Chapter 1 A Brief Stalemate

As Ronny's figure evaporated into the air once more, a brief silence and stalemate descended upon both sides. However, this silence was broken by the sound of glass marbles dropping on the ground, "ba-da, ba-da," followed by a rapid rolling noise.

At this moment, it could be clearly seen that Capote, protected within the circle, was rapidly dropping thumb-sized steel balls, gleaming with an eerie red light, from between his fingers.

These steel balls rapidly transformed and grew upon hitting the ground, turning into palm-sized mechanical spiders. They extended eight long, steel legs and scurried away, squeezing through cracks and crawling across open ground!

This was Capote's other formidable reconnaissance ability: Spreading Mechanical Spiders!

Previously, Capote had obtained an item from the Transformers world: a fragment of a lead box. Having been in contact with the AllSpark for a long time, it had assimilated a small portion of its abilities. After this fragment was fitted with an amplification gem, the actual effect allowed him to temporarily breed metal lifeforms by injecting mental energy.

However, the strength of these metal lifeforms wasn't great, but they were more than adequate for reconnaissance. Capote's steel balls transformed into mechanical metal lifeforms in a steady stream, rapidly compressing Ronny's space like a carpet, forcing him back to a distance of thirty meters.

In this way, Ronny, who excelled in close combat, was virtually rendered useless, and the others would no longer experience that prickling sensation on their backs.

But at this moment, a hundred meters away, the powerful contractor suspected of being an MT (main tank) reappeared before everyone. Without a doubt, Pacino, who had been lying in wait, fired a shot at him!

Old A, this time wisely, didn't waste mana to cast a large fireball. Instead, he watched as the opponent was knocked back but quickly regained his balance, rolling back into the nearby metal trench.

Pacino, holding the sniper rifle in one arm, smiled coldly and said, "This bastard wants to challenge my marksmanship? How naive!"

Watching Fang Senyan roll around clumsily after being shot, the large amount of blood splattering around, and the faint blue mist gradually dissipating, team leader Gani's brow furrowed.

Indeed! The opponent's performance had completely exceeded their expectations. This abnormal guy had already demonstrated terrifying attack power and survivability. He didn't look like a fool who would run out to be beaten for nothing, yet he had deliberately run out. Could there be a special reason for this?

Soon, Aldaris, this giant white orb of light, appeared on a building not far away, raising both hands high and releasing a regional psionic storm towards them! Violent and blazing electric energy swept across in an instant, indiscriminately covering the area in an energy storm. Not only would the grouped-up contractors be attacked, but the fragile metal lifeforms that had just hatched from the steel balls also suffered a devastating blow.

Amidst angry shouts, Old A and others with ranged attack abilities attacked at the first opportunity, focusing all their firepower on Aldaris. But strangely, Aldaris's health dropped extremely slowly. This was naturally because Fang Senyan had bestowed upon him the survival awakening skill: Survival Mark.

Most of the enemy's attack power was first affected by the 40% rule between contractors. After the deduction, only 60% of the damage remained, and Aldaris would only divert 25% of the actual damage from this 60% damage. After deducting defense damage reduction, he was naturally calm and composed.

And Fang Senyan, this freak, only bore the remaining 75% of the damage diverted. His current defense damage reduction was even above 55%, equivalent to only receiving about 35% of the original attack power. And this value had to be deducted by the Sigh of the Reaper's forced reduction of 50 to 200 points of damage reduction!

Therefore, the damage he received was also within his own tolerance range. Unless the attack possessed the ability to ignore defense, deal true damage, or deal holy damage, which could exceed three digits, the remaining damage numbers, although dense, were all jumping around in two digits.

At this moment, everyone understood why Fang Senyan had jumped out and proactively attracted Pacino's shot!

Because at long range, only Pacino's sniping ability could possess the ability to knock back the enemy, thereby forcibly interrupting the psionic storm that Aldaris was continuously releasing.

But now that Pacino had fired his shot, he could only wait for a long time. Not only would the entire team suffer the continuous full damage of most of the psionic storm, but even more terrifying was that the large number of mechanical spiders that Capote had painstakingly released were completely wiped out!!!!

"Damn it! Damn it!" Pacino's eyes almost spat fire. Just being so careless, Gani, who had been very calm all along, suddenly clenched his fists and rushed towards Pacino, shouting angrily, "Careful!"

Only then did Pacino realize that there was a faint chill and stinging sensation on his neck, to be precise, on his Adam's apple.

A sharp blade with a reddish glow was already pressed against his throat. Immediately afterwards, an irresistible force came from behind, causing him to involuntarily fall forward, which almost meant actively dragging his throat across the terrifying blade!

Blood immediately sprayed out from his throat like a waterfall in a fan shape. Pacino immediately instinctively covered it with his hands, but the blood still gushed out from between his fingers, without any intention of stopping. His eyes were wide open, the muscles on his face twitched constantly, and he emitted some meaningless syllables from his throat.

Although throat-slitting wasn't fatal to a dataized contractor, the psychological pressure brought by this attack was also enormous.

The throat-slitting strike undoubtedly dealt a critical hit of four times the damage. After the cruel Dark Templar trials, Ronny not only gained the combat ability to permanently stealth when not attacking, but also greatly strengthened the bleeding damage derived from the attack! So the bleeding attack damage it brought at this time was very terrifying.

After a successful strike, Ronny didn't linger. He retreated immediately, the dark cloak behind him surged and enveloped, swallowing the light, and his figure slowly faded. Although he would appear when attacking, he would re-enter a state of permanent stealth within two seconds of stopping.

As the team leader, Gani also demonstrated his powerful strength. He was clearly more than ten meters away from Ronny, but after crouching down, he arrived in front of Ronny in the blink of an eye as if ice skating. On his fists, there were actually a pair of brass knuckles that looked like Western boxing gloves, with ice-like blue light.

Although Ronny retreated quickly, Gani followed like a shadow! A punch, as fast as lightning, struck out. The sound of those boxing gloves hitting the enemy at high speed could be said to be very eerie. After Ronny was hit by this punch, his figure stagnated for a moment, and a terrifying thing happened.

Gani's burly body actually showed a feeling of wind-blown catkins, sticking tightly to Ronny. His fists even appeared as afterimages as they swung, as if seven or eight arms had grown on his body, and the sound of fists hitting flesh resounded continuously.

It could even be clearly seen that the surrounding fine debris actually began to move towards Gani's direction, as if his fists had a terrifying suction force when he swung them, like a black hole, making it impossible for the enemy to escape and bear his terrifying barrage of continuous blows!

"Shua la" A sound, and again countless afterimages scattered everywhere! Ronny was forced to use his ultimate move, Clone Technique, again, but the other party seemed to have been prepared for it long ago, and all the afterimages were annihilated in an instant. A man who looked unremarkable, but wearing a turban like an Indian, suddenly took a deep breath and pointed in one direction!

"There!"

Gani immediately crouched down and chased after him there, sliding like that. This was his special ability, Slip Step. Although it consumed mental energy, it was extremely useful when chasing. He trusted his teammate named Bakambu very much. This guy's sense of smell was unparalleled.

Ronny had definitely suffered some injuries after being hit by his Rain Waterfall Fist. Once Bakambu smelled the scent of his blood, no matter how stealthy he was, he couldn't escape Bakambu's tracking!

Ronny was originally known for his reconnaissance abilities, and it could be said that he was as slippery as a loach when it came to escaping. In an instant, he had escaped to thirty or forty meters away, but Gani was also urging his own abilities to pursue at this time, so he was actually rapidly shortening the distance between the two.

However, at this time, four high-speed Vulture chariots suddenly rushed out from a distance and drove towards them head-on. Fang Senyan had previously relied on the impact of the chariots to make a brazen assault, as if taking the enemy's head from among thousands of troops, forcefully killing one person under everyone's encirclement, which had already given them great psychological pressure. So at this time, most of the others poured their firepower on the Vulture chariots.

In the thick smoke, three Vulture chariots were immediately destroyed, turning into a sky of thick smoke and fire rain, and the broken parts scattered all over the ground with a crash.

Suddenly, Old A turned his head and shouted, "Boss! Don't pursue a desperate foe! Be careful!"

A cruel smile appeared on Gani's face, but he had no intention of stopping at all. He had calculated it very clearly. After he chased up, because of the angle of the building, his teammates would have about three seconds of support blind spot time, but within these three seconds, he could also use that move.