Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
The four underlings pulled their triggers, sending sharp crossbow bolts whistling through the air.
You An charged ahead, blocked the bolts flying toward him with one sweep, then swung his long arm and smashed them back.
The men hurriedly scattered to dodge, but Jin Hongbo gave a cold snort. He spread his fingers, and a mighty puppet six feet tall, resembling a demon, appeared out of thin air.
It was his main Battle Puppet as a Puppeteer-the Heavy Armored Warrior!
Spiritual radiance swirled around Jin Hongbo's five fingers, magic power enveloping them like a glove. As he flexed and extended them, he engaged the mechanisms and rapidly issued a series of commands.
Thunderfire Mechanism, Divine Fire Flying Crow!
The mighty puppet was a modified Armored Warrior, with arms far thicker than those of an ordinary Combat Puppet. A closer look revealed thick, long barrels mounted on them, their pitch-black openings chilling to behold.
Under Jin Hongbo's control, the Heavy Armored Warrior aimed those long barrels toward Li Chen and You An.
"Watch out, those are firearms!"
At the sight, Li Chen's heart sank.
The Thunderfire Mechanism was a method of puppet attack that employed gunpowder weapons and other firearms. Because these weapons incorporated minerals imbued with spiritual energy, they could pierce Gang Qi defenses, and their power far exceeded that of their counterparts on Earth in his previous life.
According to deductions based on the five elements theory and the yin-yang eight trigrams, these weapons possessed the qualities of heat, speed, and fierce force, so classifying them under fire and thunder was entirely appropriate. The shock waves produced by violent explosions were also categorized as a form of thunder Gang, though they shared that name with another variant of thunder Gang belonging to the realm of