Before Haotian's palm could fall, the curled mass of metal at the bottom of the pit suddenly began to tremble violently.
Viscous coolant first seeped from the gaps in the dark armor covering its body.
Then blinding scarlet arcs burst forth, ionizing the surrounding grit into tiny particles of plasma.
Mechanical Tyrannosaurus suddenly raised its massive head, its scarlet electronic eyes flashing wildly.
"Roar! Damn it! You forced my hand!!"
It had truly been dazed by the blow just now. It hadn't expected Haotian to have other moves and had been caught completely off guard.
"Overload Mode, activate!!!"
Crack, crack.
The armor covering Mechanical Tyrannosaurus's entire body began to deform wildly, while fragments and wreckage that Haotian had blasted away earlier floated into the air.
Under Overload Mode, they were violently drawn in by the erupting magnetic force and welded onto its surface like layers of iron armor.
In the blink of an eye, its already enormous body swelled another size. Every armor plate along its spine flipped open.
Beneath them were densely packed plasma cannon muzzles. Their deep-blue glow joined into a single sheet, dimming even the red moonlight.
"Interesting." Haotian raised an eyebrow. Rather than retreating, he stepped forward.
The sand beneath his feet was instantly crushed by golden light into a footprint half a meter deep.
"When you were playing dead earlier, weren't you pretty lively? Now that you're going all out, you finally look a little like a BOSS."
Before his words had faded, Mechanical Tyrannosaurus moved. Its thick metal tail swept toward him with crushing force.
The armor at its tail tip instantly shifted into a gigantic battering ram, grazing past Haotian's shield.
It directly shaved a hundred-meter-tall dune behind him flat. A wave of sand rose dozens of meters high, covering half the wasteland.