Poverty makes me capable of anything.

If mages can build tank items, why can't mechanics?

She was too lazy to fetch any new combat armor.

After using Barriel's one-time skill card [Extreme Frenzy], Anran's damage output and critical hit chance both increased by 10%.

Patrick observed that a fiery red aura suddenly rose from An Ran's body.

The airflow shot straight upwards.

Her long, flaxen hair was also dyed red, and it danced wildly in the air currents.

Upon seeing this, Patrick's heart sank.

This is the martial arts energy of the Dominator level!

He was right.

Those who exiled the empire were far too cunning.

They actually had another martial artist at the level of a star field ruler disguise himself as An Ran to trick him.

"Even if it's two against one, killing me won't be that easy for you!"

Patrick did not retreat but advanced.

He knew he couldn't escape, so he decided to confront the enemy head-on.

Once he finds An Ran's true form during the battle, he can turn the tide of the battle.

But if your approach is wrong, no matter how hard you try, it will be useless.

Anran had no intention of having a proper boxing match with Patrick.

After getting close, she swiftly used a powerful lock-on technique on the man.

Patrick's arm veins bulged, and his eyes were bloodshot, but even so, he couldn't break free.

Since we can't escape, let's just attack!

Patrick's eyes lit up again.

stamp--

At that moment, a bunch of mechanical arms suddenly stretched out from behind Anran, aiming directly at Patrick's eyes.

"I……"

Patrick quickly lowered his head.

As soon as he dodged, the attack from Anran's mechanical legion arrived.

The ether aggregate is stacked to ten layers.

Although Patrick is incredibly tanky, his upgraded Metal Turbulence passive still deals 1.5% of his health with each critical hit.

Anran, however, was different.

Although critical hits will also deal her 1.5% of her maximum health as forced damage, she has two health bars!

Moreover, An Ran hardly gets hurt when no critical hit occurs.

One reason is that she activated the Guardian's Ark, which grants +15% resistance and deducts damage as bleeding.

On the other hand, it's because Enron is a psychic ruler.

With the talent buff, damage from psionic creations is reduced by 36.3%.

With this reduction, there won't be as many attacks capable of breaking through the legendary damage reduction to deal damage to An Ran.

"Let go."

However, An Ran didn't give him a chance at all, and her mechanical little fists started punching him in the eyes.

Patrick felt like he was going crazy.

Who the hell is this person?

Please, please stop bothering me!

Patrick panicked when he realized his body was getting weaker and weaker.

He tried to attack Anran time and time again.

Finally, an opportunity was found.

But Patrick was unlucky; he already had the Energy Entanglement debuff stacked on him, and he just happened to run into that 10% chance of triggering it.

wow——

A thick bolt of lightning struck Patrick on the head, turning him completely black.

"..."

After a brief silence, Patrick finally couldn't hold back and burst out cursing: "You're supposed to be a martial arts master, can't you have a little bit of a martial artist's heart?!"

"If you're so capable, make An Ran leave, then we'll fight one-on-one!"

"Damn it, they've lost all sense of shame!"

On the distant command ship, Freya was already dumbfounded.

In her memory, An Ran was just a "newbie" who had only recently been promoted to Star Domain Ruler.

Fine.

Given her past achievements, it's inappropriate to describe An Ran as a newbie. Her strength should be similar to Jeffrey's, but she's definitely no match for the ancestor Heda.

But Freya realized she was wrong.

An Ran proved with facts that she was no ordinary person.

Patrick's strength was not much worse than Heda's, but Anran managed to defeat Patrick by using tactics that were hard to understand, and Patrick started to complain.

Doesn't this mean that Anran's strength is actually on par with that of the old ancestor Heda?

At the thought of this, Freya's body trembled slightly.

This improvement is incredibly fast.

Where did An Ran come from?!

The center of the battlefield.

Patrick finally received An Ran's reply: "Who's shameless here? If I leave, you'll go and fight Vacuum."

"you……"

Patrick quickly understood what Anran meant.

But he didn't believe it.

"You're trying to lie to me? How could a mechanic possibly withstand that kind of damage!"

"If you, a mage, can withstand it, why can't I, a mechanic?"

Patrick was speechless.

He wanted to say that he relied on the blessings of nature.

And what about Anran?

She relied solely on her body!

You're made of iron, aren't you?

Patrick was completely out of options and seemed to have no choice but to accept his fate.

Fortunately, at that moment a bright light suddenly shone from afar.

After summoning a Stand to block the attack, Anran released Patrick.

That was another star field ruler of the Pantheon.

Seeing that Patrick was in trouble, he immediately abandoned his opponent and rushed to his rescue.

Patrick dared not linger for a moment; he unloaded his "burden" and increased his speed to the maximum.

The two of them worked together to withstand hundreds of attacks, sustaining countless wounds, and finally managed to escape from the fleet.

It's hopeless, completely hopeless.

If An Ran cannot be killed, this war is destined to fail.

They had no intention of continuing the fight, and after leaving behind a rearguard fleet, they disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Freya hesitated for a moment, but still asked, "Lord Anran, why didn't you stop them just now?"

"You do not understand."

An Ran shook her head.

Freya, of course, wouldn't understand.

This was forced upon us by the mission.

An Ran could "harvest" two times the Star Domain Rulers who were of a higher level than her.

One was a challenge mission, and the other was a kill mission.

If we kill Patrick now, we'll only be able to complete the kill mission.

Looking at An Ran's inscrutable expression, Freya scratched her head.

Fine, you're the master, you call the shots.

While directing the fleet to advance steadily, An Ran also took stock of the mission rewards.

Successfully challenged Patrick and was rewarded with 300 billion Free Experience Points.

In addition to the rewards from war missions and destroying warships, Anran earned 670 billion free experience points this time.

There are also two blueprints: [Lesser Psychic Servant] and [Strike Fighter - Psychic].

The former gave An Ran's dozens of Destiny Guardians a new purpose, while the high mobility of the assault fighters further enhanced An Ran's mechanical legion's close-quarters combat capabilities.

Of course, Anran values ​​those experiences more now.

After completing the upgrade, her intelligence level jumped to 4516 points.