This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 495: Anduin's Methods Upgraded
When I opened my eyes, the scene in the spaceship room came into view.

Li Ming felt as if he was in another world. He glanced at the time and found that five days had passed.

My eyes felt sore, my eyebrows ached, and a feeling of fatigue surged over me like a tide.

The faint throbbing in his body was the result of the improvement of his Titan bloodline, but at this point, it was already difficult to stimulate the improvement of his body's development progress.

Strands of light converged to form two weapons, one large and one small. The large one was an exaggerated mechanical sword, and the small one looked like a boxing glove.

After taking a close look at the relevant data, there is nothing special about it. The attributes and abilities are not good enough, so it is destined to be recycled.

However, these two things combined can recover nearly 10 billion metal energies, plus the metal energy he originally had left, it has reached 2.2 billion.

There is no shortage of world blood, which is just enough to upgrade two X-level control objects.

Li Ming couldn't help rubbing his hands, but his eyes were blurry.

He was tortured to the point of ecstasy and exhaustion, so he simply threw away the mechanical guards and fell asleep.

.........

Mechanical Royal Court, a large number of spaceships shuttling back and forth, core base, spaceship dock.

Two figures walked through the corridors, one in front and one behind. The man in front was majestic and had a scar on his face, while the figure behind was a burly blue-skinned troll with his head lowered.

"Old Bei, are you going out to carry out the mission?" Someone greeted him. It was the group of people under Theo. Now they have basically retreated to the second line and no longer carry out mercenary missions.

Except for a small number of life forms that are born to love blood and knives.

Becker is one of them, still maintaining a high-intensity mission frequency.

Becker just nodded silently. The troll behind him was a kind of assistant, so no one cared.

Becker's formalities had been completed and he came to the spacecraft base to submit his administrative permit.

After entering his own spaceship and adjusting everything, he followed the guidance, gradually leaving the core base and entering the star gate through the exclusive passage of the Mechanical Royal Court.

Until the moment before entering the star gate, Becker's face was solemn and dignified.

When his spaceship was swallowed by the star gate, his face suddenly changed. He quickly took out a disk from his arms and inserted it into the data transmission port.

Immediately afterwards, the spacecraft sounded an alarm and shut down, leaving only the basic thrusters functioning.

This was extremely dangerous in the Star Gate, but it was quickly restarted.

It was only at this moment that Becker breathed a sigh of relief. The corners of his mouth could not help but curl up, but he quickly calmed down, but in the end he still laughed, "What Mechanical Royal Court, it's nothing more than this..."

As he spoke, the surface of his skin began to wriggle, and finally he turned into another race, with protruding cheeks and the surface covered with fine scales, a variant of lizardman.

Then he looked at the troll behind him with burning eyes, and the other's appearance began to change. The indigo skin faded and the troll turned into a human.

It was Robin.

However, he looked dazed and his eyes were distracted, as if he was being controlled.

"Haha, this time...it's really a huge achievement..." He couldn't stop being excited.

“…Why did he arrest you?”

In front of the crystal ball, Anduin suddenly turned his head and looked at Robin who was shivering beside him.

"Uh, I don't know either..." Robin's throat rolled. In the crystal ball in front of him, the lizard man was laughing wildly.

And a guy who looked almost exactly like him was standing next to him.

"The phantom scale lizards are a species that are naturally suited to camouflage. They have long been exterminated, and the remaining ones are all controlled by advanced civilizations. They are extremely valuable undercover agents and lurkers." Anduin whispered, "Those who can mobilize this kind of life form are definitely not ordinary people."

"This guy has been lurking here for more than four months just to capture you. Do you really know nothing?"

Robin's expression changed, and he could only shake his head: "I really don't know why this guy arrested me."

Under Anduin's oppressive gaze, an inappropriate voice sounded beside him: "Sir Anduin, this time it was all thanks to you that we were able to discover this guy's hiding place. When Sir Qinglong comes back, he will definitely thank you specially."

It was Ulrich who spoke. He lowered his head and felt the pressure of the mountains as expected.

"Qinglong..." Anduin smiled, "The people under his command are all talented."

He waved his hand casually, and the scene in the crystal ball disappeared. Ulrich hesitated and said, "This... don't you want to see where he is going?"

"I only promised Qinglong to protect the Mechanical Court, but I didn't promise him to find the murderer behind the scenes." Anduin shook his head. Protection was protection, but he didn't want to get involved in the other party's trouble.

“But if your methods are discovered, the other party may come back again,” Ulrich reminded.

"The one who could discover me must be an X-level life form." Anduin pondered, "And an X-level life form cannot act easily."

Robin couldn't help but shrink his head when he heard this.

Anduin couldn't help but sigh. He didn't want to provoke the person behind the other party, so he just sent a fake body to be kidnapped by the other party instead of actually taking action.

If it was just an A-level life form, it would be basically impossible to discover his methods. Even genetic testing could be concealed.

Precisely because he did not want to provoke, he could not leave his mark to demonstrate, so after the person behind the other party discovered the accident, it was indeed possible that he would come again.

This depends on how much importance Robin holds in the other party's eyes.

"I hope you're not that important."

Hearing these words, Robin was so frightened that even his breathing stopped.

Just two days later, the Lizardman brought the fake Robin to the rendezvous point, a giant battleship hovering outside a stargate node.

After entering the battleship and going through numerous inspections, he brought Robin to a burly figure with a ferocious wolf head, thick pink hair all over his body, a bare chest, and a fierce aura.

"Lord Ivan, the mission target has been brought here." The lizard man lowered his head and said.

"Mission target?" Ivan looked at Robin who was in a trance behind him. His nose twitched slightly, and the corners of his mouth opened into a grin, his sharp teeth making people shudder.

The lizard man was quite proud: "That's right, the Mechanical King's Court is strong on the outside but weak on the inside. I have been lurking in it for such a long time, and they didn't..."

Before he finished speaking, the lizard man felt a flash before his eyes, and a horrible breath rushed towards him, as if a bloody mouth had opened towards him, and his heart seemed to be pinched.

“Sir, you…you…” The lizard man was so frightened that when he came to his senses, he was already being lifted up by the neck.

"Open your eyes and look carefully." Ivan said in a cold voice, exhaling a green mist to wrap the so-called Robin.

Then, its skin quickly melted away, and a painful expression appeared on the dazed Robin's face, but in the end, the mechanical skeleton inside was revealed.

"Mechanical body?" The lizard man's eyes widened in astonishment. "I... I have clearly passed the genetic verification."

"Idiot, this is advanced mimicry..." Ivan threw the lizard man to the ground, his face cold: "I wasted four months and brought me this thing."

"They have already discovered me?" The lizard man was bewildered, "But why didn't they attack me?"

Suddenly, his face was shocked, "They are following me?"

"Not so stupid." Ivan sneered, "No one is following you. This should just be a warning." "Warning?" The lizard man asked in surprise, "A warning from Qinglong?"

"But... he even dared to expose Prince Ryan..."

"That's the problem. No matter how timid Qinglong is, he can't be afraid to kill you." Ivan's eyes flashed with cold light: "There is a problem here."

The lizard man climbed up carefully, and then heard Ivan say in a deep voice: "Let's go to the Mechanical King's Court."

"Go to the Mechanical King's Court?" The lizard man was so scared that he almost fell to the ground again. "Are you going to go directly and fight head-on?"

"There must be something wrong with Qinglong now. He actually used this little trick to fool me." Ivan's eyes flashed with cold light and said, "We can't miss this opportunity."

"But what if it's a trap?" the lizard man reminded.

"If he wanted to set a trap, why didn't he just come directly with a fool like you?" Ivan asked back, and the lizard man paused.

Ivan acted decisively, adjusted the direction of the warship, and headed straight into the Mechanical Royal Court.

Two days later, the giant battleship jumped out of the star gate. As an unfamiliar advanced battleship, it needed to go through a series of inspections.

But he could no longer wait, so he jumped out of the spaceship and headed straight for outer space. The Mechanical Royal Court was already before him.

His pink hair fluttered in the wind, but he didn't really attack directly. Instead, he hid his body.

"Qinglong, I'm afraid it's not here." Ivan sniffed, his eyes shining.
However, just as his aura was restrained and he began to move, rays of light appeared all around him. Upon closer inspection, they were actually wisps of symbols that quickly wrapped around him.

"not good!"

Ivan suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart and subconsciously wanted to break away, but he felt dizzy. The mechanical royal court in front of him and the star gate node behind him were stretching infinitely.

"Where is this..." Ivan's face looked grim. He looked around and found himself trapped in a void space with no end in sight.

“Qinglong!?” He roared, but there was no response. He turned into a giant wolf, with rolling energy, sweeping away, but it had no effect.

"The Scarlet Wolf - Ivan, from the Empire."

In the room, Anduin looked at the crystal ball in his hand. It was Ivan who was tumbling up and down in it. He frowned slightly and said, "The person who is looking for you is more powerful than I thought."

Catching this guy is a bit tricky.

Robin remained silent, cold sweat already breaking out on his forehead.

Ulrich beside him was even more trembling in his heart. The Scarlet Wolf - Ivan, this is an X-level life form, but in front of Anduin, he had no power to resist at all.

"Forget it, let's leave it to Azure Dragon." Anduin shook his head. The people of the Empire could not be killed, but even if they were handed back, Azure Dragon would have to hand them over.

……

Li Ming slept for five full days on the returning warship.

"I had a really good sleep this time." Li Ming stretched his body, making crackling sounds.

He hadn't slept for a long time. When he woke up this time, he felt a sense of comfort from the bottom of his body.

"Although higher life forms do not need sleep, it is after all a basic need of the body. It is still quite refreshing to sleep once in a while." Li Ming glanced at the coordinates. It will take less than ten days to reach the Mechanical Royal Court.

He glanced at the smart terminal and found several message reports, and his eyes couldn't help but freeze slightly.

After pondering for a moment, I opened the control page again. I felt refreshed after sleeping so well, so I naturally started to upgrade.

The first thing to upgrade has already been decided, and that is the [Life Power Core]. The passive ability of this thing, [Source of Immortality], is very powerful.

The last time I rashly touched the Oath-Keeping Stone, if it hadn’t been for this thing, I would have been dead.

One billion metal energies, plus one portion of world blood.

Control the page, the silver mechanical heart logo exudes surging power, the surface flashes with brilliant light, and the metallic luster gradually changes.

The internal structure is also constantly reorganized and optimized, with precision parts fused and spliced ​​together to form a more complex and efficient system.

[Life force core--Level X: The immortal source of mechanical life.

……

Control effect: Fifty times the physical strength

Control Ability - Mechanization: Gain 100 times the physical strength and gain the ability of "Source of Immortality". 】

[Source of Immortality: After being attacked with a fatal blow, the controlled object will suffer severe trauma, but the damage caused by the host's attack will be erased, restoring all body values ​​to their peak state, and gaining a 60-second [Immune] state.]

No new abilities, but a big stat boost.

The effect increases physical strength from twenty times to fifty times, and ability from fifty times to one hundred times.

The effect was almost immediate. Li Ming felt his heart beating violently for several times, and the blood spurting out became stronger and more powerful. His already full state became even more vigorous. He wanted to go to the Holy Castle immediately to talk to his brother from the Yuan clan.

The duration of the [Immunity] status increases significantly from 3 seconds to 60 seconds.

Li Ming couldn't help but nod his head. As his level got higher and higher, he came into contact with more and more strange things.

Sometimes, a death crisis comes extremely suddenly.

Then, he shifted his gaze to another object, another core of the main combat system - [Justice Armguard].

Another ten billion metal energies plus a portion of world blood, the brilliant energy, also prompted the arm armor to undergo a deeper transformation.

[Justice Gauntlets--Level X: The fist of justice only falls on sinners!

……

Control Effect: [Whisper of Destruction]

Control ability——Justice Fighting: Extra 100 times the strength. 】

[Whisper of Destruction: Gain fifty times the power blessing. If you are not attacked for one second, the next attack will gain all the power blessings attached to the controlled object and ignore the target's defense.]

Li Ming couldn't help but wonder, [Justice Armguard] also underwent a transformation, [Armor-Breaking Heavy Strike] and [Super Charged Strike] were condensed into [Whisper of Destruction] and were greatly enhanced.

The interval time for obtaining all the power blessings is reduced from three seconds to one second, the conventional 30% armor penetration disappears, and it becomes ignoring defense during the burst, but it is all defense, which is equivalent to true damage.

If he were to face Lancaster again, even if the opponent's energy level was not much different from his, the result of his blow would definitely be completely different from last time.

"Currently, each control object that has been upgraded has its own changes, which should be recognized as the best direction of transformation." Li Ming glanced at the control page.

[Heart of Talos] has a new ability.

【The Power Core of Life】Strengthens core abilities.

【Justice Gauntlets】 has concentrated its capabilities.

(End of this chapter)