Radiant Knight!

In the old city district, at the Three-Phase Martial Arts Hall.

The roar of police cars in the street made Zhou Yan frown. He found the noise a little annoying.

He was also mildly curious about what had happened in the city, but after giving it some thought, he decided to stay out of it.

Zhou Yan was a retired member of the Three Aspects Gang, and he was not from this world.

He was both distant and detached from this world. Whatever happened to it had nothing to do with him, as long as it did not disturb his quiet life.

"Your right foot! Shift it three inches to the side, or you won't be able to exert your full strength!"

Zhou Yan shouted at the top of his lungs, and Li Peipei immediately adjusted her stance.

Above the North Wind Consortium headquarters.

A television station's helicopter circled high overhead as a war correspondent faithfully brought everything happening here before the viewers' eyes.

Duan Jun and Yang Dehai saw clearly as Xia Lin threw a punch and blasted Suzuki Wan to pieces.

At the same time, at the Gu Yue Financial Group.

Gu Hua spat out a mouthful of red wine and broke into a fit of coughing.

He watched Xia Lin kick open the twisted car door amid the flames and sprint toward the gates of the North Wind Consortium. He was utterly numb, his head spinning.

"Come on, man... Come on, man!?"

"You're this fierce and this crazy!?"

He was among the earliest people to become Ash Zone Walkers.

In four hundred days, dozens of stints in the Ash Zone, and two Sequence Hegemony Battles, Gu Hua had seen plenty of madmen.

But honestly, few were as crazy as Xia Lin.

On closer consideration, though, what Xia Lin was doing was not completely insane. At most, he was only half-crazy.

After all, Ash Zone Walkers who had completed their main quest thought in an entirely different way from those who had not.

Watching Xia Lin charge ahead on the television, Gu Hua came to a realization.

"His attributes have been boosted considerably. He's nothing like a newbie-at least around sixty points."

"A limit-breaking skill? Or some kind of temporary buff?"

"Does he get stronger the longer he fights? Or..."

He kept pondering Xia Lin's combination of skills, especially the effects of the limit-breaking skill Xia Lin might possess.

That also meant Gu Hua now regarded Xia Lin as someone on his own level.

It also showed that Xia Lin had gained the strength of a low-ranking sequence contender from the last Sequence Hegemony Battle.

Xia Lin, however, did not know where he stood among the Ash Zone Walkers.

Nor had he yet found his niche among them.

But one thing was clear.

He needed to grow stronger-as strong as possible!

Otherwise, whether in the Ash Zone or in reality, the weak were bound to be used as playthings and treated as cannon fodder.

Having been cannon fodder once, Xia Lin absolutely refused to be cannon fodder a second time.

Absolutely not!

For that goal, for a leap in strength, Xia Lin did not care about the danger at all.

Outwardly, that made him look crazy and utterly fearless!

As long as there was a chance to improve his attributes, Xia Lin dared to act even at the risk of losing his life.

That was Xia Lin. That was how Xia Lin thought!

"And besides, how could any of you possibly have the strength to kill me!!"

Boom!

Xia Lin smashed the bulletproof glass doors open with a violent punch!

The doors were made of the same material as the floor-to-ceiling windows in the VIP box at the North Wind Arena.

Before, Xia Lin had needed three whole punches to shatter the box's glass window. Now, he needed only one!

This was Backstab, this was a limit-breaking skill, this was East Wind Divine Fist!

This was a skill combination of limit-breaking, defense, and offense!

The three worked perfectly together.

And so, they produced a qualitative change!

Boom!

He moved like a gale, his fists like lightning.

Xia Lin charged through the mechanical soldiers' hail of bullets and leaped into the middle of their formation.

Then he slammed a fist into the ground, detonating the half-meter-long missile with a thunderous blast.

The explosion sent everything flying!

Before the smoke could clear, the naked Xia Lin had already burst out through the flames. He kicked open the door to the first-floor emergency stairwell and raced upward.

The thirty-third floor!

The top floor of the North Wind Consortium headquarters building.

And the location of the North Wind Consortium president's office!

Rapid footsteps thundered out.

Alongside them came a continuous series of explosions.

The entire building shook and trembled.

From time to time, Xia Lin's wild laughter rang out as well. Like a devil from hell, he brought calamity and destruction!

But honestly, the layout of the building annoyed Xia Lin.

Neither the emergency stairwell nor the elevators led directly to the thirty-third floor.

To reach the president's office, aside from taking the private elevator hidden who knew where, one had to pass through long corridors on the sixteenth and thirty-second floors, crossing the entire width of each floor to reach another stairwell and continue upward.

On the sixteenth floor, Xia Lin encountered more combat robots.

Among them were the so-called A-rank combat robots.

In appearance, the A-rank robots were not much different from the B-rank ones Xia Lin had seen. The main difference was in their power output.

It was more than three times as high...

But that was fucking useless.

The A-rank robots were also equipped with high-tech weapons such as rotary machine guns and thermal cutting swords. The weapons themselves were no different in lethality, and there was little difference in the materials used for their bodies. The main difference was their operational endurance.

But no matter how high their endurance was, it made no difference to Xia Lin.

With Martial Artists Do Not Die from Gunfire at his disposal, Xia Lin slaughtered these robots as easily as killing chickens.

He easily cleared that obstacle, but on the thirty-second floor, Xia Lin stopped advancing for the first time.

Ahead of him, an exquisitely designed robot blocked his path.

The word "Radiant" on its chest dazzled Xia Lin's eyes.

"SS-rank."

Xia Lin lightly licked his lips as he spoke.

In Fierce Martial City, the Suzuki Consortium possessed the production technology for the most advanced combat robots.

The strongest product it sold was the SS-rank combat robot.

And there was only one model.

Its name was the Radiant Knight!

The Radiant Knight was humanoid and stood 2.3 meters tall. It looked like a medieval knight clad in a full suit of plate armor. Intricate patterns covered the armor, though they were actually energy circuits.

It held a greatsword as large as a door.

It looked like a melee fighter.

But Xia Lin was not afraid of melee combat.

Martial Artists Do Not Die from Gunfire was a conceptual skill, also known as a rule-based skill.

Anything that fit the concept of a technological weapon was affected by Martial Artists Do Not Die from Gunfire.

That undoubtedly included fully automated combat robots themselves.

Xia Lin had already tested something: taking a combat robot's physical blow with his body.

The result had been as gentle as a goose feather brushing against him.

Yes, even if the Radiant Knight swung its greatsword down on Xia Lin's forehead, the blow would still be weakened by Martial Artists Do Not Die from Gunfire. Moreover, Xia Lin's physical attributes had improved again, so the Radiant Knight could not even break his skin!

In essence, however, the Radiant Knight was not a melee-type robot.

Scorching beams of light suddenly erupted from the Radiant Knight's eyes, reaching Xia Lin's chest at the speed of light.

Xia Lin felt only a flash of heat on his chest. Two burn marks were seared into it, giving off waves of heat and the smell of scorched flesh.

Looking at the wounds on his chest, Xia Lin's mouth split into a savage grin.

"Good... Very good!"

He raised his head and looked at the Radiant Knight.

He saw that it had already thrown away its greatsword. The tips of all ten fingers flew off, revealing ten dark laser emitters.

The Radiant Knight lived up to its name.

It could fight at both close and long range, but was especially powerful at long range!

And Xia Lin's Martial Artists Do Not Die from Gunfire also had a limit to what it could withstand!

After all, the skill only greatly weakened the damage from technological weapons; it did not grant complete immunity.

At that moment, the Radiant Knight struck hard enough to reach the defensive limit of Martial Artists Do Not Die from Gunfire!