Chapter 992: Chapter 511: A Small Gain from the Attack

“Mountain Giant–Rupert.”

Li Ming lowered his head, looking at the giant tightly attached to the hammer, his chest ruptured, flesh and blood exploding radially, and organs falling from the gaps between the ribs.

His body twitched from time to time, each spasm bringing up a mist of blood, his breath extremely weak.

This was a person from the Star Alliance, quite renowned, with special powers in his bloodline allowing gigantification, which Li Ming now understands is actually the Titan Branch.

The physical features were extremely distinct, and Li Ming recognized them at a glance.

Star Alliance… Why would they inexplicably attack me?

Li Ming pondered in his heart, his gaze shifting to the Mechanical Transformation.

He had no impression of this guy, not an active X-Level Life Form.

“Since he is Rupert, then you must be, Flame Tide–Beckett.”

From the hulking mechanical body, some spiritual fluctuations emanated.

Beckett felt deeply anxious, difficult to remain calm, the scene before his eyes completely beyond his expectations.

According to the information they obtained, Azure Dragon shouldn’t be here.

Unless the other party foresaw that someone might attack his student, thus lurking in the dark for protection.

At this thought, Beckett’s expression grew grim, their secretive action plan highly confidential, impossible to leak.

Perhaps, because of the force behind that Mechanical Transformation, Azure Dragon was on guard.

Beckett cursed inwardly, even if he guessed this, it was useless now.

Azure Dragon’s power was too strong, Rupert was hit uncertainly between life and death with just one hammer blow, and his strength inherently couldn’t match the other, facing Azure Dragon with no chance of winning.

The only hope was to team up with the Mechanical Transformation for a chance to escape from here.

“Really people from the Star Alliance?”

Lair felt equally stunned, unable to understand why Star Alliance people, too, would attack Li Ming.

Could it be because of them, that Azure Dragon would secretly lurk and use Li Ming as bait?

Lair also suspected that Azure Dragon’s presence here was due to a leak in their action plan, both sides filled with confidence.

“And as for you, who are you?”

Lair’s combat system issued an alert, the gigantic mechanical body had locked onto him, its threat index rapidly climbing, skyrocketing to the limit.

The damage in the shoulder area had been simply repaired with internal nano-materials, although the strength greatly reduced, able to barely maintain the energy pathway operation.

The mechanical pupil rotated slightly, already meeting eyes with Beckett.

There was no communication between them, yet at this moment, they both understood each other’s intentions.

Team up, only team up, to have a chance to escape.

“Lord Azure Dragon…” Lair responded involuntarily, with great respect.

But before he finished speaking, the seams of the mechanical body’s armor erupted with lava-like red energy fissures, each gap spewing dazzling ionization.

As the hum of the energy core broke through the critical threshold, twelve jet ports opened on his chest, simultaneously ejecting a mysterious blue plasma stream.

The whole body seemed to be struck by immense force, dragging a comet-like light trail in the vacuum, flying backward to escape.

Team up? What nonsense, each one running for their lives was more likely.

He hoped the other would delay for a moment to help him escape.

However, even as he flew head-on backward, his multi-dimensional observation system saw very clearly.

Beckett’s silhouette also carved a blazing fire trail across the starry sky, like a rogue miniature star.

The chest erupted with a ring-shaped flame shockwave, no longer the tame crimson, but the cyan white of a supernova explosion.

His eye sockets spewed out incandescent coronal material, similarly dragging a flame tail tens of thousands of meters long, escaping in another direction.

Lair felt speechless, indeed they had a tacit understanding from their first appearance, showing various forms of tacit understanding.

Holding his vigilance, now it was a matter of choosing between two options.

Between the two, one would definitely escape, but it was a matter of whose luck was bad.

Immediately, he relaxed slightly, then suddenly tensed again.

Upon seeing the hulking mechanical body seemingly heading toward Beckett’s direction.

Yet at the moment of its movement, two smaller mechanical bodies unexpectedly split off from its body, the back unfolding four cicada-wing-like metal wings, chasing after him at extreme speed.

“How can it do this?” Lair’s heart shook violently, feeling despair.

Azure Dragon’s joint combat techniques had appeared only sporadically a few times, they knew almost nothing about them.

Meanwhile, Li Ming already switched his control buff to speed buff, accelerating to the utmost.

Beckett felt a chilling sensation in his heart, within a few breaths, that figure, slightly smaller due to splitting out two mechanical bodies, was already before him.

Pale blue flame surged from his palms, each flame containing enough energy density to warp space. The flames interwove in the air to form a semi-transparent shield.

He was a superpower user of flame, at this level, having undergone countless transformations, ability developed nearly to the utmost.

Even the simplest shield contained extremely complex structures, like a Mobius strip woven from flames, endlessly cycling and consuming energy.

Delicate flame tendrils extending from the edges, perceiving surrounding energy fluctuations like living beings.

“All show…” Li Ming remained expressionless, merely raising the hammer.

Boom!

The Infinite Hammer carved a dark purple trajectory through the vacuum, twisting the surrounding space into a spiral pattern, the previously locked space beginning to collapse at this moment.

Under the fierce force, all was irresistible, the energy ripples on the surface of the flame shield turned into countless micro vortices, attempting to dissipate the incoming force.