NIKKE: The Apocalypse Arrives, But the System is 100 Years Late

Mo Chen had no intention of showing mercy.

He grabbed Indivilia's tail with one hand, gripping it tightly before twisting with all his might.

With a sharp crack, the hardened stinger snapped clean off.

Before Indivilia could even react, Mo Chen took the severed tail blade and plunged it straight into her abdomen.

A flicker of sheer shock flashed across Indivilia's once-calm face.

Her luminous, star-like eyes widened in disbelief, pupils contracting as if trying to pierce through the blade now embedded in her body. Her lips parted slightly, as if wanting to cry out, but the sudden surge of pain left her speechless.

Her long, flowing hair fluttered wildly in the wind, forming a stark contrast with her frozen expression of astonishment. Her body remained rigid, as if time itself had stopped, the only movement being the tremor in her stunned gaze.

Too fast! She hadn't even had time to react.

Mo Chen felt a pang of amusement.

Honestly, he was being merciful.

If he hadn't gone for the abdomen, he would've slit her throat instead.

Yet, his so-called kindness clearly didn't win him any appreciation.

Indivilia let out a piercing shriek, and an invisible surge of power burst from her body.

Mo Chen instantly retreated, narrowly dodging the violent explosion of energy.

At the same time, Indivilia's body suddenly swelled—

In a mere instant, she expanded several times over.

Her delicate, alluring form was gone, replaced by a monstrous, ten-meter-tall scorpion with a chitinous exoskeleton and a terrifyingly menacing aura.

A second phase transformation?

Mo Chen was genuinely surprised.

"ROAR—!"

Indivilia had completely lost herself to fury.

Her massive frame unfurled, her tail arched high, its pitch-black carapace tensing like a coiled spring. She spread open her gaping maw, revealing rows of razor-sharp fangs.

Her two enormous pincers clamped down with a snap snap, picking up a Rapture corpse from the ground.

With a crunch, the body was split cleanly in half.

Before the pieces could even fall, they were pulled by an unseen force and fused into her exoskeleton.

Indivilia had always taken great care of her appearance—so much so that even in dire combat, she rarely transformed.

The fact that she had now shifted into this form meant she had been utterly cornered.

"ROOOOAAAR—!"

With another furious bellow, Indivilia coiled her legs before lunging at Mo Chen.

Her enormous pincers swiped forward in an attempt to crush him between them.

A mindless, brute-force charge—

The most foolish move she could've made.

Mo Chen didn't retreat.

With a single step, he shot forward like a bullet fired from a chamber.

In the blink of an eye, he was already face-to-face with Indivilia.

He clenched his fist and threw a punch straight at her incoming claw.

His strike carried the force of a raging storm, crackling like lightning.

Ikkotsu!

A hand-to-hand combat technique, Hakuda, from Yamamoto.

A martial art that allowed even barehanded fighters to unleash devastating force.

"BOOM—!"

Their collision sent out a shockwave that rivaled a sonic boom.

Indivilia's massive pincer was flung upward, its trajectory forcibly altered.

Mo Chen, however, wasted no time.

He slammed his foot down, releasing a burst of spiritual energy, propelling himself toward Indivilia's exposed form like a raging hurricane.

With an overhead strike, he smashed his fist down onto her glossy, black exoskeleton.

"BOOM—!"

With the enhancement of the Blacklight Virus, Mo Chen's strength reached thousands, even tens of thousands of tons—enough to crush a tank into a pancake.

The massive body of the scorpion suddenly sank, as if it had been pinned to the ground.

However, strangely, it wasn't damaged.

"Huh?"

Even he was surprised.

On the scorpion's pitch-black carapace, electric currents surged, and an invisible barrier seemed to block his fist. It didn't actually hit the carapace but was repelled midway as if by a magnet.

It's Overload!

Mo Chen remembered this skill from the game, a technique of Indivilia. In a short period, energy would concentrate across her carapace, strengthening her body and forming an AT Field that could block a certain level of attacks.

He also knew that Overload only allowed energy to exceed its limits temporarily and couldn't be sustained for long.

However, the way the scorpion lay on the ground, its tail raised high, reminded Mo Chen of her human form's alluring appearance—so lewd.

Perhaps sensing Mo Chen's indecent thoughts, Indivilia suddenly sprang up, sending him flying. At the same time, her stinger rose high, and the condensed energy erupted instantly. A laser beam capable of piercing through everything shot through the air, heading straight for Mo Chen.

Auto-Dodge Chip! Activate!

In an instant, Mo Chen's figure turned into an afterimage, dodging the attack. The afterimage left behind was hit by the laser and vanished into thin air.

But it wasn't over yet.

Mo Chen keenly sensed the sound of something cutting through the air behind him. Without turning around, he knew it was a sword beam, fired from the scorpion's pincers. The speed was so fast it was almost instantaneous. At this moment, Auto-Dodge was on cooldown and had already been activated.

If he got hit, it would hurt for a long time, right?

At the same time, accompanied by a buzzing hum, countless dark dots appeared in the sky. Indivilia had summoned self-destruct Raptures, swarming toward Mo Chen like a horde of wasps.

But Mo Chen didn't dodge, nor did he draw his Zanpakuto, nor did he block.

Instead, he simply raised his arm.

That human arm, with its fair and delicate skin, looked as fragile as a reed compared to the massive steel limbs of the Raptures—something that could be snapped with a flick.

Using his hand to block seemed like a suicidal act to outsiders.

But at that moment, a large amount of crimson liquid suddenly emerged from the ground, rising into the air as if pulled by gravity.

It was the Red Tide!

"Thud, thud, thud—!"

Several muffled sounds echoed as the sword beams struck the Red Tide and dissipated into nothingness.

Like stones sinking into the sea, they only caused faint ripples.

The surging Red Tide, like a devil released from hell, bared its ferocious fangs.

Countless bizarre shapes emerged from the Red Tide, twisting and transforming into self-destruct Raptures, which then flew out, hovering in the air.

Like a swarm of locusts, they found their prey and surged toward the Raptures summoned by Indivilia.

These were born from the Red Tide!

At this moment, Mo Chen floated in mid-air, his posture upright and unwavering, like a marshal commanding an army of thousands. His sharp, eagle-like eyes stared down below.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom—!"

Self-destruct Raptures collided with self-destruct Raptures.

The explosions rang out continuously like popping beans, the shockwaves tearing through the air, forming invisible ripples that spread in all directions. Each explosion was accompanied by scorching flames and thick black smoke.

The shrapnel from the dense explosions fell like a rain of sharp, silver trajectories, whistling through the night sky.

Compared to the number of Raptures summoned by Indivilia, the Red Tide seemed endless, continuously spawning more, a dark, overwhelming mass like a locust swarm. Not only did they obliterate Indivilia's Raptures, but they also surged toward Indivilia herself below!