Hyper-Dimensional Player-Chapter 419 - 43: Slaying the Starship, Ascending the Celestial Vault! (Part 2)

A massive computing power invaded the starship ahead.

Duncan almost instantly lost control of the command room. All the Mechanical Souls submitted to the enemy, ceasing their work, and even the conceptual driving ability of the Immortal could not control them.

Mechanical Holy Scripture, Revelation, Volume 12 — "Before the throne of God stand seven Angels."

This is the origin of the Seven Guardian Angels.

However, historically, the Mechanical Divine Sect’s records of the seven guardian Angels differ, with different periods having different sets of Seven Guardian Angels, likely replaced by successors. The Insight Angel commands the Throne Angels within the Mechanical Divine Kingdom. They are a group of angels without fixed human forms, often appearing as an Eye of Insight with a pair of mechanical wings.

The Mechanical Throne Angels are responsible for maintaining the internal circulation of the Earthly Divine Kingdom. They are non-physical existences, serving as a transit point between the Material World and the Divine Country.

Only upon descending do the Insight Angels condense into a visible material body.

Within the Dimension Space.

From Duncan’s divine perspective, invisible phantoms appeared, directly emerging within the starship as large data streams invading and transforming into garbled, hazy outlines.

"Alert! Alert!"

"Detected data life form Mechanical Angels! ... Target is a data life form with a spirit-like body! ..."

"Target is immune to conventional physical attacks!"

Silhouettes of Insight Angels surrounded Duncan near the command room of the starship, invisible to mere mortals. Only with a divine perspective could Duncan perceive their digitized angelic outlines. They infiltrated the mechanical systems as garbled data, directly interfering with the Mechanical Souls and any mechanical bodies with computing power.

The computing power network formed by these Insight Angels repaired the previously heavily damaged interior of the warship.

Whoosh!

A mechanical arm originally intended to assist suddenly attacked Duncan in the command room, with mechanical guards from the side compartments awakening one after another. Even the adaptive defense cannons remotely aimed at Duncan.

Rumble!

Duncan seemed suddenly besieged by all the mechanical bodies. The corpses of the fallen Data Sages on the ground began to change; the remnants of mechanical modifications continually converged, vertebrae entwining to form gears, merging as a pair of mechanical bone wings spread, and the central Eye of Construct instantly shot out a scorching laser beam.

——Insight Throne Angel (Mechanical Construct) (Five-star Silver Gray)! 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

Interesting.

A life form similar to AI?

But it seems that in the creed of the Mechanical Divine Sect, Throne Angels are transformed from humans after they ascend!

There’s a chance for a Data Sage to ascend to a Throne Angel after death.

Duncan’s figure was pierced by the scorching laser beam, the right shoulder almost charred, but it quickly recovered at a visible speed. In this world, his regeneration ability is extremely monstrous. With the Avalon scabbard, sudden death is nearly impossible.

His promotion to Immortal differs significantly from other Heroic Spirits.

Other Heroic Spirits have relatively low summoning thresholds and need to rely on others’ magic power to sustain existence post-descent, quickly fading without periodic magic refueling. But the Immortal - Duncan is different, with a summoning threshold particularly high, requiring a large amount of magic for the ritual, yet needing no magic refueling post-summoning descent, as he is a moving vortex of magic power himself.

Once singlehandedly bearing the world’s mythological recession, he himself is an embodiment of the Mythical Era.

With magic still abundant, Duncan, holding the Avalon scabbard, is virtually immortal, with any injury regenerating at a surprising rate.

Clang!

The Sword of Oath and Victory was unsheathed.

Duncan gazed at the Throne Angel phantom in the projection interface, slowly saying, "Activate the [Godslayer] Authority!"

Since they are immune to conventional physical damage, treat them as divine-like power adversaries!

His figure darted out instantly, entirely ignoring the activated Mechanical Holy Order Army. These are mechanical bodies transformed from the Defender Army’s corpses, using remnants to suppress the Mechanical Souls. With a fleeting beam of light, Duncan ignored the nearby activated construct weapons, swinging his sword upon the command room console.

With the divine perspective in view, the computing power device overlapped with the Throne Angel phantom, bending over these control devices as a digital projection!

Boom!

The steel armor, with a thickness exceeding half a meter, was slashed by Duncan, nearby computing power devices shredded by the furious Wind Power, and the Throne Angel, hunched over the mechanics as a digital projection, was bisected. Its expression even displayed a hint of terror before being exterminated by Duncan in the next second, dissolving into countless data chaotic flows, completely disappearing.

"Target eliminated!"

"Successfully killed data life form Throne Angel! ... Attempting to seize target’s ability! ..."

With the first Throne Angel slain, the expressions of the other Throne Angels became increasingly astonished.

They almost never had any natural enemies, with even descended hateful anomalies unable to harm their mere data stream forms, at most killing the mechanical bodies they possessed or destroying the computing power cores temporarily holding their data.

But this time, the Throne Angel before them had truly perished in every sense of the word!