Xyrin Empire
Chapter 321 - Chapter 321 Chapter 321 Annihilation

Chapter 321: Chapter 321 Annihilation Chapter 321: Chapter 321 Annihilation South District, a bizarre battle between Superpower Users and Alien Technology was intensively underway.

The attackers were a dozen or so individuals dressed in gray trench coats, using various peculiar powers to fight. They coordinated to form a loosely structured circle, utilizing their special abilities to furiously bombard the enemy at the center. Various long-range superpowers shone brilliantly here: Flames, Electromagnetism, Wind Blades–like magical effects in a movie, enveloped that area of less than one hundred square meters. Occasionally, sharp steel bars or heavy concrete slabs joined the bombardment with a whistling sound, attributing to the Object Control Ability Users reinforcing the physical damage insufficiency of these energy attacks. This fierce and precise mixed attack demonstrated the seamless coordination among these dozen Superpower Users. It appeared that they must have undergone considerable specialized training to amalgamate such distinctly different and even opposite attributes into such intense bombardment.

Should anyone from the Superpower Team come here, they probably couldn’t help but exclaim, “Are Superpower Users no longer valuable now?”

This was the abnormality of Olympus–having mastered some basic Xyrin Technology, they had now found effective means to massively enhance low-level ability users. Compared to high-level Superpower Users, those with a hint of special ability, who normally hardly manifested, could be described in droves. Olympus gathered these people, brainwashed them, and then used the enhancement techniques they researched to transform them, eventually producing such a large batch of intermediate-level Superpower Users. In this world, only the madmen of Olympus had the capital to use Superpower Users as ordinary soldiers.

Under the combined attack of a dozen Superpower Users, Little Baobao’s situation could only be described as barely hanging on.

At the beginning, Little Baobao’s messy attack methods indeed caught the dozen or so members from Olympus off guard for a while. However, it didn’t take long for those battle-experienced Superpower Users, under the command of someone, to find the patterns in the little girl’s attacks and her numerous obvious weaknesses. They concluded that she was just a wet-behind-the-ears little girl–strong in combat but with a mentality no older than five.

Thus, after an initial bit of chaos, Olympus’s Superpower Users quickly organized a structured battle formation, used their numerical advantage to create a dense firepower suppression, and successfully interrupted the little girl’s “Doraemon-style” summoning technique. Now, they believed they had the situation completely under control.

Though inherently capable of endlessly variable combat methods, Little Baobao was still just a child. Overwhelmed by the sudden, all-encompassing attacks, the little girl panicked and hurriedly erected a crude, small shelter, hiding inside and hugging her head, calling for help from her superiors.

She had entirely forgotten that her Personal Space contained Host Guard Soldiers, whose combat prowess was second only to the Xyrin Royal Guard super elite soldiers…

The protective performance of the Xyrin Host was indeed powerful; although Little Baobao’s makeshift shelter looked rough, its sturdiness was beyond doubt. However, under the joint bombardment of a dozen Superpower Users, a series of defensive systems had already begun to sound alarms.

The strength of Superpower Users forcibly catalyzed by drugs and radiation would certainly be weaker than normal Superpower Users of the same level, yet balanced by numerical advantage and cooperation, their unleashed attack power was not something a Xyrin Apostle, who was not specialized in combat, could handle. In just a few minutes, the latter had already fallen into an almost certain defeat.

“Should we capture her alive?”

Seeing that the situation was settled, a Body Enhancer standing beside Medusa asked for instructions.

Medusa nodded decisively, “Of course, such a rare specimen must not be missed. Her abilities clearly do not belong to any type of superpower; if we can analyze the source of her power, the gain would be beyond our imagination.”

Medusa responded thus but left some things unsaid. Thinking about the several peculiar incidents that had recently occurred in the city, she involuntarily connected this mysterious little girl to those events. If there really was a mysterious organization that Olympus had never known about and that possessed completely unconventional powers, then this little girl was undoubtedly the breakthrough for uncovering everything. And that was one of the reasons; more importantly, Medusa always felt a strange sense of familiarity when the opponent used those muddled “equipment,” despite not recalling any experience of having seen similar things before. However, she still couldn’t ignore that familiar feeling.

This sense of familiarity was, of course, because the things Little Baobao produced were all Xyrin Devices, while what Olympus usually studied were also relics from the Ancient Era of Xyrin.

Thus, it can be seen that Little Baobao’s “production capacity” was indeed frustratingly mediocre…

But just when everyone thought everything was about to end, that this was going to be a perfect victory, Medusa suddenly felt an unsettling sensation in her heart.

Enemies approaching!?

A thought flashed through Medusa’s mind, and she turned to look at a brown-haired foreign man standing quietly not far away, dispelling such doubts.

Looking at Dubai’s appearance, his abilities seemed to still be functioning normally. Medusa trusted this mysterious system superpower user who was temporarily transferred from the Americas Zone. His “Illusion” ability could completely conceal anything happening within a certain range. Everyone would subconsciously ignore this affected area. Even if there were a dozen superpower users attacking a fierce Loli or two Group Armies firing missiles at each other, not a single police officer would be alerted. And if some unfortunate police officer did decide to come by, he definitely wouldn’t remember that this place even existed!

However, despite thinking this way, Medusa felt that the sense of crisis not only did not fade, but became even more apparent.

Being someone who frequently dealt with danger, she was definitely no stranger to such a feeling of crisis.

When that ominous feeling finally peaked, Medusa faintly felt the ground beneath her feet trembling slightly. Then, she saw the ground underneath the feet of a few of her subordinates suddenly bulging.

“Move away!!”

Medusa only had time to issue such a warning, but it was already too late. The abnormal ground surface, as if a landmine had exploded beneath it, was suddenly blown upwards, sending a large amount of dirt and debris spraying out like fireworks. A huge figure emerged from underground like a murderous god from hell, and three Olympus superpower users didn’t even have time to react before they turned into a cloud of red mist.

“Mission, execution!”

The black shadow that emerged from the ground heavily landed, its sturdy alloy limbs brutally impaled an Olympus superpower user who couldn’t escape into several pieces, and then it coldly spat out those two words.

After recovering from her brief daze, Medusa clearly saw the enemy’s appearance, and her pupils instantly tightened into small points.

A half-human, half-scorpion mechanical beast–what she initially thought was just a rumor had actually appeared again!

“Monster… monster!”

An unlucky Olympus member, standing less than half a meter from the mechanical scorpion, looked up stupidly at the more than two-meter-tall figure before finally realizing, emitting a terrified scream, but in the next instant, his voice abruptly ceased, and his entire body was lifted into the air, descending in parts over the next three seconds.

During this time, the mechanical scorpion merely imperceptibly lifted its arm.

“Click… click… click…”

The sound of metal limbs rotating echoed heart-stoppingly among the Olympus superpower users in the eerie silence. The scorpion-transformed woman turned around emotionlessly like a moving stone sculpture, then walked towards the center of the encirclement. There, the hemispherical defense fortification constructed by Little Baobao was hissing with electrical sparks due to energy overload, covered with scars from various superpower attacks. Around the fortification, twisted rebar and shattered concrete slabs crisscrossed the ground–these were the ammunition used by object control ability users to attack Little Baobao. Now, however, as unsophisticated as her technologies appeared to be, Baobao’s creations proved to be quite reliable in their sturdiness–those ammunitions, not weaker than artillery shells, had now turned into piles of architectural waste, very postmodernly arranging the area like the war-ravaged streets of Iraq.

“Mission, protect the host, complete!”

The Scorpion observed the battered yet intact defensive structures for a moment, then nodded.

“Mission, annihilate the enemy, begin!”

From the moment the Scorpion burst from underground, it only took less than two seconds to slice several superpower users into a spray of red paint with its Ship-Slicing Blade. At this moment, as the mechanical monster turned its gaze towards them, standing next to Medusa, a body enhancer finally reacted, immediately shouting loudly, “What are you waiting for? Attack!”

With that shout, everyone finally snapped to, still somewhat dazed, but instinctively used their most proficient abilities and launched an unrestrained attack on the scorpion woman who was approaching them at a leisurely pace. Unlike before, where they had ganged up on a fierce wild loli due to their numbers, their goal was now to escape from the grip of this bizarre mechanical scorpion woman, and their attacks were even more ferocious than before. In an instant, the spot where the mechanical scorpion stood was completely overwhelmed by a myriad of explosions.

“Ah–” A terrible scream suddenly arose from the outskirts of the encirclement, followed by a series of agonizing cries. The mechanical scorpion, which should have been completely destroyed by various energy attacks, had unknowingly surged out of the bombing zone and appeared outside the encirclement, started to cut through the fragile human bodies with the lightning-fast blades in its hands.

“Retreat!”

In less than a minute, several of Medusa’s trusted subordinates were reduced to a few survivors. Only now did Medusa think of how she should respond, but she also faintly realized that perhaps no one would escape today.

Hearing the order to retreat from their superior, the few survivors who were still madly resisting death suddenly realized that their futile counterattacks were useless. The scorpion’s speed was completely beyond the limits of human sight; they hadn’t even managed to touch a single hair on its head!

And in that instant, a few more superpower users fell to the mechanical scorpion’s sonic charge and rapid slashes — though in terms of attack power, these superpower users weren’t completely outmatched by the mechanical scorpion, the inherently fragile human bodies stood no chance against a high-speed meat grinder.

So, it turns out all this talk of data streams is just so much fluff…

“Severe Winter Impact!”

A cold female voice suddenly rang out, followed by a pale blue halo that swept across the landscape in the blink of an eye. Steel bars and concrete slabs, wherever the eye could see, immediately coated in a crystalline frost, as if the harsh winter had suddenly come early to this wasteland, turning everything into a world of ice and snow.

As the main target of the Severe Winter Impact, the mechanical scorpion quickly developed a layer of ice armor, particularly its six ferocious alloy limbs, which were entirely encased in thick ice.

“You guys go first!” Medusa said pale-faced to the last two remaining subordinates by her side, visibly suffering from the strain of unleashing such a powerful ability, “I’ll hold her off… no arguments! Retreat!”

“Lady Medusa…” one subordinate hesitantly began.

“Crack… crack…” The iced-over mechanical scorpion trembled slightly, and the super-strong ice armor created by Medusa’s full power quickly filled with visible cracks. Seeing this scene, the subordinates who wanted to display their loyalty one last time turned pale as decades-old preserved cabbage.

“Please take care, Lady Medusa!”

With that, the two “loyal” subordinates dashed away like runaway dogs, kicking up a cloud of dust as they headed towards the distance.

“Crack… Splash…”

The sound of shattering ice drew Medusa’s attention back. As she turned around, she saw the mechanical scorpion’s upper body had completely broken free from the ice. Its nearly three-meter-long alloy tail slightly swayed, pointing in the direction where two members of Olympus were fleeing; then, the armor at its tip opened up like a blossoming flower bud, revealing a blood-red crystal that was growing brighter inside.

An ominous feeling had just swept across her mind when the tip of the blood-red crystal erupted with two beams of red laser light, turning the two superpower users who hadn’t gotten far into a puff of blue smoke.

The sound of ice breaking continued incessantly. The Armored Scorpion had finally freed itself from the heavy ice encasing its mechanical limbs and was advancing towards Medusa at a steady pace. Her twin blades, though they had slain over a dozen superpower users, bore no traces of blood–wrapped around them were blue-white electrical lights, instantly vaporizing any bloodstains.

Across from the Armored Scorpion, a young woman surrounded by several ice shields wore a desperate expression. Although her bravery was commendable, her face clearly revealed the disadvantage she was in.

Fairly speaking, with Medusa’s power, she shouldn’t have been so cornered. When fully exerting her superpower, she could even affect the local weather to an extent, where the extreme cold could make steel on Earth as fragile as sand. If her opponent had been human, even one with SSS level superpower, they would have likely met with a grim fate in such low temperatures. However, facing an Armored Scorpion, her superpower was severely weakened–the superalloy from Xyrin Technology was unfazed by cold temperatures. Medusa could freeze an organic being to death, but she couldn’t freeze a mechanical scorpion.

It was as frustrating as Medivh fighting against Touma Kamijou.

Just as Medusa was preparing for a desperate last stand, the mechanical beast opposite her suddenly stopped in place and, as if reporting to someone, declared loudly, “Mission, eliminate the enemy, incomplete, one survivor remains!”

“Mission change, capture the enemy, Wei Jia accepts the task!”

Although Medusa didn’t know to whom the mechanical scorpion was reporting, she realized that it seemed she wouldn’t be dying yet. Relief flooded through her even though she had been prepared for death when she joined the organization; still, being killed by a mechanical monster inexplicably was something she found hard to accept–self-deception or not, she truly felt a sense of fortunate escape.

Wei Jia then stunned Medusa, who was defenseless, and carried her on its back to where Little Baobao was hiding in a defensive bunker and snapped a military salute, “Commander, Xyrin Armored Scorpion Wei Jia reporting! All enemies have been neutralized, you are safe!”

“Um, mmm…”

After a moment of silence, a somewhat aggrieved and frustrated voice came from within the bunker.

Wei Jia, being straightforward, didn’t understand Little Baobao’s meaning and, after a brief pause, repeated methodically, “Commander! All enemies have been eliminated. You are safe.”

“Um…”

Little Baobao responded again in her own invented, muddled language, then began to impatiently slap the bunker’s alloy armor.

“Commander?”

Confused, Wei Jia cocked its head, and then suddenly the exasperated voice of its highest commander echoed in its mind, “…Wei Jia, help cut open this metal shell. This little dummy forgot to install a door…” (To be continued, for more details, please visit www.NovelFire.net. More chapters available, support the author, support genuine reading!)

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