The mecha warriors around him kept closing in, several Brain Domain Levels firmly locking onto Su Ming.
With little room left to maneuver, Su Ming found it incredibly difficult to escape the mecha warriors' lock-on.
But... there was not the slightest hint of panic in Su Ming's eyes. His communicator clearly relayed Warren's countdown.
"30 seconds left!"
"20 seconds left!"
Su Ming made no further moves. He continued dodging the attacks striking toward him from all around, his eyes terrifyingly calm.
"Su Ming, 10 seconds left! Hurry!"
Warren's voice gradually took on a sobbing edge.
When he heard that there were only 10 seconds left, an intense gleam suddenly erupted in Su Ming's eyes.
"Exchange for 400 Starlight Points!"
Su Ming spoke in a calm voice.
In an instant, an incomparably vast force surged into every corner of Su Ming's body.
As always, the capillaries throughout Su Ming's body were stretched until they ruptured, and wisps of blood seeped from his body.
But Su Ming did not let the swelling sensation coming from within his body interfere with his judgment.
He rapidly analyzed the situation in his mind. Then he stopped dodging and charged forward toward the attack fired by one of the mecha warriors.
"Electromagnetic Light Shield!"
Su Ming shouted coldly. A massive amount of Starlight Energy was released, and intense light immediately burst from the left hand of the mecha he was piloting. A huge Electromagnetic Light Shield instantly unfolded in the mecha's grasp.
With the support of Starlight Energy, the Electromagnetic Light Shield immediately erupted with a powerful energy-level reaction.
"Boom!"
The opposing mecha warrior's attack was blocked by the Electromagnetic Light Shield, but it also directly reduced the shield's durability to around 60 percent.
Room for two more hits... Su Ming silently calculated. Then the Nuclear Thruster on his back instantly activated.
In that instant, instead of being blasted away by the enemy's attack, his mecha used the Nuclear Thruster to burst forth with terrifying speed. It advanced rather than retreated, instantly charging toward the mecha warrior.
"Damn it! They're trying to break through! Go support them!"
The other Imperial mecha warriors immediately realized what Su Ming was trying to do. Without the slightest hesitation, they rushed to support Su Ming and the mecha he was about to attack.
However... the other mechas were still a step too slow. The mecha piloted by Su Ming erupted with maximum speed at that moment and instantly arrived before the mecha.
[Bloody Wave XAZ-071]
The Bloody Battle Axe that had cleaved the Steel Lizard to death instantly appeared in Su Ming's mecha's hand.
Silver light surged in Su Ming's eyes. He immediately poured all his Starlight Energy into his arm and battle axe.
[Starry Sky Limitless Heavenly Art: Battle Chapter] [Martial Skill—Heaven Splitting]
This was Su Ming's first time using the martial skill Heaven Splitting from the Starry Sky Limitless Heavenly Art.
Legend had it that Pangu wielded a massive Chaos Axe and split the heavens and earth apart with a single swing, separating the clear heavens above from the turbid earth below.
Thus came the name Heaven Splitting.
The martial skill Heaven Splitting could only be released with a battle axe. It possessed extremely powerful penetration and defense-breaking abilities.
It was perfectly suited to the situation at hand.
Su Ming watched as an intense protective barrier lit up over the enemy mecha.
Without hesitation, he raised the great axe in his hand, his eyes fixed on the enemy's protective barrier.
Su Ming himself was a mechanic, so he knew very well that machinery had patterns, and energy had patterns too!
As energy circulated, there would certainly be an instant of looseness and stagnation.
That gap was the key to breaking through the deadlock.
Su Ming's gaze sharpened, and he suddenly looked toward an inconspicuous spot.
"Heaven Splitting!"
At once, a powerful energy level erupted. At that moment, Su Ming seemed like a giant emerging from primordial chaos, wielding a huge axe with an aura capable of splitting heaven and earth as he struck directly at the weakest point of the mecha warrior's Energy Shield.
Heaven Splitting— [Physical Penetration +70%] [Energy-Level Might +30%] [Defense-Breaking Ability +50%]
In an instant, the Bloody Wave Battle Axe released a dazzling crimson light, as though endless blood had flooded over and submerged the mecha.
Once the other mechas' vision returned to normal, they suddenly discovered...
The attacked mecha had been cleaved in two. The mecha warrior inside had been brutally split apart by a single axe blow, dead beyond any doubt.
And the mecha piloted by Su Ming did not stop. Relying on the opening created by cleaving the Imperial mecha warrior in two, he broke through the encirclement of the mecha warriors.
He shot out!
"4..."
"3..."
Even now, Su Ming remained terrifyingly calm inside the cockpit. He was still counting down the spaceship's spatial-transmission countdown aloud.
"2..."
As Su Ming spoke that number, his figure suddenly flew into the spaceship with its hatch open.
"1..."
The hatch instantly closed. Then an enigmatic spatial fluctuation erupted from the spaceship.
"0..."
A spatial fluctuation instantly enveloped the spaceship. As the other mecha warriors rushed toward it, the spaceship vanished from where it stood, leaving behind a silent void.
The spaceship... had successfully completed a spatial jump!
The remaining Imperial mecha warriors looked at one another, extraordinarily complicated emotions showing in their eyes.
Anger, unwillingness, frustration, helplessness—every emotion was mixed together.
"Why is there a mecha warrior like this in the Temporary Army?"
"Where did he get his mecha? And where did he learn those mecha piloting skills?"
A deep chill welled up in everyone's hearts.
After this mecha warrior assassinated an Imperial mecha warrior at the very beginning, he had quickly killed another Imperial mecha warrior in an instant while surrounded by everyone, then swaggered away.
If the initial assassination could be blamed on their carelessness,
then after the encirclement, they truly had no way to stop his breakthrough and instant kill, allowing him to come and go as he pleased.
Even his coordination with the spaceship afterward had been timed to perfection. His grasp of the moment had reached its peak, leaving them no time to recover before he entered the spaceship and departed through a spatial jump.
They had rushed over for nothing.
The mission... could technically be considered complete. After all, the vast majority of the soldiers in Temporary Army No. 32 had been annihilated, and the remaining few posed no threat in terms of public opinion.
But... in their hearts, the mission counted as a failure...
The enemy had been only one person, and his energy level was not even as high as that of any one of their mecha warriors. Yet he had forcefully killed two of them in return, causing everyone to unconsciously etch the figure of that silver mecha warrior into their memories...
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