Rustle, rustle...
A faint rustling rose behind Mu Fan.
Then, under Iron Man Akmond's gaze, countless dense jade-white bone fragments flew straight through the interwoven thorns from the area where Mu Fan had fallen earlier.
One by one, they adhered to Mu Fan's body.
From his neck to his palms, spreading from his shoulders down to his feet.
The seemingly absurd bone plates appeared amid the dense forest.
Yet when that azure, water-like radiance covered his entire body, the bone fragments seemed to come alive, instantly growing and connecting, their color shifting from jade white to dark gold.
Behind Mu Fan's head, six energy braids intertwined for a short distance before stopping.
The dark-gold faceplate left only his eyes exposed.
When the pale blue brilliance faded and those icy-blue pupils looked over—
An aura of deathly stillness, yet overwhelming power, burst forth in that instant.
"That's... the armor Ice Serpent encountered when he died!"
A change finally appeared in Iron Man's mercury-sheened eyes, but it quickly turned into excitement. The metallic luster at the corners of his eyes visibly twitched.
"You've finally piqued my interest."
"Unfortunately, you have no idea what a Tier 8 Mutant means."
As the metallic man muttered to himself, he casually looked toward a two-meter-tall boulder beside him and thrust his right hand into it as though grabbing a block of tofu.
Then, with a lift of his right arm, he forcibly tore the boulder from the ground.
With a mocking grin, he violently hurled it forward!
The boulder, weighing over two tons, tore a blurred trail through the air as it thundered toward Mu Fan.
Mu Fan merely blinked.
His indifferent voice came from beneath the faceplate. "And you have no idea what I am now..."
The Dark Gold Short Stick spun lightly in his