With its primary offensive weapon—the searing cosmic energy beam—rendered entirely useless, the Destroyer armor was completely outmatched by Su Mu.
With every single attack the Destroyer launched, Su Mu simply devoured the ambient cosmic energy to permanently reinforce his own physical vessel. Throughout the brutal, high-intensity brawl, Su Mu didn't expend a single ounce of stamina. He remained at the absolute peak of his condition from start to finish!
Having broken through to Level 4, his Energy Absorption had undergone a profound, qualitative metamorphosis. Su Mu could now absorb almost any conceptual form of energy in the universe. Furthermore, he no longer needed direct physical contact; he could actively drain ambient energy within a specific radius around him!
Aside from biological life force, chemical energy, and a few highly esoteric cosmic forces, he could effortlessly devour and manipulate anything thrown at him!
Case in point...
As the Destroyer fired another blinding cosmic beam directly at his face, Su Mu casually raised his right hand and curled his fingers.
The immense cosmic energy instantly warped and condensed as it neared his palm, rapidly forging itself into a brilliantly glowing, hyper-dense spear of pure light. With a flick of his wrist, Su Mu violently hurled the spear straight back into the Destroyer's chest, where it detonated in a massive explosion!
However, this was merely a superficial, brute-force manipulation of raw energy. It couldn't hold a candle to the structured, conceptual annihilation of his cursed techniques. The exact same amount of energy, when channeled through the Limitless, produced an exponentially more devastating result!
BOOM!
Landing another Black Flash, Su Mu violently launched the Destroyer backward. The automaton could no longer easily shrug off his strikes; its faceplate was heavily caved in, though the divine metal was already visibly knitting itself back together.
After brawling for a few more minutes, Su Mu completely adapted to the absolute mastery provided by Level 4 Energy Absorption.
Bored of the repetitive punching, he took a spatial step, instantly materializing directly in front of the Destroyer, and gently pressed his palm against its chest plate.
In the next microsecond, a hyper-condensed black-red singularity violently erupted at point-blank range!
The apocalyptic repulsive force of Red blasted the Destroyer away, finally shattering the impenetrable Uru metal armor on its chest and inflicting massive structural damage!
Watching the Destroyer slowly climb to its feet, the fractured divine metal still stubbornly trying to regenerate, Su Mu couldn't help but genuinely admire the craftsmanship. Odin had truly forged a masterpiece.
If this armor was this terrifyingly resilient while being clumsily remote-controlled by Loki across the cosmos, what kind of apocalyptic majesty would it possess if the All-Father himself wore it into battle?
But that was a thought for another day. Right now, Su Mu was completely bored. The Destroyer no longer posed the slightest threat to him.
Staring at the approaching metal behemoth, Su Mu reached up, pulled off his round black sunglasses, and casually tossed them aside.
He raised his hands. He extended his left hand, his fingers straight and spread wide. He raised his right hand in a loose, half-closed grip.
His crystalline blue eyes flared with an absolute, manic, transcendental ecstasy!
"Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue."
A massive, waist-high azure black hole instantly materialized behind his left shoulder, humming with terrifying, crushing gravity!
"Cursed Technique Reversal: Red."
Simultaneously, a violently unstable, waist-high black-red singularity materialized behind his right shoulder! Because he was pushing the output to the absolute maximum, jagged black lightning arced wildly off the singularity, instantly atomizing the air and earth around it.
However, the moment those destructive arcs of lightning neared Su Mu's body, his Level 4 Energy Absorption instantly devoured them, completely neutralizing the feedback!
Finally, Su Mu brought his hands together in front of his chest, forming a snapping motion with his fingers.
He uttered the name of the absolute, transcendental technique—the supreme pinnacle of the Limitless that required the flawless fusion of both infinite attraction and infinite repulsion.
"Hollow Technique: Purple."
The azure black hole and the black-red singularity violently collided and merged.
Under the absolute, atomic-level control of Level 4 Energy Absorption and the flawless esoteric guidance of the system template, a colossal, deep-purple sphere of pure, imaginary mass was forged!
Accompanied by screaming, jagged purple lightning, the apocalyptic singularity was violently launched directly at the Destroyer!
The blinding, majestic purple light instantly swallowed the entire world, completely draining the color from the surrounding desert. The heavens and the earth were eclipsed by the colossal purple sphere as it rocketed forward, silently and absolutely erasing everything it touched from existence!
In a fraction of a millisecond, the terrifying sphere of imaginary mass passed straight through the Destroyer armor. It didn't stop. It continued its trajectory of absolute annihilation, tearing through the desert, violently carving straight through a massive, solid mountain range in the distance, and continuing until it completely vanished beyond the horizon!
When the blinding light faded and the apocalyptic rumbling ceased, Thor, Jane, and the Asgardians stood entirely paralyzed in absolute, mind-shattering shock.
Starting from exactly where the White Demon stood, a colossal, perfectly smooth trench—dozens of meters wide—stretched infinitely into the distance, violently bisecting the desert. Even the towering mountain range miles away hadn't slowed it down for a microsecond; it had a massive, perfectly circular hole cleanly punched straight through it!
As for the indestructible, god-forged Destroyer armor that had taken the attack head-on?
It was completely, utterly gone.
Not a single scrap of Uru metal, not a single spark of cosmic fire remained. It had been entirely erased from reality!
...
Millions of lightyears away, in the golden halls of Asgard, Loki watched the final frame of telemetry from the Destroyer before the feed permanently flatlined. His legs completely gave out, and he collapsed onto the floor of the throne room.
What... what kind of monster is that?!
Deep within the Royal Palace, lying in the Odinsleep beneath a transparent crystal dome, the All-Father's single eye violently snapped open. Odin's ancient gaze was filled with profound, unprecedented horror!
Has another Ancient One appeared on Midgard?!
...
In a hidden, mystical sanctuary in Kamar-Taj, a serene, bald woman gently set her teacup down on a wooden table. The Ancient One turned her gaze toward the horizon, her voice barely a whisper.
"Has he already grown this powerful?" she murmured softly. "As expected of a complete cosmic anomaly... the only entity in the entire Multiverse to exist without a single variant..."
...
Meanwhile, inside a highly classified subterranean military command center, a massive tactical screen displayed the live satellite feed of the apocalyptic purple trench carving through the New Mexico desert.
Colonel William Stryker pointed furiously at the screen, his face twisted in absolute terror and rage.
"Look at this! This is what the White Demon is capable of now! If we do not execute the annihilation protocol immediately, his power will only continue to escalate! If we wait any longer, we will completely lose the ability to kill him, and he will single-handedly conquer the entire United States!"
Hearing Stryker's impassioned, terrifyingly accurate assessment, a four-star General immediately slammed his fist on the table.
"I approve the protocol!"
One by one, the highest-ranking generals of the U.S. military nodded in grim agreement.
"Approved!"
"Approved!"
In less than a minute, the emergency council reached a unanimous, absolute consensus: the White Demon Annihilation Protocol was officially greenlit!
Seeing the unanimous vote, a deeply sinister, victorious smile spread across Stryker's face.
"Excellent, Generals," Stryker said smoothly. "The weaponized mutant inhibitors and the Sentinel prototypes equipped with localized spatial-severing technology are fully operational. We are ready to deploy."
Minutes later, a squadron of heavily modified supersonic stealth jets launched from the closest military airbase, screaming across the desert directly toward Su Mu's coordinates!
...
At the edge of the apocalyptic trench, Su Mu stood admiring the absolute devastation wrought by his newly awakened technique, a brilliant smile on his face.
Theoretically, a Level 1 Purple shouldn't have possessed anywhere near this much raw destructive power. However, by running his Level 4 Energy Absorption at maximum overdrive, he had violently forced an exponential amount of cosmic energy into the technique, drastically amplifying its yield!
But forcing an attack of that magnitude had placed an immense burden on his physical vessel. Even he was breathing heavily, his internal cursed energy reserves nearly entirely depleted.
However, with Level 4 Energy Absorption passively running, his body was rapidly devouring the ambient solar radiation, the thermal energy from the desert heat, and the clean energy from his Arc Reactors. His reserves were skyrocketing back to full capacity!
Within minutes, his cursed energy was completely saturated. At the exact same time, the two Arc Reactors floating beside him completely died, their internal palladium cores entirely drained of energy.
Catching the dead reactors as they fell from the air, Su Mu rubbed his chin thoughtfully.
"It seems I'll need to pay Mr. Stark a visit for some replacements. Furthermore... it's about time I acquire the Space Stone. With Level 4 Energy Absorption, my physical vessel should finally be capable of withstanding the raw output of an Infinity Stone without tearing itself apart..."
A few moments later, fully recovered, Su Mu finally opened his system interface to review the massive haul of experience he had gained from brawling with the Destroyer.
Immediately, he noticed that two of his skills had leveled up again...
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