Clank!
A large number of mechanical parts assembled on the palm of the Mechanical Deity, quickly transforming into dense psionic shields. The shields overlapped and interlinked with each other to cover the entire palm, looking like a bubble with a blue gradient.
The next instant, the reddish gold beam connected with the palm.
Boom!
The resulting hurricane swept across the entire area, and on the half of the planet they were battling on, the clouds were blown away, and the crust ruptured!
The huge explosion expanded, smashing through several of the psionic shields, causing a few parts to melt on the surface of the palm. However, the palm persistently continued to press down, as though it wanted to smash the beam itself!
Heber continued to increase the output of the pugilist flames, to the point his whole body’s muscles burst apart, causing him to be drenched in blood.
However, he did not seem to feel the pain. His bloodshot eyes stared at the rapidly expanding Mechanical Deity’s palm in his line of sight. He squeezed out every ounce of energy in his body and further increased the fluctuations released by his palms, as though he wanted to suppress the palm!
But in reality, the golden beam got shorter as the palm continued its inevitable descent.
Suddenly, Heber’s vision was only left with blank whiteness.
Bang!
The palm smashed straight onto the planet and tunneled into the earth, leaving a palm print on the surface. The explosive energy was also pushed by it into the crust of the planet.
Everyone only saw a fracture appear, shining brightly with light.
In the next moment, the crack expanded completely, and a devastating explosion occurred deep within the planet, directly shattering the planet apart!
In an instant, the appearance of Planet Black Tyrant seemed to have turned into an apple that had been dug out from the inside!
Furthermore, this shape did not hold for long. Due to the imbalance in its broken core, the planet collapsed in on itself.
Boom!
The core of the planet turned into an explosive light cluster, ejecting all the material that made up this planet, shattering the entire planet into pieces!
This one palm literally destroyed Planet Black Tyrant!
The shockwave caused by the planetary explosion swept through and affected the crowd watching in the distance.
“Black… Black Tyrant… exploded!”
While the galactic residents watching from space were isolated from any sound, it did not prevent their imaginations from filling up the missing spots, and countless people shivered instinctively in front of this terrible scene. Some even peed their pants.
The explosion also affected the Mechanical Deity, shattering a large area of the psionic shields covering its entire body. Molten traces of melted metal appeared in many places around its body.
But the next moment, the nanoparticles flowed around the Mechanical Deity, repairing the damage. Due to the loss of material, it shrank in size slightly, but it still towered over everything else.
Many of the galactic residents swallowed audibly, craning their necks to look for traces of Heber.
“Where’s the Tyrant?”
“Could he have been blown to bits?”
“Probably not. He can use his own fleshly body to smash through a planet, so the explosion of a planet shouldn’t kill him… right?”
At this time, the battlefield had transformed into a new asteroid belt. Han Xiao swept through the battlefield, but he saw no traces of Heber and glanced toward the interface.
In the combat information, it showed that Heber had lost a great amount of HP. If not for his [Immunity to True Damage] as well as [Fixed Damage Reduction], this would have directly killed him. However, although his injuries were also very heavy, he still retained his battle strength.
This seemed to be a simple slap, but in fact, the palm strike contained a lot of different damages mixed in, such as Psionic Impact, the explosive damage of Heber’s own killer move, as well as damage from the shock wave devices equipped on the palm. In addition, this Mechanical Deity had countless output devices, so the Mechanical Force bonuses were amazing, comparable to the damage inflicted by the legendary Galactic Titan race from legends.
Of course, great power would naturally be accompanied by a huge amount of energy consumption. If not for Han Xiao’s talent allowing him to quickly recover energy, his Mechanical Deity would probably be like Ultraman, each fight only lasting for three minutes.
Han Xiao was currently looking for traces of the Tyrant when a feeling of pain was transmitted to him through his right arm. A series of explosions occurring from the inside revealed Heber within.
“Turns out, he took the slap as a chance to send himself inside the arm, wanting to destroy it from the inside out?”
Han Xiao shook his head.
The Tyrant’s choice looked to be the best tactic. The majority would think that with the huge bulk of the Mechanical Deity, its weakness would be the internal systems.
However, this law was not applicable to the Mechanical Deity!
…
Surrounded by mechanical parts, Heber was riddled with injuries but was still wreaking havoc within the right arm of the Mechanical Deity, breaking all the structures around him as he rushed deeper into the Mechanical Deity.
But the inside of the arm suddenly warped, and the separate mechanical soldiers assembled quickly, using the inside of the arm as a battlefield to fight against Heber. They flung themselves without care toward Heber.
“Scram!” Heber roared in anger, and his body exploded with strength, throwing all the soldiers clinging to him away.
As he was about to continue charging, his feet suddenly sank, and he found that the mechanical structure suddenly turned into a trap, biting into his fleet and restricting his movements.
The machinery around him shot out ropes that were made of a nanomaterial that was incredibly tough to restrict the movement of his body.
Immediately afterward, a variety of mechanical devices popped out, and various crowd control skills were applied, such as electromagnetic chains, gravity fields, and space distortions, which were thrown toward Heber.
Heber felt like he was stuck in quicksand. Not only did he become disorientated, it became extremely difficult to move.
Then, cannon muzzles appeared from all directions, aiming and concentrating their fire at Heber.
The thought of attacking from the inside was good, but entering the body of the Mechanical Deity was as good as sending oneself to the home field of a Mechanic!
Heber was attacked to the point his world spun, and his fury quickly reached the max. With a furious scream, he ignored the various restrictions, landing his fists deep into the arm of the Mechanical Deity.
“Star Shaking Fist!”
Boom!
The reddish gold beam blasted out, running through the arm of the Mechanical Deity.
But the attack only reached up to its elbow before a psionic shield blocked the way, and the Star Shaking Fist smashed directly on it.
Bang!
With the burst of light and impact, the entire right arm of the Mechanical Deity was shattered!
Heber was also thrown out, and as he spun around in the universe, he saw this scene, and his spirits were revived.
But before he could feel any excitement, the broken right arm suddenly disintegrated and turned back into the individual mechanical soldiers. Chains of Mechanical Force shot forth from the broken stump of the right arm, connecting to the soldiers like a spider web, and pulled them back.
The next instant, the scattered soldiers rejoined the original body, and the Mechanical Deity was whole once again!
Heber’s expression looked stiff.
“Pugilists who have reached the peak of the Beyond Grade A realm would probably have a chance of breaking apart the Mechanical Deity. As for you…” Han Xiao breathed in deeply. “You are still unqualified!”
No matter how one tried to dodge, it would only end in failure. The only option they had was to choose what to be attacked with.
After barely resisting for a while, Heber could no longer continue defending and was beaten up crazily by the Mechanical Deity, turning into a sandbag.
The people watching this scene all understood the situation.
At this moment, Heber’s appearance of being thrashed by Han Xiao was imprinted on everyone’s heart, and they would never forget it.
The image of the arrogant and strong Tyrant was thoroughly shattered in the hearts of all the citizens of the Shattered Star Ring.
Chapter 953 - Shattered Mentality
The battle became a one-sided beating. Heber’s tragic state was reflected in the eyes of the Mechanical Deity, but it was unknown as to when the beating would stop.
Some of the people could not bear to watch and averted their gazes, but they could not help turning back again.
This disheveled state of a Beyond Grade A was not commonly seen, and it was valuable video information. Not many would waste the opportunity to watch it in real life and have the capital to boast of it to others in the future.
As everyone in the Bloodshed Land watched their commander get beaten up by Black Star, a sense of shame and anger rose in their hearts, and they could barely resist the urge to rush up to help.
However, they were well aware that if Heber could not even fight against Black Star, them going into the battle would be like sending themselves up for the slaughter. Not only would it be useless, it would also destroy the fairness of this battle, decreasing the reputation of the Bloodshed Land further.
Moreover, the Tyrant himself would never forgive them if anyone dared interfere.
Thus, everyone watched, trembling in anger as their boss was pummeled repeatedly.
Bang!
Fosters’ expression contorted, and he smashed the metal bulkhead of the spaceship in anger. His whole body was shaking as he restrained his urge to join the fight.
“Tyrant…” Jorde gritted his teeth, feeling the shame as well.
How could they feel proud when their own boss was being thrashed?
On the other side, the three universal civilizations had many Beyond Grade As involved in the bet, and they were carefully gazing at the broadcast.
After the battle of Planet Lighthouse, the Beyond Grade A circle had already affirmed Black Star’s strength, and most of them had guessed that Black Star would win but not the outcome.
In their predictions, Heber would at least cause some form of trouble for Black Star, killing most of his mechanical troops. They did not expect the situation to be such that Heber had no room left to fight back, with Black Star holding the initiative for the entire battle.
“To be beaten to this state, the defeat is too embarrassing to look at.” Ravenlaude shook his head.
“Black Star is a really terrible guy. I think that Heber is already strong for being able to survive for so long. If it was me…” Beyoni shuddered, imagining what would happen if he was in Heber’s place.
Really now, why are you scaring yourself? Black Star and I are good friends, really good friends…
“Regarding this point, I believe Dylan and you would have a lot of common topics.” Milizaus could not help but poke fun at him.
Viru was a little sad as he sighed. “Sigh, after this battle, the prestige of the Tyrant will not even be a tenth of what it was.”
As a pugilist, seeing Heber being beaten to this state made him feel a little sad and embarrassed.
The usage of Mechanical Deity by Black Star allowed the Beyond Grade As to know what this meant. It meant that he had already touched on the peak of the Beyond Grade A realm, so the defeat of Heber was not a shameful thing, but it was a fact that Heber had provoked Han Xiao earlier on in such a manner.
It was not just the allies of the dynasty. Even those from the federation and the church were discussing Black Star on their various channels. Han Xiao’s performance caused the other Beyond Grade As to break out in cold sweat.
As they discussed the battle, the Mechanical Deity suddenly came to a stop.
Everyone’s eyes gleamed.
“It has come to an end!”
…
An irresistible force came from the palm of the Mechanical Deity, and Heber was once again blown out, smashing through several broken planetary fragments along the way until the momentum stopped when he collided with a particularly huge continental plate. His entire figure was imprinted on it, leaving a human-shaped hole on the outside.
Fresh blood covered his sights. Heber’s trembling palm reached for the edge of the hole, and he pulled himself out. There was no part of his body that was not wracked with pain, and he was literally dripping with blood. He did not know how many bones and tendons were broken or snapped, and he could feel that his internal organs were close to becoming meat paste. Throughout his entire body, his extremely tired cells were barely repairing themselves.
The pugilist aura on Heber’s body flickered like a candle on the wind, as though it could die off any moment.
Gritting his teeth, he wanted to revolve his strength again, but instead, a surge of powerlessness hit his body. There was not even a drop of strength left in him.
Raising his head, he saw that the Mechanical Deity did not continue its pursuit but rather looked at him from afar.
“Continue!” Heber wanted to scream angrily, but sound could not travel through the vacuum, so he could only open his mouth mutely.
At this moment, the Mechanical Deity was released, and the mechanical host carrying Han Xiao’s avatar popped out, floating in front of Heber. Looking at the man who had no untouched piece of skin throughout his body, Han Xiao released air to envelope both of them before opening the wide area communication channel.
“It’s over. You have no more strength to continue the battle.” Han Xiao’s voice sounded through the channel, travelling into the ears of everyone present.
“This level of injury is only enough to tickle me. I still can fight with you for the whole day!”
Heber’s eyes were bloodshot, and regardless of how his body was teetering on the edge of death, he dragged his torn muscles and threw a fist toward the avatar.
Pa!
The fist was easily caught. The strength within was not even a tenth of its original.
Han Xiao breathed in deeply, calmly saying, “Admit defeat. You’ve already lost.”
Within his combat information, Heber’s HP value was already close to nil, full of status conditions. If he continued fighting, he would definitely die.
Han Xiao had already achieved his objective. There should be a bottom line for everything. The reason the dynasty did not interfere this time was because they knew that he understood where his limits were, not because they did not care that an ally would die by his hand.
When taking action, what mattered most was controlling one’s actions. There was nothing to gain from going overboard. There was no point in him getting his future development restricted by the dynasty just because of one mere Heber.
The Tyrant today did not possess the qualifications for Han Xiao to personally finish him off.
“Admit defeat? This phrase doesn’t exist in my dictionary! I don’t need your pity!” Heber raged, wanting to continue.
The next moment, countless mechanical capturing devices flew over, directly locking down Heber’s body and only leaving his head unbound.
Ka ka ka!
Heber struggled with all his might, but there was no way for him to escape in his current state.
“Don’t deceive yourself; you’ve already lost.” Han Xiao’s tone sank. “You should understand the current state of your body and the injuries better than me.”
Heber did not answer, only glaring fixedly at Han Xiao, the unwilling and rage within
clearly expressed, almost condensing.
After shooting him a glance, Han Xiao indifferently continued.
“Relax, we’re still allies of the dynasty. I’ll spare your life.”
Hearing this, it was as though a bomb had gone off in Heber’s mind, filling it with unprecedented shame!
To be spared from death because of this identity was just like being forced to spare him, and this was a huge insult and torture to him.
He felt as though his dignity and pride were trampled under Han Xiao’s feet, almost causing him to go mad.
Han Xiao suddenly noticed something, retreating a distance away.
Swoosh…
Fosters and the other Vanguard Officials approached in a moment, standing guard in front of Heber.
“We’ve lost…” Fosters spat out the words with difficulty. “But if you still think you can insult His Excellency Heber, then you need to step over our corpses to do so!”
The Vanguard Officials all chorused in agreement, their expressions filled with wariness and some degree of anxiety.
“What are you guys doing? Scram!” Heber was furious. He was always the one that protected others, and now him being protected by his men only gave him more shame.
If I lose, then so be it. How is it that I, a renowned Beyond Grade A, now have to hide behind Calamity Grades for protection?
“No!” For the first time, Fosters disobeyed Heber’s direct order.
Looking at all the backs of his Vanguard Officials, Heber felt a little stunned.
He had always regarded his men as consumables, and seeing this sight made him feel conflicting emotions.
In the distance, Jorde pursed his lips and surveyed his surroundings. Many of the Bloodshed Land members were showing confusion and conflicting emotions. He knew very well that the defeat of the Tyrant had directly shaken the beliefs of many people in the Bloodshed Land.
“I don’t know how many of them will choose to leave now…” Jorde sighed.
They might not join the Black Star Army, which they were hostile to, but there would definitely be people leaving the Bloodshed Land.
This scene also fell in the eyes of the spectators, with them feeling all sorts of complex emotions. The Bloodshed Land had been growing rapidly recently and was in the limelight. Nobody expected them to be hit so hard today.
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