Chapter 556: It

At this moment, facing Li Ang at full power, Regal Zeva finally abandoned his lofty demeanor.

"So this is your confidence."

The mechanical deity watched the countless divine shadows rising behind Li Ang, his five electronic eyes flickering slightly.

He had not felt pressure of this level in ages; even his reactor had begun to warm slightly.

"You've given me quite a surprise," came his low chuckle as he gripped his massive axe, "Let me see what you're truly made of."

As he spoke, the violet-black energy axe sliced through space and arrived before Li Ang.

Yet this time, Li Ang did not choose to block with 【Word Spell: Liusu Fancheng】; instead, his expression calm, he extended his left hand.

Hss—!

In an instant, sparks erupted, and brilliant violet-black light shards exploded into the void.

Accompanied by that single thunderous boom, terrifying energy waves surged outward, layer upon layer, filling the entire dimensional gap.

Space trembled in the shockwave, and time itself seemed to slow.

But when Regal Zeva saw what lay before him, his five electronic eyes contracted slightly.

In his vision, a single pale finger, gleaming with metallic luster, rested calmly against the axe's tip, utterly unaffected by his attack.

'Such bodily resilience.'

As a torrent of immense data flashed across his chips, Regal Zeva immediately sought to change his slash into a sweep.

But before he could retract the axe, the pale palm blocking its blade had already reached toward him, seizing the axe as it continuously spewed violet-black lightning.

Seeing this, Regal Zeva roared: "Boldness indeed."

"You talk too much."

Before the mechanical deity could finish speaking, Li Ang cut him off.

The fellow had been blabbering since the start, and Li Ang had grown weary of it.

As he spoke, Li Ang raised his free right hand and unleashed 【Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion】 directly at Regal Zeva.

Blinding golden light erupted, tearing through the silence of the dimensional gap like a blade.

The light was razor-sharp; wherever it passed, space itself cracked with fine fissures.

In an instant, everything before this attack was pierced through and turned to glowing dust scattered across the dimensional gap.

As the golden light gradually faded, the air still echoed with a howl like a sword's cry.

This time, 【Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion】 pierced Regal Zeva's defense, leaving a massive wound on his left shoulder—not merely faint white marks as before.

Yet 【Evil Demon God】 was still 【Evil Demon God】; though Li Ang had aimed for his head, the attack was deflected when Regal Zeva deliberately detonated his energy axe.

Seeing the black-purple energy consume the figure before him, Regal Zeva immediately retreated.

'Attack power and defense have both increased dramatically—what a terrifying ability.'

After countless years, he had finally felt the taste of injury once more.

Glancing at the massive gash on his left shoulder armor, Regal Zeva's chest engine roared to life.

The next instant, he pulled a shard of pure white metal from afar and fused it into the wound.

Yet the moment the metal merged, Regal Zeva was startled.

'What kind of metal is this!? Why does it fit me so perfectly?!'

During his recent battle with the giant robot, he had only felt its hardness—nothing else.

But now…

As is well known, ordinary humans experience rejection reactions when transplanting foreign organs; metal is no different.

Yet Regal Zeva now felt this fused metal as if it had always been part of his own body—perfectly harmonious.

'Who would have thought this little worm had such a trick.'

But now, he could no longer afford to kill him here just for the sake of fleeting satisfaction.

The reason these metals exhibited such properties was entirely because they had been killed by 【Heaven and Earth as Furnace】.

As the ultimate master of alchemical smelting, the metals forged by this method were universal base materials.

Just as Regal Zeva was stunned by this, he suddenly felt an itching pain on his left shoulder.

He turned his head and saw the white metal he had just fused now being scorched by black flames, while a thin layer of white frost coated the surrounding armor.

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Naturally, this was the work of 【Landry's Torment】 and 【Ryle's Ice Crystal Scepter】; the damage was minor, but the humiliation was extreme.

At that moment, Li Ang slowly stepped out of the violet-black energy storm.

After some time adapting, he had nearly grown accustomed to the immense power within him.

Undeniably, 【Hundred Forms Avatar】—Manfred's tool for breaking into the Eighth Level—granted its user tremendous power boosts, and the abilities accessible varied depending on the creatures it contained.

Of course, as the number of contained creatures increased, the user's burden grew heavier; fortunately, Li Ang had no such troubles.

Through the combination of Divine Destruction Artifacts and 【Heavenly Center】, he had successfully avoided the backlash risks Manfred suffered, since any cost would be borne by the Divine Destruction Artifacts themselves.

The only thing Li Ang regretted slightly was that 【Hundred Forms Avatar: Divine Form Manifestation】 struggled to contain all Divine Destruction Artifacts at once.