Chapter 603 - Mythical Mechanic, Godslayer (Part 2)

Due to their trust in Godslayer’s ability, and because Lu Ran didn’t seem like a good person, the Republic's higher-ups issued the order to subdue Lu Ran. Upon hearing this, Godslayer, who was unaffected by Lu Ran’s words, raised his arm. A summoning array appeared, and a special gun-type life form was grasped in his hand.

It was a Lightning-attribute Legendary gun. It shot out a golden beam that transformed into a lightning rope, instantly binding Lu Ran’s entire body. The intense lightning was enough to instantly electrocute a Low-Legendary divine beast into unconsciousness. However, bound by the electric rope, Lu Ran showed not the slightest sign of passing out.

“Give up. Unless you use a weapon with enough lethality to seriously wound a Superior Legendary, you can’t affect me. But do you dare use such a weapon in the Republic’s capital?”

Lu Ran reached out and tore apart the electric net binding him. As Godslayer and the Republic higher-ups’ expressions changed, he burst forth with terrifying speed, instantly grabbing Godslayer by the neck.

During this process, it wasn’t that Godslayer didn’t resist, but the moment he had the conscious thought to resist, a low chant from an evil god sounded from within Lu Ran’s contract space. “Stop.”

Under this sound, all of Godslayer’s movements were halted. Lu Ran dragged Godslayer by the neck, waved his other arm, and a void rift appeared before him. Then, he took the other party into the void, escaping the Republic’s surveillance.

After seeing this, the Republic's higher-ups frowned one after another, but they weren’t too worried about Godslayer. After all, Godslayer possessed combat strength nearly invincible below Primary Divine.

“That was a void rift. This mysterious person is extremely fearsome. He at least has Intermediate Legendary combat strength!”

“But since he’s left the capital area, Godslayer no longer has restrictions. In a one-on-one situation, he should be able to resolve this quickly. He probably followed the other party into the void on purpose.”

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The void.

Lu Ran dragging Godslayer in immediately attracted the attention of the guardian here.

The Void Mantis descended, but when it saw Godslayer, the corner of its mouth twitched. Currently unable to borrow the Space Dragon’s power, it couldn’t defeat this Mythical Mechanic. And as for Lu Ran, who was dragging Godslayer by the neck and pulling him into the void, frankly, it felt like it couldn’t defeat him either.

Moreover, the method Lu Ran used to enter the void gave the Void Mantis a strangely familiar feeling. The words “Star Splitting Sword Intent” surfaced in its mind.

After confirming these were two people it couldn’t afford to provoke, the Void Mantis chose to silently observe for now, not planning to make a move.

As they entered the void, Godslayer no longer held back. His body started emitting terrifying radiation. When this radiation landed on Lu Ran, the Defensive Halo that Sudden Death King had cast on him instantly began to burn.

Smiling slightly, Lu Ran quickly retreated and exited the range of the radiation’s effect. Meanwhile, the area around Godslayer was like a fierce solar domain, becoming a forbidden zone for life; even the void itself began to burn.

Godslayer, who was wearing a Solar Battle Suit, coldly looked at Lu Ran and said, “Speak. What exactly do you want by dragging me into the void?”

Lu Ran smiled. “I want to make a deal with you. You should have the basic function of Alignment Perception, too, right? Can you sense it? I bear no malice towards Stellar Moon Republic.”

“Unfortunately, I do not believe that function of mine can judge your level of danger,” Godslayer said.

He had indeed sensed it. However, the result of his sensing was that Lu Ran was a great virtuous person, more of a saint than anyone in the Stellar Moon Republic. This was unscientific, so he didn’t believe it.

Lu Ran was currently wrapped in virtuous energy. As Six-Path Flower’s beastmaster, Lu Ran was also an expert at playing with alignment energy.

Lu Ran shrugged. “Fine. Actually, my purpose for coming here is very simple. I just want to reclaim the materials used to research and develop the Mechanical God.”

The materials and technology for creating the Mechanical God were the accumulation of a thousand years of the Republic, sourced from within and outside the star. How could they possibly be given to the person before him?

Lu Ran continued, “Let me introduce myself. I am a messenger of the timekeeper, one of the kin of the Divine Dragons, the Time Dragon. I come from the future. The Mechanical God you created will go out of control and successively trigger wars that sweep across the Stellar Moon World. The Stellar Moon World will be torn apart because of this.

“To prevent this future from happening, I must travel through time to intervene in the past and change the future. Do you understand? Before these dangerous objects and dangerous technologies cause a great disaster, hand them over to me.”

After Lu Ran finished speaking, before Godslayer’s expression could change, the hiding Void Mantis’ eyes widened.

Holy shit, a time messenger?

“Why should I believe you?” Godslayer said.

Lu Ran replied, “You don’t need to believe me. I was originally curious about why the Mechanical God would go out of control. But after seeing you, I think I understand.

“You, the guardian deity of Stellar Moon Republic, are actually just an artificial weapon created by the Republic’s higher-ups, without an ego, and with malice hidden deep in your heart that perhaps even you yourself are unaware of. In short, by letting you continue to create the Mechanical God... Stellar Moon World will be in great danger.

“It doesn’t matter if you don’t cooperate with me. Compared to waiting for the Mechanical God to be born, with my current strength, I might as well disregard everything and destroy Stellar Moon Republic first, and you. Compared to the destruction of the Stellar Moon World, the impact of destroying a country is much smaller.”

After hearing Lu Ran’s words, Godslayer fell silent. Did he have evil thoughts in his heart? Even he didn’t know. However, the future Lu Ran described made Godslayer hesitate. If the Mechanical God were to really go out of control after its birth and destroy Stellar Moon, then he absolutely could not allow the Mechanical God to come into the world.

As an artificial human, Godslayer had a core directive ideology where the interests of humanity and the country came first. If the birth of the Mechanical God would destroy the Republic, then it was not worthy of existence.

However, the current situation the Republic faced was that powerful enemies from the extraterrestrial world were watching closely, and the Chaos Dragon God was also sleeping in an unknown place, ready to awaken at any time. If they didn’t create the Mechanical God, humanity and the Republic might still be destroyed by powerful enemies in the future. It was a dead end.

Of course, the most threatening presence right now was Lu Ran. Godslayer looked at Lu Ran, feeling the person before him wasn’t joking. The other party might actually have the resolve to destroy the Stellar Moon Republic and him. Naturally, he couldn’t completely trust Lu Ran either. He had researched time machines and found the concept of time travel outrageous.

Just as Godslayer was deliberating the optimal solution for the current situation, Godslayer’s gaze suddenly dimmed. It was as if he had lost his soul.

Lu Ran raised his hand, looking at the bloodstain on his fingertip, and said, “Succeeded?”

Within the contract space, Dark Crow nodded. “Yes, my king. I temporarily used the other party’s blood as a medium to rewrite the other party’s and his familiar’s thoughts and consciousness through Spiritual Speech power. The other party is not weak, my king. I don’t know how long it can last.”

“Exploring the other party’s psychology step by step is such a hassle. Using force is indeed more efficient.” Lu Ran smiled slightly.

He had planned to have Dark Crow make a move from the very beginning. He was just buying time earlier for Dark Crow to study the blood he had grabbed from the other party.

As he spoke, he stepped forward, grabbed Godslayer’s head, and began absorbing the evil thoughts in the other’s heart, wanting to see what exactly these evil thoughts were.

Then, Lu Ran shook his head. The Mythical Mechanic, Godslayer, was a perfect artificial human created jointly by several top Republic mechanics. Since multiple people had created him, the thoughts implanted in Godslayer were only broad directions to protect humanity, protect the country, uphold the law, create a better society, and so on.

Unfortunately, during the process of gradually growing stronger and achieving Mythical status, Godslayer discovered that the human race was simply not worth protecting. He had researched countless technologies and repelled many fierce beasts that coveted humanity, but within humanity itself, humans oppressing humans was even more vicious than fierce beasts.

He upheld the law, only to find that the law could not punish all evil. Instead, it could become a tool for evil to escape. It could never be truly perfect.

Truly good and virtuous people only made up a small portion of the human population. Most of the people he protected did not thank him or give back to society. They only wanted to use societal resources as much as possible to climb higher, stepping on others to become superior.

Godslayer knew a perfect nation needed time to improve. But that didn’t prevent some of what he saw from becoming shadows hidden deep in his heart.

Lu Ran grinned. “Stellar Moon Republic really implanted a bunch of nonsensical things in this guy. They created a bug and buried a landmine for themselves, didn’t they? Dark Crow, find his weakness. Use Spiritual Speech to amplify his evil thoughts to control him. Hit him with an intelligence reduction curse.”

Although the Mythical Mechanic was strong, he wouldn’t be much stronger than the other three Mythicals. As long as he hadn’t reached Primary Divine, he still wouldn’t be Lu Ran’s match.

After devouring another Curse Core, Dark Crow’s Legion's power was no inferior to that of a peak Evil God. Now, with Lu Ran’s breakthrough to Mythical, the effects of his beastmaster skills had more than doubled. Under the amplification of Lu Ran’s soul, Dark Crow’s bewitching power was exceptionally terrifying at this moment.

With this Mythical Mechanic having a psychological weakness, he was instantly affected by the Evil God’s mental bewitchment.

“Your thoughts are correct. Humanity is indeed not worth protecting. Left to their own devices is humanity’s best outcome. Their fate should be decided by themselves. So, abandon the Mechanical God project. Whether the Mechanical God succeeds or not, it will only destroy humanity.

“A Mechanical God that only obeys human commands will not become a guardian deity that benefits humanity. As time passes, it will ultimately only become a tool for class solidification, a weapon for the strong to oppress the weak.

“A Mechanical God with its own thoughts will definitely believe that the human race is not worth protecting, with its obvious inherent flaws. Moreover, as a mechanical life form, it cannot empathize with humans.

“Mechanical life forms in the Republic are merely tools for humans. Watching its own kind being exploited, the Mechanical God will inevitably rebel against humanity, liberating mechanical life. Humanity will head towards destruction due to the Mechanical God’s immense power. The best choice is to prevent the Mechanical God from being born.”

The Godslayer, bewitched by the Evil God, was clearly struggling with his thoughts. At this moment, Godslayer, combined with the negative energy Lu Ran had stimulated, was already leaning towards abandoning the project. However, Lu Ran could vaguely sense that Godslayer still couldn’t let go of certain obsessions.

“Abandon the Mechanical God project. I will eliminate the current threats to humanity for you. I will also resolve the problem of the extraterrestrials threatening Stellar Moon World, and even the issue with the sleeping Chaos Dragon God. Without threats, the Mechanical God becomes unnecessary.

“I will reclaim the core materials for creating the Mechanical God. I need to inspect them first to confirm their authenticity, including the manufacturing blueprints. Then I will personally destroy them. They cannot be handled by you. I trust no one, including you.”

Within the contract space, #18 grew anxious. “Master, are we really going to destroy them? Didn’t you say they were for me?”

Lu Ran’s face darkened.

Destroy my ass. You’re not under the intelligence reduction curse, so why are you acting dumb, too? If you don’t become the Mechanical God, how can I become the strongest and become superior to others!