MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 229 Wake Up
"Huh? What are you two doing?" The boy stood aside like an outsider, looking at the seemingly oblivious embrace before him with a look of astonishment on his face.

A surge of anger, fueled by being completely ignored, welled up inside him. "Hey! Did you hear me?! I'm asking you two questions, answer me!"

Consumed by rage, the young man subconsciously gathered his magic power, and a huge and heavy greatsword appeared out of thin air, its blade pointing at the two unsuspecting people, as if it would strike down at any moment.

However, at that moment, a sickening sound of bones cracking came from nearby.

The voice was like a bucket of cold water, jolting Fang Zheng somewhat awake from his rage.

He frowned deeply, his gaze fixed on the two girls.

Under the terrifying binding force of Mami Tomoe's ribbons, their facial features were squeezed out of blood due to the immense pressure. Their originally slender and beautiful bodies seemed to be on the verge of collapse, scattering like crushed tomatoes.

"It's the Soul Gem!" Although the two people gave him slightly different feelings at the moment, they were both the same unsettling sense of turbidity.

Kyoko Sakura, who had just fought with herself, had a huge drain on her magic power, causing her Soul Gem to become dull and cloudy; while Mami Tomoe suffered the same result due to intense emotional fluctuations.

Fang Zheng looked at his soul gem, and sure enough, it had turned somewhat black due to the previous battle and continuous magic output.

"Strange, why do I feel no fatigue at all after consuming so much magic power?"

"I even feel that I can unleash even greater power!"

"Something's not right! The Soul Gem's mana output doesn't seem to be decreasing as it's being consumed, but its turbidity is constantly increasing?"

He clenched his fists, his brows furrowing even more deeply.

A strange, blocked feeling rose from the bottom of my heart, and the originally smooth flow of magic seemed to become somewhat sluggish.

"The higher the turbidity, the more difficult it seems to mobilize magic? And my emotions... seem to have become a bit irritable. I only fought with her, it shouldn't have made me angry, could I have been affected by this?"

And what about them?

Perhaps it's because the Soul Gem is tainted that she's depressed and even contemplating suicide.

Having become a magic warrior, Fang Zheng didn't want to watch someone commit suicide in front of him. "I have to find a way to stop them!"

"Oh right, the Seed of Lamentation! This thing can absorb impurities. I remember that Sakura Kyoko's can be used quite a few more times, so it should be enough."

"Let them absorb it and purify the soul gems; their mental state should improve."

Thinking of this, the boy immediately reached out, trying to take the Seed of Sorrow from the already suffocating Sakura Kyoko.

"boom!"

A crisp clanging sound rang out in front of his chest.

A flintlock musket formed from ribbons fired a bright yellow bullet that struck Fang Zheng squarely in the chest, but was blocked by his greatsword, which he swung in time, sending sparks flying.

"What do you want to do!" Fang Zheng shouted in a deep voice.

Mami Tomoe's incredibly gentle, even chilling, telepathic message followed. "Please don't disturb us. Let Kyoko sleep peacefully."

Her eyes, under the immense pressure of her own ribbons, turned bloodshot from ruptured blood vessels, yet her gaze remained gentle and tender as she looked at the boy with a sickly smile. "I'm so sorry I couldn't force you to stop making a contract with Kyubey yesterday."

“You’ve become a monster just like us. You seem very strong and satisfied with this power.”

"But Sakura Kyoko and I might not be able to accept it."

"Magical girls are just puppets in battle, empty shells without souls. If it's Kyoko, let her sleep. Let me bear this pain alone..."

"You!" The young man was getting angry. "Mami Tomoe, you're completely insane right now! The turbidity of the Soul Gem is affecting your mental state, and you're starting to talk nonsense."

"Isn't it great that the soul condenses into a gem? Don't you watch anime or read novels? Isn't this just astral projection or cybernetic prosthetics? What's so hard to accept?"

"Is that so?" Mami Tomoe shook her head slightly, and dense ribbons spread outward from her center, making her float in the air.

The ribbons quickly coalesced into countless flintlock pistols. She smiled and said, "Now that I know my body is just a puppet, I feel so light and in excellent condition. Please don't make any unnecessary movements, otherwise, I will have a hard time controlling myself."

“She’s completely insane…” Fang Zheng shook his head, no longer trying to reason with her.

He took out the healing potion that Fang Zheng had given him earlier from his storage bag and crushed it.

As the red spiral of smoke spread, the wounds on his body, which had not yet fully healed, instantly disappeared.

Fang Zheng looked at his still murky soul gem and realized, "Sure enough, if the consumption of the soul gem is essentially an accumulation of filth, then healing potions won't work either."

"If you can't recover, then forget it!" Fang Zheng pointed at Mami Tomoe, his anger clearly evident in his tone. "I'm also affected by you now, I'm a bit irritable, I'm too lazy to waste words with you, I'll beat you up until you come to your senses first!"

Before he finished speaking, the greatsword transformed into a stream of light, covering his entire body and turning into a set of sharp armor.

Without gasoline as an additional power source, Fang Zheng completely abandoned the idea of ​​conserving magic power.

This unleashed an even more terrifying burst of power, and the humanoid fighter jets took off once again!
"Rumble..."

Like lightning exploding nearby, the battle between the boy and Mami Tomoe erupted instantly.

After only a brief exchange with Sakura Kyoko, his combat skills and control over magic had improved considerably.

"Come on! Let me taste the limits now!" A roar exploded in the telepathic connection.

Slashes, whips, kicks, heavy punches... The boy's adaptability to close combat is getting better and better, and he no longer seems as awkward as before.

With every punch, kick, and slash, magic erupts wildly, transforming into visible streams of light that surge like volcanoes in the opposite direction of the bladed armor, maximizing power by concentrating it on a single point within an extremely short distance.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Amidst thunderous explosions, the air was compressed into a hard barrier by each attack, only to be shattered with overwhelming force.

The terrifying shockwave raged, destroying swathes of trees in the surrounding area.

However, Mami Tomoe still wore a gentle smile.

His body was severed by the spikes of the razor-sharp armor? No use! The ribbons at the cut immediately grew back and wrapped around the wound, forcibly squeezing it shut.

A heavy punch or kick? No use! Dense ribbons spread outwards, cushioning the impact layer by layer like springs.

Fang Zheng tried to control numerous tiny blades, transforming them into a storm of metal to sever each of her ribbons and tear her flesh apart.
Still no use!

Numerous ribbons spread out like a giant, three-dimensional spider web, and her body moved in a completely illogical and irregular three-dimensional manner under the pull of the ribbons.

The immense G-force nearly destroyed her body, causing more and more blood to spill from her mouth and nose. However, Mami Tomoe had already severed the senses of her body, using this crumbling body as a puppet that could be sacrificed at will.

When the flesh is cut open by a sharp blade, a ribbon is immediately placed over it, forcibly stitching the wound shut.

When the body is struck hard, the dense ribbons act as a buffer structure, dissipating the force layer by layer and minimizing the impact on the core.

At the same time, more ribbons frantically coalesced into flintlock muskets, firing bullets powerful enough to pierce steel from almost imperceptible blind spots at Fang Zheng.

These flintlock muskets, each capable of firing a single shot, formed a dense formation resembling a line of executioners under the cover of numerous ribbons. After each volley, they immediately disappeared into the ribbon barrier, and the next volley of reloaded bullets was fired from a new position.

The dense barrage of bullets almost completely covered Fang Zheng's every move, leaving countless holes in his full-body armor. But the tiny blades around Fang Zheng quickly filled the gaps like flowing water, forming a new defense.

Although only a few seconds had passed, the battle had already reached a suffocating stalemate.

Fang Zheng knew that this couldn't go on like this.

The turbidity of his Soul Gem was rising at a visible rate, his inner rage was growing like a flood bursting its banks, and his control over magic was becoming increasingly precise.

If this stalemate continues for even a moment longer, he can't guarantee that he can still control his emotions.

Mami Tomoe's condition was even worse.

Her soul gem was so tainted it was almost completely black. What would happen if this continued? Fang Zheng didn't know, but it certainly wouldn't be anything good.

He took a deep breath, his mind racing, and suddenly came up with an extremely crazy, yet potentially effective, idea.

From yesterday until now, he has spent a lot of time figuring out how to use magic.

He noticed that although the Soul Gem was the core of power, it could not act freely outside the body like the Golden Core and Nascent Soul in the novel.

The body is the vessel through which magic exerts its power.

The Soul Stone is like a battery, storing enormous energy, but it needs the "engine" of the body to convert it into usable power.

The better the physical condition, the more efficient this "engine" will be, and the more fully the magic will be exerted.

"Heh!" An uncontrollable burst of laughter appeared on his lips, the excitement of battle and the thrill of discovering new possibilities.

The battle was so exhilarating! So satisfying!

"Come on! Mami Tomoe, this is the final blow!" With an excited roar, Fang Zheng almost abandoned all defense, his whole body rushing straight towards Mami Tomoe like a cannonball.

"Boom boom boom..."

His body was utterly powerless against Mami Tomoe's ribbon barrier, shattering into a cloud of blood mist that permeated the ribbon's seal.

Even though she had lost her composure somewhat, Mami Tomoe was still somewhat surprised.

However, in the next moment, amidst the pervasive blood mist, the only things that remained intact were the slightly trembling, floating Soul Gem and half of his brain, which was still faintly glowing and barely functioning under the influence of the Soul Gem.

"Ha! Get ready to take this!"

Amidst an extremely excited laugh, the boy was blasted apart... no, he deliberately used a sharp blade to cut himself into countless pieces. Each piece of flesh, held in place by the tiny blades, unfolded in the blood mist, rapidly converging and expanding, transforming into a massive, almost sky-covering, blood-red phantom humanoid figure.

"Come on! Let me try this move!"

The magic unleashed by the Soul Gem was like a torrent bursting its banks. At the moment flesh was cut, the connection between the soul and body was weakened but not completely severed.

Numerous tiny blades, like countless electrical wires, acted as temporary conductive mediums, instantly infusing the immense magical power output from the Soul Gem into every piece of flesh in an almost brutal manner.

The crimson phantom giant, fueled by a frenzy of magical energy, wrapped around Mami Tomoe's ribbon, almost solidified into a tangible form.

More blades were summoned by explosive magic, turning into a blood-red storm that churned wildly inside the giant.

The defenses formed by numerous flintlock muskets and ribbons covering Mami's body were instantly shredded and torn apart like paper by this pure energy burst forth briefly at the cost of her physical size.

Amidst the chaos of flying flesh and blood, Fang Zheng seized the opportunity and successfully seized the Seed of Lamentation from Sakura Kyoko, attaching it to Tomoe Mami's Soul Gem before it became completely corrupted.

(End of this chapter)