Chapter 1 Mechanical Legion

Mechanical legions surrounded them, countless cannons aimed at the black mist figure and the DarkStar leader. Energy was condensed but not released. Han Xiao scrutinized the Super-A Grade figure who was giving him a sense of pressure, his brow furrowing as he rapidly recalled the person's origins.

Super-A Grades were even rarer than Calamity Grades. Each one was a top-tier expert in the Star Sea, and Han Xiao had a clearer memory of the Super-A Grades' information.

"Black mist body, red light dots..."

A flash of inspiration struck Han Xiao. Could this guy be the [Otherworldly Deity]—meaning 'God of Abilities'—a notorious Super-A Grade expert?

The black mist figure strongly resembled the Otherworldly Deity's clone in his memory. After filtering through his memories, Han Xiao found that this was most likely the Otherworldly Deity's clone.

If that was the case, it might barely count as good news… Han Xiao narrowed his eyes.

The Otherworldly Deity was one of the ultimate bosses of the Chaotic Evil alignment. His name was a secret, and he was generally referred to as "Otherworldly Deity" or "Lord of the Fallen Ark." He also had other nicknames such as "Guide of Mad Believers," "Tide of Extinction," "Slaughterer of Living Beings," and so on.

Even among Super-A Grades, the Otherworldly Deity's combat strength ranked among the top. His record was astonishing; he had never been defeated, at worst ending in a tie, and even had records of killing Super-A Grades!

Even the three major civilizations were quite wary of him.

If the Otherworldly Deity's main body descended, Han Xiao estimated that no one in the entire Shattered Star Ring would be his opponent. Even Super-A Grades like Heber, the Sorcerer, and the Dragon Emperor could not defeat the Otherworldly Deity.

But if it was just a clone of the Otherworldly Deity, although it possessed the pressure of a Super-A Grade, its actual combat strength would definitely be far weaker than the main body.

Moreover, this battlefield has advantages for me… Han Xiao glanced at the surrounding wormholes and came to a conclusion.

——I can fight!

These thoughts flashed by in an instant, and Han Xiao completed his assessment of the situation. He took a deep breath, calmed his agitated heart, accelerated the blood flow throughout his body, and enhanced his concentration.

This was the first time he had faced a Super-A Grade head-on. He devoted his full attention to it, suddenly thought of something, and began to communicate with Harrofal in a low voice on the channel.

"Professor, now you and I are in danger. This is not the time to be secretive. Tell me what mechs you have. I must integrate all available forces."

Harrofal hesitated for only a moment before whispering it out on the communication channel. After Han Xiao listened, his eyes lit up, and he immediately had a plan. After exchanging a few words with Harrofal on the channel, he took something handed over by Harrofal.

At this moment, the Otherworldly Deity's clone acted again, disappearing without a trace in a teleport, directly appearing in the array of the mechanical legions.

Before the surrounding mechanical soldiers could turn their guns and fire at him, he disappeared again in another teleport. Like a Flash spell without a cooldown, he crazily jumped through the mechanical legions, and almost instantly, he passed through the mechanical legions' defense line and arrived in front of Han Xiao.

When the Otherworldly Deity's clone teleported, Han Xiao had already reacted. First, he had Harrofal quickly move away from the battlefield, then he retreated swiftly, unfolding compression orbs in the process, releasing a large number of nanoparticles, which transformed into hundreds of hexagonal flat metal plates. The metal plate's appearance resembled a solar panel circuit board, but the mechanical circuits were more complex. These were "spatial pressure plates" used to stabilize the space-time coordinate coefficient.

These metal plates scattered remotely, forming a loose spherical structure, with large intervals between each other. The metal plates were enveloped in a distorted fluctuation, and in the interior region of this sphere, the space-time coefficient was gradually fixed at a stable value, and the spatial wrinkles were flattened.

This was the product of the Manipulation系 (xi) advanced knowledge, [Advanced Spatial Application]—a spatial fixation device, specializing in dealing with all kinds of fancy tricks!

When the Otherworldly Deity's clone teleported in front of Han Xiao, it also fell within the range of the spatial fixation device. The handy teleport was immediately restricted, but the Otherworldly Deity's clone did not pause at all. Abandoning teleport, he transformed into an afterimage, flying at an unbelievable speed.

Han Xiao had only just intended to retreat when his vision suddenly darkened. The Otherworldly Deity's clone crossed a large distance in an instant, standing face-to-face with him, almost no different from teleport. This speed was conservatively estimated to be above 3,000 Agility!

Ability—Godspeed!

"That's way too fast!" Han Xiao exclaimed in surprise, hurriedly gritting his teeth to mobilize his machinery force.

The Yama Ape mech's psionic reactor's power suddenly climbed, and faint blue electric arcs burst out from the surface of the armor. The psionic energy burst out through the mech, forming a 360-degree omnidirectional blue shockwave, exploding violently to push the Otherworldly Deity's clone away.

However, the exploding psionic shockwave directly passed through the body of the Otherworldly Deity's clone, as if he were just a nonexistent projection. The shockwave only caused ripple-like disturbances in his figure, with extremely minimal impact.

Ability—Dimensional Gap!

The next moment, the Otherworldly Deity's clone materialized again, lightly pressing a palm toward Han Xiao's chest.

Han Xiao's hair stood on end. Without saying a word, he remotely and urgently interrupted the spatial fixation device, then immediately used Advanced Void Shuttle,遁入 (dun ru) the void dimension, preparing to avoid this palm strike.

He had a feeling that if he was hit by this palm, he would definitely be in deep trouble!

The world in front of him seemed to freeze, slowing down countless times. Everything was tinged with a hazy, water-like brilliance. After Han Xiao entered the void dimension, he was about to retreat immediately.

At this moment, he discovered that the black mist on the surface of the Otherworldly Deity's clone suddenly vibrated, instantly breaking free from the frozen state and also entering the void dimension!

The Otherworldly Deity's clone opened his five fingers and clenched them tightly. Han Xiao could clearly see that the surrounding space seemed to have been hit hard, with thick streaks of light cracks appearing. Before he could even form the next thought, the surrounding void dimension shattered like a broken mirror. Han Xiao fell out of the void dimension and returned to material reality.

Void Shuttle was directly interrupted!

At the same time, the Otherworldly Deity's clone followed like a shadow, sticking close again and striking down with a palm.

Han Xiao's breath hitched. The dangerous intuition was like a sharp knife, stabbing into his heart again, almost causing his heartbeat to stop. This was entirely the body's instinctive reaction, which he could not control at all, watching helplessly as the Otherworldly Deity's clone's palm approached in slow motion.

Unable to dodge, he could only resist head-on!

Han Xiao gritted his teeth and immediately adjusted the mech's output to full power, throwing various buffing skills onto himself as if they were free, and even directly activated several character cards that increased strength, including Nagokin's [Muscle is Truth].

The surface of the Yama Ape mech bulged with small mechanical components, opening and closing, shaking like dragon scales, generating surging power.

The back of the mech also revealed a dozen fan-shaped force-absorbing devices. Han Xiao gathered all the strength in his body, his arms positioned in a blocking stance, activated his shield, and met the attack head-on.

The palm pressed against the psionic shield, seemingly without any force, but Han Xiao felt an unparalleled, overwhelming force surging over.

Ability—Star Throw!

Fortunately, there was no sound in the vacuum; otherwise, the sonic boom caused by this strike alone could have震死 (zhen si) Grade C and below Supers! (shake to death)

Han Xiao's vision went black, and he lost consciousness for a moment. When he came back to his senses, he found that his body was flying backward uncontrollably, at the speed of a meteor, inflicting terrifying physical stress, smashing through all the mechanical soldiers along the way.

The Otherworldly Deity's clone in Han Xiao's vision instantly became a small dot. He did not know how far he had been blown away by this strike.

The surface armor of the mech was constantly shaking to absorb force, but it quickly shattered and fell off. The fan-shaped force-absorbing devices behind him were directly torn to pieces the moment they were hit, because the force they were bearing exceeded the extreme value.

Han Xiao hurriedly glanced at the panel and saw that this palm strike alone had reduced the armor value of the Yama Ape mech by 24%, and his HP had also dropped by more than 16,000 points, close to 10% of his total HP. If it weren't for the armor and shield blocking some of the force, this palm strike could have taken away two-fifths of his HP. The combat information was a series of [Strength Overwhelm] prompts.

"This is the power of a Super-A Grade…" Han Xiao clicked his tongue.

The terror of the Otherworldly Deity lies in the fact that even if the abilities he absorbs are very ordinary, he can evolve the ordinary abilities through superposition, and at the same time, through his own Super-A Grade energy level, he can exert the power of these abilities to the Super-A Grade standard!

The initial forms of "Godspeed" and "Star Throw" are actually two of the most common low-level abilities—speed amplification and strength amplification!

Even if it is only a clone, it is still at the Super-A Grade level!

While trying to stabilize his body, Han Xiao also reactivated the spatial fixation device to restrict the Otherworldly Deity clone's teleport ability. In the brief exchange just now, he had already had the mechanical legions gather their cannons and aim them all at the Otherworldly Deity. At this moment, without hesitation, he immediately ordered the legions to fire.

Colorful rays illuminated the universe!

Thousands of rays of light drowned the Otherworldly Deity clone. However, the next moment, a black hole seemed to be born out of thin air. The energy of these cannons swirled like a vortex, gradually shrinking and being completely absorbed by the Otherworldly Deity clone. As if he had eaten a great tonic, the red dots on his face, which had been somewhat dim, became bright again.

Ability—Black Hole!

The clone's energy was limited. The Lord of the Fallen Ark would not infuse too much energy into it. Therefore, the Otherworldly Deity clone, like Ultraman, was a 真男人 (zhen nan ren) for only three minutes. This wave of concentrated fire just happened to give him a big boost of energy. (true man)

"You old bastard, are you cheating?!" Han Xiao finally stabilized his body, seeing this scene, his mouth twitched.

He couldn't withstand the attacks, and he couldn't hit him either.

You're even more of a rogue than me!

"Hahahaha!!"

Seeing this scene, the DarkStar leader, who was watching the battle from afar, almost burst out laughing.

Originally, he was worried that a single Otherworldly Deity clone would not be able to suppress Black Star. Now it seemed that his worries were unnecessary. In his eyes, the Otherworldly Deity clone was dealing with Black Star as easily as an adult beating a child!

This time, there was absolutely no possibility for Black Star to escape!

The next moment, Han Xiao turned his head and ran, taking the initiative to rush toward the wormhole.

Seeing this, the DarkStar leader put down all his worries, his whole body relaxed, a smile on his lips, and a satisfied look on his face.

"It seems that Black Star feels that the Otherworldly Deity clone will threaten his life, so he wants to escape by using the wormhole. Haha, so clever, taking the initiative to exile himself to save his life. This saves a lot of trouble."

The Otherworldly Deity clone easily passed through the mechanical legions and immediately chased after him. The two transformed into streamers, chasing and fleeing through the wormhole zone, passing through unstable wormholes one after another.

Although these wormholes were unstable, generally speaking, the wormholes with the most intense energy fluctuations were connected to locations farther away on the other side. This rule had not been confirmed and was considered the experience of interstellar citizens.

The Otherworldly Deity clone was faster, pressing closer step by step, his goal being to send Han Xiao into the largest wormhole in this wormhole zone, which would most likely exile him even farther away.

Near the largest wormhole, Han Xiao had already felt the terrifying spatial tearing force. He looked back at the Otherworldly Deity clone who was following closely behind, as if toying with him, gritted his teeth, and controlled his thrusters, wanting to turn and avoid this wormhole.

At this moment, a hoarse chuckle rang in Han Xiao's ear, as if it were a telepathic transmission.

"Stop struggling. Hurry up and take a chance with me. Drifting through wormholes is one of my few pleasures."

This sentence was actually a telepathic transmission from the Otherworldly Deity clone. The next moment, he teleported behind Han Xiao, tightly grabbing Han Xiao's arm, the red dots on his face trembling slightly, as if outlining an upward arc representing a smile.

So you can talk!

Han Xiao felt a headache.

Immediately afterward, the Otherworldly Deity clone dragged Han Xiao into the wormhole together. The figures of the two were instantly swallowed by the wormhole and disappeared without a trace.

The machinery force buffs of the mechanical legions all disappeared, and they stood there呆立 (dai li) in place. (dumbstruck)

"Success!!"

The DarkStar leader's eyes burst with精光 (jing guang), unable to suppress his excitement, clenching his fist with force, extremely excited. (gleaming light, excitement)

Finally, Black Star was exiled. The task assigned by Krent was successfully completed, and the new homeland of the Mixed-blood Godora could be expected soon!

"It's over, it's all over..."

The DarkStar leader muttered to himself, his eyes suddenly filled with tears. In his teary-eyed vision, he seemed to see a future full of hope.

The Mixed-blood Godora had their own homeland, living and multiplying in a new Star Cluster. Everyone was happy and harmonious, and there was no more pure-blood discrimination against them. Although each mixed-blood looked and belonged to a different race, our essence was the same, we were all new Godorans.

The DarkStar leader wiped away his tears, put away his thoughts, and was about to turn around and leave when he suddenly remembered something. He turned his head to look for Harrofal's figure.

He still remembered this Calamity Grade who had not participated in the battle. He had seen the information, and it seemed that this was a research talent from a Star Cluster level civilization. He thought he could catch him and add to his merits.

After searching for a while, he finally discovered Harrofal's figure in an area far away from the battlefield. He was about to step forward to capture him when Harrofal's next action made him slightly stunned.

He saw that Harrofal didn't even look at him, and took out a compression orb on his own, unfolding it into a strangely shaped mechanical device, a bit like a speaker, but with a complex multi-layered dovetail structure. Compared to a combat weapon, it looked more like a sophisticated scientific research instrument. The machine extended eight mechanical arms, the ends of which were like the needles of an old record player, following the mechanical arms, as if they were drawing a picture, leaving blue light traces.

The light traces became deeper and deeper, suddenly expanding and transforming into a teleportation-like blue light circle. After slightly shrinking, it吐 (tu) out a figure like vomiting, and then the light circle instantly closed. (vomit, spit)

"This thing is really useful, here you go." Han Xiao stabilized his figure, casually throwing the mechanical beacon, sparking with electricity and emitting black smoke, to Harrofal.

"Hmph, I'm a scientific researcher. Of course the things I research are useful, but if you fly into other unmeasured wormholes, this machine won't be able to find you."

Harrofal looked at the beacon with heartache and put it into his mech. This was originally what he had given to Han Xiao.

Han Xiao twisted his neck, turned his head to look at the stunned DarkStar leader, put his hands on his hips, curled his lips, and sent a voice message.

"Didn't expect it, I'm back!"