Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 386 - 30 The Story of the Martial Gods

Chapter 386: Chapter 30 The Story of the Martial Gods

The Second Martial God had been slain a year later; the Third Martial God had emerged.

Perhaps because a certain "technology" had actually matured by then, the Personality Mask like that of the Second Martial God no longer required lengthy preparation.

The Third Martial God was different from the Second Martial God. From the beginning, he told everyone that he was not the original "Martial Ancestor Xiang Shan" but was like that "Fake Xiangshan". [At that time, the Second Martial God was still called "Fake Xiangshan"]

This somewhat salvaged the situation.

At least there were people willing to help now.

However, the circumstances faced by the Third Martial God were even more perilous than those during the era of the Second Martial God. The Second Martial God had in some ways squandered the dwindling trust that the first generation of heroes had in the groups centered around the Martial Ancestor. The Third Martial God did not receive the widespread support that the Second Martial God had, not even the assistance of the Righteous Army.

Among the heroes of the Old Era, those who were famous also perished one after another. There were not many people left to respond to him.

The Second Martial God had emerged three years after the Martial Ancestor was executed and had resisted for five years.

The Third Martial God was born in the same year the Second Martial God fell, and two years later, he was shot down in the Ten Thousand Ships Formation.

Senior technicians in Jianghu seemed to have given up on creating another Martial God after that.

So, several years passed.

In a Satellite City, the Fourth Martial God was born in the outlying region that was at risk of being abandoned at any time.

The Fourth Martial God killed the owner of the Space City and ended the chaotic situation in the Space City. He called on everyone to follow social rules as in the past and to rebuild "our society." He evenly distributed solar panels and the power from the reactors, organized people to allocate the 3D printers’ usage time themselves. He led mining teams to extract resources from the Jupiter ring. He rebuilt the education system, teaching everyone the knowledge system available online.

After the initial period, all this began to stream live on the network.

Inside the Fourth Martial God’s Space City, there was a dedicated supercomputer that batch-packed those video files and built a blockchain on the network while offering downloads of educational video torrents.

Before this, the government used to deploy small elite forces as it had during the chivalrous wars, targeting heroes to assassinate. But this time, inside the Fourth Martial God’s Space City, "Righteous Folks" and "Righteous Warriors" were in the majority.

Moreover, the Martial Arts of the Fourth Martial God were terrifyingly strong.

Unlike the Second and Third Martial Gods who could not use Inner Strength, the Fourth Martial God was a grandmaster who practiced both internal and external disciplines.

One of the Kings stationed on Ganymede was slain by him.

The Fourth Martial God’s initial target was the people of a series of Satellite Cities around Jupiter. At the same time, the tight defenses on the Galileo satellite constellation made it difficult for the Fourth Martial God’s Righteous Army to land.

The Fourth Martial God did not choose to forcefully land initially but planned to assemble remote Forts for bombardment, intending to destroy the surface defenses on the Galileo satellites before making a total assault.

This plan ultimately failed.

A villain named "Indra King" destroyed all the Space Cities under the control of the Fourth Martial God.

"King Aqini" Jakub Hartman perpetrated a massacre.

"Changing from the Indian god of fire to the Indian god of thunder, anyone could guess who they are referring to, couldn’t they?" "Eight" commented on this.

"I suspect now that any mention of Suliye, Fayou, or Saganda is all coded language referring to Hartman." "Native" massaged his temple with his hand.

Of course, this was not the end.

The fire seeded by the Fourth Martial God eventually blossomed into a golden flower.

The Fifth and Sixth Martial Gods followed one after the other.

The Fifth Martial God was a Ranger, engaging in Guerrilla Warfare between Venus and Mars, even entangling King Aqini.

While the Sixth Martial God took advantage of the Protector’s several failed attempts to rebuild the Mars Orbital Military Port, he re-established the "Chivalrous Army." It was under his leadership that the "White Fleet Prosthetics Followers" and "Black Ship Righteous Followers" began to be created.

The timelines of active engagement of the Fifth and Sixth Martial Gods overlapped considerably; it could be said that Xiang Shan was revived twice in the same era.

The Fifth Martial God later disappeared. The Protector declared him executed, but like the Martial Ancestor, no further information surfaced.

The Sixth Martial God was defeated near Uranus alongside the newly formed "Red Fleet Prosthetics Followers." The Black Ship Righteous Followers also suffered severe damages. The White Fleet Prosthetics Followers then went into hiding in the Asteroid Belt.

Then, the Seventh Martial God was born.

People still do not know whether it was the Sixth Martial God’s fleet that actively created a new Martial God in the Asteroid Belt, or if someone inadvertently became the new Xiang Shan.

But that question became irrelevant.

The individual who fundamentally changed the structure of the Solar System was born.

The Seventh Martial God gathered the flames ignited by the Fourth Martial God. He constructed a small Space City and a refitting base within the Asteroid Belt, dispersed the fleets, relied on the terrain, and applied Guerrilla Warfare, refined to a level beyond skill almost akin to art during the space wars, continuously annihilating the Protector fleets, isolating the inside and outside of the Asteroid Belt, and gradually seizing control over Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

One must admit, however, that the values of those three planets were very low, which is why such a capture was successful.

Especially Uranus and Neptune.

The farther a planet is from the Sun, the weaker the solar energy it receives. On Earth, a Benchmark Man with a square solar panel can live anywhere. But on Jupiter, this becomes extremely challenging. Massive arrays of solar panels are required to sustain a few lives.

Although Uranus and Neptune had begun development during the Chivalrous Wars, progress was extremely slow, consisting of only sparse fleets to declare sovereignty.

Jupiter itself has abundant fusion fuel and is a very large celestial body. Its gravitational field alone is sufficient to accumulate a massive military force. After the Fourth Martial God, the Protector also strengthened control over this area. Even the Parsifal Satellite Group has defensive fortifications.

Moreover, the Galileo satellite constellation hosts the best network servers in the Solar System. Its defensive forces are incomparable to those of the Saturn Protectors.

After a failed attempt to seize Jupiter, the Seventh Martial God continuously employed a strategy of besieging without attacking the planet.

The Seventh Martial God was exceedingly successful.

The scale of the "Chaos of the Seventh Martial God" even surpassed that of the Sublimation War.

In this battle, the Protector’s advantage of unifying humanity fractured. The human world, in places completely outside their regulation, finally emerged.

However, the military advantage the Protector had accumulated over nearly a century was still too great. Their resources were still asymmetrically opposed to those of the Heroes.

The Seventh Martial God and the White Fleet Prosthetics Followers fought until the very last moment.

That was already over a hundred years ago.

Though the desperate struggle of the Seventh Martial God severely damaged the Protector’s systems, it seemed to have also drained the strength of Jianghu.

In the decades that followed, no new Martial God arose.