Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 490 - 134 Unique Weapons Are Ineffective

Chapter 490: Chapter 134 Unique Weapons Are Ineffective

After being discovered, the drones no longer flew close to the ground but soared ten feet into the air, circling around the two individuals like a whirlwind.

There were dozens of these drones, which were all the reserves that Xiang Shan had captured.

The drones entered the fray immediately.

They were micro missiles.

Even with compensators, the recoil from the bullet leaving the barrel could not be completely eliminated. This was dictated by Newton’s Third Law.

Cybernetically Enhanced People naturally could ignore such reaction forces.

But for these lightweight drones, even a tiny amount of recoil could affect their flight path.

That meant lightweight drones could not act as stable aerial forts.

Of course, one could adopt the idea of a recoilless rifle, eliminating the seal at the back of the chamber. This way, when the gunpowder reacts and releases heat inside the chamber, the shockwave would be expelled in both forward and backward directions.

But the price to pay for this was a reduction in the kinetic energy of the ammunition.

And bullets with reduced kinetic energy might not penetrate contemporary external armor.

Compared to that, micro missiles with their own propulsion systems were more suitable for drones.

Countless Fire Wires came from all directions.

Sky Prison Star and Sky Wisdom Star immediately rolled on the spot. During their rolls, Sky Prison Star kept firing back. His shooting was very accurate; almost every shot took down a drone.

But these drones were just captured loot. Xiang Shan didn’t mind them being destroyed at all.

And the direction towards which the two Green Forest individuals rolled had already been anticipated by other drones.

Carbon fiber nets were sprayed towards the two men.

This catching net was a type of non-lethal weapon developed by the government. The reason Sky Fierce’s lineage was so fond of it was largely because of its ability to "capture alive".

The function of "electrifying upon touching the target" also gave the Green Forest a fair chance of capturing a complete Hero intact.

Several under Sky Fierce’s command had been captured with these devices.

And now, it was the Green Forest’s turn to taste the same medicine.

Sky Prison Star, caught off guard, got entangled in a net around his legs. He fell flat on the ground.

The net’s attached electrifying part released high voltage. The current pierced the external armor, making him feel a moment of dizziness.

But his hand holding the gun didn’t waver in the slightest.

Even when he lost consciousness, the plan pre-set by his Prosthetic Body was faithfully executed—until a second net disrupted his movement.

But he had achieved his goal.

Dozens of shots hit the unguarded parts of the formation. But according to the operational pattern previously exhibited by the formation, the next moment, these empty spots would form a gap.

This "instant" would surely be a very short span of time.

So short that "the AI controlling the swarm would not be able to deal with it in time".

He had opened a path.

And Sky Wisdom Star had already dashed out.

Sky Wisdom Star was also a speed-oriented Martial Artist.

However, unlike the balanced Martial Artists like Heavenly Ingenious Star, Sky Wisdom Star was extremely extreme.

He couldn’t really cope with his current speed. When he ran at full speed, the world around him blurred in his vision. He also couldn’t change direction or stop abruptly.

In this state, even aiming was difficult.

His gunner skills had also wasted a lot of time.

And Sky Wisdom knew his limits well, his weapon was just a steel spear.

This spear, more like an instrument of execution than a weapon, could, if touched to a Martial Artist’s head, deliver such powerful momentum as to shatter the enemy’s brain.

Because Sky Wisdom was truly fast enough.

He was even faster than the movement techniques Borshu had displayed three years ago.

Borshu wasn’t incapable of reaching that speed, but at such velocity, his neural reflex could not perfectly control his stance. According to the martial arts of the RX-Pegasus school, Borshu wouldn’t easily accelerate to such an extent.

Sky Wisdom’s attacks were almost self-destructive.

The crowd could only see a white line flickering with firelight instantly spreading from afar to right in front of them.

But Xiang Shan’s reaction was a notch faster.

——"It’s just moving fast; back in the day I..."

——"Tch, can’t remember."

Specifically, Xiang Shan could not remember.

However, Xiang Shan did remember that during the twilight of the Ascension Wars, the Martial Ancestor was able to breach enemy lines in space at sub-light speed. He was the first among humans to achieve this. On this point, even the King of Godspeed was just a latecomer.

If this brain of his truly belonged to the Martial Ancestor Xiang Shan, then it was quite normal for him to react in time now.

Xiang Shan rolled on the spot and then reached out towards the Black Hand Master.

The shotgun in the Black Hand Master’s hands had at least two rounds left.

The micro missiles that had been shot down earlier only took one shot.

Xiang Shan even lifted the shotgun, waited a few milliseconds for the Green Forest assailant to reach the perfect distance where evasion was impossible.

Then he fired.

The initial kinetic energy of the shotgun was considerable, and it fired a conical spread of shot, difficult to dodge. However, the attached kinetic energy of each pellet was too low, its penetrating power weak, and the speed of the shot decreased quickly after leaving the barrel.

But at this distance, it was completely sufficient.

Sky Wisdom tumbled through the air, transforming into a comet, grazing past Xiang Shan and smashing into the cliff wall.

And the steel rod in his hands flew out, deeply embedding into a rock.

Xiang Shan looked at the shotgun in his hands, somewhat conflicted: "The competition in martial arts has become this fierce, huh..."

In Xiang Shan’s era, not many had entertained the idea of using unique weapons like shotguns. People focused on improving their reflexes straightforwardly, and when practicing with firearms, they honestly used assault rifles, submachine guns, and other types of firearms with stronger armor penetration and broader applications.

For incoming grenades, people preferred to dodge them with their movement techniques rather than "blasting them in mid-air."

And firearms like the shotgun, with a rather narrow range of applications, had not been developed right away.

Xiang Shan once thought that because cybernetically enhanced warriors were armored units, weapons with weak armor-breaking capabilities would be eliminated from the battlefield.

It seems that Martial Artists who reached the limits of external strength also thought of various ways to improve.

Just now, the idea of "flipping over a lightweight prosthetic body with a shotgun" was purely a spur-of-the-moment thought by Xiang Shan. The Black Hand Master had shown off a shotgun, and Xiang Shan was good at creating and using his environment to his advantage.

But it was only after taking down Sky Wisdom that Xiang Shan realized the Black Hand Master’s need to shoot micro missiles out of the sky wouldn’t be more frequent than facing off against a lightweight prosthetic body warrior.

Perhaps this was the modern mainstream use for the shotgun.

And some impressions from the Eighth Martial God seemed to vaguely support this idea.

The Black Hand Master spoke up: "The Nameless Hero doesn’t know how to use this gun? The set of moves you just did, rolling, rising, aiming the gun, it was a bit immature..."

Xiang Shan nodded, handed the gun back to the Black Hand Master, then went over, pulled out Sky Wisdom’s head, and said, "I indeed don’t know how to use such unique weapons that were created late."