Gate of Apocalypse

Qi Mucai looked at Xia Xiaolei in front of him, his hand squeezing tighter and tighter on the hilt of the knife.

Xia Xiaolei's entire body was trembling intensely, as if an electric current was passing through it.

His body used to be covered with biomass armor, but most of it had now fallen off, leaving only dried and dehydrated skin and muscle tissue.

If he continued like this, he would surely die. ......

Hashimutsi finally couldn't resist and drew his short knife.

It was time to sever the connection between Thunder and the mutant!

"Stop ...... Stop ......"

Xia Xiaolei slowly opened a line of eyes and looked at Flagwood West: "Don't cut off ...... Tire Brother they ...... will be killed."

"If you don't cut off the connection, you'll die!" QiMusi shook his head, crouched in front of Xia Xiaolei's body, and raised his knife.

As soon as the blade was swung down, Xia Xiaolei would be separated from the alien population's spiritual connection.

"Die ...... just die! Have you forgotten that ...... we still have a life?" Xia Xiaolei hissed: "With the metal ball, we can still come back to life ......".

"I haven't forgotten, but what if it doesn't work!" Flagsmith squeezed the hilt of his knife hard, hesitating himself.

"I ...... shouldn't be able to win." Xia Xiaolei sweated profusely, losing focus in his eyes, but still slowly reached out and squeezed Flagwood West's hand, "That guy's spirit is too strong ...... I've entered the genetic spirit network of the alien population, so I know very well... ...what a monster he's become. But at least I have to slow him down first. Otherwise ...... Tirego and the others will all die ...... all die ......"

Flagimusi took a deep breath, nodded slowly, and inserted his knife back into his sheath, "I ...... I'll talk to Tire."

"Don't say it." Xia Xiaolei made a few grating noises from his throat, "Saying ...... will distract them. But when I die, you need to tell him right away. Because at that time, it will mean that he regains control ......"

"Good." Flagsmith turned his head and gently wiped his tears with his fingertips.

Xia Xiaolei fell silent again, but his body was still trembling fiercely.

Finally, the trembling grew slower. As Xia Xiaolei exhaled his last breath, his body fell into stillness.

Although we don't know what happened there, it means that the tire crew, after all, was unable to kill Adric before then.

Flagimusi gripped Xia Xiaolei's hand hard and opened the team channel, trying to make his voice appear calm and emotionless: "Tire. Little Ray ...... lost."

"I already ...... know."

Tire didn't ask more about Xia Xiaolei's situation.

Since Adric had now regained his mobility, that meant ...... Xia Xiaolei had exhausted his last shred of life force.

Finally, it was time to face this formidable opponent.

Adric slowly stepped out of the flame, but did not attack immediately.

At his feet, a huge flower grew out quickly, its petals opening like a huge mouth.

Adric placed Dodoro on top of the petals, and the flower immediately closed up, turning back into a bud and shrinking back into the ground.

No one made a hasty move, but simply adjusted their respective stances to surround Adric.

"Why didn't you make a move?"

It was only when the flower bud wrapped around Dodoro shrank back into the ground that Adric raised his head again and looked around him with deep, dark eyes, his voice as cold as ice: "Didn't you just fight so hard? I even almost killed my most loyal subordinate and friend-"

Two beams of light suddenly shot out from mid-air, interrupting Adric's words.

"Then keep fighting!" Roddy shouted.

Mega Particle Cannon!

There was a time limit on the use of the Gundam, and Roddy didn't have the time to wait for him to go into a long speech.

However, Adric simply stretched out his hand to meet the direction of the particle cannon.

His arm morphed so fast that it melted like rubber cement, and from the elbow down he transformed into a huge eyeball.

From the eyeball, a light shot out, which collided with the particle cannon in mid-air.

The violent energy clash dissipated, and Adric was still standing, unharmed.

"Nice armor, I haven't seen it in the system exchange menu, I guess I got it from a copy somewhere. But - it's just nice." Adric gave a faint glance at Roddy in mid-air: "Don't worry, you're not the first."

His gaze turned to Nicole: "Just now, that last slash, the one who gutted Dodoro, it was you, right?"

"It's me." Nicole's right hand gently swung, and the Ion Shock Sword lit up again.

"So, you're the first."

After Adric said that, the man had disappeared.

Nicole instantly smelled a hint of danger.

A hint of extreme danger.

The thrusters instantly turned on, pushing her backwards at full speed.

But still, it was a moment too late.

At a speed that no one could react to, or even catch with the naked eye, Adric was already flashing in front of Nicole.

The long, dark sword appeared from nowhere and slashed at Nicole.

The thrusters that had been turned on earlier saved Nicole's life, and the soul-devouring sword only sliced shallowly across her heaving chest, the blade making a small cut in the floating armor without even hurting Nicole's flesh.

But Nicole had just stepped back when she felt a sharp pain.

An intense pain that blossomed from the depths of her soul.

Momentarily losing her ability to control her levitation, Nicole rolled over and landed on the ground.

Along with the pain, there was grief, sorrow, despair, anger, irritation, and bitterness. ......

Numerous negative emotions filled Nicole's mind.

As rumored, Adric ...... was able to attack the opponent's soul directly!

"Ding!"

With a whisper, Adric's next sword chased after Nicole like a hock, but pierced a solid shield.

The tip of the sword failed to penetrate the shield, but the tire still erupted with a roar of pain.

Adric's attack on the soul seemed to ignore the defensive gear!

"Guardian Shield? It's also a good defensive item. However, it is also only good."

Adric smiled faintly: "The Immunity Realm can't completely block my attacks. Although-"

Once again, his Soul Devouring Sword struck down on the tire's shield: "It will take some off."

Despite blocking Adric's soul-devouring sword once again, the tire only felt as if his soul had fallen into hell and was being burned by karmic fire.

This guy ...... is scary!

Not only was it even faster than the Dodo from earlier, but the attack was so bizarre that even the realm of immunity, known as absolute defense, couldn't fully resist it.

"Adric-"

Tian Lie's arms condensed into two equally black swords and shouted as he struck at Adric.

"Angel Slayer? You're actually alive?"

Adric snorted.

Although he had never fought in a replica, it was certainly impossible for him, as the leader of the Dark Knights, not to know about Tian Lie's abilities and appearance.

The Soul Devouring Sword stabbed out once more, but it came up empty.

Before being touched by the blade, Tian Lie suddenly twisted his body slightly, and his whole body missed Adric's Soul Devouring Sword by a hair's breadth.

The black sword in his hand also reversed a strange angle and pierced Adric's chest armor.

A blast of sword energy bloomed out, and Adric flew backward with a muffled grunt.

An imperceptible crack appeared on his breastplate.

"Tsk, your sword skill, it's not strong enough."

Tian Lie laughed wildly, and the black sword in his hand swam once more.

And the others were now finally beginning their siege.

Nicole was still half-kneeling on the ground, trembling from the blow she had just taken. Tire was in a slightly better position than she was, having rushed up with her shield.

Xiu Xiu's Fire Phoenix flew in with her wings flapping, and the spare tire turned her left arm into a sniper rifle, firing forward.

And Roddy, driving the Gundam, had rushed back down to the ground.

The main force in this battle could only be him!

Roddy, whose entire body is wrapped in the cockpit, is the only one who is immune to Adric's soul attack.

The mega particle cannon could no longer be used at such a distance, but Roddy was just as confident in his melee!

Gundam swept downward at a speed far greater than that of the Sentinel armor, and the beam lance drew a light shadow in the air, stabbing straight at Adric.

"You ...... do not understand the difference in power between us after all."

Despite being under siege, Adric didn't look at all overwhelmed.

He flashed a sword from Sky Blaze, and the Soul Devouring Sword lightly nudged the tire's shield.

Hit by the soul attack for the third time, the tire erupted with a scream again, just barely clinging to action.

But one of Xiu Xiu's fire phoenixes also crashed into Adric's back.

The black armor could not block all the power of the fire phoenix, and countless tiny flames seeped in through the cracks, burning Adric's body with a pungent scorching smell.

The Gundam's beam spear also stabbed down from high up in the sky at the same time.

But as if he felt no pain at all, Adric aimed the giant eyeball of his left hand at the Gundam and shot out a beam of light.

The beam hit the Gundam's left leg, and Roddy in the cockpit was slammed all over with an electronic voice from the operating system: "Warning: 23% damage to left leg, 31% reduction in maximum effort."

"What the hell!"

Roddy shouted.

Gundam's performance was originally far stronger than the Sentinel armor, equipped with a higher-power electromagnetic deflection shield than the Thunderstorm chariot, and strengthened by the star sand, ordinary attacks on it, it should be no different from scratching an itch.

But now, just a single beam of light had left a serious wound on the left leg.

This guy ...... was even stronger than originally expected!

The beam lance struck down hard and hit Adric at the same time.

The blow finally punched a huge hole in his armor, and his whole body was blown away.

But when Adric stood up again, what was revealed through the hole in his armor was blood and flesh that was writhing unceasingly.

The wound that had been blown out by the beam spear was rapidly being repaired!

And everyone in the meteorite squad was familiar with the current image.

That's how Xia Xiaolei's parasite armor was repaired!

"Indeed, you guys were smart and lucky to have a guy on the team with parasite armor who almost got me killed. But - you're forgetting that the connection is a two-way street. When he stole the alien genes I had and accessed the psychic connection, I also read the genes he had!

Adric spread his hands and stepped forward with a calm, self-assured smile on his face.

"The alien genes in this copy are powerful, but they do not include a self-healing factor. Thanks to you, I was able to get the genes for the parasite armor. And now - I've become a true immortal!"