Fierce impacts transmitted deep into the underground, but would not attract anyone. Unless the door to the Mechanical Creation Furnace is opened, the Machine Core Tunnel connects with no other tunnels, as the iron door completely isolates any underground disturbance.

Meluna raised her sword to intercept halfway, her swift and delayed strike obliterated the charge of the burly warrior, a scene beyond human imagination.

The hostages, who hadn’t dared make a sound from the beginning, now erupted with some noise. Initially seeing Li Ang’s side as somewhat weak in appearance had made them worried, but now their eyes were filled with delight.

Boliya and Fres were about to move when Celestial Fury’s sword tip two them. They immediately responded with resistance of their own.

Fres’s hands moved with the speed of a phantom, like magic, a technique full of superfluous actions often seen among street performers and wild mages, usually the same person wearing multiple hats.

But Fres survived to this day by mastering this trick, and as his hands flickered with speed, countless small fireballs and sparks erupted, their scorching heat magnified by some ether caught the hostages by surprise, making them gasp.

Li Ang’s eyes glowed with spiritual light, as he entered the state of Divine Wisdom Transcendence.

Behind him, the massive head of a sea dragon appeared out of nowhere. It had crystal horn fins interwoven with red and blue, majestic as a divine spirit, more untamed than magic power.

Summoning the Pure Demon Dragon God Statue.

Even though Leviathan did not come along on this mission, its familiar sea serpent by the side, summoning a mindless pure demon statue was still effortless.

The Leviathan sculpture surged forward like waves, and as the waves splattered, it condensed into a complete body. However, before it fully formed, the giant wave swallowed Fres, destroying the protective ring formed by the rune arm guards before the fury of the ocean’s rage of Level 9 could even put up any resistance.

The Power of Water twisted and detonated with a bang, leaving him incapable of resisting as he was slammed against the ceiling, then dropped to the ground like a muddied heap.

"Those rune arm guards aren’t supposed to be used this way." Li Ang smiled, "How many times have I told you all, gather the ether inside to a point and, like with my technique, maximize the spell’s power, but you always say I’m too long-winded."

Fres was already unconscious and could not hear what he said.

"Damn! You scum, when did you master this kind of power?"

Kleem struggled to stand. The not-so-excellent scale armor on his chest was broken open by Meluna’s strike, the wound deep enough to see bone, and muscular tissue rolled and convulsed, visually gruesome.

He instantly took out healing items, and under the influence of the stored healing spell, the wound slowly wriggled and healed.

Both he and Boliya’s pupils trembled violently, thinking Li Ang would have to rely on assisting Meluna to fight, but he could handle it on his own.

"You got stronger even after leaving The Soul Apex, how is that possible?"

"Stop talking about that! Kleem! You take the lead as assault, I’ll provide remote restraint! Don’t be so reckless and expose a vulnerability again!"

Boliya yelled sharply from afar, drawing his short bow, shooting beam arrows towards Li Ang and Meluna, but they blocked them with ease.

His assessment of the situation was that Meluna used a vulnerability to knock Kleem away. Yet who at this level and strength could not see that Meluna could instantly take their lives, it was truly a bit...

Li Ang shook his head, drawing the Oathbreaker’s Vengeance Thornlance from the dimensional rift.

The explosive sound of the dimensional rift startled the remaining two, prompting them to attack with even more urgency.

Kleem’s dual axes danced wildly, and Meluna gathered magic power to her sword edge; Li Ang quickly reminded, "Don’t kill them, capture them alive."

That scale, fear that she might really impale that mindless warrior through with one sword.

"Ha! You still want to capture us? Li Ang, even if you’ve acquired some gadgets, don’t think you can easily win!"

At this time, the equipment Boliya was allowed by Rams to use included his energy arrow short bow, flying boots, and phantom cloak. The latter two items were the very source of power that allowed him to maintain distance like a phantom, making him evasive to target.

"Is it?"

Li Ang held the Oathbreaker’s Vengeance Thornlance in his left hand, weighing it lightly, nodding slightly. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

This treasure artifact from Elaphia, equally granting him hope through power from her heart, yet he was neither a warrior profession nor a blade master, previously he could only use it defensively by relying on its form liberation, Counterattack Dark Blade.

But today, it finally revealed its sharp edge.

The Demon’s Hand grasped the lance’s handle, the dark lance tip slicing through the air, creating dim black shadows, with the dark purple wrappings dancing along and the golden runes on its surface trailing light ribbons.

With simple accumulation of strength, the demon’s sharp claws injected unmatched non-human giant power into the lance handle, and the dark thorny lance immediately set forth, wailing like a piercing howl as it cut through the air.

Boliya, though phantom-like evading in various places, the thorny lance still aimed at his true location.

This was not auto-tracking but foresight! He twisted his body in terror.

"Honestly, do you know how many times I’ve strategized combat based on your abilities? You think I don’t know where your real body is?" Li Ang said.

Boliya had heard of this lance, one of the treasure artifacts of that councilor’s noble daughter. At this time, he used all his magic power to drive the airflow around him, his talent in wind elements played to its utmost, forcefully twisting his body mid-air to dodge this lance.