At that moment, the Feathered Serpent Phantom was still burrowing into the Great Knight mecha, but the remaining section of its tail seemed to be having trouble getting inside.
Then, the mecha's head suddenly exploded at the eyes.
Blood-and-flesh tissue mixed with nerves poured out through the mecha's eye sockets. The cockpit was already filled with flesh, and even Rune's body was pushed out of the cockpit by it.
Under the violent impact and friction, Rune's body was broken in two, yet he still hadn't died.
His chest continued to rise and fall, while the flesh burrowing into his body supplied the nutrients he needed to survive.
The Feathered Serpent Phantom would not let Rune die just like that.
If Rune died, it would no longer be able to remain in the Mortal World.
Therefore.
It maintained Rune's vitality.
The "cannibal ghoul," whose body had been broken in two, was wrapped in flesh just like this. The rolling flesh soon drowned out the mecha's head, finally forming a triangular head.
At this point, the Great Knight mecha had already swelled to more than three times its original size. Its body could be said to have transformed, yet all its devices and components continued operating as usual.
However, whether it was the Energy Core or the power engine, they were now all entangled with flesh, turning the mecha into a monster born of metal and flesh.
Just as the Feathered Serpent struggled toward the "saint," the triangular head formed from flesh suddenly looked to one side.
There, the pagoda rising from the sea of blood was crumbling layer by layer.
With each layer of the pagoda collapsing, the killing Qi radiating from Yao Yuan grew denser.
By the time all five layers had shattered, Yao Yuan's killing Qi had condensed into