084 Space Sniper

Red Mist Star, low orbit, Poros-11 Observation Satellite.

"The time has come."

Siveston gave a slight nod, lowered his visor, and stepped directly into the vacuum. He said over the team channel:

"I have reached the designated orbit and am calibrating the 'Yaksha' sniper parameters."

"So soon?" Xia Yubing said in surprise. "You arrived three minutes ahead of schedule. They haven't even left the arena yet."

"This sniper cannon needs some time to adjust, after all."

As Siveston spoke, he pulled aside a layer of covering over the satellite's skylight, revealing a ferocious giant beast before him.

It was roughly as long as a luxury sedan. Its incomparably sturdy body was built from polymer composite materials, while mithril threads wound around it in ring after ring of acceleration coils. It was clearly a typical linear accelerator cannon, also known as a Gauss Rifle.

It used the interaction between the magnetic field of an induced current and that of the acceleration coil current to generate Ampere force, accelerating and firing the projectile—such a principle was simple enough for even kindergarten children to understand.

Yet high-end weapons often required only the crudest and simplest operating principles. Before reaching the realm of gods, all mortal weapons were fundamentally nothing more than clubs and stones.

Siveston was no exception. Time had been too tight, so he could only use the tools already available to make a series of modifications. Anyone who looked closely would notice many familiar traces on this Yaksha.

Yes, this was the inertial cannon once wielded by the late Cumin Powder.

Ever since Cumin Powder had passed away, Caramel Snail had become more rational. His little girlfriend was dead, sure, but he had no intention of cherishing and sealing away her belongings—perhaps, to him, letting the weapon of someone he loved