Comprehensive Network: Starting with Martial Artists to Stack Passive Skills

Chapter 138 Sweeping the Globe, Being Yourself

However, despite its bloated administrative machinery, after its violent apparatus suffered a near-devastating blow in the core area, it eventually began an instinctive counterattack.

The alarm had already been sounded globally, and the troops stationed in neighboring provinces, orbital defense platforms, and even some remote fiefdoms finally recovered from the initial extreme chaos.

The first to act were the nearest military bases and Knights' fortresses.

Three massive, silver-blue mechs, their shoulder armor branded with lightning bolt and warhammer emblems, stormed into an arena at extremely low altitude.

They are the rapid response squad of the Thunderhammer Knights, stationed at a mountain fortress seven hundred kilometers away.

After receiving the highest-level distress signal sent by the arena owner before his death, they overloaded the engine and crossed the distance in ten minutes.

"High concentration of unknown energy detected! Large number of alien biological units confirmed! Prioritize threat elimination, protect—wait, where's the life signal? Where the hell is my life signal?"

The voice of the leading knight captain abruptly stopped on the communication channel, as if he had seen something unbelievable.

The mech's sensors scanned below, revealing that the once bustling arena stands had become a slaughterhouse. The nobles he was supposed to protect were now mutilated corpses, with eerie dark purple energy writhing on them.

There are no targets to protect, only enemies.

"For the Emperor! Purify the heretics!" The knight captain suppressed his shock and chill and roared as he gave the order to attack.

If the person they were supposed to protect dies, what will happen to the reputation of their knightly order? What about the rewards they'll receive?!

As the attack command was given, the three mechs' shoulder-mounted assault cannons fired simultaneously, their thick high-explosive ammunition belts and laser beams lashing out like whips of judgment at the void units gathered in the arena.

"Boom boom boom!"

The explosion engulfed a large area, blasting more than a dozen Void Worms to pieces in the volley, and also sending two Rippers flying.

However, a blue-purple figure appeared beside them. They couldn't let these people kill their little darlings for no reason!

Lu Qingfeng looked at the mech where the squad leader was located. His predatory instincts clearly indicated that among the three mechs, only the squad leader's mech had a high-quality energy response and the pilot's mental fluctuations, which could barely make up for the losses of the small insect swarm.

Of course, things weren't so nice for the captain. He only saw a flash of purple shadow before his eyes, and then a pressure that made his soul tremble pressed down like a mountain!

The murderous intent, as tangible as mountains of corpses and seas of blood, caused his movements to freeze for a moment.

At that critical moment, Lu Qingfeng's fist arrived.

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"Snap!!"

The fist, covered in dark silver active bone armor, pierced through the Knight Captain's frontal composite armor—enough to withstand a direct hit from a heavy cannon—without any resistance.

The fist continued its momentum, blasting the cockpit and the pilot inside into a mixture of metal and flesh fragments that sprayed backward!

[Elite unit (Thunderhammer Knight Captain) detected killed — meets efficient conversion conditions —]

[Transforming in progress]

The wreckage of the mecha, which had instantly lost its life, was enveloped by the purplish-black energy surging from Lu Qingfeng's hand, and quickly twisted and deformed.

A few seconds later, an enhanced Void Ripper hatched from its shell. As an enhanced version, it possessed even more extreme attributes.

With a massive body, lightning-shaped energy bone spikes extending from its back, and arms transformed into giant thunder hammers, this monster not only possessed the original mecha but was also corrupted by the void. Upon its appearance, it immediately turned on its former colleague!

The knights in the other two wingmen witnessed their commander being instantly killed and transformed into a terrifying monster, and were terrified.

They unleashed a torrent of firepower, attempting to stop the nascent Ripper and the approaching Lu Qingfeng.

However, it was clearly impossible for two inferior individuals to attract Lu Qingfeng's attention, so the ragtag soldiers had to be dealt with by the ragtag soldiers.

In the ruins of the arena, dozens of Void Gazes simultaneously turned their gazes, and the invisible mental shockwaves overlapped, slamming into the sensor systems and pilots' brains like heavy hammers.

"Buzz!"

The external monitoring screen of the mech suddenly became filled with static, the internal alarms blared wildly, and the two riders felt a splitting headache, causing their controls to instantly malfunction.

The newly transformed Thunder Ripper seized the opportunity and smashed a mech's leg joint with a powerful hammer blow.

At the same time, a tidal wave of ordinary Rippers and worms overwhelmed another mech, its sharp claws and self-destructing impacts quickly dismantling it into a pile of scrap metal.

The battle lasted less than thirty seconds from start to finish.

The three knights who rushed to provide support, along with their expensive mechs, became a new component of the Void Army.

This is just the beginning.

Similar scenes are playing out simultaneously across the planet.

On the edge of the dark swamp of the western continent, a squad of battle nuns from the Quotations Order attempted to ambush a Void army that was clearing out a settlement.

Their figures had barely emerged from the shadows, and before the deadly psionic blades could be swung, they were already locked onto by the Void Mark.

Immediately afterwards, a vast and chilling [Void Pressure] enveloped the entire area, rendering the nuns' stealth skills useless under the absolute suppression of their status.

Several specialized Void Devourers (mutated versions of the Gaze Pius) that specifically targeted psionic units emitted high-frequency shrieks, disrupting their psionic circuits, before being torn apart by the swarming Rippers.

On the northern plateau, an Imperial Guard armored company equipped with heavy siege cannons attempted to use the terrain to block a swarm of Voidlings sweeping through a slave mine.

Their artillery fire did cause considerable casualties in the early stages, but it soon attracted Lu Qingfeng's attention.

With a super-short-distance "void walk," Lu Qingfeng appeared directly above the company command vehicle.

One punch!

The command vehicle was reduced to dust!

The escaping impact twisted and deformed the turrets of several tanks in the vicinity!

Without command, the armored company quickly collapsed under the endless swarm of void insects.

However, not everyone on this planet is a fool, and eventually someone came up with the idea of ​​aerial combat.

The Southern Hemisphere orbital defense platform urgently dispatched a squadron of attack aircraft to attempt to bomb the purple torrent raging on the ground from high altitude.

However, as soon as they entered the combat zone, their fire control systems were disrupted by a combined psychological attack launched by dozens of Gazing Ones on the ground.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Qingfeng briefly released the energy wings on his back, soaring into the sky at an astonishing speed. He grabbed the wing of the lead aircraft with his bare hands, swung it around like a toy, and smashed it into another wingman.

Two fireballs burst in the air. The last aircraft fled in panic, but its engine was pierced by several concentrated void energy rays shot from the ground, causing it to crash to the earth.

These forces, hastily arriving from all corners of the planet, no matter who they were in ordinary times, appeared utterly pale and powerless before the Void Army, which had already gained momentum and possessed Lu Qingfeng as its absolute core.

They were like moths drawn to a raging fire—scattered, hesitant, and doomed to their own destruction!

The Void Glory questline continues to advance significantly.

The concentration of negative emotions on the planet has decreased sharply, while the saturation of void energy has increased.

[WARNING: A larger and more organized Imperial counterattack is gathering on the outer edge of the system. Battleship-class energy signals and multiple high-intensity psionic fluctuations have been detected.]

[Network notification: Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Imperial fleet, originally scheduled to arrive in seven days, is about to arrive.]