25 Chapter 23: The Human Body, Isn't It Amazing?_1

The power of the Six-armed Rakshasa was a full three points lower than that of the Roots Titan.

It had only eight points of strength in total, which was nearly half.

However, the oppressive feeling it brought was much stronger than the Roots Titan with eleven points of strength.

Six flame sabers virtually danced into a flurry, striking continuously onto the surface of the purple-white Mecha, slicing one scar after another.

The purple-white Mecha tried to throw a punch in retaliation but got struck by the flame saber on the side of its arm.

The Six-armed Rakshasa also took advantage of the force to dodge, easily avoiding the purple-white Mecha's fist, without even a slight interruption in its attack rhythm.

Against such an unrelenting assault.

Even though the purple-white Mecha had a high defense of five points and a recovery of 0.1 per second.

Its Armor Value was still decreasing at a rate of 1 point per second, steadily dropping.

In just a dozen seconds, the surface of the Mecha had already acquired a large number of scars.

"Is this the combat skill of a Weapons Master..."

Jiang Chen faced the Six-armed Rakshasa's nearly artistic attack rhythm, feeling a warmth in his heart.

He envied it so much!

This was exactly what he was lacking!

After all, Jiang Chen was just a sophomore in college not long ago, with no particular hobbies for exercise, nor had he learned any martial arts such as taekwondo, karate, or kendo...

Achieving an SSS-class evaluation in the basic trial relied purely on his fearlessness and overpowering attributes.

As for combat skills, they were a complete mess.

If their attribute values were exactly the same, any trained fighter could easily defeat him.

He could only utilize six or seven tenths of his strength.

However, the special trait of the Weapons Master, according to evaluations by other mecha pilots, not only enhanced the pilot's control over external weapons but also brought a wealth of combat experience and instincts.

One point of strength value could exhibit the effect of one and a half.

For mecha pilots lacking combat experience, the improvement was tremendous.

That's why he had given up on the support traits and wanted to choose Weapons Master as his first special trait.

At this moment, Jiang Chen looked at the techniques displayed by the Six-armed Rakshasa.

It was like watching a seller's demonstration, his eyes filled with excitement and affection.

"Keep it coming, I love to see this!"

As a Weapons Master, the Six-armed Rakshasa had incredibly keen intuition.

Feeling the Mecha's gaze, it got the chills, and the speed at which it swung its long saber increased a bit, wanting to quickly kill off this guy.

After being assaulted by the leader-level monster for such a long time, the model Zero Mecha finally reached its limit.

Covered with cracked markings on its exterior, the Mecha shattered with a loud bang after one strike, breaking into countless pieces that melded into the surrounding hot red flames.

Seeing its enemy's hard shell finally broken by its blows, revealing a vulnerable flesh-and-blood body, the Six-armed Rakshasa's green-faced and sharp-toothed face squeezed out a hideous smile, and without a second thought, it swung down.

However, its grin froze, turning to bewilderment.

The long saber fell and, instead of cutting through the enemy's flesh as expected, a clanging sound of metal on metal was heard, as if it had struck the hardest metal in the world.

It barely cut through the skin, causing only a half-drop of blood to seep out, unable to penetrate any further.

How could this flesh-and-blood body be harder than a Mecha??!

[Talent Trigger: Undying Barehand, Mecha absorbed: model Zero-Type 2.]

[Attributes: Strength 8, Agility 7, Defense 7, Enigmatism 0.]

[Special: Recover 0.1 Life Force per second (doubled under sunlight).]

[Abilities: Uncontrollable Mutation, Roots Core, Blood Demon Transformation.]

Jiang Chen felt the power surging into his body, a smile spreading across his face as well.

A light Mecha was like an enhanced suit that could gain the additional attributes of strength, agility, etc., from the wearer's body.

But it couldn't and wouldn't gain the body's defensive bonuses.

After all, the Mecha was the one taking the hits, not the flesh.

Therefore, after absorbing the power of the Mecha, Jiang Chen's bodily defense reached seven points, much stronger than the fragile Mecha shell!

Then releasing the previously absorbed ability of Uncontrollable Mutation.

Jiang Chen's muscles inflated like a balloon, gaining a temporary strength bonus of 5 points, taking his strength to the overwhelming level of 13 points.

He tore off his split top, exposing a back full of muscles, and grinned, baring his teeth.

"The human body, quite fascinating, isn't it?"

"..."

Is this a living person?

It's actually a ghost, isn't it!

Even the Six-armed Rakshasa, who had experienced endless battles, was seeing such a strange thing for the first time.

However, as an undying ghost relegated to Purgatory, the term retreat was not in the Six-armed Rakshasa's lexicon.

Wielding the flame saber in its hands, it charged forward and unleashed its attack once more.

This time, it wasn't so smooth.

Jiang Chen swung his fist and the air even let out a slight burst of sound.

The Six-armed Rakshasa saw the power contained in his punch and, swinging the saber onto his arm, tried to use the technique of sidestepping and attacking by leveraging the force.

However, just as the flame saber touched his forearm, Jiang Chen's arm contracted.

He actually clamped down on the Six-armed Rakshasa's flame saber with the crook of his elbow!

The Six-armed Rakshasa tugged at it, but couldn't pull it free, pressed down harder, and still couldn't cut through the skin; it was forced to let go and retreat to avoid the grab.

Backing off a few steps, it looked at its empty hand, still somewhat confused.

Was it really disarmed by an amateur?

Jiang Chen, on the other hand, held the now extinguished and bone-reverted saber, swung it around in a circle and looked over excitedly.

Bring it on!

...

Skill can make up for a gap in strength—the premise being that the gap isn't too large.

Facing Jiang Chen, who had an iron head and bronze arms and a strength of 13, the Six-armed Rakshasa began to exhibit numerous flaws in its nearly perfect motions.

After sparring for over ten minutes, it was finally caught off guard by Jiang Chen, who grabbed its hand.

The next moment, like a broken doll, it was flung around by Jiang Chen, repeatedly smashed on the ground back and forth, left and right.

After a few heavy blows, the Six-armed Rakshasa was reduced to a limp noodle.

Jiang Chen did not see any Abyss Rune prompts and raised his fist, smashing it hard into the Six-armed Rakshasa's face.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

After three punches, the abyss atmosphere surged into the Abyss Rune.

Lines of text appeared before his eyes.

[Killed the Six-armed Rakshasa and obtained materials: Bone of the Unperished*2.]

...

[Successfully killed the boss and completed the exploration goal.]

[Total time taken: 27 minutes 31 seconds.]

[Mission evaluation: SSS.]

[You have been awarded according to the trial evaluation...]

[You have obtained Abyss Coins: 30.]

[You have obtained materials: Incombustible Yellow Paper*3.]

[You have obtained materials: Endless Netherbone*6.]

[Settlement complete, do you wish to leave the abyss immediately?]

[Note: Declining to leave will allow an additional sixty minutes' stay.]

Isn't this loot a bit too little?

Abyss Coins are a necessary consumable for forging and enhancing mechas, with the value of one Abyss Coin being two points of contribution in the materials shop.

The materials like Bone of the Unperished are all ordinary 0th Rank materials, worth five points of contribution.

Before encountering the Six-armed Rakshasa, Jiang Chen had killed quite a few monsters, and they also dropped an ordinary 0th Rank material.

That is to say, clearing the Endless Demons Realm on simple difficulty with an SSS-class evaluation, the total earnings amount to a high of 120 contribution points!

And that's just from a single run.

In a team, the burst rate would drastically decrease, and the earnings would be even lower.

"No wonder the alliance forum posts describe the simple difficulty's rewards as 'extremely low'..."

"Compared to the burst rate during the basic trials, it's like heaven and earth."

"The basic trials are definitely the welfare for newbies."

"Indeed, if you want to earn contribution points, you have to raise the difficulty."

Jiang Chen scanned his surroundings.

After the Six-armed Rakshasa's death, the other ghosts did not show signs of retreat or fear; instead, they broke free from suppression and rushed over howling, looking murderous as ever.

The efficiency of farming these monsters shouldn't be bad.

Too bad they're all penniless ghosts.

Jiang Chen wasn't interested in these penniless ghosts and decisively chose to leave the abyss.

His figure vanished into the rift.