Chapter 806: The Descent of a True God, Kaito Shirogane's Battle
A burst of intense blue-white radiance tore through the planet's outer atmosphere, shooting down in an instant. It then vanished over a certain sea area without causing any impact on the world.
The landing site was a massive island shrouded in clouds and mist. The trees on the island grew abnormally, all reaching heights of over a hundred meters. Their branches and roots were twisted and knotted, resembling the roots of some monster.
The clouds at the mountain peak were only a few hundred meters above these trees, making the island extremely humid and cold.
Logically, this kind of environment shouldn't be suitable for the survival of large creatures. But various fierce beasts measuring tens of meters were visible everywhere on the island. Some creatures resembling Earth's dinosaurs were reduced to mere food here.
After the blue-white radiance landed, it transformed into a crescent-shaped aircraft brimming with a sci-fi aesthetic, hovering somewhere over the island.
The moment it landed, this crescent-shaped spacecraft automatically initiated camouflage and environmental analysis. In an instant, it scanned the entire island and acquired multiple biological samples.
After the spacecraft opened, the first to descend was a silver-white robot whose size differed little from a normal human's. Its entire body was encased in liquid metal, presenting a perfectly streamlined form capable of changing shape at will.
Following it, two heavy combat armors of archaic design crashed to the ground. One armor wielded a battle axe, the other a massive assault rifle, exuding a bizarre sense of primitivity.
Finally, the last person to descend from the spacecraft was entirely surrounded by psionic energy. Ordinary optical equipment couldn't capture his figure at all; they could only see a ball of light descending from the spacecraft.
"Your Majesty [Extinction Monarch Tassadar], we have just received communication from Your Majesty [Apocalypse Monarch Ultron]. He has successfully descended near the target faction, the Straw Hat Pirates, and annihilated an Infinite Dimensional Elite-level team."
"We have intercepted a massive number of Reincarnator communication signals and are accelerating decryption. Currently, the marine sonar system has been cracked. Those weak Reincarnators are being summoned by a special unit marked as [Heaven's Pilgrimage]. It is presumed they are preparing for a decisive frontal battle with Apocalypse Monarch."
Deep voices emanated from within the two Champion-class Astartes, rapidly reporting the latest intelligence of this world.
As a squad that had just been deployed to this world, due to the presence of the Sovereign-level unit Tassadar, they possessed the privilege to directly access the shared information of all previous squads from the database.
It was as if they connected to the server of this world the moment they landed, able to catch up with everyone else's progress in an instant.
This was also one of the unique advantages of the Machina Court.
Tassadar, addressed as the Extinction Monarch, did not speak, but intense psionic energy directly instilled his will into his followers' minds.
The three of them immediately removed their informational life storage devices from the spacecraft and carried them on their persons.
This was a special order unique to the Extinction Monarch. Units operating alongside him were not allowed to hide their data storage modules. Once killed in battle, they would die permanently on the spot.
There was no possibility of using informational life to return to the home planet and resurrecting via embryonic or mechanical vessel technology.
The Extinction Monarch didn't just exterminate the vitality of target worlds; he was equally cruel to his own people. He believed that most Elite-level units of the Machina Court had become slack because they lost their fear of death.
His ideology was to bring death back to the home planet, making all digital lifeforms taste the preciousness of having only one life once again.
"Your Majesty Tassadar, according to the data records left by Authority-level unit Lord Mercury before his death, and the intelligence exchange records with Lady Crimson of the Void Paradise, the Infinite Dimensional Space should have deployed another suspected Sovereign-level unit to this world."
"According to Lady Crimson's intelligence, their Authority-level unit Thunder God Ebito was instantly killed by the target while in a state of fully unleashing his Divine Body. It is presumed the magnitude has highly likely reached the Sovereign level."
Tassadar raised his hand, and the spacecraft, several hundred meters in size, immediately spun and shrank, then submerged into his psionic radiance and vanished.
Tassadar was unwilling to connect to the database himself, nor was he of the technological cybernetics faction. Upon receiving this intelligence at this moment, psionic energy began to condense out of thin air before him.
Subsequently, a figure radiating intense lightning appeared; it was exactly that Ebito. A massive amount of psionic energy manifested from the world, and then, in the air before him, other figures began to condense in front of Ebito.
A human woman wielding a golden trident, a human man transformed into a wolf... but neither of these two were enough to kill Ebito.
Tassadar felt a certain disharmony in the psionic energy, as if a part was blank.
In that place of battle, a portion of the psionic energy should theoretically have observed the target that killed Ebito, but it was completely unable to record it.
Was it a destiny-type ability?
Or some unobservable special Spirit Status?
From this, Tassadar confirmed that it was indeed a strength only a Sovereign-level unit could possess.
"Your Majesty, tracking indicates the Mercury has not been destroyed. It is currently cruising towards Your Majesty Ultron's position..."
Tassadar immediately realized that the unknown Sovereign-level Reincarnator must be inside the Mercury. The other party's goal was... a sneak attack on Ultron!
Tassadar originally had little interest in weak Reincarnators. He preferred to use this opportune moment to hunt a True God.
But the Reincarnators' baseness displeased him. This act of feigning a frontal battle while arranging a sneak attack from behind went against his ideology.
The psionic radiance on the surface of Tassadar's body abruptly expanded outward a ring. The next moment, the radiance enveloped the other three and violently contracted.
Terrifying psionic energy erupted in an instant. Space instantly collapsed, a pitch-black rift appearing. The psionic radiance, enveloping the three, drilled straight into it.
When they reappeared, Tassadar had already crossed tens of thousands of nautical miles. He sensed the coordinates, finding them extremely close now, and performed another spatial jump.
Hum~
Intense psionic energy exploded outside the aerospace battleship. The battleship's built-in protective shield activated automatically, but was instantly torn apart by that terrifying psionic energy.
The aerospace battleship began to rock violently in the air. A massive spacecraft measuring several thousand meters rocking in the air directly caused gale-force winds to whip up in the sea below.
The sudden change in air pressure also caused clouds to gather in the sky.
Tassadar's psionic radiance faded. The two Astartes dropped directly onto the battleship, which had lost its protective shield. Autocannons and high-energy laser beams on the battleship instantly lit up.
But the Astartes didn't even try to dodge. Being hit only caused their figures to tremble slightly. The psionic-covered armor completely ignored weapons of this magnitude.
Bang! Bang!
After the Astartes landed, the silver-white liquid metal man seeped out from one of the Astartes' armor and rapidly spread toward the interior of the battleship.
The three knew there was a Sovereign-level target here, but they acted without any hesitation.
This had nothing to do with courage. The three had long been clear about His Majesty Tassadar's will. Fleeing from battle meant instant execution, while fighting to the death might result in salvation.
This was a rational judgment, a pre-programmed command!
The three quickly opened the top hatch of the aerospace battleship and explored downward.
Tassadar, standing in place enveloped in psionic radiance, spoke up, a rare occurrence.
"So, you three aren't avoiding the enemy out of fear, but you truly don't see this guy right in front of you, is that it?"
The psionic radiance on the surface of Tassadar's body dissipated bit by bit, revealing his true form beneath.
Standing nearly three meters tall, purple skin covered his entire body. There was no hair on his head, only long nerve cords hanging behind him. His face lacked a nose and mouth, and his eyes had no pupils, completely enveloped by the glow of psionic energy.
"Tsk, what a unique look~"
Kaito Shirogane commented on the Protoss before him. This type of Protoss was different from the strongest species in the Little Garden world; they were another special race entirely.
Innately adept at manipulating psionic energy, they could probably be considered an alien race of the technological faction.
Tassadar, merely by standing there, instantly sensed the enemy's bizarre and powerful nature.
He hadn't undergone mechanical modification, so he didn't rely on various detectors.
But those three subordinates, three Authority-level high-tier combat units, actually turned a blind eye to the man before him. As if they hadn't seen him at all, they walked right past him and headed into the battleship.
This bizarre phenomenon signified the other party's strength.
Sovereign-level, without a doubt. And among Sovereign-levels, he wouldn't be a weakling!
Tassadar showed no reaction to Kaito Shirogane's insult regarding his appearance. In fact, in his eyes, the ugly red face Kaito Shirogane transformed into actually possessed a certain aesthetic appeal.
In his aesthetics, harmony was not beauty; only the bizarre and conflicting could produce aesthetic appeal amidst the monotony of mechanical races and digital lifeforms.
Therefore, Tassadar tacitly accepted Kaito Shirogane's evaluation.
"My name is Tassadar. Fourth Sequence Unit of the Machina Court, Extinction Monarch. I hereby commence extermination operations against you."
As Tassadar spoke, the psionic energy on the surface of his body once again expanded in a rippling pattern.
Those blue-white ripples seemed like liquefied energy, brimming with a mass completely different from their appearance. Just the impact of the aftershocks was enough to rock the several-thousand-meter-long aerospace battleship off its original course.
Screech~ BOOM!
Inside the aerospace battleship, Artoria had already drawn her sword. The terrifying slash instantly triggered secondary explosions. To Kaito Shirogane's relief, the next moment, Artoria knocked an Astartes out of the hatch, preventing her from completely scrapping his newly acquired large toy with a few sword strikes.
Kaito Shirogane's thoughts flashed as fast as his movements. Amidst his thoughts, he had already crossed dozens of meters in a single step.
Time seemed extremely slow in this state. Under the amplification of the Martial God's Ultimate Intent, Kaito Shirogane could completely control his body and senses during the high-tier Setsuna, experiencing something akin to bullet time.
This was why his combat appeared so relaxed and casual.
Kaito Shirogane appeared in front of the Protoss calling himself the Extinction Monarch, raised his hand, and pointed directly at the other party's collarbone. The sound of the surging Underworld rang out at this moment.
Pitch-black intent of death had already spread to his fingertips.
Pfft!
Blazing white light suddenly flared on the surface of Tassadar's body. Before Kaito Shirogane's fingertips touched Tassadar's body, a layer of liquefied psionic energy erupted directly from Tassadar.
The terrifying psionic shriek instantly tore through space, pitch-black rifts spreading indiscriminately.
Before Kaito Shirogane's fingertips touched anything physical, they fell into the void.
Terrifying kinetic force and Senra Intent of Death erupted from within.
BOOM!
A ring of blue-white light exploded upon the aerospace battleship, like a halo spanning ten thousand meters, instantly clearing the dark clouds above the sea area entirely.
Tassadar tore through space, appearing ten thousand meters high in the sky. He felt the trembling transmitted from the nerve cords on his head.
In that instant just now, he experienced an unprecedented intent of death.
Strong. Very strong. Terrifyingly strong!
It had probably been a long time since he encountered such a powerful Reincarnator, causing arrogance to unconsciously breed within his heart.
To think he would get so close to such a dangerous martial artist.
One must know that even for Authority-level units, a distance of a hundred meters was practically equivalent to non-existent.
For him to actually engage in close combat with a Sovereign-level martial combat faction formidable enemy was as foolish as voluntarily placing his own neck on the opponent's blade.
Psionic energy surged on Tassadar's body, his brain summarizing the situation at the speed of light. As a monarch manipulating psionic energy, he naturally excelled at long-range bombardment.
Tassadar raised his hands, his palms seeming to grasp directly at the battleship, which now appeared tiny due to the distance.
As the psionic energy erupted, a slender hand suddenly appeared out of nowhere in front of him. The nerve cords on Tassadar's head twitched once more.
The psionic energy had already erupted.
The AT Field had lit up on Kaito Shirogane's body. His speed was extreme, and his angle incredibly tricky. The moment the psionic energy erupted, he had already grabbed Tassadar's wrist.
Crack~ Pfft!
Blood, like the blue-white slurry of liquefied psionic energy, instantly sprayed out.
BOOM!
A terrifying blue-white psionic beam, like a blade cleaving the world, flew out from the direction of the severed arm, despite Kaito Shirogane breaking the arm.
In an instant, the sea was completely sliced open. A massive fault line appeared across the vast sea area spanning thousands of kilometers.
An island dozens of times larger than the aerospace battleship was also sliced diagonally by this strike.
The terrifying high temperature completely shrouded the sea in white mist.
Hum~
Space shattered again. Tassadar teleported tens of thousands of meters away. His lost right arm had regrown. But just as he expected, that human, like a phantom, took a few steps through the air and appeared directly in his field of vision, still holding his severed arm.
With a thought from Tassadar, the completely liquefied psionic energy on the severed arm exploded directly into pure light and heat.
BOOM!
A massive explosive light sphere hundreds of meters in diameter erupted mid-air.
Beyond Tassadar's expectations, this human male, who could probably be called a God of Martial Arts by now, didn't use his speed or martial arts intuition to throw away that arm.
Instead, he took the strike head-on completely.
"Not enough. Still not enough!"
Kaito Shirogane dropped the severed limb, which was now mostly just skin and bone. The AT Field on his body flickered continuously. This Extinction Monarch was probably the spellcaster with the strongest destructive power he had ever seen.
That strike just now possessed Disaster-tier destructive power.
But this explosion was clearly not enough.
Kaito Shirogane's brows and eyes were unbridled as he walked out from the explosive psionic mist. The heat rapidly dissipated, turning into trails of smoke swaying behind him.
He took another step towards Tassadar. With one step, he instantly appeared in front of Tassadar. Tassadar, having anticipated this, initiated a spatial jump the moment the space behind him shattered.
But at this moment, Kaito Shirogane stomped fiercely in the air.
BOOM!
The atmosphere seemed to be trampled upon entirely by something. The terrifying air pressure instantly caused the sea to cave in.
Kaito Shirogane himself gained an even more terrifying acceleration.
Tassadar had just emerged from the void when a trembling sensation arose from all the nerves in his body.
Before his eyes appeared scenes of himself repeatedly defying others within his clan on the home planet, insisting that digital lifeforms should not possess eternal life.
In this instant, the nerve cords behind Tassadar's head seemed to explode, spreading outwards. Psionic energy turned into lightning, erupting destructively from within his body.
But Kaito Shirogane showed no reaction to this attack. He merely clenched his fist tightly, his body stretching to the limit. Upon entering the Martial God's Ultimate Intent, Pre-Initiative could also generate special predictions for teleporting enemies like this.
Die!
Upon Kaito Shirogane's fist, the Senra Intent of Death surged.
Zzt!
A bolt of lightning suddenly descended from the sky, striking Kaito Shirogane at an entirely unpredictable speed.
A figure entirely wrapped in thunder appeared in front of Kaito Shirogane, his fist clashing with Kaito Shirogane's through the air.
The Senra Intent of Death and the golden lightning continuously eroded and neutralized each other.
The True God of the Void Paradise had finally descended. A strange sense of relief arose in Tassadar's heart, but the next moment, amidst the twisting of space, terrifying monstrous strength accompanied by a vacuum wave erupted violently.
BOOM!
The True God Thor and Tassadar instantly turned into shooting stars, crashing thunderously into the ocean.