Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons

Chapter 1024 - 888: Confrontation

"What happened in there?"

Watching Kane’s mechanical body go from shutdown to reboot and finally turn back into a body of flesh and blood, Longbei asked from the side.

For Kane to come out in such a short time, he must have run into something in there.

Just like he had said before.

Seeing everyone already in position beside him, Kane patted the dust off his butt.

"Just like I anticipated before, he really didn’t send his true body out. He just sent a fake head."

The reason Kane dared to be so certain.

Was because, through the Divine Gaze, by relying on the tight connection between the God of All Machines’ head and body, he had long since seen what state the God of All Machines was currently in.

Kane had been peeping on the God of All Machines for far longer than just a day or two.

He also had enough confidence to be sure the enemy hadn’t discovered him.

From the very first time Kane looked, occasionally sneaking a glance or two, the God of All Machines had never shown even the slightest unexpected reaction.

So it was highly likely he hadn’t noticed Kane’s peeping; the Divine Gaze’s stealth was extremely strong.

The second possibility was that he had noticed Kane’s peeping from the very beginning and had been pretending nothing was wrong every single time, including the first.

But that possibility was the lowest.

Because Kane had once had Lilulu peep through physical contact, and the instant she peeped, the God of All Machines noticed, his reaction extremely obvious.

Next was that, when the sealed space was about to finish linking, Kane had been peeping at the God of All Machines’ head from beginning to end.

Like a bystander, he watched the God of All Machines react, using his own mouth to construct a shabby head no bigger than his eye.

He sent this shabby head, which was more suitable for the body sealed inside, in.

Then he continued peeping from outside the sealed space.

Right now, Kane was still using the Divine Gaze to watch the God of All Machines peeping into the sealed space.

"Get ready, keep the Potions at your lips and wait for my move. The instant I slice open the space, down the Potion and we rush in."

Hearing Kane’s words, everyone nodded, then one Potion after another appeared in their hands.

Kane stood in the very center and waited.

His eyes were still glowing with a Golden radiance; this was the most obvious outward change when using the Divine Gaze.

At this moment, he was still peeping at the God of All Machines, observing how he looked inside the mechanical sealed space.

Through the previously sealed body, the God of All Machines’ connection to it was far too tight.

He could even see the situation within the sealed space through the God of All Machines; inside the sealed space, the God of All Machines, who had already reclaimed his body, was currently adapting to the state within it.

And he was splitting off all kinds of Magic Runes like data code to scan the entire sealed space.

He was attempting to seize full usage rights over the entire sealed space into his own hands and eliminate all threats.

Kane could already feel that his control over the sealed space was being altered and invaded.

But he didn’t care, letting the sealed space freely react, counterattack, and resist without his interference.

Only that would look like a dead Controller; he couldn’t allow the other side even the slightest suspicion.

Kane’s current advantage was that he could peer at the enemy through the high-tier Divine Gaze without the enemy noticing.

Seeing how wary the God of All Machines was, if they rushed in rashly and let him analyze that there was a crisis that would be hard to deal with, he might immediately withdraw.

He might even abandon the body altogether.

After all, he was a mechanical deity, with a mechanical, emotionless mind.

Everything he did was pursuing the optimal solution, whereas Kane, a body of flesh and blood, possessed a Soul and an emotional brain, and naturally couldn’t fully fathom the other party.

What if the God of All Machines decided that five-colored was good enough and he didn’t absolutely have to ascend to seven-colored?

That possibility wasn’t out of the question either.

By then there truly wouldn’t be a shred of chance left to catch the God of All Machines.

He had to maintain ample patience.

The sealed space was surging violently, as if something was rising from the depths of the water to the surface.

As the surges grew stronger, a solid wall slowly rose up; even the pale radiance outside was faintly tinged with a trace of red.

But that red light was slowly fading and thinning, and those Magic Runes like data code began invading across the rising wall, about to take the final step in seizing control of the sealed space.

Seeing this situation, Kane had to admire the God of All Machines’ vigilance. Even after reclaiming his mechanical body, he still remained steady and calm, not impulsive in the least.

Instead, he was first bringing the sealed space completely under his control, eliminating all unforeseen circumstances he felt might threaten him.

Only when it was absolutely safe would he let his true body break into the sealed space and fully merge with the body he had lost.

Making himself perfect, and with a perfect body, walking toward the last gate.

Stepping into another Personality.

To become stronger—perhaps that was one of the fundamental instincts possessed by the God of All Machines, as by all living things in this world.

Finally, the reddish glow of the sealed space completely vanished, turning into the same pale radiance as when Kane controlled it before. The entire space calmed down and was fully brought under his control.