Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 961 - 197: Ah This

Chapter 961: Chapter 197: Ah This

Inzewei sighed, "I didn’t assess the risks well in advance. I led everyone down this path..."

Yuki shook her head slightly, "This is not your fault at all."

"Analyzed rationally, that may be the case," Inzewei said. "But ultimately, I bear responsibility. Since everyone is willing to trust me, I should shoulder this responsibility. If others lose their lives because of it, then this burden should be mine to bear."

Yuki closed her eyes, and the words Xiang Shan once said flashed in her mind.

[Don’t be too hard on yourself, young ones, don’t doubt. Many times, your misfortune is the fault of the world.]

—Though it sounds like avoiding responsibility, like passing the buck, but...

—It seems...

—There’s at least some truth in it, right?

Yuki said, "The Martial Ancestor also said, ’This is the world’s fault’..."

Inzewei looked skeptical, "The Martial Ancestor would say such a thing?"

Yuki replied, "He certainly would. The Martial Ancestor’s youth was very different from his later years. You might have seen some memories of the Martial Ancestor, but without this understanding, it would be mostly in vain."

"Is, is that so?" Inzewei was nearly convinced by Yuki’s expert-like confidence about the Martial Ancestor’s history, his instincts as a Research Knight Apprentice almost making him yield.

"If the world were correct, then many tragedies would not occur, and many dilemmas would never exist. No one would need to ’choose’..." Yuki sat across from Inzewei, "There is no savior in the world, therefore, one should not attribute everything to oneself."

Inzewei was taken aback, "Ah... our Order of Knights mentors would surely say that someone who says this is a coward..."

Yuki quickly retorted, "I guess those cowards won’t dare stand in front of the one who said it... no, if it were the Martial God, he would probably say, ’These people are beneficiaries of the distorted system, there’s no need to overly blame them, reality will make them wake up one day.’"

This was not Yuki fabricating famous quotes for Xiang Shan. Xiang Shan had indeed told him, "If you want to persuade someone with reasonable words, just tell them I said that bullshit"—as the senior disciple, he always had some privileges...

Hmm, perhaps not the senior disciple. But right now, no one in the sect is more experienced than he is, right?

Inzewei actually laughed loudly.

She patted Yuki on the shoulder, "You’re something else... thinking about it, the Martial Ancestor might just say something like that when he gets old."

—Hmm... to be honest, he really minds when people call him old...

Yuki couldn’t help but think.

"Alright, after hearing what you said, I feel relieved too..." Inzewei reached out and patted Yuki’s shoulder, "Alright, let’s leave it at that. You still need to keep thinking about defense issues, and I have to continue learning how to manage sect affairs."

Seeing Inzewei leaving, Yuki said, "Sect Leader Song, wait."

"Hmm? What is it?"

"That Martial Ancestor’s memory..." Yuki said, "Could you give me a copy?"

His master previously avoided the Martial Ancestor’s memory, believing that the so-called Martial Ancestor’s memory labyrinth was truly a labyrinth of prejudice formed by others, an evil thing used to trap the souls of future humans.

After acquiring the memories of the Eighth Martial God, he changed his view on it. But the memories of the Eighth Martial God were not complete either.

The Ninth Martial God did complete most of the memories for his master, but there were still gaps.

Even though his master could access that memory labyrinth through the internet to complete his memory, these days, King Aqini was watching closely.

This new set of Martial Ancestor’s memories might be able to help his master.

"Oh, you’re really interested in this?" Inzewei crossed both arms over her chest, continually eyeing Yuki, "Do you... plan to become a Martial God?"

Yuki quickly shook her head, "That’s impossible."

Joking, with such thoughts, he would be expelled from the sect.

Inzewei said, "It’s not that I’m being stingy, nor that I’m exaggerating to scare you. That memory is real and seems to possess some demonic nature—can you understand this Old Era term, demonic nature?"

Yuki nodded emphatically, "I surely understand..."

"Overall, you should be cautious with this."

She said this, but Inzewei still tossed out that storage device, "But, if you are mentally prepared, taking a look shouldn’t hurt. After all, it is that particular part... the origin of external strength."

Yuki caught that storage device and inserted it into his interface smoothly.

There were several files inside. Yuki copied them unreservedly.

Then, he tossed the storage device back, "Thanks."

Yuki smoothly opened one of the files.

Then, he saw...

A ring.

That should be called a ring, right? In this memory, it was an unprecedented ring. On the territory of a Pacific Island Country, a mega-corporation organized an unprecedented fighting tournament.

The challenger set the rules, and the defender followed the challenger’s rules to defend the ring.

Amid some uplifting and sacred music, a young man in a black and gold robe walked slowly into the ring, in the most conventional manner, boldly walked to the corner of the ring that belonged to him, and awaited the referee to announce the start of the match.

Strangely, his modification rate was less than fifty percent, and there was still a considerable amount of skin visible to the naked eye.

His modified areas seemed to include only regions like the legs, hands, waist, and neck.

From today’s martial artist’s perspective, a martial artist with such a low modification rate would have no chance of stepping onto the ring.

Even in the youth division of underground fight clubs, the modification rate is much higher than this martial artist’s.

But...

The opponents of this martial artist were all flesh-and-blood humans. Most of them were even Homo sapiens.

"Ah, it’s that part..."

Inzewei tilted her head back, "Yes, the true origin of martial arts..."

Yuki held his head. This part of history, he had heard his master talk about.

The so-called "first cyber warrior" was actually just a gimmick. That initial martial artist didn’t even have a "system to predict human movements 0.5 seconds into the future," everything was controlled by himself, and none of his martial arts relied on algorithms...

His task was to "demonstrate"—that is, demonstrate the superiority of prosthetic bodies themselves.

This had little to do with his martial arts.

If one were to say how this fight related to later cyber martial arts...

[Perhaps it was this fight that made me realize that human martial arts inherently limit the potential of cyber warriors.]

Xiang Shan said this.