042. I Live to Shatter All s

  Bang!

  The door exploded, arming the guards around the Duke. They drew their ons and surrouhe Duke's door.

  Two Law III agents, Enlit and Bodra, arrived te. The aftermath of smoke and shock waves lifted their coats, hindering their advance.

  "As expected, ander Benjesson was right!"

  Enlit immediately switched her sniper rifle to thermal imaging scope. Her eyes glowed with Qi power, quickly log several human figures.

  Click—

  As a 【Ranger】, she held her breath and pulled the bolt, with a series of dark green Qi power veins glowing on the back of her hand. The Qi power in her body instantly infused into the chamber, pletely ing the bullet in a spiral Qi shroud within the narrow space.

  9.【Explosive Loading】

  Bang!

  The petition-grade trigger was gently pulled, the firing pin ighe primer, and the excess gunpas was ied into the Qi shroud. The bullet spun out, its outer Qi shroud nullifying air resistance, cutting through the smoke and striking a humanoid target with precision.

  Boom!

  The bullet collided with the target, causing the residual gunpas in the Qi shroud to explode instantly, creating a burst of fmes while providing a sedary acceleration boost to the bullet.

  "Hit!"

  The thermal imaging vision was instantly obscured, turning into a gray-white blur. Enlit leased; this meant that the gunpas and Qi power had fully mixed, geing a temperature exceeding 1400°C. Ordinary armored units would melt upon tact with such heat.

  However, the 【Doctor】 Bodra beside her did not let down his guard. He threw a fshbang into the smoke while releasing nanomeical is that resided in his body, linking them with Enlit. If an ambush occurred, his abundant vitality could shield her from a fatal blow.

  As a 【Doctor】 of the 【Redemption】 path, he hadn't impnted any cyberics, so his observational abilities were not as sharp as Enlit's. He was busy iing himself with a slew of hormones and drugs to enhance his vitality and sensory capabilities.

  Law III agents had distinct operational skills pared to Law IV. They were cautious, pg great emphasis on intelligehering. In a four-person team, they had to be equipped with firepower support, engineering infiltration, information acquisition, and frontline breakthrough capabilities.

  After all, eveier individuals were just stronger humans. Even Alpha-tier individuals, let alone ordinary ones, could be overwhelmed by sheer numbers.

  Bodra wasn't in a good mood because ander Benjesson had taken Zuo Jiajun to face Li Aozi, leaving their team without an engineer or breaker. Meanwhile, the Duke's guards were preoccupied with their own defense, unwilling to unicate with them.

  This left them in a passive situation. Without an information specialist, Enlit, holding a sniper rifle in an indoor enviro, would be helpless if an enemy closed in.

  He not only held up a riot shield but also used the holographic sight on his "Dust" submae gun to s left and right. The room was filled with the smell of gunpowder, severely impairing Bodra's sense of smell.

  Where are they—where are these assassins hiding?!

  Swoosh!

  "Agh!"

  Enlit let out a cry as a dark gold spike shot out from the smoke and pierced her chest. Her body arched backward, and the nanomeical is on her body instantly overloaded and crashed, falling to the ground with a series of clicks. Bodra's expression ged, and he immediately phe shield on the ground. His meical arm grabbed Enlit while he fired three bursts into the smoke ahead with his submae gun.

  Ratatatat, ratatatat, ratatatat—

  While firing to suppress the enemy, Bodra used his meical arm t Enlit behind cover. He pulled a nanobe from his own body and ied it i's deltoid muscle, administering treatment while beginning emergency care.

  "Open rib fracture, but no phorax! Keep your Qi cirg, I'll close the wound! Damn, it's lodged in your wound."

  Bodra had just pulled out the dark gold spike when it wriggled like a living thing and slipped bato the smoke. He couldn't worry about it; he tore off Enlit's bulletproof vest and ptes, and the se before him made sweat bead on his forehead—damn it, Enlit had three yers of bulletproof ptes, plus super Kevr and her own nanomeical i attats, how could she be downed i?

  As the painkillers took effect, Enlit exhaled a heavy breath, then pulled out her SMG (Submae Gun). Her eyes now flickered with a dark blue Qi fme, greatly enhang her visual abilities.

  In her gaze, a bright figure was rapidly approag her.

  She raised the SMG and fired a burst of Qi-infused bullets at the approag figure.

  Bang bang bang bang g g!

  The bullets struck the figure, sparking and ringing out as they hit. The Qi shrouds on the bullets didn't even have time to explode before the figure shrugged them off with a flick of their arm.

  "Damn, they're ing!"

  Enlit cursed under her breath, her heart filled with terror.

  Click cck click cck!

  The footsteps grew closer, unfazed by the attack.

  Even though the SMG used 9mm rounds, bined with the Qi power of a Beta-tier 【Ranger】 like her, the power should not have been so iive. Even if it hit posite armor, it should've punched holes.

  When hitting a human… where could the energy be dispersed? There should have been at least some stopping power.

  What armor is this person wearing? Could it be a mobile armor ing at us!?

  pared to Enlit's shock, Bodra was on the verge of madness.

  What a joke… Enlit's wound was interfered with by some unknown force. Even after iing vitality and medie, there was no sign of healing.

  Not only that, but the spike caused not only a peing wound, but also erased the Qi power veins at the impact site, making regeion impossible. It was now just ordinary muscle.

  To put it simply, her extraordinary abilities were destroyed.

  'That spike… has a destructive effe superhumans!'

  Click.

  The magazine fell out, and as Enlit reloaded with one hand, a polished boot stepped out of the smoke. Bodra looked up and, driven by his exoskeleton, threw a heavy punch at the intruder.

  Puff—

  The thick smoke parted, and the mome, in the midst of reloading, saw the two-meter-three-tall, muscur, giant-like Bodra, known for his 【Physique】, flush red as if he had collided with a speeding train. He was sent flying.

  "Bodra!"

  Enlit didn't have time to be stunned as the assaint moved faster than her 【Ranger】 css. A dark gold thorn-cd hand easily tore through the smoke, grabbing her and smming her against the wall.

  Boom!

  The solid steel-reinforced crete wall was instantly shattered. Enlit's spine snapped on impact. I moments of her life, her blurred vision could only make out a figure with a swaying braid.

  That wasn't… the silhouette of someone from this era.

  "Agh—Enlit, are you alright? Enlit! Answer me!"

  Enlit opened her mouth, coughing up fragments of her internal ans along with blood. She muttered into her unicator:

  "Quick… tell the an—"

  Before she could finish, the back of her head smmed heavily into the ground, her gaze freezing forever.

  Crash—

  Amidst the rubble, Bodra's eyes turned red as he furiously stood, his massive body t like a mountain.

  "How dare you… kill Enlit—"

  The meical arm whirred, iing a rge dose of stimunts into his body. He ched his fists and picked up the bulletproof shield from the ground, r as he charged at the enemy.

  "I'm going to kill you!"

  The dark gold gau melted, instantly elongating into a sharp bde, f a simple scythe.

  Alexia calmly grasped the long handle and, in an instant, sshed with the dark gold scythe.

  Shing!

  The two figures crossed paths, and after a few steps, Bodra's lower body separated from his upper body, colpsing to the ground. The smooth cut revealed his still-pulsing internal ans.

  "I will never five you…"

  Bodra's upper body y on the ground as he reached out, struggling to get up, only to flip over onto his back. He looked up at Alexia, his face twisted in anger, and shouted:

  "You destroyed everything we had, you ruined our national is, I'll kill you! Even if I 't, Frostpte won't let you get away with this!"

  "It's not your try."

  Alexia raised her scythe:

  "It's the try of the Grantians."

  "Go to hell!"

  Bodra cursed with rese:

  "You'll eventually watch everything you cherish be destroyed! Your try will colpse, your beliefs will be desecrated! Go to hell! Frostpte forever! Twin Queens for—"

  Shing—

  His head flew off, rolling on the ground, staining the marble floor with blood.

  "To be ho,"

  Alexia said leisurely:

  "My try did indeed perish. It was destroyed long ago, fallen to natural disasters, and lost to human folly."

  "The enemies we had once vanquished… the church, feudalism, superstition, inequality, kings, warlords, corporations—they all made a eback."

  "The beautiful world I cherished became bizarre and strange. People couldn't even reach space, diesel engines were everywhere, and the cold outside couldn't even trigger a heat isnd effect."

  "It's truly awful, isn't it?"

  Bodra's head rolled to Alexia's feet, and the Alpha-tier Bemudes warriors were shocked to see Alexia so easily take down two Beta-tiers.

  Alexia could sehat the Law III agent was irely dead yet and could still perceive her words, so she tinued:

  "But after 500 years, I entered somethio cherish."

  "So, I've e to uand. This world isn't beautiful, the past had its fws, and the future may not necessarily get better, but people shouldn't remain stu the present."

  She melted the scythe bato its inal form, folding it into the shape of a briefcase, and spoke with pity to Bodra, who died with his eyes open:

  "I crossed time and space, carrying the hopes of ao this pot to enjoy the fruits of future teology, but to stand up when justid order dissipate, to punish all injustices, to shatter all oppression."

  Alexia's tone was never overbearing, but to the dying Bodra, the personality shining in those dark golden eyes held a kind of nobility he could never hope to match.

  FAL