Seven-tenths of the strength was gone.
The remaining bit of power was at most like a club to the head.
To ordinary people, a blow to the head was quite significant, but for this fused Ultraman, it was nothing.
Lin Xiao then felt his footing become unsteady. The entity swiftly rolled, dislodging Lin Xiao.
"A most peculiar thing."
Lin Xiao's interest piqued even further. He landed with an aerial flip, and the instant his feet touched the ground, he once again dissolved into a blur of motion.
This time, his target was the area on the Ultraman's chest where energy converged.
He could sense that it was there that something was continuously absorbing spiritual energy from the air, converting it into spiritual power and distributing it throughout the entirety of this behemoth's limbs.
However, the speed of this conversion was insufficient for consumption. At this rate, the fused form could last a maximum of sixty seconds, and even that would be generous.
Since that was the case, he might as well remove the energy core. Besides, he wouldn't mind having another spirit stone in his possession.
Good things were always welcome.
"Warning, SSS-class threat detected, designated for elimination!"
As this voice echoed, Lin Xiao distinctly felt the energy core's power being drained instantaneously, leaving it completely empty.
Moreover, this energy wasn't merely channeled to its limbs; it was expelled from the "Otu-man's" body in a peculiar manner.
The "Otu-man" then slammed its fists into the ground with immense force.
In an instant, the ground shattered, and two colossal hands, constructed from mud and stone, enclosed Lin Xiao from the front and back.
*Snap.*
These two seemingly clumsy and massive hands merged into one in the blink of an eye.
Lin Xiao was trapped in the middle.
"Lin Xiao?!"
Luo Qinghan, witnessing this, involuntarily cried out. She anxiously turned to Ye Chen beside her, "Is he going to be alright?"
"Of course, he will be, sister-in-law. You must trust Brother Xiao. There isn't anyone in this world who can kill him right now," Ye Chen harbored an unyielding faith in Lin Xiao. Furthermore, he was certain that while he wouldn't have been able to react to that move, Lin Xiao absolutely could.
The two hands remained clasped together, while the gigantic "Otu-man", accompanied by a flash of light, split into three.
It reverted to the three artificial humans from before. In the hands of one of them was an item identical to the spirit stone Ye Chen had found earlier. However, this spirit stone now exhibited no spiritual energy fluctuations, having likely been depleted in that instant.
"Initiating threat assessment."
The modified human holding the spirit stone fixed his gaze on the two colossal hands.
One second later: "SSS-class threat detected, still active!"
With that, the three individuals simultaneously raised their hands. Their palms were still relatively normal, human-like. In their grasp, each held a strangely shaped handgun, aimed at the two massive hands.
Crimson beams of light shot out, piercing through the colossal hands like lightsabers, clearly targeting Lin Xiao within.
However, even after this action, the three individuals still detected an "SSS-class threat."
"What is going on?"
Finally, one of them could no longer contain his impatience. He uttered the most human-like sentence, looking at the handgun in his hand with bewilderment. Why did the data displayed in their readings indicate Lin Xiao was unharmed? Then why hadn't he emerged?