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“You’re interesting; let me dismantle you and see what’s inside~”

The Dokkaebi woman waved her claws as her powers quickly encompassed the entire machine, crushing it completely; pieces of metal, circuits, and tubes fell from the robot’s body as countless jaws gnawed through its entire being.

CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

“ERROR… ERROR… FATAL DAMAGE… DETECTED…!”

CRAAASH!

Until it exploded into pieces, leaving nothing behind but piles of metal, wires, and circuits everywhere.

The Dokkaebi woman was fascinated, though, gasping in awe as she ran to check her “dismantled” specimen.

“They’re very soft for being this huge, huh? The new cultivators must be quite weak if they had a hard time against these things.” She walked towards the pieces and kneeled, beginning to analyze them while grabbing each one, one for one…

“…”

“…”

“…”

The Egos truly had nothing they could do, but at least she wasn’t threatening.

At most she just “existed,” and that was it.

However, after they realized she was a Constellation, there was this unnerving, lingering feeling…

“These creatures, how do you call them again? Machines?” wondered the Dokkaebi. “They’re quite interesting; made completely out of inert materials, there are several chemical processes happening within them that allow them to move independently. This is incredible; it is the power to forge life into inert things! How fascinating.”

“Yes, they are… I suppose.” Transcendent muttered. “Some of us call them robots as well.”

“Hmm…” Yang glanced at the huge hole, noticing more machines approaching, as she grew worried about the fishmen and the mermaid immortals, and also about Yu.

If a robot of that size got inside while Yu was protecting the entrance, the worst could have happened.

“We have to go check out how everyone’s doing!” she said. “Uroboros, Transcendent, come with me! Primordial Beasts, have you eaten enough?”

“ROOOAARRR!”

“GAAOOOO!”

Both roared mightily, their power rapidly beginning to awaken, evolving, blossoming, their auras constantly transforming and growing; the entire world of Bestia shook.

“It seems it worked like you wanted. There might be more crystals, but they’re much deeper in the mountain,” the Dokkaebi woman said. “I would suggest you go already, before—oh.”

CRAAASH!

More machines emerged one after another as the hole made in the caves was made even more gigantic; at the same time, the seawater started getting inside.

“Ugh…! Unhand me, you beasts!”

And the Egos heard Yu’s voice as one of the machines, humanoid in shape, resembling a fusion between several shark, whale, dolphin, and crab-like machines, stepped forward, carrying her with its claws.

“Greetings, I am an Advanced Model of the Machines powered by Heavenly Fragments,” the robot spoke with an overly polite and off-putting tone of voice. “We have already come to the realization of your plans, and the Mechanical Tree has you surrounded. Do not attempt anything, or this prisoner we’ve taken shall die. Please surrender and let us absorb the energy of the Primordial Beasts behind you. There’s a chance to end things peacefully with only you dying and us surviving; please consider your options.”

“What options, you fuckers?! You literally want us dead!” Uroboros roared angrily, his body growing larger and larger, gaining two more heads as he unleashed his transformation form. “As a Demonic Throne, I will not go down without a fight!”

“For once, I agree with Uroboros,” said Transcendent, unleashing her Cosmic Aura, as her surroundings became like a small nebula, with bright, golden stars rotating around her.

“Yu! Do you think you can escape his grasp with all the power you have?” Yang spoke to Yu through a telepathic message sent directly to her mind using her Ki.

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“I-I think I could, but…!” Yu answered. “I’ll be weakened right after… I’ll die if he catches me again!”

“It’s fine, we’ll catch you, trust us!” Transcendent said.

“Yeah!” Yang added.

“…O-Okay!” Yu muttered through telepathy, still acting like she was a weak victim.

As Yu agreed to their plan, the Primordial Beasts Auras continued evolving, their entire bodies rapidly starting to change; it seemed that in this state, they were still unable to fight or move.

“They’re still evolving, I see…” the Dokkaebi suddenly spoke, as the tension in the air suddenly changed completely.

The robots and the egos glanced at her, who had appeared in front of the Primordial Beasts, patting their heads as they evolved and assimilated all the power they gained.

“I love pets, you know? So I’ll help them out a bit.”

FLAAASH!

Her powerful and otherworldly Ki was unleashed from her hands as her powers encompassed both beasts, rapidly beginning to hasten their evolution!

“Stop her.”

SPLASH!

The machine leading the group quickly commanded, as hundreds of other aquatic-adapted robots rushed towards the egos and, subsequently, to the Dokkaebi woman behind them, swimming through the seawater that was slowly filling the cave.

“You won’t take a single step forward!” Transcendent roared, swinging her hands as she fired hundreds of miniature stars against her foes, generating several small cosmic explosions, blowing the robots into pieces.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

However, her long-range attack like this was still too erratic, missing sometimes, giving time for many more machines that kept coming from the hole to sneak around her.

“Face me.”

FLUOSH!

However, Yang stepped forward, manifesting Golden Flames of Hope, she shaped them into several spears, firing them at the robots.

CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

The spears pierced their bodies, impaling dozens at a time, before exploding from the inside out, blowing them up and spreading even more junk everywhere.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

At the same time, she manifested two swords made out of her Golden Flames of Hope, swinging them around as she used Thousand Blades to cut through the incoming waves by releasing slashing waves of her flames.

SLAAASH!

As this happened, Transcendent quickly continued attacking and spreading damage everywhere, making sure to weaken them enough for the other two to take them down.

“SHYAAAAHH! I’M GOING TO EAT ALL OF YOU, PIECES OF JUNK!”

Uroboros was furious; as his three heads hissed menacingly, he charged forward, swimming in the water as if he were an eel, and snapping his jaws at the nearest robots, devouring them one after another, crushing them with ease.

CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

As he had a feast, the Upgraded Heavenly Cloud Fragment Robot glanced at the battle, growing slightly irritated that things weren’t working as planned.

“Don’t you realize? I have a hostage here. A hostage! Do you want me to kill her then? If it’s useless to keep her around, then I might as well eliminate her.”

The robot quickly pointed its claws at Yu, beginning to spin its metallic fingers as if they were a giant drill about to shred her body into pieces!

“Aaaahhh!”

And at that moment, Yu screamed as loudly as possible.

FLAAASH!

Her internal powers erupted from her body, releasing a strong shockwave of light, and the robot was paralyzed for a moment as its circuits froze.

As this happened, Yu fell from its claws into the seawater beneath!

“Yu!”

Yang rushed forward, trying to catch her!

However, the metallic claws of the robot rushed down towards Yu, encompassed by the Heavenly Ki of the Black, White, and Yellow Heaven fragments it had.

“PERISH.”

SPLAAASH!

Yet the claws only hit the water and then the floor beneath; the robot’s eyes rapidly looked at what had rescued Yu.

“U-Uroboros?!” Yu was surprised that the three-headed snake had extended his long neck towards her, snapping her with his jaws and dragging her away as he swam through the seawater.

“Don’t get the wrong idea! I am only doing this because it’s convenient to keep you alive!” Uroboros roared angrily. “And don’t get cocky, or I’ll eat you for real this time!”

“Where do you think you’re going? Give the hostage back, NOW.”

The robot chased Uroboros, rapidly moving over the water, running above its surface by encompassing its metallic legs with Heavenly Ki, creating several water waves.

SPLASH! SPLASH! SPLASH!

The robot’s face, which resembled a metallic shark’s head with its jaws open, revealing an LED screen with a smiling face, suddenly changed. The smiling face became red and angry.

“In your dreams!”

“We’re not letting you pass!”

Transcendent and Yang stepped forward, combining their Auras and clashing against the machine’s claws, which rapidly intercepted their attacks with its combined Heavenly Ki and Electromagnetic Energies.

“Annoyances must be purged.”

The robot quickly divided its two arms into four and quickly unleashed a barrage of attacks with its long, blade-like claws, as if it were a storm of sword attacks!

The two Egos resisted however they could, using swords made out of their own ethereal forms materialized and made as hard as steel; they unleashed a dance of swordsmanship techniques as a response.

“{Thousand Blades}: {Heavenly Sword Dance}!”

“{Thousand Blades}: {Cosmic Star Rain}!”

FLUOOOSH!

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

Their techniques merged as both moved in sync with one another, slashing and clashing against the robot’s claws while cleaving apart several pieces of its arms while also taking damage themselves; each blow they took made their ethereal bodies become fainter.

“I’m going to get this bastard! SHAAAAH!”

The voice of Uroboros echoed behind the two Egos as his three gigantic jaws opened, firing three crimson beams of pure cosmic energy, impacting the machine while it was being distracted by Transcendent and Yang!

BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

Three explosions engulfed its head and chest; large chunks of metal flew away, leaving behind three massive holes with exposed circuits and two of its cores broken.

This amount of damage wouldn’t have been possible if Transcendent and Yang hadn’t attacked it first, cleaving its arms apart and also destroying most of its armored plates.

“I-I… lost…?!”

The robot was unable to believe it, falling into the seawater.

SPLASH!

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