Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 686 - 330: For Whom the Bell Tolls

Chapter 686: Chapter 330: For Whom the Bell Tolls

The moment Amilcare saw the Knight of Assyria in the live stream, he maneuvered his ride to fly back.

For the Protector, killing mobs was not a "responsibility," it was merely a "duty." However, "defending the Scientific Knight" was his second most important mission.

If the Holy Knight were to be assassinated before his eyes, then a punishment from the Moon awaited him.

But at that moment, a stream of bullets whizzed past his flyer.

Amilcare, being a Martial Artist above the First Heavenly Layer, had sufficient reflexes and stopped his flyer a half-step ahead of time.

However, on the ground, more cannons were turning their barrels.

These cannons were originally intended to deal with Heroes. But now, their control had been directly seized. The cannons began to randomly tilt their firepower into the mid-air.

The less mobile drones in mid-air exploded one after another, their fragments bursting like fireworks, like confetti and streamers at a carnival, gloriously scattering in the air.

Amilcare’s flyer was not designed for high speed. This type of quadrotor-like flyer could move flexibly in complex environments, but its speed was quite limited.

And the web of gunfire formed by those cannons was randomly shifting.

The dense network of gunfire quickly brought down Amilcare’s flyer.

With no other choice, Amilcare leaped from his flyer, the backpack-like component on his back ejecting a tail flame, pushing him rapidly towards the Pine Eagle Building.

The cannons posed a threat to Amilcare’s ride, but they were not enough to penetrate the External Armor of Amilcare’s Prosthetic Body. The metre-long, thick Kite Shield on Amilcare’s left hand also allowed him to fend off the firepower of the cannons. At this distance, the cannon bullets merely accelerated him further.

On the other hand, the Holy Knight also realized the danger.

He had been watching Amilcare’s live stream while considering his next move. He was pondering how to protect his interests and minimize losses during this turbulence.

Honestly... he was utterly unaware that his server had largely been infiltrated by the Six Dragons Sect.

Having collaborated with the Evolutionary Language Knights Order for over two years, the Six Dragons Sect had not been idle in infiltrating his domain.

Up to this point, he only thought he was unlucky to have been invaded by a group of rebels.

However, he would soon no longer need to worry about this problem.

Quite abruptly, he saw himself in the live stream.

His Excellency Ashur looked up and glanced at the camera hidden in the shadows. Amilcare’s antique courtyard was not just home to that giant Bodhi Tree but also housed many landscape buildings, green vegetation, and even specialized flower beds.

And many cameras were hidden among them.

This garden was used by Amilcare Zhao to create a cultural atmosphere, to strengthen his mental cultivation, and naturally, it was not usually disturbed by others. It was maintained by dedicated gardener drones and an automatic irrigation system, and hardly anyone patrolled it.

Under normal circumstances, no Hero could infiltrate this location.

The cameras were also hidden in various visual corners.

But now, a Hero with high Inner Strength had arrived.

Ashur wanted to leave this place.

But only heard a few "bang bang" sounds, and within the garden, the flower beds, the shrubbery, clusters of silver-gray smoke slowly spread.

It was Metal Aerosol.

Ashur immediately halted his steps.

Aerosols were everywhere. As they spread, the space around him became increasingly constricted.

Ashur was aware of his condition. He wasn’t ignorant in external strength, but his external strength was only acquired as elective credits during his knight apprentice stage, and although he had actual combat skills, they weren’t strong. His internal strength, however, was formidable. But that too was supported by resources from neuroscience projects and the advanced concepts of the Scientific Knights. Likewise, he lacked experience in hacking during battle.

And now, he was facing an assassination.

At this moment, the most rational course of action would be to wait for Amilcare or other armed forces within the Pine Eagle Building to come to his rescue.

Although he had just been suspecting that the noble Lord might want to kill him, now only Amilcare could save his life.

So, Ashur stopped in his tracks.

—This was the top of a gigantic building. Given Amilcare’s skills, it would probably take only a few minutes. If another squad were to rush over...

The Holy Knight felt a slight tremor under his feet as if a war involving heavy fire was breaking out within the building.

Ashur didn’t know that the support squad he expected couldn’t come anymore.

Xiang Shan, while jumping out to confront Amilcare, had already used the Pine Eagle Building’s command system to send several contradictory commands to the building’s security armed forces.

A bit earlier, Xiang Shan had infiltrated an officer’s office area, hacked the officer’s brain while the officer was operating the system, and accessed the command system using the officer’s legitimate authority to make many fully legal operations.

After that, he then extracted higher permissions and set some commands to be sent after a countdown.

These commands included "Evacuate the building immediately to suppress the mass incidents outside," "Hold your positions, the system is now invaded by an Internal master, all commands are unreliable," "Certain troops have received faulty commands from a Hero, stop them immediately," "The commander of certain troops is anti-human faction, he has defected, execute him immediately," etc., all varied.

Ensuring that every squad received several completely contradictory commands.

This arrangement would cause most squads to choose to stay put and not accept any commands in the short term.

But if even one percent of the officers executed the wrong commands...

Chaos would erupt immediately.

And such a scenario was overly ideal for a Hero.

Now, Ashur had to face his enemies by himself.

—No matter what, hold on...

"Ding ding ding ding..." Suddenly, the bell wrapped by the Bodhi Tree began to ring urgently.

The Holy Knight turned back to look. He could only see the silhouette of the bell tower now covered by metal aerosol; under these eerie circumstances, the Bodhi Tree, instead of appearing solemn as before, looked more like a ghostly hand grasping something.

Footsteps... Many footsteps emerged from the metal aerosol.

A voice emanated from within the metal aerosol, "Knight, ask not for whom the bell tolls, listen, this bell has already revealed the name."

As a man accomplished in internal strength, the Holy Knight understood.

This sequence of bell tolls was repeatedly spelling out his name in an ancient clear code.

Ashur-Lei-Goodrian.

Ashur-Lei-Goodrian.

Ashur-Lei-Goodrian!