Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 794 - 39: The Six Dragons Assassin

Chapter 794: Chapter 39: The Six Dragons Assassin

No matter how you look at it, this conclusion was a bit too far-fetched.

The only evidence that Asgard could find were fleeting shadows in video footage and a series of recorded explosions.

Indeed, those records were rather blurry, and it was easy for one to misjudge the real speed of the culprit. However, these people were Martial Artists, not ones who could completely lose their sense of how "fast" something was.

The battle above and below the First Heavenly Layer should still be quite clear, shouldn’t it?

Yet Jeanne remained silent, dragging her through the town’s three-dimensional streets with what seemed like aimless wandering, but with anxious steps. She appeared to be confirming something at several locations.

Because of the Martial Artist culture of "leaving marks on the frost layer," residents above the road level in the Martial Arts School District rarely disturbed the layer of frost on the walls. Jeanne indeed saw the last impact recorded on the surface of these frost layers.

With each location they passed, Jeanne’s movements became more urgent.

She seemed to be growing increasingly anxious.

When Jeanne saw a piece of metallic fragment embedded in the frost layer, anxiety and fear reached their peak simultaneously.

"Damn it," Jeanne muttered.

"What on earth is happening..."

Jeanne generated magnetism between her fingers, lightly picked up the metallic fragment, and handed it to Asgard.

Asgard glanced at it, and the light color of her Prosthetic Eye suddenly changed. She pinched the metal and said, "This metal..."

"Mobile Cavalry usually use that type of External Armor. Back in our day, it was considered good equipment, limited to elite warriors, but now perhaps it’s equipped en masse."

Just a moment ago, the two had used lasers and magnetic fields to analyze the element composition and crystal structure from the cross-section of the metal fragment.

It closely resembled the Mobile Cavalry equipment they had seen before.

"The Mobile Cavalry were the ones crushed? This..." Asgard couldn’t help but feel as though reality was losing its tangibility...

"In fact, it wasn’t just one person who was destroyed, but seven or eight," Jeanne said, "That mysterious expert used an electromagnetic gun to weaken the outer integrity of the building... He measured his strength perfectly, just enough to penetrate two layers of alloy plate without causing greater damage to the streets behind. Then he charged in, and right after that, all the Mobile Cavalry were brought out..."

"Wait, wait!" Asgard quickly waved her hand, "That’s not right, is it? What do you mean by ’brought out’? Did that mysterious expert also raise a storm, blowing the other Mobile Cavalry away?"

This was no longer "Martial Arts." This was "Mythology."

"I don’t know, it must be some kind of unknown... no, it’s a special technology that has seen tremendous development over these two hundred years..." Jeanne continued sending her message, "I just checked the frost layer at several locations, and it’s exactly like that simulation predicted!"

"The imagery you shared can’t be reconstructed into ’a battle between two people.’ In fact, the battle wasn’t continuous... That mysterious expert took down one person in an extremely short time, then repeated this action eight to nine times. He wasn’t relying on the reactor’s output, but achieved all this merely with minimal propulsion assistance!"

"And then, the limbs of the defeated were quickly retrieved by others who were standing by. The whole process was very fast!"

Under Jeanne’s description, Asgard finally managed to vividly imagine the scene.

A mysterious shadow leapt down from a higher position. Several bright flashes of electricity shot around his body. That was the movement of an electromagnetic gun. The electromagnetic gun just happened to destroy the Mobile Cavalry’s stronghold, and then he broke right through the building...

His actions were smooth and flowing without a hint of discontinuity.

After that, the Mobile Cavalry was "brought out," scattering in mid-air, trying to escape...

In that instant, the shadow turned into a bright arc of electricity...

A series of explosive booms...

Those were not the sounds of gunfire, nor were they simply sonic booms. In fact, the battle itself was above the speed of sound, not that it frequently breached the sound barrier.

It was the sound of blunt instruments smashing prosthetic bodies.

Asgard said grudgingly, "I remember the Neutral City-State also has a few One Layer Heaven Martial Artists..."

"One Layer Heaven Martial Artists in space battles" possess a deterrent power not inferior to that of space warships. Especially in places like the Asteroid Belt, where countless small celestial bodies abound, smaller mass and greater mobility give prosthetic bodies a significant tactical advantage. And the cost difference between "warships" and "cutting-edge prostheses" is hundreds to thousands of times apart.

Among Ur’s original builders, it seems that there were individuals of that realm. Subsequently, the Neutral City-State also nurtured some martial artists from time to time. They’ve always placed great importance on training talents in this area.

Adding them all up, the "Neutral City-State" could also muster a small number of One Layer Heaven Martial Artists.

Jeanne said, "For the Neutral City-State, ’our One Layer Heaven Martial Artists killed a group of mobile cavalry’ is an event worth chronicling in detail. It can give the residents here a shared imaginative threat, the idea that ’our martial artists can repel enemies’—which is very helpful for them."

Asgard was half a beat slow to grasp the insinuation, "Indeed, that means..."

"The same goes for Heroes..."

It was not the Neutral City-State’s own forces, nor Heroes, that could annihilate a team of Rangers, but one Layer Heaven Martial Artists...

Jeanne only knew of one such power.

The Six Dragons Sect, that secretive organization lurking in the shadows.

Only they...

Jeanne came to the Neutral City-State in the Asteroid Belt to avoid the Protectors of Mars and the influence of the Six Dragons Sect, seeking survival in this chaotic place.

She had never imagined that the shadow from the darkness would appear before her in such a form just as she had finally glimpsed a ray of hope.

Clearly shocked by the news, Asgard followed Jeanne in silence.

Jeanne then sank her consciousness deep into her heart.

[If I were to give you control...]

[Impossible.] Tumor Xiang Shan answered quite bluntly, [Martial Arts can maximally narrow the gap in equipment and numbers, but it’s not an infinite adjustment. Even at my peak, I might not have been able to use an ordinary prosthetic body to defeat a One Layer Heaven prosthetic body. Martial Artists below the One Layer Heaven who fight against those from the First Layer Heavenly Land need exceptional martial arts, ample intelligence, and a detailed plan, or they might require specialty equipment. But now, we have at most "exceptional martial arts"—oh, by the way, I’m not the Xiang Shan at his peak either.]

[This...]

[Stay calm.] Tumor Xiang Shan still maintained that demeanor, [We share one life between us. I will certainly do everything in my power to keep you alive. Also, watch your back.]

A martial artist was stealthily closing in. To Jeanne’s slight relief, the person was only a little over 1.7 meters tall, which could not possibly accommodate a reactor.

Jeanne, with Asgard in tow, picked up the pace and fled towards the direction of the Hermo Association.

The martial artist was not shaken off, but was instead steadily closing in.

Asgard noticed the opponent as well and immediately gripped her weapon.