He had not dared activate this melee mode, which likewise discarded his armor, when facing Eve.
Yet against Villain, whom he had defeated once before, he had the courage to attack first.
With the warhammer severed, he used what remained as a blade.
But when Villain leaped onto the Steam King's body.
Without that hard armor for protection.
Villain was like a truly crazed wolf king beneath the moon, biting with sharp fangs and tearing with pointed claws!
The Steam King's body was rapidly falling apart.
Its so-called melee mode was nothing but self-deception.
"H-heretic...!"
As the Steam King's body was continually destroyed.
Countless parts scattered through the air.
The Steam King finally crashed to the ground.
Villain stood on its body and roared like a beast at the moonlight in the sky.
Then it tipped its head back and fell.
[Villain (excessive overload) (severely damaged) (unable to move) (nodes shattered)]
"Good work. It'd be even better if you didn't end up like this next time."
Ye Qiyan climbed onto the Steam King's broken body, snapped his fingers, and temporarily returned Villain to the Armed Space.
"A demigod's core doesn't seem as powerful as a numbered Divine Core, but it's still decent."
Entering the Steam King's shattered body, Ye Qiyan's gaze fell on the very center of its interior.
A limbless human body lay asleep, submerged in ocher nutrient fluid.
The instant Ye Qiyan approached, the body opened its eyes, and a swarm of mechanical parasites lunged at him from inside the Steam King.
Vmmm-!
He drew his blade and slashed.
Cool Sky Moonshadow appeared from the Armed Space.
With one slash, all the steam-powered mechanical parasites were cut to pieces.
Ye Qiyan stepped onto the transparent cover of the core's hibernation pod.
He calmly gazed down at