Boom boom boom—!!!
The destructive symphony of fire and steel raged across the square!
The shockwaves from the explosion shook the deserted city, tearing up large sections of the thick concrete ground!
Before the flames and smoke had fully dispersed, one could vaguely see that a significant portion of the large square had vanished, leaving only a charred, shocking crater over a hundred meters in diameter!
However, this was only the beginning, as two steel bodies, one large and one small, had already collided again!
"Ugh ah ah ah—!"
Genos pushed his speed and strength to the limit his hardware could withstand, his arms transforming into thousands of blurry afterimages under the overloaded energy drive!
"Machine Gun Blows"!
Each punch contained the powerful kinetic energy to easily pierce a skyscraper, and in just a few seconds, they rained down like a storm upon the seemingly clumsy armor of war 1!
Thump thump thump thump thump—!
A series of dense, muffled thuds, almost merging into a single sound, as if thousands of siege hammers were striking at once.
However, at that moment, a translucent defensive force field rose from the matte black special composite armor of war 1!
The ferocious heavy punches, capable of pulverizing a skyscraper, merely created visible energy ripples upon it.
Not even a few white fist marks were left, unable to budge it in the slightest!
Hansen, watching from a distance, a slight smile played on his lips. Although it was a grunt unit, anything from Dr. Genus was bound to be a masterpiece.
In Hansen's current sphere of influence, Demon-level could only be considered a reserve or backup force.
As subordinates of the War Knight, the War Legion naturally couldn't be too cheap, starting with Dragon-level mechs.
For Genos at this stage, it was an insurmountable mountain.
At the edge of the battlefield, King, who was remotely controlling, remained calm.
Having tested the strength comparison of both offense and defense, he chose to ignore Genos's superficial attacks and decisively activated the shoulder-mounted electromagnetic railgun.
During the silent charging, the muzzle glowed with a ghostly blue electric light powerful enough to distort light!
Zzz… zzzzz… A teeth-grating electrical hiss emanated from the air, and a powerful electromagnetic field spontaneously generated, causing surrounding metal debris to levitate, as if entering an invisible domain.
"Warning! Detecting ultra-high intensity energy reaction!!"
The sense of fatal threat instantly pushed Genos's entire alarm system to the highest level, leaving only a sharp buzzing in his mind!
Zzz—!!!
There was no earth-shattering roar, only a blue beam of light, condensed to the extreme, suddenly tore through space at a speed beyond the limits of dynamic vision!
Genos's golden electronic eyes sharply contracted, and in the nick of time, he forcibly cut off the power balance system of some limbs, twisting his body in a self-destructive manner.
The destructive beam whistled past his metal shoulder, silently and cleanly severing a hundred-meter-tall ruined building in the distance right in the middle!
Several seconds later, the upper half of the building crashed down with a roar, kicking up a sky-obscuring cloud of dust.
Genos looked at his shoulder armor, instantly melted through and oozing molten iron, his data stream filled with solemnity and horror.
Just a graze had such power!
—No, dragging this out will only make him more passive!
He must end it with one strike!
Having made his decision, Genos took a deep breath.
He ignored the overload warning and forcibly pushed the core energy output to its peak.
"Spiral Incineration Cannon!"
He brought his arms together, palms aimed at the unmoving war 1, and terrifying thermal energy converged into a rapidly spinning orange-red energy cannon, instantly vaporizing everything in its path, blasting towards the target with world-destroying force!
This was the strongest attack he could currently unleash!
Facing Genos's all-in attack, war 1, controlled by King, shifted a few meters, seemingly slowly but perfectly timed.
A simple displacement, like an old lady crossing the road, yet it precisely allowed the orange-red energy torrent, capable of melting a small mountain, to whistle past the edge of its armor.
Hansen, watching, twitched his mouth. This scene was exactly like King's usual maneuver in games: perfect defense and counter-attack at critical HP, followed by a combo to reverse the kill.
Even he and Saitama, the two strongest in the world, could only regretfully fall on the spot.
Boom—!!!
The distant abandoned buildings were precisely hit by the energy cannon, instantly razed to the ground, and a small mushroom cloud slowly rose on the horizon of Z-City's uninhabited area, terrifying shockwaves sweeping in all directions.
However, the attacker, Genos, had no time to worry about the astonishing destruction he had caused; his golden electronic eyes were filled only with overwhelming death alarms.
Because at the very moment he unleashed his ultimate move, and his entire body's energy entered a momentary window of vulnerability, war 1 had already begun its counter-attack.
The six-barrel Vulcan cannon spewed out tongues of death, forming a crossfire net that completely sealed off all his evasion space.
The other electromagnetic railgun on its shoulder silently fired a fatal armor-piercing round, directly targeting his core, which was briefly exposed due to the energy release.
Simultaneously, the high-frequency combat axe from its left arm flew off, tracing a silent, circling arc of death in the air, cutting towards Genos's back of the neck from his blind spot.
A three-pronged, saturated strike—long-range, mid-range, and close-range—was launched simultaneously in less than 0.1 seconds.
The timing, angle, and weapon coordination were so perfect it was like an art of slaughter.
"Putting all his chips on a desperate ultimate move… too naive, Genos."
King looked at his opponent, instantly locked down on the screen, his heart unruffled, merely feeling that the difficulty of this game was a bit too low.
The righteous cyborg's pupils contracted to pinpricks, and a shrill shriek echoed in his consciousness.
He desperately used his last bit of strength to forcibly fold his body in mid-air, barely dodging the fatal railgun shell aimed directly at his core, but he was still hit in the right arm by the Vulcan cannon's barrage, instantly losing his balance.
The circling silver arc of death followed.
Pfft—!
A flash of silver, and Genos's legs were cleanly severed at the knees, the cuts as smooth as a mirror.
His powerless lower body fell limply, while his upper body was flung away by the immense inertia, crashing heavily to the ground and rolling a dozen times before stopping amidst a pile of rubble.
At the charred severed ends, blue electrical sparks crackled, looking incredibly desolate.
The battle was over.
war 1 raised its hand to catch the returning combat axe, reattaching it to its arm, and the glow of its enormous crimson single eye slowly dimmed.
The massive five-meter-tall mech stood silently at the edge of the crater, like a cold steel demon from hell.
At the edge of the battlefield, the Emperor Engine within King's body, which had been thundering like war drums, also subsided.
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