The mecha semifinals

"Five, four, three, two, one. Begin!"

At the electronic announcement, Tang Wuyang sprang into action.

Without hesitation, he hurled his spear at the distant Metal Master, then activated his mecha's thrusters and charged at his opponent like a gale.

Metal Master also activated his mecha's thrusters, but instead of advancing, he turned and fled, opening up the distance.

Tang Wuyang's spear arced through the air at tremendous speed, but with several hundred meters to cover, it still needed time to reach its target.

Meanwhile, Metal Master's mecha began to change as it sped away.

The first changes appeared at its hips and shoulders. The metal there rapidly melted, while the internal structures reconfigured themselves at incredible speed.

As those structures changed, they could clearly be seen taking the shape of individual core arrays before the outer metal sealed over them again.

What was forming there was unmistakably a set of soul tool thrusters!

Indeed, with his control over the metal element, Metal Master excelled at modifying and reassembling his mecha in battle.

In one of his previous matches, his standard mecha had even attained the offensive and defensive capabilities of a black grade mecha once he had finished reassembling it and bringing its systems online.

This was a mecha battle. Soul Masters could not leave their mechas; they could only use their martial souls to support them in combat.

And how could a standard mecha possibly compete with a black grade mecha?

Almost everyone who fought him chose to unleash their full strength at once, hoping to deny him the chance to rebuild his mecha.

Yet no one had succeeded so far.

Tang Wuyang's spear struck the ground, ultimately failing to hit its target.

With his newly completed thrusters, Metal Master propelled his standard mecha away even faster, circling into