North London.
Colossus's words made Ye Sheng's eyes pause slightly. Even someone unfamiliar with that era could hear, from his few simple words, the greatness of the steam engine's birth and his heartfelt praise for that age.
But although Colossus was indeed, as rumored, a nostalgic and classical sort of person, Ye Sheng still felt there was something different about him. She had no time to think further.
High-temperature steam erupted with a shriek. Countless gears could be seen within, spinning at high speed with precise accuracy. The nearly fifteen-story-tall brass greatsword carried an unparalleled visual impact, yet under the powerful thrust of air pressure, it slashed down with a fierce howl completely at odds with its colossal size!
At the instinctive moment when witnessing such a scene made one want to cover one's ears, Ye Sheng lowered her crimson eyes and gritted her teeth.
She couldn't dodge. Otherwise, the pursuit afterward would be even harder to withstand!
Spiritual energy gathered around Spirit Abyss as the strings in her heart tightened. Facing a steam-and-gear greatsword over fifty meters long, Ye Sheng's figure looked tiny. The instant she raised her blade to block it, her body was driven through floor after floor of a building by its weight and impact. A dozen-story building was split in two by Colossus's strike.
Like a cheesecake cut apart by a dinner knife.
Boom—!
She was cleaved from the rooftop down into the foundation. Their sizes were worlds apart, yet Spirit Abyss's block deflected the steam-and-gear greatsword. Then Ye Sheng watched as countless gears spun madly across the sword. The steel pipes along its body shifted and rearranged, transforming in an instant into an enormous, antique brass cannon barrel!
As she leaped away with teleport-like speed, Ye Sheng held Spirit Abyss diagonally. The moment she