‘Wait, it hasn’t slowed down yet?’
As the flaming meteor flew toward him at light speed, Lin Zhen’s right eyelid started twitching wildly.
‘If it hits the ground at this speed, everything within a one-li radius will be shattered.’
‘Is this battle armor weapon going to just crush us to death?’
His left hand brushed over the personal terminal on his right wrist. A string of electromagnetic signals finally launched after the crab wall shattered.
Lin Zhen shouted, “Quick, dodge!”
‘Running now is impossible to escape the kill zone, but at least it can reduce some of the impact!’
‘Then, let me buy my companions a slim chance to live!’
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…
A massive amount of silver-white liquid surged out from all over Lin Zhen’s body like tentacles, forming several stellar energy metal walls in the air with constant gaps between them.
In the middle of the walls, a complex shock-absorbing structure rapidly took shape.
Lin Zhen tried to use the knowledge in his mind to minimize the impact of this long-charged strike from the battle armor.
“No, we can’t get away! Let’s block it together!”
Zi Jiu did not follow Lin Zhen’s instruction. Instead, she ran right in front of him and slammed her right hand onto the stellar energy metal walls.
【Hellfire】!
Swoosh!
Starting from her palm, flames spread in all directions, strengthening every stellar energy metal wall to be even harder.
Aili and Anvil also ran over quickly.
“Yeah, together!”
With no blood to control, Aili directly slashed her palm. Using her own blood, she condensed hundreds of blood rings, stacking them above the stellar energy metal walls as the first buffer.
Anvil had no such defensive ability, but looking at Aili, whose face had turned a little pale, a flicker of resolve flashed in his eyes.
‘If these measures ultimately fail, even if I have to use my body as a shield, I will protect Aili at the very least!’
Luotuo glanced into the distance, then at Lin Zhen and the others. With a grit of his teeth, he also ran over.
It wasn’t that he had any bond with Lin Zhen.
Rather, he simply thought that building defenses together with them might give a higher chance of survival than running alone.
“I’m wearing a Grade 3 biological chitin armor that can block a full-force strike from a Three-star energy user. I’ll cover it here!”
Luotuo raised his right hand.
The chitin armor on his body immediately began to flow, surging out from his fingertips to surround them, forming a round chitin sphere.
And this was all the defensive measures they could muster in the limited time.
The chitin sphere had some gaps—it wasn’t completely dark—but trying to observe the outside through those gaps was nothing but wishful thinking.
“Good thing I developed metal detection ability!”
Lin Zhen took a deep breath. With the thought that at least he should die knowing what hit him, he attached his perception to the metal.
Through the stellar energy metal walls, which together measured a full five meters thick, he stared fixedly at the black battle armor that was getting closer and closer.
But as he looked, he noticed that not only had the black battle armor slowed down, but the scorching flames covering its entire body had also disappeared.
In their place, like something tangible, white steam rose from the armor.
‘Wait…’
‘Did the Saints’ hand society not give an order to kill us?’
‘Or maybe even that opponent can’t withstand an impact at this speed?’
‘What is this white steam? Water vapor?’
‘The battle armor seems to be metal—can I use my supernatural power to control it?’
Countless thoughts flashed through Lin Zhen’s mind in an instant, finally settling on the last one.
At that moment, the black battle armor had already arrived in front of the stellar energy metal walls.
It suddenly raised its right hand, and its body, appearing larger up close, completely blocked the gap in the crab wall from Lin Zhen’s view.
【Target Detected: Lin Zhen (Capture Alive Required)】
【Ability Switch: Ice, Battle Armor Charge 100%】
Zzz!
A blinding blue light flared up. Half of the black battle armor’s body was instantly covered in a thin layer of ice.
‘Ice?’
‘So that’s how the steam came about.’
‘But shouldn’t this armor’s ability be fire?’
‘Does it have two abilities?’
Lin Zhen was startled by his own thought.
‘If that’s the case, then my idea of blocking it head-on is useless…’
Swoosh!
The ice covering half of the black battle armor’s body, surprisingly, did not affect its movements at all.
As if grasped by a giant hand, it defied the laws of physics, ignored inertia, and instantly stopped right in front of the stellar energy metal walls, its right palm facing forward.
In the moment of Lin Zhen’s chaotic thoughts, a layer of solid ice began to spread outward from the armor’s palm.
The hellfire attached to it was completely extinguished in an instant.
Zi Jiu looked on in shock, unable to believe that her hellfire—more special and powerful than ordinary fire-type supernatural powers—had been utterly defeated without even putting up a fight.
“The difference in our strength is really…”
“What’s happening? The impact…”
“I have to protect…”
“We must block…”
The bright blue ice spread down the stellar energy metal walls, firmly freezing the chitin sphere below it.
It formed a massive ice ball over ten meters in diameter.
The black battle armor lifted its right foot, and a drop of condensed water fell from its heel.
Drip…
It landed on the ice ball.
The camera lens followed the condensed water as it moved, passing through the ice ball, and froze on the inside of the chitin sphere.
Lin Zhen and the others were entirely covered in ice.
They seemed unaware of what had happened, their expressions completely frozen from the second before they were trapped.
“So OP, wiped out just like that?”
“I thought Lao Zhen’s cheat was big enough—five years to go toe-to-toe with Lao Xi—who knew the Saints’ hand society had an even bigger one.”
“Bigger? More like they never closed the door!”
“Holy crap, a battle armor that can use two supernatural powers? That’s just unfair. I seriously suspect Dr. Forefinger is actually a greenskin with ‘I think it works’ powers.”
“Probably more than two.”
“True, if abilities can be switched, then at the very least there should be a set for every element, right?”
The audience went wild.
The consistently high-budget fight animation of Starfall had completely fired up most viewers.
But Lin Zhen and the others, completely frozen, were now a desolate cold quiet from body to soul.
The gap was too great.
Not just in Stellar Energy Index, but also at the level of control.
This black battle armor had managed to extinguish Zi Jiu’s hellfire in an instant, freeze everything, yet not harm a single one of them.
Yes, it didn’t harm any of them.
Instead, it had covered their bodies with a thick, super-tough ice shell, sticking their skin to it, completely sealing all their movements.
Even now, their brains could still function normally.
Such control over supernatural power was so fine and precise it was almost unbelievable.
Even among the gifted students of the Transcendent Department at the Imperial Institute of Technology, such skill was extremely rare.
Even Yun Ruoxi, whom Lin Zhen had encountered a month ago, was far inferior to this battle armor!
Of course, if she hadn’t been subjected to mind control and could train normally as before, she might have reached this level too.