"This swordsmanship—"
"This sword—"
"This—"
Differential Weng inhaled after every few words.
Later, he felt that such behavior did not suit the bearing of a senior expert, so he stopped speaking.
But he was still amazed by High Engineer's evolved swordsmanship.
In fact, he had seen skills of this level before. For example, the few seventh-tier "Absolute Purification Machines" beside Ancient Machinery Elder possessed an aura similar to his opponent's current one.
But the problem was, those were seventh-tier beings—and not ordinary seventh-tier beings, either. They were several of the strongest individual machines beside Ancient Machinery Elder.
They were the kind Ancient Machinery Elder could not bear to release.
But what was going on now?
Had he returned to his ancestral form?
However, this vicious aura seemed somewhat different from "Absolute Purification."
It seemed not to target only carbon-based life.
So was it ancestral reversion plus mutation?
Should I reconsider that little thing's proposal from earlier?
As a former sixth-level information-system veteran, High Engineer understood the thoughts of veteran experts like the back of his hand.
He also knew that for people of this sort, simple bluffing or deception would probably not only be useless but might also completely offend them.
Thus, after struggling for a long while, High Engineer ultimately decided to come clean. He told Differential Weng about borrowing his identity to register as a member of the "Endless Starry Sky Archive" and freeloading on its fusion materials.
After hearing this, Differential Weng's first thought was:
You little bastard, you really are a genius!
You even managed to think of this kind of insane move!
His second reaction was: *What the hell are you talking about? As a member of the "Great Purification," even though I'm a former member, I can't lend you the entire name to mess