Reincarnated with a lucky draw system

Chapter 486: MANA VS ENERGY III

"Chickening out already?" Aaron teased, his voice dripping with lazy amusement.

He held Draxcalibur loosely in one hand, the fused sword’s gray hilt gleaming faintly in the void’s dim light.

"Don’t be cocky," X warned. Forced to abandon his throne for the first time, he decided to take the fight seriously.

His mechanical frame hummed with escalating power.

The throne disassembled in a whirl of shifting parts.

It reassembled around him, fusing seamlessly into a sleek armor form that encased his body in layers of reinforced alloy and glowing energy fields.

"Hey," Baal called out after finally consolidating his stolen strength.

Waves of dark power rippled through him, making his form seem larger and more imposing. "Let’s attack him together."

He moved to stand beside X, offering his aid with a calculating glint in his eyes.

"I don’t need your help, you scamming demon," X refused flatly, his voice a cold monotone.

"Now’s not the time for useless pride," Baal pressed, trying to cajole the android.

"He’s stronger and more difficult to battle than you think."

But X stubbornly refused to admit he was being outmatched by Aaron.

Pride flickered in his digital core.

"I was just warming up," X snapped. "Don’t insult me by thinking I’m weak."

He blasted forward toward Aaron, thrusters igniting in brilliant blue flames that distorted the surrounding space.

X raised his armored hand.

The metals around it reassembled with mechanical precision, reshaping into the barrel of a grenade launcher.

From the makeshift weapon, he fired several shots, round metallic orbs hurtling through the void.

Aaron remained perfectly still, curiosity sparking in his eyes as he watched the projectiles approach.

The orbs, ten in total, flew straight at him. Midway through the void, they transformed.

Limbs extended, bodies unfolded into spider-like robots with gleaming red eyes that shone with fervent, artificial malice.

"And what will these cute things do?" Aaron smiled, a faint chuckle escaping his lips. He snapped his fingers casually.

"Oblivion," he invoked, unleashing his signature time-space attack. Tendrils of void energy lashed out.

But to his mild surprise, the spiders emerged completely unscathed. Their forms didn’t even flicker.

"Hmm?" Aaron muttered, one eyebrow arching in genuine intrigue.

"My greatest invention," X bragged, his voice laced with smug satisfaction. "Nanite spiders."

"What’s so special about them?" Aaron asked.

His mystic eyes already scanned them deeply, piercing through layers of code and machinery.

"You will be surprised," X replied cryptically, refusing to reveal more.

The nanite spiders were elite mechanical life forms, painstakingly engineered by X.

They pulsed with an anti-energy field that converted any essence, including mana, into raw energy and repelled it, nullifying essence-based attacks entirely.

Not only that, but they boasted auto-regeneration and rebuilding mechanisms.

Damaged parts reconstructed themselves in seconds, weaving back together like living metal.

"This is game over for you," X smiled, confidence surging through his systems.

"Well, to be honest," Aaron replied with a widening grin, "this would have worked if you were fighting someone else. Against me, you’re just begging to be embarrassed."

He void-stepped in a ripple of shadows, appearing instantly before one of the nanite spiders.

Aaron drove Draxcalibur deep into its core.

With a powerful swing, he sliced the construct into a thousand glittering pieces, sparks flying in every direction.

Before the fragments could begin reconstructing, Aaron activated Oblivion once more.

The pieces vanished into absolute nothingness, erased from existence.

The remaining nanites reacted swiftly. They launched lasers at Aaron, beams traveling faster than light itself, searing through the void with pinpoint accuracy.

The first laser struck his skin, burning a shallow wound that sizzled with heat.

After healing in a blink, Aaron’s physique adapted.

He became completely immune, his flesh now impervious to the energy.

The second beam bounced harmlessly off him, not even leaving a mark.

Unable to be harmed by the lasers, Aaron void-stepped again.

He materialized before the next nanite, repeating the process with ruthless efficiency.

But this nanite had learned from its fallen sibling.

It released a pulse of quantum shockwave, a rippling burst designed to disrupt and repel any close-range assault.

The shockwave washed over Aaron. Yet it had no effect, not even a sting against his enhanced skin.

Aaron pressed on without pause. He destroyed the nanite just like the previous one, blade flashing in a blur.

The next nanite adapted further. The moment Aaron drew near, it divided itself into a thousand smaller forms, scattering to avoid being sliced apart and losing functionality.

But Aaron didn’t see it as a problem.

His mystic eyes pierced the chaos, perceiving even the tiniest atoms with crystal clarity.

With surgical precision, he cut down the thousand pieces into even finer fragments.

Then, with a surge of Oblivion, he erased them all in one fell swoop.

No matter what tactics the nanites employed, pulses, divisions, or barrages, Aaron outmatched them effortlessly. One by one, he destroyed every last spider until none remained.

"Please don’t tell me that’s the best you can offer," Aaron asked, staring lazily at X. Boredom tinted his tone as he twirled Draxcalibur idly.

X stared back at Aaron, his mechanical eyes darkening with frustration.

Once again, he had been bested by someone he had initially dismissed as insignificant.

"Auto battle mode!" X commanded, relinquishing temporary control to his integrated AI for optimized combat.

"Satellite mode activate. Universal drone mode activate. Sniper mode activate. Super quantum analysis activate," X intoned coldly.

He triggered a cascade of protocols, elevating the battle to an entirely new level. Systems whirred to life inside his armor.

His blast thrusters ignited with quantum fury. Defying the laws of space and time, they propelled him with impossible speed.

Two nanite swords materialized in his hands, blades humming with adaptive energy.

Around his arms and body, various-sized openings formed, ports ready to unleash devastation.

X’s faceplate sealed shut, covered by an intangible AI interface that projected holographic data across his vision.

Aaron simply stood still, his posture relaxed and almost bored.

A faint smirk played on his lips.

X made the first move.

He tore through space and time with his quantum thrusters, slipping back several seconds into the past.

Appearing before Aaron in that rewound moment, he struck with his sword in a blinding arc.

Boom!

X was sent flying backward, damage rippling through his frame from an attack Aaron had delivered even earlier in the timeline.

His AI battle system reacted in a fraction of a second.

It deployed an advanced quantum shield that absorbed the incoming force and deflected it outward in a burst of redirected energy.

Aaron time-stepped without hesitation.

He appeared in X’s past once more, before the android had even activated his many protocols.

He stabbed Draxcalibur forward at the off-guard X, the blade whistling through the air with lethal intent.