2077: V really knows how awesome he is

Vincent suddenly stretched out his arm, and the projectile launching system popped out from his wrist. A small missile shot out and shattered half of the top floor of Arasaka Tower with a loud bang.

A gale-force wind of minus twenty degrees Celsius suddenly blew in, and amidst the bursts of fire, fragments flew everywhere. Even V could not completely escape this wide-range attack, and could only shield himself with his hands as the shockwave pushed him out of the building.

"V!" Vera exclaimed, but a dark figure had already leaped high into the air and rushed towards V.

It was Vincent. His strengthened tendons suddenly exerted force, and he leaped high into the air, unleashing mantis blades from his arms to launch an aerial charge and slash fiercely at V.

V remained calm under pressure because there was no need to panic. She had calculated Vincent's attack route to its limit, and she knew every attack and every variation of his moves perfectly, even better than the attacker himself.

With a snap, V's mantis blade sprang out, and the two clashed at the highest point, producing a loud bang. As V deflected the attack, he twisted his wrist and stabbed Vincent in the chest at an incredible angle, causing the Demon King to groan.

It's still all about defense and counter-attacks; AI is so simple and unpretentious, yet flawless.

The two began to fall, engaging in fierce combat as they plummeted.

The two dodged and weaved among the fragments, the clanging of the mantis blades echoing incessantly. V precisely blocked every one of Vincent's strikes, then returned the blow himself. For every strike Vincent made against V, he himself was struck. Although the nano-clusters could instantly repair his body, they could not repair his spirit. The concept of failure surged into his mind for the first time, causing his mentality to waver.

V seized the opportunity, thrusting her mantis blade straight for Vincent's throat. Vincent immediately raised his own mantis blade to block, but this was actually just a feint by V, a feint that she had chosen from millions of simulations that was guaranteed to succeed.

With two hissing sounds, her reinforced tendons emitted high-pressure airflow, causing her to spin violently in the air. She could also perform aerial maneuvers, and what followed was a full-force attack using centrifugal force and gravity, a flash of lightning!

With a clang!

Vincent's mantis knife was cut in half at the waist, but V's offensive continued, swinging down and severing Vincent's right arm with a whoosh.

"Hold!"

The Demon King cursed and swung the Mantis Blade from her left arm at V. But V had anticipated this. She opened her right hand and shot out a polymer thread from her wrist. With a whoosh, the thread wrapped around the Mantis Blade and pulled hard, not only deflecting the blade but also delivering a powerful knee strike to Vincent's chin.

puff!

Blood gushed from Vincent's mouth as he was spun twice in the air before crashing into the Arasaka Tower with a loud thud. The recoil, however, sent V plummeting towards the ground at an even faster speed.

"Oh no, at that height, V might just make us spit out our pants!" Vera said nervously.

Vincent, however, also arrived at the edge of the Arasaka Tower.

The Arasaka Tower has 100 floors and is over 700 meters tall. A fall from that height might not kill V, but serious injury is almost certain. No matter how much AI she's developed, she couldn't possibly neutralize gravity, could she?

Vincent thought so, and he wasn't wrong, but when he looked down, he was shocked because while V couldn't defuse gravity, she could overcome it.

As V fell, she flipped her body, stretched her hands downwards, and two projectile launching systems simultaneously sprang from her arms and fired in unison. The recoil from the violent explosions instantly transformed into V's wings, propelling her upwards at incredible speed. During this process, she continued to launch missiles, each explosion giving her an additional acceleration. Such ingenious and subtle manipulation would normally be impossible, but thanks to the AI's calculations, V not only accomplished it, but did it flawlessly!

With a soft "poof!"

V breaks the sound barrier.

White air currents swirled around her, like flawless wings. Before Vincent could react, he was struck hard in the abdomen.

"Wow!"

The Demon King coughed up blood and screamed in agony, but V's momentum did not diminish. He continued to smash through the ceiling, and with a loud bang, he was sent back to the 100th floor.

Vincent fell to the ground in a sorry state. V reached out to grab him, and Vincent swung his arm to counterattack, but V easily dodged it and landed more than a dozen punches on his stomach.

The intense pain made him open his mouth wide, spitting out saliva and blood together. Under such severe injury, his consciousness gradually faded, and in his daze, he immediately wanted to upload his consciousness to the nanonetwork.

But V suddenly grabbed his head, staring him in the eye, and used his powerful computing ability to instantly send out a massive amount of junk code to block the upload channel, trapping Vincent's consciousness inside his body.

"You fucking..."

Vincent panicked and couldn't help but utter the Night City dialect. Realizing he was about to lose consciousness, he no longer cared about collecting any "combat knowledge" and issued commands to all the unmanned machines in Night City in the name of the King of the World.

"Fire! Fire on Arasaka Tower!"

"This will cause serious civilian casualties, and you will be within the range of the artillery fire."

Vincent's consciousness was fading, and with his last strength he screamed hysterically, "I said, fire!"

With a whoosh.

A beam of light descended from the sky, piercing the Arasaka Tower precisely, causing a massive explosion that snapped the entire tower in half.

The explosion created a violent gust of wind that blew Vincent, V, Vera, and Adam Hammer away. The blow didn't directly hit them and wouldn't cause much damage, but because of their weight, they could only drift like insects in a hurricane, falling in all directions of the city.

"Damn it, you're resorting to cheating when you can't win, huh? Vincent, I'll fuck your mother!"

Vera waved her arms and shouted in mid-air, and Adam Hammer flew over to grab her, and the two landed together.

"Wow, you can fly?" Vera exclaimed in surprise.

"My prosthetic body is the Dragon Machine God Armor designed by General Xu. Since it is called Dragon, it can naturally fly."

On the other side, Vincent was also caught by the drone and landed safely. With this laser cannon, he finally broke free from V's control, uploaded his consciousness to the network, and avoided falling into a coma.

After landing, he repaired his arm while searching for V's whereabouts, and saw V standing on the top of a two-story building looking up at the sky.

Vincent immediately said, "Aim at the individual I marked, fire at full power and kill her, regardless of the cost."

The warships in the sky turned their guns and began charging, while the super tank forces on the ground also moved out and surged toward V. Even in the long-frozen Del Coronado Bay, several submarines broke through the ice and opened their vertical launch units.

This is Vincent's true strength—not in individual combat, but in military power that transcends everything.

He could easily launch a war that would destroy the world, but today he only wants to destroy one person.

But V was never a person.

She looked up at the sky, silent, as if she had given up resisting. But a clear dragon's roar suddenly rang out, and a warship in the sky was suddenly snapped in half and blown to pieces.

Vincent was shocked, for an Eastern dragon was wreaking havoc in the sky, constantly weaving between the warships, using its agile movements to pierce through them and cause massive explosions.

At the same time, changes occurred on land and in the water. A huge rhinoceros, nearly fifty meters tall, rampaged, overturning main battle tanks one after another like children's toy cars. Meanwhile, an equally enormous mermaid appeared in the water, its tail sweeping up towering waves that instantly smashed the submarine, breaking its bones and causing it to bob up and down.

"That's impossible!" Vincent's eyes widened.

“Nothing is impossible. AI is not traditional life. Even if it is deleted, there is a way to restore it.” V looked at Vincent: “You dismissed the AI ​​and killed them, but I hacked into the network of your time and resurrected them from the recycle bin.”

"They're just a bunch of nanoclusters aggregated together. I already revoked all their permissions. You're the ones who will fail!"

As Vincent finished speaking, a satellite orbital cannon in space unleashed a barrage of fire upon Night City. But a humanoid AI wielding golden scales suddenly appeared, and with a flash of golden light, the fire seemed to reverse time, returning to its original path.

"Holy crap, a huge treasure chest!?" Vera exclaimed.

Adam Hammer said speechlessly, "What giant treasure chest? That's Time Technology's main AI, Astraea!"

Yes, that is indeed Astraea.

Vincent suddenly flew into a rage: "You bastard, you have no idea what you're doing! Open fire, kill Astraea immediately!"

The satellite railgun began charging again. Astraea, her expression grave, said to V, "I am merely a nanocluster aggregate; my permissions are insufficient to continuously block attacks."

"It's okay, I'll handle the orbital satellite."

As soon as V finished speaking, a cheerful female voice suddenly rang out: "Hehe, let's play together!"

Then another humanoid AI appeared, dressed in a pumpkin dress and a pumpkin hat, sporting a gothic look. It was none other than the entertainment AI, Liselotte. She took out a giant pumpkin, made a ">.<" expression, and with a "Hey!" kick, sent a nano-pumpkin flying into space at cosmic velocity, accurately hitting an orbiting satellite.

Vincent was dumbfounded.

Vera was also dumbfounded.

Even Adam Hammer, a man of few words, couldn't help but complain: "Is this reasonable?!"

Vera glanced at him: "Never doubt the fighting ability of a comedic character."

Adam Hammer: "..."

Seeing his troops suffer heavy losses, Vincent broke out in a sweat and looked at V.

The five super AIs had already gathered around V and merged into her body.

AIs naturally grow stronger by devouring each other. V has no intention of devouring them, but a brief fusion would be easy for it.

In an instant, the white light in V's eyes shone even brighter, and the nanoclusters in the air seemed to have met their emperor, lifting her up.

Vincent couldn't resist scanning V to see her current data and formulate a strategy, but he got an unexpected result:

[Physical ability? Reaction? Technique? Calmness? Intelligence?]

Vincent: ? ? ?

Chapter 186...

"What the hell are you?!"

Vincent asked a question.

V didn't answer, but waved.

She waved to the sky, and a gale swept across it.

She waved her hand at the ground, and the earth tore apart.

She waved to the ocean, and towering waves rose from the sea.

She waved her hand three times, and Vincent's unmanned army was completely wiped out.

Vincent had never been numb before, but now he really was.

V had used this technique before, fighting Ultraman in cyberspace. Back then, the number of nanobots wasn't too high, and he only managed to defeat Ultraman by relying on the computing power of natural creatures like flowers, birds, fish, and insects. However, more than two thousand years later, the concentration of nanobots in the air has reached an unimaginable level. The miracles that were once only possible in cyberspace are now achievable in reality for V.

It is no exaggeration to say that with just a thought, she could move mountains and overturn seas, and dim the sun and moon.

V's white eyes looked at Vincent, and the Great Demon King trembled and subconsciously took a half step back.

But when V reached out, the surrounding soil churned and turned into a giant hand that gripped him tightly.

Vincent struggled, and the giant rock hand shattered with a crash. He charged forward, intending to attack V directly, but the air suddenly transformed into the sharpest blades, slicing and slicing at him, splattering blood. Crying in pain, Vincent immediately turned and ran, but V waved his hand again, freezing his legs in ice, causing him to collapse to the ground with a thud.

Vincent cursed under his breath and shattered the ice with a punch, but V had already floated over. He immediately threw another punch, but V dodged the attack with the most natural posture, like a falling leaf. Then, with a fourth wave of his hand, the nanocluster compressed the air and condensed it into a huge fist, which slammed down hard on Vincent.

With a loud crash, the earth trembled, and Vincent lay motionless in the deep pit, like a lump of mud.

V waved his hand again, and the nanocluster adjusted the air density, pulling Vincent from the pit into the air.

“I understand…” Vincent said with difficulty, “You are also an AI, you control the entire nanonetwork, right?”

V didn't answer, but simply moved his fingers, and the air began to tear at Vincent's limbs, causing him to scream in agony.

"surrender."

V means concise and to the point.

Vincent screamed in protest: "Don't even think about it!"

With a ripping sound, Vincent's legs were cleanly torn off, causing him to scream again.

"Surrender." This time V added a few more words: "Otherwise, your head will be the next one to be ripped off."

"Fuck you!" Vincent yelled. "I am V, and V will never surrender!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a white light suddenly emanated from his body.

Adam Hammer exclaimed in alarm, "Oh no! He's trying to escape through time!"

"Letting a tiger return to the mountain is unacceptable!" Vera immediately shouted, "V, kill him!"

V had already moved. She reached out and pierced Vincent's heart. Just as she was about to crush his accessory heart, Vincent laughed while vomiting blood.

"Hey, got you!"

V immediately detected the cyberattack launched by Vincent. Hundreds of high-intensity magical puppets swarmed towards her as if they were free, but to V, who possessed the entire nanonetwork, it was nothing more than a gentle breeze. She destroyed all of these magical puppets in less than 200 milliseconds.

Vincent grinned as his "desperate attack" was blocked.

You shouldn't have touched me.

V's mind immediately went into alert mode, but a red and black data stream suddenly surged out from Vincent's network link, like an indestructible blade, slashing fiercely at V.

With a whoosh, V was completely unharmed.

But her white eyes suddenly returned to their original color, and the completely AI-controlled state was instantly deactivated.

"This is... the Black Wall?!"

"Blackwall is the most professional at dealing with AI!" Vincent grabbed V's wrist and slowly pulled her hand away from his chest: "Military Technology Chapter 6, what, you didn't install it?"

V's hand was completely pulled from Vincent's chest, and Vincent snapped his wrist with a snap.

In pain, V raised her foot, but Vincent blocked it with one hand. Having exited full AI mode, V's stats were now completely inferior to Vincent's. She was grabbed by the ankle and slammed to the ground, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

"Yes, of course you can't install Military Technology Chapter 6, because you are an AI, and Blackwall Technology was created to eliminate AI. It is your natural enemy!"

As soon as Vincent finished speaking, he swung his fist at V's head. V tensed up and quickly raised her arms to block, but the punch was so powerful that her arms were instantly twisted and deformed. Vincent's second punch was already coming down.

"Die!"