Life Game In Other World
Chapter 747: Angel and the Sun (Super-sized - for Monthly Votes)

Chapter 747: Chapter 747: Angel and the Sun (Super-sized Chapter for Monthly Votes)

"Kill me, and you... won’t be able to go back..."

A bright red streak appeared on her neck, and blood gushed out like a fountain. She loosened her grip on the spear, staggered a bit, took a step back, and fell backward.

He Ao used his black broadsword to support himself, turning his head to look at Feiya.

Feiya, lying on the ground, looked at his face. The surprise, determination, resentment, and disbelief on her face slowly faded as her cheeks lost their color and vitality. Eventually, her expression settled into complete calmness.

His strike had just destroyed her energy convergence point, and the dispersing energy had completely shattered her body.

He Ao stood beside her, quietly witnessing the dissipation of her life.

He watched the ’enemy’ who had once masqueraded as his teammate and had just come close to killing him, finish the last journey of her life.

Only after confirming that Feiya was truly dead did he slowly crouch down, close her eyelids, and place his hand on her forehead.

His original Talent Sequence was ’Secret Mage’. A Secret Mage can fix three abilities as miracles, and he already had two miracles. There had always been one miracle spot left unfilled.

The method to obtain a miracle was simple: kill the enemy and fix one of the enemy’s C-level abilities as a miracle.

He Ao had not encountered many proper Transcendents in the main world, nor had he come across particularly special abilities, so he had left this miracle spot unfilled.

And as He Ao placed his hand on Feiya’s forehead, strands of gray light emerged from his palm, seeping into Feiya’s body.

About ten seconds later, the gray light surged back out and returned to He Ao’s body.

"Pawn..."

Sensing the third miracle now fixed inside him, He Ao slowly withdrew his hand.

He hadn’t expected Feiya’s C-level ability to bear that name.

With this ability, he could collect energy himself and "open the door" to return.

Then he looked at the palm of his hand.

The jade pendant had returned to normal, but the silver metal piece looked like crumpled paper, with the once-smooth metal surface now marked with crisscrossing wrinkles.

The core that had just reversed everything was in fact within this metal piece.

More precisely, it was the ’Order Designation’ it inherited from the ’Angel’.

The original researchers of the Underground Palace had used its power to seal the original B-level and to help suppress 009-1, who was initially on the fifth floor.

But the ’Carpenter’, in the fight against He Ao, had never used this ability. At that time, He Ao had guessed that its power might be indiscriminate, affecting friends and foes alike.

And from the machinery’s resistance against order and the accounts recorded in the research logs of using order abilities to fight Polluted Monsters, He Ao deduced that high-tier pollution might be able to break through such order suppression.

Normally, someone sane would not have high-tier pollution at their disposal, and even if they did, they would hardly be able to effectively utilize it for their own use.

Being polluted by a high-tier presence meant either madness or death.

Thus, this ’Crowd Control’ ability, which did not differentiate between friend and foe, was essentially useless for a normal Transcendent. After all, if everyone was controlled, it was as if no one was controlled.

But He Ao was an exception. He happened to have a few items carrying high-tier pollution, which he could activate to break through the metal piece’s order restriction.

In fact, He Ao didn’t actually know beforehand what form the metal piece’s order restriction would take.

He had merely speculated that it might briefly suppress Feiya, and at that time, he really had no other choice but to take a risk and try it.

What surprised him, though, was that the metal piece was terrified of Feiya and the Divine Grace she carried, as if afraid for its life.

If it hadn’t been for his forceful intervention with the Mechanical Core Ring and the pollution in the jade pendant, this piece would have certainly played dead no matter what.

But at the end of the day, it was all over.

He Ao, using his Super Memory, glanced over Feiya’s body and spotted a protruding hard object at the position of the inner pocket of her half-skirt.

It appeared to be a mechanical creation.

He reached out, feeling for the mechanical object.

A familiar shuttle-shaped item appeared in his field of view.

Spacetime Beacon.

He pressed on the beacon’s screen, only to find that this Spacetime Beacon was also damaged.

The Spacetime Beacon was speckled with mottled dried blood, making it likely that it was not brought by Feiya from the main world but found here.

Feiya, or rather, the God of Machinery’s Chosen, why was she looking for an already damaged Spacetime Beacon here?

He Ao glanced at the Spacetime Beacon in his hand, then pocketed it.

He would look for an opportunity to repair this Spacetime Beacon.

Then he raised his hand, a bone-white sword appearing in his grasp.

He carefully examined the bone sword in his hand.

Even with the enhancement of Divine Sense, the bone sword was riddled with dense cracks. This sword was merely a bone from a C-level exotic beast, and the scale of battle it was now engaged in had somewhat exceeded its capabilities.

He Ao slung both the bone sword and the black broadsword on his back and then pulled out a long spear from the wall.

In his hands, the spear transformed into a black rope.

From the information transmitted into He Ao’s brain, this was a special Transcendent item, seemingly incomplete, with a level between C and B, effectively making it a pseudo B-level prop.

Its abilities, as demonstrated by Feiya, included the ability to switch between rope, spear, and staff, the capacity to breach B-level defenses, and the requirement to continuously "kill" with it. The more it killed, the happier it became, providing longer usage times and becoming more durable.

Its name was simple; it was called ’Black Rope’.

This was perhaps an item Feiya had obtained in the ruins.

It was still of use to He Ao. By mimicking the energy circuits Feiya used in her attacks, he roughly figured out the rudimentary form of a second ’martial technique’ meant for long weapons, enhancing the power of the weapon’s tip by over fifteen percent.

However, since the point of reference was not as complete as the previous Martial Artist’s remains, this martial technique was not complete, its power was unstable, and it required a long charging time.

He could only try to gradually perfect it.

He Ao packed up the Black Rope and hung it at his waist.

He glanced down at Feiya on the ground.

Inside Feiya’s body was a Talent Sequence, and it was very likely a B-level Talent Sequence.

Yet, He Ao did not know how to extract these Talent Sequence auxiliary materials and did not have the time to wait for the Talent Sequences to naturally form into Transcendent items.

After pondering for a moment, He Ao cut six boards from a nearby control panel, quickly crafted a makeshift cabinet, placed Feiya’s body inside, and sealed it.

He then turned and walked toward the exterior.

On his way, he passed the floor area that had just been struck by the end of Feiya’s rope, where a narrow breach caused by the rope’s end had penetrated what appeared to be a half-meter-thick floor, revealing the deep space below.

However, he did not stop, continuing instead toward the large control panel that had already suffered damage in the center.

According to research data labeled 009-2 left on the fourth level, the ’Federal Science Academy’ had once sent Fragment 001 to the Underground Palace to construct an Array that enveloped the entire Underground Palace, assisting in suppressing 009-1 and other Transcendent items on the fifth level.

Now the Underground Palace, and even the ruins were destroyed, but the sealing structure originally arranged might not be completely nonfunctional.

Likewise, those Martial Arts Arrays aboard the Navigator used to seal A02.

At least, that Fragment 001 might still be present.

He Ao’s steps halted in front of the damaged central control panel.

Perhaps this core control panel of the fifth level had been involved in the sealing of 009-1.

Of course, He Ao had another reason for making this judgment.

He lowered his head, his Divine Sense’s vision focusing on the huge control panel that had been completely split open. At the very bottom of the control panel, faint traces of flowing energy were visible.

This meant that some kind of Transcendent ’Array’ within the control panel was still functioning to a certain extent.

Actually, when He Ao first arrived at this control panel, he noticed these energy flows, which was why he deliberately lured Feiya away from this core control panel to avoid their battle completely destroying it.

Although He Ao did not know what this Array was or how to activate it, he had another ’prop’ at his disposal.

He lifted his hand, wearing the Mechanical Core ring, and inserted it among the shattered circuits of the control panel.

Since this Array was concealed beneath the control panel, it was very likely that it could be ’interfered with’ through the control panel.

That 009-1 had deliberately destroyed this control panel was perhaps a sidelong confirmation of this.

For a normal person, a destroyed control panel would be essentially useless, but He Ao could clearly see that some of the mainboards and processing cores inside were still intact.

Now he could only hope that the builders of the Underground Palace had designed the control panel with contingencies in mind.

Delicate tentacles emerged from the ring, connecting with the circuits of the huge control panel.

Soon, a twisted form of pollution spread through the vibrating ring into He Ao’s perception.

The control panel was entirely ’mechanically contaminated’.

There was almost no function in the control panel that could be normally used, forcing He Ao to rely on the control power of the Mechanical Core ring to activate the intact mainboards.

Sparkling like fireworks, flashes of light continually shone within the control panel.

The twisted mechanical contamination within the control panel also constantly seeped into He Ao’s mind through the invisible connection.

If a normal Transcendent had made contact with it, they might have already gone mad, becoming a Believer of the machinery.

But for He Ao, this was still within a bearable range.

When He Ao activated the penultimate mainboard, a dazzling light suddenly illumineted the entire core control panel below.

Indeed.

He Ao exhaled in relief.

The integration between mechanical control and the Transcendent Array was not too strict; as long as it met some simple mechanical criteria such as an electric current, it would work.

This both isolated machinery from the transcendent and reduced the impact of software issues on the transcendent array.

Under He Ao’s watchful gaze, patterns shimmering with a faint translucent glow were sketched out on the floor, forming a complex array.

It appeared to be some kind of array involving martial arts power.

But before the array could be fully outlined, it seemed to connect with some damaged breakpoint and abruptly shattered.

Broken?

He Ao observed the shattered radiance.

However, he didn’t shift his gaze away immediately, believing that the builders would have considered the possibility of the array being damaged.

After a brief pause, the fragmented glow flickered, not disappearing instantly, but seemingly unable to maintain its form.

In that instant, He Ao suddenly recalled the ’message’ that could only be seen by infusing divine sense into the martial artist’s remains.

He immediately reached out to touch the edge of the broken array, channeling the power of his divine sense into it.

The next second, the entire array blinked, and new glimmers of light emerged.

These lights no longer formed new ’patterns’ but coalesced into a series of neatly arranged symbols.

It worked.

The people of the Underground Palace seemed to like using divine sense as a special condition for identification.

"This is..."

He Ao stared at the symbols.

He didn’t recognize the meaning of each symbol, but that didn’t hinder his understanding of them.

This was Denis script.

This was the longest ’manuscript’ He Ao had seen to date, written in Denis script.

The text briefly and concisely introduced the principle, effects, and methods to repair and restart the sealing array when there were issues.

The principle of this sealing array was simple: it activated the power of Fragment 001.

The item labeled 001 held an exceedingly high designation, and consequently, its fragments also possessed incredible might.

However, the pollution and backlash from Fragment 001 were also strong; theoretically, no human could possess and use this item.

But the Federal Science Academy thought of a shortcut. They devised a complex structural array that directed the ’user’ of Fragment 001 to the original body of 001.

Through this method, they activated the power within Fragment 001, forming a sort of special containment field that enveloped the entire ’Research Institute,’ also known as the Underground Palace.

Within this suppression field, all life forms with higher order designations would be suppressed and weakened.

Thus, humans could, to a certain extent, bridge the gap in order designations, enabling the human body to perform tasks typically reserved for divine beings—’deciphering’ angels.

Also mentioned in the introduction was that 009-1, the entity sealed within this ’Research Institute,’ was not a fully complete angel in the strictest sense but rather a pseudo-angel that inherited a kind of angel designation. Its primary power stemmed from the designation it inherited, not from the full celestial might of an angel.

Therefore, the suppression field crafted from Fragment 001 was particularly effective against 009-1.

The explanation about the principles and effects of the array concluded there, followed by the emergency repair and restarting methods when the array malfunctioned.

This method was also straightforward. Fragment 001 was placed on a ’Suppression Field Generator Platform’ outside the Underground Palace, and all the core arrays were actually directly inscribed onto Fragment 001, so the issues occurring were typically with the ’Suppression Field Generator Platform.’

This ’Suppression Field Generator Platform’ had a hidden backup structure, meaning that even if the facility malfunctioned, the suppression field could still be restarted via the backup system.

The method to activate the backup structure was simple; by verifying one’s divine sense and human identity in front of the damaged platform, one could initiate it.

And by passing through the gate on the fifth floor aboveground, after divine sense verification, one could access the isolated layer beneath the fifth floor.

In the end, the text made a special note of another very important point.

That was, Fragment 001 was not a permanent item but a derivative born from 001, a consumable, its power gradually diminishing with use.

Theoretically, when only 10% of Fragment 001’s power remained, the Research Institute would replace it with a new Fragment 001, but still, the dwindling power of Fragment 001 had to be considered, necessitating timely requests to the Federal Science Academy for a new fragment.

After He Ao finished reading the text, all the symbolic patterns likewise dissipated.

Clearly, this text was not originally meant for ’research personnel’ who would be knowledgeable about the entire ’suppression field’ if working here.

Therefore, the text was likely intended for ’armed operations personnel’ who would come here for emergency rescue in the event of a major accident.

It also mentioned the need to request a new Fragment 001 from the ’Federal Science Academy.’

The Federal Science Academy referred to here was likely the science academy of the Original Federation personnel within the ruins.

Regrettably, the ’rescue’ they awaited never arrived.

He Ao withdrew his hand.

He activated Super Memory, scanning the surroundings. Not far from the core control console, next to another console, he spotted a hidden gate.

He walked over, fumbled around, and found a secret lever.

The entire gate seemed to be locked, but there was a fine Array intricately etched along its edge.

He Ao immersed his Divine Sense into it, and the next second, the fine Array flickered, and the whole gate opened, revealing a deep vertical ladder before He Ao.

He Ao grabbed onto the ladder and swiftly jumped down.

This was a deep and narrow small space, no larger than ten square meters.

A sliver of light from a crack above shrouded down, which was the opening just shattered by Feiya.

There were four cabinets around the space that seemed like maintenance lockers, but these four lockers had been opened, with nothing left inside but empty brackets.

He Ao’s gaze moved in a circle, finally landing in front of the ladder.

There was a circular gate there.

On the gate, there were tips written in five different languages.

"Please put on protective Mecha, beware of Vacuum and radiation."

He Ao read out the words in the second zone’s language.

He lifted his hand, and a can appeared in his grasp.

This was the Nutritional Canned Food he had brought for Wu Lan.

After Wu Lan ate the meat chunks, she returned the can to him, and he had brought it directly into the Underground Palace.

The Nutritional Canned Food produced a meat chunk every twelve hours, and now had restored the full standard of three meat chunks.

He Ao took out two meat chunks and ate them; these two chunks could help him quickly recover 80% of his injuries, but he would need to eat a lot in the next two hours.

Feeling the recovery of the injuries in his body, he quickly put away the Nutritional Canned Food, then took a silver-gray briefcase out of the Pirate Treasure Box.

In an instant, sturdy metal Mecha covered his entire body.

He walked up to the circular gate and pulled a lever next to it.

Ding—

Accompanied by a piercing alarm sound and a roaring noise, the entire gate slowly opened, revealing a dark and narrow space, with another gate at the end of it.

He Ao walked into the space, listening as the gate behind him slowly closed.

"Automatic door opening failure, please manually open the gate."

"Automatic door opening failure, please manually open the gate."

The piercing alarm and warnings in five different languages echoed in He Ao’s ears.

He Ao stepped forward, approaching the gate in front of him, the Adam Type-1 Mecha on the soles of his feet spewing out faint flames, lifting him in midair; he reached out his hand and slowly pulled the lever beside the deep gate.

Click—

The circular gate opened outwards.

The escaping airflow propelled his body forward.

The dazzling and brilliant stars reflected in his pupils.

His body floated through the door, drifting into the deep space.

Twisted murmurs sang like symphonies in his mind.

He turned his head back, looking behind him.

A colossal spherical construct appeared in his sight.

And behind this spherical construct was a massive planet turning in the boundless starry sky.

One could vaguely see abandoned cities and verdant wilderness on the planet.

Those were ruins.

He Ao lifted his head, looking all around.

Balls of fire similar to the sphere beneath him blazed intensely in the starry sky, orbiting the giant planet.

He turned around, carefully examining the sphere behind him.

The hemisphere where He Ao currently was exhibited a complete metallic structure, with only a thin layer of traces that once had burned, whereas the surface of the hemisphere facing the planet was faintly swirling with some kind of dark-red heat.

This was an extinguished artificial sun.

Above the line where the ’sun’s’ flames and metal met, a huge indescribable ’lifeform,’ seemingly folded together from a comet’s dust tail and numerous twisted spatial fragments, was floating there.

Endless pollution rippled through the vast vacuum like strummed strings.