Ch.9595. Mecha vs. Kaiju

The Winter Wolf’s cold beam-breath—if only the Emperor had died instantly… but unfortunately, he managed to survive the attack.

As a manifestation-type psychic user specialized in forming matter with psychic power, he instantly created over 7 layers of psychic barriers. Though 5 layers shattered, he managed to block the cold beam-breath with the remaining 2 layers… but the problem came next.

“…”

Currently, he was trapped inside a massive iceberg formed over his psychic barrier, beyond merely freezing him with his barriers intact.

If he released his barrier even for a moment, the extreme psychic cold that had permeated to the ground would instantly freeze him, so he couldn’t move carelessly. Yet maintaining the barrier wasn’t a solution either, as the psychic cold was gradually eroding even the barrier itself.

Caught in this impossible situation, the Chinese Empire’s Emperor finally—

“—Hup!”

Whoosh—Crack!

He boldly decided to break through head-on.

He destroyed and shattered the ice approaching from all directions to freeze him. Using the psychic crystals in his crescent blade as a medium, he melted these smaller ice fragments with high-temperature psychic flames.

With the simple but effective strategy of destroying ice before the cold could touch him, and eventually using a drill-like psychic construct for excavation—

CRASH!!!

“Huff, huff, huff… I’m out!”

Finally, the Emperor managed to escape the iceberg in just 14 minutes.

Having escaped through the weaker side of the iceberg, the Emperor exhaled heavily while warming his body, when suddenly the scene before him left him speechless.

“…!!!”

What he witnessed was Beijing, completely frozen over and turned pure white.

Whether cultural heritage sites thousands of years old or buildings constructed at costs of tens of billions, everything was covered with thick ice, giving the impression that the world itself had frozen. And at the center of this frozen world—stood the giant Winter Wolf.

True to its nature as a monster that hated everything related to humans, the giant Winter Wolf swung its tail to destroy frozen buildings, freezing them in their destroyed state, and trampled the still-intact Tiananmen Square to rubble.

This destruction wasn’t carried out by the giant Winter Wolf alone, but also by numerous smaller mutant Winter Wolves that had somehow annihilated the capital defense forces and entered the city.

The Winter Wolves, using their overwhelming strength disproportionate to their rank (6.5), tore apart ice without caring about their own bodily damage to devour the burst corpses inside, and worked to reduce all artificial structures to raw materials by destroying already damaged building debris.

No matter how much of a tyrant and dictator he was, as a citizen of the Chinese Empire, he couldn’t help but feel enraged at this horrifying sight.

“…”

So, with burning anger in his heart, he raised his crescent blade toward the giant wolf monster—

And began to envelop his body with psychic constructs to use his strongest technique, Guan Shen.

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‘What is that gold-flashy guy doing?’

While I was feeling refreshed watching my cute junior Yoo Se-ah’s Frost Wolf demolishing Beijing, I was puzzled by the self-proclaimed Chinese Empire Emperor’s unexpected behavior.

He started covering himself with psychic constructs despite not being under immediate attack, and I couldn’t understand his intention.

But that didn’t last long.

When I saw the final form of his transformed psychic construct, I couldn’t hold back my genuine admiration and amazement, even if the opponent was “Chinese.”

‘…Wow.’

Because the form he created with his golden shining psychic construct was—a Chinese-style warrior wielding a giant crescent blade, a so-called Mecha-Guan Yu.

To describe it in more detail, this Mecha-Guan Yu was covered in Chinese-style armor—so advanced I was certain it didn’t exist during Guan Yu’s lifetime—and the crescent blade had an ascending azure dragon engraved on it.

He was positioned roughly at the back of Mecha-Guan Yu’s neck, and due to the nature of psychic constructs, semi-transparent strings reflecting the main body’s movements connected the giant armor to Mecha-Guan Yu.

Moreover, Mecha-Guan Yu was a massive 100-meter class, the same as the Frost Wolf. Though the Frost Wolf might be larger in weight class due to its tail, Mecha-Guan Yu had the distinctive heaviness of armor.

[…Senior, what should we do?]

‘Don’t you want to fight?’

[Yes, I want to fight.]

Se-ah, who usually became extremely timid in front of me and less proactive than expected, was amazing enough to directly express her desire to fight.

‘Then, good. Go ahead and try.’

[Y-Yes! Understood!]

So when I gave her permission to fight, Yoo Se-ah, filled with excitement, moved the Frost Wolf’s body she was possessing and pointed a sword condensed with psychic cold at Mecha-Guan Yu.

And then—

—WHOOOOSH!!!!

She began the full-scale engagement by blasting cold energy from the sword toward Mecha-Guan Yu.

Whoosh—BOOM! Whoosh—BOOM! BOOM! Zzzzzzzz—CLANG!

While Se-ah’s possessed Frost Wolf attacked by discharging cold energy like a booster from the opposite side of the blade, the Emperor-controlled Mecha-Guan Yu swung its giant crescent blade blazing with psychic flames.

Judging by class and simple skill alone, it was hard to say which side had the advantage in this equal battle, but…

‘Eventually Se-ah will win anyway.’

I secretly thought that if they kept fighting, ultimately the Frost Wolf supplied with my psychic energy would emerge victorious.

Anyway, while I was thinking that, the two exchanged countless moves.

Pushing back the crescent blade’s thrust with cold energy discharge, deflecting the following low slash with the spear shaft, attempting to strike with the sword handle only to jump back a step to retreat.

And after the distance between them widened, the two massive beings began preparing their ranged attacks as if they had planned it together.

Both drew psychic energy toward their heads, condensing it—

WOOOOONG—KABOOOOM!!!!

PEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

The cold beam fired from the Frost Wolf’s mouth and the heat ray shot from Mecha-Guan Yu’s eyes collided, producing enormous steam(?) that filled the battlefield that was once Beijing.

Since neither side was willing to back down even an inch, the fight naturally evolved into a test of strength, causing the steam(?) to grow even thicker and spread across the battlefield.

And when the density of this steam—or rather, this unidentified substance that looked like steam—became so high that they could barely see each other—

WOOOONG—CLAAANG!!!!

Both could still see through the steam in their own ways, confirming each other’s presence. They approached simultaneously and swung their weapons, the shockwave clearing away the steam.

And so, in the ruins of Beijing where the steam had cleared, the second round began.

However, this second round had a somewhat different feel to it than before.

The Frost Wolf, which had previously attacked merely by swinging a great sword made of condensed psychic cold, now used its entire body to attack Mecha-Guan Yu.

It slashed with claws wrapped in cold energy that emitted white smoke, struck hard with its tail carrying its body weight, or sometimes rapidly fired cold energy masses—more like chunks than breath—from its mouth.

It also used its surprisingly flexible legs to kick at Mecha-Guan Yu’s legs to disrupt its stance, and occasionally just rammed with its body or bit with its mouth.

Se-ah, who had finally realized the most efficient way for a giant monster to fight, broke free from her hunter habits and continued her offensive more aggressively.

Of course, Mecha-Guan Yu wasn’t just taking these attacks passively… but such resistance wasn’t enough to escape easily.

There was inevitably a difference in response time between Se-ah, who had fully possessed the Frost Wolf, and the Emperor who was indirectly controlling Mecha-Guan Yu, and in a first-class battle, this difference becomes more significant than anything else.

Moreover, since the Emperor was using enormous psychic energy to maintain that huge Mecha-Guan Yu, eventually the Mecha-Guan Yu began to fade—

BOOM!

In the end, like some Ultra■an or something, Mecha-Guan Yu depleted all its psychic energy in just 3 minutes and disappeared, leaving the Emperor collapsed on the ground, unable to move.