Chapter 52: Wild God Hunting Competition
While Joshua was killing other Wild Gods and recovering from his injuries, the wounds on Famine's Child·Wasteland Fang were also healing rapidly. Amidst its agonized roars, accompanied by a strange, nauseating squelching sound, new flesh grew swiftly like writhing insects. Before long, the injuries Joshua had inflicted earlier had already recovered considerably, and the lighter wounds had even completely healed.
*This won't work if this keeps up!*
Joshua frowned. Given the recovery speed of an Ultimate Wild God, if he didn't maintain a high-intensity assault, he would only end up in the awkward situation of fighting for a long time while the opponent remained unscathed. However, the rebound capability of the Ultimate Wild God's high-frequency carapace was indeed a difficult point. Without solving this problem, he couldn't launch a full-power attack.
In the martial arts of his previous life, there was a protective realm known as 'not even a feather can land, not even a mosquito can alight.' The high-frequency carapace was undoubtedly an advanced, further evolved version of this ability. Now, any attack that touched the Ultimate Wild God's body would be shattered into pieces by the rapid vibrations. The warrior had personally witnessed a piece of gravel touch the monster's carapace and instantly be shattered into a cloud of dust.
If solid stone was like this, then flesh and blood was even more so. Even Joshua had no good solution for this. With his current strength, facing such a powerful defensive method was indeed somewhat helpless.
"Ling."
Flying at high speed, dodging two attacks from the Ultimate Wild God, Joshua's body broke through the atmosphere, creating layers of sonic boom clouds and carving a vacuum corridor through the air. He spoke in a deep voice to his weapon: "Can you withstand the power of high frequency?"
"I can withstand it, but Master, you..."
The Divine Mechanism youth replied with some concern. He could feel that the formidable power caused by over fifteen enhancement states was pressing down on his master's body. His muscle tissue was constantly being damaged under the high-load energy flow, only sustained by the energy repair of the Azure Orb. If he were to use a high-load technique now...
"Then that's fine!"
Completely ignoring his weapon's concern, as soon as he finished speaking, Joshua's left arm began to tremble slightly. Battle Qi circulated, transmitting an endless stream of power to the black great axe. On the edge of the extremely tough Divine Mechanism arc blade, traces similar to high-frequency oscillations appeared. The originally minute serrations had now truly become a sharp saw capable of cutting everything, slicing the surrounding air into tattered fragments.
*To counter high frequency, you can only use another high frequency!*
With his mind set, a blood-red gleam shone in Joshua's eyes. He let out a loud shout, then charged forward, once again rushing towards the enormous Wild God beside him.
A black-red light traced a wavering arc, dodging the Ultimate Wild God's bone claw blockade. Joshua bypassed its countless tentacles, charged into the inner side of the Ultimate Wild God, and swung his axe. The axe blade collided with the carapace on the Wild God's abdomen, sparking a gushing torrent of intense sparks. Golden-red specks continuously sprayed out, enveloping the warrior's body.
A drag, a pull—two different high frequencies vibrated and destroyed each other. But clearly, the Divine Mechanism was harder. Another massive wound dozens of meters long appeared on the Ultimate Wild God's carapace. This injury was different from the previous wound over ten meters wide. Even for a giant beast like this, it couldn't withstand too many such attacks!
"ROOOOAR!!!"
Letting out a cry of pain, the Ultimate Wild God immediately counterattacked. It spewed out a violent breath, a yellow-green corrosive gas hurtling at supersonic speed toward Joshua's position. Along the way, all scattered gravel and sand were eroded into fine dust, dissipating with the wind.
"Open for me!"
Facing this terrifying breath attack, Joshua simply raised his great axe. Black ripples condensed. Gazing at the surging corrosive breath before him, he directly swung his axe down—instantly, the yellow-green airflow split at the black great axe as the midpoint, slanting to both sides and blasting into the ground!
*Boom! Rumble!*
The loud rumbling sound of the mobile fortress echoed. Their battle fell into a stalemate. While chasing the fortress, they engaged in a fierce exchange. The Ultimate Wild God's limbs and tentacles found it difficult to hit Joshua, and Joshua's attacks also struggled to harm the Ultimate Wild God, occasionally even injuring him with the rebound.
Every time they clashed, the aftermath caused the ground to crack and collapse, violently shaking, as if two giant beasts were violently colliding.
When injured, Joshua would hunt down other remaining Wild Gods to replenish the Azure Orb's consumption. And every large-scale attack by the Ultimate Wild God would also kill a swath of weaker Wild Gods. Throughout the fight, the corpses of Wild Gods paved the path they had traveled, leaving a trail of mutilated remains.
Amidst the fierce battle and slaughter, Joshua didn't notice that in the system, due to his continuous killing of powerful Wild Gods, the [Chaos Warden] talent [Unlit Flame] and the Azure Orb's ability [Chaos Blood, Source of Ignition] were slowly becoming blurry, distorted, as if about to disappear and transform into something new.
On the fortress, Moria and Claire were full of worry. They were shocked by Joshua's strength, which was enough to withstand an Ultimate Wild God, while also hoping he could drive away that enormous monster. If such a terrifying Chaos Monster were to attack the fortress, Number 3 might be fine, but they would definitely die.
The fortress rumbled forward at high speed. The hilly area had been crossed. They had reached the end of the plains, and beyond was the mountain region.
*Boom!*
To the left of the fortress, a huge mushroom cloud rose. The shockwave stirred up billowing clouds of dust. The powerful force triggered a violent earthquake in the distance.
Amidst the billowing dust and smoke, the Old Dwarf seemed to see a black-red light point nimbly circling a huge shadow in the distance. Each attack produced a long string of sparks, splattering countless stinking flesh and bodily fluids. The massive monster swung its giant claws and tentacles, trying to swat down the light point, but kept failing to hit.
"ROOOOAR!!!"
A huge roar came. Seeming to lose patience, the Ultimate Wild God spread its wings, stirring up a gale. It no longer used its body to attack the agile Joshua but instead turned the countless compound eyes on its head, staring directly at the warrior moving at high speed.
The moment he was stared at, Joshua felt a chilling sense of crisis. His figure flickered rapidly, turning into a series of afterimages, disappearing from the giant beast's field of vision.
Not having successfully locked onto the target didn't matter. The Ultimate Wild God simply swept its claw across the ground, sending huge chunks of rock and soil flying from the cracked earth into the sky. The countless compound eyes on its head flickered, guiding the cyan-white lightning on its sky-piercing giant horn. Countless condensed light points gathered before the compound eyes. A suddenly appearing white beam swept across the sky, instantly turning the flying rocks into golden-red gas and droplets of lava, shrouding the sky.
The entire sky was instantly covered by rapidly expanding golden-red gaseous lava and metallic mist. No matter how agile Joshua was, he couldn't escape this wide range within a few seconds. He was solidly hit by a powerful blast of high-heat metallic mist.
With a dull thud, Joshua, clad in gray-black armor, flew backward out of the golden-red mist. The terrifying high heat hadn't melted the armor, but it had burned the warrior's flesh through the metal. Joshua could only endure the intense pain while dodging the Ultimate Wild God's pursuit, continuing to kill other Wild Gods to let the Azure Orb burn back into a shield, releasing energy to heal his wounds.
The struggle continued. The Wild God, now using more attack methods, was harder to deal with than before. Joshua would occasionally see a beam of light piercing the sky brush past his side, sweeping across mountains and clouds, shaking the great peaks violently. The sky was even torn open by this cyan-white beam, creating a deep wound through which one could seemingly directly see the sky that had long been obscured by the chaotic firmament.
(To be continued.)