Chapter 726: Chapter 507: The Final Safe Zone and... the Prelude to the Decisive Battle!

The starry sea in the eyes of this sub-god seemed to reflect the real stars, moving within.

Countless colorful starlights traced a graceful and magnificent trajectory across his pupils, making it seem like he could see through the opaque crystal surface of the Angry Iron Plate’s cockpit, observing the scene within.

When he saw the dark golden glow flickering in the eyes of the black-haired boy, his pupils slightly contracted, and the starry sea within seemed to tremble, leading him to look at Chou Yuan beside him.

Could that boy be?!

The True Monarch of the Plague Division seemed aware of his thoughts but said nothing, only showing a faint smile.

Keep watching, there might be something even more interesting to see.

...

At this moment.

Lin Guang and Zumama were sitting side by side in the small cockpit, both gripping a control stick.

The top of the control stick was an incongruous-looking nut, even somewhat rusty.

Dark gold and indigo lights flickered in their eyes, their surrounding aura seeming to connect as one, penetrating into every part of the machine’s Spirit Rune Array.

Suddenly, as if sensing someone watching them, Lin Guang’s eyes, flickering with the dark golden True Intent, abruptly glanced in the direction of that sensation, quickly pulling back.

Zumama blinked, watching the scenery around the machine quickly retreat from volcanoes to plains, and touched Lin Guang with the tip of her tail: "What’s wrong?"

Lin Guang shook his head: "Nothing."

At the next moment, five new Ethereal Crystals were taken from the spatial backpack and placed in the reactor module beneath the machine’s core.

As a cockpit, the space here was admittedly a bit cramped for the two, especially with Zumama having a massive brown python tail.

But at this moment, their perception wasn’t confined to such a narrow space; it was exerting force together with the machine’s core and array, controlling the ever-increasing energy level and reactions within the machine.

After scavenging the entire purple resource zone’s treasure chest and leveraging the machine and Lin Guang’s special ability to absorb more than half of the volcano area’s ether and geothermal energy...

The energy within Angry Iron Plate had become terrifyingly immense.

Moreover...

From the increasingly apparent dark golden crystalline texture on Angry Iron Plate’s surface armor, along with faint feedback from the core, it could be felt that this was not merely an accumulation of energy but a precursor to some unimaginable transformation.

Lin Guang softly said, "The fourth shrinkage will be the last one, shrinking directly till the safe zone disappears."

"Now the second is almost over, meaning, in about two hours, the final victory will be determined."

Zumama nodded.

The next moment, the chatting duo suddenly turned their heads in sync without any sign.

At this moment, what appeared suddenly diagonally below the Angry Iron Plate was a shiny bright green semicircular blade, tens of meters long, coming out of nowhere, aimed directly at the center of Angry Iron Plate’s chest cannon.

That’s where the core is!

Whoosh!!

Alongside this, a slender, mantis-like machine appeared extremely close to the Angry Iron Plate, its compound eyes reflecting the brilliance of its attack.

The viewers locked onto Angry Iron Plate in the live broadcast erupted in exclamations.

This was an assassin-type machine with optical camo stealth with ether, ambushing in this area, specifically waiting for poison runners!

Yet in the next moment.

In the opponent’s astonished gaze——

Clang!!

Sparks flew.

The thick right hand of Angry Iron Plate stretched out, its surface shimmering with silvery steel-type ether glow, blocking the attack without a scratch and then squeezed hard.

The energy blade instantly shattered.

And before the opponent could react, Angry Iron Plate rapidly closed in, the saw disk in its left hand slicing straight into the spiritual gold body of this machine.

Dark golden light wheels instantly spread out, splitting it entirely in two, then teleporting it away. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

Instant kill!

In stream room number two, Remyu’s voice was equally excited and enthusiastic: "Beautiful counterattack!"

Comments began scrolling rapidly.

[That’s tough!]

[Whoa, catching a blade barehanded?]

Some noticed something.

[Is it my imagination? Is this machine’s performance improvement linked to the ether increase?]

Someone explained:

[Check out the perspectives of the machines from the other four major groups; it seems these five extreme machines have the trait of strengthening with ether increase.]

[I’ve been switching views constantly, Frost Tiger and Zero are rampaging, becoming more terrifying with each kill, unlike their initial presence.]

[Whoa, Killing Book? Are they stacking layers?]

[It would be a mistake to consider this machine merely a Tier Five Spiritual Artifact; the pilots are all Six-Star Peak True Masters.]

[But it seems like Angry Iron Plate is indeed on par with those four, I can’t discern much of a difference.]

[Does it also have a True Master pilot? It seems Senran Studio has indeed hired experts.]

......

The poison zone is constantly shrinking.

The first shrinkage compressed the 300-kilometer diameter "Lost Continent" to less than a third, with the second shrinkage further reducing it to below a third of its original size.

——Now it’s only a tenth of the map’s size.

And with each shrinkage of the safe zone, the mist of "Returning to Nothingness" capable of dissolving steel completely becomes increasingly corrosive.