Chapter 1140: Chapter 139: Giant Beast (19)
Rumble!!
The massive body of the Tail Rat smashed into the ground, its truck‑cab‑sized head slanting against the base of a high‑rise,
its mouth, big enough to swallow an elephant, gaping wide as dark blue blood kept flowing out from between its fangs,
corroding the Pale World Mantle below.
Li Ang did not put away the Heart Monkey Staff; instead he gripped the Heart Monkey and jabbed a few more times at the Tail Rat’s corpse below, crushing and shattering bones, wrecking vital organs,
and only after confirming the thing was stone dead did he cancel the As You Wish transformation Special Effect of the Heart Monkey and lower his head to look at that clump of Pineal Organ in his hand.
He had previously captured this organ from a PPDC Mech,
and after this period of studying both the data and the physical sample, Li Ang had more or less figured out the operating mechanism of the Pineal Organ.
"My guess was right. The deep‑sea civilization really did go down the Spiritual Energy development route,
even if they might not call Spiritual Energy ’Spiritual Energy’, in essence it’s all Mind Energy.
The Pineal Body is actually a high‑grade Spiritual Energy organ,
able to guide Mind Energy out of the body of a Psychic or an ordinary person with Psychic talent,
and amplify it, projecting it into the real world.
But unlike other Psychic Items,
this special design of the Pineal Body can only let it release a single Psychic Ability."
Within the Psychic Abilities system, there is a ninth‑level ability that exists only in legend: Reality Art,
whose concrete effect is to rewrite reality with one’s own will.
To twist the reality of a certain range into what you want it to be, or to negate what others regard as "reality."
In the Spiritual Energy materials Side Truth gave Li Ang, it was described like this,
Reality Art surpasses time and causality, directly tampering with reality at the root.
For example, letting flame burn in the deep sea,
letting a living being survive without a heart,
or rewriting a torrential rain from a thousand years ago so that a river in the present day disappears,
rewriting an earthquake from ten thousand years ago so that a certain mountain peak never appears,
even rewriting the fate of a certain intelligent creature, making one of his ancestors meet his destined lover a few minutes later, so that this intelligent creature is never born.
Of course, the Psychic Ability released by the Pineal Body is far from reaching the terrifying level of the genuine Reality Art,
it doesn’t have the true Reality Art’s aggressiveness, expansiveness, or high tier,
and instead channels all Mind Energy into defense,
retaining only the function of "defending a certain range against attacks one does not wish to occur."
"Manufacturing this kind of Spiritual Energy organ requires consuming Psychics, and they have to be mid‑ to high‑level Psychics’ non‑renewable biological material. For example, brain nerves.
Even for the deep‑sea civilization, production capacity is probably limited,
and as for humans in this world, whose understanding of Spiritual Energy is still extremely backward,
forget it entirely; they simply can’t replicate the Pineal Body and can only rely on war to capture it."
Li Ang put the Pineal Organ away with slight disappointment,
the deep‑sea civilization’s understanding and utilization of Spiritual Energy had not exceeded the scope of his expectations.
He took out the Automated Pet Box from his backpack slot,
pulled out from the Breeding Box the gigantification surgical saw he had used earlier to modify the Fenix Pit Beast, quickly disassembled the Tail Rat in a few swift motions, and used Pale World Mantle to make waterproof fabric, bundling up the blood,
then transferred all of the Tail Rat’s body parts into the Breeding Box.
After finishing all this, Li Ang turned his head toward the ocean. "Next up is the other one..."
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"Use! Full! Power!"
Out on the open sea, the furious shouts of Kelly Hansen and Chaq Hansen echoed through the cockpit of the Eureka Raider.
The silver‑sheened Eureka Raider swung its Taser Iron Fist made of special alloy, slamming it heavily into the Ridgeback Turtle ahead.
Bang!
The Iron Fist of the Eureka Raider, equipped with the type‑4211 taser, smashed straight into the thick neck of the Ridgeback Turtle,
while the Ridgeback Turtle’s fist also drove upward from below, connecting with the Eureka Raider’s armpit.
Their A.T. Force Fields collided violently, bursting out blazing sparks,
and the two titans, under a light rain on the sea surface, were trading Gale‑like, storm‑fury blows like boxers, locked in a fight to the death.
"External armor damage at twenty percent, power core overheating at fifteen percent. If this drags on, we’ll lose."
In the cockpit, Kelly Hansen was still roaring, but his will was being transmitted through the Drift Flow System of the cockpit into the mind of his son, Chaq Hansen.
The Eureka Raider is currently the only active Mark‑5 fifth‑generation heavy Mecha in the world, 76 meters tall, 7,200 tons in weight, integrating numerous advantages of the first four generations of Mecha and achieving a relatively perfect balance across strength, speed, and firepower,
and while stationed in Sydney, Australia and other Pacific continental bases, it has slain ten deep‑sea creatures worthy of being called Giant Beasts, its record topping that of all Mecha.
However, this Ridgeback Turtle that appeared this time is just too... bizarre.
The Ridgeback Turtle’s outer shell is extremely thick, possessing defensive capabilities more formidable than any deep‑sea Giant Beast seen before,
and whether or not it evolved specifically against the Eureka Raider,
its keratinized shell is insulated against electricity, directly erasing the advantage of the Eureka Raider’s Taser Iron Fist.
Even worse, the strength of the Ridgeback Turtle’s A.T. Force Field has far exceeded everyone’s expectations,
when the Eureka Raider lands a punch, the enemy acts like it doesn’t feel a thing and continues trading close‑quarters, blow‑for‑blow attacks,
whereas every time the Eureka Raider takes a hit,
even with the protection of the A.T. Force Field, the entire frame shudders,
placing a severe load on the pilots’ bodies and minds.
"Damn it, if only the new Blade Projection Knife module had been installed..."
The blond youth Chaq Hansen stared fixedly at the Ridgeback Turtle in front of him, his teeth almost grinding to powder.
The Blade Projection Knife is housed in the Eureka Raider’s twin forearm scabbards, incomparably sharp, able to cut through anything, equipped with carbon nanotube heat dissipation, capable of withstanding temperatures of a thousand degrees,
and has helped them slaughter several deep‑sea Giant Beasts.
However, in the previous Sydney battle, the old Blade Projection Knives were corroded by the deep‑sea Giant Beast’s venom and rendered unusable,
thus they had to head to the Broken Dome Fortress to repair the Mecha and install new, corrosion‑resistant Blade Projection Knives,
which have not yet been officially mounted.
If they had the Blade Projection Knives, the Eureka Raider could fully concentrate its power into a single point, first breaking through the Ridgeback Turtle’s A.T. Force Field, then finishing it with one lethal stab from the projection blade.
"Eureka Raider, this is Broken Dome Fortress. We have already dispatched Gypsy Danger to support you. Estimated time to reach the battlefield is ten minutes. You must hold on!"
General Stake’s voice came through the broadcast system,
and the Hansen father and son frowned, instinctively asking, "Who’s piloting?"
General Stake paused almost imperceptibly, then quickly said, "Raleigh Becket, Mori Masako."
