1198 White Crab Army 2 (1/2)

”Die!” One of the half-machinized goons finally gave in and started firing.

Boom boom boom boom!!!

The light-duty submachine gun made very little noise, but still could not hit even Garen's shadow.

Compared to their response times and action speed, Garen moved as though he teleported. With such short distances, he just needed to leap forward, and before they could even blink, he had already jumped across several meters of space. He held in his hand the thick metal plate, more than a meter long, and casually bent over, slicing the two men's waists.

Their guns were still firing, but the two men slid to the ground in two halves each, their mouth still screaming for a full two seconds before the noise died down.

The bullets continued to rebound all around the room, but Garen just waved the exceptionally thick metal plate casually, and all the bullets embedded themselves into the plate effortlessly.

He looked down and observed the underground facility.

”Why do these guys always like to build their bases underground?” Garen rubbed his chin. ”Should I go down or not?”

He did not have his powerful supernatural powers right now, so if he went down and some of the people inside ignited a grenade or something powerful like that, trying to pull him down with them, within that sealed room, its power would be… Tsk-tsk…

As he was right now, there was no doubt about it, he would definitely die.

The hot weapons in this world were clearly much stronger here, and the restrictions on supernatural powers were too considerable. And after he forced himself up a level, the increased supernatural powers mostly manifested in his speed and reactions. After he strengthened himself, his Saber Art could be executed at twice the speed of before, at the least. That was the true power of it.

In Saber Art, when he was waving his blade, he would naturally follow the air current that gave him the most speed, slicing down the path of the gravitational field, such that everything was almost completely perfect.

But none of these power-ups could help him face non-discriminatory fire head-on. The only way to handle attacks like those were to hide or take them face-on.

”This is slightly hard…” Garen did not want to put himself in harm's way.

Ever since he found out that this universe was connected to the other Lighthouse universes, all he wanted to do was simply kill time in this universe, holding in there until his physical fitness reached its most terrifying peak limits, and then he could destroy any opponent he wanted easily.

There was no need at all to fight the enemy to the death right now.

But clearly, there was a chance that the enemy held Kong Xinxue hostage. To Garen, that was a problem.

However, he did not have long to agonize over it, because the other party showed up just like that.

Brr...

Amidst the low hum of the earthquake, some drastic changes appear to have occurred outside.

Garen quickly retreated out of the metal house and saw a gigantic platinum-colored metal platform, more than several hundred meters long, rise slowly from the beach at the front of the island ahead of him.

There was a huge cylindrical crystal bottle on the platform, with a pale yellow liquid inside. An unconscious woman floated inside; it was the missing Kong Xinxue.

Two figures stood in front of Kong Xinxue, one tall and one short. The former was the tall robot that had appeared before, with a triangular head and the symbol of a white crab on its chest. Two scythe-like scimitars jutted out of its arms, making it look like a small-sized elephant. It had considerable tonnage as well, which clearly meant that it was the power-type.

The other shorter figure was the stark naked woman who had impersonated Kong Xinxue. She held a long, sharp spear in her hand, the kind of riding spears people only used on horseback in the past. It made a stark contrast against her demure figure, merely 160 centimeters tall.

”Force Fielder…” The robot spoke first. ”You are emitting similar forces… Looks like we are the same.”

”?”

Garen had no idea what the robot was saying.

”Wanna fight? If not, just hand her over, I'm in a rush,” he said nonchalantly. Other than large-area bomb attacks like before, nothing else worked on him. Even the bombings from earlier did not cause as much damage to him as one would expect, all he sustained were some light injuries.

”Hand over your Sacred Sigil, and I can let you leave here in one piece,” said the robot in a deep voice, waving the scimitars in its hands.

”Do I look like an idiot to you?” Garen was speechless. ”Please don't ask such r*tarded questions, it feels like you're insulting my intelligence.” And a Sacred Sigil? He never had one of those, so he could not hand it over even if he wanted to.

”Or else, I kill her.” The robot tilted its body to one side, aiming one of its scimitars at Kong Xinxue, who was behind it. ”She's your older sister, yes? Are you going to disregard your relative's life?”

It had not occurred to Garen that they would do that, or rather, he had practically forgotten that he still inhabited Kong Xiaofei's identity. Now Kong Yuan had gone missing, and Kong Xinxue had fallen into enemy hands as well. Indeed, if it were him, a face-to-face threat would be the best course of action.

”Go ahead, kill her,” Garen rubbed his chin and replied after some thought. Threats were the last thing he was afraid of, practically nobody had been able to threaten him throughout his journey, since he started from the Secret Technique World until now.

The robot and the woman had not expected Garen to reply so decisively and were clearly taken by surprise as they paused there for a moment.

Whoosh!

At that moment, Garen moved instantly. He tossed the black metal plate he held in his hand ruthlessly, and it sliced through the air, spinning at high speeds and crashing toward the two with a terrifying momentum. Even Kong Xinxue behind them was caught in the crossfire.

”Is he crazy!?” The same thought flashed through the robot's and the woman's minds. It seemed as though Garen planned to kill Kong Xinxue as well, he showed no signs of holding back.

And all of this happened too quickly. The woman still managed to leap away by the tiniest margins, but the robot was by nature heavier and clumsier, so it could not dodge at all and had to resort to holding up its blades to block.

Bam!!!

The black metal plate, spinning like a shuriken, crashed mercilessly into the robot's twin blades, emitting a loud and piercing sound upon impact.