This is really not mechanical ascension
Chapter 374 - 201: A Mistake You guys think he was forced?

Chapter 374: Chapter 201: A Mistake You guys think he was forced?

The procession left in tumult and when they arrived, the great gates of the steel castle were already wide open, drawing curious looks from the interstellar raiders in the distance.

The gates closed once again, and the patrolling guards immediately rebuked in a stern voice.

"Who are you, this place is..."

Before the sentence was finished, a bloody tornado swept up, and within moments the whole squad turned into chunks of flesh on the ground, with Sislang licking his tongue, which was full of tiny barbs.

Rob’s face was expressionless as the Collector’s guards fell one by one, with hardly any force capable of stopping them.

The last group of people jostled each other, staring in terror at the procession, with the castle gates behind them.

The gates were pushed open with a bang.

"Rob? It’s you!"

Huo Tan’s expression was gloomy, with the remaining guards following him, waiting in the castle hall.

"Lord Huo Tan." Rob smiled, "There’s no need for further words. If we dare to make a move, we have naturally anticipated the outcome."

"Cassis has gone to handle an emergency, and there should be only you in the castle now."

"The security system has been shut down." Huo Tan’s complexion darkened slightly, "You were prepared early."

If it weren’t for that, the multitude of automatic defense turrets and traps would have been enough trouble for these folks.

Rob revealed a ferocious smile: "Huo Tan, we are quite familiar with each other. I hope you’ll be sensible. Without you, we might still need to exert some effort to find Lord Azure Dragon."

Azure Dragon? That could be troublesome...

Huo Tan’s expression tightened, but he said only two words, "Wishful thinking!"

With a ripping sound, Huo Tan’s suit exploded, and to everyone’s amazement, his limbs were mechanical, with only the elbow parts covered in Mimicry skin.

Rob was not surprised, squinting his eyes, he saw layers of golden electricity spreading from Huo Tan’s body, enveloping him within ripples that seemed solid, as his mechanical limbs rapidly opened up.

As the ripple spread out to three meters, it swiftly retracted, converging around Huo Tan, his mechanical limbs fully opened, and his whole body was elevated quite a bit, with substantial golden arcs blasting out.

"A B-level Life Form with nearly 100% development progress, plus full limb augmentation. Such strength..."

Huo Tan’s eyes were icy as his entire being charged like a locomotive’s head.

Boom!

In a flash of electricity, Rob also exerted force under his feet, with a gush of lava red molten rock erupting around him, flames spewing forth like a tide, creating a massive fiery beast shaped like a giant lizard at speeds invisible to the naked eye.

Propelled by this molten giant lizard, Rob’s speed surged, the floor of the hall trembled and warped, yet astonishingly did not crack, the material used was also extraordinary.

In nearly an instant, he swept across dozens of meters, and the molten giant lizard suddenly stopped, leveraging inertia, the massive tail swung with even more fearsome speed, and the red hammerhead on the tail end lifted behind him, crashing down with a thunderous roar, as the molten giant lizard bellowed alongside.

Boom!!

Ripples solidified like a lapping wave, with the metal floor showing cracks that spread farther and farther.

Under this strike, Rob stood unmoved, while Huo Tan was hammered and flung away.

Woosh~

But then, Rob felt a tremor under his feet; the ground shook violently as the flung Huo Tan surged up, his mechanical arms extended, turning into a pair of huge claws with a whistling sound, tearing straight towards him.

"Courting death!" Rob sneered.

Suddenly, the charging Huo Tan unexpectedly stiffened mid-air, his mechanical limbs trembling, and veins on his cheeks bulging as if an invisible force was stopping him.

Unknowingly, from the shadows on either side of the hall, Froza was holding a gigantic, equilateral triangular mechanical suction device that glowed a faint blue.

"Get over here!" Rob suddenly lashed out with his tail, and Huo Tan, frozen in place, shot over like a meteor.

Froza grunted, retreating step by step.

And Huo Tan’s body was now stuck to the suction cup, a tremendous gravitational and traction force gripping him tightly.

Black heavy-metal alloy rings popped out at the joints of the hands and torso, confining him in place.

This was some sort of specially made mechanical shackles, with pipes extending from both sides, plugging into his spine.

"Make sure he stays alive." Rob, now back to his normal Life Form state, said indifferently.

...

Trading Island, inside a suite of a certain hotel, eight B-level Life Forms from the Torch Organization had been waiting.

The leader, with salt-and-pepper hair and deeply etched nostrils, his gray-brown skin resembling weathered stone, bowed his head, busily applying black oil to the guns and long knives on his body.

"Clint!" Suddenly someone called out, "There’s a message. Ulrich is about to leave, heading to Sandro’s territory."

"Return time unknown; if nothing goes wrong, the fastest would be five hours."

Clint paused his movement, his voice hoarse: "Get ready, we move in half an hour."

"Yes..."

The eight, of different races, were all very calm.

Half an hour passed quickly, and instead of leaving the hotel together, they met in groups of two or three at a street corner outside the steel castle.

Clint’s expression was serene, "According to the information, this castle uses the Giant Shield [Star Universe-level Protection Shield], which would take an extraordinarily long time to tear through from the front."

"Bachet, the particle cutter."

A Life Form carrying a bag came forward, taking out an oval-shaped cutter and a detector.

After turning it on, he began searching for the limits of the Energy Shield.

"Huh?" He paused, hesitant, "Clint, I can’t find the Energy Shield."

"Can’t find it?" Clint’s eyebrows knitted together. After putting on the detector and looking at the world clearly, indeed there was no sign of particle reaction from the Energy Shield...