Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 714 - 358: The Last Battle of the Ninth Martial God (Part 1)

Chapter 714: Chapter 358: The Last Battle of the Ninth Martial God (Part 1)

[The Red Star Prosthetics Followers... originally the Mars Planetary Defense Corps, had been working underground for the previous several decades, all in anonymity. To avoid the Protectors’ insane retaliation, many of those involved chose to enter Saturn territory and work where the chivalrous power was most stable.]

[Moreover, compared to the belief in "a few ordinary people educating daily for decades," people were more inclined to believe "the Ninth Martial God could truly turn the tide of battle and make entire armies switch allegiances".]

[In reality, even without the Ninth Martial God, the Mars Planetary Defense Corps would have still switched sides at some point. At that time, they might not have done it as uniformly or as officially as they did. However, at most, the Ninth Martial God only shortened that process.]

[But everyone wanted to believe it. Thus, in the presence of the Ninth Martial God, everyone became inexplicably easy to persuade—because they genuinely believed that the Ninth Martial God could convince them, and being convinced by the Ninth Martial God was nothing to be ashamed of!]

This is the greatest legend of the Ninth Martial God, and also the most false myth.

Despite many knowing the truth behind the events, they rarely made an effort to emphasize this due to certain considerations for propaganda or their personal hero worship of the Ninth Martial God.

Ordinary people preferred stories with a legendary hue.

Of course, in the short term, this is probably beneficial too.

After this, Xiang Shan went beyond the Asteroid Belt and found many Heroes.

Then there was that concert known to all humankind.

Actually, there wasn’t anything too remarkable about it. After finalizing the event, Xiang Shan had made preparations in advance.

Although King Aqini spent most of his time on the Moon, he visited Jupiter territory every few years. This was to upgrade and maintain the government’s intelligent system in Jupiter territory and also to suppress the chivalrous forces in the area. By calculating his fleet’s trajectory and the rotational status of the Lightspeed Highway in advance, it was possible to determine his route and then blow up the interstellar signal relay equipment and the fleet’s laser pulse signal stations near his path at the right moment.

Once King Aqini was inside the Asteroid Belt, he would be forced offline.

The reason the online concert went undisturbed was just that simple. The Black Ship Righteous Followers and other Great Heroes had jointly breached several stations, disconnecting King Aqini’s network.

Ingrid was able to temporarily suppress most of the network forces, and the Internal experts hiding in various regions also made their move at the same time.

This type of event could happen once, but not twice. If the government invested resources inside the Asteroid Belt to construct a more stable communication network, and increased the number of mobile fleets near communication equipment, the same thing couldn’t happen a second time.

And that concert ultimately became a memory for a generation.

Several old Heroes, aged over one hundred and fifty, were once again moved and agreed to assist the Ninth Martial God.

So, by this stage, the most astonishing assassination plan in history had officially taken shape.

Xiang Shan and the League of Heroes reached Venus in advance. The extremely dense atmosphere of Venus and its perpetual sulfuric acid cloud layers meant that the Space-Based Weapons network lacked monitoring and targeting capabilities, allowing the existence of large mobile communities. Those most elite members of the League would join forces with the local Venus Heroes first.

The second step, the Heroes from various locations in the Asteroid Belt, would push some small celestial bodies towards the sun. The orbits of these celestial bodies were precisely calculated so that they wouldn’t be captured by Mars, Earth, Venus, or Mercury. The planetary gravitational fields would alter the trajectories of some small bodies, causing them to come very close in the end.

And at the time when the meteorites approached the sun, the Godspeed Court would be at a very distant location, making it impossible for the King of Godspeed to come to the rescue in time.

As these small asteroids approached the orbit of Venus, the elite assassination team of Heroes would assist the Venusian Hero community in a widespread assassination of Venus’s Protector high-level military officers and seize the Space Elevator.

After entering orbit, Xiang Shan would quickly clear out the Venus Fleet and the satellite network.

Afterwards, Xiang Shan would quietly depart and converge with those small celestial bodies with diameters of five to ten meters.

He would hide behind those small celestial bodies, stealthily approaching the sun.

Celestial bodies of this size regularly impact various celestial objects, with negligible effects on the planetary environment.

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For the three planets with atmospheres, an object of this size would burn up almost completely within the atmosphere. And within Satellite City, there was also enough capability to destroy a meteorite of this size at close range.

The government wouldn’t even pay much attention to an object of this size—after all, there were tens of thousands of asteroids with a diameter of five kilometers, so why monitor a tiny thing with a diameter of just five meters?

The Ninth Martial God had thus carried dozens of prosthetic bodies and a small number of comrades towards the sun.

In the meantime, silence was maintained, waiting patiently.

Until more than a month later.

The asteroid cluster approached the Throne.

At this moment, the sun occupied the entire field of view. That sphere, emitting endless light and heat, was releasing boundless energy.

At this moment, it seemed as if everyone was enveloped in light. Although very faint, the white light visible to the Prosthetic Eye indeed appeared behind them.

This was the solar atmosphere.

The low-melting-point substances on the meteorite’s surface had already sublimated into a prominent trail. In the Heroes’ eyes, the edges of the meteorite beneath their feet emitted a soaring column of light.

Amidst this brilliance, Xiang Shan gave a thumbs up to old friends like Tao Enhai.

"I’ll be back," Xiang Shan indicated.

The Heroes nodded and charged towards the rear.

At this distance, the density of Space Cities was high, and the chances of going undetected were very low. But the Heroes’ infiltration route was carefully chosen. At least for a short while, they didn’t have to face the main fleet.

They were only up against the defense forces of various cities.

However, Xiang Shan couldn’t control the prosthetic bodies from too far away. The delay would be too high to allow for combat.

The comrades would withstand the pursuit.

Xiang Shan tore off the Camouflage Net, broke away from the meteorite, and charged forward.

In that instant, the protective magnetic field was deployed. The powerful magnetism collided with charged particles in the solar wind, coating the entire prosthetic body in a thin but resplendent layer of light.

The storm whipped past at hundreds of kilometers per second.

And Xiang Shan was closing in on the sun at ten times that speed.

Xiang Shan’s target was that massive Shadow—the Dyson Cloud, countless huge, thin, black man-made objects. They resembled a black layer of clouds, orbiting the sun at high speeds.

Xiang Shan saw a faint column of light.

Like an invisible divine sword slicing through the mechanical swarm, both of Xiang Shan’s prosthetic bodies exploded in an instant.

That was a laser. The energy harvested by the Dyson Cloud would be converted into lasers, providing energy for the mining and transport troops on Mercury and supplying many Space Cities within the Mars orbit. Numerous Relay Stations and Deflection Stations acted like an "irrigation system," channeling this energy into the entire Protector System.

Of course, it could also be used as a weapon.

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