210: Chapter 209 A Reconstructed Monster Hundreds of Meters Tall! All That Killing Was for Nothing?
Lin Feng leaned against a broken wall, shook the grayish-white powder off the dragon slaying sword, and took out a bottle of mana recovery potion from his void mithril ring to take two gulps.
Xiao Guang's mecha squatted nearby, the Dark Energy Cannon on its right arm still emitting faint blue smoke, while the dark gold patterns on the mecha's surface glowed slightly amidst the energy turbulence.
Xiao Jin lay on the mecha's knee, its six legs curled beneath it, crunching on half a purple Spirit Stone held in its mouth.
Since coming down from the mall rooftop, they had cleared at least seven or eight waves of Void Creatures—Single-Horned Dogs, Stone Scorpions, and Shadow Leopards, with two unknown flying Void Beasts mixed in.
The combat intensity increased with each round, with no fewer than thirty or forty creatures per wave. Furthermore, the closer they got to the rift, the heavier the traces of forcibly injected void energy on those Void Creatures became.
A leader-level Void Unicorn Hound had actually survived a punch from the mecha, twitching on the ground for a good while before turning into an empty shell.
“This wave should be about it.”
Xiao Guang spoke through the mecha's loudspeaker, its voice still carrying the excited resonance from blasting the Stone Scorpion swarm just now.
“From earlier until now, we've cleared at least several dozen. The void energy fluctuations within a few hundred meters have dropped.”
Just as it finished speaking, Xiao Jin suddenly sprang up from the mecha's knee.
The half-piece of purple Spirit Stone in its mouth fell to the ground, bouncing twice before rolling into a crack in the rubble. It didn't bother to pick it up; both antennae turned backward simultaneously, and purple light patterns flashed violently—this wasn't the previous 'treasure ahead' or 'enemies nearby' signal, but a more intense and urgent warning frequency that Lin Feng had only seen once before, when that Fusion monster suddenly appeared at the top of the TV tower.
“Squeak—!”
Lin Feng immediately threw away the empty potion bottle, drew his dragon slaying sword, and stood up, his perception expanding to its maximum range in the same instant.
Then he felt it—not from the front, not from underground, but from the road they had come from, an extremely massive and chaotic surge of void energy was rapidly converging.
It didn't seem to gush from a fixed source, but rather like fragments scattered along the way were being simultaneously activated from within—every grayish-white speck of void energy remaining in the carcasses of the previously slain Void Creatures lit up with dark purple light at the same moment.
Lin Feng turned around to look at the path they had come from.
On both sides of the street, charred black by the mecha's thrusters, lay the grayish-white shell fragments left behind by dozens of dead Void Creatures. At this moment, dark purple mist was seeping out from the surface of every single fragment.
The mist, as if alive, converged from all directions toward a single point, forming a massive dark purple vortex.
The concentration of void energy at the center of the vortex rose rapidly. Surrounding architectural remains were pulled by the vortex's suction, becoming precarious; rubble and broken steel bars flew up from the ruins, getting sucked into the vortex and ground into powder.
“It's not a new enemy.”
Lin Feng's hand tightened slightly around the dragon slaying sword.
“It's those Void Beasts we just killed—their corpses are reassembling.”
The vortex continued to spin for several seconds before suddenly contracting.
All the dark purple mist and the sucked-in rubble powder vanished as if swallowed in one gulp, replaced by a massive dark shadow slowly emerging from the void.
The thing stood up from the ground like a collapsed building being righted again.
A body hundreds of meters tall, assembled from head to toe by the grayish-white shell fragments of dozens of Void Creatures.
Dark purple void energy liquid seeped from the joints between every fragment. Embedded in its chest was a giant void core formed by the Fusion of countless petrification energy spheres from the tails of Void Stone Scorpions; every pulse of the core sent a ripple of dark purple energy across its body's surface.
Dozens of Void Unicorn Hound heads hung from its left arm, each with its mouth open, revealing sharp, thin teeth.
Its right arm was a section of a Void Shadow Leopard's forepaw, thicker than the mecha, with sharp black claws trembling slightly in the air.
The most skin-crawling part was its head—formed by the skulls of three leader-level Void Unicorn Hounds into a triangular pyramid shape, with the curved horns on each forehead still emitting faint void pulse light.
Void Aggregate · Remains, Domain Lord Level, Fusion Evolution Body, all attributes extremely high, skills include Void Pulse Storm, Annihilation Breath, Remains Reassembly, etc.
“How many did we just kill?”
Xiao Guang's voice came through the mecha's loudspeaker; the previous excitement was completely gone, replaced by a trace of dryness.
“Several dozen,”
Lin Feng said.
“They've all stood back up.”
Xiao Guang was silent for a second, then controlled the mecha to pop out the Dark Energy Cannon on its right arm again. The dark red light of the cannon's charging grew brighter in sync with the pulsing of the core in the mecha's chest.
“I thought I could rest for a bit and eat a bag of chips after finishing that wave. This Dungeon is dead set on not letting me eat snacks.”
It paused, then added another sentence.
“But since killing them was for nothing anyway, might as well kill them again—Lin Feng, this guy's core is in its chest, just like that giant Fusion monster from before. But its structure is looser than that guy's, all put together from fragments, and the bone joints aren't protected by void energy-solidified carapaces. If we can use a wide-range attack to scatter the ring of fragments around its core all at once, its core will be directly exposed.”
“You distract it first.”
Lin Feng deployed his Wind Wings and flew toward the side.
Although the energy turbulence was still present, he could barely stabilize himself for short-distance flight. At the same time, he drew the taixu sword with his left hand—this sword's restraining effect on void energy could be utilized to its maximum potential on such a giant Void Creature.
Xiao Guang took the lead and charged in control of the mecha.
The mecha's short-range Spatial Warp module activated, and it instantly appeared behind the Aggregate's left knee, exactly where the shells of multiple Void Stone Scorpions were joined.
The mecha's right-arm Dark Energy Cannon blasted the joint at point-blank range. The dark energy beam exploded inside the knee joint; that section of the lower leg, assembled from dozens of grayish-white carapace fragments, shook violently and several pieces shattered.
Xiao Guang did not linger. After one blast, it immediately activated the Spatial Warp to return to Lin Feng's flank and began recharging the Dark Energy Cannon.
Its control over this mecha was now quite proficient; the leap landing points were more precise each time, and the Dark Energy Cannon's charging time had been compressed nearly to its limit.
Taking advantage of the moment the Aggregate buckled its knee and lost balance, Lin Feng swept the taixu sword horizontally, silver-white runes leaving trails where the blade passed.
A silver Sword Qi slashed into the Aggregate's abdomen from the side, shattering several rows of joined carapace fragments as grayish-white mist gushed out.
His right hand followed up with the dragon slaying sword, hacking at the same spot. A golden sword light sliced a long gash on the side of the abdomen extending from the ribs to the pelvis—inside the gash, one could see dark purple void energy constantly seeping out from between countless internal fragments.
The Aggregate let out a muffled roar.
It felt no pain, but its core sensed the threat.
It raised its right arm—that giant Void Shadow Leopard forepaw—and swept it toward Lin Feng with startling speed.
Lin Feng perilously deployed the Taixu Shield to block his side. The golden light shield shook violently from the blow, and he was sent flying by the impact, crashing into a half-collapsed wall.
The wall came tumbling down. He fell into a pile of rubble; the star gauze armor absorbed most of the impact, but his left shoulder was still slightly numbed by the shock.
Xiao Jin jumped up from his shoulder and opened its mouth to spray a cloud of pale gold Soul-Confusing Incense toward the Aggregate's head.
The mist dissipated quickly in the energy turbulence, its coverage area much smaller than usual, but a portion still drifted between the three Single-Horned Dog skulls of the Aggregate's head.
The curved horns of the three skulls flashed simultaneously, and the Aggregate's body swayed—but it soon returned to normal. The spirit resistance of a Domain Lord Level Void Creature far exceeded that of Elite and Leader levels; the Soul-Confusing Incense could only cause a very brief distraction.
However, this sway was enough.
Lin Feng flipped up from the rubble pile and stood, crossing his twin swords—the silver-white runes of the taixu sword and the golden patterns of the dragon slaying sword lit up at the same time.
He forced the light element within his body onto the blades, and a cross-shaped sword light shot out from where the swords met, slamming hard into the void core on the Aggregate's chest.
The sword light sliced into the outer layer of the core, and dark purple energy gushed from the gash like blood.
The Aggregate let out a roar more pained than before, and the pulse frequency of its chest core suddenly accelerated significantly.
“It's working! Keep hacking!”
Xiao Guang's voice came from mid-air.
It controlled the mecha to leap above the Aggregate's right shoulder again, aiming the Dark Energy Cannon at the weakest fragment joint of the shoulder and firing.
The shoulder joint was blasted open with a hole several meters wide, and the entire right arm almost fell off the shoulder.
The Aggregate's counterattack became even more violent—it opened its chest's void core and sprayed an Annihilation Breath as thick as a giant water vat. The dark purple light beam swept across the ruins, and wherever it passed, architectural remains were completely erased at the molecular level.
Lin Feng ducked low to the ground to avoid the beam. The aftermath of the annihilation grazing past his scalp made a few strands of his hair stand on end, and the Taixu Shield automatically lit up to absorb the impact.
Xiao Guang controlled the mecha to perform three consecutive Spatial Warps to avoid the main path of the light beam. The final leap landed it on the Aggregate's back neck; it retracted the Dark Energy Cannon and switched to smashing the fragment joints of the back neck with its fists.
The mecha's black steel fists fell like raindrops on that relatively loosely joined area, sending debris flying.
Lin Feng steadied himself once more.
He glanced at the sword mark on the Aggregate's chest that was still seeping dark purple energy liquid—the depth was sufficient, but it wasn't fatal.
The core repair speed of this type of giant Aggregate was extremely fast; he had to use a greater amount of damage to pierce through the core in one go before it healed.
He put away the dragon slaying sword, gripped the taixu sword's hilt with both hands, and drew all the light element from his Meridians to pour into the blade.
The silver-white runes on the taixu sword had never been as bright as they were now; the entire sword looked like a piece of solidified moonlight.
He deployed his Wind Wings and charged toward the Aggregate's chest. Xiao Guang controlled the mecha in mid-air to provide cover—the Dark Energy Cannon fired continuously to suppress the Aggregate's arms, and the mecha's fists kept smashing into the previously opened gash, preventing the Aggregate's arms from returning to defend for the time being.
When Lin Feng reached a certain distance from the core, he raised the sword with both hands and slashed down with all his might.
The taixu sword sliced in from the gash, the silver-white runes and dark purple void energy colliding violently with a piercing hiss.
The blade sliced through the outer void energy carapace and deep into the core.
The Aggregate threw its head back and let out a deafening roar. A circle of blinding dark purple shockwaves suddenly erupted from the chest core, and the surrounding energy turbulence was shredded by this impact, sending large amounts of sand and stone swirling into the sky.
Lin Feng withdrew his sword and retreated, landing lightly on the mecha's shoulder. The taixu sword pointed diagonally at the ground, its silver-white runes still glowing faintly.
He glanced down at his mana—this one strike had consumed more than half of it, but the core had been split open with a gash deep enough to see the bottom. Dark purple energy liquid poured out of the gash like a waterfall, and the Aggregate's body began to collapse in small areas.
“Now's the time, keep attacking.”
Lin Feng said.
Xiao Guang controlled the mecha to pop out the Dark Energy Cannon again, the dark red light of the cannon's charging illuminating the core in the mecha's chest.