Guiding Light of 145

Boom!

The massive Mobile Armor, "Future Watch," erupted in powerful flames, propelling itself rapidly into the dark sky with overwhelming force and momentum.

Gravity - Zero Gravity - allowed the [Future Watch] to immediately break free from the shackles of Earth's gravity. It proudly raised its head, like a sharp sword, and bravely advanced towards the sky full of red and black Malefic Calamity.

Whoosh! The blades of the Mobile Armor slammed onto the open ground, and the crew members craned their necks to look up at the sky filled with Malefic Calamity.

"Li Aoz calling ground! Li Aoz calling ground!"

Li Aoz grabbed the communicator and called out to the ground, "Altitude 4500, speed 850 km/h, we are accelerating, passengers are in good condition!"

The terminal recorded the figures of Li Aoz and the others. The items on their bodies magically floated up, but were then fastened to their seats by the seat belts. All the players in disguise reacted realistically to this.

"We're flying! Mom, can you see me? I'm not killing anyone, I'm a hero now!"

"We are flying at an altitude of 30,000 feet! The universe is not our destination!"

"The lady who just saved me, we've already ascended to an altitude of 10,000 meters."

"The Malefic Calamity is right above us—damn it, let's smash it! Nothing can stop us from entering the universe!"

Hearing the laughter and exclamations of amazement coming from the communicator, Du Zexin breathed a sigh of relief and controlled the robot to broadcast:

"Received from the ground. Good luck, guide."

The Mobile Armor on the ground raised their guns, pointed them at the sky, but hesitated to pull the trigger.

"Hey, what are you doing? Fire!" Commander Kano Asaichi urged urgently, "Our fighter jets are taking off, stop them!"

"Let me see." The crew of the Mobile Armor vehicle stared blankly at the receding figures in the sky. "Maybe they are a bunch of madmen, but this is the first time in this era that crazy fools have appeared."

The white mechs soared into the sky, the Malefic Calamity were close at hand. For the first time, the players faced the deep red and dark Esha Clouds, which were bottomless, swirling and churning, and filled with an eerie and ancient mystery.

Everyone instinctively held their breath, their eyes reflecting the menacing image of the Malefic Calamity. For the first time, they realized just how terrifying the being that had ruled the Azure Planet for five hundred years truly was.

"Hey, Azure Planet People, lift your heads and look up."

Li Aoz unbuckled his seatbelt; now it was his turn to work.

Li Aoz left behind a phantom of a castration, while his real body pushed aside the mysterious woman, emerged from the Biochemical Pool, and retrieved the nuclear bomb from above. The phantom clung tightly to the Biochemical Pool, refusing to let go for even a moment.

[Overlord Mode Activated]

[DOMINATE ALL]

Pegasus's wings spread rapidly, its magnificent stardust wings appearing as insignificant as Malefic Calamity compared to the vastness of the sky above.

"For five hundred years, no one has launched an attack on the sky of Malefic Calamity. They hold weapons that can destroy each other, but dare not attack the one that truly oppresses them."

"They chose to compromise. They bowed to the darkness and the cold."

To protect the Hydrogen Bomb from being corroded by Malefic Calamity, Du Zexin used his own armor to prepare a protective shell for it. Li Aoz grabbed the Hydrogen Bomb, pushed open the outer shell, and entered the code he had engraved in his heart—00000000.

Simple and easy to remember.

"I choose to resist! To fight, to resist all that oppresses all living beings!"

As the countdown to the nuclear bomb began to ring, Li Aoz seized the opportunity.

[Gravity·Contact] - Superposition

The gravitational field expanded to its maximum, enveloping the entire spaceship and the Hydrogen Bomb. Li Aoz instantly soared into the air, unleashing a deafening sonic boom, before plunging headlong into the Malefic Calamity.

[Sever Life] - Stacking

The tentacles that shot out instantly wrapped around his wrist, greatly enhancing his strength.

[Soul-Inscribed Sword Saint — Wargod]--Dieja

Dark purple resentment swirled around the longsword like a banner, and the warrior behind him materialized, completely enveloping Li Aoz's body.

[Blood of Immortality] - Digg

Flesh and blood rapidly proliferated, covering the armor and forming stable connecting parts.

[Mountains Armor]—Diega

The obsidian armor was re-covered by the rock strata, and during the high-speed movement, it gradually elongated into a flat structure.

[Natural Ignition] - Stacking

"Qiu Ran, Nomi, and all my friends on the planet who understand me."

Engulfed in flames, he streaked through the air like a comet, his crimson form a blur. Qiu Ran seemed to be flying beside him, her gaze fixed firmly ahead.

Li Aoz grabbed the Hydrogen Bomb, his armor and flesh were constantly being eroded and corrupted, and then rapidly decayed and fell off. For a moment, Nomi's petite figure seemed to reappear beside him, cursing '(quality Frostplate)' while trying to regenerate the cells in his body.

I wouldn't have gotten this far without everyone's help. The world loves me so much, what more can I say?

Thank you, everyone. Thank you, Azure Planet, for allowing me to encounter a group of decent and wonderful people in this awful world.

In return, I'll show you something good.

Li Aoz's figure dragged a crimson shadow along with him, and the enormous impact tore apart the long, Esha Sky Curtain.

"Look closely, this is what the sun looks like!"

[Six-in-One: Morphedria's Sever-Sky Sword!]

As the warm afternoon sun peeked out, those who looked up immediately noticed the unmissable patch of azure blue.

"This is..."

"I've never seen a blue sky before."

"Is that the true color of the sky?"

Beep beep beep...

The countdown to the Hydrogen Bomb was about to begin. Li Aoz, who had torn open the sky, raised his hand and threw it headfirst into the sky in front of him.

The Malefic Calamity instantly swallowed the Hydrogen Bomb, as if it had vanished into thin air, without making a sound. Several seconds later, Li Aoz turned around and quickly flew in the opposite direction.

----------boom!

The next moment, a huge explosion resounded throughout the entire planet. For the first time, the suppressed and dominated destiny roared at the darkness, angrily protesting the disappearance of the light that should have belonged to them.

The blazing fireball, like a mushroom, spread rapidly. It was hundreds, even thousands of times brighter than the Artificial Sun. In an instant, even the storms on the ground Outland were slightly hindered. The fiery fireball spread for tens of kilometers. Even the Malefic Calamity that would engulf everything and increase their entropy to the limit were forced to disappear under this sacred fire of science.

Flames are inherently a process of increasing entropy; how can you make a dead person die again?

The shockwave instantly propelled Li Aoz hundreds of kilometers away, accelerating him beyond the second cosmic velocity in an instant as he continued to hurtle into the distant sky. Li Aoz immediately activated [Transposition], swapping himself with the phantom on the spaceship.

Riding the initial velocity from the nuclear explosion, Li Aoz returned to the Future Watch, shouting:

"The path ahead has been cleared; we are now marching towards heaven! Hold on tight!"

At this moment, Li Aoz's live stream reached its peak. The terminal in the Biochemical Pool was not destroyed by EMP, but continued to broadcast, allowing most people to see the Malefic Calamity Sky that had been blasted open by the scorching fireball.

They looked up, and when the devastating fireball subsided, the answer they received was not the darkness they had imagined.

warmth.

The golden afternoon sun shone on the earth, melting the ice and snow, and everyone gazed intently at the sky—gazing at the azure expanse.

The soldiers stopped fighting, looked up at the sky, and murmured like innocent children, "So, there really is a sun in the world."

The sunlight is warm and gentle, unlike artificial sunlight which can feel like a cage, confining people inside a walled city.

The sun is a compassionate mother who selflessly showers light and warmth upon Outland People, which they perceive as the warmth of life.

The people of Triangle Town took to the streets, and the brilliant light shone into their eyes. For the first time in their lives, they felt their bodies filled with power, a feeling that no medicine could match.

"This is the light we once had."

Gretvor reached out, trying to grasp the light, and murmured, "How magnificent, how beautiful... Mirror, do you see? So light really isn't just an adjective."

Alexia looked up, her shadow stretched endlessly, her braids billowing in the wind. She squinted and stretched lazily.

"Dear motherland, there is no need to worry about me."

She whispered to the sun, which was exactly the same as in the Old Era:

"People today have hope."

As the long night was torn apart by the first ray of dawn, countless people stared blankly at the sun, even straining their eyes until they felt dizzy and their eyes stung. Tears welled up in their eyes, and they could no longer hold back their emotions.

"We have light! There really is light in the world!"

Du Zexin's mechanical body slumped to the ground. He didn't know why, but he felt an inexplicable urge.

"How come the eyes don't leak engine oil... It's a perfect flaw."

While people on the ground were cheering, the real test was just beginning for the crew of the Future Watch, who were accelerating into the atmosphere.

"Ugh!" One player couldn't withstand the sudden increase in overload and collapsed to the ground. Just as the people next to him were about to help, the entire Biochemical Pool suddenly began to shake violently.

"What's going on?!"

Li Aoz quickly asked the ground, "Malefic Calamity —it must be that the Malefic Calamity in the airspace wasn't completely cleared out. Some Malefic Calamity particles have corrupted the engine. We must jettison it immediately, otherwise the Malefic Calamity will contaminate all of you!"

Du Zexin said:

"What's the airspace like ahead of you?"

"The Malefic Calamity are gathering, and they are moving very fast, I think at least 4 kilometers per second."

"Then we'll make it in time— Li Aoz, what's your current speed?!"

"Mach 34! That's faster than the second cosmic velocity!"

"Not enough!" Du Zexin said, "Detonate the reactor. Next, you must do everything in your power to break out of the Malefic Calamity's range."

"... Is it too late?"

"If you come, it's going to be tough."

As Du Zexin spoke, the head of [Future Watch] suddenly lit up, and Du Zexin's voice came from the machine's broadcast. "My arrival is just in time."

The deep blue sky, tinged with black, was drawing ever closer. Players were forced to start breathing oxygen and burying themselves in the nutrient solution drained from the Biochemical Pool to prevent themselves from dying due to the pressure imbalance. The fire-resistant coating on their Mobile Armor had already turned red-hot due to the high friction.

"Du Zexin, do you want to detonate the nuclear reactor yourself? You're fucking committing suicide! If you were even a second slower and hadn't transmitted your consciousness back, you'd be dead!"

Li Aoz immediately retorted, "I won't allow you to do that! We still have a chance, don't gamble with this—"

"--Believe me."

Du Zexin's words were unusually poetic. "Mechanics will not lose our noble digital soul because of physical weakness."

"You're gambling with your life!"

"Science and engineering guys don't believe in fate," Du Zexin said romantically. "Let God use quantum mechanics to guess—let me say a few words to your audience."

Li Aoz was speechless and turned the camera towards Du Zexin.

"Hello, actually, there are also men who stayed in Frostplate."

Du Zexin used a synthesized electronic voice broadcasting, shouting in a monotonous, lifeless tone, "Long live the future! Long live humanity! Long live the Azure Planet!"

The next moment, Du Zexin's reactor melted down, and the chain reaction broke out again.

"Li Aoz, go tell the universe, we're here!"

The intense atomic energy burst forth with blazing light, and the violent energy accelerated the speed of Li Aoz and the others once again. The outer shell of the Biochemical Pool was rapidly incinerated in order to resist the friction. Li Aoz stood in front, like a pegasus pulling a divine chariot in mythology.

Genetic explosion!

Li Aoz had no time to pay attention to Du Zexin's news. He turned his head and, not wanting to waste a single second, rushed out of the gradually gathering Malefic Calamity cloud. His elbow immediately exploded with Ability Pod.

[Gravity], [Sever Life], [Soul-Inscribed Sword Saint], [Blood of Immortality], [Natural Ignition], [Mountains Armor], [Eye of Truth], [Pegasus Force], [Transposition], [Death Link], [Physical Enhancement]! All the Aoneng he has mastered so far, all superimposed!

"Eleven-in-one"

Li Aoz's voice was diluted by the thin atmosphere, his body rapidly burst into flames in the ionosphere, and then he was bathed in the radiance of the universe, covered with a hazy yet real azure armor.

All his wildness and violence vanished, and the red and black crystals rapidly collapsed and shattered under the radiation of cosmic energy, entering the orbit of the Azure Planet and quietly revolving around the Earth's core.

Li Aoz's will seemed to become ethereal all at once. His armor assembled on its own, and his body grew to more than three meters tall. The deep blue armor was covered with complex and mysterious golden runes, and the savage and ugly tentacles disappeared, replaced by stardust that spun rapidly around him.

His head no longer had facial features; it was completely covered by a helmet, with fragmented meteorites colliding and converging around his head as if bound by gravity, forming an inconspicuous crown.

The entire universe was utterly silent, a complete vacuum. The scorching sun heated his body to two hundred degrees Celsius, enough to withstand the frigid universe. However, no one in the entire universe could hear him utter the latter part of the skill's name: [Lioz's Armor].

The name of Azure Planet comes from the lyrics of the Chinese ending theme song of Ultraman Tiga:

The Azure Planet is our unwavering guardian.