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Run?

As I see Fang Shuan’s soul being broken apart…

He’s asking me to run.

He really has a self-sacrificing side to him, perhaps a bit too much.

But don’t worry, Fang Shuan.

Your young master Anna is not so cruel as to leave her friend behind.

I promised you we would fight your father together, right?

That we would avenge your world.

And we will.

Don’t you worry about it.

“RAAAAHHHH!”

With a mighty roar, my entire body transformed.

The power of the aberrant, arrogant chimera that once threatened to destroy my world encompassed my entire being.

I changed completely, becoming aberrant myself.

And at the same time as I transformed, the chains broke apart instantly, unable to contain my existence in this state.

Space around me started to warp around.

She didn’t say a word; I didn’t let her.

Before she could’ve said, “I calculated that bitch,” I was already in front of her.

My form changed, as I’ve become a strange being, a knight made of bones and flesh, looking aberrant, not at all like my normal self.

Yeah, it was a disgusting transformation.

But this is the power of a Demon King, the embodiment of aberration.

[Your Health has reached below 50%, you have transformed into the [Aberrant Flesh Knight of Despair]: Increases Health, Strength, and Vitality by +300%, decreases Agility and Dexterity by -50%. All your Attacks deal no damage to your foe’s Health, but instead deal damage to their Mana, or other energy sources with each hit. Any successful hit has a 30% chance to inflict [Endless Despair] on any foe. Duration: 10 Minutes.]

I’ve slowly been losing health, and that technique I used just now drained a percent of it.

Yes, a percent.

It was designed through the Embodiment of Pain through the culmination of the Cursed Demonic Seals.

Therefore, I placed its activation condition to be to drain a percentage of my own Health.

Easy Demon King transformation whenever I want.

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

I attacked her like a wild beast, swinging my arms against her as she was forced to let go of Fang Shuan, noticing something terrible!

She wasn’t taking damage, yeah.

But she was also losing all her internal energies.

The powerful Divine Ki Zero Three boasted about?

It was already being drained.

And it was delicious.

“My energy reserves. I understand, so your transformation—”

FLASH!

I rushed forward, throwing myself at her as I summoned all my swords.

I infused them with my Myriad Self Aura and sent them flying at her.

A millenary technique of all Sword Path Cultivators!

“{Myriad Self Arts} + {Thousand Blades}: {Myriad Flying Sword Rain}”

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

The swords couldn’t pierce through her body; her defensive barrier had no purpose because there was no damage she could block.

“No damage again…?”

She was surprised; a Void Ruler was surprised.

Well, damn.

“Calculating. She’s not trying to hurt me; she wants to deplete my energy reserves and stop my avatar from ever moving. Intelligent but flawed. Initiating response.”

BAAAM!

She hit the ground with a furious slam of her metallic fists. Employing the same power I use to damage her energies, she reversed it, releasing a shockwave of said energies against me.

I took the damage head-on.

BOOOM!

My fleshy and bony armor tore apart as my flesh was burned.

Through the power of the Healing Flames of Hope, I regulated the lost health and then…

RUMBLE!

I transformed again, as darkness encompassed her surroundings, my entire being changing entirely once more.

“Calculating, third form. Demon King-type Skill. It shouldn’t be possible. Not allowed by the laws of the Lower Dimension. Someone breached the Laws to allow such a privilege. Recalculating.”

She rushed towards me after I transformed, hitting me with everything she had.

However.

[Your Health has reached below 10%, and you have transformed into the [False Demon King: The Selfish Manipulator]: Increases All Stats by +400%, but your MP and Ki are completely drained to zero. You cannot take damage from physical attacks. When you touch a foe, you drain 1% of their Mana and Ki per second. When you are hit with a physical attack, you can copy it and unleash it once against the foe with only 50% of their original power. You can manipulate those that submit to you through [Threads of Selfish Manipulation] to make them move as perfectly as you wish. Duration: 5 Minutes.]

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I had become a gaseous monster, with arms and claws made of a cloud-like black and dark red substance. Many glowing eyes beneath this body, but nothing else than that.

Ah yes, and tentacles.

“Initializing extermination.”

She attacked me with everything she could.

Yet…

CLANK! CLANK! CLANK! CLANK!

She ended up hitting the ground instead, as I took no damage.

And every second I touched her, her energies became mine.

That deliciously endless Ki she had, yes, all mine.

“Recalculating. No damage?!”

She was shocked!

I suppose a “being that simply cannot take damage” wouldn’t compute with her.

After all, it’s completely nonsensical and should not exist.

Yet here we are!

[Threads of Selfish Manipulation]!

My tentacles wrapped around her mechanical arms; it worked instantly, as she started fighting against my control, even though her arms began punching her own mech!

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

“Why are you punching yourself? Hey! Why are you punching yourself?!”

I wasn’t toying with her but making her feel angry.

Because when an enemy is angry, their movements become more predictable.

“Miscalculation. The true strength of the Demon King Skill has been misjudged. Recalculating. Applying response.”

CLASH!

She grabbed my tentacles tightly with a second pair of arms that emerged from below her armpit area and then began to tear them apart.

Yeah, she can do that. Unlike my body, the tentacles are fleshy and can be hurt.

Not like it matters.

This was all a distraction; I was buying time.

Buying time for the real big thing to happen.

RUMBLE!

The entire Mechanical Tree started trembling constantly, as the red circuits spread everywhere slowly began to turn gold and blue.

Zero One and Zero Two were doing it!

“Uugh…! That inferior lifeform… that android dares to…! Ugh… Losing control of avatar… Must… eliminate threats. This instant!”

She suddenly materialized the two katanas again, swinging them down against me, infusing them with as much Divine Ki as possible.

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

However, her damage was negated, the physical side. However, the supernatural side of her attacks, infused with Ki, did deal damage to me.

Not that it wasn’t within my calculations.

“Take it back!”

I absorbed her physical blows with my nebulous, gaseous body and then sent them back right at her through its unique ability to copy a physical blow after absorbing it and send it back at a foe with half its strength.

And when she attacked me so many times at once… the result was obvious!

FLUOOOSH!

From my body, giant katanas manifested out of red and black demonic energy, hitting her body constantly.

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

“Uunnggh…!”

She was pushed back several meters, struggling to keep herself standing as her first and second layers of armor within the mech began falling apart into pieces.

And now, to finish it off…!

I jumped towards her.

“{Embodiment of Pain}: {Agonizing World}”

TRUUUM!

Space around the mech distorted, warping around her to generate a temporary domain where only blood existed, covering her entire body, filling every inch of her mechanical crevices.

“This is the ability of her armor… I can calculate this correctly and…!”

It was too late for that, sweetie.

This was, after all, an improved version of the armor’s ability.

You weren’t ready for that, were you?!

BOOOMMM!!!

“Ugh…! The first impact, damage everywhere, regeneration in progress—AH!”

BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

“NNGAARGH?!”

Bleeding World created a massive explosion that could deal tremendous damage; it was conjured by accumulating Blood Energy within the armor whenever it took damage.

Even in my current, gaseous form, the armor remains there, transforming to adapt to my form, becoming invisible and gaseous as well.

When I took no damage, the damage instead went to the armor.

So, I refilled the gauge almost instantly.

By improving upon this destructive attack, I’ve not only made its activation a domain-like formation.

But also, after the initial explosion, several more explosions come along to screw anybody that thought they survived that easily!

BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

“MISCALCULATION…!”

As she received the explosive damage and I held her there for a couple of seconds, I rushed towards Fang Shuan, opening the Ramses Urn and feeding him two hundred souls instantly.

FLUOSH!

“Aaah! I’m back?!”

He woke up from his unconscious state in that moment, as Sepa and Bastet were also healed by eating these souls.

The Urn was damn useful; thank you, Isis!

“Anna, we’re ready!” said Sepa. “I’ve set up everything for you!2

“The other Egos also helped,” Bastet said. “But do you think we need to do all of this for that thing?”

“Look at it and tell me,” I said.

“GRAAAHHHH!!!”

The mech started crawling towards us furiously; her torn-apart body showed the mech’s skeleton, yet a swarm of nanomachines was already regenerating it.

“You’re not wrong; let’s do it.”

Bastet was quick to understand the brevity of things.

This damned mech won’t go down, even less with the Void Ruler using it as a vessel.

The only way is to go all out.

And even beyond that.

First, step one.

“Slow down, girl. You’re a bit too crazy out there.”

I pointed my hand at the monstrous mech coming our way.

“{Anubis’ Judgement}”

And the faint, ghostly manifestation of Anubis appeared, but because we were inside of a Trial World, so far away from the Star Channel, no Constellation could see us.

Therefore, its powers couldn’t manifest fully as Anubis wasn’t there to give his “Presence”.

Nonetheless, her heart was judged as she watched the ridiculous scene.

CLANK!

The balance hit the floor the moment it took the robot’s heart.

“Damn! You’re quite the sinful toaster.”

“Anubis Judgement. Calculated already…!”

Her Stats were lowered, but she kept rushing at us as if nothing.

She was boosting her stats back through the usage of different Auras and Cultivation Techniques.

But that didn’t matter.

What mattered was that I activated the Skill!

FLUOSH!

As I gained my boost of 200% to all stats, I smiled.

“Without Anubis’ Presence, I can’t create a Guardian of the Balance… But I already have one right here, right, Fang Shuan?”

“Me? Right, you assigned me as…!”

RUMBLE!

Out of nowhere, Fang Shuan changed.

[A Guardian of the Balance has been found. Granting the Guardian of the Balance his Powers.]

[The [Partial Guardian Of The Balance (B Rank Privilege)] has activated successfully, the Guardian of the Balance’s Stats has increased by the proportional difference of Sins between the two Judged Hearts!]

His entire appearance changed as he gained Egyptian armor around his body while he gained a helmet shaped like Anubis’ black jackal head.

Fang Shuan had been made originally as a Guardian of the Balance, which I then turned into my Familiar through the Soul-Bound Holy Undead Contract.

Therefore, whenever I used Anubis Judgment on a target, his true power would emerge!

His right as the Guardian of the Balance.

[Familiar Fang Shuan has fully transformed into the Guardian of the Balance! All of his Stats have increased by 400%, and All Skill Damage against the Judged has increased by 300%!]

“This power is incredible…!”

But that wasn’t all, my dear friend.

I jumped towards Fang Shuan as I touched his body.

At the same time, Sepa and Bastet fused with his body, possessing him like ghosts would do a living or inert target.

“Huh?! Anna?!”

He didn’t know what was coming!

“I told you we would go even further beyond, didn’t I?!”

I activated three Skills in a row, spending a lot of the Ki I stole from the void toaster.

[Mechanical Body Transformation]!

I transformed his entire body into replicas of the nanomachines within my own body, which I’ve analyzed completely.

FLUOSH!

His entire body exploded into a swarm of tiny nanomachines; it helped that he was already made of metal.

[Initiate Nanomachine Manipulation]!

I manipulated those nanomachines, and then…

[Automatic Mechanoid Assembly]!

By using these two skills together, I reassembled, strengthened, and remade Fang Shuan completely.

CLANK! CLANK! CLANK! CLANK!

No longer did he look like some old Chinese soldier statue!

His body became stylish, futuristic, robotic.

With sharp hands, mechanical arms, legs, and a powerful-looking frame.

This, coupled with a valiant, golden face, a pointy helmet, and sharp shoulder pads, coupled with blazing wings and propulsors, alongside a new, mechanical, high-tech electromagnetic spear…

“This new form…!”

Fang Shuan was flabbergasted, as his entire body glowed with neon light! He now had circuits, he now had cores, he now had several internal structures that strengthened his existence.

He was no longer just a golem.

He was my mech!

I expanded my gaseous body around him, using the three previous Skills to lightly merge myself into him.

And now…

RUMBLE!

With a tremendous aura that even surpassed our adversary, we moved forwards.

“Whatever you attempt. Your failure and your defeat had been calculated.”

Is that so?

BAAAM!

“Guh!?”

We moved faster than she could, as our mechanical fist punched her mech’s face, cleaving half of its metallic parts off.

“Let’s do this!”

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