The prison was currently in utter chaos.
Jailers, intruders, and prisoners were all tangled in a brawl.
Human corpses, orc corpses, and reanimated corpses could be seen everywhere as battles broke out in every corner.
Firefly’s primary objective now was naturally to escape the prison.
She didn’t bother with the orcs and humans she encountered along the way as long as they didn’t attack her, calmly maneuvering the tall Sam Armor over the remains and ruins.
Firefly planned to lower the prison’s drawbridge; after all, she didn’t have a boat and could only reach the mainland on foot.
However, when she reached the drawbridge control area, she saw a rotting corpse about five meters tall guarding the vicinity with a battle-axe.
“A ‘Corpse Demon’…
this is going to be tricky.
It seems the Soul Sect’s attack this time is aimed at destroying this prison entirely, not planning to let a single living person escape.
Otherwise, they wouldn’t have a Corpse Demon guarding this spot,” Firefly speculated internally.
The Corpse Demon was an Elite-tier monster, and not just a common low-tier Elite, but a mid-tier one, placing it on the same level as the current Firefly.
Its attributes were at least between 200 and 300.
In the early stages of the game, such a creature was considered a mini-boss, requiring a group of dozens of common-tier players for even a slight chance at victory.
According to the game’s lore, a superpowered individual without any natural talent would have to train hard for decades just to enter the low-tier Elite realm.
To become a mid-tier Elite or higher, that individual would have to be a renowned genius from a young age, a favored child of heaven with significant talent.
However, as a former player who now possessed the broken power of the Sam Armor, it was impossible for Firefly to flee without a fight.
She couldn’t let the reputation of the ‘Glamoth Iron Cavalry’ fall.
“Come on!
Secondary Combustion!” Firefly activated one of the Sam Armor’s built-in skills.
Flames spread outward from the gaps in the Sam Armor’s pauldrons, instantly turning everything in Firefly’s sight into scorched earth.
This was the domain inherent to the ‘Secondary Combustion’ state: ‘Molten Core’.
Within this domain, whenever an enemy consumed stamina, they would take additional damage from ‘Molten Core’.
This damage value was 30% of the Sam Armor’s Strength attribute.
And it was fire damage.
apocalypse wasn’t like honkai: star rail where attributes were only used to break weaknesses.
As a virtual reality VR game, the fire damage in apocalypse could actually cause burning effects on enemies and had a special bonus against the undead, sometimes even producing unexpected results.
However, it didn’t feature elemental reactions like Genshin Impact—or rather, triggering elemental reactions was a very skill-intensive task.
One had to time it perfectly; it wasn’t something you could trigger just by randomly applying Fire and then Lightning.
Whoosh.
As the flames and scorched earth swept across the ground, the Corpse Demon sensed something was wrong and slowly raised its empty eye sockets.
It saw a tall, silver-white figure wreathed in flames slowly walking out from behind the ruins.
Then, that figure suddenly leaped, soaring dozens of meters into the air before crashing down violently!
“Supernova Overload!”
Firefly opened with her ultimate move right away.
“Ugh—” The Corpse Demon’s reaction was half a beat slow before it began to use undead magic, its body glowing with a purplish-black light.
Casting magic naturally consumed stamina, so flames inexplicably ignited on the Corpse Demon’s body.
However, as an undead, it felt no pain and lacked the instincts and reason of normal creatures, simply acting according to the ‘behavioral logic’ left by its master.
It could only handle simple tasks like ‘use magic for defense when under heavy attack,’ but it didn’t know how to deal with a domain like ‘Molten Core’ that punished resource usage, so it could only ignore it.
Whoosh, whoosh.
The fervent flames burned fiercely on its bluish-purple skin, incinerating the tall Corpse Demon’s clothes and outer flesh, revealing stark white bones.
Boom!
Simultaneously, Firefly’s Supernova Overload crashed down.
The Corpse Demon, bolstered by undead magic, raised its battle-axe.
The blade collided with the Sam Armor’s leg plating, and a terrifying shockwave expanded outward from the two, kicking up a massive wave of fire.
The ground beneath the Corpse Demon cracked inch by inch, dense fissures spreading like a spiderweb as the monster’s feet sank deep into the floor.
Firefly retreated immediately upon contact, performing a backflip in mid-air to land steadily, while the Corpse Demon’s stance became unstable, the battle-axe nearly flying from its grip.
Giving it no time to breathe, the Sam Armor raised its broad silver palm.
An inexplicable suction pulled at the Corpse Demon; before it could even regain its footing, it was uncontrollably dragged toward the Sam Armor.
When its head was close to the Sam Armor, the armor’s right hand clenched into a fist and swung violently.
Flames enveloped the fist as it struck the Corpse Demon’s head heavily.
-541!
The Corpse Demon, already heavily weakened by the Supernova Overload and Molten Core skills, instantly entered the execution range.
Finding its health bar nearly empty, the Corpse Demon suddenly entered a berserk state.
It stabilized its body with extreme speed, then gripped its battle-axe with both hands and swung it violently.
Although the Sam Armor could self-repair, Firefly clearly didn’t want to see her precious mecha damaged.
If she could pursue a no-damage run, why take a hit?
So at this moment, she chose to dodge.
Exerting force through her feet, she leaped backward.
The powerful impact caused the bricks beneath her to shatter, and the seemingly ferocious battle-axe naturally failed to touch her.
“Ugh—”
Seeing that it had forced the Sam Armor back, the berserk Corpse Demon immediately began charging its meter, preparing to release its strongest undead magic.
“Trying to use an ultimate in front of me?” Firefly’s mouth curled into a slightly mischievous, cocky smile.
If I actually let you pull off an ultimate, wouldn’t I, a top 100 player in the prefecture-level city regional tournament, lose face?
The Secondary Combustion state didn’t just enhance the Sam Armor’s skills and open a domain; it also provided a 50% increase in action speed.
The Sam Armor’s Agility attribute was already very high.
With another 50% added out of thin air, let alone a mid-tier Elite like the Corpse Demon, even a true high-tier Elite wouldn’t be much faster than the Sam Armor in terms of speed!
With a thought from Firefly, the Sam Armor shot forward like a cannonball, appearing before the Corpse Demon in an instant.
“Blazing Propulsion!”
“Skyfire!”
“Scorched Earth Operation!”
Three skills in a row, with intervals between them of less than 0.5 seconds.
The charging Corpse Demon had no time to react at all; already in the execution range, it was now completely annihilated.
Thud.
Losing its head, the charred, tall corpse slowly toppled over, letting out a heavy, dull thud.
The Sam Armor also happened to end its ‘Secondary Combustion’ state.
A kill notification from the system panel appeared before Firefly’s eyes:
[Ding!
Defeated Corpse Demon (Elite), Experience +256]
[Ding!
The Corpse Demon dropped a specialty: Low-Level Tough Life]