95: Golden Fruit and the Wrath of the World Tree

The flame dragon mecha's speed surpassed lightning.

Almost the instant the thought arose, Lin Mo had already reached the top of the giant tree.

He hovered beside the thickest branch, almost touching the clouds, and extended his massive, dark-red mechanical hand to carefully pluck the first golden fruit.

It felt warm and smooth in his hand, heavy, as if he held a solidified, breathing sun.

A new line of data appeared on his tactical screen.

Name: fruit of the world tree (Mythical Grade Ingredient)

Effect: Direct consumption permanently increases all attributes by 5 points.

This was it.

Lin Mo's heart sank as he confirmed his target.

The moment he placed the fruit into his storage compartment, the anticipated change occurred as expected.

Rumble—

The entire island trembled violently once again!

This time, the tremor was ten, a hundred times more intense than any before!

The earth groaned, and the sky quivered!

“Roar—!!!”

A roar, filled with endless fury and bone-deep pain, no longer faintly emanated from deep underground.

Instead, it erupted directly from the core of the trunk of the towering giant tree beneath their feet!

It was as if a sleeping god had been brutally awakened from a beautiful dream!

“They’re here!”

Gu Zhixia below showed no tension; instead, a bloodthirsty, uncontrollable excitement flickered across her cold, beautiful face.

Before she finished speaking, the ground around the giant tree began to crack and disintegrate inch by inch!

This time, what burst forth from the earth were not the previously unremarkable humanoid vines.

Instead, eight colossal War Ancient Trees, each over five meters tall, more robust in physique, and even more ferocious in appearance, emerged!

Their bodies were entirely composed of intertwining, dark-green, hard roots that gleamed with a metallic cold light.

Their surfaces were covered in an incredibly thick bark armor, resembling the heavy armor worn by ancient generals.

Their arms were two giant root-whips, infinitely extendable and bristling with deadly barbs.

And in the center of their chests, a blood-red single eye burned with raging fury, emitting a pure, terrifyingly brutal aura that sent shivers down one's spine.

Name: Avatar of the World Tree's Wrath

Level: LV25 (Elite)

Attack: 200

Defense: 200

Health: 5000

Eight LV25 elite monsters!

Their strength far surpassed that of the previous Abberation Apostle!

“Is this all you’ve got? Not even enough for a warm-up!”

Gu Zhixia let out a cold shout, not waiting for the Avatars of Wrath to fully stabilize their forms; she had already launched her charge!

The thunder dragon mecha transformed into a dazzling blue phantom, advancing instead of retreating, like a lightning bolt surging upstream, fearlessly rushing towards the War Ancient Tree closest to her!

“Thunder Dragon Thrust!”

Under the super-frequency activation of the thunderstorm core, the tip of her high-frequency vibrating particle spear condensed into an extremely dazzling ball of lightning, as if it could pierce through space itself!

The War Ancient Tree let out a dull roar, and its two root-whips, as thick as buckets, resembling two dark-green dragons emerging from the sea, lashed fiercely at Gu Zhixia's mecha from left and right, with a terrifying whistling sound that tore through the air!

This strike was powerful enough to snap a thirty-story building in half!

However, facing this world-destroying attack, Gu Zhixia’s eyes showed no fluctuation.

Just 0.01 seconds before the whips were about to touch her armor, the thunder dragon mecha's back suddenly jetted out powerful propulsive currents, instantly dodging the deadly pincer attack of the two whips in an uncatchable Z-shaped trajectory!

The next moment, she appeared like a ghost in front of the War Ancient Tree's chest!

Pfft—!

The spear, imbued with destructive lightning energy, met no resistance whatsoever.

It effortlessly pierced through the War Ancient Tree's thick chest armor, which was capable of withstanding cannon fire, and emerged from its back!

The violent lightning energy detonated within the War Ancient Tree's body!

The massive War Ancient Tree's body stiffened abruptly.

The burning single eye on its chest instantly dimmed.

Its colossal body, as if all its strength had been drained, crashed to the ground.

One-shot kill!

In just one encounter, an LV25 elite monster was instantly killed!

This was the unreasonable and terrifying dominance displayed by the “titan Dragon Soul” mecha, combined with the Weapon Master Talent!

“Too slow.”

Lin Mo’s calm voice drifted down from above the clouds.

Just as Gu Zhixia cleanly and efficiently dealt with one Avatar of Wrath, he had already, with lightning speed, plucked all four remaining fruit of the world tree and collected them into his possession.

The moment the last golden fruit left the branch, the entire World Tree completely plunged into an unprecedented frenzy!

“Roar—!!!!!!”

A terrifying roar, as if from an ancient god awakening, powerful enough to make heaven and earth lose their color, erupted violently from the deep core of the World Tree!

The entire island began to shake and tear violently, almost to the point of collapse!

On the surface of the tree trunk, as thick as a mountain, countless pieces of bark were furiously peeling off, revealing the terrifying tree body beneath, like billions of giant pythons coiling and twisting, full of the essence of Life!

Immediately after, the hundreds of gigantic tentacles that had previously firmly grasped the Natural Selection once again extended from the canopy, obscuring the sky and sun!

But this time, their size was several times larger than before!

Each one was as colossal as a mountain!

Their surfaces were covered with sharp, blade-like bone spurs!

And their tips split open into terrifying, massive mouths filled with layers of sharp teeth, capable of devouring everything!

Their target was no longer the Natural Selection, tens of thousands of meters high.

Instead, it was the two tiny “ants” close at hand, who dared to steal the fruits of the gods!

“Hurry!”

Lin Mo roared, the flame dragon mecha’s dragon wings spewed out the strongest flames, and the entire mecha, like a meteor released from a bowstring, rapidly ascended towards the sky!

Gu Zhixia instantly reacted; she had no desire to linger in battle.

After sweeping her spear horizontally and severing the roots of two other War Ancient Trees, the thunder dragon mecha transformed into a blue lightning bolt, closely following Lin Mo, and desperately retreated towards the sky!

However, the speed of those giant tentacles was beyond imagination!

They were like a vast net closing in from all directions, blocking all their escape routes, intending to crush them completely in this airspace!

They were about to be completely swallowed by the terrifying net of tentacles!

At this critical moment!

Lin Mo’s voice, through captain’s authority, resounded throughout the entire area!

The voice was cold, calm, yet filled with supreme majesty.

“Fafnir, awaken!”

Boom—!!!

A earth-shattering roar!

The massive steel beast, Fafnir, parked at the edge of the island, instantly opened its tightly shut golden eyes!

Burning with raging, destructive flames capable of incinerating all things!

Its massive body heavily crushed the ground beneath its feet, and its black dragon wings suddenly unfolded, stirring up a terrifying storm of air currents!

The next second, it transformed into a pure black lightning bolt and soared into the sky!

Its target was precisely the rapidly contracting death net composed of giant tentacles!

“Dragon King Plasma Breath, maximum power, fire!”

Fafnir’s ferocious dragon head lifted high, and the orange crystal core in its chest operated frantically at an unprecedented power!

A destructive energy torrent, over twenty meters in diameter, almost dyeing half the sky a doomsday orange-red, erupted like a divine judgment, blasting forth!

The seemingly indestructible net of tentacles, before this absolute, utterly unreasonable destructive power, was as fragile as a painting scorched by intense fire.

Instantly, a colossal gap was torn open!

Lin Mo and Gu Zhixia seized this fleeting opportunity, streaked through the gap, and successfully escaped the World Tree’s crushing range!

“Well done!” Gu Zhixia’s heartfelt admiration came through the comms channel.

“This is just the beginning.” Lin Mo’s voice showed no signs of relaxation.

He hovered tens of thousands of meters high, looking down at the colossal entity below, which, like a living island, furiously thrashed its hundreds of tentacles in anger, and a chillingly intense killing intent flashed in his eyes.

“Natural Selection, all weapon systems, safety restrictions disengaged.”

His voice, through captain’s authority, echoed in every corner of the warship.

“Target, World TreeMain unit.”

“Fire!”