Seeing the Recon Squad members rushing over, Axel's heart sank.
He had planned to sneak quietly into Megalo Tower, but now that plan was clearly ruined.
What made it even more frustrating was that he seemed to have been treated as the culprit behind today's disaster.
Saving people felt great for a moment, but the price was that his location was completely exposed, becoming the target of everyone.
"Handsome! Watch out behind you!", the black-dressed young woman he had saved pointed anxiously behind him.
Axel didn't even turn his head. His overwhelming psychic power swept backward, and a solid shield instantly formed.
Bang!
With a dull crash, a heavy metal plate blown over by an explosion slammed hard into the shield. Sparks flew, ripples spread violently across the surface, but it did not move at all.
He coldly swept his gaze over the Recon Squad members closing in and the terrified civilians caught in the disaster. The last trace of hesitation in his eyes faded, leaving only cold resolve.
"No time to waste with you."
Axel took a deep breath. The psychic power inside him erupted like a flood bursting through a dam.
No longer limited to precise control and local defense, it centered on him and formed a violent mental shockwave that suddenly spread outward in a ring.
Buzz!
An invisible storm swept across the street.
The few Recon Squad members charging at the front were struck as if by a heavy hammer. They groaned, the gun-shaped devices in their hands flying out, and they themselves were thrown back hard, crashing into broken walls.
The chaotic civilians around were also pushed several meters away by this gentle yet irresistible force, clearing out a relatively open space.
The dust was temporarily blown aside by the force, revealing Axel's upright figure and the burning blue light in his eyes that did not belong to this world.
"Target confirmed! It's Axel who took Megalo Tower today. His likely target is the Blinding One."
"Classified as a high-risk intruder! Requesting backup! Repeat, requesting highest-level backup!", a fallen Recon Squad member roared into his communicator.
Axel ignored the shouting behind him and the approaching roar of patrol vehicles.
He suddenly turned, his gaze sharp as lightning, locking firmly onto the towering Megalo Tower in the distance, still radiating a cold glow even amid the chaos.
"Looks like the plan needs to change," he muttered. His knees bent slightly, and the ground beneath his feet cracked.
The next moment, he turned into a streak of blue light almost impossible to catch with the naked eye. No more hiding, he tore through the chaotic streets and thick smoke at a terrifying speed far beyond human limits.
He shot straight toward Megalo Tower.
Right at that moment, another change occurred.
A far stronger and stranger electromagnetic fluctuation than before suddenly descended, sweeping across the entire street like an invisible tsunami.
The air instantly became thick and heavy, buzzing with a scalp-numbing crackle.
The metal components that had just been extracted from the collapsing buildings and scattered across the ground or floating midair, twisted steel bars, broken pipes, shattered aluminum frames, even huge metal billboards that had been ripped down, seemed to come alive.
They screeched with sharp metallic grinding sounds, as if gripped and kneaded by an invisible giant hand, then crazily gathered toward a single center point.
The speed of convergence was astonishing, forming roaring torrents of metal that tore through the air with piercing shrieks.
Countless fragments collided, compressed, and fused under the invisible force, producing deafening clangs and dazzling sparks.
In just a few breaths, a massive metal dragon shadow, somewhat resembling Kyurem in shape, condensed above the street.
This metal dragon was not a living being, but a pure killing construct made of cold steel and alloy.
Its body was formed from layered, angular metal plates like cyber-style mechanical armor.
At its joints were thick hydraulic rods and rotating gear bearings, making dull clicking sounds.
Its enormous wings were not flesh membranes, but assembled from countless sharp metal feathers, their edges gleaming coldly as they cut through the air.
Each flap stirred violent winds mixed with metal debris, roaring like a giant industrial fan.
Most terrifying were its head and claws.
The firearms and energy weapons that had just been forcibly snatched from the Recon Squad members were now crudely dismantled and rebuilt by an invisible force, embedded into the dragon's joints and claw tips.
Broken gun barrels formed sharp claw points, glowing with overloaded blue energy.
Energy cores were embedded deep inside its mouth, brewing destructive breath.
Various detectors and scopes were twisted and fused into several cold, lifeless crimson electronic eyes on the dragon's head, scanning the chaotic city below like searchlights and precisely locking onto the fast-moving Axel.
"ROAR!"
The sound did not come from a throat, but from violent friction of countless metal components and the resonance of overloaded energy, producing a soul-shaking terrifying roar that echoed through the sky!
The sound was filled with inhuman malice and pure desire for destruction. Everyone who heard it covered their ears in pain, despair rising in their hearts.
The metal dragon suddenly circled in the air, its massive shadow instantly covering a large part of the street.
The claw made of countless weapons slashed fiercely toward Axel's charging direction.
At that moment, Axel finally saw clearly that on top of the dragon's head stood a man on a flying device, looking down at him coldly.
He was tall and slender, dressed mainly in black, wearing a white lab coat that reached his knees.
He wore glasses. A lock of hair curved from the left side of his forehead to beside his right eye. A microphone was attached to the bridge of his glasses.
'Colress again?'
He just didn't know if this Colress was the same one he had beaten before. But Axel instinctively felt they were not the same person.
Because this man's gaze toward him did not contain fear, but a trace of madness.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Dozens of metal fragments shot out at high speed from dismantled weapon parts, carrying leftover energy. Like deadly rain, they tore through the air with piercing shrieks, precisely covering Axel's path!
These fragments were not just physical attacks. They also contained that strange electromagnetic interference, enough to tear through armor and disrupt energy flow.
At the same time, Colress let out a strange, manic laugh.
"Hahaha! Worthy of the man who defeated Archie and Maxie. You can really control this kind of godlike power with your own strength."
"Perfect, truly perfect!"
"But I would like to see just what kind of power it is that made Archie and Maxie so terrified, that they even abandoned the crucial orbs."
"Damn it! It really is Colress from Team Rainbow Rocket!", Axel's pupils shrank sharply as he cursed inwardly.
He became even more certain that this was the Colress who had gone through the Black and White 2 period and mastered the 'Colress Machine.'
This style of combining technology with strange energy and manipulating metal to create war beasts, who else could it be?
This was not some natural disaster at all. It was a man-made catastrophe.
This dragon shadow was Colress's weapon, used to destroy Ultra Megalopolis, create chaos, and at the same time block him, Axel.
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