Chapter 499: Major Armory Tech Upgrade, Nelom's Path of Justice

Reinhardt extended his right hand. A ghostly blue light flickered, and the projection of a war axe formed from Witchcraft Energy appeared. Afterward, steel and machinery, like regenerating flesh and blood, gathered in his hand, finally forming a grotesquely oversized Black War Axe.

BOOM—

Like the whistle of a locomotive, the gill-like exhaust vents on both sides of the axe head glowed with a dark red light, continuously spewing high-temperature steam.

The Energy Force Field of the Decomposition Blade intertwined with the Blood Fury Technology, like the blood of ten thousand enemies flowing backward up the axe’s edge, and like a rising, roaring blaze of fury.

The mere appearance of this War Axe in Reinhardt’s hand was enough. The powerful energy fluctuations of the Furnace Cast Holy Artifact, wrapped in the Destructive Suppression of his Second Great Power, transformed into a storm that churned the dust-filled sky, surging without end.

After gaining partial access to the armory, besides the Divine Emperor’s Fury which could not be freely stored or retrieved, all of Reinhardt’s other equipment—whether left on the battlefield or temporarily stored on a cruiser for maintenance—could be forcibly summoned through the power of the Messiah’s armory, ignoring the limits of time and space.

Besides the ability of a personal armory, the power of the Messiah’s Gift had also performed an iterative upgrade on some of the primitive technology of the equipment stored within it.

Right now, the exhaust vents on the Black War Axe were the result of a technological upgrade to the Imperial Technology·Steam Power: the Messianic Gift·Fusion Drive!

Back then, when Reinhardt had to carve a bloody path through Verne’s many powerful enemies, the chopping impact characteristic provided by Steam Power was indispensable.

And now, the Fusion Drive not only replaced the need for a Power Backpack to support the Decomposition Blade’s technology, but it also tripled the destructive power of the original multi-stage chopping impact characteristic.

One of the reasons Reinhardt had previously let Sipia go was that three consecutive swings had failed to breach the hull of the Assault Boat Sipia had used to escape.

But with the support of the Fusion Drive, a single strike’s multi-stage impact would be enough to effortlessly tear through the Assault Boat’s external armor.

Furthermore, the high-temperature steam blasted from the exhaust vents equipped with the Fusion Drive technology could provide the War Axe with some extra propulsion. Although this propulsion couldn’t single-handedly decide the outcome of a battle, when combined with the chain extension from the Ruthless Iron Hand technology, it could drastically increase tactical flexibility.

Especially in the hands of a Body Technique Stream Powerhouse like Reinhardt, even the simplest change in tactical flexibility resulted in a terrifying boost to his power!

After its technological upgrade, the Black War Axe now had a spherical device embedded deep within its handle. By gripping the handle, Reinhardt could control the propulsion from the exhaust vents by applying different levels of pressure and making slight directional adjustments.

Although the entire battle’s tempo was proceeding exactly as Reinhardt had predicted and controlled, from Nelom’s perspective, the terror of facing an unbeatable foe was steadily devouring his courage.

The pressure became a colossal boulder, crushing his chest and making him feel as though he were suffocating.

In all of Nelom’s long military career, he had never encountered anyone who could so casually withstand two of his heavy blows head-on!

Even a Domain Level Powerhouse of his own caliber would be dead or gravely injured if they tried to take those hits with their physical body!

A Body Techniques strike empowered by ten times the speed of sound was terrifying enough to easily tear apart a steel warship and blast an Elite Slaughter Demon into a shower of blood and gore!

But this guy…

However, what terrified him even more was that in this very moment, the aura of this Imperial Knight standing before him, Reinhardt, the Master of Vengeful, had swelled in a mere instant to an unbelievably dreadful level!

‘The peak of the Five-star Earth Military Rank?’

‘No… this was a power far more terrifying than the Five-star Earth Military Rank, a mighty force just one step away from Six-star!’

‘This was a terrifying Mighty Power more than twice as strong as my own Overlord’s standard form!’

Especially with the appearance of the Second Knight’s Power, in this moment, Nelom finally understood how shallow and laughable his understanding of this battle had been. To think he had naively believed that the great Lord of Vengeful would be so easily defeated at his hands.

He had even arrogantly planned to walk up to Reinhardt with the air of a victor who had crushed his opponent, and spare him.

But Nelom had no time to feel embarrassed by these thoughts, because the enemy he now faced was the Vengeful Angel of Verne, Reinhardt—!

The wind howled.

The battle resumed in an instant!

Facing the Black War Axe swinging down at him, Nelom’s expression turned grave. He didn’t dare to be the least bit careless.

He had reason to believe that the techniques Reinhardt was currently displaying were, quite possibly, still not his true strength!

‘For someone who could fight his way out of a Void Storm all alone, my own power is probably nowhere near enough to make him fight for real!’

In a flash, because the two were too close, even Nelom in his Super Speed Form, who possessed a huge advantage in speed, didn’t have time to retreat and create distance.

He stared intently at the trajectory of the falling War Axe, while simultaneously using his peripheral vision to watch Reinhardt’s movements as he dodged to the right.

For top-tier Body Technique Knights like Nelom and Reinhardt, maintaining a comprehensive view of the battlefield and instantly discerning feints from true intentions was just a basic skill.