Chapter 794: Devour

Yingzhou looked at the Sage who had crashed into the wall, recalling the source of the cracking sound he had just heard.

It was as if that sound had come from very far away, extremely faint, and furthermore, after that cracking sound appeared, his own psionic energy seemed to have grown much stronger.

Moreover, Yingzhou could now even sense the battle within the First Defense Zone; Sanguinius and Corax had already destroyed most of the Saiboke Giant Soldier factory.

"I didn't expect our collision to break the limiter of the Feng Qi Xing Alliance; they must be very anxious right now, right?

It will take them about half a Xiuluo Holy Month to get here; you have enough time to consider whether to cooperate with me. Once the Feng Qi Xing Alliance arrives, it will be too late."

The Sage had just pulled its body from the wall when it felt its connection to the "Source Point" restored. While speaking to Yingzhou, it began to re-transmit the data from the recent battle and the data that had not finished uploading earlier.

"No need to consider; that is something I will have to face! And you, you will pay the price for your actions!"

Yingzhou felt the psionic energy within him growing stronger; even the flames on his Greatsword were no longer mere wisps, but had become much denser.

However, in terms of psionic fluctuations, he had restrained himself quite a bit and was not emitting powerful psionic waves.

As he spoke, Yingzhou launched another attack at the Sage, but he did not expect the Sage to condense energy into blades on both arms this time, preparing to meet Yingzhou's strike.

With the shattering of the Feng Qi Xing Alliance's limiter, the Sage discovered that Yingzhou's energy had not increased much, while it could rapidly increase its own energy intensity.

Facing the sword strike swung by the Human before it, it was confident it could catch...

Rip!

With Yingzhou's blade as the center, a clearly visible slash directly cut the Sage's main body in two!

Countless tiny data fragments splattered out from within the Sage's body.

The entire space trembled violently, and the data streams flowing on the surface became incomparably chaotic and sluggish, even falling into darkness in large swaths.

"Core... core structure... damaged! Logic circuit... overloaded! Error! Error! Cannot comprehend! Physical impact... contains will energy... destroys data stability..."

The Sage's voice became intermittent for the first time, filled with incredulous "astonishment" and the noise of logic collapse!

Yingzhou stood before the wounded Sage, his entire body glowing with brilliant golden light.

He looked at the Sage, which had been cut in two but could still speak, and narrowed his eyes slightly.

This Saiboke race, how exactly could it be thoroughly killed?

"It seems your 'logic' isn't as indestructible as all that."

Just then, Selina, who had been watching the two fight from the sidelines, spoke up.

"Perhaps I can try. A professor in the First Defense Zone once installed a module in my heart, but that module was never activated until just now when you cut this Saiboke's body in two; that module seems to have been activated."

Selina raised her head and looked at the Sage's remains, which were attempting to reassemble.

"It has been activated... I can feel it! It is 'craving'... it is 'calling'..."

Selina pointed at the Sage.

"Target... locked! It needs... it needs to devour that! That high-purity Saiboke core logic!"

The Sage seemed to sense a fatal threat as well; its intermittent voice suddenly rose in pitch.

"Detected... abnormal homologous source... high threat... logic devour... request... isolation... escape...!"

The data streams of its two severed halves instantly turned violent; instead of attempting to reconnect, they darted in opposite directions, trying to tear through space and escape!

"Then devour it, Selina!"

The golden light around Yingzhou surged again, and powerful psionic energy suppressed the two parts of the Sage's remains as they tried to escape.

That power, which froze space, caused the Sage's speed to plummet.

"Understood!"

Green light flared in Selina's eyes, and she spread her arms.

A highly complex geometric structure emitting blue-purple light instantly projected from the core position of her chest and rapidly expanded!

"Logic Container... activated! Target... locked! Swallow Protocol... forced execution!"

Hum—!!!

That blue-purple geometric vortex erupted with terrifying suction.

This suction did not act upon matter, but directly upon the core data logic stream that constituted the Sage's existence!

"How is this possible!!!"

The Sage realized its data was slipping away.

The surging data streams on its two halves were forcibly torn out from its broken shell.

Countless deep-blue data streams surged toward the rotating blue-purple vortex in front of Selina's chest!

"Refuse... devour... logic... core... col... lapse..."

The Sage's voice rapidly weakened, the light of its remaining shell dimmed completely, and its structure began to disintegrate and dissipate.

Yingzhou stood to the side, clearly witnessing this strange scene.

Selina was devouring the logic essence that represented the "Sage's" existence.

The blue-purple vortex swallowed the incoming deep-blue data streams without missing a single bit.

Selina's body was trembling slightly, and the glowing patterns on her skin flickered on and off.

This process was not long; after only a dozen seconds, the last trace of the deep-blue data stream belonging to the Sage was completely sucked into the vortex.

The humming sound stopped abruptly.

The blue-purple geometric structure projection in front of Selina's chest retracted, instantly sinking deep into her heart and disappearing.

The entire space fell into a deathly silence.

The data cage constructed by the Sage, having lost its core support, began to disintegrate and dissipate.

Selina slowly lowered her arms, the green light in her eyes gradually receding, and some of her former vitality returned.

She looked at Yingzhou and let out a soft breath.

"Devour... complete. Sage... core logic... contained."

Her voice had returned to calm.

At this moment, the system prompt also sounded in Yingzhou's mind.

【Task 2 and Task 3 have been completed.】

【Task rewards have been issued.】

"Strange, why hasn't Task 4 been completed? Are there still conditions that haven't been met?"

Yingzhou muttered in a low voice, then looked toward Selina and asked.

"Selina, after you Devoured that Cyberk Sage, did you experience any abnormalities?"

Yingzhou had always remained vigilant toward Selina; after all, she had been sent from the First Defense Zone to the Ninth Defense Zone, and heaven knows if she might be a trap left behind by the Cyberk people.

Selina adjusted the glasses on the bridge of her nose, shook her head slightly, and said.

"No, I know quite a bit of information now."

"Hmm, we will discuss this after returning to the Ninth Defense Zone."

"Understood."