BXBX NOVEL Chapter 1494 Slaughter
"I will stop them, please watch for friendly fire Click," Jin said as he picked up the two swords like how he did for Bam and Boo and rushed forward.
"Isn't the gate closed?" Click asked as she equipped herself with the standard M4A1 rifle with a grenade launcher extension.
"He probably will take a ladder or something to go over it."
"Did Old Fammet even register us as friendlies?" Click asked thinking that the defensive systems would probably shoot anything that move given the situation but all Yinn gave was a stare. A short but intense stare signals her to get things done.
"That… I will quickly register him into the system details!" Click acknowledged the silent order as both of them saw that Jin did not take any ladder and defined normal human capabilities by doing a double jump using the nearby wall as support to cross over the barricade. Spikes suddenly emerge from the tip of the wall but Jin casually somersaulted over preventing him from being stabbed to death by something so trivial.
Both of the War Maidens now identified that the defensive systems had indeed did not register Jin as a friend which made Click frantically run to a nearby control system to check its IFF (Identification, Friend or Foe)
"And here I thought only War Maidens would have such a capability to do such a stunt. And even if War Maidens can do that, only the customised ones are able to perform such acrobatic feats." Yinn said as she climbed on a ledge so that she would save time getting up to the top of the workshop's tower to reach a ladder that was right above the ledge. (Maybe she was just influenced by Jin's manoeuvres and tried to see if she could do the same as well.)
"IFF for Captain Jin had been registered!" Click said but so far she had yet to hear any defensive turrets going off which meant that they did not detect Jin's presence. But judging from the tactical system, Jin should have been within the range of the defensive turrets.
What Click did not know was that Jin had utilised Green Panda Wind Energy and Yellow Panda Lightning Energy to dash slightly faster than the speed of sound to get out of range. Click thought that the turrets might be malfunctioning to Jin's awfully good luck and quickly double checked to ensure that its systems were working before the enemies reached close enough.
"Weird, all systems are green and a quick analysis showed that it's working." Click said to herself as she went to check if there were any other Mechanoids around since there should be some if they were operating the artilleries.
As she ran to the artillery range, she realised that there were no Mechanoids around and instead automated robots with the parts of War Maidens to ensure the smooth transition of reloading and firing of those artillery guns.
The same goes for the mortars as well which caused her to be surprised how Old Fammet managed to get these assistant part-robot, part-mechanoids to run the defence systems. "He might not have the money but he does have the brains." Click thought to herself as her image of Old Fammet went shot up to the roof.
In the meantime, Jin had already located the incoming private corpo troopers and started aiming at their War Maidens. With a familiar set of weapons in hand, Jin was giddy to see whether he can increase his combat potential with the current limitation of his grade. How much can he push the ceiling of grade 2 with his powers so that it could be a reference for the System as data.
After all, it was uncommon for cultivators to regress back to grade 1 and this gave Jin the opportunity to properly hone his cultivation now that he has the know hows and experience.
His close combat fights were also useful in forest settings since his weapon attacks were silent, allowing him to ambush them after what they had done to him and his squad. And if the enemy group were too near, a quick radio to Click was more than enough to decimate and break up the group by terrorising them with an artillery shot or two.
The War Maidens under Private Corpo might prove to be stronger than the rebels that Jin fought but they never expected a Commander to enter into the fray all by himself and even used close combat weapons to fight with them.
In fact, they were surprised that they could not get a hit on him despite all the accurate shots. But the problem was that the more accurate they were, the easier Inverse Eyes were able to see it and Jin was capable of countering them by deflecting their bullets with his sword qi or dodging them.
It was to the point where the Private Corpo War Maidens thought that Jin was not a commander but a War Steward like Kurt and Lark. But too bad for them, the more they attempt to calculate and fight, the less likely they will survive the fight against Jin.
When Yinn reached the top of the Workshop tower, she could only perform overwatch on the straight road that they just came from and reported to Click that her hit was not off the mark since everything else was covered by the forest and there was no further activity nearer to the workshop since every single Private Corpo War Maiden were rushing to aid their fellow comrades to defeat Jin.
"He is a beast."
But as much as they wished to relax, the worst had yet to come.