blocks, and then flying back up into the original path.

22-58%

The predrop ends with a short 0.5x speed icon part, with a single structure, and a double spike jump, with text above that reads "The Man Behind The Slaughter!". at 24%, the background colour fades to purple the player enters a 3x speed ball part, with similar metal block design as before, and a ground spike effect made with transparent columns that bounce up and down to the music, alongside the background occasionally pulsing pink. at 41%, the player enters a normal-sized icon section, with sloped structures, made with brick slopes and metal slopes, and occasionally topped with orbs. This part uses black clouds for air decoration, alongside glow pillars make of brick blocks.

58-71%

The player goes through a short auto with gravity portals, before entering a 2x speed wave part, and the background colour turns black. This part has generic sloped structures, made with coloured brick blocks and spinning wheels, and pulsing squares as air decoration. The player enters an 3x speed icon portal, followed by a short auto section with gravity portals, as the background fades to purple again. It's possible to get a coin at 71%, by landing on the block underneath the icon portal, and jumping off of it to skip the gravity portals, and reach an invisible block platform.

71-85%

The player enters a 2x speed ufo part, as the background colour becomes dimmer, and the structuring changes to coloured bricks, covered with ground spikes.. At 78%, the background colour fades to black, and the player enters a mini ball part, with horizontal platforms, decorated with glow beams, with spikes on them, along with purple clouds as air decoration. At 84%, the background colour changes to a light purple, and the player enters a short ground spike corridor with a ship portal, with two exclamation marks, and text reading "Final Part!".

85-100%

The player enters a 1x speed robot, with a moving background effect make from coloured brick block pillars, covered in chains. This is the only part in the level to utilise ground colour, with both ground types becoming purple. this part has block design of coloured brick blocks and glow, and solid black spikes. It's possible to obtain a coin at 95%, by falling onto the spikes underneath the platform, and jumping off of the invisible block placed on top of it. At 96%, the level fades to black completely.

## Trivia

* The level is free to copy
* The level contains 18,841 objects.
* The level is 1 minute and 7 seconds long, becoming AtomicC's first Long level on Cycron.
* Before the Great Cycron Purge, this level's ID was 52.
* On February 12th, 2021, it was placed at #5 on the Cycron Demonlist.
* Midnight Slaughter was the last level to be recovered from the Great Cycron Purge, re-uploaded by FancyFarux.
* Upon its release, before the creation of the official Cycron Demonlist, and as a result of Mouthsmasher by FancyFarux being briefly unrated due to being illegitimately verified, Midnight Slaughter was considered the hardest demon on Cycron from its release on August 29th, 2020, until the release of PIZZA TIME by 99percent on October 11th, 2020.