Above The Sky
Chapter 226 - 226 214 A Hundred Martial Skills This is the Transcendent Void Bubble Torpedo Sword!

226: Chapter 214: A Hundred Martial Skills, This is the Transcendent Void Bubble Torpedo Sword!

(4/4) 226: Chapter 214: A Hundred Martial Skills, This is the Transcendent Void Bubble Torpedo Sword!

(4/4) Crack, crack…

Instantly, the furnace core located behind the armor suit emitted a disconcerting cracking noise, and the internal energy index on the control panel within the suit began to skyrocket!

Normal alchemy furnaces support 120~150% overclocking, used to cope with short-term, over-level combat in extreme situations, but even so, it would cause irreversible damage to the furnace core.

Exceeding 200% basically meant the loss of an armor suit after the battle.

As for 400%…

If one were not careful, even the pilot would be at risk.

Because this represented an “on-the-spot self-destruction”!

“Goodbye!”

With a pull that ejected the data cable from his back, dragging out some electrical sparks, Ian unhesitatingly kicked the control panel, escaping from the armor suit.

He didn’t look back at the collision between the armor suit and the Crocodragon’s stone claws or the blinding explosions produced by the overloading alchemy furnace core.

The moment he left, he pushed the power of the Fairy Wings to the limit and drew the alchemical longsword given to him by the Ironclad Shark.

The Origin Quality injected by the Sand Armor Apprentice illuminated the inscription one after another on the edgeless longsword…’Heavy Hit,’ ‘Blunt Edgeless,’ ‘Sturdy,’ and ‘Armor-Shattering’…

Several inscriptions lit up in turn, casting a light golden halo over the originally dark Heavy Abyss Iron Sword.

— In the presence of the massive Origin Substance Reaction from the Earth Element of the Crocodragon, he didn’t need to hide his strength and could use the power of the Sand Armor Apprentice!

Boom!

The self-destructing armor suit blew apart the Crocodragon’s suppressing stone claw, causing it to let out a piercing shriek—the corrosive high-temperature alchemical solution from the alchemy furnace was something even a Second-Level Magical Beast couldn’t withstand.

Meanwhile, Ian accelerated once more.

The propulsion of the newly formed Fairy Wings, naturally, was not as powerful as the suit’s thrusters, but what it had to move wasn’t a behemoth like the armor suit either.

Like a vicious shark hunting in the deep sea, Ian glided through the murky underwater dust with smooth arcs, heading straight to the position above the pained Crocodragon.

He had only one target.

That is, the second weak point of the Crocodragon apart from the wound on its flank…

The fusion site of the Native Great Shaman with the Crocodragon!

Although Ian knew how to use a sword and had learned many essences of swordsmanship due to Hiliard’s teaching, he had never learned the swordsmanship for water combat, let alone swordsmanship for fighting behemoths underwater.

It is said that the Descendants of the Sea who have settled around Whale Song Cliff possess a sword technique that involves using giant weapons to fight unimaginable underwater behemoths.

Such techniques cannot be executed on land, as the solid ground cannot sustain the skills that require leaping and slashing in a three-dimensional ocean.

However, that doesn’t diminish the fact that the swordsmen of Whale Song Cliff are the finest on Terra Continent, wielding the finest weapons.

Now, the sword in the youth’s hands was second to none in comparison to any Seaborn Longsword.

And the techniques he used were no less skilled than those developed by the Descendants of the Sea from centuries of battling in the sea.

— A multitude of martial arts, this was the Transcendent Void Bubble Torpedo Sword!

Hum!

The Fairy Wings and the Wave Singer controlled the water flow simultaneously, the ultra-high-speed oscillation even vaporizing the water into high-temperature steam.

The high-pressure, high-temperature gas bubbles completely enveloped Ian, and the youth, using the defense provided by his Sand Armor Apprentice, braved the searing hot and pressurized environment, slashing his sword at the Crocodragon’s head!

Completely unresponsive to the fact that someone could still attack it after the armor suit had exploded, the Great Shaman had no time to regret whether he might fail to capture a captive.

A sharp sense of danger surged straight toward the top of its head!

But it was already too late, for at that moment, Ian had accelerated to the extreme.

His strike in the water stirred up a straight line of bubbling voids, and everything it passed through, whether it was floating dust in the sea, water mines condensed by the Earth Element, or stalagmites standing in the deep sea, was all blown away and severed.

The might of that strike was akin to a meteorite smashing down from the sky!

“Roar!”

Ian’s Transcendent Void Bubble Torpedo Sword strike was already astonishingly powerful, let alone for an ordinary Sublimator, even a submarine, an iron-forged vessel, would be cleaved into two under this sword.

However, along with the Crocodragon’s roar, centered around the dozens of meters long behemoth, the bottom of the sea bed exploded into a ring of dust clouds.

The rocky crust fractured, stones shattered and flew, and the dust fog nearly engulfed the entire behemoth.

The infinite dust and mud surged like living entities, rapidly converging above the Crocodragon’s head, intending to form a shield capable of blocking an Alchemical Cannon!

Ian’s sword strike was indeed more powerful and heavier than the Alchemical Cannon’s cannonball—the blow from the Heavy Abyss Iron Sword was enough to shatter its shield.

But what if it shattered?

As long as it didn’t hit a vital spot or succeed in a sneak attack, an opponent at the First Energy Level would not have a second chance to pose a threat to it!

Ian had already anticipated this scenario.

“Whoosh!”

The youth let go of the longsword, and as the Wave Singer’s power vibrated the waves, it was like a rocket’s second stage propulsion, generating an irresistible, torrential force from the rear of the longsword, doubling its speed in an instant!

With Ian’s double Origin Quality output and acceleration, the speed of the longsword actually reached subsonic speed—visible shockwaves rippled and their aftermath scoured deep grooves in the deep-sea rock strata.

Thwack!

Before the Crocodragon’s mud shield could take form, the longsword took the lead, directly dispersing the opponent’s Origin Quality and embedding itself at the humanoid imprint on top of the Crocodragon’s head!

That was the junction where the Native Great Shaman and the Crocodragon fused into one…

and besides the side-flank cannon injury, it was the only area without the protection of tough skin, muscle, and sturdy bones!

That was the “fontanel” crafted to allow the Shaman and Totem Master’s wills to merge perfectly!

The Heavy Abyss Iron Sword plunged into flesh and blood, and its frenzied impact burst into the Crocodragon’s brain—in that instant, the Crocodragon, which was still relatively calm, let out an indescribable roar.

It was a genuine concussion, without any exaggeration—its “brain was trembling”!

But just that was not enough to kill the behemoth…

far from it.

The vitality of a Second-Level Magical Beast was incredibly terrifying; even the human Knight Weyges died of exhaustion after consecutive severe injuries.

Merely damaging a part of the brain was not enough to completely kill the Swamp Crocodile Dragon.

But what Ian did next was the real tactical core.

He hugged his head with both arms, curled into a ball, and turned himself into a sphere…

then he accelerated, charging forward!

The Fairy Wings worked at full force, along with the Wave Singer simultaneously in operation, creating what looked like three fully powered rocket nozzles igniting behind the youth—

—He had effectively turned himself into a miniature rocket cannon, launching himself directly!

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

It was like thunder exploding underwater, the great agitation from water being pushed aside then swiftly clapping back together, while Ian became an undersea stream of light, and directly hit the wound where the Heavy Abyss Iron Sword had been inserted before.

The Origin Shield and flesh and blood that had already been shattered once naturally could not withstand a second armor-piercing attack.

Boom.

In that instant, an orange-red wave of blood gushed out like an angry fountain from the sea bottom.

And the gathering surge of mud and sand above the Crocodragon’s head suddenly faltered and then completely dissipated.