this infinite world

The enemy is a suit of armor.

This is not a metaphor, but an undeniable fact.

With Yang Yun's perception, he was naturally able to immediately and clearly sense that there was no living being inside the armor that was nearly ten meters tall, with a full-face mask and no flaws in its entirety.

Its interior was completely empty.

—A remotely controlled puppet? Or something like an unmanned mech?

While it might seem a bit out of place in a world of swords and magic, Yang Yun accepted the premise, remembering that Super Robot Wars also features mechs with a branch of "magical science." After all, the world is full of wonders, and anything can happen…

Facing Yang Yun, who descended from the sky and landed before it, the armor made no move. It simply raised its massive, life-length battle axe towards the gloomy sky with an almost ceremonial solemnity!
"--boom!"

The next instant, thunder descended once again as summoned!

It was not a natural rage, but a thunderbolt unleashed by human intervention. Blazing white lightning, like a celestial river bursting its banks, surged forth from nothingness, converging entirely on the axe blade. The figure in the Dragon Slayer Armor stood majestically amidst the lightning, as if transformed into an ancient deity wielding divine punishment, using thunder as a blade to judge and utterly purify everything that should not exist in this world!
Clearly, whether the Dragon Slayer Armor is driven by the will of something behind the scenes or by its own remaining instincts, this action demonstrates battle wisdom honed through countless trials. Since the invisible and traceless lightning could not strike Yang Yun, then they reverted to the most primal and reliable tactic—

Overpower others with force and intimidate them with power!
With a heavy metallic clang, the Dragon Slayer Armor's feet slammed into the city bricks beneath its feet, unleashing a terrifying speed completely disproportionate to its size. The giant axe, crackling with lightning, no longer pointed towards the sky, but transformed into a horizontal bolt of lightning tearing through the earth, slashing horizontally towards Yang Yun in the purest and most domineering trajectory!

This strike was devoid of any fancy moves, only the absolute confidence forged through countless battles... Overcoming skill with brute force!
No matter how fast you are, you have no choice but to face this all-encompassing storm of steel head-on!
Faced with the massive axe slashing down, powerful enough to tear apart city walls and crackling with surging lightning, Yang Yun neither dodged nor evaded. He simply shook his head with a hint of helplessness and calmly raised his right hand.

There was no shimmering light, no burst of energy; just a fleeting moment before the destructive blade touched her body, a pale hand shot out like a fleeting shadow—

"Keng!"

A crisp, short metallic clang rang out, and a violent sonic boom, carrying scattered arcs of electricity, swept outwards in visible shockwaves. But Yang Yun, with just his right hand, firmly held that giant axe capable of cleaving mountains in two!
The raging lightning leaped and shattered between Yang Yun's fingers, yet it could not harm him in the slightest, as if he were not holding the blade of divine punishment, but merely a wisp of light; and the violent power that was enough to split the city walls came to an abrupt halt between his fingers, the raging lightning snake struggling and vanishing into nothingness.

The next instant, before the Dragon Hunter Armor could react, Yang Yun suddenly exerted force on his wrist and pulled it downwards!
The movement was small, at most a slight "wrist twist," but the force it unleashed was utterly unmatched. The massive steel body seemed weightless before this monstrous power, like that of a prehistoric beast, and was forcefully lifted by the axe handle, tracing a brief arc before—

"Boom!!!" With a deafening roar, the entire city wall trembled violently. Yang Yun had slammed the Dragon Hunter Armor hard into the hard stone brick ground, and spiderweb-like cracks spread wildly from the point of impact, sending up dust and gravel that surged outwards like waves!

With a single blow, this city wall, stretching for hundreds of meters, was almost completely destroyed!

"You want to fight me in close combat? Try to use brute force against skill?"

"Are you serious?"

Staring at the Dragon Hunter Armor lying amidst the ruins, even though he knew that the other party most likely wouldn't reply, or might not even have the ability to speak at all, Yang Yun couldn't help but complain... It's no wonder he said that, it's just that the other party can't distinguish between the king and the queen.

Of course, from the enemy's perspective, adopting a close-quarters combat strategy is perfectly acceptable; but from Yang Yun's perspective, it's like lighting a lantern in a latrine—pure suicide. After all, he's currently playing a low-level character, and if it comes to comparing stats at the same level, he's probably far inferior to even Zheng Zha when he activates "Destruction," so how could a mere suit of armor possibly stop him?
Having taken a solid hit from Yang Yun, the Dragon Hunter Armor looked quite pathetic. Not only was the large shield it was carrying, which appeared to be used to defend against dragon breath, nowhere to be found, but its body also showed many signs of damage, as if it was only one last blow away before it would completely shatter into a pile of broken metal debris.

Even so, the Dragon Slayer Armor showed no sign of backing down. It used the giant axe it gripped tightly in its hand to forcefully support its body, struggling to stand up again amidst the ear-piercing scraping of metal.

Then, the Dragon Slayer Armor knelt on one knee, lowered its head, and assumed an ancient and devout posture, as if praying to a deity. With this movement, specks of pure white light emerged from the cracks in the ruins beneath its feet, converging like streams into a soft white pillar that completely enveloped the tattered armor…

"That's interesting. A suit of armor can also use healing magic."

Watching the cracks in the Dragon Hunter Armor slowly begin to heal within the white light imbued with healing power, Yang Yun couldn't help but feel a surge of interest. However, compared to this...

“I thought the so-called ‘keeping to ourselves’ was quite strange. It turns out they were just deploying troops to ambush me here.”

Sensing the unmistakable flow of energy in the air and the suddenly strengthened mental connection, Yang Yun ignored the Dragon Hunter Armor that was slowly repairing. Instead, he looked up at the dragons that had been flapping their wings and hovering in mid-air.

Beneath the shadow of the dragon's wings, those twisted, withered branches, with insect-like limbs and bizarrely structured monsters, were silently weaving some kind of invisible net...

"So it was you who were controlling this armor." (End of Chapter)