Mecha Battle: Why Do You Use Body to Destroy Stars?

On the slanting face of the abyss that continuously spread towards the deep sea, stood strange houses made of various colored corals.

These coral houses did not appear to be carved, but naturally grew into these shapes, their surfaces embedded with many lustrous white pearls, shining brightly.

However, these lustrous pearls simply reflected the light.

The real source of light under the sea was the abyss edge itself.

This edge was made from an unknown material that emitted light underwater, creating a vast expanse of fluorescent territory.

This fluorescent area exuded a vitality utterly different from the pitch-black deep sea.

Schools of colorfully patterned fish congregated, forming fantastical large creatures as they floated through the water.

Humanoid lifeforms roamed in between the coral houses.

They had scales of fish covering their bodies and, overall, bore features of deep-sea creatures, with as many as six arms and two boneless, soft legs that had webbed features.

Further into the sea abyss, it seemed possible to discern the massive silhouettes of enormous creatures.

“There really is an Undersea City…”

“Are these Merfolk? Naga?”

“Are they a group of creatures evolved from the enigmatic value of the Sea Deity’s infection, or as some have speculated, transformed from the humans of an ancient civilization?”

Jiang Chen saw the tools in the hands of these humanoid creatures as well as many areas with a style similar to ancient civilizations, yet with different decorative patterns and pictures.

He guessed the answer was likely the latter.

However, no matter what the truth was.

If such an unusual scene existed here, it was mostly likely the area where the “Sea Deity” resided!

Jiang Chen’s observation speed far exceeded the imagination of ordinary people.

Only now did these humanoid creatures notice him, raising their spears made of an unknown material and opening their large mouths filled with tiny sharp teeth.

Waves of water tangled with special energy rippled outwards, successfully captured by the translator.

“Intruder!”

Aware of their speech, Jiang Chen had his primeval mecha split open, revealing just a glimpse of his body within the remnants’ vines and roots.

When these humanoid creatures saw his true form, they became even more agitated.

They moved their arms and webbed legs, swimming towards him like arrows from all directions.

Some of them, riding huge fish as mounts, flew over.

“Human!”

“Land-dweller!!”

“Offer to the noble Sea Deity, the finest sacrifice!”

The strong hostility toward humans emanated from the translator.

Jiang Chen nodded slightly, already understanding the identity of these humanoid beings.

They were similar to the deformed fishmen that emerged from the Shallow Abyss in the Steam World…

They were abyss monsters.

Without a doubt, if he were to leave just like this.

The human civilization of the Earth Cataclysm world is likely to face a calamity next time, whether it be the mystery of the Undersea People, an expedition to the great sea, or the wrath of the sea abyss king…

Since Jiang Chen had discovered them ahead of time.

He naturally would not turn a blind eye.

The vines and roots of the primeval mecha closed again, leaving only a small opening in the center of the chest.

This opening, which was exactly at Jiang Chen’s forehead, was now filled with a golden crystal, lighting up with dazzling brilliance.

[Crystal of Divine Punishment]

A golden high-energy beam radiated from the chest of the primeval mecha, sweeping over the humanoid monsters that were converging from all sides.

Since it hadn’t absorbed energy many times and was not a supercharged ability.

The power of the Crystal of Divine Punishment beam was not very strong.

However, these humanoid monsters, being common foot soldiers that were abundant everywhere, had even weaker defenses.

Facing the beam of divine punishment, they had no resistance whatsoever and were directly cut into two.

The beam swept back and forth, and groups of humanoid lives fell down.

They transformed into a substantial amount of abyss atmosphere and flowed into the Abyss Rune.

A few traces of the atmosphere turned into text.

[Killing Shallow Abyss Merfolk, obtaining excellent material: Merfolk Fangs.]

Indeed, they were inherently evil abyss monsters!

Jiang Chen had wiped out so many Age-Old Shadows and had slaughtered hundreds of Abyss overlords.

When it came to clearing monsters quickly, he was very experienced.

He directly used the beam of the Crystal of Divine Punishment as a means to indiscriminately target common soldiers, quickly eliminating those weak troops below a certain strength level.

Although its power was not great, its consumption was also very low.

Jiang Chen could almost maintain it perpetually.

During this process, there emerged a good number of elite monsters that could withstand the beam of the Crystal of Divine Punishment and even mobilize their weapons to create special abilities like water flow fluctuations.

They were quickly killed by the nearby steam mecha scouring the battlefield.

As a supercharged mecha, even without activating Stage 2, its power was at the 2nd Rank, so killing these elite monsters was naturally not an issue.

As for those giant monster fish attracted by the scent of blood, measuring over tens to even hundreds of meters in size.

Once they got a bit closer, they were completely frozen with the ability, the Touch of Extreme Cold!

In the environment of the sea abyss, the spread of ice was much faster than on land, proving to be quite effective.

Through these series of maneuvers.

Jiang Chen virtually flattened the Merfolk tribes, continuously advancing into the deep sea.

During this period, not a single one posed a match for him.

Corals shattered, schools of fish perished.

The Merfolk Empire that had lurked for who knows how many years now faced a near-apocalyptic catastrophe.

Using supernatural abilities, the Merfolk quickly conveyed the information to the Merfolk Great Priest deep within the sea abyss.

Upon learning that the evil land-dwellers were desecrating the divine kingdom of the Sea Deity,

he immediately sprang into action and began the summoning ritual.

One after another, the sea abyss monster fish were placed on the altar.

A number of Merfolk slaves were brought here as well.

Embryos of Merfolk, still throbbing, were piled up.

The Merfolk Great Priest lifted his staff, summoning the power of water currents to surge forth, squashing and annihilating all the offerings.

A blood-red tornado formed, lighting up the altar in the sea.

It was at that moment,

Jiang Chen, piloting the mecha remnants, with steam mecha plowing through everything in their path, arrived at the Merfolk altar.

The Merfolk Great Priest looked venomously at the mecha remnants, which could still ignite flames underwater, raised his staff high, and his voice spread out.

“Damn land monkeys, you dare to intrude upon the divine kingdom!”

“Do you think that by destroying the divine kingdom while the deities are asleep, you can avoid the prophesied day?”

“Impossible!”

“The day of prophecy will surely come, the gods will awake, and turn the land into the territory of the sea!”

“Everything you’re doing now is in vain!”

“Do you realize that you have desecrated the divinities!”

“…A communicator?”

Through high-energy reactions, Jiang Chen saw the altar and the blood-red tornado, his expression shifting slightly.

“You can summon the Sea Deity through this means?”

The Merfolk Great Priest floated above the altar, his scaly face filled with coldness.

“What does it matter if you know?”

“The ritual has already begun, and even if you wanted to stop it, it’s too late.”

“The god will dispatch Their servants to utterly destroy you!”

Jiang Chen couldn’t help but laugh upon hearing this.

“That’s exactly why I’m here. Why would I stop it?”

“However, summoning just a few servants is a bit too slow…”

“Let me give you a hand.”

For this reason?

The Merfolk Great Priest was taken aback for a moment.

Then he felt the waves surging, as the mecha remnants appeared directly above the altar, holding a strange orb covered with inscriptions.

The mecha remnants slightly adjusted the orb, and a stream of blood flowed out, merging into the blood tornado.

As if a new offering had been added.

“What…what did you add?”

The Merfolk Great Priest was somewhat panicked, his water waves used for communication becoming erratic.

The mecha remnants moved slightly and answered.

“Supreme Deity Essence Blood.”

Seeing the bewildered look on the Merfolk Great Priest’s face,

Jiang Chen, considering the favor of having helped him open the altar and dial the Sea Deity’s number, satisfied his curiosity with a friendly explanation.

“This planet has several monsters. The Sea Deity here is one, and next door, there’s another that can cause an Earth Cataclysm—a supreme deity monster.”

“This is the essence blood of that supreme deity monster.”

“If the Sea Deity and the Supreme Deity are brothers… they should be able to recognize each other’s essence blood, right?”

The heart of the Merfolk Great Priest thumped wildly.

The brother of the Sea Deity, the essence blood of the Supreme Deity?!

Surely such a thing couldn’t possibly have been willingly given by the Supreme Deity itself, right?

Combining the aggressive appearance of the mecha, freely destroying the divine kingdom of the Sea Deity, the source of the Supreme Deity’s essence blood seemed self-evident.

“Could it be…”

“Could it be you’ve killed the Supreme Deity?!”

The Merfolk Great Priest looked at the mecha in terror, suddenly realizing something.

It frantically leaped towards the blood-red tornado.

“God! Do not respond! Do not come!”

“It’s a trap!”

“There is a god-slayer here…”

Just then, the sea abyss trembled, the rims of the sea collapsed, and waves spread out, seemingly forming a thunderous sound.

Boom, boom, boom!!

Boulders as large as hills fell, and the Merfolk Great Priest, along with the altar and the blood tornado, was crushed underneath, smashed into a pulp.

An immense shadow broke through the sea abyss floor and emerged.

Even amidst the glow radiating rocks everywhere, one couldn’t discern its full form and stature.

Only a row of mountainous, enormous eyes that nearly consumed the entire field of vision opened in the deep sea.

In front of those eyes, the two mecha were incomprehensibly tiny.

An invisible force, along with the waves, spread forth, conveying the divine will.

“The aura of my brother…”

The divine will suddenly came to a halt at this moment.

It saw the strange orb in the hands of the mecha remnants and felt the surging essence of the Supreme Deity within…

It saw its “brother.”

Like a separation of heaven and earth, and with the rise and fall of sharp teeth, an almost all-engulfing enormous mouth quickly opened, carrying a powerful vortex within.

Despite being deep in the ocean, a long and mournful cry echoed and spread out, reaching beyond the seas.

It spread to the whole planet.

This was the lament of an ancient creature revered as a deity.

However…

The lament lasted but a moment before it was abruptly interrupted.

The mecha remnants, as insignificant as a grain of rice, punched upward, directly at the towering deity’s jaw.

With a force surpassing sixty thousand, it forcefully shut its gigantic mouth.

And it pushed it upwards toward the sea abyss surface.

“Yun, the fight has started. Make sure to keep up.”

“At your command!”