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

Just as the sniper was pulling the trigger...

Suddenly, a cold, hard metal object silently pressed against the back of his head.

"Hey buddy, what are you looking at?"

The sniper's hair stood on end, and he whirled around.

A flashy man in a jacket, with shoulder-length black hair and sunglasses, was pointing a signature Mallorian pistol at him, a cigarette dangling from his lips.

Johnny Silverhand!

Beside Johnny stood V, whose eyes gleamed with a cracking red light.

"Thanks to your hackers focusing all their attention on the building's systems, I was able to trace your coordinates so easily." V ​​drew his katana from his waist, his electronic eyes flashing with a cold light.

"How...how could you be so fast?!" The sniper was horrified.

"Because someone is paying high overtime wages."

Johnny exhaled a smoke ring. "And we're not allowed to slack off."

boom!

The Mallorian pistol roared deafeningly, blowing half of the sniper's head off.

The sniper threat is neutralized!

Let's return our attention to the main battlefield.

Faced with the colonel's near-suicidal particle double-edged attack, Zhang Yuan in mid-air did not retreat even a step.

His eyes remained calm, a calmness that was frightening.

"A miniature Dyson sphere? An expensive backup power source. But you seem to have forgotten..."

Zhang Yuan slowly pulled out the heavy cross, which was two meters long, from his back. Dazzling holy light was compressed and gathered on his body.

"As I just said, the energy from your main reactor is an illegal asset."

"Do you really think that your undeclared spare battery... is legal?"

hum!

Without using any fancy attack skills, Zhang Yuan's complex and diverse auxiliary skills, whose skill levels far exceed those of other players of the same rank, were activated at full power under the catalysis of divine authority!

[Honor and Blessing!]

[Weapon Blessing]!

[Angel's Blessing]!

[Holy Light Protection]!

……

Layer upon layer of tangible golden light enveloped Zhang Yuan, turning him into a pure golden cocoon.

boom!

The particle double blades slammed into the cocoon of light, unleashing a blinding energy storm.

But the light blade that was powerful enough to cut through an aircraft carrier only managed to cut through the outermost three shields before it could not advance any further!

"Impossible! The anti-magic field is clearly on!" the colonel roared in disbelief.

"As long as the 'quantity' is large enough, there is no such thing as anti-magic."

Zhang Yuan's voice pierced through the energy storm.

The next second, the cocoon of light exploded!

Zhang Yuan gripped the warhammer tightly with both hands, and his figure appeared as if by teleportation directly in front of the mecha's "miniature Dyson sphere core" that emitted a red light.

"The Heavenly Kingdom Armed Forces' debt collection methods have always been quite direct."

【The Hammer of the Holy Spirit - Judgment】!

boom----!!!

The golden hammer, carrying the force of a thunderbolt, slammed heavily into the mecha's chest.

Faced with the colonel's almost magic-immune repulsive field, Zhang Yuan's hammer could only rely on the golden attribute [40% spell penetration] after the limit breakthrough to deal a minimum amount of damage.

But at this moment, facing Zhang Yuan's panel attributes, which were stacked to an outrageous level by various top-tier blessings, this was enough!

With such overwhelming numerical superiority, even if only 40% magic penetration deals the minimum damage, it's still an astronomical number that the mech core simply cannot withstand!

Snap... Bang!

The priceless C+ grade miniature Dyson Sphere core was instantly depleted of its already limited durability by this violent burst of damage.

Countless cracks appeared on its surface, and then it exploded with a bang!

Having lost its last source of power, and with the frenzied backlash from the overload of the [Rage] chip, this fifty-meter-tall war behemoth finally came to a complete halt.

Inside the mech's core compartment.

The hacker responsible for bearing the mental pressure had his brain burned to ashes by the massive data stream the moment the core exploded.

The colonel, however, was also affected by the violent energy flow and collapsed in the driver's seat, covered in blood.

creak-

A sickening metallic tearing sound rang out.

Zhang Yuan tore open the deformed cockpit door with his bare hands and stepped into the smoking metal shell.

The colonel coughed up mouthfuls of blood, staring intently at the man wearing the fox mask before him, and let out a bitter laugh:

"Using...using auxiliary skills to stack your attributes to withstand shipborne weapons...what the hell are you...?"

"I am just a paladin and a legitimate merchant."

Zhang Yuan walked up to the colonel and looked down at him.

"Your teamwork was excellent, and your tactics were highly targeted. If it were any other team, you might have really swept them today."

"It's just a pity... that you've run into me."

Zhang Yuan slowly extended his right hand and made a grasping motion in the air.

puff!

The colonel's heart suddenly burst.

A chip flashing with a violent red light burst out of his body and flew into Zhang Yuan's hand.

[Notification: You have eliminated the Blue Team's commander.]

All Blue Team reincarnations have died; the Blue Team has been completely wiped out.

Zhang Yuan glanced at the chip in his hand, which was still radiating high temperatures.

[Original Sin Chip - Wrath detected.]

[Limited to the current world, you have gained the power: Frenzied Overclocking.] (By sacrificing yourself, you can break through the performance limits of your weapon, greatly enhancing its various stats and skill values.)

The sixth original sin chip is in hand.

Now, for Zhang Yuan, there is only one last step left to achieve his ultimate goal in this world.

Zhang Yuan put the chip into his storage space, casually shook the blood off his hands, and turned to walk out of the mecha wreckage.

Outside in the square, Lin Qingyue had regained her human form and was leaning against a pile of rubble, catching her breath.

V and Johnny also returned in a hovercar, carrying the sniper's head.

Meanwhile, A-Qiang and Li Mo were methodically administering treatment medicine to the fat man who had just slowly regained consciousness.

Although everyone was wounded, none of the core members of the Heavenly Kingdom Armed Forces were lost.

"Boss, all the blue dogs are dead, can we pop some champagne now?" V said, throwing away the head in his hand and grinning.

Zhang Yuan did not answer.

He raised his head and looked up at the night sky above, obscured by the smoke of gunpowder.

Just as the Blue Team was completely wiped out and the [Rage] chip changed hands...

All the neon lights, streetlights, and even the prosthetic retinas of all the citizens of Night City suddenly went out without warning.

Instead, a deathly silent screen of static appeared.

Immediately afterwards, an image of an elderly person, composed of hundreds of millions of red data nodes and so large that it covered the entire city sky, slowly appeared.

It was an electronic ghost that had been wandering behind the black wall, hiding and enduring until now.

【Arasaka Saburo】!

"Excellent cleaning work, Mr. Zhang Yuan."

The "gods" in the sky looked down at the earth, and their emotionless electronic synthesized voices made everyone's eardrums ache.

"But now... please hand over the puzzle pieces that belong to me."

Before he could finish speaking, something unexpected happened!

Suddenly, a blinding burst of fire erupted from the upper level of the towering Arasaka Tower.

A massive, twisted, pitch-black figure tore through the air like a meteorite, crashing straight into the plaza where everyone was standing with a piercing sonic boom.

boom----!!!

The earth trembled violently, and spiderweb-like cracks spread wildly in all directions from the point of impact.

Amidst the billowing dust, a pair of scarlet electronic eyes lit up.

The living legend of Night City, the ultimate killing machine—Adam Hammer!

But his current state sent chills down everyone's spines like never before.

Adam Hammer's once cold, mechanical body was now covered with countless data circuits emitting a ghostly green light, just like human blood vessels.

And in the center of his mechanical head, a chip was deeply embedded, like an evil vertical eye.

[Original Sin Chip - Envy]!

"Damn it... the energy fluctuations emanating from this guy..."

Ah Qiang swallowed hard. The Vulcan cannon in his hand, which had little ammunition left, seemed as powerless as a child's toy in front of Adam Hammer's densely packed cybernetic modifications.

Moreover, the moment Heavy Hammer stood up, his crimson electronic eyes locked onto Zhang Yuan in mid-air, or more accurately—the Holy Light Warhammer in Zhang Yuan's hand that had not yet dissipated.

Immediately afterwards, the armor on the right arm of the heavy hammer twisted and, in a blinding green light, materialized a giant, eerie green energy hammer!

That originally sacred skill form was now twisted into a nauseating cyber mental pollution, emitting a terrifying wave that was no less than Zhang Yuan's attack just now, instantly enveloping the entire square!

The absolute power of jealousy: perfect replication!

An atmosphere of despair instantly engulfed the entire ruined square like a tidal wave.