Defiance of the Fall

ck reflexes.
The Cyborg was launched into the air, flying tens of meters away before slamming into the ground with a large bang.

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”What the hell is that thing? ” a shocked voice asked from the side.

Zac looked over to see Ogras standing there, staring at the cyborg with horror in his eyes.

”A cyborg, a mix of man and machine, ” Zac sighed.
”The foreman turned into this thing just as I was about to kill him. ”

”Mix of man and machine? That ’s Impossible, ” Ogras said with a shake of his head.
”The heavens won ’t allow such a thing. ”

Of course, it was hard to refute the evidence as it stood up again as if nothing had happened.
Its chest was completely fine, with not a single blemish from the retaliatory strike.
The air around it was crackling and twisting from just standing still, and it looked as though it had once again powered up.

”I can ’t harm it, and I can ’t defend against it, and it keeps getting stronger, ” Zac sighed.
”Do you have any ideas? ”

”Throw things at it, ” Ogras said, immediately taking out a handful of offensive arrays.

Hope reignited in Zac ’s heart as he took out all his offensive treasures as well.

The next moment the Underworld lit up in a cacophony of chaotic energies as over ten powerful offensive arrays exploded at the same time.
Everything from fires burning so hot it the flames were white to poisonous mists and crackling lightning caused a both beautiful and terrifying display as the cyborg was submerged in a conflagration of their most powerful arrays.

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Zac even went so far as to throw out his one and only [Void Ball], his ultimate tool of destruction.
The ball plunged the whole area into spatial chaos far worse than what he had seen over by the entrance to the Mystic Realm.
That time he was even thrown inside while fighting the tiger, but he managed to get navigate his way out in one piece.

This time the zone was jam-packed with spatial tears, some as large as two-three meters.
Some of the largest tears even combined to form large sections of void space, looking like windows into outer space.
Those were even more terrifying than the tears, as one could actually fall into such a thing.
What waited on the other side depended on one ’s luck, but it was most likely a horrible death.

Zac didn’t think he could throw a stone through the area unscathed, let alone passing through it.
But the hulking form of the cyborg seemed completely unbothered as it stood inside the blast zone, only a few scorch-marks and slightly melted metal the proof that he had been inside radius of the attacks at all.
Even the spatial tears were crushed against its body, though they did leave somewhat deep cuts.
But the wounds didn’t bleed at all, and it didn’t look like the cyborg even noticed them.

Zac and Ogras only looked at it with dismay, unsure of what to do next.
Its enormous fist suddenly slammed into the ground with impossible speed, causing a huge shockwave to erupt.
It looked like an atomic bomb had erupted beneath the ground they stood on, causing crushed stones to blast upward in a circle of hundreds of meters.

Zac and Ogras stood over a hundred meters away from the center of the impact, but they were still pushed back another hundred meters, barely able to keep their footing.
The demon also suffered multiple cuts from errant pieces of stone hitting him with the speed of bullets.
The remaining power of the offensive arrays were blown away in an instant as well, with only a few spatial tears remaining.

”Is it D-Grade? ” Ogas screamed in alarm.
”We need to flee! ”

Zac had to agree with Ogras ’ assessment.
This thing was just too powerful.
Zac could barely cause a few cracks in the extremely hard rocks around them, but this monster could suddenly cause widespread damage with a simple punch, something Zac wouldn ’t even be able to replicate on the surface.
There was no way that the Cyborg had less than 2-3000 Strength by now judging from that slam alone.

The two immediately started to run away, but the monster was just too fast.
One moment it was still standing in the distance, but in the next it was right next to Ogras, shrouding the demon in darkness.
Its fist ripped through the air at the demon, foretelling of impending doom.
Ogras roared as torrential amounts of shadows erupted from beneath him, completely submerging the cyborg in darkness.

The cyborg froze and shuddered in response, which caused the shadows to get ripped into pieces and Ogras to cough out blood from the blowback.
But the brief pause allowed Zac to once again summon [Immutable Bulwark] and place it and himself in front of the demon for a final stand.

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But the cyborg had grown too powerful in this short time, and the bulwark only managed to absorb some of the force before cracking like brittle glass.
Zac only had time to erect all his other defensive treasures before the herculean fist rammed into his shield, causing both Zac and Ogras to sail hundreds of meters away until they slammed into a wall with a resounding crash.

Zac almost blacked out from the pain as black ichor flowed like a waterfall from his mouth and nose.
At least thirty bones in his body were broken, and the demon seemed to be even worse off when the two crashed into the ground.
His shield was completely destroyed as well, well beyond salvaging.
Zac desperately tried to get back on his feet to meet the oncoming enemy, but he barely managed to get up to a sitting position.

He was almost all out of Miasma in any case, and using any skill was off the table.
He would likely turn to his human form in minutes unless he managed to restock on energy.
He briefly considered trying to transform to his human class, but he knew that it was a fool ’s dream.

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There was no way to finish the transformation as the cyborg had already appeared right in front of them with the help of its tremendous speed, a series of crashes in the ground exploding behind it.
Its hollow eyes stared down at them without a shred of emotion, which in a sense was even scarier than a glare full of hatred.

The transformation skill required ten seconds to finish, but those seconds were the difference between life and death.
Besides, Zac knew that there was no way he could harm the thing, even if he unleashed his most powerful moves from his Hatchetman Class.
The monstrosity wasn’t even hampered by the spatial tears, and those were far more dangerous than his skills.

”I ’m sorry, ” Zac sighed as he shot a look the demon who helplessly lay in a heap next to him.
”This is all my fault. ”

”This is the life of the cultivator, ” Ogras wryly smiled with a blood-filled mouth.
”The road has to end sometime.
Shame I never got to finish my movie. ”

Zac ’s snorted before his thoughts wistfully went to his sister as he closed his eyes, ready to meet his maker.