899 Worsen 1 (1/2)

The Staff of Absolute Yin was the only thing that could provide him with Potential Points. However, it had been completely blown to pieces during this accident.

Garen stared at the staff in his hands and put it down quietly after a few moments.

He had never been one to overly rely on Potential Points and a long time had passed since he had been the Garen of the Secret Technique World that had to depend on Potential Points to improve by leaps and bounds. Without the Staff of Absolute Yin, his suddenly improved speed would now slow down slightly. Meanwhile, the hundred-odd Potential Points that he had accumulated previously would only be sufficient for a period of time.

While standing up from the deep pit, the wound on Garen's back healed itself quickly.

He looked at the black cloud and white light that were constantly blending and intertwining with each other in the faraway sky. They were actually two main Inherited Level Mech Pilots who were currently engaging in battle.

”What a scoundrel…”

Suddenly, a male voice could be heard from the side vaguely.

Garen raised his eyes and looked over. He could already detect this person's Willpower much earlier on before they had revealed themselves. It was extremely familiar.

A man in a black hazmat suit was standing beside a deep pit nearby quietly. White smoke was continuously wafting out of the exploded pit under his foot.

There was a filtration helmet over this man's face that resembled a gas mask that had two pipes at the back, making it impossible to see his face clearly.

”Anda, you're not dead yet?” Garen smiled while lifting his feet quickly and walking in the direction of the other man. As expected, the master of the Black Flood Party was probably a guardian that his teacher had called to assist him. Otherwise, it would be unlikely for a rescuer to appear so coincidentally in a remote place like this.

Therefore, he would need to leave this place as soon as possible during this gap in time.

Both of them ran in the direction of the ruins quickly. Their movements were completely in sync during this period of time, as if they had planned everything beforehand.

After going through the ruins of the fortress for a while, Garen discovered a perfect energy battery immediately and carried it on his shoulder. Anda found a large box of energy batteries that he was looking for as well.

Unlike Garen who lifted it in one go and carried it on his shoulder, Anda could only pick up a few energy batteries with higher densities from the box quietly.

When he saw Garen pick up a few hundred kilograms worth of energy batteries from the ground in one go easily, Anda's face contorted for awhile. Finally, he could only helplessly glance at the energy box that he had found before giving up.

”You don't want it?” Garen asked when he walked over and pointed at the energy box in which only a few energy batteries had been taken.

”…”

”I'll take it then,” Garen grabbed it with his other hand and simply carried the entire box of energy batteries off the ground in an extremely relaxed manner.

Anda's eyelids twitched and his mouth gaped open as if he was about to say something. However, he did not speak in the end.

Once both of them had found their required items, they ran quickly in the direction where their Mechs were previously located.

Garen carried two boxes of goods on his own. He did not plan to conceal his physical fitness this time. He was moving faster now than when he had arrived. When he arrived, he was constantly getting rid of the tracks that he left behind. However, he did not have to do that when he was returning.

They returned to the location of their Mechs within a few minutes.

As expected, Anda's Mech was parked here as well.

”I saw that you had left your Mech here and I came over after hearing the fighting noises over here,” Anda shrugged behind him. He looked on as Garen flung the heavy boxes of energy batteries in both of his hands on the ground.

Bang bang!

Two heavy banging noises could be heard before two deep depressions appeared on the ground when it sank downwards.

”This freak!” Anda's mind was filled with fear. Regardless of his combat standard, if he were to use this abnormal strength on a person, they would definitely suffer serious injuries if they did not die. He made a mental note to avoid clashing with Garen in the event that he did not have his Mech.

Both of them remained silent and opened the energy boxes in their respective Mechs quickly while dumping the energy batteries inside at once.

Garen dumped more than half of a box's worth of energy batteries inside and filled the Mech's energy to the brim at once. He carried the remaining ones into the Cockpit on his own, making it obvious that he had no intention of sharing it with Anda.

Garen had just entered the Cockpit when he immediately heard an unknown message that was left behind.

'I can only hold him off for twenty minutes. It will be up to you after that, be careful.'

The message did not have a beginning or an end but Garen understood immediately that this was probably a message from the Inherited Level master of the Black Flood Party.

”Twenty minutes…” he took a deep breath. ”That's enough!”

The red warning light went out and was replaced by numerous blue light sources that were fully charged and lit up brightly. They illuminated his face in pale blue and white shades.

After touching the control panel in front of him gently, Garen investigated the state of the Mech's damage. Many parts of it were damaged but there were no major issues. There would not be any problems as long as the engine was still working.

Willpower was transferred into the Mech's Body quickly.

'Launching engines at full power!'

Without taking the energy consumption into account, blue flares that resembled a waterfall flowed down the back of the Mech's entire Body suddenly.

Boom!!

While the entire Mech trembled for a while, a large and deep pit appeared on the ground when it was hit by the spurting flares. Next, Garen flew forward in one direction.