49: Arya's heart fluttered. The Gatekeeper Mech!

Gao Zhihang's fighter jet took the lead, its nose already touching the outermost spider silk!

The sharp force of spatial cutting instantly sliced off the sturdy alloy nose like a hot knife through butter! The cockpit was exposed, and death was imminent!

At this fleeting moment!

Aria's slender hand, which had been preparing to maintain the spider web and even strangle these "ants," trembled imperceptibly.

Deep within her dark purple pupils, a trace of extremely complex, indescribable light flashed and vanished.

Swish! Her slender fingers flicked slightly!

That web of death, which even a nuclear explosion could not shake, seemed to possess a life of its own at the very moment Gao Zhihang's fighter was about to be completely cut apart. It "coincidentally" spread open an irregular "opening" directly in front of the fighter, just large enough for the fuselage to pass through!

Whoosh—! Gao Zhihang's battered fighter jet, accompanied by whistling gales, narrowly passed through that "opening"!

Following closely behind was the parachute descending slowly behind him.

One jet... two jets... three jets...

A bizarre and tragic scene appeared in the sky: hundreds of Divine Summer fighter jets, like moths to a flame, carried a death-defying will as they slammed one after another into that incredibly tough, dark purple web of death!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! The moment each fighter touched the web, it was cut, torn, and disintegrated by the sharp spatial silk as if it were a fragile toy! They exploded into brilliant, tragic fireballs! Metal fragments rained down like a storm!

(The web of death is incredibly agile; it must be manually piloted to be hit.)

However! The moment before each fighter crashed or disintegrated, the white parachute at the cockpit position "miraculously" passed safely through the "opening" that appeared in the web just in time to accommodate it!

The sky was illuminated in a deep red by the continuous fireballs of the exploding fighter jets! Countless parachutes, like white dandelions, drifted slowly down through this purgatory of death composed of steel and fire...

Aria hovered in the air, her dark purple pupils reflecting this scene composed of steel, fire, and life, deep and unfathomable.

The palpitation brought by those dusty fragments of memory was quickly suppressed by reality.

The sacrifice of ants could not change the ending, just like... her own unchangeable fate back then.

Her gaze locked back onto the massive beast in the charred ruins below, still struggling in pain and bleeding profusely.

Her eight long, bladed legs adjusted their angle slightly, and the lethal tips aimed once again at the crystal core in the center of Su Chen's forehead, which was emitting an enticing energy fluctuation.

At this critical moment, as the murderous intent gathered once again—

"Swish—!!!" A piercing, air-tearing shriek, like a crimson meteor, brazenly broke through the falling aircraft debris and scattered parachutes, carrying a desperate, suicidal, and unstoppable Aura as it slammed fiercely toward Aria in the sky!

It was Chen Feng! He was piloting the ultimate weapon that Divine Summer had exhausted its national power to create, with a skeleton of star-patterned vibranium and still in the experimental stage—the prototype mecha codenamed "menshen mecha"!

The mecha stood a hundred meters tall, its entire body covered in thick, blood-red armor with ferocious, jagged edges, looking like a giant deity stepping out of mythology!

But at this moment, the joints of this behemoth were spraying unstable, incandescent electric sparks, the engines were emitting the mournful cries of overload, and high-temperature white steam was rising from the gaps in its armor! It was clearly on the verge of collapse from operating under overload!

"Monster! Don't you dare harm Lord Kraken—!!!"

Inside the cockpit, Chen Feng's eyes were blood-red, the veins on his forehead bulging, and his hoarse roar penetrated the mecha's internal communications, filled with deep-seated hatred and determination!

He had once been saved by Su Chen from a desperate situation, and now, he would repay that debt with his life!

Vroom—!!! The ridiculously huge alloy chainsaw sword on the mecha's right arm suddenly activated!

Countless high-speed rotating teeth emitted an ear-piercing shriek, and the blade erupted with a blinding, incandescent energy light blade!

This strike, which concentrated all the mecha's energy and infused all of Chen Feng's will and rage, brazenly slashed toward the dark purple web in front of Aria that even a nuclear explosion could not shake!

Screech—Boom!!! The energy light blade and the spatial spider silk rubbed violently against each other, annihilating one another! It made a teeth-grinding cutting sound!

The incredibly tough web was actually torn open, creating a huge gap by this full-force strike that concentrated the sharpness of star-patterned vibranium and surging energy!

The crimson, massive body of the "menshen mecha" did not pause in the slightest, like a steel torrent breaking through a dam, it rushed through the gap, and the huge alloy chainsaw sword, carrying the Aura of cleaving mountains, slashed down at Aria's slender figure!

The energy fluctuation erupted from this strike had clearly crossed the terrifying threshold of the 50th tier!

"Hmm?" Aria's dark purple pupils finally turned slightly, revealing a trace of clear surprise for the first time.

The power erupted from this hunk of iron had actually barely reached the upper limit of the "ants" in her eyes.

She casually raised one of her long, bladed legs covered in dark purple carapace, the tip flashing with a lethal, cold spatial glint, preparing to swat this annoying hunk of iron and the pilot inside like a fly, cutting them into two pieces of scrap metal.

But! Just as her intent moved and her power was about to concentrate at the tip of her foot in a ten-thousandth of a second—a sudden change occurred!

"Urgh—!!!" A short, yet pain-filled groan escaped Aria's lips!

The chitinous cursed carapace on her waist, which had originally been forcibly suppressed under her ribs and covered in eerie dark purple patterns, suddenly writhed and expanded violently, as if injected with violent venom!

The dark purple carapace crazily eroded upwards like a living thing! Sss, sss, sss—! The dark purple instantly flooded over her flat, fair abdomen, crawled over her towering chest, and even, like ferocious vines, rapidly climbed toward her long, fair neck and that half of her flawlessly beautiful cheek!

An excruciating pain, deep into her marrow and tearing at her Soul, suddenly struck, causing the power she was gathering to have a trace of an extremely subtle, almost imperceptible, stagnation!

It was this fatal stagnation of a ten-thousandth of a second!

"Die—!!!" Chen Feng keenly captured this fleeting opportunity!

His eyes were wide with rage, and he pushed the control stick to the limit! The mecha engine let out one final roar, on the verge of disintegration!

"Boom—!!!" The giant alloy chainsaw sword in the hands of the menshen mecha, wrapped in an incandescent energy light blade, carried Chen Feng's lifelong martial Dao will and the mecha's full kinetic energy as it slashed down fiercely!

"Clang————————!!!!!" A deafening, terrifying sound of metal clashing, like a great bell struck by a giant hammer, tore through the entire sky over Tokyo!

Aria's raised, bladed leg, at the critical moment, narrowly blocked the slashing trajectory of the chainsaw sword!

The collision between the spatial force, star-patterned vibranium, and surging energy erupted into a visible shockwave, instantly evacuating the air within hundreds of meters!

However, "thunder blade" Chen Feng! How rich his combat experience was, and how precise his grasp of timing was!

The strike was blocked? The offensive had only just begun!

"Roar—!!!" Under Chen Feng's control, the menshen mecha instantly transformed into a peerless swordsman a hundred meters tall! The huge mechanical joints erupted with a roar that exceeded their limits! Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!