Listen While Reading (Very Recommended): Unsolved Mysteries

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Hatred.

Sorrow.

Frenzy.

Desire.

Frustration.

Martyr.

Pain.

All seven Demonic Seven Cursed Seals were activated.

Their powers combined together, swirling in an endless vortex of suffering and darkness.

The screams of agony of countless unfortunate people across the world, or perhaps the worlds, manifested, endlessly twisting space itself.

Hope.

Love.

Dreams.

Positivity.

The power of the Heart of Hope and Love activated, harnessing the Hope, Dreams, and Love of these same people and of many others.

Their light guided the endless vortex of darkness into a brighter realm; the colors exploded and clashed constantly, rotating around one another.

Darkness and light combined, creating chaos.

And chaos gave birth to destruction.

BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

“Hm?”

The robot was shocked; it couldn’t even quite understand what just happened.

Indeed.

Its computational powers were unable to decipher it because it happened outside of its own perception of time and space.

This was, actually, a manifestation of Anna’s Soul, as it reached its highest “boiling” point when her strongest energies and powers converged.

The explosions themselves blew small chunks off the robot’s arms and shoulders.

“Impossible.”

It couldn’t believe what happened, but the explosions had already dealt actual damage.

The robot looked around; it was as if it had become lost in space itself.

“Yes, it’s possible.”

The robot’s crimson eyes widened as it glanced at Anna above him.

Her entire body had changed, her human-like appearance becoming different.

She had merged with this “Nebula,” becoming a cosmic being made of artificial stars composed of the chaos created by the clash of her own conflicting powers.

“Try to calculate it again now.”

Anna swung her swords down; her multiple arms gave her the appearance of a multi-armed goddess beyond the cosmos.

“{Myriad Self Arts}: {One Hundred Rampaging Blows}”

CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

“UGH?!”

The robot was unable to respond; one hundred blows hit its entire body from every single angle.

“Venerable? I see you love that word, don’t you?”

The robot’s eyes glared at Anna in disbelief.

“I beat a Venerable the first time I stepped into this world.”

“…?!”

“What makes you think that because you call yourself one, you’re going to suddenly beat me?”

“G-GRAAAH!”

The robot, who had never known despair before, or even fear, felt it for the first time.

As its armor exploded into pieces, it cleaved its way out of the endless barrage of attacks, reaching Anna in a nanosecond.

“I commend your efforts. I suppose you’re quite the struggler.”

“Impossible. This is impossible. It cannot be possible. I was able to damage you greatly. This couldn’t have ever been calculated. How were you able to completely turn the tables with a mere ability activation? That’s not possible.”

“It’s possible.”

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

Anna clashed against the Venerable Robot; its two arms had divided into four, summoning blazing katanas made of pure burning plasma.

“I was containing my strength because I planned to fight a Void Ruler in the worst-case scenario, you know? Also, the Demon King too.”

“Nnggh?! Y-You’re were holding back?! ARGH!”

CRAAASH!

Before the robot could believe what it was seeing, Ana punched it in the face, shattering its crescent moon-shaped faceplate.

“You may be wondering why I let you deal so much damage to me even while holding back, right? Why would I let you harm me to that point? Hell, my teeth were flying and my nose broke, so I understand why you would think that.”

Anna’s arms blazed with crimson flames born from her blood; her wounds were still there; she kept them open, even her broken nose.

“I possess several abilities that grant me even more power when I am wounded and bleeding, in pain,” she explained. “Do you understand now? I’m really tough, so it’s hard for me to bleed now. So… I’m grateful.”

“Nnnggh…! C-Calculations…! Complete!”

The robot suddenly unleashed an explosion of light from its body, as steam came out of its orifices!

CLANK! CLANK! CLANK!

Hundreds of metal plates manifested around its entire body, wrapping and then combining with it, as it became larger once more.

However, this time, instead of being fully defensive, it had become something like the mecha that Zero Three was riding back in the second mechanical tree raid.

“Perfect Attack Mode activated successfully.”

“Okay, that’s nice, so we’re both just starting? Let’s go.”

FLASH!

Both disappeared in an instant and then clashed; explosions of chaos erupted everywhere as blinding lasers sliced and bombarded every single area within the domain, while Anna’s slashing attacks engulfed the rest on endless storms of slicing and cleaving blows.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

“You’re adapting.”

Anna noticed the robot had become faster.

She rapidly enhanced her body’s speed, using the power of her Raijin Transformation, becoming a being made of cosmic lightning.

FLASH!

For a moment she disappeared, becoming pure lightning alongside her attack, as she also combined it with her Spectral Body, like before.

And then…!

BOOOMMM!!!

A massive explosion of golden and blue lightning erupted, piercing through the robot’s left shoulder.

It managed to move right before Anna could pierce its chest, where the core of its powers was located.

“Damage… detected… severe damage detected…!”

The robot grew more desperate, swinging its arms towards Anna while taking the blow, as if it baited her to get closer and touch its body.

CLAAANK!

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And then with its massive metallic arms, it grasped her smaller body, trying to crush it or snap it into two halves.

“Oof!”

Anna felt tremendous pain; the robot’s strength was still the real deal after all.

Crack, crack…!

Her flesh and bones began to snap, breaking!

CRASH!

However, what broke wasn’t Anna, but the robot’s arm, as Anna swung her weapons against it, generating four massive Cosmic Blood Blades, born from the power born of her body’s suffering.

CRAAASH!

And shattered the arm into pieces.

“Impossible. Both arms are incapacitated?!”

The robot instantly moved back several meters away from Anna, but she quickly followed him. The wounds it had caused on her back muscles and spine remained.

The pain and agony fueled her Dark Seals to grow even stronger; the Seal of Pain was already fully charged.

But it wasn’t yet the time.

“You’re the Avatar of a Constellation, right? You know? You can grow even stronger if you let it descend into your body. Maybe that could give you an edge against me, because you’re dying in the next few hits…!”

Anna rushed forward; with the pride and arrogance of a Venerable, she revealed an incredible secret to the Venerable Robot, one it had no idea of.

The Constellation sponsoring instantly seemed to rejoice; the idea was indeed good!

[The Cosmic Throne {King of Steel} thanks you for saying such a thing. This has given them an amazing idea.]

BOOOM!

Anna’s domain was instantly pierced, shattering into pieces before her attack could reach the Venerable Robot; an explosion of Cosmic Energy emerged from the machine.

“Damn, I screwed this over, didn’t I?”

FLUOOOSH!

The robot’s entire body overflowed with an Aura akin to a nebula, as several giant mechanical blue-colored drones, fueled by cosmic power alone, floated around it, rapidly fusing with its body.

CLANK! CLANK! CLANK!

Anna rushed forward to stop its transformation, but it was futile, as it was over within a split second, a giant mechanical claw covered in cosmic flames hitting her body at point-blank.

CRAAASH!

“Foolish walking flesh, know the true supreme power of a Machine that has transcended space and time!”

The Venerable Robot from before was no more, as the voice of a Constellation resonated from within it.

Anna noticed no messages saying anything about breaching certain laws.

This meant that this world had already become a “Wild Zone” where Constellations, as long as they had proper Avatars, could descend into them at any time.

And also, this world was most likely not being supervised by Administrators either.

“Scary.” Anna smiled, her body bleeding cosmic blood that fueled her Demonic Cursed Seal Flames of Pain, a new manifestation of the Seal of Pain she created. “But you know who else transcended space and time? Not as a machine but as a snake, though.”

“…Who?”

The Constellation, for whatever reason, answered that question even without meaning it.

“Wait, why am I even engaging with her conversation?!”

His eyes widened a second too late; Anna’s Myriad Self Aura transformed, manifesting eight gigantic snake heads that opened their jaws, firing beams of rainbow colors against him.

“{Myriad Self Arts}: {Eight-Headed Serpent Of Calamity}”

BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

As the explosions reached the Constellation Robot, countless cracks spread through its body as the cosmic energy within its mechanical body began to grow slightly lower than normal.

“Ngh?!”

It quickly began to evade the attacks right after the first barrage, reaching Anna and swinging its claws against her, which had regrown completely.

At the same time, the Constellation’s Aura surged, the King of Steel’s power reinforcing the defenses of the robot even more.

“You won’t be able to damage me anymore.”

Its claws moved downwards and upwards, aiming to tear through Anna’s body. Anna defended using her Golden Dragon Shield at first but then swung her many swords right afterwards.

All swords pointed down, trying to pierce through the robot’s arms, but finding it was utterly futile now.

CLAAANK!

“Impossible, it is impossible for you to damage me! I am the King of Steel! Among the other Machine Constellations, I am the one with the highest defense!”

As the Constellation boasted its defenses by letting Anna hit him all she wanted, she smiled, her Aura quickly manifesting the same serpents from before, made of rainbow light.

Their jaws opened and began biting through the entire robot’s metallic body, as Anna activated the power of Uroboros she absorbed from him, which synchronized with its Trait.

“{Demonic Snake’s Gluttony}”

FLUOSH!

The energy within the robot’s body began to be rapidly absorbed; the Constellation noticed something was wrong.

Even when Anna wasn’t dealing any physical damage, she was bypassing that the same way the robot could do it with her!

“Get off me!”

The King of Steel exploded in anger; the robot’s entire body began to glow red as countless beams of crimson light emerged from every single glowing spot.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Anna was quickly engulfed in hundreds of explosions at once, her body being pushed back, as she quickly swung her swords down at the same time as she was attacked.

“{Myriad Self Arts}: {Chaotic Soul Nebula}!”

FLUOOOSH!

She once more trapped the Constellation within her Soul Domain, as the robot saw the cosmos within her very soul.

As it felt overjoyed, as this was a good opportunity to hurt her soul directly…

“{Myriad Self Arts}: {One Hundred Rampaging Blows}”

“NGH?!”

CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

A hundred blows engulfed its entire body within a nanosecond; they weren’t consecutive, but a hundred blows in a single time frame, spread across its entire avatar’s body.

Anna didn’t do this once, though; she did it twice, thrice, and then four times in a row!

“GRAAAAHHH!”

As it was showered by damage it couldn’t evade, as every movement ended on dozens of blows that pushed its joints back in position, the King of Steel manifested two massive mechanical arms out of cosmic portals.

“PERISH!”

CRAAASH!

“Ugh!”

Anna screamed as the two arms hit her from the left and right, beginning to rapidly crush her like a cosmic-level hydraulic press. The pressure was so tremendous her bones snapped, and her muscles were being torn rapidly.

“THIS IS BUT A SPECK OF MY TRUE POWER!”

As the Steel King roared with the fury of a God of the Cosmos, Anna glared at him while constantly trying to survive, pushing back with her hands.

“SHAAAAH!”

Eight snake heads emerged from her Aura, reducing the strength she could draw from it, but biting the robot once more, beginning to weaken its cosmic energy by devouring it.

“GRAACK! S-STOP THAT!”

The Constellation felt something strange!

Its own soul…

Was suffering from pain?!

“S-She’s trying to eat my Cosmic Soul?! Insane! That’s simply not possible for a being that isn’t even a Constellation yet!”

The King of Steel grew temporarily weak, as Anna used this chance to free herself from his gigantic mechanical cosmic arms and rush towards him.

“Ugh?!”

The robot responded by manifesting two enormous mechanical legs, rushing down and stomping her with tremendous force.

BOOOM! BOOOM!

As she flew down while bleeding, her eyes glowed bright red, Anna’s body began to transform, white fur started growing around her body, and her musculature skyrocketed, with enormous arms and legs. And claws, fangs, a long tail, and beastly ears.

“A White Tiger?”

The robot gritted its metallic teeth as it saw Anna transform.

“{Divine White Tiger’s Embodiment}”

Wai Tian’s powers encompassed Anna; the Skill she had copied from her friend was now fueling her with even more physical might.

Ding!

[You have activated the [Divine White Tiger’s Embodiment (SS)] Skill!]

[You have taken over the form of the {Divine White Tiger Warrior}, the Avatar of the Divine White Tiger, one of the Four Auspicious Cosmic Beasts of Murim’s Worldlines, giving you the appearance of a divine tiger beast and increasing All Physical Stats and Maximum Ki by 300%, while obtaining the {White Tiger’s Divine Aura} which enhances the power of all Ki-powered Abilities and Techniques by 500%.

[Additionally, your Senses have evolved into {Divine White Tiger’s Heavenly Senses}, giving you the ability to sense and feel everything within a 100-meter radius around you with incredible acuteness. Your Physical Power has evolved into {Divine White Tiger’s Heavenly Burst Strength}, allowing you to unleash all your strength on short bursts, surpassing your current power temporarily at the cost of Lifeforce and Ki.]

[Duration: 10 Minutes.]

[The Cosmic Throne {White Furred Beast} glares at you, approving of your connection to its Dao Roots for further strength.]

“White Furred Beast? This is new! I don’t remember this appearing back in the trial when I used this Skill for the first time…”

Although Anna was surprised about this new Constellation showing up, she had no time to think about it any further.

“Wai Tian, I’ll use your power to surpass my limits.”

RUMBLE!

Anna moved forward, shattering space behind her and reaching the mechanical god in front of her. Its mechanical arms and legs rushed towards her, punching and stomping her, hitting her from above, below, left, and right!

“GGRRRHH… GRAAAHHH!”

Anna roared like a wild tigress, her white and black fur glowing with blue and golden cosmic light, as her giant muscular beast woman arms began to push forward!

Crack, crack…!

CRAAASH!

The two mechanical arms above and below her were crushed and shattered into pieces as Anna pierced through the legs with her giant black claws and used her fangs to bite through the metal fiercely.

CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

“Dammit!”

The King of Steel grew restless, quickly manifesting several more mechanical limbs while manifesting gigantic proton and plasma cannons from cosmic portals behind him.

“DIE ALREADY!”

Anna saw the attacks coming, using her White Tiger’s Heavenly Senses to evade them, moving, kicking, and blinking through the space of her Domain, which she had full control of!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

As explosions surrounded her from every angle and giant mechanical arms rushed towards her, she reached the Constellation once more, swinging her giant claws at him!

“RAAAAHHHH!”

“G-Get away from me!”

The King of Steel generated a massive force field, with one hundred layers of blue and golden electricity, rejecting Anna from getting any closer and sending her flying away with a massive explosion.

BOOOMMM!!!

“U-Uuggh…!”

Blood came out of her eyes, nose, ears, and mouth as her insides burned, but a wave of cold air washed that away, her Heart of Hope rapidly healing her with its golden flames.

“Not enough…! More, I need more power!” Anna roared, her beastly instincts growing by the second. “Yin Sheng, give me your strength!”

Memories of the black fox that had been helping her since she met him flashed through her mind as her body began to transform once more.

“{Divine Nine-Tailed Abyssal Fox Embodiment}!”

Aside from her tiger tail, long, fluffy black fox tails emerged from her back; her body became larger, combining muscles with a graceful, lean body.

Her white fur gained beautiful black lines across it as her face transformed, resembling a perfect combination of a fierce tigress and a calm black fox.

Her tails multiplied into nine, gaining the coloring patterns of the tigress, looking both thick and as fluffy as a fox’s tails.

“She became even more beastly?! …Ah, no matter! I will pulverize you anyways!”

His cannons fired at Anna, one after another, exploding into gigantic explosions of electricity, plasma, and even nuclear energy.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

“I did it!”

The King of Steel smiled, noticing Anna’s body being completely vaporized within the fire, smiling with his mechanical jaws.

FLASH!

However, he was too slow to realize Anna’s shadows materialized behind him, eight of them.

“This power is pretty good too.”

Anna’s monstrous, beastly voice echoed above the King of Steel, her giant furry arms swinging down her swords with the power to shatter a mountain.

CRAAASH! CRAAASH! CRAAASH!

“GUUAAGH?!”

The King of Steel had his defenses breached, his force field activated, killing Anna!

TRUUUM!

POOF!

However, what died was another of her “Fox Shadows,” which were capable of replacing her position and dying for her.

They were virtually different than Egos, as every single one of these Fox Shadows was her true self without any separations or particular weaknesses.

“SHYAAAAH!”

And as this happened, the eight serpent heads began biting the robot’s avatar, draining and devouring more of the cosmic energy!

“I have to get out of here! This is simply not worth the time and effort!”

The King of Steel quickly decided to pull out in the last second and abandon the battle altogether.

Yet…

TRUUUM!

“Ugh?! I can’t… I can’t leave?!”

He realized too late that Anna’s Soul Domain was a designed cage for Constellations.

“Where do you think you’re going?”

Anna’s beastly voice echoed from above his mechanical body.

“I have yet to even taste you well enough.”

She licked her whiskers with her long tongue as the King of Steel began to regret his recent life choices.

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