Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons

Chapter 1027 - 889: Strategy to Break the Deadlock (Part 2)

And now they already had a rough grasp of it, and had personally experienced quite a bit.

It also let them catch their breath and break through the suppression.

With tacit coordination.

Raphael and Kafka immediately came together.

Spiraling crimson energy, along with the multicolored feathers within it, launched a corkscrewing assault.

They blocked every place that could produce machines and launch them; the moment a construct emerged, it was shot down.

Meanwhile the two Meizike Clones were frantically replenishing their energy and mending their bodies that had been injured by attacks.

Most of the incoming strikes were intercepted by objects suddenly created out of thin air.

Lightning also began to fall, smashing onto the God of All Machines’ head; a thin Energy Shield absorbed all the bolts.

But the lightning was too dense, so dense that all the machines were destroyed before they even had time to appear.

The God of All Machines opened its mechanical maw; the furnace inside flickered with flames, the glow even spilling out past its jaws.

Mechanical manufacturing noises, like an assembly line, erupted in the surrounding space.

A robot crawled out from within.

This machine had four legs; its steel outer frame was covered in dense yet extremely orderly Magic Runes.

It had four mechanical arms on its body, and a pair of long gun barrels mounted on its shoulders.

The overall structure carried a strong sense of orderly, industrial beauty.

"Five-color?"

Kane looked at the robot climbing out, shocked by its strength.

Just like that, it spat out a five-color-level construct?

This configuration was obviously meant for autonomous combat, not something that required split attention to control like a weapon.

Then another one crawled out.

A total of three came out before it slowly closed its mouth.

This was most likely its limit for what it could create; each robot’s power had reached the five-color level.

But he could still sense these five-color strengths were not that strong, roughly equivalent to when the Shadow Twins fought separately.

The problem was, these three sudden five-color robots might flip their current advantage back around again.

A black-and-white flame spiral shot up, instantly encircling two of the robots.

However, before Kreya’s figure vanished, the flames were pierced by a cold beam of light.

The God of All Machines used some strange energy to break the seal of the black-and-white flames.

Seeing this, Kreya immediately dropped the thought she’d just had.

She dived straight down into the mass of machines below.

Lightning cascaded down, landing on these constructs.

Meizike also charged directly at another robot.

Only Kane stayed in midair, crafting all sorts of constructs to block the God of All Machines’ various beam attacks.

So those beams and bombs wouldn’t land on his teammates.

Right now he could inflict extremely limited damage on the God of All Machines.

He could only play a restraining role.

It was like running headfirst into his own natural counter.

But his abilities combined with Raphael’s and the others’ were still enough to simply pin the enemy down.

With the current situation, Kreya couldn’t afford to hide her strength. She directly twined black and white flames together into a massive blade and slashed down.

Yet the robot dodged this strike with an oddly twisted movement.

Since advancing to five-color and gaining a Divine Skill-level technique, this was the first time Kreya’s all-out attack had whiffed.

This didn’t surprise Kreya, nor did it slow her assault.

Her attacks came in an unbroken flurry, working with the black-and-white flames spreading across the ground to leave the enemy no room to dodge.

At last, when the Sword Blade was about to land, the four mechanical arms folded together; in an instant, a huge steel Shield appeared in its hands, almost completely covering its body below.

But the Sword Blade directly pierced through the Shield and hacked into the machine’s torso.

In a flash, the mechanical body was cut in two; black tendrils spread from the severed gap, and the parts touched by them began turning to ash.

Yet the enemy’s mechanical body instantly broke apart into two masses of metal fragments, cutting themselves off from the ashen area, then recombining the remaining pieces into a restored machine.

Clearly, Kreya had run into the same predicament as Kane.

White flames could slash an enemy’s Soul and will; black flames could attack their flesh and reality.

Fused, they strengthened the rule of death itself, bringing the enemy true "death" — death at the level of concepts.

Even machines would die.

But this machine obviously had no such things as Soul or will; it was entirely under the God of All Machines’ control.

Its body could be destroyed, but the destroyed portion was discarded in an instant; the rule and concept of death were abandoned before they could spread.

Death was death imposed upon the whole.

And this robot split one individual into several individuals, discarded the dead fragments, and let the remaining ones fuse anew.

It sidestepped death imposed on the whole. Everything in existence had a way to be cracked.

A mechanical lifeform with powerful data-calculation capacity could find such cracks at a speed flesh and blood could never comprehend.

Landing this slash on the God of All Machines’ forehead would be more useful than landing it on these robots’ bodies.

To Kreya, it felt like she’d just slashed into one of the constructs Kane made.

Those constructs didn’t even fully exist in reality; once they "died," they were simply discarded and remade.

Thinking of it that way, the machine before her wasn’t that disgusting.

Faced with this situation, Kreya didn’t hesitate in the slightest and instantly turned into a black-and-white filament of flame.

A curtain of black fire spread across the sky, blocking the incoming beams of the God of All Machines.

And Kane vanished from his original position in the next instant, reappearing where Kreya had retreated; the two of them swapped enemies.

Could Kreya kill this robot? Without a doubt, yes—but that clearly didn’t meet the requirement for a quick, decisive battle.

Whereas Kane had far more insight than anyone else when it came to dealing with mechanical constructs.

It was just that Kane’s power to create from nothing was better used to stop the enemy’s offensive.

Looking at the robot before him, a smile appeared on Kane’s face.

This was the enemy practically ramming itself into his muzzle.

He finally gripped his Crystal Long Spear again after so long.

His entire body of flesh transformed into a brand-new Divine Power state.

The Divine Power state Kane had never once used.

A power he had specifically prayed for, tricked, and simulated into existence for the sake of fighting mechanical enemies.

Now it could finally be put to use.