Chapter 572 - 240: Instant Kill, the Final Battle Begins

"Energy rating... still climbing! Preliminary assessment... S-Class! Repeat! S-Class intensity!"

"Its energy density and scale are at least ten times greater than any known A-Class individual!"

A buzz filled Qin Feng’s head, and his mind went blank.

He forced himself to calm down.

’I have to ignore this so-called S-Class entity for now.’

’Saving my squad is what’s most important right now.’

"Where are you?! Give me your coordinates! I’m coming to save you!" he yelled desperately into his communicator.

The only response was the hiss of a jammed signal.

At that moment, a calm voice suddenly spoke up beside him.

"There’s no need to panic."

Qin Feng whipped his head around and saw Lin Ye calmly watching another blue curtain of light sweeping toward them.

"These light curtains aren’t energy weapons."

"It’s likely some form of spatial transport. They were probably all teleported to the same location."

The words had barely left his lips when, to Qin Feng’s astonishment, Lin Ye made no move to dodge, instead charging straight into the sweeping blue light screen!

He vanished into the light screen in an instant.

In that moment, Qin Feng understood.

Without a moment’s hesitation, he gritted his teeth and charged into the next light screen as it swept by!

After a brief sensation of weightlessness, when Qin Feng opened his eyes again, he was completely stunned by the scene before him.

His four squadmates were nearby, back-to-back in a defensive formation, their eyes wide with terror as they scanned their surroundings.

Surrounding them was a vast army of the Intelligent Mechanism Race—tens of thousands strong, packed so densely they stretched beyond the horizon!

They were standing in an immense underground space, so vast it defied description.

The cavern was so expansive that the mechanical constructs in the distance appeared minuscule.

What Qin Feng found most unbelievable was that here, in what should have been the planet’s core, were several transparent viewports, each as large as a skyscraper.

Beyond the viewports lay the planet’s core, a churning sea of dark-red magma.

A mechanical megastructure of unimaginable size was built directly over the core. Countless pipes plunged into the magma, appearing to drain the planet of its final reserves of core energy.

This was it—the core of the dwarf planet, Painful Labyrinth!

The platform beneath the viewports resembled a massive command deck.

The platform was enormous, but within the colossal underground space, it was merely a drop in the bucket.

It was covered with numerous holographic screens flickering with data, but a bluish-purple energy shield enveloped the entire platform, obscuring the view.

At that moment, Lin Ye’s voice rang out again.

"Here they come."

Before he even finished speaking, more of the Intelligent Mechanism Race began pouring out from countless tunnel entrances within the immense core chamber, a frenzied flood breaking through a dam.

They moved like a devout swarm of bees, gathering to protect their one and only king.

In the center of that endless mechanical army, a slender figure slowly rose into the air.

He was a white-haired boy in tattered clothes, his eyes a sapphire blue as pure as the sky.

He floated in midair, his gaze piercing through the endless sea of mechanical beings, crossing a distance of over a thousand meters to instantly lock onto Lin Ye, who stood at the center of the encircling Intelligent Mechanism Race.

Lin Ye calmly met his gaze.

A new set of data materialized in his vision.

[Remnant Will of Sigma · "Noah"]

[LV65]

[Status: Lord-Class]

[Evolutionary Tier: 3.25]

There was no trace of human emotion in Noah’s eyes; they were as cold as the absolute zero of the cosmos.

He slowly lifted his pale right hand, gently raising his index finger.

An ethereal blue beam, no thicker than a fingernail, shot from his fingertip in a flash.

At that instant, Lin Ye’s eyes narrowed, his expression turning grim.

With no time to turn around, he barked an order at Qin Feng and his men—

"All of you, fall back!"

The moment the words left Lin Ye’s mouth...

HUMMM—!!!

A massive, incredibly solid hexagonal shield of black energy, more than ten meters in diameter, abruptly materialized before him!

The next moment, however...

There was a soft *tink*.

The shield—strong enough to withstand the blast from an A-Class Intelligent Mechanism’s Energy Cannon—was pierced like paper, leaving a fist-sized hole!

Fortunately, the shield had at least slowed the ethereal blue beam’s advance.

That, combined with Lin Ye’s timely warning, gave Qin Feng and the others just enough time to react.

All five of them dove to the side on pure instinct.

BOOM—!!

The thin, ethereal blue beam grazed past their bodies and slammed into the distant wall of the planetary core.

A blinding light erupted!

Then came the deafening blast!

BOOM—!!!

A terrifying explosion of indescribable magnitude erupted in the distance!

Centered on the point of impact, the core’s rock layer—incredibly hard and countless times denser than surface rock—was instantly melted and vaporized, forming a massive crater over a hundred meters in diameter!

The edge of the crater was smooth as a mirror, radiating a heart-stopping, scorching heat.

The violent energy shockwave sent Qin Feng and the others flying more than ten meters.

Qin Feng felt like his insides had been scrambled. Forcing down the coppery taste of blood in his throat, he stared at the terrifying path of destruction, an endless chill seeping into his heart.

"Everyone, retreat!"

He gritted his teeth so hard he could have shattered them, forcing out those two words.

’I can’t drag Lin Ye down!’

Qin Feng hastily activated the Space-Folding Device on his wrist.

At Qin Feng’s command, four orbs of blue spatial light instantly flared to life around his other squadmates.

But the next moment, nothing happened.

The orbs of blue light flickered twice, like flames being snuffed out by an invisible hand, and then vanished completely.

A soft, yet utterly emotionless boy’s voice drifted into their ears.

"A crude imitation of my race’s technology."

Noah hovered above his legion, his sapphire eyes glancing dispassionately at the battered forms of Qin Feng and his squad.

"Did I say you could leave?"