Chapter 465: Seeing Through

Li Mochen pressed his advantage, striking Delfinia several times in succession with his sword.

He understood her intent, so each strike was made with the attitude of seeking no merit but avoiding fault, not eager to severely wound the Void Night Monarch, only ensuring he would not suffer backlash from her counterattacks.

Yet even minor injuries could accumulate. After four consecutive strikes, Delfinia coughed blood again.

But just as Li Mochen prepared to press further, a bullet flew in from the side. Li Mochen's perception, still somewhat lacking compared to true legends, barely dodged the bullet by a hair.

The middle-aged 'butler' in the distance brightened his eyes: "See that, Del?"

Li Mochen's lips twitched, then he diverted more focus to intensify the 'Sun Moon Star Celestial Sword Formation.' The three hundred and sixty swords each acted independently yet as one, launching distinct attacks from various angles while coordinating with each other.

This legendary fourth-rank magic shooter still had leisure to speak—truly his failure.

But Delfinia had already reacted. Her pair of black wings spread rapidly, her image resembling a fallen angel. The magic energy around them suddenly turned狂暴, fluctuating erratically.

Inside Light Demon IV, Li Mochen's sensory interface flashed red, alarms blaring from all directions.

If it were Light Demon V or VIII, this might not be an issue. But the detection sensors of Light Demon IV had not yet evolved to perfection.

Delfinia's sword tide surged again. This time her speed did not increase much, but it threw Li Mochen into a fluster. He could only retreat continuously to fend off her assault.

Yet Li Mochen remained composed, silently grumbling that this woman better not force him to release 'Tianxin Li Mochen.'

He struggled to defend, but Delfinia's fierce and domineering sword gradually pressed toward him, mere inches from severing some circuits of his armor.

He could even see the almost tangible flames in her eyes, containing anger and malice that made one tremble.

Clearly, his repeated provocations and humiliations had nearly driven this alien monarch to lose her reason.

"If you want to kill me and tear me to pieces, Your Highness still lacks a bit of skill."

Li Mochen helplessly condensed his sword light, and the next moment, before Delfinia's longsword reached him, his figure dissolved into a cluster of starlight and vanished. When he reappeared, it was behind Delfinia.

"It's the Star Leap Technique!"

The middle-aged 'butler' in the distance exclaimed, his eyes full of disbelief.

"Also called Shifting Stars!"

Li Mochen's War Demon Heart struck Delfinia's back again, catching her off guard. This blow was especially heavy, sending her flying far away.

Li Mochen's swordsmanship remained extremely seasoned. For a legendary powerhouse like Delfinia, it was hard to severely wound her to the point of incapacitation in one or two strikes, and a single counterattack from her could damage his Light Demon armor.

So Li Mochen's strike was again superficial, using impact force and internal energy to damage Delfinia's internal organs and rupture some nerves in her muscles.

Then, before the Void Night Monarch could react, he once again turned into starlight and flashed to another position.

The first foolish thing these two did was to let a powerful legendary magic shooter appear within his attack range; the second was to choose to fight him in the astral realm.

His 'Zhou Tian Yuan Chen Liang Yi Wu Xiang Jing' and 'Eighty-Eight Constellation Meditation Method' were already top-tier cultivation techniques, and in the astral realm, they were even more powerful!

A top-tier secret art like Shifting Stars would normally require him to reach at least level fifteen to use. But here in the astral realm, under the illumination of the stars in the boundless void, the spatial barrier between him and the constellations no longer existed.

This allowed Li Mochen to recklessly borrow stellar power to teleport, appearing left, right, front, back, shifting unpredictably. Within ten seconds, he had struck the Void Night Monarch no fewer than ten times, leaving her like a trapped beast futilely charging around a cage.

At this point, his Domain of Life and Death was beginning to take effect. Delfinia's strength and speed were continuously weakening, while Li Mochen grew stronger with each passing moment, his displayed power and speed increasing every second.

The middle-aged butler, entangled by the 'Sun Moon Star Celestial Sword Formation' and covered in countless small wounds, grew increasingly desperate. He realized this was a hunt, but the hunters were not them—rather, it was André Lee Wiltonstein, who should have been the prey!

Yet the scene before him also felt discordant.

"No! No—"

His mind raced, then his eyes suddenly changed: "Del, he's deliberately provoking you. The core of this space-sealing device is not in his hands."

Delfinia did not completely lose her reason. She stopped blindly attacking and focused on sensing carefully. After a moment, her gaze fixed on the lower left corner—one of the six chain links.

But before she could act, Li Mochen had already flashed via starlight to the front of that link. A bitter smile appeared on his lips.

Probably speaking too much had revealed a flaw. Still, the situation was manageable; there was no need to activate 'Tianxin Li Mochen' and enter that unique state.

No more words were exchanged between them. The two vast, majestic sword tides instantly collided, like opposing meteors, unleashing boundless light and heat.

Delfinia still used the magic energy turbulence to interfere with Li Mochen's perception, but he shifted from defense to offense, leveraging his at least 30% increased strength and 35% increased speed to launch a frontal assault.

He no longer avoided blade clashes but deliberately sought them. The sword tide from his 'War Demon Heart' surged wave after wave, unceasing. They exchanged no fewer than a hundred blows per second, the surging, mighty waves of qi wind creating a small void storm around them, worsening the 'butler's' plight in the distance.

Both exhausted every means at their disposal—source energy, magic, artifacts—one desperately blocking, the other trying every trick to break through.

For a full one minute and twenty seconds, the battle intensified. Until another bullet flew in from the side, breaking their deadlock.

It was again the middle-aged 'butler.' His body was firmly pinned by the combined Sun, Moon, and Star swords at the throat and arms, rendering him immobile.

But at this cost, he fired a shot that expended all his remaining strength, aimed at the chain link behind Li Mochen.

Li Mochen's gaze sharpened, a hint of admiration for the man flashing through his eyes. Just as he reluctantly prepared to activate 'Tianxin,' a three-headed flail smashed in, forcibly deflecting the bullet that carried all the butler's power. It missed the chain link by a hair and flew into the depths of the starry sky.

"Looks like I arrived just in time!"

As Viktor Maxim stepped in, his gaze locked onto Li Mochen, his eyes filled with strange light.

When he signed the contract, he had no idea his boss was this formidable, capable of independently suppressing two high-rank legends!

It seemed he had chosen the right master this time.