Blade of Freedom

Gravity returns to emptiness!

Without any hesitation, Li Aoz removed the gravity from his body and immediately plummeted into the air. With a slight guidance, he slammed his body towards Yin Shuya.

"It's not over yet!"

Yin Shuya pulled out a large-caliber hand cannon, pulled the trigger in reverse, and used the explosive propellant gas to quickly change her body shape, brushing past Li Aoz. She then pulled out a bazooka from behind her back and instantly fired at Li Aoz.

Boom! Like a sea petrel, Li Aoz tumbled through the air, then immediately moved against the current, using gravity to pull the fallen Passing Shadow Edge into his hand. He raised his arm, enduring Yin Shuya's firepower, while reapplying [Sever Life] and [Death Link] to her, and swiftly slashed the sword across his forearm.

Death Transfer!

The radiation's sharp edge quickly spread the damage to Li Aoz's entire forearm, causing massive cell necrosis, the death of white blood cells, and a near-complete halt to metabolism.

At the same moment, Yin Shuya, who was still unleashing a barrage of firepower in the air, suddenly twitched her left arm, the radiation damage directly destroying the nerves in her arm.

"--Oops!"

Before she could regain her balance, the red and black figure of the Overlord had already appeared before her chin.

Then, Yin Shuya heard a whisper that seemed to From the Abyss:

"I'm here!"

With a whoosh, Li Aoz instantly circled behind her, his Tachi swirling with a purplish-black aura and emitting a clear sword cry as it sliced across Yin Shuya's carotid artery.

[Item Name]: Tsu・Shadow Edge

[Attributes]: Damage +70 (Sharpness attribute), Spell Damage +90% [Primary Attribute Values] (Spell Attribute - Radiation) Sharpness: Deals at least 140 additional physical damage to unarmored targets.

Radiation: Radiation damage ignores physical armor and magic defense, directly causing continuous True Damage (radiation damage can only be absorbed by specific items).

[Tachi Exclusive]: Critical hit damage +150%, making combo attacks easier and allowing you to quickly pass through the enemy's body, causing a 'severing limb' effect.

When wielding the main weapon, Tsu・Shadow Edge increases attack speed by 12% with each attack. After 7 attacks, the attack speed cap is unlocked, and the user is in a 'super armor' state while attacking, preventing combo skills from being interrupted.

Crack! The next moment, Li Aoz accelerated again and slashed her arm with his knife.

"Ah!"

Yin Shuya screamed. She no longer had time to maintain her posture in the air. She simply raised her other hand, trying to catch the afterimage left by Li Aoz's rapid flight.

Like a phantom butterfly, it danced wildly, trailing in continuous motions. Blue flashes of light constantly appeared at the muzzle of the gun, but the bullets could not stop Li Aoz from flying towards her from below again.

[Description]: "The Shadow Blade has no light, yet it devours lives and souls."

The Tsu・Shadow Edge, a demonic blade that suddenly appeared in history at some unknown time. The one who forged it died under heavenly lightning, which was perhaps a kind of luck.

It is incredibly sharp, yet so lonely, madly pursuing death until it finds peace, arrogantly chasing after it.

Legend has it that a powerful hero used it to cut down heavenly lightning, but was ultimately devoured by the demonic sword and died in despair.

This cursed blade, accumulated over countless years, has lost its demonic spirit. The only constant is its irrational thirst for slaughter, a desire that will inevitably destroy its wielder sooner or later.

Now, do you have the courage to associate with the devil?

Whoosh! Blood splattered from his left thigh, spraying outwards. Li Aoz's technique was steady; each time, the blade precisely targeted the weakest point of the joint, the sharp blade cleanly tearing away blood vessels and bones, and swiftly and neatly scraping away the membranes and flesh along the ankle bone.

The excruciating pain completely shattered Yin Shuya's nerve threshold. She fell numbly, raising her gun and chasing after Li Aoz's figure.

She kept her guns close to Li Aoz's body with every shot, but the radiation damage affected her reflexes.

It's always just a hair's breadth away, but even the slightest deviation in a bullet fired at six times the speed of sound can result in a deviation of hundreds of meters.

Blade length: 108 cm Net weight: 2.9 kg Material: Alien alloy (Wester Radiation Ore)

Sharpness modifier: 60 (Gain 60 base damage for every 1% increase in sharpness, up to a maximum of 240). Those who came before you used it to leave a bad name, now it is your turn to write a new legend.

[Equipment Requirements]: [Strength]-10 [Dexterity]-20 [Constitution]-22 Special Note: Holding this weapon will result in continuous exposure to high-intensity radiation, reducing lifespan by 5 years every 10 natural days.

[Sword Equipment Consciousness]: Not Awakened

With a thud, Li Aoz transformed into a phantom, twisting and turning strangely in the air, then making a sharp, angular maneuver. With both hands wielding the knife, he instantly pierced through Yin Shuya's head, slamming her to the ground.

Boom! As the dust settled, Yin Shuya's entire upper body exploded, her spine embedded firmly in the soil like a tombstone.

Li Aoz lightly brandished his Tachi, yet the sharp blade remained unstained by blood from beginning to end.

After solving the other Gamma-rank, Li Aoz showed no joy whatsoever.

The Heavenly Ring People value individual combat prowess, and their cryogenic storage likely contains several sealed Gamma-rank weapons that are still usable.

The total number of Gamma-rank globally remains below 10, but that's during peacetime; the Red Arrow Empire didn't even have a single Gamma-rank satellite during peacetime.

If the Heavenly Ring People really go berserk, Li Aoz believes that with the resources of the Four Nations, it's not impossible for the Sky Ring to unfreeze eight Gamma-rank on the spot and fight them to the death.

He quickly disengaged from the battle, and his body began to rapidly recover Aoneng and health. One major problem with the Bloodfiend Style is that it has little effect on mechanical units, making it somewhat troublesome when chased by them.

However, [Gravity] and [Natural Ignition] are quite effective against machines.

"We need to hurry back and grab the Hydrogen Bomb."

In Li Aoz's rest area, the regular forces of Sky Ring locked onto him again, with rocket launchers, Self-Propelled Artillery, tanks, Mobile Armor, drones, and heavy bombers taking turns to attack. Various monsters and ghosts also emerged on the ground, and they began to carpet bomb him.

Li Aoz dared not linger and immediately went into stealth mode, flying close to the ground to avoid radar detection, and quickly headed towards the Beitiao Building in the city of Qiongan Capital.

Li Aoz couldn't help but sigh that his previous good luck had basically run out, and his luck was getting worse and worse. Not long after he started flying, he was once again detected by the Great Onmyoji's spiritual senses.

Boom!

A building was lifted up on the spot and carried on the shoulder of a huge, crimson monster, which had two horns on its head, tusks like wild boars in its mouth, terrifying eyes, and an aura of dominance.

"Hey, human, this route is guarded by me, don't even think about passing!"

The enormous monster blocked Li Aoz's path, its towering body, tens of meters high, standing majestically in the city streets, like a skyline, insurmountable.

Li Aoz tried to break through, but he soon crashed into an invisible wall.

"A barrier?"

Li Aoz was having a bit of a headache with this thing; he didn't want to waste time fighting a monster of this level.

However, it seems now that a fight is inevitable.

Li Aoz held sharp blades in both hands, floated in the air, and turned to look at the great monster.

"Heh heh, finally realized it? That old Abe gave me his kidneys. If you want to get over here, you'll have to fight me!"

Li Aoz, too lazy to waste words, crossed his twin swords, his eyes flashing with a rapid change of color: "Six-in-One・Morphed— "

Smash!

Before he could finish speaking, the barrier in the sky shattered instantly, like glass! "Huh?!"

Li Aoz surprised.

The next moment, the giant monster with crimson horns was instantly struck on the head by the huge white figure falling from the sky, and its body tilted back as it crashed to the ground.

"Who goes there?! How dare you launch a sneak attack on the great demon Shuten!"

The great monster, lying face up, angrily raised its head, only to see the dark muzzle of a Magnum gun pointed at its head.

"What's this--"

A dark red light gradually brightened, the air grew increasingly hot, and high-energy particles were continuously charged and accelerated in the magnetic coil, causing the great monster to unconsciously squint its eyes.

[Blast Magnum Charge] "... Mouldy Crotch?"

The pale Mobile Armor ignored it, silently pulling the trigger.

Whoosh—Bang!

The scorching rays instantly pierced and melted the giant monster, which was tens of meters tall. Its body crumbled under the high temperature and immediately disintegrated into a pool of spiritual ashes, which were scattered by the wind and splashed a dark storm in the air.

Amid the storm, a 20-meter-tall humanoid Mobile Armor stood firmly on the ground.