Hyperdimensional Player

Chapter 213 Starship Slayer, Skyward Ascent! (Part Two)

A massive amount of computing power invaded the interstellar warship in front of them.

Duncan lost control of the command room almost instantly. All the mechanical souls submitted to the enemy, became lethargic and stopped working, and even the Immortal's conceptualized control over them could not be managed.

Mechanical Bible, Book of Revelation, Volume XII—"Seven angels stood before the throne of God."

This is the origin of the seven guardian angels.

However, historical records of the seven guardian angels differ within the Mechanicus, and these seven guardian angels also varied across different periods, suggesting that later figures may have replaced them. The Angels of Insight govern the Thrones within the Mechanicus; they are a group of angels without fixed human forms, often appearing as a single, insightful eye with a pair of mechanical wings.

The mechanical angels are responsible for maintaining the internal circulation of the earthly divine kingdom. They are intangible beings, situated at the transit point between the material world and the divine kingdom.

Only when they descend will the Angel of Insight condense into a visible physical form.

Within dimensional space.

From Duncan's God's-eye view, invisible phantoms appeared, materializing out of thin air within the interstellar warship. They intruded as a massive data stream, transforming into a hazy, garbled outline.

"Alarm! Alarm!"

"A mechanical angel in the form of a data life form has been detected! ...The target is a data life form resembling a spirit!..."

"The target is immune to conventional physical attacks!"

A series of clairvoyant angels surrounded Duncan near the command center of the interstellar warship. Mortals could not see them at all; Duncan could only discover the outlines of those angels, which resembled digital projections, by relying on God's perspective. They invaded the mechanical system in a scrambled manner, directly interfering with the control of the mechanical soul in reality, as well as all mechanical entities with computing power.

The computing network formed by these insightful angels repaired the severely damaged interior of the warship.

call out!
On the ceiling of the command room, a robotic arm that was originally intended to assist suddenly attacked Duncan. One after another, the mechanical guards in the side transport pods awoke, and even the adaptive defense ship cannons aimed at Duncan from a distance.

Rumble!
Suddenly, Duncan seemed to be surrounded by all the mechanical beings. The corpses of the data sages who died on the ground were also changing. The remaining mechanical modifications kept merging together, and then the spines intertwined to form gears. After they were fitted together, a pair of mechanical bone wings opened, and the central construct eye instantly shot out a blazing laser beam.

—Insight of the Throne (Mechanical Construction) (Five-Star Silver Gray)!

interesting.

AI-like life forms?

However, it seems that in the scriptures of the Mechanicus, the Thrones are all transformed from humans after their ascension!
After a Data Sage dies, there is a chance that they will be promoted to a Throne.

Duncan's figure was pierced by the scorching laser beam, and his right shoulder was almost burned. However, he quickly recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye. In this world, his regenerative ability is extremely abnormal. With the Avalon sword sheath, it is almost impossible for him to die suddenly.

His elevated immortality is very different from other heroic spirits.

Other heroic spirits don't have a high barrier to entry for summoning, and after descending, they need to rely on the magic power of others to maintain their existence. If their magic power isn't replenished regularly, they will gradually dissipate. However, the Immortal Duncan is different. His summoning threshold is extremely high, and the magic power required for the ritual is also enormous. But after being summoned, he basically doesn't need to replenish his magic power because he himself is a moving vortex of magic power.

He single-handedly halted the great decline of mythology in the world; he himself was the embodiment of the mythological era.

When his magic is still abundant, Duncan, wielding the Avalon sword sheath, is virtually immortal, and any injury heals at an astonishing speed.

Sonorous!

The sword of victory is drawn.

Duncan stared at the phantom of the Throne on the projection screen and slowly said, "Activate the authority of the Godslayer!"

Since it is immune to conventional physical damage, then treat it as a kind of divine power to deal with!
His figure flashed out instantly, completely ignoring the activated mechanical Crusaders—mechanical beings transformed from the fallen Crusaders, using their remains to suppress the mechanical souls. Accompanied by a fleeting beam of light, Duncan disregarded the nearby activated constructs and slashed his sword at the control panel in the command center.

From God's perspective, the computing devices in front of him overlapped with the phantom of the angels, which projected digitally onto these control devices!

boom!
The steel-cast armor, more than half a meter thick, was cleaved in two by Duncan's sword. The nearby computing equipment was also shattered by the raging wind. The Throne, which was projecting digitally onto the machine, was split in two. Its expression even showed a hint of fear. The next second, it was destroyed by Duncan, turning into countless data turbulence and disappearing completely.

"Target eliminated!"

"Successfully killed the Throne, a data life form! ... Attempt to seize the target's abilities!..."

As the first Throne was slain, the other Thrones grew increasingly horrified.

They have almost no natural enemies. Even the descending abominations cannot harm them, which consist of only a data stream. At most, they can only kill the mechanical bodies they possess or destroy the computing centers where they temporarily store data.

But this time, the Thrones before us are truly dead!
From the data level to the soul level, everything was shattered by Duncan's sword, leaving not a single bit of garbled data stream.

The life form of the Thrones is somewhat similar to that of human souls and consciousness entering a virtual network constructed by computing power. They are scattered throughout the earthly kingdoms of the entire planet, wandering within many nested cities. Therefore, the angels of insight are known as the angels of a thousand eyes, the all-seeers, possessing the most mechanical clones, incarnating in millions, and able to descend anywhere on the planet.

Even a projector is all it takes to bring forth a faint data stream.

As long as I can kill him, that's fine!
Duncan's expression was indifferent.

The entire battle was instantly reversed. At first, the figures of the Thrones surrounded Duncan, but now it was the other way around. They were terrified, dodging Duncan's pursuit in the stream of computing power data. Some of them couldn't even bend down into the machine and condense the physical constructs before being cut into countless fragments by the lightsaber of Excalibur.

This is a god-slaying ability on a soul level!

Duncan drew Norden's Bow, nocked the cursed spear as an arrow, and aimed at a Seraphim-like mechanical construct. With a streak of crimson lightning, the artifact pierced through three decks with unstoppable force, pinning the Seraphim to the cockpit in Area A.

Invisible to the naked eye!
This does not mean that targets cannot be tracked from a God's-eye view.

"Seize the power of data!"

"Human host number one has gained the special ability to enter the data network with his consciousness!"

At this moment, a mark resembling an out-of-body experience appeared on the projection page in the dimensional space. However, it was not a true out-of-body experience, but rather a temporary uploading of consciousness into the data network, granting the same ability as the Seraphim to travel on the data plane.

Duncan wiped out more than a dozen data-driven Thrones!

The angel of insight in the distance seemed to sense a hint of danger. The vessel that descended to earth instantly shut down the central mechanical eyeball, and then the figures of the seraphim disappeared little by little, as if they had returned to His body.

The Angels of Insight are an aggregate that constructs the faith data stream of the earthly kingdom of God.

At this moment, everything nearby is still in a frozen, abnormal time flow, and only the existence of demigods can be immune to this time stagnation effect.

The Clock Angel remained motionless. However, in the upper part of the hive, a majestic steel body had already broken through the air. Its steel wings, constructed from three thousand six hundred blade feathers, slowly unfurled. It held a plasma-polymer lightsaber in one hand and the head of Lady Fungus in the other. Countless holy-forged runes shone on its back armor. Its massive body transformed into a streak of light and flew into the atmosphere.

The Steel-Cast Angel, the chief of the Angels of Power, the One of Radiance, the One of Bravery and Fearlessness, the One who governs battle and courage, the most powerful among the seven guardian angels, and the one most skilled in combat.

At this point, the stagnant time flow loosens slightly.

From Duncan's God's-eye view, he saw the Fungal Lady being dismembered by the Steel-cast Angel, and the Blood Spirit of the Nightmare whose Black Swan head had been severed not far away. The Steel-cast Angel ignored all mental spells and all illusions, and was immune to all spells below the legendary level. The only way to defeat Him was through pure brute force.

This guy is similar to the first human form, almost in a state of magic immunity and super armor.

Above the atmosphere.

Countless blades and wings pierced the air and attacked!
Duncan's figure shot into the sky in an instant. Beneath his feet, the deck of the interstellar armor had been pierced through like a sieve. The steel-cast armor, which was strong enough to withstand missile bombardment, was cut open by the steel wings like tofu. As the figure of the steel-cast angel pierced through the entire bow of the interstellar warship like a sharp sword, the two figures also left the atmosphere and almost entered the outer space when they collided.

A pair of blood-red dragon wings stirred up a pure magical wind.

A pair of steel wings constructed from blades activate anti-gravity runes engraved on their surface.

At this moment, the steel-cast angel stopped pretending. The source power engine within its body directly transformed into pure magic output. This meant that these seven guardian angels were once godlike beings from the old era, possessing extremely pure primal magic.

clang!
The moment the Excalibur clashed with the Plasma Lightsaber, it was a clash of pure faith. The two figures exchanged dozens of blows in the outer sky. Duncan, who had been nonchalant until now, became increasingly serious, because this incarnation of the steel-cast angel was far more powerful than the one in the underground hive.

He also loaded legendary-level combat skills into his construct avatar.

The wind howls!

The two fought to a standstill, and Duncan, who had honed his combat skills through countless battles and bloodshed, was actually slightly at a disadvantage against this enemy.

They were like meteors falling into the atmosphere, constantly clashing even as they descended from the sky, with almost none gaining a clear advantage.

This is merely a vessel for avatars.

If he were facing the true form of the Steel Angel, Duncan would probably have already lost.

"Alarm! Alarm!"

"Other interstellar warships detected!... Orbital fortress detected!..."

boom!
Duncan's figure crashed to the ground like a meteor. The Steel Angel swung its lightsaber down, and the ground beneath their feet shattered the moment they collided, creating a shockwave about one kilometer in diameter. Duncan punched the Steel Angel hard in the face, sending its majestic steel body flying hundreds of meters away, crashing into a distant mountain peak.

The mountain roared like an earthquake, and cracks appeared on its surface before it finally collapsed.

"Unlock Mythical Form!"

"Holy Grail Blood Unlocked!"

"Giant Power Unlocked!"

"Dragon Bloodline Unlocked!"

"Gluttony Power Unlocked!"

"Unending drinking, rampaging fusion, unleashing unending rampage!"

"Archery unlocked!"

"Mythical Ability - Causality: Arrow That Always Hits Unlocked!"

"Human host number one is switching to the mythological template [Immortal] form!"

[Activate Unrelenting Frenzy!]

[The power of the Titans has been elevated to godlike strength and power in the realms of power and war!]

The Blood Cup appeared in Duncan's palm. The red dragon carved on the surface of the Holy Grail seemed to come alive, surging along the blood-red lines and slowly spreading its wings. As he drank it down, a massive magical power surged in all directions like a hurricane.

The blood reflected inside seemed to have been tainted by the sins of this world, transformed into a pure magic like dark red sludge.

He didn't activate 'Unending Berserk' when facing King Solomon at his peak, but the steel-cast angel in front of him forced him into the second stage of his berserk form.

At this moment, the brute force he possessed was no less than that of Kratos from God of War, who tore apart the Greek gods with his bare hands.

With just one powerful blow, the mountain peak in front of him was shattered.

Of course, strictly speaking, his power is closer to that of Kratos in his old age, after all, Kratos in his prime was the God of War.

"Unlock the true Excalibur!"

"Unlock the Avalon scabbard!"

"Activate the Realm of Annihilation!"

Dimensional space.

Duncan's consciousness suddenly raised his palm, and the realm of the Annihilation God appeared out of thin air in his palm. Then, the reality and the Annihilation Plane overlapped, and the original scene of the apocalyptic ruins gradually transformed into a blood-red and desolate Annihilation Kingdom.

Since we can't access Avalon in the Mist here, we have to use the Oblivion Plane instead.

After all, this isn't the native plane of the first human host. If he could summon the guardian fairy of Avalon, the face of the goddess Minerva-Athena, along with the nine descending Norse Valkyries, it would be a piece of cake for Duncan to tear apart the steel-cast angel in front of him.

The spokesperson for polytheism on earth, the leader of a polytheistic faction—that's no joke.

Given the current situation, he can only do his best, at least to exchange one for one and kill one of the descending guardian angels!

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(P.S.: I'm out of drafts, so tomorrow's update will be delayed. Trying to build up a draft list.)
(End of this chapter)