Ark Chess Player

A weak, inarticulate voice, barely revealing any emotion, rang in Lin Lu's ears.

White arms wrapped around Lin Lu's neck, and the girl's long silver hair cascaded over the ferocious armor of Noah Armor, like a layer of white frost.

The slender, jade-like arm slowly rose, pointing directly below at the monster's figure, which could be seen even from a height of a hundred meters.

"Right now."

The horoscope disappeared, and time was put back on track.

Lin Lu slowly clenched his fists, his blood was surging, and his heart was beating at a rate of over 130 beats per minute, and it was still rising.

Large amounts of white steam billowed out from the gaps in Noah's armor, like a layer of cloud obscuring his figure, while the roar of engines echoed continuously in the night sky.

Lin Lu raised his left hand, and the Noah Armor's gauntlet seemed to be branded with hot iron. Orange-red marks burned continuously from the inside of the armor, channeling a steady stream of energy into the mech. The dazzling silver-white patterns draped the Noah Armor in a sacred and unseen design, like a thin layer of ice crystals on the outer armor.

Lin Lu slowly opened his eyes, his cobalt blue eyes filled with starlight, and a dazzling star chart reflected in them.

The PRTS system was forcibly removed from Noah's armed forces, and was replaced by...

"Doctor, I'm back."

Anemone's voice came through the mobile terminal.

At this moment, the spiritual connection between Noah's armed forces and Lin Lü was restored to 100%.

Unlike before when he could only maintain about 20% of the outer layer connection, Lin Lu's will could now fully perceive every part of the Noah Armor. Noah was like an extension of his body. At this moment, he was truly one with the machine. An astonishing cobalt blue burst forth from the depths of the silver-white visor, and the power of Ibitas brought this energy-depleted mech back to life.

The digitized spirit domain was perfectly connected with the Noah Armor. With the assistance of the silver lotus, Lin Lu's spirit domain instantly covered the entire upper city of Chernobog.

Omniscient and omnipotent.

Two hundred meters above the ground, the Fulton recovery magnetic device of the Bad Guy had already followed the signal guided by the balloon device and was just a hair's breadth away from hooking the balloon.

Lin Lu looked up, his gaze meeting that of the small figure in the cabin.

Amiya gave a helpless smile and gave Lin Lu a thumbs up.

Lin Lu also gave a thumbs-up, and the two looked at each other.

Then, he did something that shocked everyone in the cabin.

A white blade of light severed the specially designed telescopic rope. Lin Lu swung his black blade upwards, cutting off the chance of reentry. The weightless Fulton balloon instantly disappeared from sight thanks to the acceleration propulsion device, while Lin Lu plummeted towards the ground at high speed, his thin ice armor gradually glowing red.

"Has he gone mad?!"

Sonia cried out; unlike her friends, she couldn't fall asleep peacefully. Her experience at Peterheim High School made it difficult for her to drift off to sleep.

"That's just how the Doctor is. He's not some righteous hero; he just... doesn't want to lose," Amiya said softly, holding her tablet. The battle logs on the screen were clearly visible.

High in the sky, during the Fulton balloon guidance process, Lin Lü's ascent point had deviated from its original position, resulting in a coordinate deviation.

"Landing point correction is in progress, taxiing trajectory is being re-established, wind speed, air speed, and controllable vectors are being assessed. This is now complete."

Anemone's voice was calm and steady; she was like the most perfect artificial intelligence, solving her master's problems in a few brief seconds.

The roar of Noah's armed engine filled the air, its back armor opened, and blue-white flames burst from the jet nozzles as it adjusted its direction in mid-air. A surging white mist, carrying a strong burning smell, permeated the night sky. Even Lin Lu, inside the armor, could smell the scent of blood and steam, though the blood was from his internal organs rupturing under the strain of the silvery-white photon blood, causing blood to spill from the corners of his mouth.

As Amiya said...

Lin Lu simply didn't want to lose.

What's more, it's losing to a piece of trash like Mephistopheles!

The Stitches-like creature reappeared in sight, but its condition seemed somewhat off.

The creature, constantly devouring the bodies of infected and monsters, is unable to move. Large amounts of flesh peel off its surface, yet there is nothing it can do.

Lin Lu knew why; he saw the icy blue Originium Silencing Device gleaming coldly from the pure black opening!

Valery didn't just die in vain; he saved the city with his actions, imprisoning the giant monster within the military and police building.

The real hero is him; Lin Lu is just a player who wants to win... a chess player.

Draw your sword.

Black knife, red blade.

"Originium Arts: Blood Oath x300%!"

Originium Arts are manifested on the two swords, with crimson flames coiling around the blades, and ghostly fire emanating from them.

The Noah Armor flipped in mid-air with remarkably human-like movements, each of its sharp gauntlets gripping a katana, and attacked the Stitched Monster like a falling meteor.

The quenched longsword cleaved through flesh and blood, its slender red blade easily breaking through the outer shell. Then came the bold black blade, as unrestrained as a demon-slaying sword, which severed the incredibly hard bones!

The Noah Armor's jet vents spewed out large amounts of steam, providing him with the power to turn his body!

Lin Lu descended from the sky like a meat grinder, his Noah Armored arms bearing blood-red patterns, making it hard to imagine the immense pressure he was enduring.

The black blade and red edge sliced ​​the stitched monster's head in two, the continuous spinning slashes like a chainsaw cutting the monster through its head. Countless pieces of flesh flew everywhere, the heavy blood soaking through Noah's armor, even Lin Lu, along with his armor, looked as if he were soaking in blood, his long white hair stained with a deep red.

The Stitched Monster suddenly shuddered, and the mastermind behind it, Mephisto, attempted to turn all its flesh and blood into explosive bombs, taking Lin Lu down with him.

"dream!"

The star chart in Lin Lu's eyes shone with dazzling light!

Time stopped, and the Frankenstein monster froze, unable to move.

"Truly a chaotic dance in the air."

It's less like rubbing someone's back with two katanas and more like dismembering someone with two katanas.

The endless spinning slash descended from the head of the stitched monster, forcefully sawing the more than 20-meter-high mountain of flesh in half!

"The end."

The moment Lin Lu landed, he spun around, his feet turning three or four times on the blood-splattered ground. He moved with the agility of a dancer, without any mechanical stiffness.

Crimson patterns covered Noah's Armor, and tiny fragments continuously shattered from his trembling arms, cracking his entire body. Lin Lu forcibly suppressed the dizziness, tilting his head back to swallow the fragments of his shattered organs. The silver lotus quickly aided in balancing Noah's Armor, allowing the weapon, which had almost collapsed in the spinning slash, to continue spewing steam.

"Got you."

Lin Lu said in a deep voice, "I saw it."

Just ten meters in the air, the brass-colored cup wrapped in flesh and blood—the Holy Grail of Pumeru.

This is the monster's true core; the circular core that was exposed on the rooftop earlier was just a disguise.

Lin Lu planted the almost bent and deformed red blade into the ground. During the cutting process, the durability of the katana had dropped to the point of almost breaking, but it was no longer needed.

"Originium Arts: Blade Demon 300%!"

A surging, silvery-white flame coiled around the black blade, the Originium energy erupting and burning fiercely.

Lin Lu's left hand seemed to be holding a beam of light, transmitting endless power into the Noah Armor.

The energy supply for Noah's armed core, the irregularly shaped pure source stone, had long since cracked and shattered; at this moment, Lin Lu was the heart of Noah.

At this moment, the mech seemed to come alive. Its photonic blood emitted a silvery-white glow, and its power core operated at overload. Photonic terminals throughout its body were transmitting power, and incandescent steam spewed from every gap in the armor, even instantly evaporating the bloodstains on it.

Lin Lu gripped the black blade with both hands, lowered his waist, and emitted a large amount of white mist from the joints of the Noah Armor. He held the long blade up to his shoulders.

The power of the astrolabe could no longer be maintained, and the stitched-together monster, cut in half, began to move again, seemingly unaware that it had been severed.

Lin Lu suddenly tilted his head back, his blade locked onto the target, and his full-force thrust sank deep into the monster's flesh, gleaming with a deep red light.

The hilt snapped back, blade facing upwards, and the acceleration chip activated at full power! Lin Lu leaped heavily, using the skeleton of the Frankenstein's monster as a springboard, his silver-white armored mech soaring straight into the night sky like moonlight. He cleaved through a massive rift, reaching a height of ten meters, and retrieved the Holy Grail of Pymruel, which had been swallowed by flesh and blood once more.

"True Qi Blade Cut".

Lin Lu raised his black sword high in the air and slashed down with all his might at the floating Pyramid Grail.

The blood-red blade of energy, mixed with silver-white flames, traced an unparalleled arc before crashing heavily to the ground.

White mist billowed up, and the star chart disappeared from Lin Lu's eyes, gradually turning into black, an unfathomable black.

The silver-white patterns disappeared from Noah's armor, and the pitch-black color once again swallowed the armor, leaving only the crimson patterns like veins.

Several seconds later, the twelve blades of energy erupted, instantly shattering the bronze chalice into countless fragments, which then scattered like stars across the sky. The true core of the Stitches monster shattered, and the flesh connecting the infected and the monster dissolved. The mountain of flesh, cleaved in two, continued to collapse, its molten blood gushing out like a waterfall, turning the ground into a pool of blood.

The Originium Silent Device ended its mission, falling from the sky and being submerged in blood.

Along with them fell the monsters and infected that hadn't been completely dissolved. They got up and continued to attack Lin Lu.

Mephistopheles was clinging to life, attempting to leave Lin Lu behind and bury him in the city.

This battle record was later deleted by Amiya with the authority of the highest leader of Rhodes Island.

When Amiya realized that Lin Lu urgently needed rescue, even at the cost of exposing the Bad Guy...

Everyone on the Bad Guys witnessed the fighting style of the leader of the Army Without Borders, who was once known as a legend in the mercenary world.

A black demon-slaying katana, wreathed in crimson energy, stood silently in a pool of blood-soaked armor, its blade swiftly and accurately killing each incoming enemy unit with a single strike. It was as if a bamboo skewer was used to pierce fruit, juice seeping from the skewer as the flesh was devoured by an invisible maw.

By the time they realized what was happening, there were no living infected or monsters around Lin Lu. The river of blood that covered Noah's armed men up to their knees was flowing; perhaps this blood would seep downwards into the strata of this mobile city, like an abandoned giant, dying silently in a lonely wasteland.

Lin Lu stood in the pool of blood, his cracked gauntlets gripping a dark red katana. He gently wiped away the cracks, the sound of sharpening the blade suppressing the spirits of the dead.

He slowly raised his head, and as day and night changed, the clear sky was tinged with a bluish-white.

Even the longest night will eventually give way to dawn.

Chapter 135 The Price

Chernobog - Core Area - A Hidden Corner

The surroundings were dimly lit by only a faint, dark green glow; this was the deepest part of a building.

"Damn it, damn it, damn it!"

Mephistopheles covered his bleeding eyes and roared in impotent rage.

He was alone here, yet not alone; a dense cluster of figures, reflected on the wall, surrounded him and observed him.

"Lin Lu... Lin Lu... Why is it you again, it's you again! Why won't you just obediently die! You've ruined my plans time and time again! No wonder the King Killer betrayed us, it's all because that bitch Elmon picked you up back then. You didn't die in that fire... You wait, there will be a second fire!"

Mephistopheles sat on the muddy ground, his right hand on his cane, his left hand covering his still bleeding eyes.

His herds, the ranches he left behind in the upper town of Chernobog, were thus destroyed!

Through the magical connection, Mephisto saw Lin Lu's godlike combat abilities as he shattered Lin Lu's underdeveloped stitches.

Not only that, even the Pyrrhic Grail—

Never mind, never mind! It's okay, it's okay.