The Secret of the Blood Collector

(Harry thought the match in the video was ridiculously absurd.)

(He had also spent time in the Starry World and studied physics after returning.)

(He encountered Positron Cannon in just one match!)

(This is not a simple electromagnetic weapon, but a high-tech weapon that annihilates antimatter.)

(Simply put, Positron Cannon is like throwing antimatter at your face, Oblivion and releasing energy.)

(This is something that nuclear fission and fusion weapons cannot match; at least for the same unit mass, antimatter weapons are far superior.)

(This particle cannon, which utilizes antimatter particles such as positrons and antiprotons, destroys the enemy by using the high energy of the annihilation of matter and antimatter. Even if it hits the air, it will cause annihilation, thus destroying itself and friendly forces. It is a weapon that can only be used in a vacuum.)

(And now it's launched from within the atmosphere, only a kilometer from the starting line.)

(The user did not create vacuum channels to restrain the particles, nor did he launch the entire antimatter restraint device, that is, launch antimatter in the form of Negasonic Teenage Warhead, nor did he use the Soul of the Car Power to restrain or protect them. Instead, he directly turned himself and the vehicle into part of the destruction.)

(In comparison, the yield shown in Ron's footage is clearly extraordinary. Under normal circumstances, it could create a fireball with a radius of 4.6 kilometers, produce a mushroom cloud 40 kilometers wide and 8 times the height of Mount Everest, generate hot winds that could cause third-degree burns to people 51 kilometers away, and the flash of the explosion could cause severe pain, burns, cataracts, and blindness to people 43 kilometers away. The electromagnetic disturbances could circle the Earth three times, making it a nuclear bomb like Tsar Bomba.)

(It's just a minor issue.)

(The blizzards that can freeze a person instantly in Magneto's territory, and the massive meteorites that can cause an entire city to collapse in Susan's territory, are nothing compared to this.)

Having nearly Reducto, Ron managed to buy himself some time thanks to the 2.0 version of the force field with the Sealing Technique rune, and by becoming one with the vehicle in time. However, Ron doesn't think so.

He considered himself the unluckiest one.

The swampy area, which served as both a trap and an energy reserve, had disappeared. The toxic gas it emitted was purified by the high temperature. With the Soul of the Car Power being used to protect itself, even with the driver and vehicle as one, the vehicle's speed was extremely slow, only about three times the speed of Firebolt, at just over 700 kilometers per hour.

It's only a little over 100 kilometers per minute.

Keep in mind that even before they had received any training, these newly-minted drivers were already traveling at a speed of approximately 666 kilometers per minute.

11.1 kilometers per second.

After acquiring the [Soul Fragment], he felt nearly a hundred times stronger than before.

In addition, the increased utilization rate comes from mastering one's signature driving skills.

And it now also has a [Black Hole Engine] that allows the car to travel at near the speed of light.

If this 910,000-kilometer track didn't have harsh conditions and the suppression of Dash, it could be completed in less than a second at full speed.

Now, his speed is only about 2 kilometers per second.

This is equivalent to a speed reduction of approximately 450,000 times.

This is outrageous.

Little did Susan know that she found it even more outrageous.

She did not recognize that what appeared before her was Positron Cannon.

But the fact that she had already left this space, yet still appeared for a moment, and that the accelerator was smoking, and that the car had only just exceeded the speed of sound, seemed absurd to her.

But what she found even more absurd was that the car driven by the driver next to her, that incredibly simple and primitive-looking vehicle, did not slow down at all during the explosion, but instead sped up and disappeared before her eyes.

Charge toward the location of the Ancient Driver.

"[SUPER AVANTTE], and this number 1, that's right, this is [Super Vanguard]!"

"The first mini 4WD track car, the ancestor of all mini racing cars! [Super Vanguard]!"

The voice of the Dash answered Susan's question.

Dr. Ogami once said that only the oldest and closest to the original Soul of the Car is the most powerful.

This power comes from the Soul of the Car Power, something that cannot be achieved through technological modifications.

The answer to why it performed so well has been found.

"[Super Vanguard]?" Magneto, who was at the front of the group and had already reached the stratosphere, recalled the car that had just passed him.

But he only recalled it for a moment before forgetting it.

His attention was now focused on the 'Blood Collector' running ahead, the bald boy.

Using magnetic field sensing to capture everything about him.

Because he was actually laughing.

Despite being a victim who could not live forever and was destined to experience birth, aging, sickness, and death like ordinary people, he was still smiling.

This was completely different from the drivers he had ever seen.

They are more interested in victory, glory, or other uses.

But he was enjoying the race, treating it like a game, and his smile didn't fade even when he was overtaken by a Star Horse Clan racer.

In his small world, it seemed as if only the car and himself remained.

His magnetic field appeared on the car.

His body was covered with armor similar to the shell of his car.

"Is this what true man-machine integration is?" Magneto couldn't help but ask.

"Maybe?" the bald boy replied nonchalantly. "All I know is that the [Dawn] is running happily. Listen, the sound of its engine, it's laughing."

"I can only tell that your car isn't performing at its full potential. You're running at a low speed. Why?" Magneto asked, puzzled. "I know who you are and what your job is. Why aren't you in the lead group like your comrades, following closely behind those ancient drivers?"

"[Dawn] likes this," the bald boy glanced at Magneto for a moment, "I know you too. My father told me that you are the host of the Carrow, the next Dancer of Death, Erik Lehnsherr."

"And I'm at work."

"Look, the [Dawn] has found its friend, oh, it's the [Black War God]."

"Friends?" Magneto looked around the Dawn and, through various means, found nothing.

He had no doubt about who his father was; the 'Blood Collector' were all artificial humans.

My father is either Dr. Tsuchiya or Dr. Ogami.

"You're all missing something," the bald boy said.

"The original name of the mini racing car was Mini Track 4WD, which did not contain the element of 'race' or 'competition'."

"It is a friend to children, a companion that makes adults put down their burdens and laugh out loud, and a good teacher and friend that inspires creativity and imagination."

"Erik, you have to realize this, realize the spirit of a real mini 4WD track car."

"Not just for victory."

"No victory?" Magneto asked, puzzled. "Then what's the point of our current match?"

The bald boy flashed a bright smile. "Do you need it? Are you happy right now? As a car, feeling the Soul of the Car Power flowing, the roar of the engine?"

"Is this why you can act as 'Blood Collector'?" Magneto asked.

He roughly understood how the 'Blood Collector' 'collects blood'.

A resonance of passionate hearts.

Even after billions of years, the passion for cars still lingers deep in the hearts of the ancient racers.

They were led out.

"Looks like you understand," the bald boy said.

"But what you're talking about is by no means the only way to achieve perfect harmony between driver and car," Magneto said. "The Soul of the Car is like a mirror, reflecting our true selves. A competitive driver's car is just as competitive."

"[Dawn] likes to run slowly, isn't that because of you?"

"Perhaps you yourself are the origin of everything."

"Maybe?" The bald boy shrugged nonchalantly.

He and the Dawn slowed down further, and the Nick, possessed by Magneto, easily overtook them.

We have now reached the middle layer.

Temperature increases with altitude, air thins, and the area where the meteor burns up completely.

Magneto was not pleased in the slightest.

He was recalling the bald boy's words.

He was reminiscing about his own past.

He recalled everything he had learned about Carrow from Tsuchiya and Dr. Ogami.

A driver who escapes a life of scavenging for food in the garbage by using a mini 4WD track car, considers the "Divine Sword" his everything, hates failure, sees failure as death, and fights with everything he can to win.

"You absolutely don't want to lose, do you?" Magneto detached from the vehicle, his eyes fixed on it, completely ignoring the decreasing speed. "[Divine Sword]."

The scarlet arc-like markings on the car body glowed.

"Do you know the meaning of your original name, Nick? It represents victory!"

"Charge! [Nick]!"

Magneto's body was now covered in a full suit of silver-gray armor with scarlet markings.

Then he transformed back into crimson lightning and disappeared into it.

Boom!

The entire car transformed into a crimson streak of light and shadow.

It knocked over the car in front of it, causing it to flip over.

"Too fast, too fast, too fast!"

"Erik and his 'Nick' transformed into a red lightning bolt, instantly arriving at the vanguard!"

"Connecting with the progenitor of mini track 4WD cars, the Super Vanguard."

The words of the Dash made Susan and her two companions, who were still in the middle to late stages, look up in shock.

"What?"

What happened to him?

"What is going on?"

At this moment, all three of them entered a state of perfect harmony with the vehicle.

Katy's "Fairy" rose straight up the tower, passing through racetracks.

He was the first of the three, having already reached the latter half of the stratosphere.

Susan's "Moon God" was hidden within the barrier, moving along the racetrack like a ghost car, its movements unnoticed by anyone.

After escaping the area bombarded by the Positron Cannon, she no longer merely exceeded the speed of sound, but rather a paltry speed of just over 340 meters per second.

She's now slightly faster Ron, also in the stratosphere, but closer to the troposphere.

Ron, however, is still in the troposphere.

"I can't dawdle any longer," Ron said.

There are no more vehicles launching an attack now.

After determining that the remaining vehicles could no longer be eliminated by simple attack methods.

They are all constantly squeezing out the Soul of the Car Power and converting it into speed.

The same goes for Ron.

The swamp left by his car's renewed secretions was no longer able to cause effective damage to the remaining vehicles running on it.

The released toxic gas had no effect on the drivers, acting like a gentle breeze.

"It's time."

The boiling green toxic fog began to contract, spraying out like a jet engine towards the back of the vehicle.

A vast expanse of green along the racetrack began to disappear at a visible rate.

Green energy cannons began to condense at the tail of the [Green Spider].

Bang--

The aftershocks reached a massive energy column, several kilometers away, that shot backward!

The Green Spider's speed increased dramatically, turning into a blur in the eyes of the other drivers beside it.

"Ron?" Susan, who was ahead, had already sensed Ron's Chakra aura.

(While Ron was constantly unleashing energy cannons to accelerate and compete with the invisible Susan for third place among the Champion, Ginny, feeling bored, asked Harry a question, "The slowest of these cars right now isn't even Mach 10—it's less than 3.4 kilometers per second.")

("Didn't you say that to escape Earth, you have to be faster than the first cosmic velocity? 7.9 kilometers per second.")

("I did say that," Harry nodded, "But that was only in terms of pure speed. Wizards' flight, and the means by which these drivers move forward and upward, cannot be explored in terms of pure speed.")

("As long as gravity is overcome by some method, it is possible to leave Earth without reaching escape velocity.")

("It's like Space Elevator.")

("Whether it's the first cosmic velocity or the second cosmic velocity, both refer to speed under unpowered conditions. With power, even if a spacecraft's speed is very slow and it doesn't reach the first cosmic velocity, it can still orbit the Earth, as long as it can overcome gravity.")

("Furthermore, the way these drivers and cars move upwards defies the logic of nature; it's as if they're being supported by the Soul of the Car Power.")

Magneto doesn't need to think about these issues right now.

Because his speed has reached 16.7 kilometers per second, the third cosmic velocity, which is the speed at which he can escape the gravitational pull of the sun and leave the Solar System to enter the vast Zeus Space without further acceleration.

Although it would take 15 hours to cover 910,000 kilometers at this speed, that's assuming the entire track is flat. In reality, they are currently in the most difficult first half of the track—the phase of escaping Earth's gravity.

This is completely different from traveling on flat ground. The racetrack, which resembles Space Elevator, becomes increasingly harsh as you go higher.

Although gravity weakens, the Soul of the Car Power is needed to resist the adverse effects.

They will only avoid this situation in the latter half of their journey, when they reach space, orbit the moon, and enter the acceleration phase of their straight descent from Earth.

They have now reached the ionosphere, also known as the thermosphere.

The air here is ionized by Cosmic Rays, and the temperature increases with altitude.

But for Magneto, this was actually an extra bonus.

The weakness caused by being far removed from the Dadi's magnetic field is compensated by Cosmic Rays.

He now pursues victory, but also enjoys the game itself.

At his current speed, he can escape the ionosphere in just 42 seconds.

Therefore, he now even has the leisure to communicate with the driver who possesses the Soul of the Car.

It consumes additional Soul of the Car Power to ensure accurate sound transmission.

What is your name?

"This appears to be your first appearance."

"The surprise in the Dash's voice was not feigned."

The driver didn't reply; his expression was completely silent, like a cold machine.

But his eyes were incredibly ardent.

They were fully enjoying the game itself.

This is the complete opposite of the outwardly hot but inwardly cold state of drivers from ancient times.