"Vega … As a member of the Imperial Army, how dare you fight against me!!"
Seeing that his attack was forcefully interrupted by the Scorpion Army in front of him, Visca's expression turned ferocious. He pointed at the Scorpion Girl below and said sternly.
"I'm sorry, Captain Visca." Vega crossed his swords in front of him and made the unique salute of the Armored Scorpion. "As a soldier of the Empire, I have to stop you."
"Well said! But it's meaningless … Nactras! Attack! "
Following Weska's shout, the laser cannons that had been quietly hovering in the air suddenly began to move rapidly. They began to gallop through the air at an extremely high speed, and at the same time, a large number of laser beams poured down like rain.
"Maneuver evasion!"
Knowing that the energy shield of an ordinary armored scorpion would not last long under the attack of a Commander-level Xi Ling Apostle, Vega gave the order. Dozens of mechanical scorpions moved away from their original positions, followed by a series of sonic booms. They began to evade the attacks from the sky using the mobility they were most proud of. Once in a while, one or two scorpions would seize the opportunity to catch a light beam with their long swords and reflect it back. However, with the mobility of the floating cannons, how could they be hit by their own cannons so easily?
Apart from the two Floating Cannons that were suddenly cut in half by the Armored Scorpions that used the space warp engine to rush into the sky, the two sides were evenly matched.
The current confrontation was just a test of each other's strength.
Visca was a Commander-level Shiring Apostles, and her individual combat power was exceptionally strong. However, all of her reinforcements and hyperspace firepower support had been cut off by the shadow city. Therefore, she could only use her independent equipment and various cannons in her portable space. Her combat power was greatly limited. Although Vega was not a Commander-level Apostle, his strength as a heroic soldier was enough to fight against Visca. Coupled with the assistance of dozens of mechanical Scorpions, it was not difficult for him to hold back the crazy captain.
It seemed that everything was in a stalemate.
"Human brat, stay away from the battlefield if you don't want to die!!"
Amidst the explosions, Fang Tong suddenly felt a gust of wind coming from his side. Just as he subconsciously turned on Vector Reflex, the blast wave of the explosion was blocked by a tall figure. The mechanical scorpion with the word ZK-0001 written in red on its carapace waved its long sword into a fan to block the scattered explosion debris. It then said to Fang Tong condescendingly.
"What did you say …"
Fang Tong's bad temper immediately flared up after being called that by an unfamiliar woman who he thought was a mechanical monster. However, before he could say more rude words, the scorpion in front of him had already lost its patience. Its three-meter-long alloy tail abruptly extended less than ten centimeters in front of Fang Tong, and then the alloy shell at its tip suddenly opened, revealing a blood-colored crystal flickering with red light inside. The energy waves emitted from the crystal were so strong that even the strongest Level-5 in the school city trembled slightly.
Tong Tong, whose confidence had suffered a series of blows today, was now doubting how effective his Vector Reflex, which he was so proud of, would be against the endless stream of monsters. More than half of the radiation energy wreaking havoc on the battlefield was something he could not analyze!
"Get away from me, human!" Vega impatiently scratched the ground with his mechanical limbs. The female officer who wanted to finish her mission as soon as possible was very annoyed by this annoying but unkillable fellow. "The temper of the Empire soldiers is not as good as you think!"
While Vega was talking, a shrill whistle came again. This time, it was not the kind of laser beam that could be reflected by the Battleship Slicing Blade, but a physical warhead. Vega could not dodge in time. He could only swing his tail and use the laser shot from the Photon Cannon to destroy the high-speed missile in the air.
"Second echelon, follow up! For the Empire and the glory, attack! "
Vega raised his sword high and shouted with a metallic screech. He then suddenly leaped into the air and cut a floating cannon into thousands of thin metal films. As a unit created by the Schilling race who excelled in three-dimensional warfare, the Armored Scorpions' mobility in the air was, of course, not affected. It was just that the Scorpions were not used to aerial combat due to their close-range attacks and conventional tactics of infiltrating the enemy's fortress. At this moment, under the leadership of the commander, a dozen Armored Scorpions immediately roared in unison and leaped into the air together. With their absolute advantage in speed and agility, they began to annihilate Visca's floating cannon array. They had no delusions of attacking Visca who was the controller. Not to mention that the Emperor had ordered that the crazy commander must not be harmed, even Vega himself knew that he was far from being able to fight against the Commander-level Shiring Apostles.
"Haha, interesting, very interesting …" Seeing that his floating cannons were gradually being torn apart by the Armored Scorpions, Weska laughed out loud in excitement. "Then, I'll show you idiots who overestimate yourselves what a real level gap means!"
"It's Helium Flash! Spread out! "
Seeing that Weska suddenly leaned back and opened his mouth wide as though he was taking a deep breath, Vega's expression changed immediately. He waved his hand and smashed a floating cannon that was emitting sparks as it crashed towards him, before shouting loudly.
A huge blood-red energy array instantly appeared in the air as Visca finished charging. Amidst the ear-piercing screech, an uncontrolled torrent of energy directly drawn from the Commander-level Apostle's psionic reactor sobbed and swept across the sky. Visca had lost control. Her target was not Vega, but the academy behind her!
Although Pandora had covered the entire area with a barrier outside the battlefield, the only function of such a barrier was to prevent the outside world from spying on this place. It was similar to a spatial camouflage and had no defensive ability at all. Visca's Helium Flash would undoubtedly cut the entire academy in half.
"Barrier of the Empire!"
Just when Vega thought it was too late, a somewhat familiar voice suddenly rang out on the battlefield. Then, all the attacks from Visca seemed to hit an invisible barrier and abruptly stopped in the air. Even the powerful Helium Flash paused for a moment. Although it was only for less than a second, it was enough to give the Scorpions a chance to react.
"Projectile Crystal! Neutralize it! "
Dozens of Armored Scorpions opened the alloy carapace on their tails at the same time. The special Focusing Psionic Crystal emitted a dazzling red light. In a series of whistling sounds that cut through the air, the Photon Cannons that had been charged to the limit were thrown out like bombs. All of them bombarded the paused Helium Flash. There was no huge explosion as expected. There was not even the slightest sound. The two types of energy collided and disappeared in the air at the same time.
But from the violent distortion in the sky, it could be seen that this energy annihilation was far from as peaceful as it seemed.
"Zuo Tianlei!?"
Seeing the human girl not far away, even the calm Vega could not help but exclaim.
"Sister … Vega!? How … "
Zuo Tianlei, who was summoned by some inexplicable summons, looked at the familiar upper body of the mechanical scorpion in front of her and felt dizzy. Even her words were a little incoherent.
"It's not just the souls that have become Shiring Apostles." Vega clenched the long sword in his hand and immediately chose the most advantageous option for completing the mission. "First echelon, assemble! Protect the commander! "
A dozen Armored Scorpions immediately separated from the air and gathered around Zuo Tianlei. The human girl couldn't help but let out a cry of surprise when she was suddenly surrounded by a group of 'mechanical monsters'. However, something even more shocking happened right after that, and it distracted her attention.
"Toys, very good toys! But the sacrifice of a part is for the benefit of the whole … "
Accompanied by such a crazy cry, the Floating Cannons that blotted out the sky whistled and fell to the ground like bombs dropped by a bomber, setting off a series of huge explosions. Fortunately, under the protection of the Armored Scorpions, all the explosive fragments that attacked Zuo Tianlei were blocked. The frightened human girl finally noticed the figure floating in the air.
"Sister Visca!? How did this happen!? Sister Vega, what the hell is going on … "
"There's no time to explain." Vega struggled to block Visca's increasingly dense bombardment as he turned around and shouted, "Commander, we need your power!"
"My power?" Zuo Tianlei, who was just an ordinary female student from Earth a few minutes ago, did not understand the situation at all. But when she saw new Floating Cannons appearing in the sky, she subconsciously obeyed the instinct deep in her soul.
"Distortion Command!"
But the effect was not obvious. Except for less than ten Floating Cannons that were deflected, the remaining more than a hundred cannons did not even have a millimeter deviation in aiming.
Although he was in the midst of a hail of bullets, Vega still took the time to shout at Zuo Tianlei, "Don't use your ability on Commander Visca. She's too powerful for you to fight against. Strengthen the speed and defense of the Armored Scorpions. Our mission is only to delay the battle until His Majesty the Emperor arrives!"
"Oh …" Although she did not fully understand, seeing the Armored Scorpions risking their lives to protect her, Zuo Tianlei temporarily suppressed all doubts in her heart and began to focus on activating her ability.
War Premonition, Glory Assault, and Empire Assault — the aura skill known as the Storm Commander's three axes of survival on the battlefield was activated in an instant. The Armored Scorpions' defense, evasion, blocking, strength, and attack resistance seemed to have gained a lot of experience points, but in short, all of them increased exponentially. The Storm Commander was indeed a bug-like existence known as the Humanoid Fire Control Tower. Although he was just a human, it was not a problem for Zuo Tianlei to buff a few dozen Armored Scorpions. After the large-scale injection of Chicken Blood, the Armored Scorpions, who were already good at fighting, were able to suppress the general who could only use individual weapons. If it was not for the order from above not to hurt the general, perhaps Visca would have been injured.
Finally, just when Visca was about to lose patience and activate Helium Flash again, and the Armored Scorpions had no more Photon Cannons to throw, reinforcements finally arrived.
"Time is up!"
And so, everything became silent.
The slanting Floating Cannons, the crisscrossing lasers and bullets, the dancing blades, and even the dirt in the air all froze in midair.
"Shallow Shallow … at least put me down …"
I maintained my posture of walking in midair as tears streamed down my cheeks.
Shouldn't the male lead who appeared at the very last moment and turned the tide be walking in midair with his clothes fluttering in the wind? Why did I have to be hung in midair by my girlfriend when it came to me?
"Ah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
Shallow Shallow hurriedly apologized as she canceled her space-time freeze on me. She also freed the Armored Scorpions who were also unlucky enough to be hit by friendly fire.
Seeing Visca's ferocious-looking face shrouded in black smoke, I felt my heart ache as I slowly walked up to him.
"Shallow Shallow, release her time."
"But …"
"It's fine, she … isn't actually afraid of superpowers, have you forgotten?"
That's right, Visca wasn't afraid of any superpowers in the first place. Even if it was Shallow Shallow's space-time freeze, it would be impossible to control her without using its full power. But now, this little brat was quietly floating in midair, as if she had really been frozen.
It's just that my silly little sister, did you think that you could fool your big brother?
What a clumsy little brat. As I sighed in my heart, I opened my arms towards the sky. As expected, in the next second, Visca suddenly pounced down, the black smoke around his body instantly dispersing. Then, he crashed into my chest like a cannonball.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry …"
Visca, who had regained his senses after reestablishing a mental connection with me, whimpered softly as he apologized intermittently. His entire body was trembling like a kitten that was about to be abandoned by its owner. "I'm sorry, big brother … I really just wanted to teach him a lesson … I really didn't think that I would lose control …"
Looking at the devastated ground around me, I couldn't help but reprimand him.
"Alright, luckily we didn't cause too much damage …"
The corners of my mouth twitched, and I managed to stifle the sigh I was about to let out.
Compared to blowing up the entire school city, the current explosion at the periphery was already the best outcome. I really should thank those fellows who arranged for the One Side to Become God project for choosing such a remote location for this' experiment '. If it was at the center of the school city, yep, it seemed like I could conveniently get rid of Aresta.
With such unscrupulous thoughts in mind, I couldn't help but feel a headache over the aftermath of this incident.
Even though I had used all means to limit Visca's destruction, Vega and the others had successfully restrained the actions of this little lunatic, and the energy interference barrier that Pandora had released also blocked most of the prying eyes from the outside world, to be honest, even a fool wouldn't be fooled by such a series of tricks.
At the very least, before Pandora's interference barrier was activated, Aresta would definitely have seen something. We couldn't possibly be like those magical media and point to the scene of an accident after being crushed by seventeen heavy trucks and announce that the injured had been rescued, right?
Similarly, I also didn't think that Aresta would believe that the tens of kilometers of battle ruins were caused by fireworks and firecrackers …
Furthermore, even if we said that the damage caused by Visca wasn't great, that was still compared to our initial worst case scenario. Even though we were already far away from the various school districts, the Floating Cannons that were firing everywhere had inevitably destroyed many unlucky city buildings. Even if we avoided the densely populated central areas, the number of people that were implicated was still not a small number. Even though Pandora's life detection radar had yet to detect any deaths, the number of injured people was enough to fill up the medical facilities in the nearby school districts. Apart from how to take responsibility for the bombing of the city, the most important thing left was how to remedy the injuries. Hopefully, the nanomachines manufacturing factory in Pandora's personal space could withstand such a high-powered operation.
"Why don't we just announce that we are part of the Al-Qaida organization?"
Shallow Shallow, who was also at her wits' end about these troublesome matters, said in despair.
Then, I completely gave up on this brat's train of thought.
"I'm going to talk to that old fox Aresta."
From the perspective of a true Shiring Apostles like Sandora or Pandora, this incident of "accidental military casualties" might not be a big deal. However, we were after all still cultured earthlings. Setting off fireworks in someone else's city and not saying anything about it didn't seem right.
"You blockhead, you really don't have the airs of an emperor."
A familiar voice sounded beside me. Lin Xue shook her head as she walked over.
"In your position, you should be iron-blooded, ruthless, and opinionated. However, you still have the mentality of a commoner … Well, this is also one of your strengths."
Why do I feel that there was a subtle word mixed into your string of adjectives just now? Was it just my imagination?
"Reporting, sir! Armored Scorpion ZK-0001, Vega completed the mission! Should this human be destroyed? "
Big Sis Scorpion's sonorous voice interrupted my thoughts. So, she was referring to Yi Fangtong. Although he was the strongest metahuman in the school city, and his combat strength might even be stronger than Vega's, he was still a human who had survived the normal flow of time. After being controlled by Shallow Shallow's Time Freeze and having his ability erased by the Scorpion Soldier's collar, he had temporarily become a completely ordinary human.
"Suzaku … Cough cough, Yi Fangtong?"
That was close, I almost said it out loud.
"You are the emperor that these monsters are talking about?" Although he had lost his ability, Yi Fangtong didn't seem to mind at all. To be exact, to him, his ability wasn't something that he really cared about. Even his own life was something like "Ah, let's just keep it." Towards the current environment, other than curiosity, he didn't feel any fear. "Your disguise is indeed like that of a human."
"Not a bad dinner."
Shallow Shallow smiled faintly before explaining, "Of course, I'm referring to your edible parts."
Not to mention Yi Fangtong, even I was about to vomit …
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