Chapter 66 (1/2)

Chapter 66

Tournament 1st day (3)

While the crowd was stunned as to the reason the hammer could bypa.s.s the s.h.i.+eld, the other contestants were looking decidedly worried.

‘D*mn. If he can cancel out my s.h.i.+elds, doesn’t that mean my robot is useless?’

‘This...This is terrifying. I concentrate my robot on its defense! With this, I can’t win!’

‘How does he do that? I wonder…. Could it be he found a way to disrupt the s.h.i.+eld through magnetic pulses?’

Such were the thoughts of the other contestants. While most worried what this meant for their fighting style, a select few were curious on how he accomplished such a feat. If they could figure out how, then would they be able to come up with a counter?

Chu Shen saw their concern written on their faces as he sat down. He smirked. It was so simple yet almost no one had thought of it! The way he canceled the s.h.i.+eld earlier was this.

His hammer vibrated at certain frequencies. By vibrating at the exact opposite frequency of the opponent's s.h.i.+eld the two frequencies canceled each other out! When that happened, the s.h.i.+eld and the vibrations would disappear, allowing his hammer and the robot cha.s.sis underneath to be meet!

The oscillator changed the frequency while his robot scanned the opponent’s s.h.i.+eld frequency. This was the real reason why he decided to use a hammer. To test out this idea! Of course, this idea only worked if the opponent had only one s.h.i.+eld frequency. If they had multiple layers with one frequency than his hammer would only cancel one and no the other layers.

Even if that was said, most contestants only used one frequency for all their s.h.i.+elds. If they accidentally chose the wrong frequencies, than the s.h.i.+elds could interfere with each other. If that happened, it would be best that they didn't have a s.h.i.+eld at all. As a result, most contestants stuck with one frequency to avoid interference and instead focused on building the robot and adding on weapons.

All of the contestants were separated into brackets of eight. Each group had people with a similar win-lose ratio. For example. Chu Shen was in group 1 with a 2-0 count. However number 17 was in group 4 with a 0-2 count. Group 2 had a 1-1 count and so did group 3.

However the ones who won their first fight but lost the second would be in group 2 while those who lost their first fight but won their second would be in group 3.

Chu Shen could be considered as a very troublesome opponent. Of course others probably had hidden cards that wouldn’t be revealed like Sea G.o.d's Wrath that unleashed that unexpected missile attack.

Chu Shen waited for another two hours. Finally it was time for the third and final round. With this there would be 8 groups made of 4 contestants. The next day they would be fighting to see what their specific rankings would be. Then they would do the challenges.

This time Chu Shen wasn’t called first. Instead he had to wait until the sixth fight was done. “Alright contestant numbers 28 and 1, please take your positions.”

Chu Shen faced the robot swarm. Yes, a swarm of robots. There was twenty robots in total. They were small cylindrical robots about half a meter tall. Two lasers were jutting outwards from the front. The body was gold and had golden half spheres studded on the outside. It looked just like the Dalek from Doctor Who.

As expected from someone who named their robot swarm, The Dalek's Revenge.

““Fight!””

Chu Shen activated the s.h.i.+elds and then immediately dodged. The daleks had immediately taken off, firing lasers at him. They swarmed upwards, flying through the air in a complicated swarm.

Chu Shen had no idea how he was able to control that many but they were very troublesome. As he started firing into the swarm, his blasts would hit a dalek. However, as he started to wear down the s.h.i.+eld another dalek would fly in front of the beam, letting the previous dalek recover it’s s.h.i.+eld.

He was barely managing to dent the enemy. Using the explosives he shot upwards. When he became level with the daleks he started shooting towards them in a zigzag pattern. Right foot boom. Flies left. Left foot boom. Flies right.

He quickly closed in on them. Suddenly the daleks stopped their complicated maneuvers and made a wall. All of them fired the lasers at him! It was a wall of forty lasers from the two lasers on the front and the one on the dome that looked like the head.

s.h.i.+elding himself he blocked the lasers he couldn’t dodge and closed in the gap. Aiming with his left hand he shot the energy burst cannon. As the ball of crackling energy flashed into the swarm of robots, it obliterated one of the robots!

Bang Zzzzt

The energy ball smashed through two of the daleks, the third dalek’s s.h.i.+eld flashed but managed to block it. Chu Shen fell to the ground as the explosives in his feet needed to cool down.

Unfortunately he couldn’t use his hammers s.h.i.+eld nullifying property properly in a fight like this. For one, each dalek had a different s.h.i.+eld frequency. For another, locking on to one in such a formation was impossible.

Chu Shen sighed. Another one of his trump cards was needed here as well. Grabbing the head of his hammer, the outer edge of nanites molded to his arm. Activating yet another icon, he pointed it at the swarm of daleks.

The seemingly solid shaft split apart, forming a showerhead like bottom.

PSEEEEEW

Streams of bright blue superheated plasma flew into the air. The showerhead like opening might seem funny, but it wasn’t a laughing matter. The superheated plasma flew upwards in a stream that seemed to go everywhere.