Douluo, my clone Groudon

Chapter 455 The Third Martial Soul, Order Guardian - Mechanical Zygard

The possessed Demon Emperor struggled and roared in vain under Alice's restraints, uttering vicious curses and threats, attempting to intimidate everyone in the name of the Abyss Saint King.

However, its clamor was met with only indifference.

Everyone present knew that if the Abyss Saint King dared to descend upon the Douluo Continent in his true form, his combat power would be no more than that of a second-level god due to the suppression of the plane.

Even with the supreme artifact, the Heavenly Saint Rift Halberd, it might not be able to gain the upper hand against Tang Hao, who possesses the authority over a plane. How much less could it be against Gula, who has a profound foundation and endless tricks up its sleeve? Its threat is pale and powerless.

Gula stopped paying attention to the doomed ant and focused all his attention on what was in front of him.

He raised his hand, and the creation, which had taken thirteen years of painstaking effort and incorporated countless rare and otherworldly wisdoms, floated in the air.

This is not a simple mecha, nor is it a pure Pokémon; it is the third martial soul he prepared for himself!
Its prototype is Zygarde, the god of natural order and the maintainer of the natural order in the Pokémon world!
However, what Gula exchanged for from the system at a huge cost was not the original life form composed of a Z-shaped core and cells.

Rather, it originated from a variant of a certain time and space—in that world, nature was completely destroyed, the ecosystem collapsed, and even Zygarde was powerless to reverse the situation, plunging humanity into a desperate state of fighting each other.

Even the villainous Plasma Team had to turn to studying Zygarde's cells in order to survive, and eventually combined them with controlled nuclear fusion technology to create the Order Guardian - Mecha-Zygarde!
The absolute order of machinery perfectly matches the divine authority of "order" represented by Zygarde, allowing it to be reborn as a complete Pokémon in a new and more powerful form.

It can draw power from all acts of establishing and destroying order, whether biological or non-biological! Its attributes are flight and steel, and it possesses super destructive and defensive capabilities that can change the weather, create force fields, and reshape the environment.

In addition to retaining the original core skills such as Core Punisher, Thousand Arrows, and Thousand Waves, four brand-new exclusive moves have been created, with unpredictable power.

At this moment, Gura is about to perform the final fusion of this mechanical Zygarde with that god-level mech made of celestial forged metal and equipped with a pulse engine!
It's not that the mech is loaded with Pokémon, but rather that the main body of the machine Zygarde is fused with and assimilated by that god-level mech.

The mecha's ingenious structure will become its new and more powerful body. Its chest cavity and abdomen cavity are respectively equipped with a controllable nuclear fusion core derived from otherworldly technology and a high-level artifact pulse engine produced by the system. The dual energy core will provide a vast amount of energy far beyond the ordinary!

On its head, it wears a mechanical crown symbolizing absolute dominance. This is not only its exclusive equipment, providing all-round support under normal circumstances, but also has an incredible characteristic - when the mechanical Zygarde suffers from the eight elemental attacks that it is resistant to, it will not only not be injured, but will also increase its own attack power!

"let's start."

Gura's voice was calm and firm. The spacetime power of Celebi around him began to fluctuate violently, distorting the boundary between reality and concept, preparing to completely transform this incredible existence into a part of himself, making it a true third martial soul.

The avatars nodded in unison, transforming the massive amount of life energy they had previously converted and purified into dazzling torrents of energy, which they poured into Gula's body and the suspended fusion entity without reservation.

Alice glanced at the completely imprisoned possessed demon emperor, a glimpse of the sun and moon flashing in her eyes, and gently twisted her divine energy containing the power of yin and yang creation—"Pfft!"

The possessed Demon Emperor, along with all his clones, instantly transformed into the purest abyssal energy, which, along with the core essence of the plane controlled by the lord, exploded outwards.

The Lord of the Abyss has fallen!

The entire "Illusionary Layer" plane groaned in despair, the sky cracked, the earth melted, the rules began to collapse rapidly, and the plane entered its countdown to destruction.

The avatars accelerated their operation, frantically transforming and converging the even more abundant and pure life energy that had escaped when the plane collapsed. Like rivers flowing into the sea, it surged into Gula's body, supporting this final and most crucial step.

Gula had carefully observed the formation principles of Wang Dong'er and Huo Yuhao's third martial souls; they were formed from the divine thoughts of a god. What he needed to do was to completely merge a materialized, highly self-aware mechanical life form with his own soul and rules!
Fortunately, the machine Zygarde still possessed a collective consciousness originating from countless cells. Guided by Cooler's power and flushed by a massive amount of life energy, this consciousness abandoned its original independent form and chose to completely merge with Cooler, becoming an inseparable part of him!

“Buzz——!!!”

A resounding boom, seemingly emanating from the depths of the rules, rang out.

The suspended, silver-white mechanical construct, a fusion of mecha and Pokémon, began to become ethereal and transparent. Its form underwent a fundamental transformation under the influence of Groudon's massive consumption of life energy and the power of time it drew upon.

It is no longer an external object, but conceptually integrated with Gura's bloodline, soul, and even the laws he governs!

A brand new, vast power, representing absolute order and the judgment of nature, awakened from the depths of his soul and flowed through his limbs and bones.

The third martial soul is complete!

God of Order, return to your rightful place!
Gula slowly descended from mid-air, his feet touching the crumbling ground.

He felt the new power within him, a power that seemed to command mountains and rivers and determine the rules. His gaze swept over this abyssal plane that was heading towards its end. He nodded slightly, as if he had heard something, and whispered:
"I heard... Nature's cry for help."

In his perception, it was not only the Abyss Plane's continuous erosion and destruction of Douluo Star, but also the lamentation emanating from Douluo Star itself, caused by the unrestrained development by human soul masters, environmental pollution, the near extinction of soul beasts leading to the breakdown of the ecological chain and the instability of the plane's core.

These traumas are manifesting in various forms, such as the unstable secret realms that keep appearing throughout the continent.

At this moment, as the wielder of the God of Order, Gula could clearly feel that he was drawing strength from this "imbalance of order" and "the lament of nature".

If he were to unleash his Mechanical Zygarde Martial Soul at this moment, coupled with his four-word battle armor, his strength under normal circumstances would be comparable to that of a second-level god.

However, when facing the "culprits" who cause serious environmental damage, his normal combat power can even instantly soar to the level of a first-level god based on the characteristics of his martial soul.

Once he breaks through level 100 and officially enters the god level, the power of order that his third martial soul can summon will immediately possess the power of a god-king!
Gula took a deep breath. Not only his third martial soul, but he could also feel that his original "Child of Nature" status had undergone a qualitative change.

This identity was originally just a favor and a gift from the Douluo plane, but after he took control of the power of order, he felt that he seemed to have the ability to directly interfere with or even guide some of the plane's original power.

His gaze seemed to pierce through layers of space, reaching Tang Hao and Ah Yin deep within the core of that plane, anxiously watching the movements of the abyss.

However, he temporarily suppressed some of his thoughts.

"The most urgent task is to strengthen the bloodline and soul of the incarnations."

Gula withdrew his gaze and looked at the avatars around him who remained calm despite the collapse of the plane. "Our power needs to be improved as a whole."

(End of this chapter)