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Chapter 393 The Mediocre Army (Part 2)

Guo Yutu concentrated his mental energy to the extreme. He saw the rusty-sword soldier who had caught up with the target be shattered by a single sword strike, and then crimson-black lightning flashed across the battlefield!
The burning crimson trails sliced ​​through the battlefield like blades, instantly dismembering every soldier in their path. The Black Death Army's self-evolution speed couldn't keep up with his burst of power. Judging from information from previous battles, the Serpent of Sacrifice had likely used various secret techniques of martial arts, and what it was displaying now was an extreme speed that couldn't be maintained for long.

"Open all gun ports and fire simultaneously!"

The twelve undead cannons, manipulated by his will, unleashed a devastating barrage that woven a net of light capable of annihilation. Snakes darted through the beams of light, moving at speeds surpassing even the Double Butterfly. He precisely controlled the firing trajectory of each cannon, dodging attacks with pinpoint accuracy. Eight cannons. Nine cannons. The battlefield, previously insurmountable, was pierced through at breakneck speed. Ten cannons. Eleven cannons. Closing the distance to the theoretical limits, he closed in on the city walls, practically within arm's reach.

The 12th Undead Cannon fired right next to Guo Yutu, aiming a direct hit at the shortest distance. There was no time to dodge, so Chu Hengkong swung his sword to meet the barrage. Relying on the resilience of his Divine Slash, he created a foothold, using the near-perfect parrying technique he had displayed in the battle against Huan Ge to deflect himself from the fire! He cleaved through the cannon fire, sending it hurtling into the sky!
Time seemed to stand still as the two assassins' gazes met in mid-air. Chu Hengkong's blade pointed at the system's only vulnerability, an undecipherable flaw created by Van Der. Guo Yutu slammed his fist on the workbench, shouting his final command.

"—Transfer!"

Then, a beam of mental energy, faster than lightning, flashed across the surface of the giant lily. That light swept away the system's weakness, allowing it to plunge into the sea of ​​information, leaping and traversing across the lily's surface. In the instant the blade fell, it had already teleported with the light, arriving at the other side of Mansa Star Fortress, 6000 kilometers away!

That's right, the Eye Demon's technique was so advanced that it was completely incomprehensible. With Guo Yutu's abilities, there was absolutely no hope of fixing the bug.

Therefore, he took emergency measures. Since it couldn't be cracked, he moved it, using a pre-written maze program to create random landing points, causing it to jump randomly across the surface of the defense system at a frequency of 37,000 times per second!
All the preparations were for this moment. The willingness to personally step onto the battlefield, to deliberately decide the outcome on the border, was all to give the opponent the psychological illusion of "going all in." To make them believe they had exhausted all their options, they had to use themselves as bait.

Now that the maze program has successfully activated, Chu Hengkong is too late to reach his destination. Or rather, even if he could pinpoint the bug's location, he wouldn't be able to catch up with the excessively fast landing point amidst the dense attacks.

Because at this very moment, the second round of artillery fire is about to be launched, and Chu Hengkong, who failed to break through the defensive wall, has nowhere to escape!
"You and Verus both underestimated me!" Guo Yutu shouted. "This time I've won, Chu Hengkong!"

The blade of the Divine Slash failed to penetrate, gliding across the defensive barrier like a fallen leaf. Clearly facing certain death, Chu Hengkong smiled.

"You're wrong. No one has looked down on you."

"The reason you failed is that you haven't realized this yet!"

Then, the barrier broke.

To Guo Yutu's astonishment, the pale white protective barrier disintegrated into countless snowflake-like petals.

The flaw, hundreds of miles away, was precisely pierced; what flew into the city was a pure gray bullet, unlike anything ever observed before. The monitoring system showed no reaction, and none of the key targets moved. All his pre-prepared countermeasures were ineffective.

Because it was an attack from outside the city-state, a cross-sea sniper strike!
Ignoring the assassins at his feet, Guo Yutu swiftly mobilized intelligence from the border. He spotted the bizarrely shaped aircraft floating on the sea, its design completely abandoning defense for pure offense, and the religiously styled sniper rifle positioned at its center. Only one person could design a boundary-breaking wheel like this, and only one person possessed such absurd marksmanship—

“Shax Ibn Ould!”

At the center of the Wheel of Judgment, Shax casually tossed away his cigarette butt. He laughed as he gazed at the distant city.

"It's getting more interesting, Black Death Army."

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From the very beginning, Wilbert believed that Guo Yutu would be the biggest obstacle to breaking through the encirclement.

Strength, mentality, and quality are all unrelated to the above. Vieillet attaches great importance to him because Guo Yutu is the enemy's strongest Floating Light Path Ascension user.

Manipulating public opinion and using it as a weapon is Parriman's forte. However, when it comes to utilizing machinery and coordinating the overall situation, even Wang Quan is not as adept as Guo Yutu. The Great Lily City Defense System can only reach its maximum effect in his hands. If Banningtik hadn't stopped him in advance under the pretext of inspection, Ji Huaisu and his party would have had no chance of infiltrating the First Lineage.

Without breaking the Great Lily, all subsequent actions lack a theoretical basis. To break the Great Lily, it is necessary to simultaneously defeat Guo Yutu, who is defending the city. To ensure success, an unexpected trump card must be used in this operation—a trump card that was not previously on the table and was not within the enemy's consideration.

That is the Saxony, which is far away overseas.

Before the manhunt began, Chu Hengkong had established communication with him via tablet, at which time he made the request to defeat the Great Lily. Fortunately, the Strange Gunner never hesitated to act decisively.

He successfully reached his destination on this night filled with gunfire.

On the sea, thousands of miles away, with a probability of 1 in 37000, the target was hit!
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Unable to control himself, Guo Yutu recalled his past setbacks.

That's really absurd.

He locked down Velus, halfway across the country.

The sacrificial serpent that catches up with the Shinkansen with its own flesh.

And, the strange gunman who fought him with only two guns.

All the excuses and justifications that could have been used to evade responsibility were shattered by the harsh reality.

He lost because of a lack of talent, but his strategy outside the chessboard was also inferior to others.

They relied on technology to decide the outcome, yet they couldn't defeat a mere two modified guns.

As a strategist. As an assassin. As a technician. All his pride has been shattered. A humiliating defeat reveals the truth.

You are not the first one.

There will always be someone stronger than you in this world.

Guo Yutu indifferently looked up, gazing at the petals fluttering in the air. Chu Hengkong broke through the non-existent defensive barrier, thus surviving the artillery barrage. His landing point was thousands of meters away, a mere instant for a snake.

It was a crushing defeat.

From a purely visual perspective, they were on a completely different level from the enemy. He was so focused on the chessboard of his city-state that he was unaware that Verus was watching the entire battlefield. Ironically, he was constantly distracted by observing the other reinforcements; of course, they wouldn't come. The output of the Undead Cannon was too high and too fast; anyone other than Chu Hengkong coming would be committing suicide. Only Chu Hengkong would be on the front lines anyway. If everything went smoothly, he would be the one to exploit the weaknesses; if the expected traps appeared, the Strange Gunners would be responsible for a single, fatal shot.

He had predicted everything correctly, and at this point, he had no chance of winning.

Guo Yutu silently raised his hand, as if he wanted to surrender.

He clenched his fist tightly.

"explode!"

The eastern wall of Star Fortress Mansa collapsed with a deafening roar, simultaneously activating a large number of pre-buried explosives that destroyed Chu Hengkong's landing point. The numerous Black Death soldiers maintaining the last line of defense stepped forward, their bodies disintegrating and reforming into countless tortoise-shell-like iron plates.

Guo Yutu unleashed his spiritual power at full overload, forming a gleaming "skeleton" about ten meters tall. Iron fragments, disintegrated from the Black Death Army, surged towards the spiritual skeleton, transforming into sturdy armor, forging it into a greatsword, and forming a full suit of armor as imposing as a general's. That general had a skeletal, demonic face; he stood solemnly, sword in hand, and let out a powerful battle roar!

He is a Transformer on the Floating Light Path, always fully prepared, a last resort to protect himself even if the entire plan collapses. During the Thorn Robe Festival, he was a substitute soldier replacing his original body, but now he is the colossal general formed by expending his last bit of power.

Blood gleamed from Guo Yutu's eyes as he pointed at the distant enemy and roared at the machines: "Undead Giant General, advance!"

The undead giant general swung its blade, its five-meter-long weapon slashing down to meet Chu Hengkong's divine strike head-on. The burning aura shattered the giant weapon, and the attack should have been crushed. However, the undead giant general did not retreat an inch. The highly compressed spiritual energy at the core of its giant weapon would not be destroyed as long as its power source remained.

Thus, the greatsword and the divine slash clashed in quick succession, temporarily halting Chu Hengkong's offensive. The sword winds from the clash of weapons surged, transforming into two-colored engravings around the battlefield. The sword winds of the undead giant general evolved into a spiritual plague, forming an invisible horde of skeletons that opened their mouths to bite down. Chu Hengkong, however, forced out a blood-red aura, using Burning Night to scorch the sick skeletons.

He forced out the power of a thousand years of Qi to its limit, wielding the Divine Slash to force the giant general back. The distance between them closed in seconds. 1000 meters. 500 meters. 300 meters! Like a mythical hero, he relentlessly repelled the giant with his tiny human form!

Guo Yutu coughed up bright blood, and Chu Hengkong's eyes were also filled with blood. The two were too close, and at this distance, the spiritual plague was amplified twice over, severely damaging his ghostly body as a result.

But neither could stop. If Guo Yutu withdrew, he would be beheaded by the God of War, while Chu Hengkong's change of tactics would allow the plague to take advantage of his weakness. Therefore, they forced themselves to fight with willpower and perseverance, burning their lives to close the distance. Like duelists charging through a suffocating fire!
Chu Hengkong laughed hoarsely, "Hey! Why are you still fighting?"

Yes, it's unnecessary. The efficiency of using power is too low. If you prepare in advance, you'll have more options. Triggered traps, imitation of demonic curses, or overwhelming numbers with sheer numbers—that's the fighting style of the Floating Light Path.

But he hadn't prepared for any of this beforehand, and his final line was only drawn until the giant lily was breached. He knew very well that once he reached this point, he would lose, and no matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't escape defeat.

Ultimately, this is just work I'm unwilling to do; there's no reason to risk my life. A clean break would significantly increase my chances of survival. Playing dead in a pathetic state isn't a big deal.

Why fight to the death against an opponent you can't beat? What do you have to prove?

Do you want to prove your technology is superior? Do you want to prove you're smarter? Do you want to prove you're number one?

how is this possible.

It's just a trivial obsession. It's something adults should have abandoned long ago; it's a childish stubbornness.

"It's just simple!"

Control the giant general to wield his sword.

He transformed all his spiritual power into a roar that shook the ghostly body.

"—I don't want to lose to you again!!!"

The moment I uttered those words, my stiff heart seemed to come alive again.

Guo Yutu laughed self-deprecatingly.

There were no grand reasons. It was simply a matter of not giving up.

It's simply that I don't want to lose again!

Overstimulated mental energy briefly brought the deadly blade under control. Taking advantage of this moment, the undead giant's massive fist slammed down. Chu Hengkong met the fist with his own, shattering the giant's fist with a single hand. He turned and drew his sword, his strike as swift as light. The lightning-fast Yang Yi decapitated the giant, simultaneously shattering Guo Yutu's shield.

Guo Yutu roared and charged forward, his fist raised weakly. Chu Hengkong sheathed his sword and unleashed a lightning-fast strike.

The divine slash severed his joints, causing the man to lose his balance and fall into a pool of his own blood.

"It's much better than before."

The serpent that offered life spoke to him.

"Come challenge me again when you've become stronger."

He sheathed his sword and left, leaving Guo Yutu lying alone in the ruins. The clamor gradually faded away, and his vision slowly blurred. Incredibly, before losing consciousness, his mind, having found peace amidst victory and defeat, settled into tranquility.

In the approaching darkness, only a dull thought flashed through my mind.

I messed up my job again.

(End of this chapter)