Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 939 - 174 Victory or Defeat

Chapter 939: Chapter 174 Victory or Defeat

Everyone knows that metal fragments can be used to destroy turbo systems. However, just like the ancient fable of the mouse planning to hang a bell around the cat’s neck, those who think of it often cannot accomplish it.

The Holy Lord’s body is covered with turbo systems, with large targets but only a few places can actually be used for attack. These places are often at tricky angles, like "around the neck" or "wrist areas," making them difficult to attack.

The Holy Lord’s stance also fully considers this, deliberately covering his few remaining weaknesses.

But the Martial God Xiang Shan managed to do it twice.

The first time, the Holy Lord had the upper hand. He judged that there was "no need for defense."

The second time, Xiang Shan completely dismantled the Holy Lord’s stance with raw violence. His unparalleled strength contorted the Holy Lord’s actions, making it impossible to maintain his original posture or adjust his stance in time.

Then, he struck successfully in one move.

In the last moment before entering the water, the Martial God Xiang Shan crippled the Holy Lord’s greatest reliance underwater!

The Sagittarius’s body and the Twelve Martial Gods’ original Prosthetic Body are not types that emphasize weight. In an overhead strike, he was sent flying. The seawater behind the Holy Lord was blasted up by the aftermath, as if a bomb had been buried inside.

This strike accelerated the submarine’s tilt, creating a noticeable slope in the ground. The mist from the shattered and drawn-up water vapor in the tunnel above condensed into droplets, falling like rain at this moment.

From a diagonal upward angle, Xiang Shan activated the Vector Injectors on his back, flapping elegantly like a butterfly.

Then he dived like an osprey.

The Holy Lord barely escaped the ruined ground beneath his feet, continuing to slide into the water. Despite the damage to the turbo system, which prevented him from performing Blast Wind-like attacks in the sea as before, the seawater imposed greater limitations on the enemy. The enemy’s foundation was ultimately a land combat Prosthetic Body, with many components unusable underwater. Even with the Sagittarius body’s plugin, it was merely about massive power consumption to gain high speed behind a shell created by a spear and shield.

In this narrow underwater environment, his heavy Prosthetic Body still held a significant advantage!

But how could the Martial God allow him to enter the water comfortably?

The Magnetic Chain Weapon had already straightened, piercing into the water first.

The Holy Lord immediately leaned back. As expected, the Magnetic Chain Weapon was weaving a trap behind him.

Gloomy Style Type One: Wild Beast Trap.

Because Xiang Shan had removed most of the Magnetic Chain Weapons to lighten his weight, he was left with only two. Adding to that his excessive distance and short preparation time, the Magnetic Chain Weapons couldn’t form a more complex array before the Holy Lord broke them directly. The Holy Lord was also hit off balance. But his hand touched a hidden button at the wall edge. An interface appeared on each side of the wall. The Holy Lord immediately connected his hands’ interfaces with them.

Then, he was locked by a Magnetic Chain Weapon. The immense force suddenly exploded, pulling him upward.

As the Magnetic Chain Weapon buckled under the weight and broke, the Holy Lord was flung out of the submerged tunnel, out of the rolling seawater.

At this moment, Xiang Shan suddenly activated all the Vector Injectors. The terrifying energy stored in chemical form from fuel consumption, unleashed alongside the exertion of his legs, forcibly pulled the Holy Lord up.

However, the Holy Lord showed no intent to retreat. His elbows tucked under his ribs, his fists gathering together.

At this moment, a pair of shields appeared in his hands.

This pair of shields resembled Kite Shields in shape but differed in that their tip’s direction aligned with the Holy Lord’s fists. The tip of the spikes was shockingly the Armor-Piercing Bullet head known as the "white flame flame-tip spear" in melee weapon terminology.

The interior of these shields contained a certain amount of fuel and accelerants, capable of providing terrifying impact force in an extremely brief period.

In this instant, the Holy Lord used them at full capacity. A thin blue flame visually erupted from behind the Holy Lord, pushing him forward.

Together with the impact force brought by the Martial God, he charged forward.

At this moment, the Martial God’s stance was somewhat awkward. Most of his Vector Injectors were at the back, so in the instant he dragged the Holy Lord out, he was back to the enemy. "Closing one side of the injectors" could indeed perform a quick turn, but reaction and body processing still required time.

The Holy Lord had been delaying, and he didn’t expect that the Holy Lord intended to settle the battle out of the water.

The Holy Lord utilized the power of the Martial God’s forceful pull, combined with the thrust from the shields, turning himself into a Meteor stabbing forth.

But the Martial God was a Martial God in the end. He sidestepped, thrusting a spear straight at the Holy Lord’s midline.

The Holy Lord’s left arm horizontal, blocking diagonally with the shield. After preventing this move, his entire body shifted direction, tilting to the right. His left shield pressed onto the Martial God’s long spear, sparking fireworks like friction, his feet stepping on the right wall, ceiling, and left wall in a spiral, killing towards the Martial God.

His right shield overexerted output.

But at that moment, another shield pressed over.

Xiang Shan still had several shields. These shields were held by auxiliary mechanical arms, folded tightly on his back or side. Before this, nearly no Martial God from the Six Dragons Sect could force Xiang Shan to actively defend, not even the Holy Lord, who Xiang Shan fully suppressed, without needing to use them.

However, it was not that Xiang Shan couldn’t.

Even Magnetic Chain Weapons "completely unlike human limbs," Xiang Shan could use like his own limbs; not to mention mere auxiliary mechanical arms?

The mechanical arm slid aside the Holy Lord’s desperate counterattack.

The fuel within the Holy Lord’s shield was about to run out.

At this moment, the Holy Lord’s shield expelled two clouds of silvery-black mist. Under magnetic control, the two clouds rapidly dispersed at a speed defying mechanical intuition.

—This was the final strike! Metal aerosol would block vision, so there was no worry of the opponent suddenly using Inner Strength...

—Only needed to use a mutual destruction move here...

—Disorder...

Suddenly, a bright light flooded the Holy Lord’s vision. He was struck by an unexpected force, his entire body thrown back, fixed against the wall.

Then...

It was probably that his neck got pierced.

Machines didn’t have pain perception. He only felt it from the damage self-check report.

After the camera rebooted, the Holy Lord understood what happened.

Two hands...or rather, two hands with shoulders, struck him from both sides. The Vector Injectors ignited the metal aerosol, an unexpected situation that required the AI to expend extra resources to comprehend.

As a weapon plugin, the Sagittarius was certainly detachable.