Chapter 149: Annihilation, the Unusual (Four Updates)

“Sigh…”

A long, drawn-out sigh echoed through the air.

An immortal deity with blue skin, draped in beast pelts, stepped out from the city lord’s mansion and shouted loudly, “Everyone, stand down! This is not a foe you can handle!”

“Lord Baymon!”

“Lord Baymon, please let us fight alongside you!”

Several domain lords called out in unison.

“Stand down. This battle does not concern you.”

Baymon, the immortal deity, shook his head slightly. With a wave of his divine power, he sent the domain lords and city guards standing outside the city back inside the walls.

Then, Baymon lifted his gaze to the sky, his expression heavy with remembrance, and asked, “Outsider, can you tell me why Sylvie’s remains are in your possession?”

“Sylvie?”

Upon hearing the name, Jiang Chen’s heart stirred with a suspicion.

Among the two “immortal puppets,” one was likely someone this immortal god knew.

Baymon pointed at the smaller puppet, roughly human-sized, and said, “That little one. He was my closest friend, missing for forty million nine hundred seventy-seven days and nights. I searched for countless years but never found him. Yet, to my surprise, when I finally saw him again, Sylvie had become a puppet in your hands.”

“I discovered him on another continent, the so-called ‘God-given land’ you spoke of,” Jiang Chen did not hide the truth, revealing the origin of the immortal remains. “When I found him, he had been dead for an unknown length of time.”

“I see… I understand now.” Baymon nodded and stepped forward.

Strangely, each step he took was on thin air, as if an invisible staircase lifted him upward.

As he advanced, an overwhelmingly powerful aura radiated from Baymon.

“I appreciate that you did not slaughter the innocent in the city, but outsiders daring to descend upon our world must be killed!”

“Those who defy the orders of the Ancestral God Sect and wield demonic weapons must be killed!”

“Those who desecrate the remains of my friend must be killed!”

With the final declaration, Baymon’s aura erupted without restraint. In an instant, he vanished and reappeared among the mechanical legions, wielding a war hammer that had materialized in his hand. With a fierce strike, he smashed it into the void.

The hammer struck the emptiness, sending out scorching streams of flame that spread in all directions.

At once, Baymon unleashed the full might of the “Flame Principle.”

“Psionic shield!”

“The immortal puppets are attacking, block him!”

“Warplanes, laser guns, fire!”

Jiang Chen remained vigilant. Seeing Baymon’s attack, he wasted no time issuing commands to the mechanical legion.

One after another, psionic shields instantly enveloped all mechanical units, protecting them.

The two immortal puppets charged forward, one on each side, simultaneously channeling their immortal divine power to suppress Baymon’s flame principle.

Thanks to the mechanical affinity granting them over five hundred times their natural attributes, these puppets possessed base strength surpassing normal marquis immortals, nearing the level of an ordinary king immortal.

However, in terms of principles and arcane knowledge, their puppet state deprived them of memories from their lives. They relied solely on Jiang Chen’s control, which left them significantly weaker in this regard.

After all, although Jiang Chen mastered many principles, none reached the level of the immortals.

He had not even obtained the “principle imprint” recognized by the fundamental laws, so his power paled compared to Baymon, who had thoroughly comprehended the Flame Principle.

One side excelled greatly in raw attributes; the other held a significant advantage in principles.

In terms of overall combat power, Baymon and Jiang Chen’s two immortal puppets fought on nearly equal footing.

With the two puppets firmly restraining him, Baymon had no spare energy to contend with the rest of the mechanical legion.

Despite the formidable combat strength of these machines, excluding the two immortal puppets, even with psionic shields, they could not withstand Baymon’s direct attacks.

Yet the battle’s aftereffects were insufficient to shatter the psionic shields.

Warplanes repeatedly activated their laser guns, the battlefield flickering with streaks of light.

Each beam represented an attack powerful enough to instantly kill a ninth-rank domain lord.

But to Baymon, an immortal deity, these were merely minor threats.

Instead, a small number of Gundam mechas, directly controlled by Jiang Chen’s mental power and boosted by mechanical affinity, had attributes soaring to the point where they could barely contend with Baymon and the two immortal puppets.

One Gundam, coated with stealth paint rendering it invisible to both the naked eye and other detection methods, quietly approached the heart of the battlefield.

Under Jiang Chen’s control, the mecha raised its “Light-Bending Blade” while activating multiple principles, suddenly striking upward with an invisible edge aimed at Baymon’s back.

Though unaware of the attacker’s presence, Baymon’s powerful combat instincts allowed him to sense the imminent danger; at the last moment, he swiftly sidestepped, narrowly evading the deadly strike.

But he did not completely escape.

At the critical moment, the assassin adjusted the blade’s angle with split-second precision, slicing under Baymon’s ribs and severing his entire arm along with part of his chest.

As they passed each other, the assassin grabbed Baymon’s severed arm and retreated to the rear of the mechanical army, throwing it into an alloy box etched with dense seal script to prevent Baymon from reclaiming this part of his divine body.

Thanks to mechanical affinity, the E9-class Gundam mechas possessed attributes rivaling or even surpassing ordinary immortals.

After all, normal immortals only had body qualities about a hundred times that of peak domain lords.

But with mechanical affinity, the Gundam mechas’ base attributes were over five hundred times that of peak domain lords.

Their defense and attack, bolstered by superior materials, were even higher.

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