Meteor Fall Master in the 'Starry Abyss'
Chapter 708 - 319. Bone-Break Bond

Chapter 708: 319. Bone-Break Bond

Thud!

Nephis’s body turned into a bolt of silver lightning and immediately charged in this direction. Li Aozi’s figure was suddenly lifted and sent flying by the impact, his legs plowing deep twin furrows into the ground.

Whoosh——————————Thump!

Nephis raised her hand to press down on Li Aozi’s head, smashing him against a scenic mountain peak. In an instant, numerous striking and profound cracks appeared throughout the mountain range weighing hundreds of billions of tons.

Humming incessantly...

Flowing across the back of Nephis’s hand and her palm was qi energy of a dark gold color, as fierce and malicious as a sandstorm. The high-speed friction against the air produced an increasingly urgent screeching noise.

Tiger School: Destructive Force Release!

Boom!!!!

Mountain-River Collapse!

The blinding scorching sun burst forth in an instant, like thousands of hydrogen bombs detonating upon the land, as the apocalyptic shockwave mercilessly swept across, shearing off a small corner of the planet’s immense structure.

If one cannot comprehend the ruin wrought by this strike, to put it simply: the kinetic energy of this strike, if converted into electricity, would be sufficient to power a civilization from the Industrial Era to space colonization.

Crack!

An entire mountain, as if erupting like a volcano, spewed upwards, sending myriads of stone fragments surging a million feet into the air, before they cascaded down to earth.

The intense noise made the entire planet shake. Following the blood rivers that now covered the ground, the sinful citizens of the Grave Star Cluster faced the onset of a monstrously destructive meteor shower.

The sky shattered, and the earth split open.

The unrestrained Gabros’s capability for destruction far exceeded that of any typical Zeta Rank (6) transcendent.

The mountains collapsed, and billows of gunpowder smoke and dust rolled in, clouding Nephis’s vision. Only when her reconnaissance system came back online did she realize that what she held in her grasp was no longer Li Aozi’s head.

In its place was a sinister abyssal red blade, which had firmly chopped into the palm of her armored suit.

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[Item Name]: "Cursed Abyssal Red Blade"

[Category]: Long Sword/Cold Weapon

[Quality]:

"Heirloom Masterpiece"

[Attributes]: Damage+180 (Sharpness Attribute)

Sharpness: Inflicts at least an additional 75 points of physical damage to unarmored targets.

Curse: The enemy’s wounds will fester with maggots upon attack, the more attacks, the faster the maggots grow.

Heavy Strike: Despite appearing agile, the blade is actually highly dense and can potentially knock back an opponent during an attack.

Each maggot inflicts at least 1-12 points of spell damage and reduces wound healing by 10%, with no upper limit.

[Long Sword Exclusive]: Critical hit damage+20%, making cohesive attacks more fluid, and quickly passing through the enemy’s body.

[Introduction]:

"A hero’s blade should not rust in deep waters."

Blade Length: 116 centimeters

Net Weight: 32.3 kilograms

Materials: Haines Dawn Steel, Abyss Worms, Enchantress’s Hair

Sharpness Correction: 50 (Each 1% increase in sharpness grants 50 points of basic damage, maximum 300 points)

"After suffering a humiliating defeat, a certain demigod felt unworthy of his past glory and blade, choosing to preserve his strength and to bide his time. His faithful sword followed closely, but over the years, both entities lost their sense of self... The once Blade of Victory has vanished, leaving behind only the Fallen Demon Sword that slumbered in the dark abyss."

[Equipment Requirements]:

[Strength]——65

[Dexterity]——70

[Attached Skills]:

[Defiled Blade]: Upon activation, consumes 7% of maximum mana points per second to control maggots that extend the flexible blade for area attacks. While activated, the blade will accelerate the growth of maggots and drain the opponent’s energy points.

[Deep Hatred]: Release the full fury of resentful spirits! Unleash the power of the curse, consuming your own health points. For every 2% of maximum health points lost, gain 6% attack speed and remove the attack speed cap, allowing the stacking of attack speed beyond spatial limits.

"Successor, do not forget your hatred, nor be consumed by it. It should be your blade, to slay your enemies, but more importantly, to protect yourself."

—The Forgotten Demigod.

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Slew!

Li Aozi’s sword chopped into Nephis’s palm, and his wounds quickly began to heal. He hung his head, gazing at Nephis’s cold and soulless eyes. His serrated pupils seemed unable to focus properly, maintaining a dilated effect.

"It seems you’ve run into a bit of trouble,"

Li Aozi spoke softly.

Whoosh-thump!

Nephis instantly withdrew her claw, twisted her waist, and lifted her leg for a side kick that blasted into Li Aozi. He stood his ground as the force pierced through his body; space behind him exploded with a thunderous boom. The terrifying power set off a storm that extended four hundred miles and then shot out into outer space, taking a long time to dissipate.

Divinity: Bone-Break Bond.

This divinity offered no fancy effects—just one ability:

It increased the physical destruction caused by 200%!

It might sound a bit complex at first, but it’s actually quite simple to understand.

For example, if a physical attack was originally only affecting molecular structures, now, with the increased effect, it might be powerful enough to damage atomic structures.

Once atoms have been broken apart, even elementary school children would know the result.

Boom, boom, boom, boom——————————!!!

Combining blows and grapples, tossing and smashing, Nephis clung tightly to Li Aozi’s body, relentlessly pounding out attacks that inflicted excessive damage. Li Aozi, composed and unruffled, scattered "Death Link" to share his own damage with the entire planet.

On the ground, fiery nuclear explosions bloomed everywhere, and the surrounding radiation levels surged like a bullish stock market, quickly reaching a point of no return for life.

The struggle between Li Aozi and Nephis unfolded around the orbit, now with Nephis seizing Li Aozi and rushing into the sky, now with Li Aozi pressing her to the ground with gravity. The radiation from atomic leaks erupted outward uncontrollably, the incalculable energy lashing the surface and atmosphere of Grave Star Cluster like rays.

"Cough, cough, cough, cough—how can there be such intensity, ugh—"

"One thousand, four hundred thousand, six hundred and seventy thousand... Damn, did the freaking sun just crash down?!"

"Save me, my cells are dying out, anyone, please give me some white blood cells! I’m begging you—ugh."

Divinity is the credential for the status of deities.

After reaching Epsilon (5), Transcendents have completed their first Ascension and have the qualifications to Ascend to Godhood.

But it is only at the Zeta Rank (6) that this qualification formally transforms into power, a process that continues up to Kappa (10), a period of developing one’s Divinity to accumulate for the next Ascension.

Zeta (6), Eta (7), Theta (8), Iota (9). These four Hierarchy levels are not qualitatively different; they are stages where Ascenders extract power from their Divinity.

Only upon reaching Zeta does one qualify to be called Earthbound Deities.

To be an Earthbound Deities means an all too simple fact:

"Just with full force, a Zeta Rank with sufficiently developed Divinity can destroy any planet’s surface environment, making it forever unable to return to a normal state!"

Nephis stepped forward, swinging a punch. Li Aozi raised his sword to block, but it was a feint. She suddenly shifted, raising her knee and slamming it into Li Aozi’s abdomen.

"You’ve used that move already."

Li Aozi, staying cool, swung his sword at Nephis’s forehead.

[Defiled Blade]

The abyssal red Demon Sword quickly grew countless fat, distorted black maggots, which rapidly formed into a soft, sharp Blade, whipped out by Li Aozi like a flail and smashed down.

Gravity acceleration—2000G!

A velocity of 20,000 meters per second, roughly 58 times the speed of sound.

To say so might be a bit abstract.

Or in other words, one-fifteenth the speed of light.

The maggot Blade instantly tore through space, throwing out surging orange light patterns. Perhaps because of the extreme speed, based on the tip effect, the velocity at the end kept adding up, rapidly breaking through 200 Mach!

At such speeds, Nephis had no ability to dodge.

However, the turn of events was unexpected.

Nephis swayed left and right, avoiding the sword flail’s lash and rebound attacks. Just as the serpent-like curve approached from a tricky angle and was about to touch her, the vector engines at her back expelled force overhead, instantly pressing her form downwards to the ground.

——[Wild Heart]: Gain a permanent 10% evasion rate, you have a higher probability of avoiding firearms/thrown objects/projectiles.

Bang!

Nephis’s feet tapped the ground, her Qi Energy in operation, most of the force instantly converted. She slowly raised her head, and her body’s silver armor started to be edged with dark gold lines:

"Task, continue execution."

The next moment, Nephis sprung up instantly like a white rainbow piercing the sun, striking Li Aozi in the sky and causing him to roll and skew to one side.

"Your attack has become undoubting, good, this is the real you, little crocodile."

Li Aozi wiped the fresh blood from his side of his face, tore open space ripples, and retrieved a dying Zeta Rank from the river of blood, drained it dry, and his wounds immediately healed.

He looked up into the sky, to the mysterious arc passing with a piercing shriek, circling over half the planet before turning back and crashing down as a silver flash.

Nephis was closing in.

Li Aozi sealed his lips, his echoing voice reaching the heart of the other:

"Nephis, is this your choice?"

What responded to him was silence.

"Live... live... LIVE——————LIVE————!!!!!!"

Immediately after, her voice became a wild howl.

——[Beastial Instinct]——For every point of [Intelligence] reduced, gain 2% immunity to all types of Damage, currently can be enhanced up to 10%

"...Indeed."

The savage howl awakened the ardor in Li Aozi, who removed his hood, his eyes filled with Implant Gear flashing with respect:

"This is the roar of life—I know what to do now."

Swoosh————Boom!

Nephis’s form instantly fell, stirring up a shocking mushroom cloud upon the ground, while at the center of the nuclear explosion, her onslaught continued.

Slash, slash, slash——splat!

The dual claws struck out, slicing through the Fashion as if piercing a curtain of water, tips stabbing into flesh, armor plating clasping and hooking backward, ripping open bone-deep wounds on Li Aozi, tendons torn, blood pouring out, chunks of flesh brutally torn away and then healing in an instant, only to be torn off again.

"Yes! Exactly! That’s it! Give me your all; come satisfy me!"

Li Aozi became exhilarated, he raised his Blade, striking the opponent over and over, even outright forgoing any defense.

The Health Points of both dropped rapidly, but the frequency of their attacks only grew faster, their clash like chainsaws sparking thousands upon thousands of sparks every second.

Clink, clank, clang, ping, bang!

Punches met chops, claws danced with the Demon Sword.

With no defensive moves at all, the two Zeta Ranks, like primal raging beasts, furiously engaged in a brutal duel.

No finesse, no tactics, just pure trade of blow for blow, blood for blood!