Chapter 1 Dozens of Super-A Grades

Dozens of Super-A Grades were frozen in mid-air, a spectacular sight, but Han Xiao and K’Su-Yeh had no time to admire it. Both were single-mindedly focused on dealing with the Guardian.

The interference was only effective for a limited time. Now was the time to fight with explosive power. If they couldn't quickly kill the Guardian's main body before the interference device's effect wore off, Han Xiao would have no choice but to use the Emperor to escape with the other two.

The more outsiders who died in this secondary dimension, the more clones the Guardian would have. This was the fourth batch, and the challenge had become terrifying.

One main body and seven clones were unaffected, still moving freely. Even with K’Su-Yeh actively holding back the clones, his energy was limited, and he couldn't cover everything. Attacks from the clones occasionally broke through his defenses and landed on Han Xiao's Mechanical Deity.

To maintain his output, Han Xiao didn't dodge the attacks, taking them all head-on, completely undefended. It was a style of trading injuries for injuries, like grabbing a hapless victim in a brawl and beating them senseless. Relying on his own toughness, these stray attacks posed little threat and only accelerated the accumulation of temporary attribute bonuses, increasing his output.

At this moment, he held nothing back, using all his explosive abilities. The Mechanical Deity and the mechanical army had completely entered berserk mode.

All of the mechanical system's overload abilities were activated. The true damage from [Legendary Combat Technique] constantly triggered, and the divine skill [Painful Vengeance] displayed formidable lethality. Every 3% of health lost would inflict 1.5% of health as melee damage, all stacked onto the Star Shattering Blade's slashes.

This ability came from the leader of DarkStar. Back then, he was only a Calamity Grade with a few hundred thousand health. Now, he had become a Super-A Grade behemoth with over forty million health. Even if each attack only dealt 1.5% damage, that was still about six hundred thousand extra damage.

Moreover, to constantly take damage to recover energy, Han Xiao kept firing the weapons inside the Mechanical Deity at the main body. His health rose and fell in cycles, constantly triggering the skill. Even though this normal damage would be reduced by shields and resistances, it couldn't conceal the lethality of [Painful Vengeance]. The power of each attack far exceeded the trump cards of normal Super-A Grades.

Coupled with the bonuses from the Machinery Faith, the ten layers of mechanical branch divinity transformation, [Fearless Heart], [Extreme Flow·Blood Qi Rampage], the extra bonuses from multiple gold mechanical equipment, and the skyrocketing attributes after level 340 advancement… even Han Xiao himself didn't know how terrifying his lethality was when he went all out.

Under the concentrated fire of the Mechanical Deity and the mechanical army, the energy shield summoned by the Guardian's main body basically exploded as soon as it appeared, and its health dropped rapidly.

Although it was a dimensional consciousness, with inexhaustible energy, its own strength limited its energy output. The speed at which it replenished its energy shield couldn't keep up with Han Xiao's destruction efficiency.

If it were a living individual with normal thoughts, it would naturally understand that it was no match for Han Xiao and would not fight to the death, but would definitely start looking for an escape route. However, the Guardian's main body had no emotions and would only act according to its incomplete preset program. It couldn't violate its core mechanism and would not adopt an escape plan, only fighting to the end.

The Guardian's main body's only advantage was its agility. It was in its element in its own home, while Han Xiao's Void abilities were temporarily frozen, preventing him from using various teleportation methods. Instead, he couldn't keep up with the opponent's speed, and most of the mechanical army's long-range attacks were dodged by the incredibly agile Guardian's main body.

"A lot of output is being wasted. It has certain characteristics of an energy body, and its health recovery speed is also very fast. If this drags on, the success rate of me blasting it to pieces before the interference device fails is only about 40%, which is a bit low… I haven't used my [Gene Liberation] yet, and the cooldown time is quite long. I should only have time to use it once, so I need to maximize my output…"

Han Xiao's movements didn't stop as he unleashed firepower, his eyes flickering slightly.

It seemed he had to use his traditional skill…

With that thought, the Mechanical Deity suddenly disintegrated, transforming back into a sky-filled mechanical army. Han Xiao's main body broke free, opened his arms, and exposed his defenseless body, enticing the inflexible Guardian's main body.

Sure enough, the Guardian's main body didn't say a word and directly turned its head to charge over. In its preset tactical model, the tactic against a Mechanic's weakness was to strike when the target exposed their main body, attacking the Mechanic's "fragile" body.

Han Xiao didn't dodge or avoid, welcoming it head-on, allowing the Guardian's main body to crash into his thick chest muscles, detonating a ring of energy shockwaves, not caring about the health lost from this attack. He circled his arms around, tightly embracing the target, not allowing it to break free, and then grinned.

"Still trying to run, huh? Come to Daddy's arms."

He hadn't used this trick in a long time, mainly because he was infamous in the explored universe. Everyone was wary of this move of his, and only an idiot would fall into this trap. Only when facing this kind of guy who didn't know his details could his traditional skill bloom for a second spring.

Without the slightest hesitation, Han Xiao directly activated [Gene Liberation] and simultaneously issued instructions to the mechanical army.

"Eat this—Heaven! And! Earth! Live! Together!" (idiom meaning to die together)

Boom boom boom boom boom!!

In an instant, endless waves of psionic cannons instantly engulfed the two figures, and a dazzling ball of light instantly expanded, occupying everyone's vision.

"A Mechanic can fight like this?"

Jess, unable to move, felt his eyes open wide, gaining knowledge.

"Are all young people these days playing so big…" K’Su-Yeh, who was fighting the clones on the other side, twitched his eye, the energy level fed back by his senses made his heart jump, feeling a strong threat to his life.

The dozens of Superpower Security Department agents present were even more dumbfounded.

From the beginning, they had wondered what kind of feud these two groups had that they were fighting so fiercely.

Didn't these two wanted criminals come to attack their headquarters? Why didn't they take advantage of their frozen state to attack, but instead focused on dealing with a group of mysterious superhumans that appeared out of nowhere… Instead, they, the main characters, had become spectators?

Just as everyone's thoughts flashed through their minds, the light sphere of chain energy reaction suddenly burst open, erupting with terrifying energy shockwaves.

Boom!

The surrounding mechanical troops and other people were all blown away, instantly clearing out a large blank area.

The light dissipated, and Han Xiao was seen floating alone in the center of the explosion, covered in blood, in front of a shattered corpse.

Han Xiao's face was expressionless, looking very calm, but in reality, he almost broke out in a cold sweat, his mood difficult to calm.

'Damn, that was close. So my attack power has reached this point. I almost sent myself to the afterlife…'

Just now, his luck exploded and he rolled into the highest damage amplification range of [Gene Liberation] with a 20% probability. The lethality erupted by the mechanical army scared him as well. The huge fluctuations in his health made his heart jump.

'The scale of the troops I can control now is very large, and the attack power is completely different from back then. I have to use this move carefully in the future, otherwise, one day it will really become mutually assured destruction…'

Han Xiao patted his chest and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Even he was in such a dangerous situation, and the Guardian's main body was even more miserable, dying on the spot. From the battle to the ascension, a one-stop service, without even leaving a last word… although it wouldn't have spoken anyway.

"You killed him just like that?"

K’Su-Yeh widened his eyes.

He thought it would be a bitter battle, but he didn't expect that Black Star's lethality was already so terrifying, eliminating the target in a few strokes, with shockingly high efficiency.

Although he didn't say it explicitly, his tone undoubtedly revealed his thoughts—it was resolved so easily?

Hearing K’Su-Yeh's words, Han Xiao knew what he was thinking and said angrily:

"You think it's easy because I'm awesome! If it were you, we would definitely have to run away today."

He wouldn't bully the players. Even ordinary peak Super-A Grades would face a near-death experience in this situation. Only a freak like him could complete this mission relatively easily.

The exchange between the two in the mental channel was only instantaneous. At this moment, the chain reaction of the dimensional consciousness being destroyed appeared.

The remains of the Guardian's main body automatically decomposed into dust-like particles and dissipated in an instant. With it as the center, the surrounding space also showed the same signs, and the affected area continued to spread in all directions, like a singularity collapsing. The entire dimension began to collapse in a chain reaction. The visual effect was like the director of a certain cosmic family planning office snapping his fingers.

This distorted space-time loop phantom of information state was like a precision instrument that barely maintained its balance, and the dimensional consciousness was the most core component. Now that there was a problem with the core, the entire instrument stopped working. The balance was broken, and it began to malfunction and produce chain disintegration.

Only Han Xiao and K’Su-Yeh, the two outsiders, and the things they brought in from the outside were unaffected. Other substances belonging to this looping space-time were decomposing. The first to bear the brunt were the mechanical troops created in the past few months and the other seven Guardian clones, which were annihilated and evaporated before everyone's eyes.

The foundation of the space-time loop was disrupted, and the effect of the interference device was also lost. Many Superpower Security Department members saw this scene and were all shocked and uncertain, subconsciously wanting to continue to encircle and suppress the two.

However, the body of a division commander who was closest also began to decompose automatically. Under everyone's terrified gaze, this person turned into flying ash almost in the blink of an eye. His supreme-grade combat power had no resistance at all.

"What's going on? What did you do?!"

"Run! You'll die!"

The people present were extremely horrified. They couldn't care less about capturing the two and turned around to escape, wanting to stay as far away as possible from the constantly expanding decomposition area.

Jess stayed where he was and smiled slightly at Han Xiao.

Han Xiao noticed the vibration of the communicator, took it out and looked at it. The remaining technical data had been sent by Jess, and the other party had fulfilled the transaction.

There was also a message left by Jess:

"Black Star, our world's restart plan has not completely failed. At least we left a legacy for the future.

I know you have some precautions against me. I admit that I do have extra selfish motives. There is no need to hide it from you now. I have imparted all my knowledge to you, which is both a transaction and an experiment…

Remember the sanctuary mechanism I told you about? Reviving a Super-A Grade requires a medium with the target's information… and you, who have inherited the knowledge, may become my medium.

If one day, you successfully communicate with the sanctuary's revival function, please try to revive me and see if you can cross the iteration. Whether it fails or succeeds, it will be valuable information for you.

However, even if the revival is successful, I will not retain the memories of the loop. That will be another completely new me. This should be the last time we meet. Although the time we spent together was short, I am very happy to meet you… the successor of this iteration."

After reading the message, Han Xiao looked up and found that Jess had a relieved smile on his face as his whole body gradually turned into flying ash and disappeared without a trace.

Looking at this scene, Han Xiao silently pondered this word.

"Successor, huh…"