The tip of the blade swept past, drawing out several drops of blood.
He dodged that too? How is that snake tail so agile?
"Tier 2 Source Energy Weapon?" Guda looked at the battle blade in Jiang Xiao's hand, greed welling in his eyes.
On Prison Star, Tier 2 Source Energy Weapons were the highest-end Individual Equipment!
Without answering, Jiang Xiao blurred several times, rapidly closing in on Guda.
Ignoring defense completely, his fierce slashes enveloped Guda. Yet instead of being alarmed, Guda was delighted and took the initiative to meet him head-on!
At the instant Jiang Xiao's blade was about to strike Guda, Guda forcefully twisted his body and swung his club, knocking aside several slashes aimed at his vital points. He then shifted to the side, allowing Jiang Xiao's sharp blade to break through the flames and sink into the flesh of his waist and shoulder.
His high-intensity Source Energy defense prevented the blade from severing his arm outright.
At that moment, accompanied by the sound of tearing air, a long, shuttle-shaped, silver-blue mechanical object suddenly floated and circled behind Guda. Dozens of finger-thick arcs of electricity rapidly converged!
What the hell is that?
That thing charged slowly, taking more than a full second. Under normal circumstances, Jiang Xiao could have easily dodged it, but now he was a step too slow.
As he drew out both battle blades, the thing finished charging, and an incredibly fast streak of light suddenly shot forth!
It pierced straight through the center of his chest!
Guda bared his teeth and grinned viciously.
"It's a Tier 2 Source Energy Weapon obtained from an Advanced Airdrop Crate. Although it doesn't belong to me, the vice gang leader will definitely understand why I used it to deal with you!"
"Hahahaha—urgh!"
Guda's triumphant laughter abruptly froze. He instinctively lowered his head and saw both blades completely buried in his body.
One blade through his heart and one through his waist—two blades, four holes!
The pale-yellow blades were now winding with a heart-palpitating crimson glow.
Jiang Xiao, who should have fallen, pulled out his battle blades as if nothing had happened.
Blood gushed like a spring.
Life: 21% (2%/h)
"Tsk. Losing eighty percent of my health really does count as a lethal-level injury."
Jiang Xiao nodded slightly, putting on a solemn expression. Looking at Guda, who had collapsed on the ground with disbelief written across his face, he swung both blades.
Only after confirming that Guda was thoroughly dead did he say, "A victor's declaration has to wait until the other party has completely become a corpse, idiot."
After confirming that his Life was slowly recovering, Jiang Xiao warily glanced at the radar map.
He quickly looted Guda's spoils: a long staff, a more refined network terminal, three healing potions, and, most importantly, the long shuttle-shaped machine.
"Let's see what good stuff this is!" Jiang Xiao said expectantly.
Thunder Cannon Floating Cannon: Tier 2 Source Energy Equipment. Requires the user to provide Source Energy for charging. Can fire a 'Laser Beam.' Consumes a considerable amount of Source Energy and has a lengthy charging time. Operating it requires diverting part of the user's consciousness. Attack Intensity: Can pierce Source Energy defenses with twice the user's Source Energy Intensity. Single Charge Required: 1.5s
A Floating Cannon?!
Jiang Xiao was overcome with surprise. He had not expected to see such high-end equipment on Prison Star. The miniature antigravity suspension module inside it could only be produced by an Intermediate Civilization.
More importantly, this was a thoroughly mechanical piece of equipment. The blade material accounted for the largest portion of the Source Energy Battle Blades' performance, and Origin Data could not enhance it at all.
Could Origin Data shorten the Floating Cannon's charging time?
Jiang Xiao studied it for a while. Since it was airdropped equipment, it had no complicated operation encryption or authentication. He only needed to touch it for thirty seconds and input his Source Energy signal to gain control.
With a thought, the Thunder Cannon Floating Cannon rose into the air and swiftly darted around him.
"The maximum distance is twenty meters from the operator. The farther away it is, the slower it charges. Attack range..."
Watching a red marker flash at the edge of the radar map, Jiang Xiao nodded seriously and said:
"Practice reveals the truth. I'll know once I try it."
Chapter 14: Sin Capital in an Uproar, Leaving the Old Capital
BOOM!!!
A violent roar echoed as a beam wrapped in arcs of lightning swept across the area.
Several Armored Jeeps exploded with a thunderous crash. More than a dozen charred, mangled Viper Clan corpses were scattered across the ground. Not far away, a Tier 1 Peak Viper Clan member who had lost his snake tail kept clawing at the ground with both hands, desperately trying to escape.
"Where is Lord Guda?! What's going on? This is..."
A head crashed down in front of him. The Peak Viper Clan member froze in pain, his face twisted, then stared at the familiar head before him as his pupils contracted.
"Guda..."
SPLURT!
A cold flash flickered past. The name he had not yet finished saying sank into darkness along with him.
"The maximum distance is around 1,300 meters, but damage drops by sixty-five percent. The optimal distance is around 400 meters, with no damage falloff. As an Individual Equipment weapon used for auxiliary disruption, it's decent."
Jiang Xiao pulled his blade from the brain of the Viper Clan member, which had been cut in half, and was thoroughly satisfied.
Given the current situation, he was very satisfied.
According to the data aboard the Doran, many Tier 1 ranged Source Energy Weapons had a range of at least three to four kilometers. Some sniper weapons could reach five or six kilometers, or even ten thousand meters!
Not to mention Tier 2 Source Energy Weapons.
Clearly, either Laser Weapons had their limitations, or this Floating Cannon had had a key component related to its range removed. Otherwise, its optimal firing distance could never have been only four hundred meters.
Jiang Xiao felt the latter possibility was more likely. In his memories, the vehicle-mounted Laser Cannon aboard the Doran could even blast attack satellites in low orbit from the ground.
Thinking about it this way, the suspiciousness of the Precision Industrial Box had already overflowed.
The Alliance Military Starport had even nerfed Individual Equipment Source Energy Laser Cannons.
"I can finally leave." Jiang Xiao gathered his thoughts and looked at the sky gradually sinking into dusk.
The Thunder Cannon Floating Cannon rapidly contracted into a prismatic arm shield, covering Jiang Xiao's arm.
As an iconic piece of Individual Equipment throughout the stars, the Floating Cannon was also covered in the Doran's lessons. The operating method of a Source Energy Floating Cannon was largely the same as that of an ordinary Floating Cannon.
Jiang Xiao soon found his Armored Jeep. After looking around, he saw that the twenty-odd firearms in the jeep's cabin were intact, but the sniper rifle's barrel had been bent.
Not intending to throw it away, Jiang Xiao placed the sniper rifle on the passenger seat.
"Prison Sniper, don't worry. I'll definitely repair you. Later, I'll even frame the whole thing for you."
As he spoke, Jiang Xiao started the vehicle, but just as he was about to leave, he remembered something.
He opened the network terminal and glanced at it. After confirming the direction of the high-altitude surveillance camera, he leaned out of the window and looked up toward it.
He revealed a mouthful of white teeth, then raised his battle blade and drew it across his neck.
He then silently mouthed the words in Interstellar Common Tongue.
"Wait"
The power motor immediately roared. The Armored Jeep circled around the roadblock and sped toward the outskirts of the Old Capital.
Sin Capital.
The enormous, boisterous city fell strangely silent for an instant.
In the largest bar at the city center, tens of thousands of Sin Capital prisoners who had been celebrating fell silent. After a moment, a voice rang out.
"Just now... did that human look at the camera?"
"Did he seem to say that we should wait for him?"
"..."
"Woohoo!! That was awesome! I think I'm in love with him! Hahahaha!"
"Good, good, good! What guts. I'll wait for him!"
"This is what Sin Capital is all about, hahahaha!"
"Who's afraid of whom? At worst, we die. It's been so long since I've felt this thrilled."
At the edge of the bar, a young alien looked somewhat frightened. Unable to understand the madness of the prisoners in the center, he turned to the leader beside him, who was also grinning and had brought him into his current gang.
"Captain, why are they all so excited? That's a Tier 2 Martial artist who even killed a Tier 2 Martial artist from the Viper Gang."
His leader's smile faded slightly. He then said calmly:
"No matter how you explain it, a 'criminal' born on Prison Star will never understand. The crimes we committed are usually heinous offenses in Interstellar Society. Being sent here after capture is equivalent to getting a life for free."
The captain revealed a vicious grin. "Who among those sentenced here would fear death?! The only thing a true prisoner worries about is dying without a sound, without enough glory or fame.
"Remember, this is—Frontier Prison Star!"
Unlike the large bar in the center of Sin Capital, the small bars scattered throughout the city's outskirts were utterly silent.
Many aliens felt as if their souls had left their bodies, their hearts pounding faster.
"Damn it! The god of slaughter really got out. He's coming to Sin Capital!"
"Sin Capital is going to be thrown into turmoil again. A Tier 2 Martial artist who enjoys indiscriminate slaughter and doesn't fear the major gangs—I don't know how many deaths he'll cause. I hope it won't affect small gangs like ours."
"Damn it, those criminals from outside are all a bunch of lunatics!"
"That Tier 2 Pan-Human Hunter surrounded in Kasar Street Block recently was also an outside criminal. Back then, he specifically targeted non-Pan-Human Species. I wonder if this god of slaughter is the same..."
"..."
In a certain building, completely unlike the noisy, shaking Sin Capital, everything had fallen into absolute silence.
It was not shock at the person on the screen provoking and issuing a challenge.
It was a far more oppressive anger.
At the end of the long table in the central conference room on the top floor, a gigantic figure nearly four meters tall sat in silence.
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