Chapter 154: Steel Cataclysm (11)

Looking at the swarming army of metallic monsters, Tian Xie's already highly unstable emotions instantly grew even more irritable!

"This won't do, the overload mode can't hold out against this many... I have to enter danger mode!" Tian Xie kicked away a metallic lizard at his feet, and his form began to swell violently!

"I won't be able to hold back in this state. This is our last chance!" Tian Xie roared at Zhao Tianhe, while the countless eyes on the head of his black giant form gradually clouded over with a crystalline, blood-red film...

"Roar~~~~~"

Standing over twenty meters tall, the danger mode giant emitted a heaven-shaking roar and lunged fiercely into the pack of metallic monsters!

The foremost metallic giant, whose arms were shaped like scythes, was the most unfortunate. Its body was shattered directly by a single punch from the danger mode Tian Xie.

Although the metallic giant's body was broken into two halves, its tenacious vitality still drove it to clamp its pair of arms tightly onto Tian Xie's right arm.

However, after its serrated-edge scythe forelimbs pierced Tian Xie's skin, they were rapidly scorched and dissolved by the corrosive bodily fluids within. The arms slipped away completely lacking strength, and then it was slapped to the ground by Tian Xie's left arm, its head crushed to pieces...

The danger mode Tian Xie possessed the ability to contend with and win against pseudo-king-level monsters head-on. A mere Grade A boss was nothing more than easy fodder for him at this moment.

If time permitted, he could even resolve the current crisis single-handedly, but unfortunately, that was impossible.

'With Ralph not present, I can't be too reckless. Two minutes is the limit!' Tian Xie knew very well that with his current state of willpower, even under the blessing of the talent system, the absolute limit for the danger mode was only about ten minutes, after which an apocalyptic catastrophe would ensue. Furthermore, the safe duration during which he could exercise self-restraint was even shorter, a mere two minutes!

Moreover, after exiting the danger mode, Tian Xie wouldn't even be able to wield the Evil God's power for a short period, leaving him entirely at the mercy of others. By that time, he would simply have to run away alongside Zhao Tianhe.

On the other side, the near-death metallic lizard was bombed once more from above by Zhao Tianhe with projected swords until it finally perished completely.

However, the items dropped this time sent a chill through Zhao Tianhe's heart: it was actually a piece of exclusive material and three Saint Quartz!

"Damn it! Are you seriously only giving one chance?!" Zhao Tianhe couldn't help cursing, but not daring to delay, he reached out to pick up the Saint Quartz and began gacha rolling.

Seven-colored radiance began to overflow, and Zhao Tianhe clasped his hands together in prayer, almost kneeling to kowtow on the ground.

Tian Xie's danger mode ticked away second by second, and the colorful halo also slowly dissipated, revealing the Craft Essence within...

Zhao Tianhe looked at the familiar Craft Essence illustration and almost cried with excitement!

Unlimited Blade Works!

"We won!" Zhao Tianhe chose to use it without hesitation.

Straight red marks resembling a circuit board surfaced across the surface and interior of Zhao Tianhe's body, accompanied by electric sparks. His hair stood on end and turned completely pale, while his skin gradually darkened.

This time, Zhao Tianhe could feel the magic circuits surging abruptly within his body and their connection to some unknown entity. That was the switch to an entire world, and he was the gateway to that world.

"Tian Xie! Done deal! Pulled it on the first single shot!" Zhao Tianhe shouted loudly to Tian Xie. Feeling the vast, surging magical energy within his body like a rushing river, a surge of confidence welled up naturally.

Thousands of projected swords were cast from the Unlimited Blade Works realm into the sky, dense enough to blot out the sun.

Hearing this, Tian Xie hurriedly began to suppress the danger mode and retreated backward, his figure rapidly shrinking back into the ordinary overload mode.

Zhao Tianhe jumped from the back of the Garula spirit onto a pseudo-Pure Yang sword and waved his right arm.

The rain of swords covering the sky shot toward the army of metallic monsters with a roar like an incoming hurricane!

Boom, boom, boom...

Dense explosions resounded, and surging fireballs burst open. Countless projected swords of Promised Victory shattered violently!

"One thousand, two thousand, three thousand..." Zhao Tianhe looked down expressionlessly at the metallic monsters shattering and collapsing one after another under the bombardment of the swords of Promised Victory, his hair whipped about by the violent shockwaves.

After activating Unlimited Blade Works this time, perhaps due to the skill bonus of the Unlimited Weapons, even the Craft Essence energy required to project swords outside of Unlimited Blade Works had been greatly reduced.

Zhao Tianhe estimated that he could project at least one full-version Holy Sword-class noble phantasm into the outside world, and if he were within a Reality Marble, he could even project two consecutively.

"Seven thousand five hundred and twenty-three... So-so, I guess." Two minutes later, Zhao Tianhe looked at the piles of spoils of war on the ground, smiled slightly, and commanded the swords to begin picking up various exclusive materials, Summoning Tickets, Saint Quartz, and a few pieces of equipment dropped by Tian Xie.

"Can that card of yours handle a pseudo-king?" Tian Xie shouted loudly.

"Of course it can." Zhao Tianhe smiled and nodded, while continuously pulling gachas with his hands. "Let's charge straight up. Moore should still be holding down a few of them, right?"

Through the boss cleanup just now, both Zhao Tianhe and Tian Xie had leveled up.

As for the skill points from this level-up, Zhao Tianhe did not plan to upgrade Hyper-Magic Premonition further, but rather intended to upgrade 'Number of the Saint'!

He had long wanted to upgrade this skill which could only be improved with skill points, but had hesitated due to its overly singular panel enhancements. Coupled with the special strengthening that appeared for Hyper-Magic Premonition, it sparked a desire in him to take a gamble, leading him to keep upgrading it to Lv9.

However, upgrading this skill now was an absolute must!

If he ran into a pseudo-king-class entity in a moment, Zhao Tianhe intended to directly project the full version of the sword of Promised Victory and blast it!

And the skill Number of the Saint was intimately connected to the sword of Promised Victory; upgrading it would definitely bring a tremendous boost to the upcoming battle.

Number of the Saint Lv2
Passive effects: Fire resistance +, Fire element affinity +
Lv2 enhancement: Constitution attribute +

"Damn!" Looking at these plain attributes, Zhao Tianhe instantly understood the ferocious nature of Gawain, the King of Normal Slashes. "Just how strong is the full version of Number of the Saint supposed to be?! And this doesn't even include the daytime triple-attribute enhancement special effect yet!"

Zhao Tianhe instantly felt some regret for upgrading Hyper-Magic Premonition, but now was not the time to ponder such things as the two began their ascent to the upper level.

Meanwhile, on the surface, the pseudo-king-level metallic giant that watched the muscular gorilla burrow into the dungeon stood at the cave entrance, looking down in deep thought.

It knew that in its current form, it could not continue the pursuit, so pale golden runes began to surface across its body.

These tadpole-like golden runes not only covered the body of the metallic giant, but many also flew directly from its body toward the surrounding metallic monsters.

Those metallic monsters did not resist, instead allowing these runes to burrow into their bodies.

Then, the bodies of all the monsters entered by the runes began to dissolve rapidly, turning into pools of silvery-white liquid metal that gathered toward the metallic giant.

The metallic giant similarly transformed into a massive amount of liquid metal and poured directly into the dungeon tunnels!

As a pseudo-king-class entity, although the metallic giant had performed somewhat mediocrely in the battle just now, that did not mean it was weak.

As a monster that had initially touched upon the power of laws, the metallic giant possessed an extremely high degree of mastery over its own abilities. The reason it could recover by consuming other monsters was actually because all the monsters on this entire island were its avatars!

The muscular gorilla ran through the tunnel on all fours, but soon it felt violent vibrations coming from behind...

The pressure in the air was exceptionally intense, and something of extraordinary mass was closing in!

"That monster managed to chase me down?!" The muscular gorilla muttered to itself in surprise, but its perception was not weak, so it could determine that whatever was behind must have sealed the entire tunnel extremely tightly, and its mass far exceeded the air in the entire tunnel to cause such a phenomenon!

However, it hadn't expected that what chased after it wasn't the giant's limbs, but a surging tide of intertwined golden and silver metallic liquid!

'Damn it!' The muscular gorilla didn't dare to voice its curses, could only cry out in misery internally, and was then submerged within this surging metallic liquid!

On the first floor of the dungeon, the entire space was shrouded in a violent sandstorm, the ground shook incessantly, and the entire scene resembled the arrival of an apocalypse.

Yet, loud waves of taunts and insults continued to echo without stop.

"Are you getting soft somewhere?" "You're big enough, but your back-patting is as weak as a wet noodle. Your old mother really wasted her effort giving birth to you. Ah, my bad, I forgot you don't have a mother."

The attack frequency of the metallic gorilla had already begun to decrease, and its arms and legs creaked ominously during its attacks, as if its bodily structure and material had reached a certain critical threshold.

This was normal. No matter how fierce a battle usually was, there should at least be some back-and-forth; it shouldn't feature this kind of unilateral, continuous limit-output. Did you think this was moving bricks?!

Up until now, Moore was completely unscathed, but the metallic gorilla was truly at its limit!

Due to Moore's Taunt talent, the metallic gorilla had remained entirely out of control during this period, outputting at what could be called its mechanical theoretical limit, which consequently led to severe metal fatigue in its body.

'No! If this goes on, I'll collapse! My emotional loss of control is due to some ability of this monster; I must calm down! I can't keep attacking!' Sensing the severe problems in its own body, the metallic gorilla suddenly broke free of the taunt and retreated backward.

At this point, the gorilla already felt that its life was in danger, which naturally allowed it to temporarily shake off Moore's taunt.

Seeing the gorilla slowly backing away, Moore smiled slightly and pulled out his spiked club.

"Eat shit, loser!" Moore stretched out his neck, raised his spiked club, and charged forward, smashing it fiercely against the metallic gorilla's ankle.

At this moment, his attributes were overwhelmingly overflowing, and even his strength had increased. Coupled with the fact that the gorilla had been frantically kicking him with that ankle for a while and was already somewhat fatigued, his blow actually smashed a large crack into it!

"Roar~~~~~" The metallic gorilla let out an angry roar to the skies, its hatred meter instantly skyrocketing. It bent down, grabbed Moore, threw him into its mouth, and chewed vigorously.

Although it had lost its reason once again, it still managed to think of this trick: using its mouth to attack while resting its hands and feet.