Chapter 2086 War Machine <TOC> Chapter 2088 Minor Situation
Translator: SumTLMan
“The might of this nightmare creature is too feeble; I wonder if it can even stir the killing desire in Vanen.” The voice of Boil Gentleman drifted through the wind.
Angel cast a glance at Boil Gentleman but remained silent.
From the distant energy ripples, Angel was certain that this blue-skinned troll, far surpassing a regular formal wizard in strength, probably neared the edge of true knowledge in terms of combat power.
Yet, in Boil Gentleman’s words, this was… too weak?
Indeed, Boil Gentleman wasn’t lying. Facing this cyclops troll, Vanen felt no pressure whatsoever.
Angel saw Vanen transform into a red mist, instantly reaching the troll’s side. A series of light and shadow flickered, and in a brief moment, after a wail from the troll, Vanen burst a large hole through its chest, gracefully rolling to a stop without a move.
The cyclops troll then heavily fell to the ground, vanishing amidst a rising fog.
Though Angel appeared calm, his heart was already in turmoil.
This cyclops troll, a nightmare creature, might lack some desperate, cornered beast’s tactics compared to a real magic creature, but its strength shouldn’t be too far off.
Angel could easily defeat the troll, but to do so as effortlessly as Vanen, barely emitting energy fluctuations, was a difficult feat.
It was a completely asymmetric crushing!
“Indeed, this nightmare creature couldn’t activate Vanen’s slaughter desire, not even fully engaging the dynamo. Seems we need to bring in a more substantial opponent.”
Boil Gentleman’s words reached Angel’s ears. This time, Angel didn’t internally object, as the gap between Vanen’s strength and that of the cyclops troll was indeed vast.
With a light snap of his fingers by Boil Gentleman, another shadow appeared on the stage. As black mist poured in, the shadow gradually revealed its true form.
A wasp swordsman wielding a cross-thin sword.
Despite being much smaller than the cyclops troll, this wasp swordsman’s combat power far exceeded it.
Merely drawing circles with its thin sword could generate a pseudo-domain’s power, definitely reaching the standards of a true knowledge wizard.
Even Angel would likely struggle if he faced it.
Yet, Vanen still showed an almost crushing stance against the wasp swordsman. When the pseudo-domain clashed with the mist, Vanen’s terrifying pressure directly shattered the cross-thin sword.
With the sword broken, the wasp swordsman had no power to resist and was eventually reduced to mush by Vanen.
However, since the wasp swordsman was a virtual nightmare creature, these remains eventually vanished into smoke, leaving the stage as clean as before.
“This nightmare creature, though capable of making Vanen utilize some of the dynamo’s chaotic source power, merely consumes the chaos source and cannot bring the dynamo into the hot-start phase of the Chaos Source Cycle… Vanen’s desire to kill must be activated.” Boil Gentleman’s voice, buzzing in texture, came from beneath the bandages.
Angel didn’t speak, but a question arose in his heart:
The power of the chaos source is immensely strong, not only substituting for energy consumption but also serving as a direct means of attack. This was evident from Vanen’s combat.
Such a powerful chaos source, as Boil Gentleman implied, could be consumed and even proliferate in battle?
If the Chaos Source really can cycle endlessly, wouldn’t that mean the battle could be endless?
With this question in mind, Angel continued to watch the subsequent arena experiments.
In the third battle of Vanen, the opponent was no longer a single nightmare creature, but a group of nearly twenty gargoyles of various sizes. While the individual strength of the gargoyles was similar to the cyclops troll in the first battle, they included different types, such as flying, burrowing, long-range, melee, and even gargoyle wizards.
Faced with this all-round battle formation, Vanen encountered a tough fight for the first time.
Although Vanen did not immediately show weaknesses, the prolonged struggle led to a gradual drain.
The originally steampunk-style armor kept emitting thick red steam; as time passed, the steam’s color became lighter and eventually nearly colorless.
This indicated that the Chaos Source in the dynamo was diminishing.
When Vanen was hit in the chest by a gargoyle with demon wings and fell heavily to the ground, the power of the Chaos Source had reached the final warning line of consumption. Continuing to use it meant the collapse of the Chaos Source and the death of Vanen.
Just as Vanen was about to reach a dire situation, the aura around it suddenly changed.
A strong desire for slaughter rose from within Vanen.
When this desire reached a certain threshold, the dim red far-viewing scanner began to flicker with red light again, and the steam erupting from the armor’s pipes turned red once more.
Angel watched as Vanen shifted from a state of exhaustion back to a combat state.
The Chaos Source around it became active again!
“Is this the hot-start phase of the Chaos Source cycle?” Angel couldn’t help asking.
“Yes, in this phase, as long as the slaughter continues, as long as the nightmare persists, the energy of the Chaos Source will last forever!” Boil Gentleman spoke with a hint of fervor.
As his words fell, Vanen began its counterattack.
This time, with the rise of murderous intent, its power kept recovering. The gargoyles, even with the presence of wizards, were constantly eroded by the nightmare power of the Chaos Source and eventually turned completely into rubble.
Just as the battle between Vanen and the gargoyles ended, Boil Gentleman, seemingly unsatisfied, immediately constructed a group of phantoms in the arena.
When the phantoms revealed their true forms, a trace of astonishment flashed in Angel’s eyes.
These phantoms were not nightmare creatures in the form of monsters but humans.
A group of human wizards with different appearances and wearing robes.
Vanen’s already subsiding murderous intent surged again upon seeing these human wizards.
And this time, it was even more intense than before!
In the next five minutes, Angel witnessed a true massacre. The ones being massacred were those human wizards.
Vanen’s performance was completely different from before. The steam emanating from its body was almost entirely the dense color of blood throughout. This meant that Vanen maintained the perfect state of combat from beginning to end!
Even when facing the gargoyles, it had not been in such good condition.
This showed that Vanen’s murderous intent towards humans was much stronger than towards the gargoyles!
And this intense murderous intent, combined with continuous slaughter, was the source of the Chaos Source’s power!
The terrifying endurance of the dynamo was now fully demonstrated.
When the massacre ended, Angel let out a long breath. Even though these human wizards were just virtual nightmare creatures, Angel still felt a sense of sorrow as if mourning the inevitable fate of the prey.
However, this emotion was quickly reined in. Compared to these feelings, he was more concerned about the dynamo itself.