The circular walls emitted a clicking sound at this mont and began to slowly lower, revealing an unknown structure below. The intention of the chanical team was clear: to remove all obstacles and expose Chen Ke in the open space of the circular ground.
After the wall descended, the entire circular prison transford into a circular arena. Surrounded by thick, dark black iron walls, countless chanical team mbers hovered in the air within the hundred-ter-deep space. Their guns emitted green laser aiming lines, locking onto Chen Ke, Lucina, and Diana in the very center.
The iron can-shaped soldiers ford an encircling siege, confronting Chen Ke from every angle without a blind spot. In their eyes, Chen Ke was not human but akin to a deity; evidently, they were prepared to die in this standoff.
Li Weigang landed on the ground, his ch producing hydraulic sounds as it moved. His helt folded back, revealing his sowhat intimidating face.
Chen Ke had never seen him before, but the other man seed to bear a grudge against him.
Li Weigang glanced over Chen Ke’s shoulder at the prone Xu Jing, lying on the ground with her eyes tightly closed and not a breath of life in her.
"We et again," Li Weigang said.
"I’ve never seen you before," Chen Ke replied.
"No matter, you’ll soon be locked in a cage by us, and we won’t be deceived by you, Fake God..." Li Weigang said.
"Ahhhh!!!"
Before he could finish, Lucina let out a shout. Her body flashed with green light as she charged over. Li Weigang’s helt had just enclosed his head when a green Energy Fist smashed into his faceplate.
Li Weigang’s helt caved in significantly, and he was flung away, arcing through the air before sliding more than ten ters across the ground, never to rise again.
The next second, bullets poured down like a swift storm. Chen Ke imdiately opened the Ti Domain, and thousands of bullets, along with the flash of gunpowder, froze in midair.
Diana extended her arms, and twin red beams of Energy Light sprayed forth, instantly raising the room’s temperature. The pillars of light swept away a pile of the iron cans, leaving black burn marks on the gray iron walls.
Seeing this, the chanical team mbers imdiately dispersed their formation and raised parts of the circular wall again. This ti, however, they used it as cover. Two team mbers descended and dragged Li Weigang behind the circular wall.
Lucina, sweating profusely, cast a reproachful look at Diana, but the latter returned it with an expression of helplessness. Lucina saw the circular walls slowly rotating and, seizing the mont between gaps, dashed out rapidly.
Chen Ke tried to call Lucina back, but she was too fast. As he opened his mouth to speak, Lucina had already rushed dozens of circles away. The rotating walls sealed off the path, isolating Lucina from him.
"Can you carry flying?" Chen Ke asked Diana.
"If you don’t mind the heat," Diana replied.
Chen Ke donned the An Helei armor, then handed the six Holy Diamonds of the Ascension Suit to Diana. Diana’s entire body glowed as she put on the midriff-baring armor and, grabbing Chen Ke with one hand, turned into a flaming Energy Body, soaring towards the ceiling.
Lucina had just burst out when a heavy punch from the left struck her cheek. She stumbled, kneeling on one knee, as soone twisted her left hand behind her back. Then, more than a dozen iron cans rushed over, pinning her to the ground in an instant.
"Hold her down...! Inject the energy sealing needle!" soone shouted.
Lucina’s eyes blazed with green light as she roared, extending six massive Energy Arms from behind and scattering the iron cans on top of her with a boom. Holding one in her grip, she felt a new realm unfold within her; the six floating arms behind her moved at her will, as if extensions of her own limbs.
With a snap, the six arms smashed the iron cans in their hands onto the ground with such force that the armor deford under the pressure.
So sections of the circular wall were still rising slowly. Diana, carrying Chen Ke, slipped through the gaps in the ceiling. Chen Ke jumped from the high point, transforming into a Demon, fighting alongside Diana to decimate the iron cans hiding behind the covers.
Although the mobile unit had many mbers, half were killed in the initial confrontation, and all the circular walls rose again and began to rotate, trapping them inside a maze-like three-dinsional prison.
"Lucina?!" Chen Ke yelled.
"I’m here... I’m in front of you. Your voice seems to be to my left," Lucina’s voice ca through the thick circular walls. Knowing she hadn’t been beaten by those talheads brought relief to Chen Ke, but her voice was too soft; she was now close to the outer edge of the circular walls, too far away from him.
"What do we do now? The cage has risen again, we can’t fly out, and each circular passage has turned into a wall. We’re trapped to death," Diana said.
"There’s a switch in the control room. If we could get there, we could lower the circular prison again," Chen Ke said.
"You seem to have forgotten that the control room is at the entrance to the circular prison, right?" Diana shook her head.
"Can you burn a hole through it? The circular walls are made of rooms, so their strength shouldn’t be too high," Chen Ke asked.
"If you do that, everything inside will be released..." Diana shook her head again.
Chen Ke had forgotten that detail. This was the Foundation’s circular prison, holding all sorts of ssy things. If they were released, the world would be thrown into chaos.
"Isn’t this not the ti to worry about that?" Lucina didn’t mind.
"This thing can move up and down, as well as rotate, which ans it’s movable. As long as we’re strong enough, we should be able to force it..." Elsewhere, Lucina too was trying to find a solution as she felt along the walls and muttered to herself.
The thing was too heavy; it was a structure in and of itself. Lucina’s hands explored the exterior of the circular walls, feeling the screen and the cold, iron-gray structure of the gaps in between like steel but seemingly lighter. After feeling around, she finally found a vertical seam.
Lucina tried to pry open the tiny seam with all her might, but it was sealed too perfectly, not even allowing a sheet of A4 paper to slide in.
She didn’t give up; stepping back a few paces, she punched at the seam, creating a fist-sized dent and breaking the skin on her knuckles. She concentrated magic power to heal the wound and then carefully inspected the seam, noting that the dented area now allowed room for a few fingers’ clearance.
Lucina placed her hands on the edge and started to exert force, biting down hard. Green magic stripes on her muscled arms glowed as sweat slid down the curves of her muscles.
The mobile unit in the control room outside also noticed Lucina’s attempts.
"What is this girl trying to do? She wants to pry open the circular walls with her bare hands?" A mobile unit mber said incredulously.
Li Weigang, recently knocked unconscious by Lucina, had co to. He looked at the screen and directed, "She’s strong, but it won’t be easy to pry open the circular walls. Gather the outer mbers to that spot. Once she prys a gap open, we’ll take care of her together."
"There’s a severe ti distortion field around us, making projectile weapons useless," remarked another mber.
"Then use close combat weapons. She’s not impervious to them," with a click, Li Weigang’s right arm armor folded open to reveal an energy outlet, and a blue Light Blade coalesced into shape.
More than twenty mobile unit mbers gathered outside the Holy Diamond, with Light Blades ready. Li Weigang stood at the forefront, his face full of loathing.
"Don’t act rashly. We’ll wait on the side of the circular walls, letting her widen the gap enough first. When she’s about to co out, we’ll attack from both sides. Rember, we need her alive; prioritize limbs, and even if she can regenerate, it’s not instantaneous," Li Weigang commanded over the armor’s internal channel to avoid Lucina hearing them, separated by only one wall.
Lucina had never used such great strength before. If she could indeed pry open the walls, it’d be worth boasting about in the gym for a week. She furrowed her brows, perspiration drenched her back, black hair stuck to her cheeks and spine— the heavy circular walls began to emit a creaking noise.
Below her, sothing sounded as if it broke inside the floor—the massive circular walls were actually being pried open. Six magic Energy Arms also grabbed at the seam in front of her; adding her own two arms, eight arms together exerted force. She roared, opening a gap in the sealed circular walls.
"It’s coming... get ready," Li Weigang prepared outside, Energy Light Blade at the ready in his right hand, as his teammates took positions on both sides of the gap, arms raised, aiming at the opening.
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