The audience in the stands gasped even more. Even just watching, they felt a suffocating pressure, and they gripped their seat armrests tightly, their eyes filled with horror.
"Two-Word Battle Armor! It's Two-Word Battle Armor!"
"It's a sure win! Everything is settled now!"
"How can a black-rank mecha possibly compare to Two-Word Battle Armor?"
Long Yue raised his hand. His palm, covered by battle armor, clenched into a fist. Soul Power condensed at his knuckles, faintly taking the shape of a miniature mountain.
His dragon pupils stared fixedly at the mecha in mid-air, his voice bone-chillingly cold: "Watch me tear your mecha apart!"
Arthur controlled the mecha to hover in mid-air.
He could feel that after Long Yue donned his battle armor, the range of the gravity suppression had expanded several times over, and the mecha's thrusters were starting to operate with some sluggishness.
However, he himself was unaffected by the pressure and operated the mecha with ease.
As long as the mecha wasn't damaged and could function normally, such negative effects were as good as non-existent.
In the next second, the light from the thrusters behind the mecha surged. The deep blue flames almost solidified as the mecha dived down like an arrow leaving a bow. Simultaneously, the cannons on both arms of the mecha turned in unison, firing two blinding beams of light.
Long Yue snorted coldly. The Mountain Dragon King relief on the chest of his battle armor suddenly lit up, and a massive shield appeared, blocking steadily in front of him.
"Boom—!"
The light beams collided with the shield, erupting in a deafening explosion. A blast wave swept across the field, instantly blowing away more than half of the arena and creating another massive crater.
Long Yue's figure was shaken back half a step by the blast wave. The light on his battle armor flickered, but there was not a single scratch on it.
He looked up at Arthur, a ferocious smile curling at the corners of his mouth: "It's time to end this!"
A Two-Word Battle Armor Master already possessed combat power at the Spirit Douluo level, and with the Mountain Dragon King Spirit, he would only be stronger.
Long Yue's foot stomped violently on the ground. The circuits on his battle armor instantly brightened to their limit as he condensed a pair of phantom Dragon Claws that seemed to blot out the sky.
The remaining ground of the arena shattered with a bang. Countless fragments of stone swirled around him, intertwining with the phantom Dragon Claws.
"Mountain Dragon, Tear!"
Amidst his roar, the Dragon Claws, carrying the force to crush mountains, clawed fiercely at the mecha.
The mecha's energy cannons were still roaring, but they were forcibly shattered by the phantom Dragon Claws, and the deep blue light flames scattered like fireworks.
"Crack—"
An ear-piercing sound of tearing metal rang out. The black-rank mecha's arms were actually torn off directly by the Dragon Claws.
The flames of the thrusters suddenly dimmed. The massive fuselage turned into a bird with broken wings, crashing heavily into the crater of the arena and kicking up a cloud of dust.
Thunderous cheers erupted from the stands. The Soul Masters of the Star Luo Empire were so excited they beat their chests and stamped their feet: "We won! Lord Long Yue won!"
"This is the power of the Mountain Dragon King! In the face of absolute power, a mecha is just a pile of scrap metal!"
Long Yue slowly descended, the light on his battle armor gradually fading.
He looked down at the mecha emitting black smoke in the pit, the ferocious smile on his face deepening: "I'll remember you for forcing me to use my battle armor."
Before he could finish, a light chuckle suddenly rang out from the dust.
Immediately after, a figure burst out of the smoke, a faint golden halo surrounding him. It was Arthur, completely unharmed.
He casually shook off the mecha wreckage on him. There was no longer a trace of his previous nonchalance in his eyes; instead, it was replaced by a restrained yet sharp edge.
"Actually, I have battle armor too. You didn't think I was just a Mecha Master, did you?"
Arthur's voice wasn't loud, but it spread clearly throughout the venue, instantly silencing all the cheers.
Long Yue's smile froze on his face, his pupils suddenly contracting.
He could feel that the Soul Power fluctuations around Arthur were bottomless, like a deep abyss or a prison.
Moreover, the quality of that Soul Power was neither the overbearing nature of the attack system nor the lightness of the agility-attack system, but rather carried a kind of... mysterious quality that controlled heaven and earth?
"You..." Just as Long Yue was about to speak, he saw Arthur reach out and grab at the Void Realm.
In an instant, the Mountain Dragon King's power permeating the arena suddenly stalled. Those fragments of stone that were still swirling were actually confined by an invisible force, suspended motionless in mid-air.
Long Yue only felt his whole body sink. A force ten times stronger than his previous gravity suppression surged from all directions, locking him down tightly!
"How is this possible!" Long Yue roared as he pushed his Soul Power. The Mountain Dragon King relief on his battle armor flared with light, but he could only barely break free from a sliver of the restraint.
The earth no longer obeyed his power either.
Arthur walked slowly toward him, the golden halo flowing around his body, with the faint sound of wind and thunder.
"The power of the Mountain Dragon King is indeed very strong," he said softly. "Unfortunately, this is Douluo Star, and my authority is just a little bit higher than yours."
On the way to Long Yue, pieces of battle armor appeared, making the sharp metallic sound of precision gears interlocking as they fitted onto him.
Each component extended and clicked precisely into the central breastplate module with crisp "clack, clack" sounds. Every joint of the components shimmered with a cold golden light.
Finally, Arthur stopped in front of Long Yue.
The distance between the two was only inches. Arthur's Gilded Battle Armor completed its last interlocking piece, and the helmet fell into place with a "hum."
It covered those eyes, leaving only a cold golden reflection.
Long Yue could even smell the faint metallic scent emanating from the battle armor, as well as that subtle pressure that seemed to transcend heaven and earth.
He knew that Arthur's own strength was also great. But the moment Arthur used the black-rank mecha, everyone, including himself, thought Arthur was a Mecha Master.
After all, a mecha wasn't something you could just hop into and use.
It required a lot of time to learn.
With limited energy, few people were both a Battle Armor Master and a Mecha Master at the same time.
Not to mention that at Arthur's age, being able to control a black-rank mecha so skillfully was already rare, let alone battle armor.
At this moment, the invisible pressure Long Yue felt was immense. His throat bobbed, and a blood-red color gradually welled up in the depths of his eyes.
Under high pressure, he was about to lose control.
After his Martial Soul possession, Long Yue's physique was tall and massive.
At close range, Arthur had to look up to meet his gaze.
"Hmm, too tall."
The moment the words fell, Arthur jumped lightly, seemingly holding something in his hand.
It was the Holy Sword hidden by the Invisible Air.
He smashed it down hard!
There were no fancy Martial Soul Abilities, only power in its purest form.
"Thud—!"
A dull, heavy thud sounded, like a giant rock smashing into a swamp.
Long Yue's massive body was actually knocked over by this smash, crashing into the crater. The crater instantly expanded a bit more, and the entire stadium shook three times from the impact.
Using the rebounding force, Arthur naturally bounced into the air and hovered, looking down at Long Yue at the bottom of the pit.
In the next second, Long Yue suddenly looked up and shot out like a projectile, charging straight at Arthur.
The Mountain Dragon King's tail whipped frantically. Each lash tore through the air at an astonishing speed.
Arthur raised an eyebrow, then swung his sword again in an unadorned manner.
"Bang!"
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