novelraw Chapter 1102 802: A Waste of Time Battle
Chapter 1102 802: A Waste of Time Battle
What does "nano" even mean as a concept?
0.000001 millimeters. Unless your eyes have mutated or you have some kind of special Genetic Ability, you basically can't see an individual nano-level unit at all.
Back when Li Zheng was in the Matrix, he'd gotten medical Nanorobots—one small vial of Nanorobots looked like less than a handful of sand, but in reality there were tens of millions of them!
You can imagine how hard it is to deal with this Element race.
"To beat them, unless I have some high-power area attack that directly crushes the entire space they're in." Li Zheng's thoughts spun fast. "Or else… I have to find a way to hit that nano-level core. Since Old Pu detected that the core inside them is nano-level, that means he can give me a prompt."
[That core is in constant motion, moving very fast. It cannot be locked onto in real time.]
"That's a hassle." Li Zheng exhaled lightly. Given this situation, he had two ways to handle them, but before that, there were still things he wanted to figure out.
"You two also part of the Celestial Will Organization?"
He wanted to figure out the stance of these two from the Element race, and whether there was some organization behind them.
But they didn't answer. Chaotic streams of light roiled, and several vicious bolts of lightning shot straight at Li Zheng's face.
That lightning wasn't actual electricity, but some kind of condensed Energy. Its power was impressive; every time it appeared, the hairs on Li Zheng's back stood on end. His instincts told him that with his current physical defense, he absolutely couldn't take it head-on, and could only use his Mirror Image Ability to maneuver.
Mudala seized the chance to charge in, a pair of claws tearing toward the two. They ripped right through those chaotic rays of light with no resistance at all.
One Element tribe member flicked a bolt of lightning backhand, striking Mudala's back and directly punching through her left shoulder and wing together, blasting a thumb-thick hole clear through!
"Such terrifying destructive power."
Li Zheng's heart chilled. He did not think his own physical toughness could compare to Mudala's current state. If he took one of those hits head-on, he'd probably end up in the same condition.
From that alone, it was clear that those two from the Element race had been going for the kill every time they attacked him.
"Since you won't talk, then go die!" Li Zheng hardened his resolve, emptied his mind, and once more entered a state of no-thought, no-mind.
Eight Mirror Images spread out in all directions, encircling the two Element tribe members.
Light flared from the Element race bodies, and dense bolts of lightning burst out, shattering all the Mirror Images.
Li Zheng's figure flickered; he split into eight again, then shifted into one of them. The Black Dragon Spear thrust down, and at the position of one Element tribe member's left leg, it seemed to hit something, letting out a sharp clanging impact.
Crack!
The Black Dragon Spear swept diagonally upward, and with the momentum it slashed toward the other Element tribe member, striking that core in its chest and abdomen as well.
All of this happened in the blink of an eye. After the two strikes, Li Zheng instantly shifted into another Mirror Image; the Black Dragon Spear twisted and jabbed again, the Golden Dragon patterns along the shaft lighting up as a Golden Dragon's phantom coiled around the spear, opening its maw in a soaring dragon's roar.
Clang!
One hit landed; Li Zheng changed position again. His spear form did not stop, whipping at another spot.
Clang!
...
Clang!
Around those two Element tribe members, Li Zheng was like a ghost, appearing, vanishing, appearing again, and vanishing again. Each time he showed himself, the duration grew shorter; in the end, his body looked almost transparent, flickering repeatedly.
That meant his speed had reached an extreme, to the point that even light didn't have time to fully reflect off him.
The clanging sounds merged into a continuous ring. In a mere five seconds or so, Li Zheng had launched hundreds of attacks, every one landing on the cores inside the Element tribe bodies.
Their cores, struck over and over, seemed unable to condense that strange lightning, and for this span of time they had no strength to counterattack at all, completely suppressed by Li Zheng.
"This new Technique my lord created has evolved a bit again." Mudala couldn't get in a hit at all and was secretly shocked.
When he'd fought twisted creatures before, this Technique was still relatively rough. Now it had been refined down to the last hair!
Such a rate of improvement was downright terrifying.
"With such Talent, why does my lord always say his Talent is too poor?" Mudala thought. "If this counts as poor Talent, then what does that make everyone else? Pure trash?"
Clang-clang~~~
A resonant hum echoed through the sky. Li Zheng drew back his spear and stood still, light gradually returning to his eyes.
Opposite him, the glow on the two Element tribe members slowly dimmed, like two Neon lights having their power supply reduced, until it vanished completely.
"He actually took on two at once and won decisively!" Mudala could hardly believe it.
That was the Element race that countless races in the Wilderness had headaches over!
A troublesome race that had survived in the Wilderness for who knew how many years, yet in front of her lord they looked like nothing but chickens and dogs—utterly pathetic?
This…
Mudala rubbed her eyes hard, thinking she'd seen wrong.
This is impossible!
"Strutting around just because your weakness is only nano-sized—how laughable." Li Zheng said coldly. "What's actually strongest in the Element race is also what's most fragile. As long as the nano-level life core is destroyed, your vitality is completely cut off.
A clumsy Race like this can actually rampage through the Wilderness for so long—simply absurd."
Before the fight, Li Zheng had Old Pu "record" his battle. After a quick playback, he understood what he'd done while unconscious, and the fundamental reason why the Element race had been taken out so easily.
After he'd continuously struck both nano-level cores hundreds of times in succession, they completely collapsed—like someone's heart being pounded into pulp. Naturally, there was no way they could stay alive.
Compared to a normal heart, this kind of core had two advantages: it was tiny and it moved in unpredictable patterns.
These two advantages allowed the Element race to stand in an invincible position against most enemies. After all, methods that can locate and destroy a nano-level core are very rare.
But the core had one extremely fatal weakness: after suffering heavy impacts, it made the Energy that maintained its existence unstable, causing them to lose the ability to fight back.
So rather than saying the Element race was a troublesome Race in the Wilderness, it was more accurate to say they were a highly polarized Race.
Either invincible, or unable to fight at all.
"Mudala said earlier they have no emotions, so they probably don't have fear and such either. I'm really curious what they were thinking before they died…" Li Zheng pondered for a moment, then shook his head. "Forget it, what's the point of wondering about something so meaningless? But with this kind of nature, they probably wouldn't be in cahoots with the Celestial Will Organization…"
In that case, the reason these two Element tribe members were here was obvious.
They'd come to snatch the Twisted Magic Crystal.
"Shame. I thought I'd be able to force out some intel on the Celestial Will Organization, but it turns out they were just the runts among the small fry." Li Zheng studied the ground for a while. Old Pu had marked with arrows where the two nano-level cores had fallen, but he didn't find any storage items with their stashed supplies.
"What a waste of time."