Hyperdimensional Player

Chapter 201 A killing spree!
Inside the dimly lit passage.

Duncan nodded expressionlessly. He glanced at the camp diagonally opposite, put on his hood, and quietly approached. He then drew a dagger and, with a swift and clean motion, slit the throat of the guard at the gate.

The lack of sufficient light underground made it very convenient for him to move around.

"Who is it?" came Tasia's alert voice from inside.

She saw the fallen rebel member's pupils shrink slightly, but he didn't say anything more, instead staring at Duncan in front of him.

She found all the people.

Unexpectedly, these people seized control of the underground ruins, not only monitoring Duncan but also effectively imprisoning her. The resistance was not a monolithic entity, and a heretic like her was easily stripped of her voice.

Duncan stared expressionlessly at Tasia, tossed her a modified rifle, and said coldly, "There's a traitor within the resistance!"

Are you going to stay here and wait to die?

"Or will you come with me?"

Tasia hesitated for only a moment before picking up her weapon and following her, saying, "My auxiliary mechanical arm is in the box on the right side of the camp."

"Where are Bert and the others?"

Duncan's deep voice rang out, "They're being monitored too."

"I don't have time to deal with them now."

"The Inquisition of the Cult of Mechanism should have arrived by now."

Tasia skillfully loaded the bullets, then pulled a night vision goggles and a scope from a nearby shelf. After testing the accuracy, she said in a low voice, "You knew all along that I was a rebel?"

Duncan said calmly, "Don't you know that I used to hang out with cult members?"

"The resistance has no future."

"Whether you want to come with me or not, you should think it over carefully."

Just then, a burst of gunfire erupted outside the underground camp, accompanied by muffled thuds, and a dense array of red markers began to advance.

"action!"

Under the orders of the deacon of the court, squads of the Mechanicus Guard surged into the underground passage. Intense gunfire erupted in an instant, catching the resistance members off guard. Their life markers disappeared one after another like extinguished candles.

"They're from the court!..."

Rumbling explosions echoed through the underground passage. The Mechanicus members possessed far greater firepower; hundreds of guards tore everything apart with a dense storm of bullets, decimating the others in the blink of an eye. In the center of each combat squad stood a mechanized monk, chanting soft mechanical prayers to soothe the mechanical spirits of their weapons, allowing them to fire with greater sustained power.

The gap in strength between the two sides is quite large.

Apart from Diamond, who led the group, and a few other high-ranking members, no one else was a match for the Mechanicus.

At this moment, Duncan had quietly circled around to the rear of the battlefield.

Not far away, Tasia was installing an auxiliary mechanical arm on herself. Without the mechanical aid, her physical abilities as a woman were inferior to those of an ordinary mercenary. Further away, Bert and the other members of the cult were withdrawing from the battlefield. Now that the Mechanicus had discovered this underground ruin, they decisively chose to retreat.

However, their escape route had been blocked by a Christian guard.

"It's almost time."

"Let's do it."

As Duncan gave the order, the skull of the lich Kangus emitted a deep, dim light, and a powerful high-level spell instantly took effect, causing the previously dead resistance members to suddenly stand up.

"careful!"

“There are members of the Death Cult here.”

The insightful monk warned.

As soon as the words were spoken, those who had been dead picked up their weapons, stood up, and started firing wildly. The recently deceased Christian guards also got up, turned their guns on their comrades, and some even detonated grenades in the crowd.

Rumble!
The entire situation descended into chaos instantly, with the suddenly resurrected undead causing massive casualties on both sides. The undead Scourge's magical rituals continued to take effect, and those who had just died quickly became undead again, launching frenzied attacks on the living.

—Earthquake technique.

The lich Kangus had just completed his next spell. The ground trembled, and the underground passages dug around the area began to collapse on a large scale. Everyone in the center of the battlefield was buried underground, and life markers disappeared one after another.

This was only because it narrowed the range of the spell; otherwise, the entire underground ruins would have collapsed due to the earthquake.

boom!
In the darkness, Duncan raised his gun and executed the mind-controlling member of the Inquisition.

This person is no longer useful.

A faint glimmer of spiritual light flowed into his body. This time, the lich Kangus felt it more deeply; it was definitely the power of the Law of Death, because Duncan had seized the soul power of his enemy. Even powerful liches didn't possess this ability; they could only capture souls through specific rituals.

Duncan's figure stood in the darkness.

As the lich skull on his right shoulder opened its maw, wisps of ghostly spirits spread out in all directions like a chilling wind—these were the spirits summoned by the lich.

boom! boom! boom!
In a dark underground area, Duncan adjusted his God's-eye view and marked nearby hostile targets, whether they were members of the Mechanicus or members of the Rebel Alliance, they were all on his kill list.

With each killing, his marksmanship became increasingly accurate.

Since normal development doesn't give him a chance, then don't blame him for unleashing a bloodbath. Whether it's the Cult of the Machines or the Rebels, anyone who stands in his way now must die. He's been very restrained after hiding for so long!
—"Gun Master (Special Ability): Your mastery of firearms is unparalleled, greatly increasing your accuracy when using any firearm in combat. Furthermore, you can sense the mechanical spirit of firearms and, through methods such as soothing, encouraging, or suppressing it, command the mechanical spirit to obey your orders. The firearms you use will never jam, and will still be effective even under overload conditions. Encouraging the mechanical spirit can further improve the firearm's accuracy and critical hit rate."

[Note: The "Mechanical Soul" title is limited to World 3; in other worlds, it simply refers to a regular gun master.]

In the darkness, Duncan ruthlessly reaped heads.

After seizing control of the underground ruins from the rebel leader Diamond and having him secretly monitored, Duncan's relationship with the rebel camp was completely over.

He only has a slight personal relationship with Tasia.

After shooting and killing more than ten people, there were no longer any living red enemy markers within his minimap.

Duncan relied entirely on God's-eye view to distinguish friend from foe.

Any hostile entity, whether it's a rebel group or a cult of machines, will be killed without mercy!

cough cough.

A disheveled Tasia crawled out from the edge of the collapsed ruins. She had no lich to protect her and had almost been buried in the earthquake. At this moment, she was still unaware of what had happened, only hearing a series of dense explosions.

"Why was there an earthquake so suddenly?"

"What do we do now?"

When those words were spoken, Tasia's marker had changed from blue to light green, indicating that she would obey Duncan's orders to some extent.

This series of unexpected events had already thrown her into a panic, and she instinctively sidled up to the still calm and collected Duncan.

"Silence."

Duncan narrowed his eyes slightly and said coldly, "Eliminate the people in the Inquisition first."

Despite the earthquake, some people survived.

Duncan followed the broken passage toward the collapsed area ahead, with Tasia following nervously behind, seemingly worried about another aftershock. Those living in the lower levels of the hive city were extremely afraid of earthquakes; even settlements with steel fortifications were vulnerable to large-scale burial.

In dimensional space, from God's perspective, Duncan marked the unit of the court deacon.

Four-star silver-gray enemies are not so easily crushed by earthquakes.

Just then, a digging sound came from the collapsed area ahead. The court deacon had actually managed to dig himself out of the ground using a modified mechanical prosthetic.

boom!
But before he could even stand up, he saw a dark gun barrel.

Without hesitation, Duncan pulled the trigger, blowing the opponent's head off. Of the shattered skull, only half was biological matter; the cerebellum had been replaced with mechanical parts. The adamantite spine, which should have provided powerful kinetic energy, was now useless. Even after the skull was destroyed, sparks were still crackling from the spine.

This body has already undergone nearly half of modification.

A faint glimmer of inspiration appeared.

With the sudden death of the court deacon before him, the mechanical nanofluid within Duncan's body surprisingly stirred. As if it had received an energy replenishment, it began to operate on its own without consuming any mana.

"Can dimensional space also seize the mechanical priest's modification abilities?"

Duncan looked slightly surprised.

As the mechanical nanofluid operates on its own, a prompt gradually appears.

— "Mechanized Mind (Special Ability): You can actively control your brain tissue, temporarily shielding yourself from many human emotional interferences. Your mind becomes as cold as a machine and you have extremely high resistance to most mental spells."

In a state of mechanized thinking, your intelligence is temporarily enhanced, with a slight boost to comprehension, analytical skills, and computational abilities.

An active skill icon appeared on the projection page.

It's like Duncan's adrenaline burst back then; after activation, there's a certain cooldown period.

"Indeed, killing is the fastest way for me to improve."

Duncan could only wreak havoc here; if he were in the hive's settlement, he would probably be quickly suppressed by the Mechanicus. Each area of ​​hive has a Mechanicus Bishop who can mobilize the Guardians and activate the Mechanicus's large constructs.

The world's order is too rigid.

"Give me a sniper rifle."

Upon hearing Duncan's words, Tasia instinctively handed him the sniper rifle she was holding.

She didn't know how Duncan had discovered the buried mechanical priests.

— Steel Cast Iron Man (3-star silver-gray).

The court deacons favored mechanical modifications, and the Steel Caster was a member of the same cult as Duncan. At that moment, a large section of collapsed rubble was lifted by brute force, and then a giant figure, entirely silver-gray, crawled out in a disheveled state.

This person's skin was pitted and uneven, like a piece of iron that had been smashed and deformed; his vitality was truly tenacious.

boom!
Duncan fired directly into the darkness. With a flash of light, the Steelcasting Cult's strongman was instantly shot in the head, but he did not die immediately because the bullet was stuck in his forehead.

boom!
Duncan switched to armor-piercing rounds and pulled the trigger again, this time splitting the enemy's head open.

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(End of this chapter)