Samsara Space: They're all begging me to heal them one more time.

Om-!

Instead of deploying a conventional energy shield, the mech suddenly unleashed an extremely dazzling, dark purple, eerie force field!

Lin Qingyue's demonic blade, imbued with violent kinetic energy, slashed fiercely at the purple force field.

There was no explosion, no sparks.

At the moment of contact, Lin Qingyue felt as if she had struck an absolutely void black hole.

The crimson magic power attached to the demon sword was completely neutralized by this purple force field in an instant!

The blade, stripped of its magical power, struck the special steel, leaving only a white mark.

"What?!" Lin Qingyue's vertical pupils contracted slightly.

"【Anti-Magic Particle Repulsion Field (B-Grade Technological Creation)】. Specifically designed to disable the energy circuits of you powerful mystical beings."

The colonel grinned maliciously, and with a sudden swing of the mecha's massive left arm, he slammed it down on Lin Qingyue, who was suspended in mid-air, as if swatting a fly.

boom!

Lin Qingyue had no choice but to parry with her sword.

The immense kinetic energy sent her flying dozens of meters away, crashing heavily into a statue at the edge of Arasaka Plaza and shattering it.

Although the Demon Blade Crimson Rain has six sealed paths, it can only unleash one form at a time. At this moment, Lin Qingyue is in the "Animal Path," which focuses on attack, pursuit, and agility, so the "Hungry Ghost Path," which is specifically used to devour shields and energy fields, cannot be manifested at the same time.

Moreover, even if one were to switch to the Hungry Ghost Path, it would be uncertain whether they could even break through such a high-level anti-magic repulsion field.

"Sister Qingyue!" Aqiang exclaimed.

In the instant that Ah Qiang was distracted—

Two kilometers away from Arasaka Plaza, on a water tower in an abandoned building.

One of the three remaining reincarnators from the Blue Team, the colonel's adjutant, was lying on the ground.

His right eye had been replaced by a mechanical prosthetic eye emitting a red glow, and he held a futuristic-looking, ultra-long-range Gauss sniper rifle in his hand.

"Target weakness detected. Wind speed 3, humidity 70%, Coriolis force calculation complete, electromagnetic deflection correction complete."

The adjutant's prosthetic eye flashed with data streams as he slowly chambered a long, slender bullet emitting a ghostly blue glow, muttering under his breath:

"【Protoss Technology - Phase Disintegration Missile】, specifically designed to cause energy node collapse... You should feel honored to have died under a special warhead worth two thousand reward points, you fat guy on the other side."

The adjutant took a deep breath and pulled the trigger.

There were no gunshots.

Only a single, almost invisible, pale blue, highly magnetic ray of light instantly traversed a distance of two kilometers!

The target of this shot was not Lin Qingyue, who had been knocked away, but the fat man who was holding the line in front of her!

More precisely, it's the energy node of the force field shield in the fat man's hand!

Click!

High-magnetic rays hit with precision.

The force field shield in the fat man's hand burst instantly, like a soap bubble being punctured.

The immense backlash caused the fat man to cough up a mouthful of blood and faint instantly.

If it weren't for the [Holy Guardian Badge] continuously spreading the damage, the fat guy, being the tank, would probably have had his health bar emptied by this one shot!

"Old Wang!!" Ah Qiang's eyes were bloodshot.

Without the shields' cover, the entrance to the hall was completely exposed to the cannons of the War Fortress.

"Take over their defenses! Don't give them a chance to breathe!" the colonel roared into the communications channel.

"Roger that, sir. My brain is now connected to the mech's secondary brain; their ICE firewall is like paper in my eyes."

Inside the mech's core compartment, the Blue Team's intelligence agent, a reincarnated individual, was covered in data cables and bleeding from all seven orifices.

In order to bear the massive mental pollution overflowing from the [Original Sin Chip - Rage], he volunteered to become the mecha's "human filter," using his own rationality to share the pressure with the colonel, in exchange for the mecha's absolute precision in its berserk state!

"Warning! The underlying logic has been tampered with! The building's internal defensive machine guns are being turned around!"

Li Mo frantically typed on the keyboard in the underground lab, sweating profusely. "Boss! The hacker on the other side is a madman! He's using his own consciousness as a virus carrier, I can't stop him!"

Outside, there are impregnable war fortresses and deadly snipers lurking in the shadows; inside, the system has turned against them.

Even with the loss of two players in the battle for Herman, the Blue Team's terrifying teamwork as a seasoned C-rank Reincarnation squad was on full display at this moment.

They used the most sophisticated technological tactics to instantly corner the Heavenly Kingdom's armed forces.

"Pagans, this is the absolute truth of technology and firepower!"

The colonel laughed wildly as the electromagnetic railgun on the back of the mech slowly charged, its blinding white light locking onto the entrance to the hall.

With this shot, the entire hall, including Ah Qiang and Fatty, will be completely vaporized.

However, just as the railgun was about to fire...

A gentle, calm, yet suffocatingly oppressive voice rang out on the communication channel and simultaneously across the entire square.

"Technology and firepower? No, Colonel. The only truth in this world is capital."

Om-!

Three enormous golden magic rings unfolded layer by layer in mid-air.

Zhang Yuan, dressed in platinum armor and wearing a pure gold fox mask, hovered in front of the [War Fortress] like a god descending to earth.

Facing the devastating railgun about to be launched, Zhang Yuan didn't even raise the cross; he simply raised his left hand gracefully.

On the back of his hand, a green chip gleamed with a greedy, eerie light.

[Original Sin Chip - Greed] - Forced Collection!

"Your mech is indeed very powerful, but the energy that powers it costs money."

As Zhang Yuan finished speaking, an invisible force of rules instantly enveloped the fifty-meter-tall mecha.

The power of the rules ignored the armor, and even the "anti-magic field," directly affecting the nuclear fusion reactor at the bottom of the mech!

It's sizzling!

The white light that converged at the muzzle of the railgun was extinguished instantly.

Not only that, all the indicator lights on the mecha flashed wildly at that moment, and its massive body suddenly sank.

"Warning! Main reactor energy has reached zero! Illegal extraction is underway!" The mech's system issued a piercing alarm.

A massive blue energy ball gathered on Zhang Yuan's left hand; it was the power source for the entire mecha.

"As Night City's largest creditor, I am confiscating your illegal assets."

Zhang Yuan casually crushed the energy ball.

For an ordinary reincarnator, this "cutting off the fuel supply" move would be enough to end the battle.

But the Blue Army colonel let out a chilling, maniacal laugh.

"Hahahaha! Zhang Yuan! After suffering so many losses, do you think I don't know your information?!"

"After all these years, how could I possibly put all my eggs in one basket!"

The colonel smashed a glass dome inside the cockpit and pressed a black button hidden within.

"Backup Power Source: [Miniature Dyson Sphere Reactor Core (C+ Grade Item)]! Activate!"

boom!

The mecha, which had been lifeless, suddenly unfolded its chest armor, revealing a core that emitted a dazzling red light like a star!

This is not technology from this world, but a super-energy source from an interstellar civilization!

With the injection of this terrifying energy, the Colonel's [Original Sin Chip - Wrath] in his heart instantly entered a state of extreme overload!

"Die!!!"

The mecha's arms instantly transformed into two high-frequency particle light blades, each twenty meters long.

Ignoring the metal frame of the mecha that was beginning to collapse due to overload, the colonel crossed his blades and, with the force of cutting through space, fiercely slashed at Zhang Yuan in mid-air!

"Boss, be careful! That energy level is definitely above the C-rank limit!" Li Mo shouted in the communication.

Meanwhile, on the water tower two kilometers away, the Blue Team's sniper once again locked onto Zhang Yuan in mid-air.

"Target energy level exceeds C+... Conventional kinetic weapons ineffective. Switch to psionic lock-on mode, suppressor at full power."

The adjutant calmly retrieved a jet-black bullet, its surface covered in crimson runes, from the tactical slot. A cold smile played on his lips as he brought his eyes closer to the high-precision scope.

"Goodbye, Daddy. This heretical judgment bullet, which I got from the Warhammer 40 universe, would make even a Space Marine kneel down if hit by it."

He slowly pressed his finger on the trigger, pulling it down little by little...