My Cell Prison
Chapter 1386 - 1384: Breaking the Balance

Chapter 1386: Chapter 1384: Breaking the Balance

"What’s going on!?"

Both the First Platoon Leader, Emperor’s Spear-Reinhardt, and the Third Platoon Leader, Shield of the Order-Feto, were struggling to comprehend the situation before them.

An apparent Elite knight-level Mechanical Life had instantly killed a Mythic Body.

Although the Mask Craftsman had been more vulnerable during his escape, he was still a Mythic Body, and only an attack on a rule level could kill him outright.

What was even stranger,

the Mechanical Life and the Mask Craftsman were meant to be allies; why were they slaughtering each other?

As they were reeling in shock, the leaking Machinery turned its head towards them.

"Non-demon London resident detected, Mythic rank, high threat value! Eliminate immediately!"

Feeling the red light emitted from the Machine Eye, both Holy Knights felt as if they were teetering on the brink of death.

Reinhardt gritted his teeth, pouring all available energy into the spiral lance.

Crackling golden Holy Light surged like lightning snakes on the tip of the lance.

He took a big step forward, making a highly standard throwing motion to unleash the maximum power.

Perhaps it was the stimulus of imminent death that sparked all his potential.

For an instant, Reinhardt even felt what he held in his hands was the Lance of Longinus that killed Jesus, as the surface of the spiral lance glowed with waves of red and even some lines of Forbidden Doctrines appeared.

"Die!"

"Threat value higher than expected, activating extermination mode."

’Field Expansion’

Hmm... An invisible field spread from the Mechanical Life, with faint green program codes flowing between the ground, barely visible.

Externally, nothing seemed to change.

But in Reinhardt’s brain, a strange sequence of program codes flashed by, attempting to shut off all commands of attack formed in his consciousness.

For a moment, his muscles began to relax involuntarily.

"We, the Holy Knights, have long been devoted to the Father in Heaven! How could we be swayed by the likes of you!"

A surge of intense Faith Power burst forth, even causing Reinhardt’s brain to emit golden light... Relying on absolute faith, he resisted the program commands interfering with his brain.

Crack!

He smashed the floor tiles with one foot.

Clasping the long spear in his hand, he threw it with all his might.

As the lance passed, it tore open the ground... A phantom layer of the Lance of Longinus enveloped the surface of the lance, its destructive power peaking, just as it was about to hit the target.

Hum!

The Machinery raised an arm, making a ’prohibition’ gesture.

The lance was halted completely, stopping just 1mm from the palm... If Han Dong were here, his Demon Eye could see a completely different scene, where the seemingly normal church had all transformed into floating program codes.

The lance thrown by Reinhardt, now invaded by the programs, rapidly assimilated.

"Analysis complete, source program reading has reached ’100%’."

As the lance turned into data and was absorbed into the metallic body, a metal lance of the exact same appearance formed in the palm of the Mechanical Life’s other hand.

It was thrown back at Reinhardt with even greater force.

"What!"

When Reinhardt thought to dodge or defend, he found his consciousness unable to issue either command to his body, blocked by the program that had invaded his brain.

Swoosh!

Fresh Blood splattered on the surface of the crucifix on the high altar.

Reinhardt’s pupils dilated, but he himself had not received any damage... The blood came from the Third Platoon Leader, who had blocked in front of him, Shield of the Order-Feto Walton.

The lance shattered his epic shield and pierced right through the center of his chest.

The lance, formed by programs, began to rapidly invade Feto’s Body, visible to the naked eye, his entire body turning into liquid metal... His human data was also being read by the Machinery.

"Feto!"

As Reinhardt moved forward to help, an even more intense scent of death emanated from the front.

Looking up, the battered Mechanical arm was facing him... in its palm, it was condensing a type of annihilation energy he had never seen before.

’Positron Cannon, Personal Edition’

Once the cannon shot formed, it would annihilate all life in its path, including both Platoon Leaders.

Hum!

The outline of the blast had already formed.

Pages from an unknown origin landed on his arm, with the text of the doctrine bursting into holy light, disrupting the positron energy’s cohesion and activating it... Boom!

Self-destruction!

The recklessly colliding positrons engulfed the machinery itself; every matter within the explosion zone was annihilated, leaving not even a trace behind.

At the same moment.

A celestial maiden descends before the two platoon leaders, accompanied by a beam of light.

She wears a gold-trimmed white robe, symbolizing the ’Priest’, her ageless stunning visage concealed behind a veil of white.

With a light touch of her jade-like fingers upon Platoon Leader Feto, a film of holy light quickly envelops his entire body, curbing the deep corrosion of the machinery on his flesh.

"Quan, take the two of them to the ’Forbidden Doctrines’ for treatment. I’ll handle things here... Hurry up!"

"Okay!"

At the same time all the platoon leaders withdrew.

The already damaged church doors exploded.

A brand-new mechanical entity stood at the church entrance, with its mechanical eyes locking onto the woman before it. Its mechanical head slowly tilts, seemingly puzzled by the data it’s reading:

"Actual rank - [Myth].

The quality and mass of the target’s domain are greater than the Myth level; the energy quality released by the target is greater than the Myth level; overall threat value exceeds the Myth level.

Such a strange human..."

Just as the battle was about to erupt.

The mechanical entity seemed to receive a piece of information that filled it with delight, and music imbued with victorious connotations played from the speaker embedded within its body.

...

Following Father Lysos’s command.

Abandoning the city wall defenses, the entire army retracts into the city.

Hiding in darkness and engaging in a ’corrosive’ guerrilla warfare, the enemy’s invasion speed was significantly curbed. In fact, during the early stages of the conflict, the invaders suffered damage at a faster rate than the demons.

At this time.

The Sin Spirits, scattered around different areas of London City and cleansing the Demons, all looked towards a certain void in the sky due to some kind of sensation.

Buzz!

A spatial slash tore open the sky without any warning.

From within the smoothly cleaved gap in space, a graceful woman steps forth, her neck adorned with a famous knife.

Her artistic conception seems to rise to a higher layer than before.

Ignoring the Giant Dragon clashing above the clouds,

Instead, she turns her gaze towards London City, where small-scale wars are erupting in multiple locations... The freshly recovered Beheading King needs some warm-up exercises.

Unsheathe... Chop!

All living beings moving within the city are hit by an irresistible ringing in their ears.

Without any protection.

From south to north, London is split in two by a single slash... A nearly hundred meters deep cut divides the city, exposing the hidden subterranean Palace of the Birth Mother.

But that’s not all.

The area covered by the chop strike, all Demons below the Myth level were invaded by a ’Slashing Thought’, causing their bodies to be forcibly bisected uncontrollably.

Dull, foul-smelling blood spills over buildings and streets... Hundreds of demons are severely injured or killed.

The ’Balance’ that the defense force had been struggling to maintain was completely shattered by this slash!

"Hmm... Not bad! My Slashing Thought has indeed improved!"

This first slash was just a test for the Beheading King.

With her next slash, she will completely disintegrate all of London City’s defenses.

Just at that moment.

Two powerful presences burst forth from within London City.

Father Lysos, carrying an umbrella, turns into a black column of light, appearing a hundred meters away in the air from the Beheading King.

At the same time, a stench of blood emanates from the Eastern City District where the Expeditionary Army resides... The Duchess, with her ten-meter-long scarlet bat wings and sharp fangs showing at the corners of her mouth, rapidly ascends into the sky.

Leader of the Scarlet Knights, Shaia Cornwall, hailed as the ’Heart of the Knight Regiment’.

"Priest, if we join forces we should be able to hold off until reinforcements arrive, right?"

"Let’s hope so..."