1146: Chapter 1146: Close the Door (Two More for Monthly Pass) 1146: Chapter 1146: Close the Door (Two More for Monthly Pass) And just at that mont, Viko felt the motorcycle he was on swerve slightly, not following the figure that had rushed ahead but instead coming to a sudden stop at the edge behind the door.
The abrupt halt nearly caused him to be thrown forward due to inertia.
Fortunately, he held onto the handlebars tightly, or else he would have really been flung out.
“What’s going on?”
Viko was still sowhat baffled and hadn’t co to his senses.
He shook his eyes, looking outside at the just-opened city gate.
At the end of his field of view, the figure in the bloodied jacket had disappeared, seemingly heading towards the now open outer city gate.
However, before he could locate where the figure in the bloodied jacket had gone, a giant, dark mass appeared before his gaze and quickly filled his view.
It was a huge black cha, now spewing flas, lifting the Broad Sword behind it, and without hesitation, slashing towards him.
With the width of that sword, it would only take one hit to reduce him to pulverized mud.
And behind him, the densely packed soldiers chasing after him were also rapidly closing in.
Viko stared dumbly at all this unfolding.
At this mont, his mind was void of surprise and panic; since the mont he had entered this battlefield, it seed as if he had already prepared for death.
Although he knew he had hardly played any role in the battle, he also knew he couldn’t retreat.
Because he knew that what ‘Suote’ had said was true.
‘We have no reinforcents.’
Now, the only ones who could, and would try to stop this, were just the two people who were here.
Perhaps, strictly speaking.
It was ‘Suote’ alone.
In this instant, Viko suddenly realized that ‘death’ seed to have given him too much ti to think.
He looked forward.
The speeding cha didn’t stop its Broad Sword, but a black brilliance pierced through the entire cha, then brushed past his hair, and hit the wall beside him.
Boom——
Accompanied by a loud noise, the out-of-control cha suddenly smashed forward, ‘sweeping’ out the soldiers behind it who wanted to surround the area, and blocking the approaching troops from behind.
In an extrely short amount of ti, this area obtained a ‘safe gap’.
Viko lifted his head, looking towards the origin of the radiance.
There he stood, the man with blood-stained hair, dressed in a black jacket, standing under a dim light, calmly gazing at him, then slightly opening his mouth.
He didn’t hear any sound, but he understood the ‘lip shape’ of the other person.
It was a word, “Close the door.”
Then the figure turned around, dashing into the denser light up ahead.
This guy, he’s really freaking cool.
Viko shook his head, turning to look at the ‘black brilliance’ that had just rushed to the side.
It was a black alloy card, now firmly inserted into the wall where a hidden chanism on the edge seed to be sensing sothing, slowly opening and revealing the slot inside.
Seeing this scene, Viko didn’t hesitate and imdiately rushed to the front of the black card.
Then he exerted his strength, failing to pull out the card on his first try.
He had to brace his feet against the wall and pull with all his strength to finally take out the card.
Is this card that hard?
Looking at the golden patterns on the card,
Viko had already realized what this card was.
Although so questions flashed through his mind, there was no hesitation in his movents; he inserted the card into the slot nearby decisively.
Following that, ca the sound of ‘zzzlah—’.
A hidden cover next to the slot opened, revealing a tal bolt.
This was an ergency switch for the city gate, an ergency switch that only the Mayor’s authority could activate.
In an ergency situation, this switch had even higher authority than that of the gate control center.
At this mont, Viko made no extraneous movents; he directly reached out and took hold of the bolt.
It seed that intense gunfire resounded around him; so soldiers had bypassed the huge cha and were rushing towards him.
But Viko could no longer hear any sounds; his mind felt blank, fixated on a single thought.
He gripped the bolt tightly, lifted the entire bolt upwards, and shifted it to ‘close’.
Bang—
It was as if a muffled sound ca from the air.
It was like so enormous chanical construct had received an urgent order and suddenly ca to a halt.
Following that, accompanied by a violent roar, the slowly opening massive gate started to close from both sides towards the center.
Success.
Feeling the doors slowly closing, Viko gripped the bolt tightly and pressed down on the lock button beside it.
The gunfire around him intensified, and he could feel his body seeming to suffer so kind of impact.
But he knew he couldn’t let go, he had to wait for this door to close, to be completely closed.
Just a mont more—
His gaze passed through the gap in the inner city gate, through the massive Jar City, through the lone figure standing in Jar City, facing the chas.
Finally, his gaze reached the outer city gate, saw the slowly closing gate, and the dense mass of light points obstructed outside the gate.
Just a mont more—
The closing speed of the outer city gate was far greater than its opening, and in a very short ti, the gap had shrunk from tens of ters to just a few ters.
Boom—
Just then, a massive roaring sound abruptly emanated from outside the colossal outer city gate.
In that profound darkness, a huge and ponderous piece of engineering machinery was holding up against the closing outer city gate.
And behind this chanical construct, a swarm of chas pressed in, spewing intense flas, holding the closing gate in place.
The spinning, enormous chanical roaring at this mont suddenly ceased.
The slowly closing outer city gate, at this mont, ca to a stop.
The surrounding gunfire seed to quiet down at this instant, the whole world eerily silent.
A dense radiance continued to gather outside the city gate, and a multitude of huge machines appeared, pressing against the gate.
Squeak—
The gradually narrowing gap of the door once again opened by an inch.
Viko watched this scene dumbfounded, his gaze unconsciously searching for that figure.
Then, he saw that solitary figure in Jar City walk out from the flas of the exploding cha, heading towards the massive cha’s chanical arm lying on the ground.
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He Ao lowered his head, looking at the two freshly torn off cha arms in front of him, still sparking with electricity.
He reached out, picked up the two arms, and then grasped the bottom of the arms.
The chanical transmission structures of these arms were damaged and could not move on their own, but He Ao did not need them to.
All he needed were two ‘arms’.
He lifted each giant alloy arm, massive compared to his own body, as if they were toys.
The power of Divine Sense shimred at his fingertips, infiltrating the chanical arms, then solidifying so of the inner structures of the arms.
This was a modified version of the Hell Apostle chs; Vian had once studied similar ch structures in detail and knew how they operated internally, as well as the thods to lock their joints.
He Ao raised the two arms, looking towards the gap in the door, then, with a great force, placed the palms of the chanical arms against the city gate, with the elbows touching the ground.
The chanism in the chanical arm jamd at that instant, transforming the entire arm into a complex lever for force conversion.
This lever could amplify He Ao’s innate strength, allowing him to exert greater pressure when pushing forward.
Of course, the chanical structure of a normal cha couldn’t endure such a trendous force.
But those reinforced by Divine Sense could.
Gazing at the cracking gate ahead, gazing at the huge machines and chas continuously erging from behind that gap.
He Ao gripped the chanical arm in his hands, his feet pressed against the ground, and he thrust forward with all his might.
Boom—
The firm earth cracked open beneath his feet.
The city gate, which was slowly opening, stopped at that mont.
From the inner city to Jar City, everyone stopped moving almost at that instant.
Even the chas in the sky of Jar City that were encircling He Ao paused montarily.
The whole world fell silent as they dumbly watched that lone figure, with arms like wreckage, withstand the colossal gate that stood between Heaven and Earth.
Withstood the dazzling brightness that seed to surge out from the night and death behind that enormous gate.
Boom—
He Ao bowed his head, silent and advancing.
The ground beneath his feet shattered; the opening gates began to close inward, and the gigantic chas outside spewing flas now appeared fragile like real fireflies.
Fine blood seeped from that already bloodstained skin.
With every advance, He Ao layered the use of the ‘Heavy Strike’ martial technique.
It was his first attempt at such a thod.
The reason martial techniques are called martial techniques is that they are brief outbursts, concentrating the body’s energy, which it normally couldn’t withstand, to suddenly explode.
The ‘enhancent’ of the Heavy Strike technique wasn’t strong, but with the amplification from the Fist Technique already layered, his body had long surpassed its limits.
This sudden convergence of force also continuously impacted the stability of the energy circuits.
With repeated high-frequency use of martial techniques, his energy circuits had beco unstable, his muscles were being torn apart by his own strength.
He was unable to speak, relying only on his flowing Divine Sense to stabilize his muscles and energy circuits.
Even if the city gate itself had a powerful chanical torque structure, it was not easy to endure this bluff.
He Ao raised his head to look at the magnificent gate ahead, his mouth cracked open, and blood spilled from his lips.
He continued to step forward.
Dazzling electric light burst from the massive chanical arm, and the chanics floating on the arm began to curl rapidly.
He Ao didn’t have enough Divine Sense to reinforce the entire arm, so he only fortified a few key nodes.
Even though these key points bore the brunt of the force, the slight spillover still tore the chanical arm to shreds.
Boom—
But the gate continued to close a bit more.
The chas inside Jar City finally ca to their senses, attacking the He Ao below them frenziedly.
At this mont, the chanical structure driving the gate seed to finally regain initiative.
The twisted torque reached its operational limits, closing the entire gate gradually with a howling sound.
Boom—
The chanical arm held by He Ao suddenly exploded, bursting into countless parts with a faint scattering of electric light.
The massive gates slowly closed, sealing off the points of light outside the gate.
At this mont, the air seed filled with a kind of relieved sigh.
This sigh seed to co not only from Viko—who was pulling the control lever—but also from so silent soldiers.
Bang bang bang—
However, just as the gap in the gate narrowed to the width of one person and was about to close completely, several huge chanical palms penetrated the gap, forcefully holding the closing gates open.
Surging flas burst forth behind the enormous machinery and flying chas, their engines roaring in a tearful wail at the brink of their limits, as if they had received the final command to hold back the last crack at all costs.
He Ao lifted his head and looked ahead.
Behind that gap in the door, a gigantic shadow was revealing its form from the sky.
It was not a Sky Behemoth, but a man-made chanical structure just as colossal.
Beneath this shadow, a figure with brown hair wearing a flight exoskeleton armor was charging towards the gate at a terrifying speed.
He Ao watched the advancing figure.
Faintly, he could sense the terrifying power emanating from within that figure’s body.
Grade B, much stronger than an average B Grade.
The figure also lowered its head, gazing at He Ao, then picked up speed, charging even faster towards the city gate.
The broad massive door emitted a creaking sound.
Sparks flew from the hand pressed against the gap in the door.
But the gate ultimately failed to close and even showed signs of being forced open a bit more.
The figure charging at the door saw this, and continued to accelerate fiercely.
In that instant, a pair of bloodstained arms grabbed the still separating vast gates.
Beams of light whisked overhead, the attacks from the chas behind, cleverly evaded by the figure.
The bloodied arms remained calm and steady, gripping the edge of the gate, as the dark jacket howled in the wind squeezed out by the desolate wilderness snow night.
Outside the gate, the flashing bright lights of machinery filled the gap, illuminating the wilderness snowfields outside as if it were day.
The tiny figure stood in this brilliance, like an ant grasping the gates of Heaven and Hell.
He Ao, with his head raised, gazed through the gap in the gate, watching the light amidst the flying snow, watching the endless snowfield.
Watching the waves of war machinery erging from the snowfield, and the rapidly approaching figure.
His arm slightly bulged, the red sword light hidden in the darkness, shooting upward along the gap in the door.
Heavy strike!
Second Burst!
An imnse force crushed the ground beneath his feet in an instant, tearing his skin, drenching his whole body in bright red blood.
Boom——
A series of iron palms, sliced by the red radiance, dropped off, and the remaining palms were directly snapped by the trendous force.
The sparkling electric light cascaded down, pieces of steel debris falling like a torrential downpour.
Boom——
The colossal chanical structure activated its final torque.
Together with He Ao’s arm, the massive gate was closed.
The swiftly charging figure and the titanic creature within the darkness finally halted before the gate, watching as the bloodied figure inside closed the last sliver of the gap.
His gaze was fixed on the figure behind the gate, then severed by the heavy city door.
Boom——
All fell silent.
The flickering red glow erupted around the majestic gate.
It was the sound of the city gate’s gatekeeping system reactivating.
All those dense chanical structures would lock the gate completely, practically fusing it with the high wall.
“Cough——”
He Ao coughed lightly, spitting out a mouthful of fresh blood, then turned his head to look at those chas that had just been firing cold shots at him from behind.
He lifted his hand, the crimson brilliance falling into his palm.
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