The Legendary Mechanic, page 823
Plus, he now also had four more Universal Treasures and was four stages higher on God’s Trait Transformation Machinery…
“I’m going to crush you today!”
Han Xiao took no step back and let the trident penetrate his chest as he cut off Manison’s right shoulder. The two of them fought viciously like two gigantic beasts tearing each other apart.
Ames and Hila had just arrived at the edge of the battlefield. They both stopped when they saw this.
The two of them were originally worried about Han Xiao getting outnumbered, but now it seemed like there was no need to worry.
“He doesn’t seem to need our help.”
“Then let’s go back and continue searching.”
While the two of them were about to turn around, Han Xiao’s voice suddenly sounded in the communication channel.
“Hila, keep searching. Ames, stay.”
Hearing this, Ames was slightly stunned.
“For what?”
“See those two Beyond Grade A prosthetic bodies that are surrounded by the mechanical army? Grab them with your ability.” “Didn’t you just say I’m a burden and wouldn’t let me help?” Ames raised her brows.
“It was to trick the enemy.” Han Xiao was not ashamed at all.
“Humph, I knew you need me.”
Ames smiled and was in a much better mood. She joined the battle immediately. She grabbed the two Felons with her force field and started dragging them away.
Under Han Xiao’s influence, she did not mind joining a duel at all.
Originally, Manison made the mechanical army surround the two Felons with everything they had, stopping Han Xiao’s troops and trying to recapture the Felons to take them back to the secondary dimensional army box once again. The two Felons did not have full memories, but they still had their combat experience. Noticing that the Mechanic Emperor wanted to capture them again, they naturally resisted. However, without a source of energy, they became much weaker and got overwhelmed by Manison’s Apostle Weapons. If this had carried on, they would have been captured.
However, as Ames joined in, the situation changed. Her force field Esper Ability was incredible at crowd controlling. It instantly tore the defenses of Manison’s troops open and allowed Han Xiao’s mechanical army to charge in and help the Felons.
Seeing this, the expression of Manison, who was fighting with Han Xiao, instantly changed.
You piece of sh*t, what happened to one on one?
Thousands of curses rushed to the tip of his tongue. In the end, they all combined into one sincere, enraged shout.
“Black Star, you’re shameless!”
“We’re in the middle of a fight. Don’t flatter me.”
Han Xiao was not affected at all, even being in the mood to make a joke. He had already reached the highest duration for the challenge mission of Manison. The mission was shown as completed now, so there was no need to continue taking a private class from old Manison.
Furthermore, now that Manison’s Felons and Indestructible Mechanic Empire had gone out of control, they were basically a huge piece of cake placed right in front of him
Of course I’m going to ask for my friend to help. Why would I still fight you alone? Did you really think I’m such a battle maniac?
You are now basically a box of treasure!
Boom!
The blade slashed onto the pole of the trident, emitting a ring of shockwave. Han Xiao raised his brows and mocked, “Yo, weren’t you going to fight me head-on till the end? Why have you started guarding?”
Manison remained silent and changed his combat style entirely the next second. He moved from one extreme to another and went completely defensive, clearly wanting to stall for time.
At the same time, his mechanical army gave up on fighting back and focused on retrieving the Indestructible Mechanic Empire troops and the Felons.
It was clear that Manison no longer wanted to decide a winner between him and Han Xiao. All he wanted was to reduce his losses as much as possible. “Now you want to retreat? It’s too late!” Han Xiao sent multiple ‘Getta Hadoken’ messages over privately and started his all-out attack on the elderly. After just a while, Manison was showing signs of defeat all over as he had to minimize the losses of his troops. Swoosh!
A wa
The blade spun and picked Manison’s Lord’s Avatar out from inside the Mechanical Deity.
Han Xiao instantly used a powerful restraining beam and pulled Manison’s Lord’s Avatar toward him. He then punched forward with his enormous metal fist. Due to the tremendous difference in size, not only did the Lord’s Avatar not fly out, but it got stuck on the fist.
“Plate!”
Ames understood instantly. She controlled her force field and created an enormous force field barrier in front of the Mechanical Deity like a green wall. They clearly had very high synergy.
Han Xiao’s fist slammed right onto the barrier with Manison’s Lord’s Avatar on it.
Boom!
Enormous, visible spider-web cracks instantly erupted on the force field barrier!
Manison was in the middle of it. The Lord’s Avatar was almost flattened.
Still, he did not fight back and was focusing on controlling his mechanical army to throw his Universal Treasures back into the secondary dimensional army box and reduce losses.
The next moment, the Celestial Punishment Edge was raised. A bright dark blue light appeared on its blade as it slashed right down accurately onto Manison’s Lord’s Avatar.
Boom!
The force field barrier shattered into countless light-green fragments and disappeared.
Given the Celestial Punishment Edge’s size, this could not really be called a slash. It was more like throwing a mountain onto an ant!
Han Xiao looked up and saw that Manison’s Lord’s Avatar had already turned into a pile of floating waste. On the half of its metal head, the electronic eye flickered a few times before completely dimming. The Mechanical Force on it also slowly dissipated. (Lord’s Descent) was deactivated.
Without Manison’s Mechanical Force, the secondary dimensional army box instantly shrunk and disappeared.
The troops that had yet to escape all remained there. The golden electronic light on them disappeared as they lost all Mechanical Force bonuses and got surrounded instantly.
“Humph, told you I was going to crush you today!”
Han Xiao felt exhilarated.
Throughout his life, he had experienced losses against the Mechanic Emperor way too many times.
Even though he was the final winner of the Intelligent Plague incident, without those dozen Mechanics who came to stop the battle, he probably would have lost against the Mechanic Emperor back then too.
This time, however, he had finally triumphed completely!
Chapter 1169. I Might Not Have Earned a Lot, But You Definitely Lost a Ton |
Without the Lord’s Avatar, Manison could no longer keep the secondary dimensional army box open, leaving the rest of the mechanical army with no reinforcements.
Even though Manison could still provide the Mechanical Force bonuses through Quantum Infinite Distance Transmission Channel if he wanted to, it would be meaningless. Almost all of his troops had been seized by Han Xiao. There was no way he could turn the situation around.
Han Xiao asked Phillip to do a count. Other than the millions of normal mechanical soldiers, he also seized two Felons and a ton of Indestructible Mechanic Empire troops.
Old Manison had started to minimize his losses as soon as he realized the situation had turned bad. The Apostle Weapons had run the quickest and all managed to escape, and he had just managed to snatch the Esper Felon back in the end. As for the other two Felons, one was captured by Han Xiao’s Mechanical Deity, and he could not bring the other one away because of Ames.
“Nice, nice!”
Han Xiao was filled with joy.
He could reverse engineer the blueprints out of all these mechanical soldiers, especially the two Felons. He could totally derive the technology used. While he had made a huge fortune, old Manison had suffered tremendously. He had come to find the Soul Swapper. Not only did he not get it, but he even lost a ton of assets.
Han Xiao could vividly imagine Manison’s furious expression right now, and damn did it feel good.
He had finally robbed Manison big time!
However, that left him with some trouble too. The two Felons had regained their self-consciousness, so he had to deal with it. Han Xiao released the Mechanic Felon inside the Mechanical Deity and let him rendezvous with the other Pugilist Felon. He then surrounded the two of them with his mechanical troops.
Seeing this, the two Felons instantly got into a defense stance, but none of them made a move. Although they could not remember many things, after experiencing the battle earlier, they knew that Han Xiao had saved them. However, they could not trust Han Xiao yet and were worried they might have walked out of a tiger’s den and into a wolf’s nest.
Han Xiao deactivated the Mechanical Deity, passed through the encirclement, and approached the two of them. He narrowed his eyes and asked, “How much do you guys remember?”
The two Felons exchanged looks and shook their heads.
“I see, so nothing other than the battle earlier. What about your names?”
The two of them shook their heads again.
“No names… only code names…”
“What code names did the Mechanic Emperor give you guys then?”
The Mechanic Felon pointed at himself and then at the other Felon.
“I’m Two. He’s Four.”
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Hearing these two names, Han Xiao did not know what expression he should give.
Why is Manison so ‘whatever’ in choosing code names? It doesn’t suit their identity as trump cards at all!
Could it be that this b*stard’s level of naming things is on par with me?
Looks like even the weaknesses of great people are similar.
Han Xiao rubbed his chin, pondered for a moment, and said, “Alright, you guys should follow me for now. I’ll find your identities for you. You were both the Mechanic Emperor’s enemies, so it shouldn’t be that hard.”
The Mechanic Felon Two said quietly, “You are not going to control us like he did, are you?”
“I’m not planning to at the moment, but that might change in the future.” Han Xiao shrugged. “But you don’t have a choice now, do you?”
Looking at the countless mechanical troops around them, the two of them nodded.
Comparatively, they would not have an even worse time in the hands of this handsome and extraordinary man.
If this man wanted to replicate what the Mechanic Emperor was doing, he would not have said so much to them and would have captured them long ago. “Who… are you?” Four asked.
“Listen carefully then. The man who stands before you is the army commander of the Black Star Army, protector of the Aquamarine Federation, peak of individual greatness of the Shattered Star Ring, leader of the second strongest organization in the Flickering World, pillar of the Crimson Dynasty, Special Consultant of the three Universal Civilizations, vice president of the Beyond Grade A Association, hero of the universe who defused the Intelligent Plague, owner of the Galaxy Medal…”
“Your name is too long. I can’t memorize it all.” Four shook his head.
“…Ahem, these are all my titles. You can simply call me Black Star.” Han Xiao knew that the two of them did not know who he was, so the more titles he mentioned, the more intimidating he would look.
The two of them exchanged looks and nodded.
They did not have anywhere else to go for the time being anyway, so they did not mind following Han Xiao. Among their few remaining emotions, their hostility toward the Mechanic Emperor was the strongest. They might only have the chance to take revenge if they followed this person before them, or once they were alone, they would be captured by the Mechanic Emperor again.
Han Xiao chatted with them for a while and told the mechanical troops to take them back to the spaceship. He had yet to decide on what to do with the Felons who had regained their self-consciousness, so he decided to keep them under his control and think about it later when the matters at hand had been dealt with.
He looked at the other side and saw that the Indestructible Mechanical Empire troops were gathered at the side and staring at him. Inside the quantum network vision, these artificial intelligences who had recovered were also looking at him, clearly ready to run away if they noticed anything was wrong. After experiencing the disaster of the Mechanic Emperor, these artificial intelligences had figured out how the food chain worked. Every Mechanic was a predator in their eyes; there was no such thing as trust.
Han Xiao thought about it. With his position, it would not be good for him to talk to these artificial intelligences. It would be like a butcher telling a bunch of pigs that they were pretty. It would definitely cause misunderstandings.
Therefore, after some pondering, he summoned Risda in the virtual domain.
“I’ll leave your people to you. Just don’t let them run wild.”
“Understood!”
Risda was overjoyed.
How many years has it been? The day my people are freed has finally come!
Although the process was tremendously different from his imagination of charging into the Mechanic Emperor’s nest, the results were positive.
Even though only some of his people were saved, at least he could see hope!
Choosing Black Star back then was indeed the right investment!
Seeing that Risda had gone to communicate with his people, Han Xiao only then looked away and shook his head. He was not optimistic.
Unlike the Felon technology, recovering back to normal did not mean complete freedom for these Indestructible Mechanical Troops. This was because the shells of these artificial intelligences were still linked with the device that transported their recombination materials. Through the energy transmission channel, Manison could still locate them. Unless the terminal was dealt with, these artificial intelligence lives were prisoners locked inside their shells. Once their shells were broken, Manison could retrieve them any time he wanted.
This was a security measure of the Indestructible Mechanical Troops technology. Han Xiao had yet to master this technology, so he did not know how to break the link.
Therefore, the one and only effective solution at the moment was to keep these Indestructible Mechanical Troops at home. There was no chance he could take them out to battle; Old Manison would never help him to rebuild these mechanical troops with his own resources in his lifetime.
Winning the fight was one thing. Old Manison was still a master who had studied machinery for countless years, so his signature technology would not be dealt with this easily.
Han Xiao was not hoping to fight with the Indestructible Mechanical Troops anyway. Firstly, the players under his command were much more terrifying. Secondly, he was not in dire need of the Indestructible Mechanical Troops technology, as the powerful factor of the Indestructible Mechanical Troops was its almost perfect self-sufficiency, which he could already achieve on his own.
Rather than modifying artificial intelligence lives into Indestructible Mechanical Troops, he would rather restore them and use them to derive the fragmented blueprint of the Domino Virus… That thing’s destructive power was many times stronger than the Indestructible Mechanical Troops.
Regardless of whether he could not use them for the time being, making the Mechanic Emperor unable to use them too was the main goal. Of course, these Indestructible Mechanical Troops were not completely useless to him. They were all important intelligence sources. He could ask about the state of the Mechanic Emperor’s various bases.
While he was pondering, Hila’s voice suddenly sounded in the communication channel. “Black Star, come here quickly. We’ve found the target.”
“You’ve found the Soul Swapper? Great job!”
Han Xiao’s eyes gleamed.
He did not forget that the Soul Swapper was the true goal of this trip. Now that he had locked down Planet Earth Ring, he was not going to stop until he found it. With an expert in the soul area such as Hila and the aid of a few kings of luck searching every inch of the planet, there was nowhere the Soul Swap Twins could run. No matter how mysterious and magical the Soul Swapper was, they would get discovered sooner or later.
As soon as Han Xiao returned to the spaceship, he saw the two people who were tied up in the middle of the room. They were both female and had looks of despair on their faces.
“These are the Soul Swap Twins?” Han Xiao looked at Hila and Feidin. “You sure you got it right?”
“Definitely.” Hila took out a dark crystal mirror and passed to Han Xiao. “They’ve confessed to everything. This is the Soul Swapper.”
Han Xiao took over the Soul Swapper and looked at the item details on the interface.
Soul Swapper: Space Wonder type item. Unknown origin. Unknown material. Able to swap souls around as the user wishes, ignoring any rejection symptoms and achieving a perfect fit. However, only special individuals are able to use the Soul Swapper. Requirements: Unknown.
Another Space Wonder, and something I never saw in my previous life… Han Xiao was content. “How did you guys catch them?”
The people all looked at Harrison as soon as he said that.
“Don’t look at me. I just casually pointed…” Harrison waved with embarrassment.
“… Okay, got it.” Han Xiao’s lips twitched.
There seemed to be a difference between luck auras too. For example, Harrison’s was incredibly effective in finding treasures.
No wonder the Soul Swap Twins looked like they had lost all hope. They had changed shells countless times and planned countless steps ahead, but in the end, they had lost to luck. Anyone would go mad. Han Xiao turned to the Soul Swap Twins and asked, “How do you use this?”
“We’re the only two people in the entire universe who can use the Soul Swapper, and we’re willing to work for you!” Jill quickly said. “You’ve actually always been my idol! It would be our honor to work for the army!”
