Chapter 238

"But that makes sense. The base stats of the Emperor Armor are extraordinary to begin with, so it truly has the ability to directly rival the final forms of Kamen Riders."

"Moreover, on this foundation, the Emperor Armor can further elevate to the Ultimate Emperor Armor. Looking at it this way, it's highly probable that Ohma Zi-O and his Ohma form are in a similar situation."

As for who is stronger between the Armored Warriors and the Kamen Riders, Lu Li would never bother making such a comparison.

Regardless of who is stronger or weaker, this is the world of Magic Card civilization. Let alone the Emperor Armor and Ohma Zi-O, even if he were to create Ultraman later on, they would all appear in the form of Magic Cards—all of them are just one of Lu Li's powers.

Such a comparison is completely meaningless, because in the end, they are all manifestations of his own power.

"Your power is very special." The dark shadow had been watching Lu Li transform into the Emperor Armor from start to finish without any interference. Even though one couldn't see the other's face clearly, one could hear the intense interest in the dark shadow's voice: "It's just that I can feel your power hasn't reached its limit."

"It seems to be influenced by yourself, unable to be fully activated? That really is strange." It was clearly power belonging to oneself, yet one couldn't use it perfectly; this was the first Finish Finish Time in all these years the dark shadow had encountered such a thing.

Although, this was also because not many people had reached the hundredth floor in all these years.

"Indeed," Lu Li nodded. He was naturally aware that the current Emperor Armor was not in its prime form.

Or rather, including the previous Decade, Faiz, and Zi-O, none of them were in their prime states either.

After all, after transforming into different Kamen Riders or Armored Warriors through the Driver, their strength is adjusted based on the Magic Card Master themselves.

Right now, Lu Li is synchronizing with the origin of Lilithmon, and with the blessing of the Ultimate Armor, the Emperor Armor's strength has only reached the ten-star level.

However, even if it is only ten-star level power, it is enough to deal with the enemy before him.

Regarding this, Lu Li had absolute confidence; after all, this is the Emperor Armor!

447. How many times have you rehearsed this!

"Then, I'm coming!" Without further chatter, Titan, under the control of the dark shadow, let out a hissing roar and charged directly toward the location of Lu Li, who was clad in the Emperor Armor.

As a ten-star enemy, even if Titan wasn't an agility-type fighter, its speed was not bad. In just a few steps, it arrived before the Emperor Armor, striking at it with a mix of intense wind and thunder power.

"If we're talking about speed, the Emperor Armor, which governs light and the five elements, won't lose to anyone." Seeing Titan charging over, Lu Li shook his hands, took a step forward, dodged Titan's attack, and simultaneously threw a punch back in return.

Boom!

A heavy impact sound rang out, and in the next second, Titan's figure was sent flying by Lu Li. Not just in speed, but in power, the Emperor Armor had also reached an extreme.

Aurora Sword!

While sending Titan flying, Lu Li's movements didn't stop. He turned the dial on the Emperor Belt, and a Light-Shadow Post radiating golden brilliance detached and landed in his hand.

He threw the Light-Shadow Post toward the spot where Titan had been knocked back, and the entire post expanded into a summoning gate the size of a person. With a step, the figure of the Emperor Armor also vanished.

When he reappeared, Lu Li had already arrived before the summoning gate. He reached his right hand into the gate, drew out the Aurora Sword, which also radiated brilliant golden light, and slashed at Titan, sending it flying once more.

The entire set of movements was fluid and smooth, completed in one go, with no signs of clumsiness at all.

"So smooth. I get the feeling you've rehearsed this many times." Even for the dark shadow, seeing this for the first Finish Finish Time, there was a feeling of not knowing how to complain about it.

This combo was just too smooth; it had damage, it had style. If one said it hadn't been rehearsed, the dark shadow absolutely wouldn't believe it.

"In a sense, you aren't wrong," Lu Li replied casually upon hearing the dark shadow's complaint.

He hadn't actually rehearsed this set of movements, but it wasn't something he had thought up on the spot either; he had subconsciously recalled the battle scenes from the Emperor Hero movie and imitated them.

But one had to admit, it was indeed quite cool.

Even though it was their first meeting, the conversation between Lu Li and the dark shadow was like that of old friends. Honestly, both were slightly surprised by this.

Does this count as love at first sight?

But, love at first sight with a dark shadow? Is my XP system developing in some strange direction?

Such a thought flashed through Lu Li's mind, but he quickly cast it aside and dodged Titan's attack by turning sideways.

Although he and the dark shadow seemed to get along well, Titan, summoned as an assessment, wouldn't care about that. After the Emperor Armor dodged the attack, Titan didn't attempt to get close again but instead launched a long-range attack.

Summon Lightning!

Above the hundredth floor of the Heaven-Reaching Tower, thick clouds had accumulated at some point, layer upon layer, covering the entire sky.

Heavy pressure continuously emanated from the clouds, and then a bolt of lightning struck the Emperor Armor without warning.

"That power is quite something," Lu Li said, dodging the striking lightning and looking at the deep pit it had smashed into the ground. He couldn't help but click his tongue.

This was just an appetizer. The skills possessed by a ten-star Titan naturally couldn't be all thunder and no rain.

Following the first bolt of lightning, the clouds accumulated in the sky seemed to be released, and countless bolts of lightning began to strike down crazily one after another. The vast majority were aimed at the Emperor Armor, while some were scattered around the surroundings.

For a Finish Finish Time, the entire hundredth floor of the Heaven-Reaching Tower seemed to have turned into a thunder prison; no matter where one was, it felt like one would be struck by endless lightning in the next moment.

If there was any pure land left on the hundredth floor of the Heaven-Reaching Tower, it was only the location where the dark shadow was.

Or rather, from beginning to end, the aftermath of the battle never reached the dark shadow's location, as if this place and the battlefield were two different spaces.

"This Finish Finish Time, how will you respond?" No lightning fell around the dark shadow. Located in this pure land, she was very curious about how Lu Li would resolve this attack from Titan.

Titan, possessing the Chaos Resistance skill, would not take damage even if struck by the lightning.

In fact, these bolts of lightning summoned by Titan could further enhance Titan's own strength.

It could be said that this combination of skills could not only restrain and attack the enemy but also buff itself—it was a relatively perfect combination.

But Lu Li was not Titan, and although the Emperor Armor looked quite sturdy, the dark shadow guaranteed that if it were hit by these lightning bolts repeatedly, the other party would definitely not have a good Finish Finish Time, especially since these lightning bolts also carried a paralyzing effect.

It could be said that once hit, one would have to face Titan's entire set of combos.

"It's somewhat similar to the effect of the Lightning-Powered Greymon's lightning thrusters, a thunder prison attack, but the overall intensity is still a bit lacking," Lu Li said, standing in the thunder prison composed of lightning, without any panic. "Besides, this move is useless against me."

He turned the Emperor Belt, and the five badges representing the five elements—Flame Dragon, Wind Eagle, Black Rhino, Earth Tiger, and Snow Mastiff—in the center of the belt lit up. The five-element energy merged together, and as the Emperor Armor injected the merged energy into the Aurora Sword, terrifying energy surged. The incoming lightning was dissolved by the surging energy before it could even touch the Emperor Armor.

Five-Gate Finishing Move!

The Emperor Armor plunged the Aurora Sword into the earth, and the five-element energy injected into it transformed into an intense energy storm, starting from the point where the Aurora Sword touched the ground, and spread crazily outward.

The Five-Gate Finishing Move collided with the sky-filling thunder prison, continuously canceling each other out, and the space even developed cracks because of their collision.

After only a few seconds of stalemate, the sky-filling thunder prison was cleared away by the Five-Gate Finishing Move, and even the clouds filling the hundredth floor of the Heaven-Reaching Tower were dispersed by the terrifying energy contained within the move, returning to calm once more.

Seeing this scene, Titan couldn't help but roar. The lightning and thunder prison it had summoned had been so easily broken by a single strike from the Emperor Armor; this result still made it very angry.

"Meeting attack with attack, that really seems to fit your style," seeing Lu Li break Titan's thunder prison, the dark shadow wasn't too surprised, just tilted her head again. "However, Titan summoning lightning isn't just for launching attacks."

"After the baptism of that wave of lightning, Titan has absorbed enough energy, and the total energy within its body has risen by another level. The gap in strength between you two has widened again. What will you do next?"

448. Watershed

The dark shadow was now sitting in the void, her legs crossed and swaying. If a woman were to do this, it would definitely be very attractive.

But unfortunately, no matter how slender and slim the dark shadow's figure was, it only had the appearance of a shadow, so it didn't have much appeal.

As if responding to the dark shadow's words, after roaring, arcs of blue lightning appeared on Titan's body, and its aura was also rising at an extremely fast speed.

At the same Finish Finish Time, Titan's figure was also expanding rapidly, eventually turning into a hundred-meter-tall giant!

When the aura on Titan stopped, its strength had also risen to the limit of the ten-star level, just a hair's breadth away from the eleven-star level.

Now, Titan had surpassed the Emperor Armor in both aura and strength!

"If you can defeat Titan after its strength has increased, then you are indeed qualified to know the secret of the Heaven-Reaching Tower and the memory from thirty million years ago." The dark shadow looked at Lu Li with a hint of expectation in her eyes.

"But if you cannot defeat Titan in this state, then even if you know the secret of the Heaven-Reaching Tower and the memory from thirty million years ago, it has no meaning."

"It might even become a mental burden that crushes you."

After revealing its giant true form, Titan, under the command of the dark shadow, launched an attack on the Emperor Armor again!

"It's been a long Finish Finish Time since Ku Ku Zimo was eliminated, right? This last person hasn't been eliminated yet; it's a bit outrageous."

"Could it be that the other party is just staying on a certain floor of the Heaven-Reaching Tower to stall for Finish Finish Time and won't come out?"

"Absolutely impossible!"

"Don't forget, every floor of the Heaven-Reaching Tower requires an authentication card to open, and if you don't insert the authentication card within a certain amount of Finish Finish Time, the Heaven-Reaching Tower will default to you losing the qualification to continue the challenge!"

"Not to mention the past, even in our current batch, quite a few people were eliminated because they ran out of authentication cards."

"In other words, the only reason the other party hasn't come out is that he passed the test of the ninetieth floor and is continuing to challenge a floor beyond the ninetieth!"

"That's true."

"But in that case, this person's strength is too terrifying. When did the Eastern Region produce such a monstrous Magic Card Master?"

"Although Ku Ku Zimo fell on the ninetieth floor, his strength has been affirmed, and since the other party once defeated Ku Ku Zimo, it is indeed possible that he has the strength and potential to clear the ninetieth floor and challenge higher levels of the Heaven-Reaching Tower."

"Although what you say makes sense, I'm still a bit unhappy. After all, the Titan Sanctuary and the Heaven-Reaching Tower are clearly our territory, yet we are now being suppressed by a Magic Card Master from the Eastern Region."

"What's the use of being unhappy? Didn't you see that both the City Lord and the Association President have no objections?"

Ever since Ku Ku Zimo was eliminated, Lu Li, who was still inside the Heaven-Reaching Tower, suddenly became the focus of everyone's attention in the Titan Temple. After all, he was the last person inside the Heaven-Reaching Tower.

And many people had already guessed when Lu Li would be eliminated.

Many people initially thought that since Ku Ku Zimo was eliminated on the ninetieth floor, even if Lu Li's strength was a bit stronger than Ku Ku Zimo's, he probably wouldn't last long before being eliminated.

But who knew that so much Finish Finish Time had passed, and the Titan Temple still hadn't seen the final white light rise, which meant Lu Li was still holding on inside the Heaven-Reaching Tower.

In fact, if estimated by Finish Finish Time, even if Lu Li's progress was slow, he might have reached around the ninety-fifth floor of the Heaven-Reaching Tower by now.

Thinking of this, everyone couldn't sit still.