The crimson flame in the KOF Master's hand suddenly shot out a chilling light as Chen Feng sprang to his feet.

"Who exactly are you?"

"Heh heh!" The KOF Master flipped his wrist, retracting the flame. "Don't rush things. Just because you can use KOF skills, doesn't mean I can't?"

Chen Feng forced down the shock churning in his heart, gulping huge breaths of air. The excitement he felt now surpassed even the prospect of a full-blown battle with the man.

What did KOF skills signify? Anyone could guess. Why he had transmigrated, and why he inexplicably possessed such skills after arriving here... Transmigration itself represented his greatest secret, and to have it suddenly exposed before this individual left him shaking with astonishment and emotion.

"You really are connected to him!" the KOF Master suddenly spoke.

"Who?"

"Naturally, Yanlong!" the KOF Master said. "It was Yanlong who imparted these KOF skills to me!"

"Senior Yanlong, how can he use KOF skills?" Chen Feng asked anxiously.

"He doesn't use KOF skills at all!" the KOF Master replied.

This statement completely confused Chen Feng. Imparting them, yet not using them—what was going on?

The KOF Master knew his confusion. He sighed, not resolving it directly, but countering with a question: "How would you assess my current strength?"

"Immeasurable!" Chen Feng answered truthfully.

Judging by the KOF Master’s two recent moves, those four words were perfectly fitting.

"If you were to fight me, what chance would you give yourself?" the KOF Master pressed.

"Not a single sliver of a chance!" Chen Feng knew the man wasn't speaking idly, so he answered with utmost sincerity.

"Hmm, having no chance is normal, because I am fundamentally not human!" the KOF Master stated calmly.

"Not human?" Chen Feng could not have imagined him saying such a thing. He frowned. "What do you mean? Have you already reached God-level cultivation?"

"I am not a god either. If we're speaking factually, I am merely a defective product!" the KOF Master admitted.

"A defective product?" Chen Feng's mind seized up again. "Can you explain that clearly?"

"Alas, I realize this is hard for you to grasp. Perhaps using Yanlong's own words would make it clearer: I am essentially an Artificial God!" the KOF Master revealed.

"What? An Artificial God!" It was like a thunderclap in Chen Feng's ears, his eyes wide as he stared at the KOF Master.

Yanlong’s notes had once recorded his ambition to create a god, an endeavor that seemingly failed in the end. Yet, this KOF Master right here claimed to be an Artificial God. Could it be...? A jolt went through Chen Feng—whether from excitement or fear, his whole body trembled.

"Yes, an Artificial God. Have you not noticed that my appearance strongly resembles the Chinese people Yanlong spoke of?" the KOF Master inquired.

Chen Feng nodded, calming the turmoil within himself, and asked: .Computer novel reading visit. 16. "Even if you are an Artificial God, what does that have to do with using KOF skills?"

"It has everything to do with it! A great deal!" the KOF Master insisted. "Back then, Yanlong manufactured many beings like me to increase his power. Each one was imbued with KOF skills, but not a single one could master all of them! How many characters' skills from the KOF roster have you learned so far?"

"I know nearly all the skills of the characters who appear in KOF," Chen Feng replied honestly.

"That is where you differ from us. But have you noticed that each of those characters possesses not only their own unique ultimate techniques but also subtle variations in their inherent attributes? Like Kyo Kusanagi and Iori Yagami's fire energy, Benimaru Nikaido and Shermie's electric energy, Goenitz and Tung Fu Rue's wind energy—their methods of power application are all different. If you use their skills, how do you alter the energy within your body?" the KOF Master pressed.

Hearing the string of names tumble from the KOF Master's lips, a flush of deeper excitement rose on Chen Feng's face. If Geeti saw him now, she would never believe this was the decisive, iron-eyed Iori Yagami.

Struggling to contain his fervor, he thought for a moment and said: "The power within me is omni-attribute. If I execute Kyo's move, it transforms into flame energy; if I use Benimaru's Raging Thunder, it changes into electrical energy!"

Back then, Chen Feng had suffered immensely just to rapidly shift his internal energy structure, spending over two arduous years mastering it.

"Omni-attribute? Truly enviable! We Artificial Gods are not cultivated step-by-step; we are directly granted a divine spark. Therefore, we can only utilize a single attribute, meaning we can only unleash the specific attribute of one skill set!" the KOF Master explained.

"But... why learn KOF skills?"

"Do you know of High-Rank Law Gods?" Seeing Chen Feng nod, the KOF Master continued: "High-Rank Law Gods are the most powerful beings beneath the Main Gods. A single High-Rank Law God can slaughter one hundred peak High-Rank Gods! However, High-Rank Law Gods are exceedingly rare; among the hundreds of billions of deities in the God Realm, there are fewer than twenty! But by possessing KOF skills and the divine spark of a High-Rank God, an artificial being created this way could absolutely wield the strength of a High-Rank Law God!"

"Wield the strength of a High-Rank Law God?" Chen Feng couldn't help but stare dumbfounded, letting out a long breath.

This explained so much. The KOF Master’s strongest power was the power of the Great Universe, which contained a portion of the universe's laws. Moreover, Kyo’s Mugen and Iori’s Gogetsumei contained the laws of time. If learned, it would be difficult not to become immensely powerful.

The KOF Master sighed suddenly. "In truth, all of that was theoretical knowledge from Yanlong. In reality, creating an Artificial God capable of using KOF skills was no less difficult than cultivating a High-Rank Law God! Back then, out of ten thousand of us, only I succeeded, and even I can only manifest one KOF skill!"

Creating one being was more troublesome than cultivating one, and it only theoretically granted High-Rank Law God strength—so what was the point of the endeavor?

"Whose skill do you use?" Chen Feng asked, genuinely curious.

"KOF K!"

"K?" Chen Feng started in shock.

K was a character who appeared in KOF '99, a figure NESTS had artificially integrated with Kyo Kusanagi's power—arguably the pinnacle model of an artificial human in KOF. He could unleash crimson flames, but perhaps due to NESTS's incomplete transplantation technology, or flaws within K himself, he could never fully control the sudden, overwhelming psychic power. Regrettably, although this individual could execute most of Kyo's moves, he could never manifest Mugen. He could be called a failed pinnacle artificial being, yet the might of his super moves, like the Maximum Drive Chain, was still terrifyingly potent, in no way inferior to the Orochi Nagi. (Regarding the character K, the author is not very familiar; this information was provided by a reader. If there are questions, or if you know this character well, please contact me privately... However, this character rarely appears, so this is just an introduction.)

"Alas, possessing the skills of KOF K, I ultimately failed to reach High-Rank Law God strength. Currently, I am only equivalent to Jin Xuan-Hu's power," the KOF Master sighed.

"Jin Xuan-Hu's strength? And you say 'only'?" Chen Feng was speechless. He had witnessed Jin Xuan-Hu's power; even now, against him, he wouldn't fare much better than an ant!

No wonder Jin Xuan-Hu held a grudge against Yanlong. As one of the Four Divine Beasts, Yanlong had casually created someone whose strength matched his own. Could he truly be content with that?

"Because my strength could not reach that of a High-Rank Law God, my cultivation is permanently fixed and cannot grow, which is why I am a defective product. The most successful deity produced through the Artificial God method reached only my level. Later, Yanlong pondered deeply and finally devised a superior method!"

Hearing this, Chen Feng’s breathing quickened. He could vaguely sense that the events to follow would concern him.

"That's right; the superior method is you! Because you can possess more KOF skills, and you are a constantly growing entity!" the KOF Master explained at length until it was clear.

"But... how did Yanlong know I would come here?"

He had transmigrated while playing KOF in an arcade. Could Yanlong know exactly when he would cross over? If that were true... didn't it imply Yanlong had a way to return to Earth in his previous life?

"In fact, your arrival here is connected to a major, special undertaking in the God Realm. However, I am not entirely clear about this undertaking; only Yanlong knows the specifics. By the time I was created and reached my current level of strength, the God-Slaying War of ten thousand years ago had already concluded. Furthermore, I am not a true deity; I cannot absorb the power of faith to increase my strength, nor can I enter the God Realm, so I naturally remain ignorant of these secret matters!"

Chen Feng murmured a reply, processing the flood of information. He hadn't expected Senior Yanlong to be so formidable as to create Artificial Gods... But what was the purpose of manufacturing them?

His mind was a mess. After meticulously sorting through everything, he sighed and continued: "It seems I asked earlier why Yanlong could use KOF skills, but you never answered why Yanlong himself doesn't use them yet can grant you the ability to use them?"

"Yanlong doesn't use these skills, but he understood their might. Therefore, the skills of KOF K that I use are merely extrapolations he made. They are completely different from what you learn. You are learning the genuine KOF skills; what I learned was theoretical, so it doesn't truly count as a skill! Why these discrepancies exist, I don't know. However, I do know why Yanlong understood KOF techniques. He once said that KOF was the name of a game he enjoyed playing. One day, while he was playing in an arcade, an explosion occurred, causing a reversal of time and space, and he arrived here..."

The KOF Master's words were cut short as Chen Feng's eyes widened dramatically, and he roared: "What did you say?"

ps:: I actually fell asleep while writing last night, sweating... Woke up with a splitting headache, feeling incredibly unwell, probably caught a cold. I need to finish and upload this chapter first!! Ugh, I’m useless. I planned to aggressively campaign for votes these two days... dizzy.