Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 710 - 354 The 9th Martial God【Part 3】

Chapter 710: Chapter 354 The 9th Martial God【Part 3】

The Eighth Martial God was born within Mr. Wang Yi Emery’s "Volunteer Team" and also followed Mr. Wang Yi Emery’s research progress for a long period.

The Hospital Knight Order led by Mr. Wang Yi Emery was also a strong faction on Earth—if it weren’t for the severe damage caused by King Aqini’s sweeping eighty years ago and the serious loss of foundation after several rounds of purging by King Aqini, this Order of Knights might even have qualified to add the prefix "Holy" to its name by now.

It can be said that Mr. Wang Yi Emery was absolutely the type of character who would rather eat shit himself than let King Aqini smell it.

However, on second thought...

It wasn’t too unjust for Mr. Wang Yi Emery to be treated this way.

The technology of the Eighth Martial God to forcibly input the Personality Mask and implant the Pseudo-personality Mask into others’ brains was based on Mr. Wang Yi Emery’s "Virtual Brain Circuit."

Where Mr. Wang Yi Emery was wronged lies in the fact that King Aqini didn’t know this.

But now, Xiang Shan felt that this point was debatable.

Eighty years ago, to help Zhu Xinyu escape from the pursuit of King Aqini, the Eighth Martial God took the fall voluntarily, replacing death for them.

And before his death, he also left a bit of evidence in an alien server, proving that it was Xiang Shan who was stealing secrets from several knight orders.

The amount of data was very small, made to look like it could be cleared in haste.

Moreover, a large portion of this data was meant to confuse the government and mislead their thoughts.

"Virtual Brain Circuit technology should mostly be left on Earth’s servers," Eight said. "Wang Yi Emery conducted his research on Earth, where the population density is highest, and data remained local before synchronization to Mars. The research I stole and worked on by myself also didn’t need to be uploaded to Mars. Besides, I don’t think any related documents could have survived the kind of EMP storm that happened eighty years ago."

"And furthermore..."

The Eighth Martial God pondered for a moment, "This Scientific Knight is lying. If Nine’s Pseudo-personality Mask was born from my technology, the AI’s structure shouldn’t be like this."

As Xiang Shan was carrying on this internal dialogue with himself, more memories were awakened, coming to the forefront of his thoughts.

This was after the Ninth Martial God left that mysterious Scientific Knight.

Xiang Shan embarked on an adventure. In the years that followed, he was doing two things—improving himself and collecting information that could corroborate what that Scientific Knight had said.

In the beginning, Xiang Shan was active as a Broadcasting Client. Mars also had an ionosphere that allowed broadcasting, and the complex characteristics of Martian cities made it even harder to pinpoint broadcasters.

Moreover, with Scientific Knights privately funding cultural activities, Mars was a lively mix, well-suited for people like Xiang Shan to move around in.

Practicing skills, singing, surfing the net.

Apart from publishing some rebellious content, he was like many other civilians on this planet.

He gradually restored some external strength. At a critical moment in his life, he even miraculously reawakened his Inner Strength. He built new firewalls at a slow pace, preparing for invasion routes.

It was also during this process that Xiang Shan realized that the Scientific Knight had indeed accurately described his state.

His Prosthetic Body indeed had remnants of a Biological Brain within, he could feel those neural impulses, and he could even use Restoring Enzyme to alter these things. But the Biological Brain was too severely damaged.

A considerable part of his mind was supported by electronic devices. At least half of his soul existed within the computer.

It was for this reason that his martial arts progress was slow [compared to the information source individual, the Martial Ancestor Xiang Shan himself], and his Inner Strength was unreliable at times.

But perhaps it was a gift left behind by that anonymous singer, or maybe it was a skill born out of coincidence.

Xiang Shan had an even greater talent when it came to multi-threaded control.

All he needed was to embed a newly written task manager into his consciousness.

Since this mind was entirely artificial, it was not bound by human instincts. Even if his perspective, prosthetic body form, field of vision, and information processing methods all deviated from the natural state of humans, he would not feel the slightest discomfort.

So after realizing this, Xiang Shan adjusted his training plan accordingly.

The control of drone swarms and the operation of multiple prosthetic bodies became his primary practice targets.

This was precisely the "Military Martial Path" he used to dislike the most.

However, he was able to do this thanks to another skill he possessed.

Xiang Shan felt that his own speaking ability was inexplicably good.

Although in the 2020s and 2030s Xiang Shan always considered himself a bookworm or nerd, his social skills were far above average, especially after becoming the director of a research institute under the United Nations International Project Office; this skill was greatly honed.

And in the future, his ability to navigate both the corporate world and international politics also owed something to this element.

Of course, objectively speaking, the extraordinary success of the Superman Enterprise was mainly due to the "capital" Yawgmoth unearthed being extremely substantial. But regardless, Xiang Shan’s decision-making, courage, insight, and communicative ability did not lag behind in this level of clash, which was already quite impressive.

After becoming a Hero, Xiang Shan’s "incitement ability" had also undergone significant training. Although Kotoba was assisting him all that time, he himself was equally capable of fanning flames and igniting the world.

On Mars, Xiang Shan discovered that this skill had improbably improved further.

At first, Xiang Shan had not noticed it. But he quickly realized that his audience was growing at an unexpected rate. As long as he expounded his views in public, he would surely win applause.

Gradually, he built a "behind-the-scenes force."

Among the Scientific Knights, there were also many who were his allies.

With the help of these cooperators, the Ninth Martial God continuously acquired more components, making the battle formations he controlled grow even larger.

And with their assistance, he also successfully located the "original secret data" that the mysterious Scientific Knight had described.

Ten years earlier, the one called "Eighth Martial God" had covertly conducted a series of research studies.

However, this unauthorized access seemed to have triggered some preset mechanism. The data was quickly and urgently taken offline. Afterwards, King Aqini even made a trip to Mars.

Luckily, the Scientific Knight Order was very averse to King Aqini, so he did not stay long.

And fortunately, during this time, Xiang Shan had used his Inner Strength to erase a great deal of traces.

Thus, this clandestine power of chivalry on Mars was able to be preserved.

But it was also for this reason that Xiang Shan understood why he had been born.

"If one does not seek a universal solution, but simply calculates for a specific target... ah, I see."