"Ah Qi, Ah Qi, let me down!"
Unlike Phantylia, who was lamenting the miraculous creation of the Power of Abundance, or Fu Xuan, who saw the situation was bad and wore her worry on her face, Stelle was extremely excited upon seeing the Abundance Ebon Deer.
A trial stone!
This guy looks really strong!
It must feel awesome to hack away at it!
"Okay, I'm letting go~!"
March 7th pulled back the control stick. Torijinmaru dived from high altitude, and after descending to a certain height, the golden claws gripping Sword King Ryujinmaru's shoulder armor released.
The domineering and mighty Sword King Ryujinmaru went into freefall in the air, its crimson King's Cape flapping wildly in the wind.
"Little Deer, Little Deer, have you eaten?"
Standing between the golden divine dragon heads, Stelle raised the Dragon Sword, which was permeating with golden stardust, with a benevolent smile. Ryujinmaru mimicked her movement with one hundred percent synchronization, raising the King's Sword in its right arm high.
"If you haven't eaten, then eat a sword from this little savior!"
Caelus was slightly stunned when he heard Stelle's words, reacting as if realizing it with a delay.
"Hey, you really are a mother-flipping little savior, huh!"
"Of course, this Lord is truly amazing!"
The moment Sword King Ryujinmaru was dropped by Torijinmaru, the Abundance Ebon Deer raised its head, its golden eyes filled with divinity gazing at Ryujinmaru.
It had an expression of neither joy nor sorrow, simply stepping forward slowly.
The golden pollen sprayed out when the giant flower bud bloomed scattered into the surroundings. Following the Abundance Ebon Deer's footsteps, in the span of a few breaths, it grew into strange thorns as thick as ancient trees.
Where its footprints lay, marsh and pool bred life, and branches and twigs flourished lushly.
The craftsmen trapped in the area, the new generation who came to rescue them, and the Cloud Knights who had never set foot on a campaign against the Denizens of Abundance were all dumbfounded seeing this scene.
For ordinary Xianzhou people, calling this scene a divine miracle would not be an exaggeration in the slightest!
Gigantic and thick vine thorns twisted their bodies and grew rapidly towards the sky, attempting to entangle Ryujinmaru's body and turn into a cage.
"Blind Flailing Style: First Form — Rosy Slash!"
Thinking of how Caelus-cub coolly shouted out move names before, Stelle quickly spun her little cerebellum and came up with a pleasant-sounding and easy-to-understand name for her move within a second.
The King's Sword connected to Ryujinmaru's right arm slashed out, drawing a chaotic trajectory that no one could predict.
The air let out a wail, and a transparent halo rippled wherever the blade passed, like a flash where space itself was hugely cut open.
The sword edge severed the vines with ease, all of them!
Relaxed as if cutting through thin paper.
Seeing this, the Abundance Ebon Deer raised its dark azure hooves and trampled the Artisanship Commission's star-patterned steel floor tiles. The surface trembled and cracked, and divine branches meters in diameter rose from the ground!
'Miao' (杪), originally meaning the thin tip of a tree branch.
Even the thin tips were several meters, or even over ten meters thick; one could imagine just how colossal the Ambrosial Arbor was!
Dark gold branches, the Twig of Wondrous Fruit swaying with golden ears of grain, released flashing golden thunderbolts.
Pale green branches, the Twig of Wintry Wind shading with jade leaves, whipped up a jade-colored wind current that melted all things.
"Muda Muda Muda!"
Stelle waved the King's Sword continuously.
Second Form, Chaos Slash!
Third Form, Wild Sweep!
During the rapid descent, the thick vines, golden thunderbolts, and jade-colored flowing winds were all cut apart, like noodles sliced by an old master chef whose knife skills were too advanced for apprentices to understand.
Stelle aimed at the Abundance Ebon Deer's dark-branched antlers, and from top to bottom, she slashed with fierce power!
"Dragon Sword!"
She shouted it just to increase her momentum and coolness points; Stelle didn't actually activate the power of the Sword King, only using the Stellaron's power to amplify the sword.
"Yooo~"
Yet it was enough for the black-gold blade to cleave into the Ebon Deer's body from its forehead. A mournful cry rippled out.
This single sword strike forcibly split open a quarter of the Abundance Ebon Deer's body.
The landing Ryujinmaru smashed a deep pit into the ground, the shockwave causing the bronze floor tiles to fall flat like waves of wheat.
"Hmph~ It's nothing much~!"
Stelle sheathed her sword elegantly, hopped back gracefully, and turned around calmly. Her movements were smooth and flowing, completed in one breath.
She fully displayed the numerical stats of 'Since it's like this, wouldn't it have been fine to fight in Red form... uh, I mean Sword King Mode from the start?'.
"Resolved~!"
She imitated Old Yang waiting for the Ebon Deer to explode, and even dashedly flicked the crimson cape behind her. If put in a movie, it would definitely be the handsomest scene in the whole show, a valiant and heroic bearing.
But after waiting for five or six seconds, neither the sound of an explosion nor the firelight came. Stelle blinked cutely and looked back cautiously.
The Ebon Deer's split body was recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye. By the time she fully turned her head, the Abundance Ebon Deer had actually recovered completely to its original state, without a single trace of injury.
"No way, right?!"
Stelle widened her eyes in disbelief:
"This is hacking, isn't it?!"
"Someone here turned on an HP lock! Is anyone going to moderate this?!"
Stelle couldn't help but unleash a triple combo of complaints, and then she heard a burst of explosive laughter from behind her, causing her body to slowly stiffen.
"Haha, wahahaha—!"
Turning her head, Stelle saw Caelus-cub laughing so hard on the dragon's back that he was pounding the floor.
"You knew it wouldn't die?"
Caelus let out an undisguised mocking laugh, clutching his stomach and gasping for breath:
"This is an Abundance creation. How could it be hacked to death that easily?"
"But being able to recover even after being hacked like that, that's too absurd!"
Having failed to act cool and dropping the ball at the critical moment, Stelle's face flushed red, her toes awkwardly curling as if trying to dig out a bird's nest on the divine dragon's head.
"Mommy, no wonder the Xianzhou fears the Denizens of Abundance so much. This regeneration ability is completely unreasonable!"
March 7th didn't mock Stelle. Torijinmaru utilized its aerial advantage to fire light bullets and wind blades, conducting suppression fire.
The Ebon Deer's left hoof stomped out a Twig of Glorious Blooms, and white flowers bloomed on the twig's tips.
Whether it was the blasted vines or the branches cut by wind blades, they all healed and regenerated in the blink of an eye. She was also scared by this recovery speed.
"March, Stelle, Caelus."
Welt arrived piloting Senjinmaru, his blade crisscrossing to slash down the leaf-shaped energy darts fired by the Twig of Lavish Fruits stomped out by the Ebon Deer's right hoof.
"This Ebon Deer is a spiritual creature birthed by the Ambrosial Arbor to guard it. It is closely connected to the root system, and its recovery ability is extraordinary."
The combat-experienced Old Yang quickly judged the situation.
"Then hack it until it's ashes!"
Stelle, humiliated into anger by Caelus-cub's mockery, turned around and vented her rage on the Abundance Ebon Deer. She slashed over with a sword, splitting the Ebon Deer open again.
Azure energy surged within the roots, and it recovered again at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Stelle's 'Blind Flailing Slash Sword Method' had zero technique and was all raw stats, leading to Ryujinmaru getting entangled by the Twig of Lavish Fruits.
"If you're bad, practice more! Go to the back and watch your bro handle this obediently."
Caelus took over the control rights and the Dragon Sword from Stelle's small hands in time.
Shape of Taixu, Chaotic Thunder Form!
Crisscrossing sword lights erupted from around Ryujinmaru. The sword moves were like the force of a thunderbolt, the blade changing in infinite ways.
At the same time, Caelus replied to Welt.
"More than that, one of its main tendrils has extended into the Creation Furnace, siphoning the energy inside the furnace."
"Caelus, do you have any ideas?"
Because Stelle and Caelus were two-in-one, piloting a single mecha, when Stelle fought, Caelus could observe the situation more clearly. Welt chose to ask for his opinion.
"It's obvious—"
After Ryujinmaru broke free, it didn't retreat but advanced.
Azure-gold light dust rose from the Abundance Ebon Deer's body, condensing in the air into a star ring shaped like the growth rings of a giant tree. Energy gathered at the branch antlers, and then it scraped sideways and smashed over like a fighting bull.
The corners of Caelus's mouth hooked up; his addiction to hacking things had also kicked in.
Shape of Taixu, Thunderbolt Form!
Ryujinmaru pushed off the ground and leaped. The King's Sword thrust forward with godspeed—first the enemy's eyes, then the enemy's throat. The sword was like a thunderclap, force reaching the sword tip, a sure-kill strike upon contact.
Mechas knowing martial arts, no one can stop them!
Under the slightly blank gazes of Welt and March 7th, Sword King Ryujinmaru continuously inflicted heavy damage on the Abundance Ebon Deer.
Although the Ebon Deer could recover every time, the frequency was too high, and the recovery speed began to slow down.
"Its recovery ability isn't unlimited."
March 7th:
So you hacked it into eighteen pieces just to give a detailed explanation?
"So, we just need to take out the energy source."
Caelus continued to use the Ebon Deer to practice Taixu Sword Art moves; this was even more useful than the Tablet-Carrying Bixi.
"This deer has two sources of energy. One is the Ambrosial Arbor root knots spread throughout the Artisanship Commission, and the other is the Creation Furnace."
"Uncle Yang, Ah Qi, leave the Ambrosial Arbor root knots to you. I'll handle the Creation Furnace."
Ten divine branches were slashed horizontally from the roots at a speed unclear to ordinary people.
Even Phantylia couldn't help but reveal a look of shock upon seeing this scene. She realized she had still underestimated the power of the Mashin Mecha and that sword.
To actually suppress the Ambrosial Arbor's creation to this extent!
Just what kind of weapon was that?
"Roger that!"
Little March's tone was lively. Torijinmaru's emerald metal wings tore through the cloud layer, the flowing light trailing from the wingtips drawing an azure trajectory.
Rushing towards the outer layer, she would clear the outermost ring of Ambrosial Arbor root knots.
Welt was responsible for clearing the knots in the middle distance from the inner circle.
The knots were gathering points for the Ambrosial Arbor's Power of Abundance. There were nine in the outer layer, six in the middle circle, and three in the core circle, all concentrated around the Creation Furnace.
Amidst Master Gongshu's shock, Phantylia's silence, and Fu Xuan's mixed joy and worry, Caelus suppressed the Ebon Deer to death.
Recover, hack in two.
Recover, hack into four pieces.
Recover, hack into eight pieces.
Until the Ebon Deer's recovery speed dropped off a cliff.
"Is the clearing complete? Next..."
Stelle gripped one dragon horn: "Let's see whose hand the deer dies in!"
"Hear the deer call, yoyo!"
Caelus gripped the other dragon horn.
Sword King Ryujinmaru stomped fiercely on the rising Ebon Deer's head, stepping on the Ambrosial Arbor's root system to borrow force and leap up.
"Holy power, manifest here!"
The two held the Dragon Sword together. Ryujinmaru raised the King's Sword in its right arm high, and faint golden energy streamlines appeared around it.
"Sure Kill — Sword King Dragon Sword!"
This single sword strike directly cleaved the Creation Furnace, the Ambrosial Arbor branches, and the Abundance Spirit Deer into two segments all at once!
To avoid Jing Yuan deducting his reward later, Caelus was still considerate enough not to completely split the Creation Furnace open, only opening a large gash.
This time, the Abundance Ebon Deer completely lost its life. The branches and leaves withered and decayed as if passing from spring to autumn in an instant.
"Did you... learn it?"
Coordinating with the Creation Furnace's energy explosion while sheathing the sword, Caelus calmly turned around to look back at Hachi-Stelle.
Stelle bit her handkerchief. Damn it!
Caelus-cub managed to act cool!
Caelus did a frog leap and lay prone in front of Stelle: "I just wanted to see that expression of yours, that expression of jealousy towards me!"
Before he could continue to show off, he suddenly felt something was wrong and turned to look at the exploding Creation Furnace.
He saw countless azure spiritual fires surging out from the huge gap cut by the King's Sword.
This was normal. If this energy wasn't released, the Ebon Deer would continue to recover and wouldn't be hacked to death.
But the problem was...
"Sigh!"
Fu Xuan, seeing this scene through the Remote Sky Mirror, sighed: "After this, the Xianzhou is going to be in chaos for a while again."
The sealed Heliobi all ran out!
There was no helping it; of two evils, choose the lesser.
They absolutely could not leave the Ebon Deer unattended. As for those escaped Heliobi, having been squeezed of energy for hundreds of years, they wouldn't be able to cause major trouble in the short term.
The Ten-Lords Commission is probably going to work overtime.
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