Full health is the kill threshold, no matter if you're a god or a demon!

At the critical moment, Devourer of the Sun roared, crossed his claws to protect his chest, and the powerful earth elemental energy within his body surged wildly, instantly condensing into an energy shield that shimmered with an earthy yellow light, enveloping most of his body!

"Ding ding ding ding ding—!!!!"

In the next instant, the metal flywheels slammed into the tan shield like a torrential downpour, unleashing a series of sharp, ear-piercing impacts and cutting sounds! Sparks flew everywhere, and the energy shield flickered violently, its light fading!

Most of the flywheels were deflected and bent by the tough shield, crashing into the surrounding gears and making a louder noise.

However, three flying wheels, with their tricky angles and powerful penetrating force, still managed to break through the weak points of the shield's defense!

"Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!"

The sound of a sharp blade piercing flesh!

Three flying wheels left horrific, deep wounds on his left arm, right shoulder blade, and left thigh, respectively, exposing bone and tearing flesh! Blood spurted out instantly, staining his dark brown hair and the metal beneath his feet!

-807542!

-932115!

-1031334!

A sharp pain shot through him, and Shi Ri let out a muffled groan, but the fierce light in his eyes suddenly surged!

"Annoying flies!"

He roared, his right claw suddenly clenching! Within his palm, blinding blue-white lightning erupted and gathered like a long-suppressed, furious dragon!

"Lightning Claw - Tear Through the Sky!"

With his five fingers spread, five twisted, leaping bolts of lightning, each a destructive serpent, shot out! These lightning serpents instantly split in mid-air, transforming into dozens of tiny lightning branches, which, as if possessing life, precisely tracked the tracking gears that were still flying in the air, preparing to launch a second round of attacks!

"Crackling! Crackle, crackle—!!!"

All the tracking gears hit by Razer instantly had their surfaces covered in blue-white electric arcs, and their internal, intricate mechanical structures were completely burned out and overloaded by the high-voltage current!

Immediately afterwards, in a series of short and violent explosions, they all exploded! They turned into countless charred parts burning with electric sparks, falling like hailstones.

Without even glancing at the results of his battle, Shi Ri flashed with yellow light, his wounds healed, and he continued to charge forward with renewed vigor!

After two more forks in the road, dodging three waves of trap gears, and getting several more wounds, the road ahead finally opened up!

A circular metal platform space with a diameter of about fifty meters suddenly appeared at the end of the maze passage.

The platform is surrounded by walls of slowly rotating giant gears, forming a relatively independent "arena".

In the very center of the circular platform, a strangely shaped humanoid machine floats silently.

It stands about three meters tall and is made entirely of an unknown alloy that is dark silver and flows with a cool, water-like light. Its lines are smooth and elegant.

Its arms are two high-strength alloy circular saws that are spinning, with sharp teeth and a deep, dangerous hum as they rotate. Most striking is its back—six pairs of metal wings made of countless thin, cicada-wing-like metal plates with knife-like edges, spreading out behind it like a peacock's tail, each feather trembling slightly as it adjusts its angle.

Its head has no facial features, only two polyhedral crystals that constantly change focus and shimmer with blue light, which are currently "watching" the Sun Devourer rushing out of the passage.

【Lv.99 Blade Cutter BOSS (Regional Boss)】

"The boss guarding the pass..." Devourer of the Sun stopped in his tracks, grinning to reveal his gleaming white fangs, his fighting spirit rekindled in his eyes. "Finally, something decent has arrived!"

The Blade Cutter launched the first attack, and the six pairs of metal wings on its back suddenly changed from a relaxed, extended state to high-frequency vibration!

"Buzz—!!!!"

A terrifying shriek, seemingly capable of tearing eardrums and nerves apart, suddenly exploded! It was a sonic boom, the result of metal wings vibrating at supersonic frequencies and cutting through the air!

The next second, all that Shi Ri saw was that dark silver figure blur in place for a moment.

Then--

Disappeared!

No, it didn't disappear!

The speed was too fast, so fast that it left behind a solid, lifelike afterimage! The real body had already charged forward!

The fighting instincts and beastly intuition that Shi Ri had honed through countless life-and-death trials were perfectly manifested at this moment!

Almost instinctively, without any thought process, his massive body suddenly rolled to the left with all its might!

"laugh--!!!"

A silver thread as thin as a hair appeared out of thin air right where he had just been standing, and then vanished in a flash!

Where the silk thread passed, even space seemed to be briefly cut open with a tiny crack, emitting a strange "sizzling" sound, before slowly closing up after a moment.

Shi Ri rolled several meters away, then knelt down to steady himself. He raised his hand and touched his cheek—a thin line of blood was slowly seeping out warm liquid.

He looked up and saw the Blade Cutter standing ten meters behind him, slowly raising the circular saw on his right arm, which was rotating rapidly before gradually slowing down. A few strands of brown hair that had just been cut off were still stuck to the saw blade.

"So fast..." Shi Ri's heart sank, and his expression became more serious.

The monster's speed completely exceeded his expectations! If it weren't for his instinctive warning, he would probably be cut in half right now!

The trouble continued. As he focused his attention and tried to lock on, he discovered that the Blade Slayer's body was always covered by a special force field that constantly distorted light!

This force field caused his visual judgment to be severely skewed and distorted, making it impossible for him to accurately pinpoint the vital point!

He's encountered this situation before!

"Absolute evasion state!" Sun Devourer frowned. "During its non-attacking window, conventional attack methods are almost impossible to hit it!"

In other words, we must wait until it launches its attack before we can launch an effective counterattack!

"Calm down... I must calm down..." Devourer forced himself to suppress his boiling fighting spirit and impulse, adopting a calm defensive stance, his muscles tense, and elemental power slowly flowing through his body. He was waiting for an opportunity to kill with one blow.

The six pairs of metal wings on the back of the Blade Cutter vibrated at a high frequency again, and its body swayed—

In an instant, it transformed into dozens of silver streaks of light, indistinguishable from real ones, attacking simultaneously from different angles and with different trajectories!

【Phantom Cut】!

Each streak of light radiated killing intent and sharpness, making it impossible to distinguish which was the real thing and which was an illusion! Or... were they all real attacks!

The Sun-Eating Pupil shrank to the size of a pinhead!

There's no way to avoid it!

"Roar!! Tremor!"

He roared and slammed his palms, imbued with the immense power of the earth, onto the metal platform beneath his feet!

"BOOM—!!!"

The metal ground within a 20-meter radius of him shook violently, twisted, and bulged!

Countless sharp, thick rock spikes, shimmering with an earthy yellow light, burst through the metal plate like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, instantly forming a dense, ever-wriggling forest of stone spikes!

However, several streaks of light easily sliced ​​through the stone spikes blocking the way!

"clang---!!!!"

The tip of the circular saw pierced the Sun-Eating Armguard hard!

A piercing metallic screeching sound and dazzling sparks erupted simultaneously! A surge of energy traveled through the arm guard, and Shi Ri was propelled forward by the force, staggering three steps before barely managing to regain his balance. His left arm felt numb and tingly, and a deep dent appeared on the arm guard!

-43,553,859!

Armor value reduced by 15% (Steel Tear effect)!

"You can inflict damage, that's fine!" The murderous glint in Devourer's eyes intensified. "But you're far from killing me!"

He whirled around, and blazing crimson flames gathered wildly on his right claw! His entire right claw seemed to burst into flames, and then he unleashed a furious [Flaming Slash] diagonally towards the Blade Cutter's chest!

The fiery claws tore through the air, reaching temperatures high enough to soften and turn metal red-hot!

however--

Faced with this seemingly inevitable blow, the Blade Cutter's body only swayed slightly and strangely.

The blurry force field on its surface is in effect again!

The Sun-Eating Claw, burning with fierce flames and clearly having reached the opponent's chest alloy armor, inexplicably and inexplicably "slid" to the side at the last moment, as if it had struck the slipperiest ice!

It only left a shallow, rapidly cooling white mark on the opponent's dark silver breastplate, barely scraping off any paint!

[Missing (Absolute dodge effective)!]

"Tsk!" Devourer of the Sun felt a pang of regret.

The timing wasn't great just now; it's more effective when you're close to the opponent.

He calmed himself down again, his amber eyes fixed intently on the other person.

This thing is a bit troublesome, but Devourer of the Sun doesn't think he will fail. On the contrary, he thinks his chance has come!

The Blade Cutter slowly floated to the center of the circular platform, about five meters above the ground.

The high-speed rotating circular saws on both arms stopped rotating simultaneously and slowly merged in front of the chest, with the two saw blades intersecting to form a peculiar "X" shape.

The six pairs of metal wings behind it, which had been vibrating at a high frequency, simultaneously retracted to their maximum extent, like a bowstring ready to be released.

Then--

Its entire dark silver body began to spin wildly and relentlessly at high speed around the "X" shaped intersection on its chest!

"Buzzing buzzing buzzing—!!!"

A terrifying shriek, ten or even a hundred times sharper than the previous wing vibrations, like the simultaneous roar of billions of metal bees, instantly filled the entire circular space!

Even the walls of the slowly rotating gear maze around them trembled slightly at the sound!

Metal Storm - Death Vortex!

As its rotational speed reached its limit, countless tiny, sharp metal fragments, parts, and even the outermost protective armor on its body began to peel off and be thrown off under the violent centrifugal force!

Instead of scattering, the ejected metal fragments were bound by an invisible force field, guiding them to form a destructive metal death storm—a storm whose diameter rapidly expanded and whose interior was filled with billions of high-speed rotating sharp fragments—around the rapidly rotating blade cutter's body!

The storm's range rapidly expanded by ten meters, fifteen meters, and twenty meters!

What's even more terrifying is that this storm seems to possess a terrifying attraction and assimilative ability!

All metal structures within the storm's range—the platform's steel plates, the wall's rivets, and even some tiny gears at the edge of the distant gear maze—were forcibly torn apart, snapped, and swept into the storm, becoming part of the death vortex and causing its power and destructive force to continuously increase!

As Shi Ri stood on the edge of the storm, feeling the fierce wind pressure that almost tore his skin apart and the deathly screeching of metal scraping against metal, his pupils shrank to two small dots.

Absolute dodge status is off!

To unleash this ultimate skill, it concentrates all its energy and force field to maintain the metal storm.

That annoying, blurry force field around it disappeared!

The Sun Devourer roared to the heavens with a deafening battle cry! This roar even briefly drowned out the shrieks of the metal storm!

His muscles bulged wildly to their limit, and his dark brown hair stood on end! Three distinct yet equally powerful elemental lights emanated from his body simultaneously—

Heavy earth yellow, burning crimson, and raging azure!

He has fused the power of the three elements into one!

"Triple Power!!!"

He stomped his feet hard on the ground, creating two deep dents in the alloy platform! Like a raging dragon swimming against the current, he charged headlong into the all-consuming storm of metal death!

"Hiss hiss hiss hiss—!!!"

The moment he entered the storm's range, countless high-speed spinning metal fragments, like cruel, slow-moving blades, frantically cut and tore at his skin, muscles, hair, and armor!

Blood gushed out from all parts of his body like a bursting water bag, and was churned into a bloody mist by more fragments in the air!

His health points plummeted at a terrifying rate of over 10% per second!

Pain! Excruciating pain, like being torn to pieces!

But the Sun Eater's eyes were clearer than ever before! His gaze pierced through the layers of dazzling metal fragments and locked onto the very center of the storm—the Blade Slayer itself, which had almost turned into a ball of silver light due to its high-speed rotation!

Three seconds!

He calculated that he had three seconds! That was enough!

In the first second, he charged forward five meters despite the excruciating pain and bleeding! The protective elemental light was weakened by more than half!

In the second, he roared and swung his claws to smash the metal wings and blades that were close to his opponent, and rushed in front of his opponent!

The third second!

"Stop right there, you bastard!! Roar!!"

The power of the three elements forcefully pierced through the last layer of dense fragments and fiercely seized the saw arms of the two circular saws that were joined together in front of the Blade Cutter and crossed into an "X" shape!

caught!

"burst!!"

Without any hesitation, Devourer poured all the power of the three mixed elements compressed to the limit in his claws into the body of the Blade Cutter through the saw arms!

Boom! ...

next moment!

The ultimate collision between elemental turbulence and metallic storm has erupted!

The blinding shockwave instantly engulfed everything within a radius of 100 meters!

The entire circular metal platform, which served as the battlefield, groaned under the strain, and the giant gear maze that formed the surrounding walls trembled violently under the impact, with countless gears creaking and cracking!

Light, fragments, smoke, turbulent energy... filled everything that could be seen and perceived.

As the devastating light and impact slowly subsided and dissipated...

The center of the circular platform was a complete mess.

The metal storm has dissipated.

The blade-slicer's body caved inward, creating a shocking crater. Its six pairs of magnificent metal wings were mostly broken and drooped limply. The light in its two blue crystalline eyes flickered a few last times, then dimmed and went out like a candle in the wind.

[The Blade Cutter has been killed!]