noveldepot Chapter 49 Side by Side
Chapter 49 Side by Side
The moment she lunged forward, the remaining two machines finally reacted.
They no longer regarded her as a light aircraft that had just rushed back, charging headlong into the battle in a fit of rage and speed.
That last moment was enough for them to understand that what should have been just a troublesome variable had now become the truly fatal one.
One of them immediately changed direction and rushed over, trying to suppress her while she was still unstable after unleashing her power.
The other machine then crashed into Zhen Tianzun again, clearly intending to separate them and prevent them from rejoining the battle line.
The vector didn't stop.
Just as she was about to set off to go around it, a judgment flashed through her brain module even faster than her actions—she could not separate anymore.
If they widen the distance again, that situation will repeat itself. Zhen Tianzun's current state is not suitable for being held back by one person any longer, and her newly unleashed power is not suitable for fighting head-on without any coordination.
The fire in her chest suddenly contracted.
The cold, bluish-green magnetic ring lit up again, clearer and more stable than before.
The light quickly spread along the edge of her chest, extending outwards along the inner rails of her shoulders and arms, even causing the tiny metal fragments scattered at her feet to tremble slightly.
She stared intently at Zhen Tianzun, her body giving the order to the brain module before it even got started.
come.
Suddenly, the distance between her and Zhen Tianzun, which had already widened, was suddenly pulled back to the middle by some invisible force field.
The debris on the ground slid inwards, scraping against the metal surface, causing the residual energy waves in the air to become disordered. The enemy aircraft, which was preparing to cut in and continue dismantling them, visibly paused, its center of gravity shifting half an inch as if pulled off course by something unseen.
Zhen Tianzun immediately followed.
Without any hesitation, he swung his left arm shield horizontally, directly blocking the impact of the oncoming machine. The dull thud made half the wall tremble. At the same time, he used the force of the impact to push forward, forcefully pulling the battle line back to her side.
The vector immediately penetrated the inside of his defenses.
too close.
She was so close that she could even feel the faint creaking of the still-unrepaired structure on Zhen Tianzun's body under the heavy pressure, and smell the lingering heat from the cracks in his outer armor.
But this time she wasn't distracted by these things.
Taking advantage of the opening he had forcefully blocked, she flipped her left arm's energy blade, and the entire machine slid out like a cold light brushing against the shield, slicing straight towards the side of another machine.
The opponent reacted quickly, instinctively turning around to block.
Clang!
The blade collided with the opponent's arm armor, creating a series of sharp sparks.
With a flick of his wrist, Yin Xiang avoided a direct confrontation and immediately lowered his blade, cutting sharply into the elbow joint through the gap exposed during the opponent's block.
The sound of the outer armor cracking was crisp, and the opponent's entire arm froze instantly, slowing his movements by half a beat.
Zhen Tianzun didn't need her reminder at all.
He had been waiting for this moment. A compressed cold light suddenly flashed from the muzzle of his right arm cannon, and the energy cannon fired at close range, forcing the enemy aircraft that was fighting him to retreat two steps to the side.
When he caught a glimpse of the cannon beam in his peripheral vision, he quickly ducked and rolled to the other side.
Now it's not about each person fighting their own battle; it's about cooperation.
The two enemy planes were clearly aware of this as well.
Their biggest advantage was that Zhen Tianzun was still recovering, while she was merely agile, fast, and troublesome, but hadn't truly matured into a sufficiently stable player. However, once they were brought together again, this combination of heavy and fast tactics would become extremely disgusting.
What's more troublesome is that the power that the vector force just unleashed is no longer just about crashing into the wall uncontrollably once.
She's starting to know how to use it.
Unskilled, but posing a threat.
In another engagement, one of the enemy planes attempted to flank her from the side, trying to get close to her due to her light aircraft size and force her out of the range of Zhen Tianzun's cover. But as soon as he stepped in, the edge of the broken armor and metal plate beneath his feet suddenly slipped.
The stress distribution over a small area is faulty.
In the instant his center of gravity shifted, the gravitational vector was almost touching his chest. A cold, bluish-green energy blade suddenly rose from below, slicing open a long gash in his abdomen. Energy fluid gushed out, and the other party let out a low growl, raising his knee to strike her.
Zhen Tianzun's shield came crashing down from one side.
A muffled thud.
The opponent's entire upper body was knocked to the side by the impact, and the heavy blow that was originally aimed at her missed its mark.
Using her feet for leverage, she quickly stepped back half a step as he was thrown off balance, her gaze colder than ever. She didn't continue cutting around the machine; instinctively, she pulled back the magnetic pull that was still burning in her chest.
The already short distance between her and Zhen Tianzun was shortened even further.
She hadn't fully grasped this strange ability that had suddenly appeared, but she was aware of its power and importance.
The two machines opposite were clearly getting annoyed by their constant attacks, and their movements became even more aggressive. The more agile one, in particular, tried several times to squeeze in from the edge to shoot her, but each time it was either forced back by the cannon of the Heavenly Venerable, or just as it was about to get close, the force on its feet, sides, and even when it swung its arm felt a little awkward.
In such a life-or-death battle, even being half a step too slow can be a fatal mistake.
The vector itself could feel that the fire load was increasing significantly.
That new power wasn't given to her for nothing. Each pull, compression, and adjustment felt like a portion of her inner fire energy was being directly consumed within her body, causing a slight tightness in her chest.
But she can't back down now; she's already gone this far, there's no turning back.
An enemy plane suddenly pounced on the brief opening after Zhen Tianzun fired a shot, swinging its heavy weapon horizontally, but its target was not Zhen Tianzun, but rather a diagonal slash at her neck from another angle.
This attack was both swift and insidious.
Relying on instinct, she sidestepped, the blade grazing her neck armor and sending sparks flying. She tried to slash at the other's wrist, but before she could fully raise her hand, another shadow loomed over her head.
It's another machine.
They weren't useless either; they knew that she was the variable that needed to be dealt with first.
Two attacks followed, one after the other.
At the crucial moment, a heavy shield thrust horizontally into the middle.
Zhen Tianzun forced his way in.
The impact was so heavy that even his own shoulder and arm movements were clearly hindered, but he didn't even flinch. As his left arm braced against the front, his right hand folded the blade and "clicked" it out, then thrust it hard into the side of the nearest machine.
The other party growled and turned to retreat.
The index vector has caught up.
She grabbed the shield of the Thunder God for leverage, darted out along the edge, and her cold, bluish-green energy blade slashed across from a narrow angle, directly severing the main wiring harness on the side of the machine's neck.
The other person's movements suddenly froze.
The next heavy blow from Zhen Tianzun has arrived.
boom!
The machine was slammed into the half-collapsed wall by his punch, along with its armor, the entire chest plate deformed. Vector didn't give him a second's respite, lunging forward through the opening created by the Heavenly Venerable's attack, its blade smoothly finishing off the man through the structural crack in his chest.
As the blade pierced through, she could even feel the slight, real cracking sound of the flame being destroyed beneath the blade's tip.
Her spark still flickered.
Immediately, she drew her blade and stepped back, letting the machine slowly slide down the wall.
There's only one left on the field.
The machine clearly hadn't expected to be forced back so quickly, and when it took a half step back, its posture showed hesitation for the first time.
The tension in his chest did not ease in the slightest.
She looked at the other person, her voice low, even flat.
"Still trying to leave?"
The other party did not answer, and the next second they turned and ran, heading straight for the gap that had been smashed open on the other side of the building.
He wants to leave.
The vector's gaze suddenly sank to the bottom.
No.
Now that we're here, we've already fought, we've seen their methods, and we even know what's going on here, we absolutely cannot let them go today.
She raised her hand and pulled him this time.
The cold blue magnetic ring around her chest suddenly lit up, and as her fingers tightened, the enemy plane rushing outwards seemed to be dragged from behind by something. This sudden pull caused its figure, which was about to burst through the gap, to clearly stop.
In that instant, Zhen Tianzun caught up.
He was injured, but he was still incredibly fast.
Taking advantage of the moment when the opponent was slowed down, the silver-gray figure rammed into them, slamming the machine back into the wall with the shield on its left arm, while the muzzle of its right hand suddenly lit up at face-to-face distance.
The enemy aircraft instinctively raised its arms to block.
The gravitational vector, however, had already appeared on the other side.
This time, she's focusing on leg movements.
With a flash of the blade, a deep gash was instantly sliced open in the opponent's lower body, causing the entire machine's center of gravity to plummet. Just as he was thrown off balance by both Zhen Tianzun's shield and her blade, Zhen Tianzun's cannon finally fired.
The roar was deafening.
The aircraft was thrown backward by the blast, its chest armor was completely ripped open, and metal fragments flew into the air.
She stepped into the still-lingering heatwave, the cold, bluish-green blade in her hand clean and ruthless.
Then she made her cut, steady and quick, without needing a second cut.