Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 756 - 2 The 200 Years of the Kings

Chapter 756: Chapter 2 The 200 Years of the Kings

Half a month ago, a significant event occurred on Earth.

The Ninth Martial God emerged from Paradox City and identified the hero in front of him as Xiang Shan.

At the same time, a master of the Internal school, suspected to be from the Turing lineage, took action, destroying Earth’s space-based weapons network.

After this, the Ninth Martial God engaged in fierce battle with all the Protectors of Paradox City. Only one high-ranking officer managed to escape. Due to the Supervising Battle Officer Mechanism, no soldiers retreated before the officers’ collapse.

The entire stationed force in Paradox City was crippled, many units were annihilated completely.

The Ninth Martial God also paid a heavy price in this process, half of the top Prosthetic Bodies sealed with him were destroyed by ground forces.

After this, the Ninth Martial God charged into space and collided head-on with King Aqini’s fleet, managing to break through the barrage with outstanding evasive capabilities, and destroyed nearly one-tenth of the fleet’s power.

King Aqini later confirmed that all the mech units of the Ninth Martial God in space were malfunctioning, and one unit had left the battlefield.

A top-level mech had fallen into the hands of the Twelfth Martial God.

Although that one unit was a product of cutting-edge technology from numerous labs sixty years ago and was still considered top-tier forty years ago, today it is regarded as a second-tier product.

But this "second-tier product" also depends on who uses it.

Today’s top-level mechs indeed vastly outperform that one. However, the Martial Ancestor’s miraculous Martial Arts cultivation is enough to bridge the gap.

Martial techniques are about using reproducible information to reverse and subvert the gap in materials and equipment as much as possible.

Romance King Zhuan Leibin has fully awakened. He activated the magnetism system of his Prosthetic Body, landing on the ground as though pulled by gravity.

New information ignited the shadows in his heart, bringing forth memories from two hundred years ago bit by bit.

Martial Arts is the technology of overturning strength and weakness.

It is precisely because of this, when the then-unhonored Father of Innumerable Machines held that absolute authority and the balance of Libra tipped slowly towards him, everyone under his command tread on thin ice.

What did a momentary power gap count for? The advantage they had then was far less than the greatest gap between heroes and the Usurpers of the State.

Luckily, the Martial Ancestor was too hasty in the end.

At that time, His Majesty, not yet honored as the Father of Innumerable Machines, gradually revoked the Martial Ancestor’s "authority." When both could instantly kill all Usurpers of the State’s martial forces in sight, the soldiers entangled by the Usurpers had no choice but to remain neutral.

If they were to be slaughtered by one side, they would just have to accept their fate.

The Father of Innumerable Machines would not massacre his future forces. And the Martial Ancestor at that time did not resolve to slaughter all the armed forces of the Usurpers of the State.

Xiang Shan’s access to authority was not complete, and Hartman released a patch temporarily. Xiang Shan could either kill in batches directly or use non-specific commands—but since he didn’t fully understand these commands, he was unable to gauge the extent of their impact.

More importantly, at that time, the armed forces of the Usurpers, though legitimate armed forces of various nations, had not yet committed acts of war, merely deceived, implicated, and coerced by the Usurpers.

In Xiang Shan’s view, these soldiers were also innocent individuals who needed to be liberated.

And they were numerous.

Due to the secret war and the Chivalrous Movement, human society under the control of the Usurpers was provoked—various legitimate armed forces expanded year by year. By the time the two had a fallout, this number had grown to fifty million.

Most of these fifty million were filled with the ideal of serving their country and safeguarding the peace of their homeland.

But as time passed, the research work of Yawgmoth was destined to push this batch of arms towards Yawgmoth.

To prevent this power from being controlled by Yawgmoth, one would have to be resolute in slaughtering these fifty million people who had not yet committed crimes.

Perhaps the gradually intensifying oppression had pierced through the heart of the Martial Ancestor. On the eve of his authority expiring, the Martial Ancestor commanded the Chivalrous Power to disperse and stall the military forces already controlled by Yawgmoth, performing for the last time the heroic epic of a single person breaking through tens of thousands of troops.

Unfortunately, Yawgmoth and the Usurper of the State were ultimately two different types of individuals. From the very beginning of the establishment of righteousness, Yawgmoth had been involved in countless assassinations. His combat experience was almost no different from that of the Martial Ancestor, and he had the assistance of Master Hartman by his side.

At this level, Martial Artists might battle for hundreds of moves without a clear winner, but any one of these moves could potentially decide victory or defeat in an instant.

With barely any gap in martial arts and prosthetic body, if one seized the right moment and environment, there was also a chance to vanquish the opponent with a single move.

Even though that was two hundred years ago... even though that battle had been won in the end...

But Zhuan Leibin could never forget the fear of that instant.

When the Martial Ancestor broke through the warship’s armor and entered the fleet, he was nearby. Thus, the hero who swiftly annihilated the armed forces inside the ship with his silvery shadow left an extremely deep impression on him.

Like flames, like a storm, like dew, like death...

Even at that time, he truly felt his side was going to lose.

However, the people Yawgmoth gathered included those who had placed all their bets on him and those who were there purely out of personal loyalty. There were also those who simply hoped to end the chaos sooner, so they chose the one who ostensibly had more power.

Therefore, Zhuan Leibin barely assembled a group of officers and rushed to assist.

They had indeed bet correctly. In that instant, they proved their loyalty.

The "Kings" were decided at that time.

Then, just a few decades later, things changed.

The Holy Duke King was slain by a terrorist claiming to be a "Martial God" in Jupiter’s Parsifal Satellite Group.

"Xiang Shan" returned to the surface once more in the form of the undead.

And Yawgmoth also gradually transformed in the struggle against the Chivalrous Power...

Then, half a century ago, Zhuan Leibin realized that their loyalty back then seemed to mean nothing in today’s world.

The War God King was slain by the Ninth Martial God. And the true nature of the Ninth Martial God...

Perhaps the people who had stormed into the command bridge back then only had "loyalty" as a common trait. Yawgmoth probably didn’t care for some of those people from the start, but circumstances at the time prevented him from showing it.

Moreover, this time’s information was indeed absurd.

The Martial Ancestor would not tolerate the emergence of a Martial God. Martial Gods also repelled the birth of other Martial Gods.

A Martial God would not acknowledge others as being from Xiang Shan.

The Romance King even suspected that this whole affair was another self-directed drama.

After all, Master Hartman was the only one among the Kings who had been involved in the drama from the beginning.

With such doubts, the Romance King entered a special dedicated server.