Chapter 734 - Mislead (2/2)
Manudo and the others stood in place and were stunned as well.
Hila felt the overflowing energy in her body, but instead of being happy, she was filled with discontent.
She had been keeping Aurora away from harm, but because of her mistake, Aurora had to use her life force to heal her. She felt that this was her fault… Although Aurora could gain that life force back very quickly, because of what had happened back in the Germinal Organization, this was still a taboo for Hila.
Just as Hila was about to attack in rage, a large hand suddenly pressed on her shoulder. She turned around. It was Han Xiao.
“That’s enough. There’s no training value if you carry on. It will just be a battle to see who’s stamina depletes first.”
Han Xiao softly pressed on Hila’s smooth, soft cheeks. Nanoparticles extended from the tip of his finger and formed a helmet, replacing Hila’s broken helmet and allowing her to speak in the communication channel.
Hila clenched her teeth and said, “Understood.”
“Leave this to me.”
Han Xiao turned around and looked at the three nervous Calamity Grades.
Manudo was panicking. Black Star finally was going to attack.
This time, Han Xiao suddenly thought of something
The enemies clearly knew of his capabilities, yet they made such a bad attempt at provoking him, so their goal should be to lure him into battle. Of course, this was definitely not because they were kind and sending him free kills.
After thinking for a short moment and recalling Manudo’s nervous expression when provoking him, it then occurred to Han Xiao. Jorde was definitely behind this. That little weasel had used Psyker’s psychic weapon on him two months ago, but he had gone to the Palace of Hidden Spells, so he did not take part in any battles for one and a half months. This had made Jorde anxious, so he was using this to test his current state.
Having realized that, Han Xiao had an idea and did not immediately attack. Instead, he connected to Manudo’s communication channel and slowly said, “Are you sure you want to fight me? I don’t know if this is your own decision or someone ordered you to do so, but think about it carefully. People are going to die from this.”
Manudo gulped. The other two did not speak. Jorde did not want to be discovered by Han Xiao, so he did not speak either.
“I’m now giving you guys a chance. As long as you surrender and announce to leave the Bloodshed Land, I won’t do anything to you. What do you say?” Han Xiao said.
“You want me to betray the Bloodshed Land? No way!” the Grade A Cannon Master yelled and immediately fired.
Without even moving, more than 300 Watcher Instruments appeared beside Han Xiao, formed a formation, and created a psionic shield, easily blocking the attack.
Han Xiao shook his head and deliberately said, “What’s so good about Heber? Does he deserve such loyalty from you?”
“He’s the only one I’m willing to follow. How dare you speak of His Excellency Heber like that?” this Cannon Master sneered. He was a direct member of the Bloodshed Land, so he was extremely loyal.
Han Xiao narrowed his eyes and did not speak anymore. He summoned the mechanical army and attacked. It swept over the entire battlefield like a tsunami, scattering all the fleets.
Facing the mechanical army that filled his vision, Manudo felt suffocated. He had no choice but to fight it.
Han Xiao activated Apostilization and joined the battle. He secretly changed the tempo of the battle, increased the attack frequency of all the mechanical soldiers, and sacrificed accuracy to do so, deliberately showing impatience.
Of course, normal people would not notice such details, but he believed that the Bloodshed Land would definitely discover these tiny changes with their artificial intelligence’s analytical abilities.
Sometimes, tricking smart people was even easier than using stupid ones. All he had to do was mislead the opponents into the conclusion that he wanted them to have through details, and the opponents would fall for it easily. If they were not cautious enough, Han Xiao’s efforts would all go to waste.
High-level lies are always ninety percent real and only ten percent fake. What Han Xiao wanted was to make Jorde speculate that he had become weaker.
As for the reason, it was so that he could use this opportunity to take some time off from the secret war and focus on cultivating leeks. This was the most important matter at the moment. Be it advancing to Beyond Grade A or suppressing the Soul Embryo, they all required a large amount of Experience.
He was completely uninterested in letting his sub-personality be born. It would be best to make sure it never formed.
As soon as Han Xiao struck, the battle became one-sided. Under the True Damage of [Legendary Battle Technique), the Cannon Master was very quickly shattered by the mechanical soldiers. The head of the other teammate was also blown away. Manudo was the only one left barely holding on.
Panicking, Manudo hastily sent a message and said, “Wait, wait, I surrender!”
Han Xiao received the message and stopped the mechanical army. He then waved his hand and pulled Manudo over from afar through the mechanical suit’s force field.
Manudo did not dare resist and let the mechanical soldiers restrain him.
“You’ve made the right choice.” Han Xiao smiled.
Manudo nodded continuously. He had thought it through it was clear that Jorde did not care about his life, which meant that he would die sooner or later in the Bloodshed Land, so he might as well surrender. Furthermore, he did not have another choice if he wanted to live.
Escape from Black Star?
I’m not Hadavy, I can’t do it!
As the high-level combatants of the enemy were all eliminated, the battle that followed had a clear result. Rexson destroyed Stronghold W-58 and seized the loot.
After Hila absorbed all the remaining gray souls on the battlefield, she locked herself in her room and digested her first experience of fighting with Calamity Grades.
Jorde was analyzing the recording of Han Xiao’s battle in the headquarters.
Losing a stronghold meant nothing to him; what he cared about at the moment was Han Xiao’s state.
Very soon, he noticed something strange.
“Two months ago, Black Star never asked anyone to surrender and killed every one of our people. Even when he faced just one Calamity Grade, he never showed any mercy. Why did he ask them to surrender?”
Jorde frowned and looked at the recording a few more times.
Before, Black Star’s mechanical army’s attacks were all carefully and precisely calculated.Read more chapter on novelhall.com
Today, however, the attack rate of his mechanical army increased visibility, as if he was willing to waste energy to increase the attack speed and gave up some of the precise calculations. As a result, many attacks completely missed.
This change made him feel a sense of… impatience?
“First, he asked our people to surrender, then he was in a hurry to end the battle…” Jorde pondered for a while and suddenly figured it out.
Black Star was trying to reduce the time of the battle, or he did not want to take part in the battle.
These two details made Jorde feel that he could guess Han Xiao’s current state.
Psyker’s psychic weapon might have dealt some kind of continuous damage to Black Star, and if he fought others, the damage would be enlarged. This was why Black Star acted differently from before.
“My speculation should be right!”
The threat of Black Star had decreased!
Having proved that Black Star had become weaker, Jorde was overjoyed. Although he did not know what damage Han Xiao had received, with this discovery, he could daringly adjust his strategies.