Sky-cracking Rider

Chen Fei slid down the curved surface of the building's protective barrier and landed on his feet, feeling a tightness in his chest. He coughed several times before he could catch his breath.

The building's protective barrier was a flexible repulsive force. Coupled with the gentle force that enveloped him at first, he did not suffer any substantial damage.

Moreover, just as Chen Fei was blown away by the sudden burst of power, two ability users rushed over and intercepted the enemy who was about to pursue, causing Longinus's tip to thrust into thin air. Your adventure continues at My Virtual Library Empire

"Wow, that's some real power!"

Chen Fei shook his head and took up his stance again, watching the intense fight involving three people while preparing to charge back into the fray at any moment.

In the upper right corner of his field of vision, the battery icon read: 75

The energy reserve of the "Super Capacitor" was slowly recovering, indicating that this number wasn't a one-time consumption or needed a long time to recover slowly.

As long as he controlled the pace of the battle well, he could unleash considerable combat power.

"Are you really a Class B supernatural power user?"

That unfamiliar voice rang in his ears again, seemingly puzzled that Chen Fei could compete evenly with the guy who had taken Longinus.

"Absolutely! You, where are you?" Chen Fei looked around, trying to find the person speaking near his ear.

The other party seemed to notice that Chen Fei was looking around in search of him, and spoke again.

"You can't see me. I'm about 1 kilometer away from you. Are you born with divine strength?"

"Of course not, I used a skill!"

If it hadn't been for the magical arrays he had just acquired and still hadn't had time to warm up, Chen Xiao'er would have been instantly hit for a home run from the first clash.

Biu!~

"Metal Elemental Psychic Power has such skills?"

The person chatting with Chen Fei seemed quite excited, chatting while also focusing on the battle, providing psychokinetic support in a timely manner.

Whenever he was overpowered and blown away, he wasn't too embarrassed, indeed a good "catch".

"Whether other Metal Ability Users have such skills, I don't know, but reaching Industrial Grade Metal Elemental definitely can. I used skill to imprint the magical arrays. There are two 'Gravity' magical arrays on the weapon, plus my own 'Gravity Adjustment' skill, dual adjusting gravity, using the 'Air Burst' magical array engraved on 'Dragon King' for quick turning and acceleration. By bringing personal strength and weapon mass together with additional acceleration, it's that straightforward."

This combination of multiple magical arrays seemed complex in theory; the principle was simple: add mass and hammer down hard.

Chen Fei's five-meter broad sword was not sharpened. A heavy sword without sharpness relied on mass rather than cutting ability.

Whether it was sharpened made no difference since, when cutting other things, it was like a knife through butter. But facing Longinus, which the entire arsenal of Blue Star Civilization couldn't destroy or even damage, even a sharpened edge would be useless.

Longinus temporarily doubled as a weapon, truly a divine tool.

"Magical arrays? Playing high-end? Do you also practice Alchemy?"

One could imagine how exaggerated the expression of the person on the other side must be.

Casually imprinting a bunch of magical arrays, then heading straight to chop the enemy's face. Wait, shouldn't a person like this be staying safely in the rear?

Yet he dared to charge so far forward. Was he courting death?

"Of course, it's through the 'Sacrifice' skill. By sacrificing one magical array, I can mass-produce these magical arrays. Alchemy? I know nothing about that."

However, there is the concept of alchemy in economics, which is entirely different from the "Alchemy" discussed between the two people. Chen Fei did not hide anything.

Hiding it would be pointless anyway. There were so many intelligent people around; no one was fooled by even the slightest hint, quickly reconstructing the truth.

Playing sly would only cause trouble for oneself.

Moreover, the "Sacrifice" skill was already no longer a secret. It was a mass-production divine skill in the Industrial-grade Ability, allowing whoever possessed this skill to potentially destroy an entire industrial field by themselves.

The other party hesitated slightly, then asked again, "I see, that's it! That's incredible. Wait, where did you get these magical arrays from?"

From the tone of voice, it was clear that someone else was asking the question through this person.

It seemed that someone had noticed the dubious origins of the magical arrays Chen Fei had sacrificed. Since it was officially regulated technology, even private use in civil situations was not allowed.

Chen Fei himself had no official background, and suddenly mentioning magical arrays was bound to raise suspicions.

"I collected them from the scrap metal I gathered during the day."

Chen Fei felt fortunate he had only collected two truckloads of junk, a total of 61 tons of scrap copper and iron, before deciding it was enough.

Even though Rona would have given him more if he asked, being greedy would complicate explanations of his unexpected gains. Intentional and unintentional were fundamentally different matters.

"That works?"

The other party was probably quite speechless. Chen Fei's response was unexpected yet still made sense.

Metal Ability Users collecting scrap was completely reasonable, and with the "Sacrifice" skill, finding complete magical arrays was an incredibly coincidental stroke of luck.

It seemed that scrapped equipment would have to pass through one more process to prevent engrained magical arrays from potentially leaking, even though such leakage was generally unlikely in Hanhai Central Base. But, when outsiders arrived here, confidentiality breaches could occur.

Chen Fei's explanation no doubt served as a reminder to Hanhai Central Base that the nearly closed-off town was not as watertight as imagined.

"Heh, what a surprise, what a surprise!" Chen Fei quickly concluded the conversation.

The wool here is not easy to shear, one must never become overconfident and lose sight of reality.

"Ah!"

One of the ability users, who was besieging the enemy, was careless for a moment. His shoulder was pierced through by Longinus and was flung out. He was immediately caught by a psychic ability user outside the arena using psychokinesis.

The counterattack Wind Blade of the injured ability user was fiercely stirred by Longinus, turning into a chaotic airflow that spread in all directions.

The other ability user, a Fire System Heavenly Order War Professional, made his sword light spin like a wheel. The crimson Sword Qi drew arcs, turning into a Sword Qi tornado that fiercely rushed towards the enemy wielding Longinus from all directions.

As soon as the tip of Longinus touched the burning hot Sword Qi capable of melting metal and iron, it immediately exploded into flames, causing the temperature within a hundred meters radius to instantly exceed a hundred degrees Celsius.

However, the flames that ignited out of thin air never got close to the enemy, as a ten-meter radius fire-free zone constantly surrounded him.

This increased the pressure tremendously on the Fire System Heavenly Order War Professional who had lost his companion. The enemy did not have any sophisticated war techniques; relying solely on brute strength and speed, always using power to break skill and speed to counter speed. On top of that, the pervasive invasion of spiritual power continuously triggered various negative emotions, often causing the opponent to perform at only twenty to thirty percent of his full combat capacity.

As an extremely above-standard existence, having Longinus in hand, he actually managed to suppress the joint efforts of Heavenly Order and S-Rank, even gaining the upper hand.

A powerful thrust from his heavy spear forced the Fire System Heavenly Order War Professional back, and the enemy target leaped up, apparently trying to break through the siege and flee into the distance.

"Chen Fei, stop him, don't let him escape!"

Chen Fei heard the voice of that psychic ability user in his ear.

As a B-rank Metal Ability user with industrial-grade skills, he should have stayed behind the lines, avoiding combat whenever possible, or at best, sniping from a distance.

But now, in an urgent situation, they could only count on each other.

"I got it! One more time! Ten times anti-gravity!"

Chen Fei felt it was manly to proceed.

Twenty times the regular gravity!

The two "Gravity" magic arrays engraved on the broadsword started to flicker, showing signs of instability at their stability threshold, unable to bear any higher intensity of crystal energy input.

Yet he had no intention of reducing the power.

"Gravity Adjustment Module" 100%, "Air Burst" magic array activated.

Chen Fei thought he had a great advantage, and then he charged forth with renewed vigor.

However, this time, as soon as the broadsword clashed with Longinus, he immediately noticed something wrong. The sword body was instantly penetrated, and the sharp spear tip lunged towards his face like a venomous snake.

"Dragon King" Assault Heavy Armor could withstand all light weapon close-range firing and 12.7-mm caliber solid bullets fired from beyond a hundred meters, but it couldn't block the sharpness of Longinus at all.

The "Metal Shaping" skill was instantly activated, the broadsword turned flexible and began wrapping around Longinus.

Still at twenty times gravity, "Gravity Adjustment Module" 100%, "Air Burst" magic array continuously activated.

However... even though Longinus was in a severely unstable state of gravity, the enemy still didn't care at all, grasping it and pushing Chen Fei back continuously, retreating step by step, the whole process being pushed back in flight.

"Damn you!"

Chen Xiao'er applied brute force, but it was still of no use.

The stark difference in strength between them wasn't something that could be overcome by cheating; a surprise attack could give a slight advantage, but there was no second chance.

In a blink of an eye, Chen Fei, who initially felt he had some advantage, was pushed by the opponent out of the barrier that enveloped the entire town and came to the outside desert.

"Hold on, don't panic, reinforcements are on the way!"

The whisperings of that psychic ability user kept encouraging Chen Fei.

"Comrades, fire at me!"

Chen Fei applied an immovable BUFF to himself, then started to stack additional protections.

Personal Armor Basic Body Level 3, upgrade!

-2000 Energy Points!

Personal Armor Basic Body Level 4, upgrade!

-2000 Energy Points!

Personal Armor Basic Body Level 5, no further upgrades possible.

(Level 1: Light Armor Mode, Level 2: Heavy Armor Mode, Level 3: Adaptive Armor Mode, Level 4: Cavalry Armor Mode, Level 5: Gigantification Mode)

Energy Points: 12181/20000

Though the energy points were plenty before, nearly reaching twenty thousand, it simply wasn't enough in a critical moment!

Personal Armor Basic Body Level 5, Gigantification, activated!@@novelbin@@

Damn it, this is exhausting.

In the end, it was all about brute force.