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

Putting away Arachne and Caron, Liu Nian took a deep breath.

Celestial Body is a skill in the Divine Punishment Envoy set, which allows the user to pass through walls and burrow underground, ignoring most conventional physical obstacles.

His body transformed into a semi-transparent phantom of holy light, ignoring the walls and valves of the pipes, and sped directly toward the core engine room.

In this state, his movement speed increases by 3000%, and walls are practically useless to him.

The only problem is that the Celestial Body only lasts for 30 seconds, with a 100-second cooldown.

So he has to travel the longest distance within those 30 seconds, and then wait for the cooldown to finish before using it again.

And so, Liu Nian went through, waited, and went through again, going deeper and deeper into the depths. In order to reach the enemy as quickly as possible and catch them off guard, he did not even launch an attack along the way!

As he passed through an exceptionally thick metal partition and stepped into the next area, he suddenly heard a dense "tatatatatatata" sound.

That voice was so familiar.

As soon as the celestial divine body was released, Liu Nian followed the direction from which the sound came.

He turned a corner around a thick pipe and saw the source of the sound.

The passage ahead was filled with countless black mechanical spiders.

[Number of LV650 Mechanical Spiders (Elite Units): Unable to estimate]

"what?"

Liu Nian was stunned for a moment.

This thing... isn't it the spider servant he got from the omnic vehicle that was made of anti-magic metal?

The exact same design, the exact same style, only of a higher level and with a larger body.

Moreover, some of them were particularly large and were clearly in a combined state.

He took out the spider servant controller and pressed it.

There was no reaction.

Hmm, it seems either the level difference is too great, or the device I have doesn't have the necessary permissions to connect.

At this moment, the celestial body was in a cooldown period, and Liu Nian crashed into the spider swarm with unstoppable force.

Click, click, click—

The mechanical spider exploded like popcorn under his impact, scattering metal fragments everywhere.

Unfortunately, this thing is immune to magic, so Liu Nian could only deal with it with his fists.

……

Liu Nian continued walking along the passage, encountering several more waves of mechanical spiders along the way.

These spiders didn't seem to be running around aimlessly; instead, they were gathering in a certain direction, as if protecting something.

Following the spider's path, they relentlessly pursued and killed it.

The passage widened as they walked, and huge gnome script appeared on the walls on both sides. Although they couldn't understand it, they could guess that it was a warning such as "Danger area, unauthorized personnel are prohibited from entering".

At the end of the passage was a huge metal door, from which a faint blue light emanated.

The door was open, and there were many undead corpses lying in front of it. A large number of mechanical spiders were busy on the corpses, seemingly dismantling them into parts.

Upon seeing Liu Nian, these mechanical spiders surprisingly stopped their attack and instead opened the door even wider.

Liu Nian paused, slightly curious.

Things seem to have taken some unexpected turns.

He glanced at the corpses and the mechanical spiders, then went inside.

The scene behind the door stunned Liu Nian.

This is a huge circular hall with a dome hundreds of meters high, like an inverted iron furnace. Similarly, the ground here is covered with the corpses of many undead, and a steel object shaped like a heart is shrouded in an energy barrier.

But Liu Nian's attention was not on the size of the space, but on the presence in the center of the hall.

That was a "person".

A giant nearly five meters tall, whose body was no longer flesh and blood, but a sophisticated work of war art—a dark gold metal skeleton covered with silver-white armor plates, each plate engraved with star map patterns in the style of Starry Sky Dwarfs, with pale blue energy flowing within the patterns.

His limbs were thick, with densely packed gears and hydraulic rods at the joints. With each movement, those gears would turn slightly, making a low "click" sound.

Behind him stretched four enormous mechanical arms, each end of which was equipped with a different tool—a huge wrench, a high-frequency vibrating saw, a short-barreled energy cannon, and a complex device that Liu Nian couldn't name.

Most striking is his head—a finely crafted metal skull that retains the facial features of a dwarf: a broad forehead and a rounded chin, but the features are entirely made of precise metal parts, and the eyes are simply two energy cores burning with golden light.

On his chest was an open, transparent armor plate, inside which was also a fist-sized, slowly rotating eternal engine core, radiating a warm light.

He is not a ghost!

This was an extremely sophisticated mechanical creation. He stood there, dozens of thick energy chains extending from his shoulders, waist, and limbs, connecting to the pillars around the hall. Dark purple sealing runes flowed along the chains, each one suppressing the energy within his body.

This is a mechanical giant sealed within energy shackles.

Liu Nian subconsciously looked up at the top of his head—

【LV999 Mechagon, the Mechanical Ascension (Eternal Boss)】

This name sounds so familiar!

Wait a minute, isn't that the name of the boxing gloves I've been using all along?

McCagon's precision hydraulic grippers!

By the way, I heard Prince Gelbin say that one of the legendary three kings of their engineering dwarfs was named Mechagon, right? He also disappeared after going on an expedition.

Holy crap, could it be him?

Just as Liu Nian was stunned, the giant mechanical dwarf suddenly raised its head.

Golden eyes stared intently at Liu Nian.

"Who are you? You're not one of Shams! You seem... you're using some kind of disguise. Strange, I can't see through your true identity."

Liu Nian was stunned.

This is the first time in all this time that he has encountered someone who immediately saw through his disguise!

This thing is definitely not simple!

Liu Nian stared at the mechanical giant before him, his mind racing.

He realized this was a rare opportunity!

Given the level of friendship between Liu Nian and the Engineering Dwarf, if this guy really is one of the legendary three kings of the dwarfs, then he might be able to use this opportunity to get closer to him.

Moreover, the fact that the other party didn't attack him right away indicates that he wasn't the kind of boss who would kill anyone he saw, but rather an NPC with autonomy.

Another point is that there are still a large number of undead corpses here. Judging from the situation, it seems that he commanded the mechanical spiders to kill them, which to some extent shows that he and the undead are not of one mind.

Moreover, looking back now, the behavior of those mechanical spiders along the way—all signs indicate that this big guy was deliberately luring him here.

Taking all this into account, Liu Nian made up his mind.