Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 760 - 6 Kings Meeting [Part 3]

Chapter 760: Chapter 6 Kings Meeting [Part 3]

The Newborn Mars Defense Corps was a reformed planetary defense force formed after the original Mars Defense Corps rebelled and became the Red Star Prosthetics Followers. Due to past experiences, the higher-ups intentionally reduced the scale and firepower of this corps’ fleet and enhanced the construction of orbital barracks.

Mars is too close to the Asteroid Belt, and the Scientific Knights are too undisciplined, which breeds sin. The revolt led by the Ninth Martial God, ostensibly arose from "a whim within a small group of Scientific Knights" — a reason that the Ninth Martial God believed because it was very real at that time.

Within the community of Scientific Knights, small groups sympathetic to Heroes colluded with officers, forming a faction of insubordinates. Such occurrences are difficult to prevent.

The vigilance towards the Mars Defense Corps indeed needs to be greater.

Still, even with fewer ships, the Newborn Mars Defense Corps remains a complete main planetary force.

It may not be able to confront its predecessor, now the Red Star Prosthetics Followers, head-on, yet it is sufficient to stand against Earth Heroes.

Due to King Aqini’s interference, Earth is one of the hardest regions in the Solar System for heroic activities. The influence of Earth Heroes is also relatively weak.

Regarding this proposition, Aqini outright rejected it, "I find it hard to trust Martian forces."

King Aqini and nearly all factions on Mars don’t quite get along. Mars is the major base for Scientific Knights, with their Hall of Saints located there. Since the incident with the Eighth Martial God, the dispute between King Aqini and the Galapagos Sanctuary has been too significant to mediate. King Aqini’s subsequent attitude prompted the Scientific Knights to band together on this issue.

Moreover, there’s the relationship between King Aqini and his successor, Conquest Heavenly King...

Zhuan Leibin shifted his gaze elsewhere. The Brave King and the Heavenly God King did the same.

Conquest Heavenly King seemed accustomed to this situation. He calmly said, "The interstellar deployment capability of the Newborn Mars Defense Corps is too weak, truly unsuitable for such missions. And I personally don’t believe I have the ability to lead a fleet to break through the blockade of the Black Ship Righteous Followers. I agree with King Aqini’s opinion."

Among the Kings, more than one hoped for a new friction between Conquest Heavenly King and King Aqini. Conquest Heavenly King, a replacement among the Kings, was originally a Hero. He naturally differs from the original military Kings.

More importantly, more than one harbored suspicions that the Father of Machines had placed the Ninth Martial God on Mars originally to eliminate the War God King to make room for Conquest Heavenly King.

It was said that Conquest Heavenly King initially hoped to control the borders and, ideally, enable him to bring an engineering team and sufficient resources to develop within the Oort Cloud. The Scientific Knight Order’s Sanctuaries could also move to the borders, merely conducting academic exchanges via data express.

However, with the rise of the Seventh Martial God, this hope ultimately fell through. As the supervisor of the Scientific Knight Order, Conquest Heavenly King had to choose Mars. Among the terrestrial planets, Mars is also smaller — its volume is only about 15% that of Earth.

The domain of the War God King, of course, included all space structures near the orbit of Mars. But among these structures, many belong to the Scientific Knight Order and are under the jurisdiction of Conquest Heavenly King.

This relationship also resulted in ongoing friction between Conquest Heavenly King and the War God King.

The War God King also had plans to secretly collude with other Kings to form alliances. Perhaps this is the direct reason the Father of Machines chose to sacrifice him. But most of the Kings feel that had Conquest Heavenly King not been forced onto Mars, the War God King might not have entertained such thoughts.

"The Gene Bank is located near the Venus Orbit," stated King Aqini: "I don’t think any fleet can reach there."

"But the local Heroes of Venus remain a problem."

"Heroes won’t bomb the Gene Bank," King Aqini emphasized.

Zhuan Leibin said, "Your Majesty believes that we cannot entrust human safety to human reasoning. Just because Heroes have previously shown a certain level of adherence to rules, it doesn’t mean they will abide by those rules under any circumstances. My purpose is to combat possible folly."

"The Svalbard Corps wouldn’t likely be fully deployed. If I must act, I’ll choose to first strike at the local Heroes of Venus to curb their momentum."

"However, I personally will lead the future fleet first to the Asteroid Belt."

The Protector’s major advantage is numbers. With an absolute advantage in resources, they could rely on extremely low combat casualties to gradually build an advantage until victory is secured.

The Sixth Martial God and the Seventh Martial God advanced triumphantly, but their fleets quickly collapsed once they crossed a certain critical point.

The reason why the Heavenly God King and the Brave King were so agitated was that the White Fleet Prosthetics Followers had already invaded their area of responsibility.

In fact, they hardly needed to worry about dying. The White Fleet Prosthetics Followers belonged to the Deep Space Fleet, not the Aerospace Fleet, and could not penetrate into Jupiter’s gravitational field, let alone possess the capability to fight in the violent atmospheres of Gas Giants. The most important units under the Brave King’s direct command were the Aerospace Fleets, "Wing God" and "Fury".

Even if the situation deteriorated further, they could still retreat into the Jupiter atmosphere at critical moments.

This was also why Zhuan Leibin felt no urgency whatsoever.

With the situation of the newly risen Martial God unclear, Zhuan Leibin also had no intention of confronting the Twelfth Martial God until things became clear.

Moreover, the Twelfth Martial God was born on Earth, born within the territory of King Aqini.

The King of the Firmament and the Equality King also expressed similar thoughts. Meanwhile, they also proposed the idea that they hoped the King of Godspeed could go to Earth to defeat the new Martial God.

The King of Godspeed naturally refused with the reason "not interested".

The Heavenly God King and the Brave King were somewhat angry from not receiving enough support, but they were psychologically prepared for this and thus remained to discuss the military operations timetable with the other Kings.

Then, the two Kings at the frontlines immediately went offline, expressing their dissatisfaction.

Immediately after, King Aqini directly addressed the King of Godspeed, "Wait a moment, Your Highness. There is a message I hope you can personally deliver to His Majesty."

Everyone knew that the King of Godspeed would leave immediately after the meeting ended. Also, during the operation period of Godspeed Court, the King of Godspeed did not accept personal communications; intelligence could only be presented by his Staff Group.

To get him to do something himself, it had to be done this way— and it had to involve Yawgmoth.

The King of Godspeed looked at King Aqini. King Aqini said, "This message involves some inside information, I will deliver it directly to you through a secure channel. You can pass it on to His Majesty yourself."

Haya paused, nodded, seemingly already aware of the intelligence.

Subsequently, he also disappeared.

The other Kings gradually ended the conversation.

In the end, only His Highness Conquest Heaven King and King Aqini were still in conversation.

Finally, Hartman looked at the Conquest Heaven King, "Do not think just because you are curled up in your own toy castles that you are a harmless creature, Your Highness Conquest Heaven King."

The Conquest Heaven King said, "I just did as you wished. You commanded my forces not to go to Earth, so I did not go. Do you have any further complaints?"

"I cannot trust you," King Aqini said, "And indeed, you are not trustworthy. This time, your desire for battle is still so low."

"It’s also a fact that the Newborn Mars Defense Force have weak deployment capabilities, and I am not skilled in the Military Martial Path," the Conquest Heaven King still maintained his unflustered tone, "The current commander of the Black Ship Righteous Followers can be counted as Xiang Shan’s disciple, huh... hehe."

"’Not being able to do your best’ and ’doing nothing’ are two different concepts," King Aqini said, "And even if you appear utterly harmless... only your toys will forgive you."

"David Klein."