Lu Chao was like a shield of steel, like a moving slab of alloy rock, steadily striding toward Helido.
Step!
Step!!
Step!!!
He walked against the wind and waves, like a demon god.
Bronze light flowed across his body, and at some point, his aura had risen again, as if he had entered a new stage of all-around enhancement.
"Impossible!"
Helido's expression changed drastically, all his savagery turning to fear at that moment.
Yet—
The passive boost belonging to [Barbarian] began once more.
Lu Chao's eyes were cold as his steps grew faster and faster.
In the end, he stomped off the ground and charged forward, forcing his way through every shockwave with his body as he closed in on Helido.
The blue energy beam of shockwaves grew shorter and shorter, as though it were being forcibly compressed.
At last—
Boom!
Lu Chao planted his foot and arrived half a meter before Helido.
Crash!!
He forcibly shattered all the shockwaves, completely draining the last of Helido's energy.
As their eyes met, white smoke still rose from the chest cannon of the shattered armor, which kept emitting sizzling noises as if its systems had overloaded.
"I gave you a chance,"
Lu Chao said, his gaze cold as a blade.
At some point, his left hand had reached out and seized Helido's bloodied head.
"Unfortunately, you didn't cherish it."
"No!"
His pupils shook. Helido came back to his senses and tried to struggle.
The intelligent sphere hovering nearby hurriedly projected a blue beam, seemingly attempting to teleport him away.
"I'm a Klar!"
"You can't—"
Bang!!
His head exploded, blood spraying everywhere.
Bone fragments and blood mist mixed together, splattering across the ruined floor of the mall.
Helido's headless corpse stood frozen in place.
The entire world seemed to fall silent because of