The moment Dark Dust was clamped, a sudden shout rang out.
“Go!”
The other two Pursuit Team members burst out from the ground.
Unlike the two gripping the ropes on the crab steed, the shell armor on their bodies seemed to have flames flowing within, presenting a dazzling scarlet color.
Shh!
Both figures blurred instantly.
In the mist formed by melting ice that then evaporated, they pulled out two blurry red light trails in opposite directions, appearing in front and behind Dark Dust almost instantly.
With hands at the waist and spine bent forward, Zachary almost turned himself into a bow pulled to its limit.
His faceplate had already been lowered.
His dark brown eyes reflected Dark Dust, who had lowered her head with a slowly swaying scarlet gaze, and behind Dark Dust’s shoulder, his teammate posing in the same stance.
‘Win!’
Flame-burning state: using the armor’s own shell as fuel, it greatly enhances the user’s physical fitness. Now, his physical fitness is comparable to a Third-level Fighter, able to smash steel into pieces.
In an instant, he can unleash hundreds of punches, even a small hill would be completely incapacitated. Although after this, regardless of whether the battle ends, the shell armor will be scrapped. But without a doubt, this is the full output of a Third-level Fighter at close range!
Zachary’s thoughts raced so fast that time seemed to slow down at this moment.
“Don’t make your Dust brother laugh.”
“You’re bound to lose. If you win, what about Old Zhen?”
“Popping champagne at halftime, huh?”
“Your Dust brother laughs.”
Almost without any hesitation, Zachary punched forward with all his might.
The cultivated over years of working together allowed him and his teammate to strike almost simultaneously.
Hundreds of red light trails, parallel or crossing, appeared in the mist, all targeting the pitch-black battle armor whose arms were clamped.
“God god save god.”
Deafening collision sounds appeared along with the shockwaves from solid hits.
The pitch-black armor did not resist, or rather, had no time to resist. Although the sensation was slightly slippery, both Zachary and the other could feel that every one of their punches had landed solidly.
The mist was quickly dispersed by the shockwaves.
The huge shell sphere floating in the air suddenly fell, rolling clatter to the ground aside.
Ice shards like broken jade shot out like bullets, and the surrounding twisted trees snapped with a crack and fell.
Even if it was just “punching a wooden dummy,” the shockwaves from the full-force attacks of two experts with the physical strength of Third-level Fighters almost completely destroyed the entire clearing!
However—
As the mist was dispelled, the battlefield was fully revealed. The pitch-black armor that had faced all the attacks was completely unharmed. Even the matte paint on its surface hadn’t peeled off.
“How is that possible…”
Under the faceplate. The normally calm Zachary gritted his teeth. Although their attacks had no effect, at least they had limited the enemy’s movement.
He dared not stop, could only continue punching with all his might. His face was bright red from the flame-burning state and full output, his bloodshot eyes full of reluctance and confusion.
Clearly every punch had landed, even an iron mountain should have been shattered by them, right? But this enemy named Dark Dust, how could she be unscathed? What’s going on? Wait… Ice?
At that moment, a piece of ice flying past his cheek caught Zachary’s attention. He turned his gaze to his own fists.
At the instant before each punch was about to hit Dark Dust, a piece of hard ice, neither too big nor too small, exactly fist-sized, would appear directly in front, blocking their attacks.
The so-called solid hits were just their delusion. Every one of their punches had actually been forcibly stopped by Dark Dust in this unreasonable way.
But Zachary did not feel relieved after learning the answer. Only endless shock and panic. At such close range, using ability to perfectly block every punch of a Third-level Fighter?!
What kind of universal joke was this?! What kind of thing was this enemy? Was this really something a human could do? If he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, he would never believe it!
After all, to accomplish this, the enemy had to complete the three quite complex steps of judging attack strength and impact point, extracting energy, and outputting ability all in an instant.
And within a single breath, facing attacks from two directions, completing these three steps a total of six hundred and sixty-six times!
“This person is cheating.”
“He’s still hacking even if he’s not cheating.”
“He’s like a player who turned on easy mode with auto-block.”
As a noble and Security Bureau member, Zachary had once received guidance from a fourth-level starcapable, and had also sparred with three-star energy users.
He knew very well. Three-star energy users, no, many four-star starcapables probably couldn’t achieve this level.
Wait. Zachary suddenly realized. From the beginning, this enemy had not shown any “human” characteristics, more like an emotionless killing machine.
That made sense. What humans couldn’t accomplish didn’t mean machines couldn’t. This Dark Dust might be a cyborg!
“I know how Old Zhen will turn this around—just have Chicha invade and possess Dark Dust, and we’ll get a body.”
“Rat Chicha possesses fully equipped Dark Dust, millions extracted.”
Zachary’s heart sank. Compared to star energy users with single methods, a fully modified cyborg was very versatile and much more troublesome, almost invincible at the same level.
Not to mention they relied on the flame-burning state to barely touch the edge of a three-star energy user’s strength!
The flame-burning state could normally be maintained for a minute, but under full output, endurance sharply decreased. Now, they had only been outputting fully for five seconds.
Zachary already felt his arms growing heavier, his punch speed slowing significantly. Not good! At most, they could last four more seconds…
Just as he estimated the remaining time in his mind, a strange and dazzling blue light flashed in Zachary’s peripheral vision.
The “cyborg” Dark Dust noticed the decrease in attack frequency and chose to counter at this moment. Blue light radiated all over her body.
A layer of hard ice rapidly spread, freezing herself, the crab steed beneath her, the two on the crab steed, and the two flanking Zachary and the other all together in an instant. Forming a huge block of ice over thirty meters tall.
The entire battlefield changed from motion to stillness in that moment, instantly quiet.
But the next second. A crisp “crack” sound suddenly rang out.
The shell sphere that had fallen aside during the battle suddenly cracked open. A large hand extended from the crack, and the shell sphere turned into scales that quickly crawled along the hand, covering Luotuo’s entire body, reforming into armor.
And beside him were Lin Zhen and the other three, exhaling cold air and trembling slightly.
Taking advantage of the moment when Dark Dust was held back by Zachary’s group and had no time to maintain the freeze, they forcibly broke through the ice shell from the inside.
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