A clear, resonant blade cry.
It rang out without warning through the void filled with the roar of energy.
Like a dragon's roar piercing straight through the nine heavens.
In an instant, it drowned out the howls of every mechanical puppet engine and the hum of gathering energy.
A dazzling blade light, condensed to the utmost extreme as though it could cleave space itself apart, suddenly flashed forth.
There was no flashy technique, no process of building momentum—only the purest horizontal slash.
It was a technique tempered a thousand times over, returning to simplicity after reaching the pinnacle.
The blade light flowed like mercury spilling across the ground, penetrating everywhere; it also swept like a startled swan's shadow, so fast it surpassed what the eye could catch.
At a speed beyond thought, it spread soundlessly, yet with absolute tyranny.
In an instant, it covered every charging puppet within the fan-shaped area ahead.
Riiip!
There was no earth-shattering impact. Only a faint yet clearly piercing sound of tearing.
Time itself seemed to freeze for a moment beneath an invisible force.
Then, whether they were the heavy melee puppets maintaining their charging stances.
Or the long-range puppets behind them, gathering energy and preparing to unleash a second round of particle salvos, their movements suddenly froze.
As if someone had pressed pause.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!—
A continuous chain of explosions, like dense drumbeats suddenly pounding, replaced the brief silence.
More than a hundred mechanical puppets forged from dark Alloy and possessing powerful defenses, all at the same moment.
Were completely shattered and torn apart by that seemingly simple blade light, which contained the laws of destruction!
Their sturdy Alloy shells were easily pierced and sliced apart like fragile sheets of paper.
They became countless metal fragments, spraying and scattering through the