Chapter 1025, Incarnation and Key
Chapter 1025, Incarnation and Key
The moment King Lionheart stepped onto the battlefield, he made a stunning first impression and delivered a breathtaking performance.
This was a situation he had planned.
He knew that naval guns couldn't destroy Bassor, but they could create opportunities for a surprise attack;
A Chaos Titan was deliberately left in the assault route. Using combat instincts, they dodged Bassor's barrage of fire, but the next wave forced Bassor to be unable to engage directly—the Titan was in between.
With a few more sword strikes, he felled and destroyed the Titan, taking the opportunity to close the distance between himself and Bassol.
This was not only a tactical maneuver, but also a huge boost to the morale of our own side.
Before this, no one had ever successfully dodged Bassor; they were almost always focused down and instantly killed.
But the Lion King's performance shattered that notion.
The Space Marines, roaring as they charged alongside the Lion King, helped relieve Leon of the pressure from other sources.
And Leon, for the sake of his offspring and the blood angels who followed him, bore all the pressure from Bassol.
Bassor recognized Leon's identity.
He also understood that the battles elsewhere were no longer important.
Here, by killing Leon, the war will be won. The boulder He so desired will fall into His hands.
If Leon isn't killed, the situation will continue to change. As the battle drags on, the powerful human empire will continuously send in armies and skilled warriors.
A war of attrition... to be honest, sometimes even the Void Zerg can't outlast the Human Empire, and Bassol doesn't have that kind of confidence either.
What he had longed for for so long was now before him; the success of his grand plan was within reach. He could no longer wait.
The son of a god in the subspace that one cannot afford to offend?
Just kill him!
Bassor's attack has struck again with ferocity!
This time, it wasn't an energy weapon, but rather an inconspicuous rhomboid crystal at the end of a mechanical arm covered in intricate scale-like armor from His own body.
A strange, almost invisible "neural stealing ray" shot out from it.
This ray was silent and undetectable, ignoring physical defenses, and pierced straight into Leon's brain!
The ray hit its mark precisely. "Ugh—!"
Even someone as powerful as the Son of God couldn't help but let out a short, painful groan! It felt like a million red-hot steel needles piercing his brain, or like cold, venomous snakes biting his nerves! His vision blurred instantly, and countless fragments of blasphemous knowledge and twisted, frenzied mechanical whispers surged through his consciousness like a torrent!
The intense nerve pain caused his sword-wielding arm to tremble uncontrollably for the first time, and his movements inevitably stiffened for a moment!
"Got you, you aging lion!" Bassor's avatar let out a piercing electronic laugh, like countless gears grinding together.
The pair of "magical wings" behind it, composed of dozens of mechanical arms, suddenly and strangely retracted, combined, and transformed! Accompanied by a tooth-grinding metallic friction and energy hum, they instantly combined into two enormous super-giant power claws, covered with layers of armor plates, with their front ends protruding several meters long and flashing with the light of a decomposition force field, like a pair of mechanical dragon claws from the abyss!
These terrifying giant claws, with the power to tear the earth apart, came together from the left and right, fiercely grasping at Leon, whose movements were slightly sluggish due to the excruciating nerve pain. The entire space seemed to be locked by these two giant claws, leaving no way to escape!
Erganglong and all the other death angels watching this scene were terrified!
In that life-or-death moment, a light more dazzling than the core of the sun erupted from Leon's golden eyes! It was not despair, but a battle intent that had been thoroughly enraged and burned to its peak!
"Get away!!!"
A soul roar, brimming with the full will and power of the Son of God, exploded forth! This power combined his millennia-long fighting spirit, his faith in the Emperor, his responsibility to his offspring, and his extreme rage at the blasphemous being before him! It violently assaulted the "neural stealing" that Bassol's avatar had attached to his mind, like a raging tsunami washing over a filthy swamp, instantly dispelling most of the cold, venomous snakes and twisted whispers that had invaded his brain!
The excruciating pain subsided slightly, and his mind returned to normal in an instant!
Faced with the massive, destructive mechanical claw that had already closed in on him, Leon didn't try to retreat—that would only lead to being grabbed and torn apart even faster. He chose the most extreme and insane method!
Don’t retreat but advance!
He held the Lion King Sword horizontally in front of him, the spiritual energy condensed on the sword shining so intensely that it resembled liquid gold!
He shot forward like an arrow, crashing resolutely into the chest of Bassor's avatar—the core area where pale flesh and intricate machinery were most tightly intertwined—in the final gap before the giant claws completely closed!
The combined giant power claws collided violently with the target because it suddenly "disappeared" from the attack range, bursting out a deafening metallic clang and blinding sparks of energy, but it had already missed its target!
"Pfft——!"
The sound of the disintegrating force field scorching flesh and metal was chilling! The tip of the Lion King Sword pierced fiercely into the writhing, pale flesh of Bassol's avatar, inlaid with countless tiny channels and gears! The sword instantly poured in violent psionic energy, attempting to disintegrate this blasphemous creation from the inside!
"Roar--!!!"
This time, it was Bassor's turn to roar in pain and rage!
It clearly hadn't expected Leon to break through its carefully planned decisive move in such a suicidal way!
Leon succeeded! He successfully pierced the heart of the evil god's avatar with the Lion King Sword! He could feel the resistance from the tip of the sword, the stubborn resistance of highly compressed chaotic energy and distorted subspace laws.
However, just as the Lion King Sword was frantically pouring its spiritual energy into the avatar in an attempt to detonate its core, a sudden change occurred!
No blood or energy flowed from the wound where the Lion King Sword had pierced the body. Instead, a deep, cold, and seemingly freezing blue light suddenly burst forth!
The light was so familiar—it was the unique energy characteristic emanating from the "weapon" that Gu Hang had described, sealed deep within the core of Knight Star! It was also the core power that constituted that "key"!
Instead of erupting outwards, it acted like greedy tentacles, frantically eroding and wrapping around Leon's arm along the blade of the Lion King Sword!
“The key… fragment…” Leon instantly realized! Bassol had actually embedded a crucial fragment of the key, a key part of the Knight Star’s core device, directly into the energy core of his avatar, using it as both a source of power and the final bait and trap!
(End of this chapter)
