Chapter 472 - 217: Absolute Domination, the True Master Appears
Chapter 472: Chapter 217: Absolute Domination, the True Master Appears
It had been riddled with holes by its own attacks!
Everyone understood.
Lin Ye had mastered the Curse Bone Race’s most uncounterable ability: Damage Transfer. None of Akayle’s attacks worked on him. Instead, every single one was returned in full.
Though it came at the cost of many lives in his legions.
But Akayle didn’t dare continue sacrificing its kin.
Meanwhile, Lin Ye’s Soul Melting Bone Erosion could inflict real, tangible damage on Akayle.
Add to that the Spirit attacks that could throw Akayle into a momentary trance at critical moments, and the gravitational suppression that neutralized its Telekinesis...
This battle had been unfair from the start.
Akayle had no chance of victory!
It was like a declawed, defanged tiger. It had immense brute strength, but could only be tortured to death.
"AAAAARRRGGGHHH—!!!"
Akayle went completely berserk!
It abandoned all calm and reason.
Regressing into a crazed beast, it repeatedly charged Lin Ye, trying to tear the detestable human to shreds with primitive physical attacks!
Lin Ye, however, handled it with ease. It was impossible for him to lose now.
So naturally, he could fight however he pleased.
Just then, Yin Liulan, who had been observing the battle from the sidelines, seemed to realize something. Her gaze sharpened abruptly.
Her gaze shot through the chaotic battlefield, landing on the deep, dark entrance to the passage behind the ruined sacrificial hall.
The next moment, her figure vanished from the spot.
There was no trail of energy, no burst of speed.
She simply vanished into thin air, as if she had never been there at all.
In the next instant,
Yin Liulan’s figure reappeared.
This time, however, she held someone in her arms—a person bathed in blood, their aura so faint it was nearly undetectable.
It was Zhang Daoming, who had rushed into the passage during the fight between Lin Ye and Akayle. No one knew what he had encountered, but he was now on the brink of death.
A horrifying, blackened hole gaped in his chest, as if he’d been pierced by some dreadful energy attack.
"Medics!"
Yin Liulan beckoned casually.
A medic who had been on standby in the aircraft cabin above, along with all his equipment, appeared instantly at her side. He still looked a bit dazed.
But his professionalism was top-notch. The moment he saw the wounded man in Yin Liulan’s arms, his expression changed dramatically.
"Vitals are fading fast! Quick! Get him to a Life Support Pod!"
Soon, Zhang Daoming was transferred by several people into a Life Support Pod aboard the aircraft above.
RUMBLE—!!!
Just then, a terrifying tremor, more violent than any that had come before, erupted from the depths of the Painful Labyrinth!
The ground split apart, as if the entire world were shaking!
Yin Liulan looked toward the dark entrance of the passage.
"The real master is here at last."
Before the shocked and uncertain eyes of everyone present,
a slender figure slowly flew out of the dark passage, a darkness that seemed to swallow all light.
It was a humanoid being.
It possessed a form that perfectly matched human ideals of beauty, with fluid and elegant lines.
Its skin, however, was a silvery-white liquid metal that shimmered with a metallic sheen, seemingly in a constant state of flux.
It had no facial features—only a smooth, mirrored surface across which blue streams of data occasionally flashed.
Its joints moved without the slightest hint of mechanical stiffness. Instead, they displayed a coordination and fluidity that surpassed any biological creature.
Within it, technology and life were combined in a bizarre yet perfect fusion.
This was a member of the... Intelligent Mechanism Race!
The instant this figure appeared, the berserk Akayle’s massive body froze.
It turned its head stiffly. When it saw the silver figure hovering in the air, the black soul-fire burning in its eye sockets trembled violently, as if it had just witnessed the most terrifying being in existence.
It was a fear that sprang from the very depths of its soul—a fear it could not hide!
"Useless."
A cold, emotionless, synthesized voice spoke impassively.
The Intelligent Mechanism hovered in mid-air, its smooth, mirrored face turned toward the wretched Akayle below.
"You are a great disappointment."
"You can’t even do a proper job as a watchdog?"
At these words, the entire area fell deathly silent!
Akayle, the King of Ten Thousand Curses who had driven the elites of both the Xinhuo and Kunlun Martial Halls to desperation, even forcing the military to deploy a Celestial Human Realm expert to intervene...
...was actually... just a watchdog?!
"I... I’m sorry..."
Akayle’s voice was now filled with incomparable panic and servility.
It even abandoned its fight with Lin Ye, prostrating itself in mid-air before the Intelligent Mechanism, offering the most subservient plea.
"Please... please give me one more chance! I’ll keep these insects out! They’ll never reach the core...!"
But before it could finish,
the Intelligent Mechanism raised its right hand.
The next second, Lin Ye clearly felt streams of life energy and soul essence, both of the utmost purity, being forcibly ripped from Akayle’s body.
They formed streams of light visible to the naked eye, pouring into the palm of the Intelligent Mechanism.
"AAAAHHH—!!!"
Akayle let out a horrific, bloodcurdling scream!
Its giant form could no longer be maintained. Like a deflating ball, it shrank rapidly.
Its aura plummeted at an astonishing rate!
The Intelligent Mechanism’s synthesized voice remained as cold as ever.
"Without the Master’s power..."
"You should have perished completely two thousand years ago."
"This just proves you were unworthy of the gift."