Strongest Hammer God novel Chapter 458

'Fighting for a long period of time is harder than I thought,' Kyle thought as he focused on healing from another injury he had received.

He had been fighting the Metal Elementals for several minutes already, and his focus had slipped.

While he was stronger than them, he was still human.

Meanwhile, the Metal Elementals were more like machines.

They were precise, methodical, and procedural.

Their programming wasn't perfect, but they never made mistakes with their imperfect programming.

Additionally, they constantly refined their programming.

When they realized that an attack didn't work, they changed their approach, and if that worked better, they would use that for a while.

Kyle's Ether was recovering faster than he was using it, but that was not true for his focus.

He hadn't been in such a long battle in his entire life, which was why he wasn't used to it.

Naturally, if he wanted to, he could kill the two Metal Elementals within two seconds, max.

He just needed to actually launch attacks.

But he didn't want to kill them.

Luckily, he had his armor made of Rank S Materials, which the Metal Elementals couldn't control or manipulate.

Rank S Materials were on the level of Transcendents, and these Metal Elementals couldn't control something of that level.

Kyle was pushed back more and more, but he refused to retreat.

He got injured here and there, but he always managed to recover.

He had expected that he would mainly learn more about their respective properties, but he was surprised to find out that he was also learning more about himself.

More precisely, about how his own mind worked during a long battle.

30 minutes after the start of the battle was the most dangerous period for Kyle.

Almost every attack injured him just a bit.

This bad period continued for another ten minutes.

And then, things became easier.

While the Metal Elementals learned and grew very quickly, the same thing was true for Kyle.

Regular humans needed to sleep before they could truly internalize something since their neurons realigned and created new pathways during sleep.

But that was no longer true for people of Kyle's level.

Starting in the Second Realm, people didn't need sleep anymore.

The realignment of their neurons happened constantly.

40 minutes of fighting for someone of Kyle's level was akin to fighting for weeks for a normal person. A person who fought against the same opponent for hundreds of hours was bound to get good at fighting that opponent.

Two hours after the start of the battle, Kyle had completely gotten used to everything.

His mind had created new instinctual movements that dealt with his opponents' attacks.

Since his subconsciousness was now dealing with the majority of the battle, Kyle's consciousness finally had some time to actually focus on the things he wanted to learn.

The things that made these Metal Elementals so powerful.

After battling for a couple of hours, Kyle had already learned quite a bit, and he made some interesting observations.

'I've used the Fragment of Metal Density to improve the power of my armor, which is already made of Rank S Materials. Technically, it should be able to withstand their attacks. I mean, just on a base level, it's already a level higher, and it has another Fragment that improves it.'

CRK!

Kyle blocked a sword strike with his hammer, and his hammer chipped a bit, while the Sword Metal Elemental was fine.

'Yet, my equipment gets damaged, while they don't receive any damage.'

'This means they have to know Fragments that improve their power far more than my Fragment of Density improves my power.'

'But isn't density the primary thing that makes stuff hard? Sure, flexibility is also a thing, but my armor is already made with flexibility in mind.'

'I need to test something.'

The next moment, Kyle expanded to a size of 50 meters, dwarfing the ten-meter-tall Metal Elementals.

The Sword Metal Elemental attacked again, and Kyle let it hit the armor on his legs.

The sword cut just as deeply as before.

However, it was important to note that it cut just as deeply when speaking in absolute units.

Not relatively.

Since Kyle grew so much, his armor was several times thicker.

This meant that the sword couldn't break through Kyle's armor anymore.

When Kyle saw that, he became surprised.

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