Lava City.
"The Astronomer," Arkan Land, radiated an illusory, glittering starfield that slowly revolved around him.
The crackling explosions within Magos Polk's body abruptly ceased, and her trembling form gradually calmed.
Black smoke rose from the serpentine sensor behind Remial's head, while a string of electrical sparks burst from her raised arm.
A beam of light shot from "The Astronomer" Arkan's eyes and swiftly swept through the False Astrology.
Streams of illusory light converged, and in an instant, the original beam condensed into a sharp blade.
Remial activated her Magnetic Gravity Thrusters to evade it.
Crackle—
After a string of explosive pops erupted from the Magnetic Gravity Thrusters in her modified legs, they suddenly went offline.
My legs have been demagnetized.
Bang!
Heavy footsteps rang out as Photicodia of House Taranis charged out from the city in the Ares.
The Aegitos War Knight followed closely behind him.
Its mechanical feet smashed into the ground as the Ares suddenly came to a halt.
Ma Zhi hurriedly clenched his Touch Glove and shoved it sharply to the right, barely avoiding a collision with the mechanical body of the lord commander.
Amid the trembling of the ground, Quamar Argos of the Exom Macro-Clade walked past the Knight Mech.
The Archmagos Dominus stared fixedly at Arkan. His motion and stillness sensors activated, flashing with a mingling of red and green light.
His fully sanctified body gripped a Magos Staff and a Power Axe as the War Engine rapidly analyzed every piece of information it captured.
Countless questions arose, and some were answered.
Others spawned even more questions, tightly entwining around the central issue:
How had Arkan Land's flesh-and-blood body defeated a Mechanic Assassin?
Koriel Zeth, the Great Sage and ruler of Lava City, stared at Arkan as though she were seeing the renowned Great