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

Shams reacted extremely quickly.

The dark gold metal arm suddenly rose, its ten fingers spread wide, and ten dark purple energy rays shot out from its fingertips, weaving into a dense electric net in the air and enveloping Liu Nian.

"You think I'm one of those grunts?" Shams's voice, ringing with metallic resonance, exploded across the platform. "Let me show you what the power of a Pharaoh is!"

The power grid collided with Liu Nian.

sizzle-

A blinding flash of lightning erupted, and dark purple arcs of electricity leaped wildly across Liu Nian's shield, producing a teeth-grinding scraping sound.

Liu Nian's shield remained motionless, but his speed was slowed down.

It's not that the power grid is particularly harmful, but rather that those electric arcs have a strange "sticky" effect.

"Interesting." Liu Nian's lips curled into a smile.

He spread his twelve wings of light, and holy light surged outward, shaking off the arcs of electricity clinging to the shield as if it were dust.

Speed ​​recovery.

Keep punching!

Shams's face darkened, and he crossed his hands in front of him, interlocking his fingers and facing each other.

His dark gold metal breastplate suddenly cracked open, revealing a fist-sized purple energy core inside.

The core spun wildly, spewing out intense dark purple energy that condensed into a giant skull phantom in front of him.

The skull opened its massive mouth and let out a silent, piercing scream.

Liu Nian's vision blurred suddenly, and a burst of white light exploded in his mind, as if someone had put a flashbang in his brain.

However, his resistance and various immune effects were too high, so he only paused for a fraction of a second.

But Shams still managed to seize that fraction of a second of opportunity.

His mechanical clone suddenly crouched down, pressing his hands onto the ground.

The metal plates on the ground surged as if they had come alive, and countless metal spikes as thick as an arm burst forth from the ground, stabbing towards Liu Nian in the air.

The tips of those metal spikes shimmered with dark purple runes, clearly indicating that they were not ordinary physical attacks—each one was imbued with powerful armor-piercing and corrosive effects.

Liu Nian snorted coldly and slammed his fist down.

The fist, imbued with holy light, clashed with the metal spikes.

Boom boom boom boom—

The metal spikes snapped, melted, and vaporized like matchsticks under the impact of the holy light.

But what Shams wanted was not to inflict damage, but to buy time.

In the few seconds that Liu Nian was clearing away the metal spikes, Shams' mechanical clone had already completed the next spell.

He drew a complex rune array in front of him with his hands. The rune array rapidly expanded in the air, growing to a diameter of tens of meters in the blink of an eye.

In the center of the rune array, a giant undead dragon formed from dark purple energy emerged from the array.

The undead dragon wasn't large, only small compared to other dragons, but its entire body was covered with sharp metal scales and barbs, and its undead form was inside its metal body!

[Summoned Item: Construct Undead Dragon, Level 950 (Legendary Boss)]

"Go!" Shams waved his hand.

The undead dragon opened its mouth wide, spewing a dark purple death aura mixed with a large amount of metal fragments towards Liu Nian.

Countless tiny metal fragments, each spinning at high speed, like countless sharp blades, cut through the air with a piercing shriek.

Liu Nian neither dodged nor avoided the dragon's breath, but charged forward.

Metal shards struck his shield, clanging and clattering like a metallic rainstorm.

The shield value dropped by 0.001%.

Liu Nian didn't even bother to look at the number.

He punched the undead dragon in the head.

boom--!!!

The undead dragon's metal head exploded in half, scattering metal fragments and dark purple energy everywhere.

But it did not fall.

This thing's structure is different from that of a normal undead dragon; its core is not in its head, but in its chest cavity.

The undead dragon suddenly closed its claws, tightly embracing Liu Nian, and its tail coiled around him like a giant python, wrapping around him several times.

"Explode," Shams said coldly.

The undead dragon's body suddenly glowed with a blinding dark purple light—it was self-destructing!

boom--!!!

A massive explosion erupted on the platform, the shockwave blasting away the surrounding undead guards and vampires, and a small mushroom cloud rose into the air.

Shams' mechanical clone curled into a smug smile.

But the next second, the arc froze.

Within the mushroom cloud, white light pierced through the dark purple smoke and dust.

Twelve wings of light suddenly unfolded, blowing away the smoke and dust.

Liu Nian walked out of the explosion's epicenter, completely unharmed, not even with his shield intact.

"That's it?" Liu Nian dusted off his shoulders. "Is there anything else? This doesn't seem to match your level 999 Eternal Boss strength!"

Shams's will-o'-the-wisp flickered violently.

He stared at Liu Nian in disbelief—that was a level 950 legendary BOSS self-destructing; even if he himself were hit by it, he would be severely injured.

How come this dragon-man is completely unharmed?

"Impossible... Absolutely impossible..."

Shams gritted his teeth and raised his hands again.

This time, he stopped testing the waters and went straight for his strongest trump card.

Behind his mechanical clone, the metal spine opened, revealing a dense network of energy conduits inside.

Within the conduit, dark purple energy surged wildly like blood, converging at his chest.

The fist-sized energy core spun rapidly, emitting a piercing buzzing sound.

Shams' body began to swell, growing from three meters tall to five meters, eight meters, ten meters—

On his metal body, every armor plate was deforming, reorganizing, and thickening, with new gears and hydraulic rods extending from the joints, four dark purple energy blades popping out from his arms, and several mechanical arms appearing behind him.

[Shams - Mechanical Clone - Full Battle Form Unlocked]

"Dragonman!" Shams's voice turned deep and ferocious, carrying a harsh, metallic scraping sound. "I'll make you regret ever being born!"

He moved.

With incredible speed, its metallic body transformed into a dark purple lightning bolt, rushing towards Liu Nian.

Four energy blades slashed down simultaneously, sealing off all of Liu Nian's dodge angles.

Liu Nian did not dodge.

He raised his right hand, and all the dark gold scales on the Starbreaker gauntlet opened up as he threw a punch.

Fists clashed.

boom--!!!

The shockwave exploded, blowing away a large section of the metal plates on the platform.

Cracks appeared on the energy blade of Shams.

But he didn't retreat. Instead, he stayed fixed on Liu Nian, and the mechanical arm extending from his back fired a purple energy beam at Liu Nian's head!

This beam of light was strange; it wasn't a magical attack. The Serpent God's protection didn't work, and neither did the shield!

Liu Nian had encountered this before; it was the same kind of attack he had encountered in the AI ​​vehicle, and the spider servants he controlled also dealt this kind of damage.

It seems like it should be categorized as technology-related harm?

In short, this thing ignored Liu Nian's defense and shield, causing Liu Nian to lose health directly.

However, with Liu Nian's health, he could survive even if this thing kept spitting for a year!

He grabbed Shams's body and slammed him down with a breathtaking move (Titan's Grip, a skill provided by the Starbreaker Gauntlets)!

With a bang, half of Shams' mechanical clone was embedded in the golden floor, while the other half remained outside.

Liu Nian stomped directly on his head with a loud rumble.

With a bang, Shams' upper body exploded, turning into fragments on the ground.

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