Anyone who had witnessed the Praetorian Guard in battle could not deny their heroic bearing.
What Gronov Rutov's Gene-modded Warrior squad displayed was cold, silent, professional slaughter. The Gene-modded Warriors mercilessly crushed their way through the densely packed tide of Mutants, like an immovable, unstoppable black iceberg grinding steel and stone to pieces, slaughtering every Mutant before them with malformed limbs and Alien Genes using explosive rounds, Chainsaw Weapons, and Force Field Weapons.
Although the Praetorian Guard surpassed them in both professionalism and coldness, and the immense power of Gene Alchemy granted Derrick Xian greater superhuman strength, his fighting style was worlds apart from that of the Gene-modded Warriors. This newly inducted Praetorian Guard had received a far more diverse combat education, and the abilities he could unleash vastly exceeded those of other Gene-modded Warriors.
It was the pure violence unleashed by speed, strength, and technology—the elegant pinnacle of combined flesh-and-blood violence, cold-weapon violence, and firearms violence—as though a golden armored Demigod had stepped out of myth and was displaying violence in its most exquisite form. Derrick skewered several frail Mutant bodies with the blade of the Spear of the Garrison. Rather than activating its power source to shatter their brittle bones, he hoisted them up, then pulled the trigger on the spear shaft. Large Caliber Explosive Rounds instantly punched through their flesh and detonated, blasting blood and shattered bones in every direction.
The blast gases from the explosive rounds swept Derrick Xian's crimson cape aside.
He immediately leaped forward. His blood-soaked crimson battle robe billowed through the air with a sharp crack. Without hesitation, he stepped onto the bodies slaughtered by the Gene-modded Warriors, crushing beneath his combat boots bones that Gronov Rutov had failed to destroy. He bounded up several rock-supported corridors in succession, smashing through an observation