[The War Dragon VI, with the addition of various functions and devices, now boasts an exoskeleton that stands 2.65 meters tall and weighs 688 kilograms.]
"Whose house faces the sun and gets bigger and bigger with each upgrade?"
[High-frequency blades, fire-breathing, heat rays, jet flight, blade-wheeled bipeds... Six days ago it could only punch and run, but after five upgrades it has become a war monster!]
[Performance rating reached 6.3!]
The limitation on functionality isn't your technology, it's the materials!
[After replacing your previously damaged red cloak with supplies stored in your spatial ring, enter the sixth-generation fighter.]
"...How many capes do you actually have in your wardrobe?"
[Under the control of the bright yellow Manipulation Power, the crimson outer armor closed. Amidst the heavy hum of machinery, you opened your eyes, feeling the sense of security as your body was encased in hundreds of kilograms of iron.]
"Safety means that the enemy is safe when you are encased in an exoskeleton."
[Flames erupt from beneath your feet, propelling you skyward to a thousand meters in the air, where it feels as if you're standing on two pillars of fire, looking down upon this garbage dump.]
[Flying consumes a tremendous amount of manipulating power. Even a normal ninth-dan external manipulator couldn't last an hour, and if it were a third-dan external manipulator like you... they wouldn't even last five minutes!]
But now you're nearly six thousand times more powerful, so you can pilot it and soar freely through the sky for half a month!
The ensuing battle clearly won't take that long.
[You quickly spotted the woman whose lower body had eight steel tentacles—Octopus Queen.]
The ruler of the slum area where the Xu siblings live, and the surrounding garbage dump, is the Octopus King. Your understanding of her over these past few days is the most thorough among the six Garbage Kings.
This woman is absolutely insane and a psychopath.
How perverted can it be?
She likes men's soccer.
Holy crap!
Yun Shou couldn't help but agree: "That's really extremely perverted!"
[The severed feet of her Scarface gang members were carefully selected by this woman, known as Octopus Queen, who then soaked the parts she liked in a formalin solution.]
"...So it's men's football in a biological sense."
"It doesn't seem as perverted as I thought."
[As you descended from the sky, your red cape billowing behind your shoulders, the Octopus King shrieked. Her vocal cords had been modified, and her voice, like a banshee's wail, blasted into your ears through the receiver of the War Dragon VI.]
"Who are you?!"
She was terrified, learning of the deaths of the other three kings as you upgraded to War Dragon VI.
"I've never truly offended you. I'm willing to join you in killing the Mountain King, and then we'll give up all the other vacant territories!"
You stop a hundred meters in the air: "Are you really willing?"
Octopus King's face immediately lit up with joy, and a smile spread across his fierce expression: "I'm willing!"
"I don't want to! Why should I let you off the hook and take less?" You raised your left palm, unleashing a scorching beam of light towards her.
[The Octopus King became alert as soon as you raised your hand. Its eight steel tentacles extended upwards and closed together, protecting itself within teardrop-shaped tentacle armor.]
However, she was a step too slow. A 0.1-second ray of light penetrated her tentacle shell, striking her upper body. A scream escaped from the tentacle armor.
[You noticed before the tentacle armor closed that the ray was aimed at her face. A normal person... no, even a martial artist without using internal energy to form a defense, would be killed by that attack with their bare body.]
But the Octopus King will not die.
Because her status as the "King of Trash" stems from her fighting power, and that fighting power comes from her eight steel tentacles.
However, her upper body was not simply made of flesh and blood; it had also undergone human modification, such as replacing her skeleton with an alloy and implanting a high-strength metal layer under her skin.
Otherwise, if she had left such a huge weakness, she wouldn't have been able to become the "King of Trash"; she would have been secretly shot dead long ago.
The power of the blazing ray is far beyond what is needed for someone at the first level. Even the Fire Dragon King used to consider it a sure-kill move. Activating it once consumes half of his Manipulation Power, and then another half is consumed for every second it lasts!
Although the heat ray in your hand has been reduced in size and its power halved to fit the palm of your hand, its energy consumption is still astonishing.
So... you can shoot for hours on end!
Under extreme heat, one of the Octopus King's tentacles was gradually melted through, molten steel flowing and iron vapor rising into the air. For a full thirty seconds, this terrifying onslaught showed no sign of abating. Finally, unable to bear it any longer, she released several tentacles from her back, compressing them on the ground before launching them straight at you in mid-air.
"Come at me head-on if you dare!"
"Why should I listen to you?" You shook your head, redirecting the flames shooting from your legs to find other openings and continue firing.
"Taking ice cubes out of the freezer under the summer sun and then melting them with a magnifying glass... I used to really enjoy doing that." You shook your head, banishing the thought.
"We absolutely mustn't associate killing with playing games. Although this Octopus King is no good to begin with, we can't let it become a habit."
[Minutes later, Octopod began frantically fleeing through the garbage dump, adjusting its steel tentacles to block the rays.]
[You've traversed dozens of kilometers, and were just a few kilometers away from escaping the garbage zone. To prevent harming passersby in the residential area, you feigned being unable to maintain the heat ray while simultaneously descending to the ground, luring Octopus King back.]
[Her face and body bore dozens of marks where heat rays had swept across them, her skin melting to reveal the silvery-white metallic layer beneath.]
"Terminator 3, right?"
"With such abundant manipulative power, you must be an Inner Manipulative Master, right?" Octopus King sneered. "Unfortunately, even an Inner Manipulative Master's manipulative power isn't limitless. Your unrestrained use of that attack has reached its limit."
She charged at you, wielding seven steel tentacles (one of which was already disabled).
Despite her weakness of having only a human upper body, the combined strength of her eight claws gives her an 8-point functional strength!
"It's only 7 o'clock now."
You raise the high-frequency vibrating knife in your right hand.
The two passed each other.
Her upper body then slid down at an angle.
Engine oil mixed with blood spurted from the severed torso. The Octopus King channeled its pale blue manipulative power towards its eight tentacles behind it, attempting to piece its body back together.
"That's what Lao Liu wanted to do back then too."
Yun Shou, observing the situation, said, "But he didn't succeed; in the end, it was the Otherworldly Demon who helped him out."
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