Chapter 173 The Trap

Since Godora failed to hunt down the leader of DarkStar, Han Xiao hadn't seen him for many years. No one knew where he was hiding, but now he suddenly appeared, bringing a fleet with him. It seemed that he had made a comeback.

To be able to attack me without warning…

Han Xiao frowned. The DarkStar leader must have known his whereabouts and had an unusual intelligence channel. He must have joined forces with a powerful force.

"DarkStar only has a chance to plot against Godora by eliminating me, and the forces allied with DarkStar probably are also an organization that occasionally assassinates me. With the same goals, they hit it off..."

Han Xiao's mind raced. This suggested that the DarkStar leader must have been sure of success before showing up to attack him. So many failed assassination attempts must have made him careful.

The small fleet in front of him posed no threat to him. After all, his mechanical legion was not to be trifled with. However, Han Xiao did not underestimate them in the slightest. Instead, he was secretly vigilant. He felt that the DarkStar leader must have an unknown trump card.

Han Xiao had no intention of chatting. Mechnical Force lightning erupted, and the barracks boxes opened with a bang. A massive mechanical legion spread out like a black tide, overwhelming the DarkStar leader's fleet in numbers.

Han Xiao acted decisively. Countless artillery fire seemed to illuminate the universe. The storm-like counterattack instantly tore apart dozens of warships!

With the current million-strong scale of the mechanical legion, coupled with the various specialties and Mechnical Force bonuses of the [True Mechanic], Han Xiao alone was a galactic legion, enough to destroy a fleet on his own.

Countless mechanical guards and floating sentries surrounded Han Xiao, forming layers of dense shields, like a nebula. The fleet's attacks could not penetrate at all, posing no threat.

Harrofal was also protected inside. He looked around at the dense mechanical army in his sight and couldn't help but exclaim... So rich!

In a short while, the hundreds of warships were torn apart and nearly destroyed. However, Han Xiao frowned.

The ease of the battle made him even more vigilant. He didn't believe that the DarkStar leader was a blockhead who would attack without any preparation.

With this little fleet, how could he eliminate himself, the enemy that even Star Cluster civilizations found troublesome?

He couldn't be tired of living and come to give himself up!

At this moment, the DarkStar leader, who was dodging the mechanical legion's siege, suddenly made a gesture to Han Xiao from afar. Several strange spells hit Han Xiao with lightning speed.

[You have been hit by the DarkStar leader's {Chain of Pain – Secret}, mysterious attribute check in progress… Check failed, your mysterious attribute is lower than the opponent's, the spell takes effect!]

[{Chain of Pain – Secret}: When the opponent takes damage, your health will decrease synchronously with the opponent's at a percentage. Whenever the opponent loses 1% of health, you will lose 0.55%~0.7% of health]

[You have been hit by the DarkStar leader's {Life Drain – Transfer}, mysterious attribute check in progress… Check failed, your mysterious attribute is lower than the opponent's, the spell takes effect!]

[{Life Drain – Transfer}: When you restore health, the recovery effect is reduced by 30%, and the opponent will share this 30% recovery effect. When you can theoretically restore 1000 health points, the actual effect is to restore 700 points, while the enemy can simultaneously restore 300 health.]

[You have been hit by the DarkStar leader's {Mind Spell – Collapse}, mysterious attribute check in progress… Check failed, your mysterious attribute is lower than the opponent's, the spell takes effect, you enter the {Mental Collapse} state!]

[{Mental Collapse}: Your mental resistance is reduced by 40%, you lose control of your body and cannot perform any actions, duration 6.2s]

The Mechnical Force in Han Xiao's body suddenly subsided, and his limbs became disobedient, freezing him in place. Han Xiao was slightly startled and suddenly remembered that he had the DarkStar leader's character card, which happened to be this move, {Mind Spell - Collapse}.

He couldn't move. The mechanical legion temporarily lost the Mechnical Force bonus. The DarkStar leader's pressure was greatly reduced. He broke through the siege in a thrilling manner. The magic shield was bombarded, shattered again and again. He himself lost a certain amount of health, and through the {Chain of Pain - Secret}, Han Xiao's health also declined as a percentage.

Looking at the battle information on the panel, Han Xiao quickly calculated in his mind.

"This Chain of Pain exchanges health as a percentage. The proportion of my health loss is about 60% of the DarkStar leader's on average, but my total health is more than twice that of this guy. However, the Life Drain's health recovery is calculated based on the actual recovery value. I recover 700 points of health, and he recovers 300 points. But from a percentage perspective, the extent of health recovery for me and him is actually similar..."

Han Xiao's eyes flashed. This meant that once he recovered health, the rate of health loss for both sides would probably be similar, with him being slightly slower at most.

It didn't seem difficult to break this cycle. He just had to not recover health and charge over recklessly.

At this time, the DarkStar leader raised his hand, and a warm glow fell all over his body. The wound wriggled and healed, and his health slowly climbed up.

Seeing this, Han Xiao frowned. If the enemy could heal himself, he wouldn't share the opponent's healing amount. In this case, if he wanted to kill the DarkStar leader, he had to take some risks...

Of course, if he just wanted to capture him, it would be much easier.

The DarkStar leader's style was obviously a curse-type mage. In any case, he was one of the Boss-level figures in version 2.0. This ability was even more troublesome than Ash, and he was better at single combat.

"Capture him first."

Han Xiao's mind flashed, deciding to be steady and not act rashly.

No matter how good the DarkStar leader was at recovering health, his energy was not unlimited. The two spells, Chain of Pain and Life Drain, required continuous consumption of energy. Millions of mechanical soldiers could easily drain him dry.

The effect of the Mind Spell quickly disappeared. Han Xiao regained his ability to move and manipulated the mechanical legion to encircle and intercept. The offensive immediately rose by several levels. The DarkStar leader fell into danger again, in a precarious situation.

Because of the Chain of Pain, Han Xiao was not aiming to kill this time, but to wear down the DarkStar leader's mana. Therefore, the DarkStar leader could barely survive, otherwise he would have been turned to ashes by the repeated True Damage.

Han Xiao didn't use the DarkStar leader's character card against the original. The DarkStar leader's main attribute was mysterious, which was much higher than his own, and the check would definitely fail.

"Could it be that he felt that his magic had improved, and he was bold enough to come and kill me alone? He wouldn't be so reckless."

Although the DarkStar leader's methods surprised him, they were not much of a threat. Looking at the DarkStar leader who was trapped, Han Xiao couldn't help but guess the other party's trump card.

Suddenly, a sense of alertness rose in Han Xiao's heart. He saw the DarkStar leader suddenly take out a black bead from his pocket. The texture was like crystal, and the bead was filled with misty black mist, with a red dot in the center.

The next moment, the DarkStar leader suddenly twisted the bead. A cloud of black mist, along with the red dot, spurted out, quickly turning into a dark humanoid creature, with rolling black smoke all over its body. It had no facial features, and the center of its face was a flashing red dot.

A strange and powerful pressure swept out. Han Xiao felt the hairs on his back stand on end, as if he was being targeted by some evil existence.

This was a pressure from the level of life!

"What is this thing!" Harrofal had been spectating and couldn't help but speak in the communication channel at this time, his tone was shocked, and he subconsciously assumed an unfamiliar combat posture.

Han Xiao did not answer, his eyes were already extremely solemn.

At his current level, there was only one kind of creature that could give him pressure…

Beyond Grade A!!

The mechanical legion launched another round of artillery fire at the DarkStar leader and the black mist figure beside him. The black mist figure moved, grabbed the DarkStar leader's shoulder, and with a flash of red light, the two suddenly teleported and appeared in another position, dodging the barrage.

"This bead is really useful!" The DarkStar leader's tense nerves immediately relaxed.

This black mist figure was an ability clone of the Lord of the Fallen Ark. In order to fuse a super-high-risk ability, he didn't know how many abilities he had absorbed, and he possessed countless mysterious and unpredictable abilities.

The DarkStar leader had seen the Lord of the Fallen Ark take action, and it was simply omnipotent. He only had one word to describe everything he had seen:

God!

The clone of the Lord of the Fallen Ark was the biggest trump card in this attack on Black Star!

And the force that planned this assassination was DarkStar's long-time backer – the Klent Empire!

Supporting DarkStar against the Godora civilization was one of the Klent's projects to disrupt the security of the Colton Star Cluster. DarkStar was just one of the chess pieces used to weaken the civilizations of the various star systems in Colton. Long ago, the Klent Empire had begun to secretly deal with the "friendly neighbor" Purple Crystal Civilization.

After DarkStar was destroyed by Han Xiao, it was also the Klent who found a way to send away the DarkStar leader and sent him to the Fallen Ark.

The Klent had secret contact with the Fallen Ark in private – they did not put all their eggs in the Overlord's basket. Due to the Fallen Ark's reputation, this secret partner could not be exposed.

After the DarkStar leader returned with his troops, he had been hiding in the Klent's territory, using the Klent's intelligence channels to inquire about Han Xiao's whereabouts, and the Association of War did not know this.

Han Xiao was a thorn in the side of both the DarkStar leader and the Klent. The two sides were like patient hunters, observing Han Xiao's movement patterns and discovering that in recent years, Han Xiao would occasionally go to the wormhole area of the Terrarium Star Cluster to find Harrofal.

Thus, the Klent came up with a plan. Black Star had proven that he was difficult to kill, so why not exile him?

Some time ago, the Association of War's tactic of taking Han Xiao to the Sorl Star Cluster coincided with the Klent's idea.

In order to complete this plan, the Klent secretly made a deal with the Lord of the Fallen Ark and obtained one of his ability clones - because they could not command the Overlord, the Klent brought in another secretly cooperating Beyond Grade A to help.

Although the clone of the Lord of the Fallen Ark possessed the combat power of a Beyond Grade A, its energy was limited. Unless he personally descended, he could not kill Black Star with just a clone.

And the Klent's plan was to use this clone to suppress Black Star and send him into the wormhole, exiling him from the Shattered Star Ring - you must know that the wormhole area not only connects to the explored universe, but also connects to the vast and desolate unexplored universe!

It was under this circumstance that the DarkStar leader accepted the Klent's assignment and followed Han Xiao to the wormhole area of the Terrarium Star Cluster with the clone of the Lord of the Fallen Ark to carry out the attack!

The reason why he was willing to work for the Klent was because only the intervention of a Star Cluster civilization could possibly establish a new home for the mixed-bloods.

Originally, he thought that the Klent would let him establish a mixed-blood Godora home in the Sorl Star Cluster, but this time the Klent's conditions made him unable to refuse:

If they succeeded in exiling Black Star, the Klent would create their own civilization for the mixed-blood Godora in the future Flickering World!

Looking at the contracting mechanical legion and the extremely vigilant Han Xiao, the DarkStar leader looked at the black mist figure beside him, which exuded a terrifying aura. His thin lips curled into an arc.

The situation was set!