Mecha Era, Punch the Stars

As Li Yi experienced this unprecedented and wondrous state, a sudden inspiration struck him.

"I see, it seems there is another usage."

Upon having this idea, he didn't hesitate and immediately launched the operation.

Instantly, the upgraded Prison Suppressing Divinity was activated, triggering a specific feature device inside the 485-meter-tall S-class Extreme Hades Mech.

Click!

Immediately afterwards, to the astonishment of the crowd on the outer edge, the Hades mech suddenly shrank!
The powerful force of spacetime was unleashed by the Hades mech, constantly flowing across its surface.

Each time it rotates, the Hades mech shrinks once.

In the blink of an eye, the Hades mech shrank to the same height as Li Yi at an astonishing speed!

But what appeared before everyone was a tall, slender figure clad in thin, jet-black armor!

The silhouette of this figure vaguely resembles Li Yi.

The facial features of the mask are exactly the same as those of Li Yi.

Everyone was stunned!
What is this operation?
How can this nearly 500-meter-tall divine mech be shrunk to less than two meters in an instant?

Is mass-energy conserved?

No, even if the infinite divinity of the divine mech doesn't strictly follow the law of conservation of mass and energy, it should still grow taller and taller. So why is it getting smaller?

However, although the height of the Hades mech was greatly reduced, everyone could clearly feel a more surging and fierce aura than when it was upgraded to an S-class mech!

Simply by standing in this void rift, it suppressed countless spatial and temporal turbulences steadily.

Zizizi!
In addition, as the Hades mech shrunk into armor and draped itself over Li Yi's body, a large number of lightning flashes appeared out of thin air and shot towards the Hades mech.

These lightning bolts are not ordinary lightning, but spacetime lightning generated by deep collisions in the spacetime structure.

A casual slash can generate immense power.

It seems that the shrinking of the Hades mech has disrupted a large number of spacetime structures in the surrounding void rifts, causing them to become unbalanced and attracting a large amount of spacetime lightning.

However, this lightning bolt, which could easily break through the defenses of an ordinary S-class mech, left not a single mark on the shrunken Hades mech.

Witnessing this scene, the group froze on the spot, unsure of what to say.

This change has truly exceeded everyone's expectations.

Even the ancient powerhouse Black Fate Quasi-God, who survived from the first era and was well-informed, having witnessed the changing times in the ruins of time and knowing countless secrets, was speechless with shock at this moment.

After a long while, he finally managed to utter a sentence, his voice trembling slightly:

"It's actually divine armor."

"This is a top-notch technique that only the most special group of people can accomplish."

"This is really..."

By the end, he was speaking incoherently and was in a very out-of-control manner.

Upon hearing Black Fate's voice, not only Yan and Tan Yaozu couldn't help but ask questions, but even the seven demigod armored men behind him also hurriedly asked.

What is the Divine Armor? How can it be so much more powerful than the Divine Mech? How could the Divine Mech have such a device? So many questions.

Li Yi was also quite curious.

Although he managed to complete this operation with the help of his recent gains, he also felt that the divine armor outside his body was several times stronger than when the Hades mech had grown to its gigantic size.

But he was genuinely curious about what this so-called divine armor actually was. Black Fate, the quasi-god, sighed and said:

"This is a very long topic."

"To understand what divine armor is, we must first start from the beginning of the first era."

"As is well known, the armored people of the divine age evolved from arthropods."

"As time went on, they gradually gained intelligence and evolved a hard outer armor to defend themselves against predators."

"At that time, there was a great explosion of life in the universe, with various races competing with each other. The mainstream was to cultivate the physical body or other energy-based systems."

"Until a scholar, by chance, discovered divinity."

"From then on, the armored people became unstoppable, and the entire era completely shifted to a civilization based on divinity. They continued to develop, traversed interstellar space, and became quite powerful, earning the reputation as one of the ten strongest races in the universe at that time."

"What was hailed as the pinnacle of technological civilization at the time was the divine mech."

"The powerful figure who invented the divine mecha was called the Heavenly Ruler, a top-tier expert whose strength ranked among the top five in the entire universe during that era."

"His strength, even in our later era, would still be top-tier."

"However, in that era, there were countless powerful figures. Although the armored men were strong, they only had the confidence of a powerful race because of the Heavenly Ruler. They could not stand alone. Without him, they were no match for other powerful races."

“Those super creatures that are born with a body size of hundreds of meters, thousands of meters, tens of thousands of meters, or even comparable to a planet, are the top races of the first era.”

"Initially, the divine mechs were war weapons created by the Heavenly Ruler to defeat other competing races by imitating his own physical structure."

"The charioteer is either an avatar of the Heavenly Ruler or a disciple of him."

"Among the disciples of the Heavenly Ruler, there is also a top genius named Golden Radiance Supreme. During his long-term piloting of the initial version of the mecha, he continuously improved it, adding new designs and various time-space imprints and time-space divine runes."

"As he added more and more spacetime runes, these biomechanical mechs gradually underwent a transformation, in addition to his invention of a manufacturing method that stole the origin of the universe."

"Ultimately, divine mechs were finally developed into super weapons that dominated the mainstream of warfare in later generations."

"The Armored Civilization finally stood firmly at the pinnacle of the universe thanks to this weapon."

"As for the Divine Armor Transformation, it is a backdoor left by the top experts of the Heavenly Mandate Dominator lineage to prevent being betrayed by their race."

"Those who also pilot divine mechs in battle can instantly gain several times, or even more than ten times, their combat power by activating their divine armor transformation, allowing them to defeat their opponents in one fell swoop."

"As you know, once a race has no external enemies, it will slowly turn into internal strife."

"In the later stages of civilization, the ruling structure within the armored people also became problematic."

Those who master the art of divine armor transformation are called the Armored Saint Clan, or the Primal Saint Clan.

“Other ordinary armored people, even if they can become quasi-gods or supreme beings, are still far inferior in combat power to those of the same level who have become god-armored, or even those who are one level below them.”

"The Holy Race has the right to dispose of other powerful beings at will, and with their long lifespan, they firmly occupy the upper echelons of civilization."

"Such intense class conflict was all too common in the later stages of the Armored Man civilization."

"The reason I hid far away in the ruins of time was because I was tired of these internal strife. I never expected that I would turn misfortune into blessing and easily avoid disaster.

Everyone was somewhat shocked when they heard this.

Li Yi was also surprised; so this was the origin of the Primordial Sacred Race.

Moreover, he had heard of the name of the Golden Radiance Supreme in the Earth Ruins and the Enlightenment Mountain.

It seems that this supreme-level expert had an extraordinary influence on later generations, otherwise the Enlightenment Mountain would have specially recorded his combat experience as a trial ground, right?
After thinking for a moment, he asked:
"Lord Black Fate, may I ask if there is any connection between this divine armor transformation and the long lifespan of the Primal Holy Race?" (End of Chapter)