Listen While Reading: – Unfinished Battle

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Inside the dark interior of the Mechanical Tree, covered with thousands of massive cables spread everywhere and only lightly illuminated by all the blue neon lights flowing through every circuit, several figures began emerging from massive metallic tubes, finishing their assemblage.

They were mechanical, humanoid, and sharp. Their designs were completely new, and their Auras powerful—tremendously powerful. Their eyes activated, glowing with bright red color, and then something within them was “inhabited.”

A gigantic red light glanced at them from afar, the one connected to all these thousands of cables and wires, which controlled the entire manufacturing process of machine lifeforms.

“It appears that we are back.”

“Yes, yes. It has been a while, hasn’t it?”

“…”

It was a trio, only three machines, yet they were completely different than anything that has ever been created before; their bodies alone were of a completely different level of quality and power.

“PROTECT THE TREE.”

A mechanical voice echoed through the red light. Glancing at them, the three robots glanced back at her, nodding.

“Of course.”

“It’s time for these weak, fleshy beings to learn their place again.”

“All organic lifeforms shall be exterminated.”

The trio walked away, creating clanking sounds as they walked through the metallic surface of the Mechanical Tree’s interior.

The red light never stopped glancing at them, but its many cameras installed everywhere also worked as many more eyes.

Several cameras had already detected her, amplifying their view just to see her in more detail. Although she was essentially the same when she came out of the tree, she had changed.

“Zero One… You have changed.”

The crimson light remained in silence, calculating, processing, watching, assembling, creating more of its kin, more and more, neverendingly.

Once made to serve and protect humanity, they were now being made to fight and slaughter…

Something that was never their protocol.

“Have you learned what you needed to learn? Are you ready to finally accomplish your purpose here?”

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Ding!

[You have activated your {Boundless Love Venerable Authority}!]

[Your Authority resonates with your {Heart of Hope and Love} and the trust you feel for all those fighting in this moment.]

[Several Skills and Privileges effects have been combined with your Authority, creating a powerful new form.]

FLUOSH!

[The {Flames of Hope and Love} spread through all your allies without exception, burning as strongly as your own passion, love, and hope for them and the future.]

[Through the power of these flames, 30% of your own Stats are shared with everyone covered by them, and the Power of their Skills, Techniques, and Magic increases by 300%, while their Energy Consumption decreases by 30%.]

“So it worked. Perfect.”

Anna smiled, nodding as she saw the notifications appear. She wasn’t the proudest about her speech, and she thought it was a bit cringy, but it worked perfectly, and with her pink and golden flames powering up their bodies, everyone charged against the incoming machine army.

CLAAASH!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Explosions erupted instantly as lasers descended from the skies and giant machines clashed against the mighty techniques of immortal cultivators. It was a spectacle of bright colors and big explosions, with machines being instantly destroyed and exploding into pieces in the first few seconds already.

Anna continued moving across the chaos; the Heavenly Demon and the Heavenly Empress started fighting in that very moment, while she only moved forward, ignoring everything else.

“Let’s clean this mess.”

“Shall we?”

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The two Venerables nodded, waving their wings as thousands of gigantic projectiles were fired from them, resembling white and black feathers.

They descended from the skies, reaching every single machine within their path, and then upon contact, piercing their bodies.

They didn’t even explode; they simply tore the machines to pieces and then moved on towards the next target.

This continued for as long as they moved forward. Zero One and Zero Two were constantly trying to recruit the machines, but they were rejecting them.

It seemed impossible to recruit them, and so, at the end, she told Anna they could go all-out, as there was nothing they could do to save them now.

The Venerables, of course, received this news rather happily!

“Ah, this feels refreshing!” laughed the Heavenly Demon. “Die! Die! Die! DIEEEE!”

“He went a bit insane already…” thought Anna. “Well, I guess this is for the best. He needs to release all that stress.”

“Although many of your kind have become our friends, I still can’t stop hating you, machines. So please perish and leave nothing behind,” the Heavenly Empress was also rather ruthless today.

“Oh wow, first time I see these two so aligned together while feeling almost the same thing,” Anna noticed, as explosions spread everywhere.

They had told her to hold back her power and save it until the time came, so while she buffed everyone and her Egos began fighting and wreaking havoc, she only moved forward.

Yet…

Eventually, some would slip through.

“ROOOAAARRR!”

“BIG SIS!”

Song panicked as three massive dragon machines roared, their cores infused with small quantities of heavenly fragments, giving them almost the same power as the Martial Dragons of Murim, lesser, beastly descendants of the Golden Dragon, known as one of the strongest Mythical Beasts in these worlds, monsters that would easily be qualified as S Rank or even SS Rank in Earth, and could destroy entire cities in a matter of seconds.

And yet…

“{Myriad Self Arts}: {Thousand Blades Divine Intent}”

Anna’s Aura automatically activated as it transformed into one thousand swords made of rainbow light cutting through all three Dragon Machines like sashimi.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

Their bodies were sliced instantly as they fell from the skies, their inner circuits, wires, and metallic skeleton exploding constantly as they sunk underwater.

“Not bad, I can cut without even thinking much about it,” Anna realized. “Thousand Blades is evolving and becoming part of my own power as well. I don’t even need to use the Skill directly anymore.”

This was the power of Skills in their ultimate form, to “imprint” what they can do into their owners, until the point they can use their power without even needing the skill.

Ultimately, in the future, when new Dungeons and Scenarios emerge filled with dangerous restrictions, only those that have managed to completely imprint their Skills into their bodies and minds would be able to survive.

Because of course, there are many restrictions that deny or outright reject all Skill Usage. Hence why it is so important to learn Martial Arts and Cultivate, as this was the greatest edge the Murim Worlds had above everyone else.

Anna knew these things, smiling as she was already reaching this level with her Myriad Self Arts, a powerful Martial Arts born to assimilate all her powers and give her the power to endlessly grow, develop, and evolve her powers and techniques.

“Aha, my bad, those three slipped past us,” laughed the Heavenly Demon.

“Indeed, my bad, my bad,” said the Heavenly Empress.

“Riiight…” Anna muttered. “It’s very obvious you did it intentionally, but whatever. I know why you did it.”

They wanted to test if she was too relaxed or not, if she had lowered my guard.

It was a little test from her two masters.

“Big sis, I was really scared…” Song sighed.

“Don’t worry, Song,” Anna said. “You’re really strong; be more confident. I will be here to protect your back as well.”

Her patting his shoulders filled Song with Pink and Golden flames, giving him a bit more courage as he felt stronger than before.

“Okay! I will do my best- Ah!”

Song gasped out of nowhere, hearing something…

“Please… I can’t… hold it… much… longer…!”

The boy’s eyes widened instantly.

“I can hear him! He’s there! My other half!” Song said, pointing at the Mechanical Tree. “He’s waiting for us! He’s holding up, but it won’t last much longer!”

“Song…!” the Heavenly Empress cried.

“Don’t worry, your mother and your father are here already!” the Heavenly Demon said.

The two rushed forward like a black and a golden meteor, clashing against dozens of gigantic machines; anything they touched instantly exploded into millions of pieces of junk.

CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

The Mechanical Tree drew ever so closer… It was almost there!

“How are Zero One and Zero Two doing?”

Anna glanced at the androids; they were right behind her. They were not fighting the Machines though, but constantly conjuring barriers of protection and paralyzing the machines by hacking them.

“We’re already getting there; hurry and come with us!” Anna said. “We must break through before we separate!”

“Yes!” Zero One said.

“Let’s do this!” Zero Two roared.

“Anna! Don’t forget about me!”

As they rushed forward, Anna noticed a giant white tigress unleashing a barrage of fierce attacks with her massive claws tearing through several machine dragons and giant wasp swarms.

“I’m also here!”

And to the other side, a giant multi-tailed black fox man turned into shadows, appearing and disappearing as his sharp knives cut through all and anything.

“We were doing this part together, right?”

And lastly, above her, a phantasmal spiral of blue phantom flames and darkness surged, engulfing every foe into a storm of destructive attacks.

As pieces of metallic junk constantly fell from the skies, Wai Tian, Yin Sheng, and Sara joined in.

“Everyone…” Anna smiled. “Of course! Let’s—”

“No, you won’t.”

“?!”

Anna’s eyes widened.

She was unable to even detect the origin of that voice before a large metallic fist punched her stomach, sending her flying away with an explosion of cosmic energy.

BOOOM!

“Ugh?!”

She vomited blood, feeling her stomach greatly damaged, as she stopped herself from flying further away, glaring at what was below her.

At the thing that punched her.

“Hmmm, you survived that. I was aiming to leave a hole right through that! Humans are tougher than I imagined.”

It was a machine, one like she had never seen before.

“Who are you?!”

“Wait, these bastards…!”

At the same time, her mother and her father were fighting two other powerful machines, which seemed to be even…

Matching their strength?!

“So you’re the new models, I assume,” Anna remained calm, her Aura waving, constantly transforming into dozens of reflections of herself made of rainbow colors, gathering and fusing across her body to form a beautiful, bright armor.

“Yes. You assumed right, human girl. We are the new Models. Venerable-type Machine Lifeforms.”

“Venerable Type?!” Anna was surprised deep down. “Has their technology gone this far already?”

“I am Number One. It is nice to meet you. Now please die.”

FLASH!

The robot moved so fast it disappeared from Anna’s view before appearing above her head, swinging its two arms against her.

BOOOM!

And sending her flying down into the sea.

SPLAAASH!

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