Indivilia curled her lips into a wicked smile, paying no mind to her severed arm. She slowly turned her body, those blood-red eyes locking onto Mo Chen with an upward tilt of her gaze. Her expression hovered between amusement and cruelty—mocking, yet cold.
At the same time, her arm began regenerating rapidly, budding from the stump like a plant. In the blink of an eye, it had completely reformed.
There were no words exchanged.
Indivilia's body flickered—ghost-like—and appeared directly in front of Mo Chen, thrusting her clawed hand straight toward his chest!
Auto-dodge chip, activate!
At the last possible second, auto-evasion activated. Mo Chen vanished from his original position, and Indivilia's razor-sharp claws only sliced through a fading afterimage. If he'd been a second slower, his heart would've been ripped clean out.
Mo Chen's eyes narrowed. A cold jolt passed through his mind.
She was fast—too fast.
Her strike had no warning. He'd nearly been caught off guard.
After absorbing Nihilister, Indivilia's power had clearly skyrocketed; she was nothing like the opponent he'd faced before.
Instead of avoiding the fight, Mo Chen surged forward like an arrow loosed from a bow. He raised his hand and tossed out a black object, and at the same time, his right hand gripped his chainsword tight.
With an opponent this fast, evasion was meaningless—it would only invite a chase. The right move was to go head-on!
Indivilia's smile bloomed like a beautiful, poisonous wine—deadly and alluring. Her body accelerated with sudden force, appearing in front of Mo Chen in an instant. Her claws sliced down, gleaming with lethal brilliance.
As the cold light flashed, Mo Chen twisted his body to the side, narrowly dodging. Both hands on the chainsword, he swung it in a wide arc.
The deafening roar of the engine was the howl of a machine's soul!
A shadow whipped down from the air—clang!—slamming onto the chainsword with tremendous force.
Mo Chen's arms trembled under the impact.
It was the tailblade—Indivilia's scorpion stinger!
Suddenly, a glow pulsed from the blade and Mo Chen's danger instincts screamed.
He shifted aside, just as a high-energy particle beam shot past his side and smashed into a small hill in the distance.
Boom!
The entire hill shattered and turned to dust in a single blast!
But Mo Chen didn't falter. With the chainsword in hand, he twisted both wrists, the whirring saw teeth catching the tailblade and knocking it aside. In the same motion, he swung the chainsword toward Indivilia's chest.
Indivilia reached out, trying to catch it again.
But how could Mo Chen let her pull the same trick twice?
He suddenly released one hand, forming a massive black-light-infused fist, and hammered it into Indivilia's abdomen.
Weak Point Piercer!
Boom boom boom—!
The impact surged like tidal waves, crashing through her with tens of thousands of kilograms of force!
Indivilia's body bent violently from the blow, her spine arching upward.
Taking advantage of the moment, Mo Chen drove the chainsword deep into her chest. The sawblade roared, glowing bright red from the heat and friction.
System prompt: Machine God Ecstasy. Armor Penetration +200%, Damage +200%!
Mo Chen's target: Indivilia's energy core.
The core was the source of power for any Heretic. Destroying it would cripple her, robbing her of strength.
At that moment, Indivilia's chest was wide open, her hands blocked, and the two gray rabbits bounced free—though they tried to cushion the blow, they couldn't provide any actual defense.
Just as she was about to be split open, Indivilia made a shocking move—she opened her mouth and bit down on the chainsword!
Crack—!
Mo Chen's heart sank.
The extremely durable teeth of the chainsword had actually been bitten off!
A gust of wind blasted past—just an afterimage. Mo Chen's attack had failed to pierce through, and he didn't linger. He quickly retreated, raising the chainsword to block the incoming tail blade.
But Indivilia took the opportunity to grab Mo Chen's wrist. Her expression turned vicious—she was going to twist off his arm.
She wanted revenge.
She wanted to torture him to death.
But at that moment—boom!—Indivilia's body suddenly lurched forward as if hit by a cannon blast. A hole blew open in her back!
It was the spider mine Mo Chen had thrown earlier!
He'd drawn that mine from the system ages ago but never had a chance to use it—until now. And in this battle, it worked wonders.
Mo Chen didn't hesitate. He discarded the damaged chainsword and slammed his fists forward.
"Sōkotsu!"
It was a technique from Bleach: a rapid double punch with overwhelming destructive power!
Boom!
Indivilia took the hit to her chest, caving in with a dull thud before being launched backwards. But her regeneration was fast, and she'd recover quickly.
Mo Chen knew this all too well. He stomped forward, breaking the air as he shot after her. In the blink of an eye, he caught up to the falling Indivilia.
Her scorpion tail rose high, energy condensing at the tip. Just as she was about to fire, Mo Chen raised his hand and delivered a resounding slap—smack!
Her vision went white, stars spinning.
Palm Strike: Stun!
At the same time, Mo Chen activated his nanocore. Silver armor coated his skin in an instant. He gripped his sword—Ryūjin Jakka—and unleashed its full power.
A beam of white light burst forth, forming a massive blade nearly ten meters long.
"Hrah!"
Weak Point Piercer!
The moment the words left his mouth, the long blade surged forward like a divine flash of light, tearing through the air and piercing directly through Indivilia's chest!
Backed by the nanobeam sword, Ryūjin Jakka, and the Weak Point Piercer buff, the strike carved through her body like slicing tofu.
"AAAAHHHHH!"
Indivilia threw her head back in agony, her body writhing and twisting, blood-red light flickering beneath her skin. That flawless form began to distort and transform.
She was trying to change shape into her scorpion form!
But how could Mo Chen give her that chance?
Clang—!
The light blade shattered.
But Ryūjin Jakka itself had already pierced into her body. Mo Chen leaned close and whispered calmly.
"Hadō No. 96—Ittō Kasō."
In that instant, Ryūjin Jakka erupted in an inferno from within her chest!
An overwhelming surge of fire exploded outward like a tidal wave, flooding everything with its wrath. A pillar of fire pierced the sky, and everything around them—rock, trees, even Rapture corpses—was incinerated into ash.