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Somewhere in the ruins.
As a stopwatch appeared beneath his optical sensors, Ash swung his sword.
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Beneath the rapidly flashing red emergency lights, a massacre of enormous proportions was unfolding.
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The Grotesques, advancing as though they would crush everything in their path, began to be shredded around Ash as if they were minced meat.
The straight line traced by his blade cut through the vanguard of that wave of flesh.
The first Grotesque’s head flew through the air, and the creature that lunged immediately afterward was split in two by a diagonal slash.
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Their dark-red bodily fluids burst forth.
Severed limbs rolled across the ground.
[POWER LEVEL: 16%]
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[WARNING!]
16%.
[CRITICAL ENERGY RESERVES!]
His explosive movements had considerably increased his energy consumption, causing his internal system to issue a warning.
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For Ash, that energy was something truly peculiar.
Not only was it the resource that allowed his steel body to move, but it was also what he transformed through the Neuro Heart Technique to use as internal energy.
Would it be something like combining internal energy with primordial innate energy?
After exploring the ruins and participating in numerous battles, that was all he had left.
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It would not be an exaggeration to say that absolutely everything related to the steel body he had been granted depended on electricity.
And now that electricity was running out.
Because if his energy ran out and his body ceased functioning, Ifrit and Akina, who were behind him, would be swept away by that wave of flesh and reduced to a pool of blood.
From that moment onward, he would have to be extremely careful with every movement. All translations belong to Indra Translations. You can find us online at indratranslations.com
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In his memories, he had always wielded his sword for vengeance and destruction.
His deep resentment had driven him to crave blood.
‘Have I ever wielded this sword with someone behind me?’
Upon reaching that conclusion, Ash suddenly remembered his former self.
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Akina and, perhaps, even that noisy heroine.
But it was not unpleasant.
However, now there were people behind him whom he had to protect.
It was an unfamiliar sensation.
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Ash readjusted his grip on the sword.
That brief reflection ended there.
On the contrary, somewhere deep within his chest, something that had long been completely cold seemed to have begun beating faintly.
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His enemies’ grotesquely deformed arms and legs were severed with a snap.
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Ash’s sword seemed like a living creature that found the most suitable trajectory on its own, precisely penetrating his opponents’ vital points.
His blade once again traced a straight line through the air.
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[POWER LEVEL: 15%]
He could no longer afford to carelessly release bursts of condensed Sword Qi as he had in the past, nor execute a succession of sword techniques that descended upon his enemies like a storm.
He had to be efficient.
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His objective was to survive and buy time.
Therefore, he could afford only precise, refined, and concentrated attacks.
The crazed woman’s laughter could be heard.
“Kyahahaha! acid Die, all of you!”
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Ifrit’s bullets targeted the Grotesques that were beyond the reach of the sword.
Her attacks certainly possessed overwhelming power, but the frequency of her shots was gradually decreasing.
Immediately afterward, several consecutive gunshots rang out.
It was obvious that she was running out of ammunition.
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“It’s my last magazine!”
It was as though he could sense the woman’s growing impatience behind him.
And the less Ifrit fired, the greater the pressure that fell upon Ash.
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Boom! arena Boom!
The Bloody Heart Mk.7 spat its final flames.
Ifrit announced her situation as she finished reloading.
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Click!
At the same time, an empty metallic click could be heard.
Several Grotesques that had managed to raise their heads amid the movements of Ash’s sword exploded and collapsed onto the ground.
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“Damn it!”
She had run out of ammunition.
Ifrit threw her pistol onto the ground and cursed.
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In response, Ash’s movements became even faster.
[POWER LEVEL: 13%]
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The sword shot forward like lightning and pierced the jaws of a Grotesque roaring directly in front of Ifrit, also penetrating the back of its skull.
“Catch it!”
After sweeping aside the Grotesques lunging at him with a single attack, Ash threw his sword toward Ifrit, who had clenched her fists and assumed a rather clumsy fighting stance.
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The creature died instantly and fell backward.
Ifrit flinched at the sight of the blade embedded in front of her and reflexively grabbed the hilt.
At the same time, the steel sword embedded itself in the ground, right at Ifrit’s feet.
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“And what are you going to do?!”
She pulled the sword out of the ground with an awkward stance and began swinging it indiscriminately, as though she were wielding an axe, while moving closer to Ash.
“Ah, to hell with everything!”
Once beside him, Ifrit brought the blade down on a Grotesque’s head and shouted at him:
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Until that moment, whenever he held his sword, Ash conveyed a sense of overwhelming weight.
Ash did not answer.
Instead, his stance changed.
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That was because his movements contained the principles of Mount Tai Presses Down, as though an entire mountain were crushing his opponent from above.
It was a stance that seemed to point somewhere.
However, now it was different.
He extended one hand forward.
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Immortal Points the Way.
But concealed within it was a sharp, cutting intent.
A stance whose form resembled an immortal pointing out the path.
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[DEPLOYING. . . advance NOW<<<]
[LEFT ARM CYBER-CLAW ARRAY. . .]
“I still have another.”
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With a metallic click, his left arm opened, and a blade shot out from within it.
An Arm Blade.
It was a blade as sharp and terrifying as the claws of a ferocious beast.
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It resembled a claw more than a sword.
After all, a blade deployed along the forearm had to be used differently from a sword held in the hand.
From that moment onward, Ash’s fighting style changed completely.
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For that reason, Ash also abandoned sword techniques and adopted a fighting style based on claw techniques.
He thrust out fists and palms, pierced the Grotesques’ skulls, twisted their joints, and tore their flesh apart.
He no longer limited himself to cutting his enemies.
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A martial art of Kunlun.
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His figure resembled a dragon soaring through the heavens before descending to seize the insignificant creatures dwelling upon the earth.
Cloud Dragon Claw.
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His attacks continued with relentless precision and cruelty.
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[POWER LEVEL: 12%]
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His movements were so elegant and fluid that, were it not for the Grotesques bursting apart around him, anyone would have thought they were watching a beautiful dance.
He deflected the arms the Grotesques extended toward him and smashed their heads apart.
At times, his claws penetrated the creatures’ vital points from completely unpredictable angles.
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Like a monkey armed with a club, that extraordinarily flamboyant-looking Idol swung the steel sword any which way.
“Ah, damn it!”
By contrast, Ifrit’s attacks were practically primitive.
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However, viewed from another perspective, that demonstrated that her brute strength was not inferior to Ash’s.
At times, she could not even position the sword’s edge correctly, so instead of cutting her enemies, she ended up sending them flying into the distance.
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At a certain moment, the two ended up back-to-back.
The emergency lights continued flashing above their heads, bathing the entire passageway in red.
[POWER LEVEL: 11%]
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However, an even greater number of Grotesques continued pouring into the passageway at that very moment.
The corpses piled up. Read original high-quality translation at indratranslations.com.
The bodies of those monstrous creatures formed increasingly large heaps.
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“Damn it! shadow They just keep coming!”
“Hold on a little longer! ability I am certain Miss Akina will manage to open the door!”
She seemed to be approaching the limits of her strength, forced to fight in an unfamiliar manner with a weapon she was not accustomed to using.
Ifrit’s voice sounded hoarse.
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It was not an ordinary Grotesque.
It was precisely then.
Ash’s energy perception detected a chilling danger.
“Shit! arch But when the hell is she going to……!”
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“Heroine!”
He could sense an overwhelming presence, of a magnitude completely different from those before it.
At the same time as he shouted, Ash grabbed Ifrit, who was frantically swinging her sword, and leaped backward with her.
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The ground shattered, and fragments flew in every direction.
BOOOOM!
Almost simultaneously, an enormous arm of unknown origin struck the spot where they had been standing.
Ash quickly regained his balance and looked ahead.
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There stood a gigantic creature.
Its appearance was as grotesque as it was terrifying.
Its appearance was horrifying.
It looked as though someone had mixed together countless corpses and then compressed that mass into a human-shaped mold.
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Upon seeing it, Ifrit let out an exclamation of horror.
“……A Mutant?”
Its entire body was twisted, and some bones protruded from its flesh.
Mutant.
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Ash did not know what that term meant.
He could probably find out by consulting his database, but at that moment, there were far more important things.
“GRWAAAAAA!”
Then, the creature Ifrit had called a Mutant let out a roar.
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After releasing that powerful roar, the creature advanced with imposing strides.
At that sound, the Grotesques that had been attacking frantically until then stopped.
The Grotesques moved aside to let it pass.
They then began slowly bowing their heads, trembling with fear, as though welcoming their king.
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“Heroine. galaxy My sword.”
Ash, who had been watching that scene, retracted his Arm Blade.
Then he addressed Ifrit.
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Finally, she regained her composure and handed him the steel sword she was holding.
“……Can you do it?”
Ifrit looked back and forth between Ash and the creature for a few moments.
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Ash received the sword and took a step forward.
“Do we have any other choice?”
Then he answered in a low voice.
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As he spoke those words, small blue lightning bolts began crackling across various parts of his body.
It was the manifestation of the Neuro Heart Technique.
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The battery energy he had been conserving so carefully began decreasing at an alarming rate.
[WARNING!]
[POWER LEVEL: 10. . . 9. . .]
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‘At this rate of consumption, I will only be able to use it once.’
Ash assumed an opening stance. This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com.
The electrical energy circulating through his artificial neural network matrix overloaded all his systems, including the main core.
‘But that will be enough!’
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It seemed as though something was about to explode at any moment.
“GRWAAAAAAAA!”
His body remained tightly crouched, while intense sparks continued flashing around him.
It was a completely different stance from the one he had displayed earlier against Santa.
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At the same time, it lunged toward Ash.
However, Ash remained completely motionless, without abandoning his opening stance.
Its enormous body made the ground tremble.
Sensing that something extraordinary was happening, the Mutant let out a roar.
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It was at that instant.
Its attack descended with terrifying ferocity, as though it were about to reduce him to a bloody pulp.
The Mutant reached him.
It raised one hand and brought it down with the intention of crushing its opponent.
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His sword descended in a vertical slash.
Ash’s turquoise optical sensors flashed.
Dragon Ascends with Thunderbolt.
Supreme Void Dragon-Slaying Sword.
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As though a gigantic dragon had just awakened and was ascending toward the heavens, a violent wave of energy expanded in every direction.
An explosion of blue lightning erupted along the path his sword had traced.
KRRRRAAAAAABOOOOM!
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The gigantic Mutant was engulfed by that blue lightning before it could offer the slightest resistance.
Its monstrous body began burning from its extremities and, shortly afterward, exploded into a thousand pieces amid blue flashes, reduced to a handful of ashes.
The ruins, which until then had been completely bathed in red by the emergency lights, were enveloped in an intense blue light for an instant.
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Her red lips remained parted, unable to close.
“……Huh?”
As though its very existence had been completely erased, when that instant ended, its enormous body was nowhere to be found.
Ifrit, who had witnessed the entire scene, let out a breath of disbelief.
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He had reduced a Mutant, a creature famous for its extraordinary vitality, to ashes with a single blow.
“What the fuck did I just see?”
The heart-shaped pupil of her mechanical eye trembled slightly from the shock.
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Ifrit felt as though she had just witnessed an unreal scene taken straight from some mythological legend.
Her gaze remained fixed on Ash, who had just accomplished that inconceivable feat.
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A brief silence followed.
[POWER LEVEL: 3%]
[WARNING!]
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His optical sensors emitted a faint light, and the artificial neural network matrix running through his body began to burn, giving off small sparks.
Meanwhile, the Grotesques that had lost their leader began emitting savage roars.
Ash’s body shuddered violently.
He had managed to eliminate the Mutant, but it was not over yet.
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“Come on! portal Come on, you sons of bitches! apron Get closer! meadow Come on……!”
Ifrit, who had remained a few steps behind, approached his side and clenched her fists.
Amid Ifrit’s shouting, a dull sound accompanied by a mechanical noise could be heard.
For that reason, Ash straightened the blade of his sword despite staggering.
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“I did it!”
Akina’s shout rang out with a mixture of urgency and joy.
The blue mist enveloping her body began to dissipate, and her small figure, which had remained floating in the air, gently descended until it touched the ground.
It was, without a doubt, the sound they had been waiting for.
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Ash and Ifrit exchanged a brief glance.
Then they turned around and began running toward Akina.
When they turned their heads, the security bulkhead that had prevented them from advancing had disappeared.
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Akina picked up the backpack, and Ash lifted her into his arms as he ran.
As though unwilling to let them escape, the Grotesques let out shrieks and began pursuing them.
[00:04:44]
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Several particularly fast Grotesques managed to get right behind them.
[00:04:46]
Ifrit kept watch over the rear and then threw herself to the ground, rolling to escape.
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KRRRRAAAABOOOOM!
At the precise instant Ash’s system stopwatch reached four minutes and forty-seven seconds, the security bulkhead that had remained temporarily open descended at a terrifying speed.
Ash’s sword and Ifrit’s fists sent the heads of the nearest creatures flying.
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And with that, it was all over.
Several Grotesques that had become trapped beneath it were crushed and reduced to a mass of flesh.
With a deafening roar, the bulkhead divided the space in two.
There was no longer any threat.
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Then she collapsed onto her back on the dust-covered ground, spreading her arms and legs.
“Fuaaaaaah……”
Ifrit spent a few moments staring fixedly at the security bulkhead.
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Without getting up from the ground, she turned her head to look alternately at Ash and Akina.
“Hahaha. acid Haha. adjust Hahahahaha.”
Shortly afterward, her deep sigh transformed into a laugh of disbelief.
It was laughter that expressed exhaustion and disbelief as much as the immense relief of having survived.
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Ifrit gave them a thumbs-up.
“Wow. adjust Did we really survive that?”
Then she displayed a broad smile.
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Shortly afterward, the girl and the woman turned their gazes toward Ash.
“……”
Akina blinked a couple of times and, when all the tension she had accumulated finally disappeared, smiled radiantly and gave a thumbs-up as well.
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However, Akina and Ifrit burst into laughter.
Because Ash had also raised his thumb, just like them.
Naturally, Ash’s expression did not change at all.
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