Chapter 1040 A New Technology
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"Ungh…! That really packs a punch, are these bastards Rank 8 in power level?! Not bad, but I can't just lose against walking junk!" Miranda rushed forward, confronting the mechs.
Only for the pincers of the scorpion-shaped mech to pierce through her body, tearing it down. Then its stinger pierced through her body, unleashing a deadly red beam that made her interior bubble and explode.
BOOOOOOMMM!!!
However, Miranda's composition wasn't that hard, she was made of black slime, the "Mold" of Benladann's previous world, a strange alien life that was bio engineered and powered up. Now that it came to this world, it gained magical properties and have evolved from being a parasite to something greater, more vicious, resilient, and ferocious.
SPLAAASH!
Her body quickly covered the dragon-shaped mech, infiltrating its insides and then materializing into a gigantic black dragon, which made the mech's interior explode into pieces.
CRAAAASSSHH!
The other two mechs acted surprised, they seemed to have some level of consciousness and intelligence of their own and were not just toys. However, quite honestly, Miranda didn't really gave a damn. Another part of her body floated towards behind the scorpion-shaped mech, slicing through its tail with the other half of Hel that Miranda had.
SLAAASH!
"SHAAA!"
The Scorpion mech roared back, its jaws opening and unleashing a devastating red beam.
FLAAAASH!
The beam reached the skies as it tried to disintegrate Miranda's floating body fragment but ended missing and hitting the clouds above the sky, unleashing a deadly red explosion that painted the entire sky crimson.
BOOOOOOOMMM!!!
"That almost got me, bastard!"
Miranda dreadfully said, as her axe unleashed a cross-shaped slashing attack, slashing the entire body of the scorpion into four pieces and each piece exploding right in front of the turtle mech, weakening its shell just before Miranda impacted it with her entire body shapeshifting into a giant fist.
CLAAASH!
"GRAAHH…!"
The turtle mech gave a pitiful groan, the interior of its shell was loaded with magical cores to give power to its cannons, which quickly prompted the entire thing to explode like a bomb.
BOOOOMMM!!!
"So many explosions…" Miranda waved her hands, turning away the smoke. "These mechs are tough, and might be hard to deal with, but they're not impossible to defeat…"
Miranda glanced into the fight with her eyes, as she saw Drake commanding his new Ice Dragon Golems. Many of the golems were getting absolutely demolished, but they were still coming out constantly due to his summoning magic powers.
Nonetheless, the dragon himself fought bravely as well. Unleashing a deadly combination of fist attacks, tail swipes, breath attacks, deadly magic combining ice and wind mostly, as they were his favorite magics and the most fitting to fight in the skies, and helping everyone else with his buffing magic.
"Miranda, well done, but don't slack! There are two more coming behind you!" Drake said, as Miranda nodded. She thought of him as someone amazing and adaptable to almost any situation.
From the infiltration into Greenwood's hideout to the fight against Gluttony and then against Leviathan, Drake had been fighting nonstop against multiple powerful foes, but despite that, he continued fighting with everything he had… it was the only thing he could do.
"Alright! Don't worry about me, Drake!" Miranda couldn't simply make him worry when he had so many tasks to dealt with. She quickly continued fighting fiercely, using the powers she had acquired from all this time of growing stronger at the side of Benladann.
"Divine Chaotic Axe Arts: Abyssal Cross Slash!"
Benladann in the other side of the battlefield flew around using her black dragon wings while using her titan form, greatly increasing her size to almost the same as lesser titans and unleashing a powerful cross-shaped slash of pure chaos element against a group of four mechs at once!
CRAAASSSH!
The four mechs were brought down in mere seconds, their pieces falling apart. Benladann didn't smiled nor sang victory yet, as the four destroyed mechs suddenly started moving strangely. Their pieces were not destroyed enough, or perhaps their resilient cores had yet to shatter. Their pieces unified once more, into a larger one, combining the four mech's body parts into a giant metallic chimera.
"This is… new, to an extent." She thought to herself. Drake noticed the same as he fought the mechs, and so did Miranda and the monsters that were covering their backs. When mechs didn't had their various cores shattered at once or completely frozen, they would be able to regenerate back and even fuse together, as if they were adapting and slowly learning.
Fallen comrades would be absorbed by others, and whenever Drake tried to devour them, the pieces would self-destruct, inhibiting the way he dealt with them before when he ate them to gain divine power and to not let them regenerate or be repurposed when destroyed.
CLANK!
CLANK!
CLANK!
The sound of hundreds of metallic pieces unifying together into a single being echoed in front of Benladann as she saw a new metallic behemoth emerge. The nanomachines making up and reinforcing these new mechs were completely different than the ones from before. way more flexible and adaptable to damage and capable of self-recovering, and imbued with powerful Cores filled with Divine Power, they were incredibly strong.
"GROOOARRR!"
A three-headed draconic chimera mech greeted Benladann with a loud roar, as a squadron of thirty Ice Dragon Golems appeared behind Benladann and surrounded her, protecting her. Drake couldn't bring himself to her side as he was dealing with the same problem, but he brought to her aid several golems, which had dozens of tiny slimes atop their heads.
"Benladann, I'll distract that thing with magic, aim at the cores, destroy every single one, it is the only way to completely stop them!" Drake said.
Without divine power, they were not much of a threat, and were unable to fuel their complete power. Because of that, it was a no brainer that destroying the divine power-infused cores was the way to defeat these new adaptable mechs.
"Alright!"
Benladann didn't hesitated, her husband decided to help her and she wasn't someone that would try to act prideful and tell him to not help her, any help was welcome when fighting such foes.
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