Chapter 1373 - 804: Can't Accept Defeat? (Part 3)

There's not much room for improvement in battle techniques, fighting one against four makes any technique ineffective, besides, Dragon Cypress has strong learning ability, it can replicate any trick it sees and returns it eightfold, sixteenfold.

It must be a move it can't learn...

Spatial Ability?

Without Spatial Talent, spatial ability remains unchanged.

Other Talent Systems?

I never considered using Artist for direct combat.

It's not difficult to consider.

In close combat with metal lifeforms, Systems, Thunder System, and Fire System are relatively useful.

With slight modifications to some existing abilities, Artist can use them directly.

Also, close combat is about speed and strength.

Surely, you can't match raw power with metal lifeforms.

Can Artist be optimized at the blood level to enhance speed?

Feasible!

The best blood template is me.

Selectively integrate some of my blood into Artist...

Dragon Cypress pondered, Wisdom Brain helping calculate.

Artist stands still, continuously adjusting under the armor.

Four silver-grey metal puppets remain motionless.

Dragon Cypress's intention was clear, both control puppets to fight, it defends, Dragon Cypress attacks.

Only one month left, the anxious one can only be Dragon Cypress.

Dragon Cypress must quickly smash a certain number of metal puppets.

…

Lasting two days of stalemate,

133 tentacles on Artist's head that fell in previous battle regrew, blue-purple thunder light streamed, pale flames danced at the tips of tentacles.

Front leg arm blade, Silver Lightning flashed, pale flames hidden within.

Thunder light surged, its form flashed close to the metal puppet battle formation, continuously shimmered switching positions, kept probing.

Suddenly, front legs and tentacles simultaneously launched a violent attack.

Clinking and clattering of weapon collisions.

Crackling electric awns spewed and retracted.

Instant fierce confrontation,

Artist still couldn't withstand, hit repeatedly, ultra-strong armor protection, knocked away, traveled through space, spatial teleportation to pull distance.

Pale flames surged on four metal puppets.

Modified Touch of Green Thunder.

Indomitable, burning all material Origin Fire.

Four metal puppets were soon burned into ashes.

Unsurprisingly,

Metal Primordial Energy condensed, eight metal puppets formed, optimized again, their weapons changed to holding shields on right front legs, knives on left front legs, paired in twos, forming a square defense array.

Artist traverses space to approach.

Spatial teleportation and Thunderfire Flash Strike Ability alternated, figure traversed back and forth meandering, continually tested attacks.

Optimized metal puppets, their shields condensed a kind of defensive primordial energy, capable of resisting 'Touch of Green Thunder' attacks.

Possibly due to lack of expertise in metal bionic ability, grey metal puppets' speed couldn't be optimized, as if reached the limit of Constant Star Realm Peak level.

Artist moves like lightning, held a speed advantage.

Metal puppets only defended without attacking, eight formed into a combat array, diminishing speed shortcomings.

A relatively fair showdown.

Artist pulled back distance.

Dragon Cypress hiding deep underground, pondering measuring, Wisdom Brain calculated for a while.

133 tentacles on Artist's head elongated, fell to the ground, vanished on spot, teleported appearing in front of a metal puppet, waved front legs fiercely attacking, tentacles on the head spread open, swayed, searching a chance to bypass defense.

Figure constantly shifted, changing attack targets.

A brief skirmish under a second found an opening, two tentacles thrust out like lightning, piercing a metal puppet's head, pale flames burned, erupted covering the whole body.

Artist's offensive grew more fierce, after several flicker feints, seized the opportunity, a similar move, and smashed another metal puppet...

Battle lasted less than a minute, all eight metal puppets were hit, defeated.

…

Metal Primordial Energy congregated, a silver-grey metal puppet formed, shield held in the right front leg, knife in the left front leg.

Dragon Cypress yet to suspect.

Dragon Cypress's spiritual power mind transmitted.

"Ant, this is the final showdown. I will no longer solely defend."

"Your combat armor is the apex creation of Level 3 Civilization, it should not appear in battles at Constant Star Realm Level, put it away, face-to-face fair duel."

"You're permitted to fail."

"You just need to defeat me once, consider it passing the test."

"Alright—"

Dragon Cypress thought.

Veiling Artist's Purple Star Battle Armor disassembled into components, shrank rapidly, hidden inside the body.

Pure spatial power converged at the front feet, forming two short swords.

Similarly, manipulating the surrounding metal system primordial energy, a set of jet-black armor formed on the surface.

The Artist vanished on the spot...

Spatial teleportation, just about to appear behind the Metal Puppet to test an attack.

The Metal Puppet turned around with a swift strike, clean and swift,

the Artist was cut in half at the waist.

The blade flashed quickly, and the sword light was crisscrossed, the Artist was chopped into pieces.

The Metal Puppet retreated to create distance.

The Artist's fragments turned into a pool of viscous liquid, wriggled and elongated, reforming into shape.

"..."

"Releasing the restrictions, unlocking active attacks, the silver-gray Metal Puppet is fiercely outrageous."

Deep underground,

Dragon Cypress did not rush to attack,

his brain was running at light speed, with Wisdom Brain ability synchronously assisting analysis.

Spatial teleportation to get close, the moment of crossing space causes a spatial fluctuation, which can be anticipated in advance.

The Artist without the specialized battle armor protection was vulnerable.

"I still have a few abilities..."

Dragon Cypress immediately thought of a way to win.

The Artist ran towards the Metal Puppet, stopped abruptly at a distance of thirty meters, legs bent, walking, with a defensive and evasive posture, approaching step by step, slowly.

The Metal Puppet raised its claw for a horizontal slash, the fierce metal primordial energy transformed into a gigantic sword light sweeping across.

The Artist's body sank, bending down to dodge, lightning erupted on the surface, taking the opportunity to execute a flash strike to get close, head's feelers fluttered in a feigned attack, flickering continuously.

The Metal Puppet also slightly bent its forefeet, lifted a shield with the left forefoot, raised a knife with the right forefoot, constantly rotating its body to block, the feelers on its head concentrated on its back, wary of a sneak attack from behind.

Boom——

Suddenly,

within the Artist, water system, wind system, strength system primordial energy erupted.

The surrounding air suddenly collapsed, at the same time, immense vigor erupted from within the Artist.

Furious Rage!

Furious Rage connected with Frostfall and Cross Flower Dance ability, forming a super-powerful blast shock impact.

However,

Yinzhuang reacted faster, the Metal Puppet crouched and sank, raising a shield to block, its figure seemed to be rooted underground, unmoving.

Suddenly turning sideways, a short knife sliced from the bottom up, slanting towards the Artist's waist.

Plain yet unexpected, an ultra-fast slash was unavoidable.

But this sudden attack was within Dragon Cypress's calculations.

Just when the blade was about to hit the target, the Artist's figure suddenly entered a phase of virtualization.

——Youlian Form!

The war knife passed through the phantom without obstruction, the attack missed, hastily raising a shield in defense.

Opportunity!

The moment the war knife slashed by, the virtualization phase simultaneously deactivated, the Artist's forefeet wielded spatial blades repeatedly thrusting, 133 feelers on the head simultaneously fought with the Metal Puppet's feelers, one feeler hit the opponent's posterior neck, another hit the shoulder, thunderfire primordial energy erupted, the forest-white flames surged instantly consuming the Metal Puppet.

Face-to-face close-range bloody fight, exploding in an instant and determining life and death.

The silver-gray Metal Puppet was incinerated, reduced to nothingness.

The Artist lost an arm, most of the feelers were destroyed, with two more holes in the body but not life-threatening.

The battle was over.

"..."

Yinzhuang's spiritual power directly transmitted to the depths underground.

"Cunning ant. A fair evaluation, your combat skills, combat will, combat awareness, are not as good as that ugly beetle before."

"However, I won't go back on my word, consider you passing."

"The titanium sand for the second test is placed 300 kilometers ahead at the mountaintop, go and take it."

"I'll help you sharpen your combat skills and will."

After speaking, the spiritual power retreated.

Heaven and Earth Origin Force roiled, one by one, Metal Puppets of various shapes and sizes with Insect Clan forms quickly formed, densely packed in the sky and underground, countless in number.

Dragon Cypress sensed a bad omen.

Within the Titanium White Range, space seemed to undergo some subtle change.

Controlled the Artist to test, spatial teleportation ability was restricted!

Dragon Cypress controlled the Sand Leech, drilling out from deep underground, spiritual power scanning.

In all directions, four to five kilometers away, Metal Puppets in the forms of Ant Clan, Bee Clan, Butterfly, Dragonfly, Spider, Mantis, Tiger Beetle, and others surged and charged like a tide.

"This..."

"Can't afford to lose?"

Dragon Cypress didn't have time for further thought, entire body's primordial energy erupted.

The Artist dissolved, expanded, switched to Living Water form, engulfing both the Sand Leech and Dragon Cypress, swiftly transforming into an 8-winged Flying Kirin Beast, a thousand meters long, ascending into the sky.

On Dragon Cypress's forehead, the Ultimate Zhenshou Beast Star Spot shone violently, water system and wind system primordial energy continuously erupted.

Within a fifty-kilometer radius, the air and water systems condensed, the Kirin Beast rapidly expanded, instantly transforming into a gigantic Kirin Beast thirty kilometers long.