217 Leaves No Room

Thirty-five hours later.

Ding ding ding—

The blade dragged across the ground, then rose high, slicing along Coulomb Torque's neck. The first nine attacks all successfully cut through the opponent's power pipe in this way.

"You're still standing still, while I've evolved multiple times!"

This time, however, Coulomb Torque seemed to have foreseen the future. He swayed his feet and dodged the sword strike. In the instant he raised his hand and placed it in front of Li Aoz, his palm splitting open, and a swift shock cannon was instantly unleashed.

Crescent Moon - Dimensional Leap!

Li Aoz immediately activated [Crescent Moon], his figure falling into the two-dimensional world, as if switching to another layer. While moving at high speed, he constantly switched and moved like a mosaic, avoiding damage while also closing the distance with his opponent.

[Bloodline] exerted its power, Li Aoz slammed his shoulder into his opponent, causing him to stumble. Then, he raised his knee and slashed down with a sword blade that cut through dimensions. Coulomb Torque converged with both hands, and a powerful beam of photons erupted from his palms, knocking the sword blade away.

But instead of retreating, Li Aoz continued his charge, his knee slamming into the opponent's chest, the gravitational force bearing down on him at the same moment. "Your pathetic gravity has no effect on me!"

Coulomb Torque unleashed Anti-Gravity Field, parried with its elbows, and with a flick of its wrist released a shockwave field that sent Li Aoz flying. Before Li Aoz could even land and tumble, Coulomb Torque summoned the surrounding mechanical ruins, which instantly transformed into gleaming, terrifying turrets.

[Multiple Target Lock!]

"You're not going anywhere this time!"

Coulomb Torque stomped on the metallic ground, instantly generating a jet-black magnetic fluid that completely surrounded Li Aoz.

[Notification: You have entered the [Machine World Domain] and a race determination is underway. If the determination fails, you will lose 70% of your Primary Attribute...]

[Bloodline] effect activated!

You have successfully passed this judgment!

[Notification: Coulomb Torque has activated the skill "Quantum Lockdown," and you are currently undergoing a [Agility] attribute check...]

Because you do not possess the [Quantum] affix skill or knowledge, you cannot trigger [Perpetual: Arbitrary]

[Judgment Failed: Your Time Jump/Dimensional Leap/Transportation skills have been disabled (Duration: 42 hours).]

"Tsk! Quantum-based abilities are truly superior; classical spacetime-based Aoneng is nothing compared to this!"

As expected, the upper limit of [Bloodline] is limited, making it extremely weak against [Social] targets.

Having lost his ability to move, Li Aoz's mobility was reduced by three-quarters. The surrounding turrets opened fire instantly, and hundreds of thousands of shells rained down on Li Aoz. While Li Aoz used gravity acceleration to dodge, he used his body to withstand some attacks that were unavoidable.

[The Machine World AI has deciphered your trajectory—attacks from all Citizen Unit in [Machine World Society] against you will possess effects such as [auto-aiming], [intelligent tracking], [precise proximity bombing], and [acceleration upon approach].]

The barrage of artillery fire lasted for a full forty-five minutes, with various ground attacks relentlessly pursuing Li Aoz, giving him no chance to retaliate.

Without the armor provided by the Dictator Form to mitigate damage, Li Aoz's health gradually dwindled, and his mana was also in dire straits. He had to constantly run multiple Sequence Aura, and his mana plummeted like a stock hitting its daily limit down.

"This is never going to end!"

Li Aoz flicked out a Space-time Ripple, instantly negating the barrage of attacks. With lightning-fast hand movements, he opened several interfaces and drew upon Aoneng from the [White Obelisk].

[Death Link]

Sever Life

Style Switching - Bloodfiend Style

Li Aoz raised his hand and marked the targets on the ground with Death Mark one by one, then withdrew his defenses and bravely withstood the barrage of bullets.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! The violent explosion instantly engulfed Li Aoz, his body blasted away by the kinetic energy of the ammunition, crashing into the Austro Mountain.

----Bang!

Li Aoz's body, like a meteorite, pierced directly into the mountainside, reaching a depth of 400 meters. As soon as it landed, thousands of artillery emplacements on the ground exploded and went out of service, sending plumes of black smoke into the air.

"Wow... there's actually a way to transfer damage like this."

Coulomb Torque stroked his chin, then immediately leaped into the air, his thrusters accelerating as he lunged towards Li Aoz on the mountainside. Energy blades shot from his hands, and he plunged into the crevices of the rock face, thrusting straight forward! "Get lost!"

Jannia leaped out on her own, and with a wave of her hand, she controlled the Sword of Fate Awakening Sword, swinging it fiercely down towards Coulomb Torque!

Quantum vision!

Coulomb Torque's eyes lit up with blue light, and the rotors in its pupils spun faster. No matter how fast Jannia's blade swung, it could completely predict and see through its trajectory. It parried and deflected the blade, and particles shot out from under its feet, smoothing out the friction. It slid around Jannia's slash as freely and smoothly as if it were ice skating, and killed Li Aoz in front of him.

It twisted its body, the weapon bay on its back opened, and sprayed out several incendiary bombs, engulfing Li Aoz in a shimmering sea of thermite. At the same time, it released two purple high-energy rays from its hands, severing Li Aoz's arms on the spot.

"Now you can't even wield a sword! Let's see what else you have to be so arrogant about!"

Coulomb Torque retracted its cannon and immediately pounced forward, its energy blades thrusting straight towards Li Aoz's neck!

Swoosh! The energy blade pierced through Li Aoz's neck in an instant. Coulomb Torque crossed his arms and swung them lightly.

Sizzle—

Li Aoz instantly decapitated in the inferno, and the air was immediately filled with the stench of blood and the burning smell of flesh.

Succeed!

Coulomb Torque grabbed his head and said disdainfully:

"A mere forgery dares to claim to be the reincarnation of Lioz!"

Clang—

As soon as he finished speaking, two deep blue tentacles pierced Coulomb Torque's chest.

"&*%￥——What? Engine oil for lubricating nuts!"

Coulomb Torque turned his head in shock, only to see two severed arms on the ground, tentacles popping out from their palms and rapidly drawing life energy from him.

"Even if you are a machine, as long as you have consciousness, you are life."

Li Aoz calmly stood up. After activating [Sever Life], as life points continued to flow in, his severed arms were pulled back to the broken ends by more tentacles. The healing was complete. He tilted his non-existent neck and forcefully pulled the nerve tentacles that popped out of his palm.

The monstrous power of his bloodline erupted instantly.

Bang! Coulomb Torque slipped and fell to his knees. The Department of Machinery on his body rapidly aged and rusted, signifying that his life force had been stripped away from his body. He was then quickly dragged toward Li Aoz.

Crescent moon, gravity, bloodline—a trinity.

"Heavenly Guidance".

Red and black lines appeared on Li Aoz's face. His genes became irritable and restless. The continuous use of Aoneng had caused serious damage to his body and mind. He raised his foot, his eyes tired, took a couple of breaths, and stomped down hard.

"Radiant Moon Azure Fall!"

Boom! Coulomb Torque's body was instantly crushed and shattered. After briefly entering a two-dimensional space, it was quickly pulled out by gravity. Under the combined force, its body was instantly compressed into a flat surface and stuck to the ground.

The tenth time, the annihilation of the councilors was achieved.