585: Chapter 585: Magic Warrior (Extra Large Chapter for Monthly Pass) 585: Chapter 585: Magic Warrior (Extra Large Chapter for Monthly Pass) “How is it now?”
The small door was pushed open once again, and the man in the military uniform entered, carrying a scythe as tall as a man on his back.
“There’s been a slight hiccup, but it’s nothing serious,”
Streaks of light danced across the gaunt man’s cheeks, “I’ve found their data input port.”
“Let’s hope you don’t make another mistake,” the man in the military uniform said coldly, glancing at his wristband for the ti.
“There’s no storm I haven’t seen,” the gaunt man sneered, and at that mont, the glow on his body paused briefly.
His eyes narrowed slightly, “The sa trap again, is this guy provoking ?
No, that’s an interesting disguise,”
The structure of the palm connected to the data lines glittered brilliantly, “I’ve got you now, little one!”
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“Uncle Jess, that hacker on the other side has noticed my disguised data port.
He’s currently pulling data over.
We’re about to raid the core mainfra!” Vianne’s voice ca through the headset, slightly tense.
The speed of her keyboard tapping was getting faster, and there were short pauses where mistakes were made, as if she had hit the wrong key.
“Hmm,”
He Ao smiled tenderly, his gaze fixed on the closed alloy door in front of him, “Don’t worry, we’ll be successful.”
There was silence in the headset for a mont, followed by Vianne’s firm response, “Yeah!”
The urgent tapping on the keyboard gradually steadied.
He Ao’s hand was also placed on the alloy door.
This door seed to be made of the sa material as the gate he had encountered in the elevator shaft.
He Ao knocked forcefully on the door, and it returned an extrely low thud.
Such a thud normally doesn’t happen when knocking on doors but occurs when knocking on walls.
This proved the door was very thick, not thinner than a wall, and it was solid throughout.
The gap between this door and its fra was also minimal, as if they were cut precisely from a single piece of alloy.
He Ao gathered strength in his arms and pushed hard on the door.
The entire door, along with the wall, emitted a violent thud, but the gap between the door and fra did not change in the slightest.
It seed that the lock was also very sturdy.
The bone axe could break through this door, but it would take ti.
Using divine sense to enhance the bone axe could shorten the ti it would take to breach the door but would also increase the consumption of divine sense.
He Ao took half a step back, looked up around the door and considered another approach.
Maybe there’s no need to deal with the door directly.
He turned off the microphone, lifted the bone axe, and chopped at the spot where the door connected to the wall.
Accompanied by a loud crash, fragnts of rock and debris flew out, revealing the inner skeleton made of woven steel bars.
The edge of the door fra hidden within the wall was serrated, and hooks made of alloy extended out, intertwining with the steel bars that made up the wall to maintain the connection between the door fra and wall.
However, even with such reinforcent, the wall’s sturdiness couldn’t compare to the alloy door.
He Ao wielded the axe, chopping a circle around the edge of the entire door fra.
After getting a rough idea of the structure inside the surrounding wall, he once again raised his axe and swung it hard against the wall.
One after another, the steel bars were cut by the sharp edge of the axe, and the flying cent and brick debris covered the floor.
After chopping about twenty centiters deep around the wall surrounding the door fra, He Ao embedded the axe into the nearby wall, let go of the handle, grabbed the edges of the door fra that had been smashed out with both hands, squatted slightly, and exerted force fiercely.
Muscles bulged along his body like a dragon, as the surging strength was distributed and concentrated in his arms and legs.
Terrifying tremors spread across the whole wall, and fine cracks spread out along the thick wall.
The broken stones under He Ao’s feet jumped up as if the earth itself was trembling.
The pitter-patter of the keyboard in the headset suddenly ceased, followed by Vianne’s excited voice.
“Uncle Jess, we did it!!!!”
“We now control the core host, are cracking the firewall, commandeering other terminals in the network, and beginning to copy the core data files…”
At the sa ti, Eve’s voice slowly rose, “I’ve found the opponent’s supercomputer chanized body, breaching the firewall…”
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“Impossible!”
In a room aglow with various lights, a gaunt man connected to huge circuitry suddenly lifted his head, his eyes filled with disbelief.
He quickly ca to his senses, raised his hand, and was about to remove the data cables connected to his body.
Click——
Just then, a spark exploded at the joint of his body, followed by fireworks flickering like those in the night sky.
His movent to unplug the data cable was halted midway.
The overwhelming data input overloaded his chanized body’s operating system and his core control system.
Uncontrollable currents surged through his body.
If this continued, his brain would be fried by these uncontrollable currents.
He was going to die here!
He struggled to lift his head, looking at the man in a military uniform standing at the door, who seed to have realized that the core host had been hijacked.
The gaunt man’s lips barely parted, “Save…
save …”
The man in the military uniform put down his wristband, calmly approached the man sparking with electricity.
Seeing him approach, a look of salvation appeared on the gaunt man’s face.
Then that expression froze on his face forever.
The splattered head struck the wall of the room and then rolled into a corner.
The light that covered the head flickered once and then was forever extinguished.
The headless body, still connected to the data cables, fell in front of the man in military garb.
He watched the chanized corpse fall, his expression calm as he put away the large scythe, “Useless thing.”
He then bent over, directly unplugging the network cable from the corner of the console, and in that instant, the flowing lights in the room shifted back to the red of alarms.
He turned around, lifted his wristband, and walked towards the door, “Unplug all the network cables, abandon cloud backups, use backup storage devices for local backups, destroy all files that have completed cloud backup.”
“Sir, we can’t delete local files, and the backup operation can’t proceed, our computers seem to be under control,” a voice imdiately ca through the wristband.
“I’m aware.”
The man in military garb opened the door and stepped out of the room, and a thick stench of blood rushed towards him like a tide.
This lowest-level area, outside the room where the core host was located, wasn’t a very large control room.
At this mont, standing at the doorway of the host room, the man in military attire faced the wall of the control room, which lay about ten ters directly in front of him.
To his right was an elevator and a tightly shut alloy door.
On the opposite side, facing the elevator and the alloy door, was a large transparent glass curtain wall that faintly glowed with a purple pattern behind it.
Boom——
A massive vibration ca from one side of the control room, and the man in military uniform turned his head towards the source of the noise.
It was that alloy door,
Now shaking violently, with the surrounding wall rapidly crumbling.
It seed as though sothing terrifying was behind the door, violently shaking it.
As the man in uniform looked towards the small door, it completely detached from the wall.
The alloy door, about thirty centiters thick, was lifted slowly, the person behind it carefully moving forward, pushing the entire doorfra from its position in the wall.
As the door gradually moved away from the wall, two muscular arms also gradually revealed themselves to the man in uniform.
He calmly watched all this, took out an injector filled with purple liquid, inserted it into his arm, then without hesitation, raised the scythe in his hand, leaped forward, and sprinted towards the alloy door.
In the instant before the door was entirely pushed out of the wall, his scythe was raised high, ready to strike at the shadow behind the door, bypassing the obstructing door.
“Ah!”
Simultaneously, a loud shout erupted from behind the door, and right after, the military man caught only a glimpse of the strong arms revealed from behind it.
With a mighty heave and the whoosh of wind, the massive door flew towards him like swatting a fly.
He couldn’t dodge in ti and was directly hit by the door, his body flying backward.
With his hands pressed against the door panel and his feet planted on the ground, the impact of the door sent him rapidly retreating, his feet scraping across the polished floor of the control room, gouging out two long grooves as if plowing the earth.
Eventually, his body ca to a stop in front of the massive glass curtain wall.
Boom!
He pushed aside the now powerless alloy door panel, and the heavy alloy door fell in front of him and hit the ground with a thunderous noise.
He Ao pulled the bone axe from the wall, stepped over the doorway he had breached, and slowly entered the control room.
When he had thrown the door earlier, he briefly activated his Super mory, otherwise, he wouldn’t have produced such an oppressive difference in force.
He Ao watched the military officer in uniform, who was also a C-level, and no weak C-level at that.
His gaze landed on an empty syringe wrapped in the sleeve of the uniford man’s arm, “A B-level Gene Potion?”
“Yes,”
The uniford man reached out to remove the syringe, tossing it into a corner nearby.
He looked at He Ao with a smile,
“Jess, I must admit, like your father, you are a genius, capable of creating sothing that could change the world.”
“It seems both of your ntal states aren’t quite right,”
He Ao watched the eyes of the uniford man.
There was an unusual excitent shimring in the man’s eyes, an excitent He Ao had seen on those researchers, who, just monts ago at the gate, had attacked him with their lives on the line holding Gene Potions.
That sa excitent had also been present in the small team of three who had tried to stop him in the ergency corridor.
“I feel my condition is quite good.”
The uniford man said with a smile.
The air was thick with the scent of blood, so potent it provoked a nauseous reflex in ‘Jess.’
The source of the blood scent that had spread around the periter of the laboratory might have originated from here.
He Ao’s gaze moved past the body of the uniford man to look at the glass curtain wall behind him.
In the vast space beyond that wall, He Ao saw sothing familiar.
The twinkling lights sowhat resembled the Arrays that Jess’s father had created.
At that mont, so of the puzzles that had long troubled He Ao finally beca clear.
To avoid creating slaughter, the original formula for the Gene Potion that Jess had created actually contained no ‘life’ that could serve as sacrifices.
But the original ritual of the Gene Potion required a price to be paid to gain power.
Though those who took the Gene Potion seed to have their lives and souls taken away as the price after death, this was not a sufficient trade for the power they received.
Moreover, if they didn’t die, based on Jess’s previous experints, the power of the Gene Potion would naturally wane and would not directly take their lives, though it may potentially shorten their lifespan.
But this was only the most basic version of the Gene Potion that Jess had researched, the power it offered was not strong, and the Gene Potion that the Mysterious Person had concocted to grant higher-level powers might not share the sa properties.
However, He Ao still generally believed that taking the Mysterious Person’s Gene Potion would not directly cause death.
Although every person He Ao had seen using the Gene Potion had died, the researchers who seed very proficient with the power of the Gene Potion, as he had just observed, must have taken it multiple tis.
Furthermore, those who had previously used the Gene Potion had done so normally, without showing any readiness for death.
This proved that they, too, believed the Gene Potion would not result in death before using it.
But if they gained power so easily, then who would pay the price?
This world operates on equivalent exchange.
The Array behind the glass curtain wall resolved He Ao’s doubts: the Mysterious Person had combined the research of Jess’s father and Jess, using Jess’s father’s Array to ‘extract’ the ‘thing’ that could serve as the price, and then rged it into the Gene Potion.
The Gene Potion inherently contained a ‘price’; it’s just that the ones paying this price were not the consurs of the potion.
While He Ao was looking past the glass curtain wall, the uniford man hadn’t spoken, his gaze fixed intensely on He Ao.
He knew that although He Ao was looking behind him, He Ao’s body language indicated he hadn’t let down his guard.
Even this shift in gaze could very well be a ploy—a trap set by He Ao to lure him into an attack.
He held the scythe in his hand, staring at He Ao, “Ved is already dead?”
“Didn’t the Mysterious Person tell you?”
He Ao withdrew his gaze and looked at the man in the uniform.
“The Boss rely ntioned Ved was sent on another mission, but according to his habits, I suppose he would also try to ambush you.
Since you’re still alive, he must be dead.”
The man in uniform laughed, “It seems that you must know the abilities this Gene Potion provides by now.
To be honest, I don’t really fancy such powers; I prefer enhancents to my physique, sothing that can boost my own combat strength.
Unfortunately, the Boss only developed this kind of Gene Potion.”
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The scene before He Ao’s eyes blurred, and once again, the small cabin at ho appeared before him.
This dream was still the previous scene, only it did not continue the prior story.
It was fragnted, just like a real dream.
This ti, He Ao sat at the dining table with his wife, Tiny, across from his mother twirling pasta with a fork, while his father sat next to her.
“Jess, what’s wrong?”
His mother put down the fork that she had wound full of pasta, looking at He Ao with so confusion, “You seem distracted today; did you sleep poorly?”
He Ao glanced at his mother, paused for a mont, his eyes sweeping over the three people at the table, over the old paint on the walls, and the countertop cluttered haphazardly with all sorts of small things.
He paused again,
“It’s nothing, I just want to look at you all a bit more.”
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In He Ao’s vision, the warm kitchen and the cold, blood-scented control room overlaid each other.
With his experience from last ti, even without activating Super mory, he could manage the relationship between reality and the dreamscape quite well.
He fixed his gaze on the man in uniform, his eyes calm as if a deep pond, “Did the Mysterious Person tell you what Talent Sequence corresponds to this Gene Potion?”
“He didn’t tell the number of this B-level Talent Sequence, but he did tell its na,”
The man in uniform stared back at He Ao, asuring the movents of He Ao’s body, “Dream Weaver.”
“Dream Weaver,” He Ao’s tone paused for a mont before he chuckled, “Nice na.”
The calmness in their conversation made it seem like they were friends with shared interests.
“Have you found a flaw in ?”
He Ao turned his head, observing the man in uniform.
“No.”
The man in uniform shook his head, “This Gene Potion has a ti limit.
As ti passes, the strength will start to falter, which is a downside—maybe you can improve it.”
“Indeed,” He Ao nodded, “but I don’t plan on letting this thing spread any further.”
“That’s too bad,”
The man in uniform smiled, “but your Soul is also being consud by the ‘dream,’ isn’t it?
You must be weaker now than just before.”
He Ao lifted his axe, looking at him, “Shall we try?”
In the split second he spoke, the man in uniform had already leaped again.
He raised his scythe high, and a flash of blue electric arc twinkled across the blade.
anwhile, He Ao’s body also leaned forward.
He wasn’t trying to touch the scythe but to close the distance, aiming his bone axe at the man in uniform’s chest.
The scythe had a longer reach than the axe, and at close range, it was less flexible than the axe, so closing the distance was a better strategy.
And the mont He Ao closed in on the man in uniform, when he crossed a certain distance, a shining electric arc suddenly crawled along his arm and spread over his entire body.
It caused his body to stiffen montarily.
He Ao looked up at the man in uniform, now within arm’s reach.
Miracle Magic?!
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