Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 734 - 378: Burn My Broken Body [Part Three]

Chapter 734: Chapter 378: Burn My Broken Body [Part Three]

White Night Lux, like a "backboard," changed her form in midair and dodged the five punches coming head-on from Taurus. The fierce waves caused by the fists even slightly affected her figure, but White Night Lux had calculated even this minor detail. Simultaneously as her body shook slightly, she thrust her long spear like lightning.

All high-level military officers in Paradox City could summon the Ninth Martial God’s Martial Arts Algorithm for training at any time. This style, reverse-engineered by Yawgmoth, was exceedingly close to Xiang Shan’s Martial Studies.

Xiang Shan could change the AI pattern of the Ninth Martial God as fast as lightning. However, most of the Martial Arts Algorithms he had were formatted to match the human brain. Even if there were Martial Studies suitable for AI use—like the ones used to usurp control of a prosthetic body’s rights with the Inner Strength of the Eighth Martial God—they were incompatible with the Ninth Martial God’s hardware architecture. To defend against internal martial artists like Ingrid, the Ninth Martial God’s hardware was exceptionally unconventional.

Even with a bunch of last-minute patches deployed by Xiang Shan, the Ninth Martial God’s Martial Arts Algorithms couldn’t be radically altered.

And the high-level military officers of Paradox City had, at a minimum, spent years in targeted practice with the Ninth Martial God’s Martial Arts Algorithms.

The "Taurus" Xiang Shan’s attempt to organize a punch to keep the opponent at bay had been completely ineffective.

The blade of White Night Lux’s Sonicon Blade was less than fifty centimeters long, belonging to the especially compact variety. The spear point easily pierced the sound barrier, even casting a brief glare—that was the light radiation released when the air at the spear tip could not escape in time and was compressed and heated.

Taurus had no choice but to deplete precious fuel, using the Vector Injectors on his shoulders to duck down.

White Night Lux missed her thrust. However, her elbow had already released a second Sonicon Blade fragment 0.1 second in advance. This blade also slid along the magnetic track and lodged itself in an opening at the front of the weapon.

The weapon transformed from a long spear into a Halberd.

The Sonicon Blade "cuts at a touch," and there’s no need to pursue "hacking in." While there is an extremely high demand for the consistency of the "power angle" and "blade angle," the "angle of attack" is very free. The angle chosen by White Night Lux was very clever. The second blade fragment was launched from behind the long spear as a cover. There were no cameras positioned to bypass this angle for "Taurus," and the metal aerosol environment made it impossible to borrow external cameras.

When White Night Lux retracted her long spear, he reached out to grab it, hoping to gain control of the weapon. But White Night Lux simply turned her hand, adjusted the angle, and the Sonicon Blade directly breached Taurus’s gauntlet.

Then, with a vigorous pull, the "twig" of the Halberd—the second blade fragment—shattered directly. White Night Lux retracted her own weapon.

Caught off guard by this change in tactics, Taurus Xiang Shan once again missed with his preemptive strike. His right hand was utterly destroyed, with no movement left in the entire palm.

As White Night Lux retracted her weapon, her wrist synchronized the output of a new blade fragment for the long halberd. She only retracted the long spear halfway before swiftly altering her move, striking with a direct thrust.

With nowhere to dodge, Taurus lunged forward, throwing a punch.

White Night Lux was sent flying, her lower body shattered by the blow. Meanwhile, Taurus was impaled by the spear, a wound "growing" on his shoulder, penetrating his entire chest, and spreading to his back.

Knowing he didn’t have much time left, Taurus sought to chase down and end the life of the high-level military officer. But a thicker cloud of metal aerosol came at him without warning—those thin metal aerosols formed a kind of concealment. These metal particles, endowed with momentum and magnetism, poured into Taurus’s wound and immediately caused multiple short circuits.

——Many years ago, someone jokingly named this technique "Starlight Extinction"...

Taurus’s body stiffened, and in his roar, he was hit by a rocket.

The high temperature of the bomb cleared a patch of the metal aerosol. In this cleared atmosphere, White Night Lux struggled to her feet. A dedicated maintenance team arrived early, bringing new parts to meet her.

Even with her biological brain unharmed, White Night Lux could quickly regenerate fighting strength, even if her entire body was crushed three times over.

A military officer emerged from the metal aerosol, intending to inquire about the situation. This high-level military officer, who focused on internal strength, did not join the battle directly but concentrated on coding and transmitting audio signals of teammates to command the battle.

Actually, it had been the seamless cooperation of three high-level military officers that unexpectedly surrounded and tried to assassinate "Taurus."

White Night Lux was about to voice her complaints when fear suddenly overwhelmed her.

A gigantic black shadow emerged from the thin silver mist. Since the oxygen content around was rapidly depleted, the metal aerosol had long ceased burning. The black shadow appeared as if no one else was present.

If her prosthetic body were capable of making expressions, White Night Lux might have signaled with a "radical change in expression"... No, that’s not right, facial muscles too require reaction time. White Night Lux had just begun to feel panic when a gigantic diamond-coated saw weapon cruelly decapitated the military officer.

Bits of the weapon and shards of external armor sprayed in all directions as several bullets blew up the head.

"Virgo" also did not forget to shoot a few bullets into the spot the head flew off from, to prevent the officer from hiding their brain somewhere else.

The destruction brought about by a short-term loss of fusion control was enough to kill the biological brain hidden inside the torso.

The last roar of "Taurus" was also a coded message. When Xiang Shan updated the heavy equipment systems, he didn’t forget to upgrade the encryption application, adding several codes the Protectors had not mastered.

In the last moment, Taurus extracted the enemy’s communication method from the background noise—frankly, this was quite difficult. For a universe using a prosthetic body, an "auditory signal receiver" is not a standard feature. The Ninth Martial God incorporated prosthetic ears into the prosthetic body as much as possible, based on the concept of a singer. To him, these external prosthetic bodies could also be a part of "music."

The Ninth Martial God had originally planned to hold a farewell concert using the remaining prosthetic bodies after a successful "final coronal assassination."

But even so, more than half of the Twelve Zodiacs lacked hearing.

It goes without saying that the Twelve Zodiacs also lacked detection equipment based on ultrasound or infrasound.

All detection methods used by the Twelve Zodiacs could be easily shielded by metal aerosol.

Lian Yunhui expanded the metal aerosol almost instantaneously. Without waiting for White Night Lux to complete her equipment preparation, he kicked her away.

White Night Lux, suspended mid-air, heard a clamorous noise. Her exclusive readiness unit had been completely wiped out.

Within the mist, "Virgo" sang high, "There are days that I think I’m crazy[There are days that I think I’ve lost my mind]

Other days nothing seems to faze me[Other days it seems nothing bothers me]

There’s nothing more and nothing less just[There’s nothing extra and nothing missing, that’s all]"