Invasion

Chapter 41: Invasion

Inside the vast and opulent structure of the manor.

The squad guarding the entrance formed a human wall, ready to fire at anyone who appeared.

Qin Xia emerged from behind them and, under their astonished gazes, unleashed psychic lightning, instantly obliterating them all.

Several guards stationed in a room, who had set up defenses after hearing the alarm, were about to rush out when they were blown apart by grenades thrown from the shattered ceiling.

On the mandatory path guarded by elite guards, these individuals were loudly inquiring about the intruders. Then, their questions abruptly stopped as their heads exploded simultaneously.

An invasion of the manor was underway.

All signs of this invasion suggested a professional squad of assassins had entered the manor, but in reality, the sole perpetrator was just one person.

"Tell me where your master is," Qin Xia extended his hand to the guard in front of him, but he wasn't truly asking. Instead, he used his psychic power to read the guard's mind.

By implanting a specific thought into the person's mind, Qin Xia could then read related memories.

It was the same way he had read Ono's mind to learn the Nuceria language.

However, the guard hadn't seen the person he was supposed to protect; his rank was too low.

Many guards within the manor hadn't seen their master either.

But since they were part of the manor, Qin Xia could still glean some clues from their minds and use them to deduce the location of the person he intended to kill.

"Underground," Qin Xia lowered his head, looking at the ground beneath his feet.

At this moment, an uncontrolled psychic prophecy suddenly manifested.

Qin Xia looked up, suddenly hearing a piercing sound near his ear. He instinctively dodved, and the spot where he had been standing was pierced by a beam of light.

Looking through the gap created by the beam, several hundred meters away within the vast building, ten individuals wearing the same goggles as the slaver captain were holding energy pistols. Their gazes penetrated the walls, seeing his location.

Then, beams of light began to assault him continuously.

These individuals were hundreds of meters away from Qin Xia, separated by countless walls, yet they could see where Qin Xia was and fire at his location.

As they fired, they advanced. The energy plating on their armor directly melted through the walls, allowing them to move in a straight line towards Qin Xia.

As Qin Xia was forced to retreat further and further by the beams, other guards being mobilized within the manor could arrive in time. Ultimately, they attempted to capture Qin Xia alive.

This was all something Qin Xia had seen in his psychic prophecy.

He already knew the opponent's decisions and tactics, so naturally, he wouldn't sit idly by and be forced to retreat.

Qin Xia chose to take the initiative.

In the recent prophecy, Qin Xia had seen a large-caliber heavy machine gun spewing flames. That heavy machine gun would block his path along with the beams, so Qin Xia headed directly for the location of the heavy machine gun.

Dense beams of light continued to strike him; there were so many that Qin Xia could only dodge.

If he had been wearing Grey Knights' armor when he first arrived in Nuceria, even without the help of psychic prophecies, the fight wouldn't have been this troublesome.

The heavy machine gun from the prophecy was heading towards Qin Xia's location.

It was mounted on a quadrupedal combat machine. This monstrosity was only the size of a small car, not too large, and could move freely within the vast corridors of the manor's grand architecture.

The guard operating the heavy machine gun while standing on the quadrupedal combat machine was scanning his surroundings with his goggles. To him, walls and other obstacles were merely transparent materials formed by red lines. If anyone approached, he would see that approaching person.

"He's coming to me," the guard spotted a blurry humanoid silhouette charging towards his location. The figure was smashing through all the walls in its path as it ran, coming straight at him.

Affected by psychic powers, the guard, who saw Qin Xia as an old man, was curious. What kind of person could possess the ability to continuously smash through walls without wearing any equipment?

This question flashed through his mind in an instant. The guard placed his hands on the heavy machine gun and fired at the charging humanoid silhouette.

The nineteen-millimeter heavy machine gun spewed flames two meters long, spitting out hundreds of rounds in less than two seconds. These bullets easily penetrated the steel reinforcement within each wall, shooting towards Qin Xia.

The guard kept his finger on the trigger. The heavy machine gun quickly overheated, but a piece of almost melted metal was ejected from the gun body. After the second piece of metal automatically loaded like re-chambering, the overheating issue was resolved, without even a moment's pause.

The guard continued firing relentlessly until Qin Xia reached him. Only then did he discover that the intruder had a barrier shimmering with white light in front of him, blocking all the bullets.

Seeing this meant the guard's life had reached its end.

Qin Xia instantly leaped onto the quadrupedal machine, casually picked up a shell from the scattered heavy machine gun casings on the ground, and violently jammed it into the guard's head.

At this moment, the individuals who could fire beams of light from hundreds of meters away were somewhat distant from Qin Xia. They could still see him, but the beams could no longer fully penetrate the walls between them.

"Finally, a suitable weapon," Qin Xia grabbed the handle of the heavy machine gun and violently dismantled the entire weapon.

Quickly checking the magazine, Qin Xia saw there were still fifteen rounds left.

There were plenty of heavy machine gun rounds in the ammo box on the quadrupedal machine, but Qin Xia didn't pick them up or use them because he needed to quickly return to the fight.

Moreover, he felt those fifteen rounds were more than enough.

After leaping from the quadrupedal machine and landing, Qin Xia took a deep breath and charged towards the enemies who were continuously firing beams of light.

The distance between the two sides rapidly closed. Then, as a beam of light grazed past Qin Xia, he fired into the hole from which the beam had emerged.

The heavy machine gun's bullets passed through the hole created by the beam, tearing the upper torso of the person who fired the beam from their lower body.

Another beam of light attacked, but it was blocked by the psychic barrier.

Qin Xia quickly turned and repeated his maneuver, firing into the hole.

The heavy machine gun fired, and the impact of the muzzle blast kicked up dust throughout the room. However, Qin Xia remained perfectly still, as if a mortal were using a small-caliber rifle, calmly watching as another person on the other side of the hole had half their body torn away by the large-caliber bullets fired from the heavy machine gun.

After eliminating three more people in the same manner, the enemy clearly realized that their indiscriminate beam fire was no longer effective as before, so they temporarily ceased fire to consider their next move.

Qin Xia, carrying the heavy machine gun, sprinted forward in a straight line for a hundred meters.

When he encountered a wall, he would brace his shoulder against it, then leap and exert force, smashing through the wall, repeating this process.

Until Qin Xia reached a corpse.

He crouched down and picked up the goggles, placing them before his eyes. He discovered that this contraption could indeed see people and objects through walls, but its principle was to scan a large circular area for thermal energy, then process the wearer's vision with a chip, displaying the scanned thermal energy through three-dimensional technology onto the lenses for intuitive visualization.

It was like wall-hacking in an FPS game.

Therefore, a living person appeared as a blur within these goggles.