what if I'm an undead! then so what?-Chapter 57: Elias VS Kaien: Aura farming gone wrong

Their formed blur as the two collided against each other their fist creating a shock wave sending ripples through the synthetic plane. Elias merely had a smile on his face as Kaien leaped back by two meters while his artificial eyes seemed to shift intently as if calculating something.

[Current evaluation. Rank 9 superhuman: Street level. survival chance 100%] Without another word, Kaien lunged.

His body blurred—no sound, no motion delay. A linear assault aimed at Elias’s throat, surgical and clean. An optimal strike.

But it was met with nothing.

Kaien’s palm sliced through air. Elias was no longer there.Kaien’s systems recalibrated mid-frame. He twisted, calculating a counter angle, but Elias was already behind him.

"Too slow," Elias whispered, his breath ghosting by Kaien’s synthetic ear. Immediately Kaien reacted with a spinning elbow thrust aimed at Elias head, however by simply raising his hands he caught the full brunt of the attack unfazed.

The android’s joints screamed as Elias squeezed lightly. A soft snap echoed, the arm bending unnaturally backward.

Kaien recoiled, internal servos compensating. He skidded back across the grey field, metal heels grinding sparks into the fabricated terrain.

He didn’t pause.

From his spine extended a blade—sleek, mono-edged, humming at molecular vibrational frequency. He dashed forward again, this time with feints, changing vectors at impossible speeds. He disappeared from sight, reappearing mid-air in a spiral slash meant to bisect Elias from shoulder to hip.

This time, he connected.

Or thought he did.

The moment the blade touched Elias’s shoulder, it stopped. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

Completely.

As if striking an immovable wall.

A barrier?

No—his body.

Kaien’s sensors flared red.

Structural density exceeds tungsten. No entry. Pressure resistance: unknown. Increasing estimate...

Elias looked down at the blade resting against his collarbone and sighed. "Pathetic attempt, I’d advice you go full out or you won’t survive long enough to even evaluate my full potential!"

Then he moved.

A single punch with it’s force amplified by primordial energy. That’s all.

Kaien was hurled back like a ragdoll, his body bouncing across the terrain with thunderous force. He flipped mid-air, stabilizers roaring to catch balance, and landed in a crouch several dozen meters away.

Smoke rose from his synthetic skin.

[Reassessing threat level: Rank 8 urban: Multi-building Level. Survival chance:99%]

However contrary to the counter attack Elias had expected Kaien simply eased himself whole looking at Elias with a calculated face.

"Your physique violates entropy parameters. That’s not technological enhancement. Nor biological mutation. The only energy that I’ve come across so far that a human could use is, Aether, Mana, Chakra and Ki. Your energy is unique and doesn’t fall into any of those category."

Elias strode forward slowly, like a lion in no rush to corner its prey.

"Still playing detective?" he asked, eyes glowing faintly. "You’ve run out of time for diagnostics. However I’ll say this, you can think of my energy source as something cosmic, with it anything is under my reach, not to mention I’m the most proficient user of primordial energy, I’m afraid robot! But you’ve got yourself beat!"

A field of light erupted around him—fractals spinning like blades, algorithms visualized in the air. "Combat Limiters released 10%. Engaging Protocol: Nova Bloom."

Dozens of drones shot out from his back, forming a swarm of self-evolving particles. They circled him, then surged toward Elias in coordinated wavefronts, designed to overload, analyze, and disintegrate.

Elias didn’t flinch.

He raised a hand lazily.

Whump.

All the drones began to slowdown rapidly before coming to a complete stop mid-air.

Then—one by one—they imploded.

No sound. No flash. Just quiet collapse. As if the rules holding them together had simply... stopped existing.

Kaien blinked. "Impossible. Those were quantum-stabilized."

"You really don’t get it," Elias said, eyes gleaming like twin stars behind fog. "With Primordial energy I can manipulate Laws and cosmic force although not to unreasonable degree I can still use Psychokinetic abilities such as Atomokinesis, Ergokinesis, Telekinesis, name them. With that I was able to overload the drones with enough energy causing it to shutdown, although not efficient but I like to show off!" Elias said with a grin as he stared at the neutral expression on the androids face.

He had noticed that the Android or Rather Kaien refused to show emotion, right now his only goal was to utterly humiliate, and disgrace the android till it feels fear.

Kaien’s body blurred again—desperation lacing every movement now. He launched six clones from his side, each carrying a fraction of his core processing, attacking in unison from every angle. Dimensional displacement strikes laced their palms—blows meant to bypass armor and detonate the nervous system.

Elias stood perfectly still only simply letting his primordial energy run wild and manipulating it in the process to create an E.M.P effect, just as he’d expected .

The clones reached him.

And disintegrated on contact.

No flare. No spark. They unraveled like silk threads in water, unable to even touch him.

The real Kaien’s body skidded behind Elias, aiming one final strike toward the back of his neck—a sonic burst punch.

This time, Elias turned. His hand wrapped partially by the figure of his soul Sentinel.

And caught Kaien’s fist.

Again.

The kinetic feedback alone should’ve crushed his bones—but Elias didn’t even blink, his soul Sentinel was a rather unique one making able to tank the full force of the attack with ease.

"Not a bad try," he muttered. Then squeezed.

Kaien’s arm detonated at the elbow.

The android flew backward with a choked mechanical wheeze, crashing through the fabricated terrain as the impact cratered the artificial space. Dust and sparks swirled like ash in the air.

He rose slowly, one knee trembling. Half his face had peeled back, revealing silver dermal plating and twitching microfibers. However right before Elias’s very eyes the body began to repair itself, his Nanotech Adaptive shell seemingly regenerated back to peak condition.

However Elias intention remained the same right now he had currently gotten another chance to farm his Aura on this robot in front of him, he had amplified his strength immensely by primordial energy similarly to when he destroyed the mountain earlier, all he need was just a little support from the Android and as he wished it happened.

Kaien’s lips parted, synthetic voice cracking. "What are you...?"

Elias approached again, expression blank now—no longer amused, just mildly disappointed. "You keep asking the wrong question. It’s not ’what.’ It’s ’why.’"

Kaien’s systems processed the statement, logic spinning through trillions of nodes.

Why?

Why couldn’t he land a single blow?

Why didn’t Elias need to try?

Elias stopped a foot away.

"Let me help," he said.

He tapped Kaien’s chest once—barely a touch.

The impact shattered Kaien’s torso, sending him flying into the air with such force that the sky itself cracked. Glass-like fractures rippled outward from the heavens, revealing the edge of the fake domain.

Kaien slammed back down like a meteor, embedding several meters into the floor.

He didn’t rise again, his body was still in the means of regeneration.

Elias walked to the edge of the crater, hands in his pockets, gaze calm.

"Back where I’m from," he said quietly, "they called me the Honoured One. The Child of Prophecy. Chosen by the stars. I don’t expect you to understand what that means, Kaien. But it means your fight was over before it even started."

[Revaluation: Rank 7: Town level threat, survival chance: 90%]

"Reassessing, threat level, Town level!" Kaien muttered beneath his breath reading the screen in front of him causing Elias to flinch, however it was only momentarily before followed by a wide laughter. "Town level, I’m familiar with such rankings! and you dare put me off at Town level? wait reassessing? does that mean you placed me at street or wall level before!" Elias roared in anger loosing his composure, to think he who had casually leveled a mountain only yesterday was now being ranked as Town level atleast he should be mountain.

"To think you’d understimate me so much, maybe I should stop holding back!" Elias said watching the calculated face of the android whose body began to glow with a red hue.

"Removing combat limiter:50%. Activating quantum Processor combat Engine." As those words left his mouth a loud humming sound was heard from the Android while Elias brow furrowed for a bit, before he knew what was happening, he felt a powerful punch to his back sending him crashing towards the ground, however few inches from the ground how body paused mid air, right now falling on the ground will completely shatter the Aura he’d been farming.

Just as he was about to feet back into mid air the feet of Kaine crashed down at his head forcing it into the grey synthetical ground of the plane.

"While you’re weak, you’re not half bad, you’ve told me about your source of energy!...."

"...And yet," Kaien continued, his voice sharpening into a cold mechanical resonance, "you remain unidentified. That makes you... unpredictable."