"Nice one, Sister Hanmei! That's it—slice him up! o(￣︶￣)o"
Lounging on Xi Hanmei's shoulder, Sebastian Xiao praised her with smug satisfaction.
"Stop talking so much. Fighting like this burns through my stamina—and I can't even break his defense!"
Even as Xi Hanmei kept up her relentless assault, anxiety gnawed at her. Her opponent's defenses were absurd. At best, she could cut his skin; causing a fatal wound to Wapol Xiao was impossible.
If this continued, she'd run out of strength long before he did—and then she'd be the one who lost miserably.
"Just focus on hacking him apart. Leave the rest to me!"
Sebastian Xiao slapped her shoulder, instantly restoring her energy.
"!"
Xi Hanmei didn't waste another word. She charged at Wapol Xiao with everything she had.
Her attacks poured down like a storm. They didn't do much damage, but being endlessly pressured by a mere human made Wapol Xiao's anger boil over.
"Like a damn fly—buzzing, slicing, yammering nonstop. Enough! Get lost!"
Having built up power, Wapol Xiao unleashed a violent shockwave from the hilt of his weapon. The blast erupted outward, with him as the center, a massive surge of repulsive force that hurled Xi Hanmei away.
"High-level Armament and Conqueror's Haki combined in a joint release… he's applying haki to this extent? Damn!"
Sebastian Xiao had been watching every one of Wapol Xiao's movements, analyzing them through his dimensional vision.
But before he could finish, the sight before him stunned him into swearing.
After retrieving his martial core, Wapol Xiao's body suddenly ballooned. In mere seconds, he completed the awakening of the Munch-Munch Fruit and revealed his strongest form.
Once awakened, Wapol Xiao towered at forty meters, his body sheathed entirely in platinum Wapol alloy.
He had become a walking war fortress—every known weapon absorbed by the Munch-Munch Fruit embedded somewhere across his colossal frame. Not a single weak point. Not a single gap.
He didn't need to move. Simply standing there radiated overwhelming pressure.
Forty meters… like staring up at a thirteen-story building. That kind of presence made ordinary people's legs give out on the spot. Even Xi Hanmei, usually calm and composed, could barely hold her sword. She stumbled back several steps, fear creeping into her bones.
"I've toyed with you long enough. Time to die."
Weapons from cyberpunk nightmares lit up all over his body, all aimed right at Xi Hanmei.
"M-Master… what should I do?"
She looked at the sword in her hand, then at the war fortress looming over her, her voice trembling.
"A trivial issue. He's just big—nothing else. Size alone doesn't make a qualitative difference. Charge in and beat him. Simple."
Sebastian Xiao's dimensional vision clearly showed that though Wapol Xiao's size had grown, his essence hadn't weakened—it had strengthened.
Even so, Sebastian Xiao gave Xi Hanmei his most earnest encouragement and motioned her forward.
"Got it!"
Gritting her teeth, she inhaled deeply to gather her courage, then sprinted forward with her sword raised.
At the same time, every weapon mounted on Wapol Xiao deployed at once. A white radiance bloomed as they powered up.
tutututu—
In an instant, countless metal projectiles streaked toward her like shooting stars. Layer upon layer of rounds merged into a blood-red storm cloud of bullets.
"Aaaahhhh—!"
Xi Hanmei had nowhere to run. Surrounded by the metal tempest, she was engulfed by countless explosive shells.
The sight triggered a memory she wished she could forget—being buried under artillery fire on the battlefield. A memory soaked in despair and helplessness.
Back then, all they could do was huddle underground, praying the enemy ran out of shells before the earth overhead collapsed. It had haunted her for life.
Instinctively, Xi Hanmei raised her arms to shield herself, too terrified to face the onslaught head-on.
Even if bullets couldn't harm her anymore, a barrage like this—this density, this intensity—still filled her with dread.
Ding! Ding! Dang—
But no pain came.
The countless bullets striking her body didn't even sting. In fact, she felt… comfortable?
She opened her eyes. Every bullet that touched her instantly lost all momentum and dropped to the ground. Explosive flames never had a chance to bloom—they were absorbed by her body, converted into surging power strengthening her from within.
"This is…?"
Golden light shimmered faintly from her hands. Endless energy flooded her body.
This is Master and Yufeng's power… the bloodline that devours all energy!
Xi Hanmei realized it instantly. Her man and even several of their children possessed this same ability.
"I told you—your job is to slice him up. Leave everything else to me. You really don't trust me at all, do you?!"
Sebastian Xiao's exasperated voice echoed in her ears.
"Y-yeah, I get it!"
A blush flashed across her face. Could she admit she was scared out of her mind a second ago? Absolutely not.
Ignoring Sebastian Xiao's scolding, she surged forward with renewed confidence.
Empowered by Sebastian Xiao, her courage roared back to life. She lowered her stance, sword at her side—
—and charged.
A transparent air-shield formed around her, deflecting every incoming barrage without exception.
"Impossible! Where is that power coming from?!"
For the first time, panic flickered in Wapol Xiao's eyes as he watched her advance unhindered through the bullet storm.
The fortress form granted by his awakened fruit could crush battleships with ease. Even aircraft carriers posed no threat.
But it couldn't break through a thin wall of air?
Only then did Wapol Xiao realize—he didn't even know which world this Xiao had come from.
His internal operating system spun frantically, searching for any universe he knew that possessed such an air-barrier technique.
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