652. The Mechanical Beast Appears / 653. Reaping the Benefits from the Sidelines

At most, it would leave a few marks. And whenever he struck them, a piercing pain shot through Izayoi’s arm, forcing him to give up on continuing his attacks.

Just then, he gathered a mass of fire energy onto his sword and slashed at one of the robots. Fortunately, it finally had some effect this time. The blade slid across the robot, leaving a bit of damage on its body.

The Mechanical Beast Appears

Izayoi hurriedly gathered his strength again and slashed at the other robots. Though the damage was slight, it could slow them down and make Izayoi’s attacks sharper. Thus, Izayoi fought the robots across the ground, his sword continuously hacking into their bodies.

Though he could not inflict any real damage on these robots, he kept them from daring to approach him. That was his tactic.

However, this was only temporary. As Izayoi’s stamina dwindled further and further, once he was truly exhausted—

he would no longer be able to contend with these robots. By then, he would become a corpse, perhaps even worse than a corpse, because he would not even have the strength to move.

Izayoi decided to flee. He leaped into the air, jumped over the robots blocking his path, and darted through the palace. The robots immediately chased after him.

Izayoi looked back and found the robots relentlessly pursuing him. He quickly summoned an ice wall with his sword behind him, blocking their path.

He continued sprinting forward at top speed.

The ice wall behind him was easily destroyed by the robots. As it shattered, the robots charged out from within.

Izayoi kept dodging, using the ice walls as cover as he fled forward.

Soon, the robots caught up again. Izayoi summoned many ice pillars with his sword, trapping all the robots inside.

In that situation, the robots could only keep attacking the ice pillars.

This was a very good method, but it could only trap the robots for a while and could not stop them completely. The ice pillars soon shattered one after another, and the robots rushed out.

Seeing this, Izayoi quickly used Spatial Movement and vanished from where he stood again.

The moment he disappeared, he heard a succession of booming explosions behind him.

Izayoi looked back and saw streak after streak of fire shooting into the sky behind him. The flames had been fired by the robots.

Their shells burned through the air, creating beautiful patterns like fireworks that bloomed brilliantly in the sky.

The flames fell among the ice pillars and instantly melted them. The sight was terrifying.

Izayoi hurriedly used a wind tornado to blow at the robots, preventing them from continuing their attacks.

Izayoi repeatedly used wind tornadoes, sweeping them into the air, then drawing them back in, then sending them away again, until it nearly formed a rotating tornado.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Izayoi sped forward.

But the robots soon caught up again. Izayoi summoned an iron cage, hoping it could trap them.

He did not know how long the iron cage could hold the robots, but there was still a shred of hope. After all, it was a treasure.

However, the robots—

He had no choice but to use spatial magic, creating a spatial barrier that wrapped around the entire room and turned it into a sturdy fortress, trapping all the robots within.

But this move was useless. After all, it only covered such a small area and could not encompass the entire room.

So it had no effect at all and still could not withstand the robots’ attacks. By then, the robots had already reached him.

The robots opened their mouths and bit down, tearing his defenses to pieces.

Reaping the Fisherman’s Profit

At this point, Izayoi had no other choice and hurriedly ran into the distance. Then he spotted a room. In his panic, he quickly entered it, hoping to use the room to escape disaster. Fortunately, after he entered, the robots did not follow him inside.

However, just then, a giant mechanical beast inside the room spotted Izayoi. It rushed before him and kicked at him with a huge foot. Izayoi hurriedly retreated, dodging the kick.

Just as Izayoi was about to leave the room, the robot kicked at him again. Izayoi did not dare let his guard down and quickly dodged the blow.

But the robot’s kick shattered another wall, revealing a crack where the wall had broken apart.

An idea immediately came to Izayoi.

He immediately used spatial magic and entered the spatial crack.

The giant robot continuously swung its fists, bombarding its surroundings, but it could never find Izayoi. It kept roaring and smashing things wildly throughout the room, turning the place into a complete mess.

Inside the spatial crack, Izayoi quietly observed the situation outside.

Suddenly, the mechanical beast fired a shell, blasting him out of the spatial crack and sending him crashing into a pile of rubble. He climbed to his feet and hurriedly used Spatial Movement.

He returned to the room, only to see the giant mechanical beast attacking him the moment he arrived. He drew his sword and slashed at it.

The giant mechanical beast was struck by his blade, but it remained completely unharmed. Not even a scratch appeared on its arm.

Izayoi sensed trouble and hurriedly used Spatial Movement again, only to find that he seemingly could not use it.

Just then, the mechanical beast slammed down with a claw. Izayoi was struck in the chest and sent flying, coughing up blood.

This was bad. Izayoi spun several times in the air, stabilized himself, and hurriedly tried to use spatial magic to escape this damned place.

However, his spatial magic seemed to have failed. He could not use it at all. Those robots had caused all of this; they had sealed off the space, leaving Izayoi unable to use spatial magic.

At that moment, a huge foot stomped down, pinning Izayoi beneath it once again.

No, I have to find a way out, or this mechanical beast will really kill me. Izayoi was extremely anxious.

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Just then, his body emitted Golden Light. He charged toward the doorway and rushed out. Just as he thought he had escaped disaster, the robots outside began attacking him.

Faced with attacks from both the robots and the mechanical beast, Izayoi found the situation extremely troublesome. He wondered if there was a way to break free from this predicament.

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Then he realized he could make the robots fight this mechanical beast, allowing him to reap the fisherman’s profit.

With that thought, he created a space and shut the robots and the mechanical beast inside, hoping they would fight.

Just as he expected, the robots and the mechanical beast quickly began fighting. The mechanical beast swung its claws at the robots.

At the same time, it whipped its tail at them, flinging them away, while the robots swung their fists and legs as they battled it.

The sight of them fighting was truly like a war movie.

Izayoi stood outside the space and watched the battle before him, nodding in satisfaction.

He thought his plan had succeeded perfectly.

Already Damaged

Just then, Izayoi suddenly heard rumbling from inside. He knew it was the sound of the mechanical beast fighting. At that moment, the mechanical beast and the robots were locked in fierce combat, crashing into each other and biting one another.

The mechanical beast swung its claws and killed a robot, but the robots soon surrounded it.

Unable to break free, the mechanical beast was forced into a struggle with the robots. The robots swung their arms as they fought it, striking the mechanical beast again and again.

They fought fiercely.

After being hit by the robots, the mechanical beast immediately swung its fists at them. The robots also swung their fists, clashing head-on with it.

The mechanical beast spewed powerful energy from its mouth, while the robots fired energy cannons to confront it.

They were evenly matched, but after only a few seconds of fighting, the mechanical beast fell into a disadvantage. The robots suppressed it tightly, attacking with increasing ferocity as though they intended to tear it apart.

Boom! Boom! Boom! The mechanical beast continuously swung its fists against the robots, while bursts of violent sounds erupted from its mouth.

The sound caused it immense pain.

Its head kept shaking. It seemed unable to hold on any longer, as though it was about to collapse. Its body swayed, as though it could no longer support itself.

At that moment, the mechanical beast kept firing powerful energy, but it still had no chance to escape. The mechanical beast simply could not flee; the slightest movement would cause it to be seized by the robots and violently smashed apart. Yet its head continued shaking.

Just then, the mechanical beast suddenly grew stronger. The light around its body brightened greatly, and its wounds rapidly healed. This change startled Izayoi. He had not expected the mechanical beast to be able to recover from its injuries.

But it was not over yet. The mechanical beast’s body suddenly grew taller, becoming more than half a meter taller than before, while its body became twice as thick and sturdy.

Its eyes grew larger as well, red light radiating from its pupils. Numerous dense spikes also grew from its body.

It was transforming! This mechanical beast was transforming! Once the transformation was complete, the mechanical beast actually began flying toward the sky…

It was flying. It could actually fly. Izayoi thought to himself.

After taking flight, the mechanical beast charged at the robots. But the robots showed no intention of retreating and attacked it one after another. Some even fired shells at its body.

Amid repeated explosions, the mechanical beast’s body gradually shrank. Its speed became slower and slower, and it was struck several times by shells. Many bloody holes appeared across its body, blood continuously flowing from them.

Seeing this, the robots hurriedly restrained the mechanical beast, but the mechanical beast resisted fiercely.

Their machine guns continuously sprayed the mechanical beast with bullets, but the mechanical beast’s shield was extremely thick. The Mecha’s machine guns could not penetrate its protective barrier, only leaving several holes in the shield.

Moreover, those holes gradually healed. Soon, they would suffer no damage at all, but the machine-gun bullets would become completely useless.

At that moment, the mechanical beast began using its skill. This mechanical beast could actually fly.

The Mountain on the Map

The mechanical beast began transforming, its body growing larger as its wounds rapidly healed. Before long, it returned to its original appearance. By then, the robots had mostly been damaged, with only a few still making their last stand. The mechanical beast immediately pounced on them and ended their lives with its sharp claws.

The mechanical beast had won the battle, but it was seriously injured and would soon be finished. Izayoi hurriedly withdrew the space and charged toward it.

He swung the sword in his hand, summoning a gigantic fire dragon that roared toward the mechanical beast. He was confident that he could knock it down in one move.

The instant the fire dragon formed, it struck the mechanical beast with tremendous force, blasting a large hole through its chest.

The mechanical beast struggled only slightly before collapsing, never to move again.

Izayoi Sakamaki felt around the password door, trying to see whether there was any way to enter. Then he suddenly thought of the password dropped when he had killed the mechanical beast earlier.

He held the password before his eyes, carefully confirmed it, and entered it in the corresponding place.

Yet the password door did not move in the slightest. Izayoi Sakamaki frowned and lightly pressed the point in the center of the password door with his hand.

A rumbling sound came from within, and the password door suddenly opened.

Izayoi Sakamaki feared there might be a trap inside. If there was one, it would truly catch him off guard.

He picked up the mechanical beast’s corpse from beneath his feet and threw it inside. Only after confirming there was no reaction did he step through the door.

Beyond the password door was completely different from outside. Though separated by only one door, it was like two entirely different worlds.

The instant Izayoi Sakamaki stepped inside, he sensed a fierce gust coming from behind him. He reacted extremely quickly and turned his body aside.

His reaction was swift, but the person attacking him had no time to pull back their strength and charged straight past him.

His attacker was a man in black, wrapped tightly from head to toe and holding a crescent-shaped blade.

Izayoi Sakamaki could only see his eyes, which gleamed with an intensely wolf-like light.

Their eyes met for only an instant before the man in black swiftly gripped his blade again and charged at him.

Izayoi Sakamaki raised his weapon and fought the other man. The man in black’s moves were extremely strange, clinging tightly to him like a venomous snake.

This style of fighting disgusted Izayoi Sakamaki somewhat. Moreover, this man in black was clearly determined to kill him, with every move aimed at taking his life.

But even the most sinister martial arts had flaws. After the two fought for a while, the man in black’s stamina was clearly beginning to fail him.

He was panting heavily. Izayoi Sakamaki attacked his lower body, and when the other man’s attention was drawn downward, he struck a fatal blow.

White blade in, red blade out. The man in black collapsed limply to the ground.

Izayoi Sakamaki stared coldly at the man in black’s corpse, then crouched down and carefully searched him for anything that could reveal his identity.

He first removed the mask from the man in black’s face, revealing a scarred face that he had never seen before.

Izayoi Sakamaki sharply noticed what seemed to be a familiar symbol behind the man in black’s ear.

He tilted the man’s head slightly and carefully examined the symbol. It looked as though it had been drawn in ink.

The symbol’s shape was extremely strange, and he carefully searched his memories.

Only then did he recall that he seemed to have seen this symbol in a book. It belonged to a mysterious organization.

He had not expected to see a symbol that had appeared in a book on this man in black.

Izayoi Sakamaki steadied himself and continued searching the man in black for other items.

He nearly stripped all the clothes from the man in black before discovering a document at his waist.

The document was written on parchment. He unfolded it and carefully read its contents.