Stronger with Crimson Modifier

"Ugh..."

Controlled by Xi Guang, Zhao Yao stood frozen, his mouth slightly agape and his pupils trembling violently.

Golden stripes flickered in and out of existence across his face.

As the Young Man’s hand sank into his forehead, the golden stripes on Zhao Yao’s face quickly faded away, as if suppressed by some invisible force.

SHLICK!

The next moment.

The white-robed Young Man pulled his hand out. The movement was clean and sharp, as effortless as drawing a hand from water.

Yet, Zhao Yao’s forehead was left without a single wound, not even a drop of blood. It was as if the entire thing had been an illusion.

Zhao Yao’s body suddenly went rigid. Then, as if all support had vanished, he tilted forward and knelt directly on the ground.

The Young Man paid him no mind.

He looked down at his own palm.

A triangular piece of black metal with gold markings had appeared in his hand. Its surface shimmered with a faint light, trembling slightly as if it were alive.

Sensing it had been forcibly torn from Zhao Yao, the Mech Core that housed Xi Guang began to act like a runaway energy reactor.

The golden patterns on its surface flared with brilliant light.

The surrounding air began to warp.

She was actually trying to self-destruct, preferring to destroy herself rather than fall into someone else’s hands.

However, the next moment...

She heard a cold snort. The sound was icy and majestic, as if it had descended from the highest heavens.

The sound carried an irresistible power that instantly suppressed her consciousness.

On the core of Sun’s Radiance, the flaring light subsided, as if pinned down by an invisible hand, unable to move at all.

With that, the white-robed Young Man’s figure dissolved into specks of light and vanished on the spot.

The next moment, time in this area seemed to flow backward.

The shattered ground, walls, and mirror fragments all seamlessly repaired themselves, returning to their original state, as if the fierce battle had never happened.

The memories of everyone who had witnessed the scene were completely erased, forgotten.

A short while later, Zhao Yao and Zhao Ying both jolted, their consciousness and movements returning to normal.

Zhao Ying looked around, her brow furrowed. She felt as if she had forgotten something important.

Zhao Yao had the same feeling.

He tried calling out to Xi Guang in his mind, but there was no response.

This made him feel a little uneasy.

He had grown used to her presence over the past half-month.

Unfortunately, he was destined to never receive a reply.

...

「In the dark space of the Copper Cross Medal.」

Hu Qi opened his palm. Lying quietly within it was the Mech Core of Sun’s Radiance.

The metal’s surface still shimmered with a faint light.

The white-robed Young Man from before was none other than Hu Qi.

After this period of adaptation, he was able to channel more of his power through.

However, it wasn’t enough for his true body to descend into reality.

The scene just now was merely a projection of power. He had used the power of the Infinite Dao to temporarily amplify himself, then combined it with the Twisted Light.

But even as just a projection of power, capturing her had been laughably easy.

The power of a True God, even just a sliver of it, is an almost invincible existence.

If Sun’s Radiance had been completely intact and piloted by a Mecha Master, it might have had a slight chance of escaping from this projection.

But as just a core, she had no power to resist whatsoever.

Hu Qi stared at the triangular metal core, a strange light glinting in his eyes.

His gaze seemed to pierce through the metal’s surface, peering directly into the secrets within.

"So that’s how it is. Is this thing your core?"

Xi Guang couldn’t understand Hu Qi’s words at all.

Her consciousness was trapped inside the core, unable to escape or resist.

"Who... Who in the world are you?"

As a Forbidden Mecha Spirit, her intellect was virtually indistinguishable from a normal person’s.

Naturally, she also possessed her own emotions.

But this was the first time she had ever experienced the emotion called fear.

In her distorted and muddled perception, Hu Qi was like a colossal celestial body, so immense it seemed to have no end.

The radiation and aura emanating from him alone seemed enough to destroy her, and even the entire world.

’An existence like that couldn’t possibly appear before me in human form.’

Of course, Hu Qi had no intention of explaining anything to her.

The next moment, Xi Guang’s terrified cry rang out. "No, you... stop... what are you doing..."

She realized her data was being invaded by some kind of power.

As a Forbidden Mecha Spirit, she was a product of this world’s highest technology, capable of independent learning and evolution.

After years of optimization, not even the creators of the Forbidden Mecha could break through her defenses.

But now, she felt as if she had been stripped bare, her every secret laid open for him to see.

"Noisy!"

With a cold snort from Hu Qi, Xi Guang’s voice was cut off abruptly.

Her consciousness was completely suppressed, rendering her unable to make another sound.

A few moments later, Hu Qi had analyzed and absorbed all of her information and data.

This gave him a complete understanding of this world.

This included information about the Holy Cross Church, as well as the Light Descendants and the Eternal Night Council.

In Hu Qi’s view, although the world had a futuristic cyberpunk style and was quite large with its twelve planets, its true theme was actually very simple: everything revolved around reviving the sun.

Thinking of this, he closed his hand and gave it a light squeeze.

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