Chapter 96 Deduction of Energy Techniques <TOC> Chapter 98 Playing Tricks
Translator: SumTLMan
High in the sky, Li Mei rode on the back of a black crane, overlooking the earth below.
This was her first time observing the world from such a perspective, and everything appeared vastly different.
The dry season in the Avonigarda region was somewhat barren, with the ground covered in lifeless, yellowish weeds. However, the abundant rainfall from the wet season had left some traces on the ground.
The plants in the dried-up riverbeds and ponds were much more lush than those in the surrounding areas.
They were likely tributaries of the Mohanendi River, which would turn back into roaring rivers once the rainy season arrived. But this wasn’t necessarily a good thing, as the rainy season also heralded the arrival of typhoons.
The fierce cyclones of the typhoons would carry away the radioactive dust in the air, reducing the radiation concentration in the wasteland to a dangerous level.
The dormant god and demon descenders would swarm out, hunting humans.
Even the powerful Eastern Xia, sheltered by the Celestial Governor, might not be able to weather the rainy season unscathed.
As Li Mei reminisced about the brutal battles with the descenders in previous years, she suddenly looked up, alert. Shen Luoyan, riding another black crane, also turned her head and exchanged glances with her.
“Something is catching up.”
Shen Luoyan narrowed her eyes. She could sense a strong psychic energy rapidly approaching.
After carrying passengers on their backs, the black cranes couldn’t reach their top speed and could only fly at a hundred kilometers per hour. Fei Lian in the higher altitude let out a sharp cry, its excellent vision already seeing the approaching Pilate.
Li Mei’s heart raced, fearing that Fei Lian would charge straight at the danger.
“Come back!”
She waved at Fei Lian in the sky.
Fei Lian dove from the high altitude, steadying itself beside the black cranes, and the turbulent airflow it created made the two black cranes screech in displeasure.
Due to its continuous use of psychic energy for acceleration, Pilate emitted intense psychic energy fluctuations, revealing its formidable strength. Although Fei Lian was proud and aggressive, it hadn’t yet reached the point of insanity to directly attack a third-level powerhouse.
Li Mei turned and aimed her rifle, pulling the trigger without hesitation.
The rifle in her hand was an NII-40 assault rifle she had seized during her time in Avonigarda City. As it was crafted by a manipulator awakened, the weapon had extremely high precision, capable of accurately hitting targets within 400 meters.
At this moment, Pilate was still about two thousand meters away. He appeared as a black dot, smaller than the tip of a needle, within her field of vision. Furthermore, their positions were rapidly changing.
The muffled sound of gunfire echoed, and it took nearly three seconds for the bullet to reach Pilate reluctantly.
At that moment, the bullet hit the tough hair on his body, only sparking a few sparks before being deflected.
“How is this possible?!” Pilate felt a mosquito-like sting on his body. He knew the difficulty of shooting from such an extreme distance.
“It’s just a desperate struggle! Even if they manage to hit me a few times, these weak bullets are nothing but a mild annoyance.”
The pale psychic energy of the bat wings on his back flared up, and Pilate sneered as he accelerated.
In his eyes, the two heretics ahead were like trapped animals in a cage, birds in the palm of his hand, unable to escape his grasp.
The two large black cranes were an unexpected bonus.
Suddenly, a spray of blood burst from Clement’s head, which Pilate was holding.
A bullet penetrated Clement’s eye socket, and the cavitation effect completely scrambled his brain.
As a fourth-level awakened, Clement could easily withstand direct shots from ordinary bullets, but his fragile eyeballs were an exception.
Pilate looked down at the corpse in his hand, somewhat in disbelief. It was already incredibly difficult to hit a high-speed flying object from more than two thousand meters away, and to accurately hit the eye socket was even more extraordinary.
Furious, he discarded the corpse in his hand, knowing that the heretic on the other side killed Clement to make him lose his tracking means.
“I’ve already seen you! Do you still dream of escaping?”
Having lost the burden of Clement, his flight speed increased, rapidly closing the distance with Li Mei and her companion.
“Give me your bullets!”
Shen Luoyan brushed away the hair blocking her face and shouted.
Without hesitation, Li Mei pulled out a magazine and threw it over. She then continued to fire with her rifle, without stopping.
Pilate blocked the bullets aimed at his eyes with his hand and continued the pursuit. His heart was set on catching the two heretics.
Li Mei planned to first numb Pilate with ordinary bullets, then shoot his eyes directly with psychic energy bullets from the Ruin Calamity.
With such a long distance, the bullets’ velocity dropped significantly. If Pilate were cautious, he would definitely be able to dodge.
Shen Luoyan held the magazine, taking out the bullets one by one and activated the holy relic Divine Light.
She carved spiral grooves on the surface of the bullets and attached her own psychic energy to them.
With Shen Luoyan’s current strength, the Divine Light could only attack targets within 300 meters. However, if she attached her psychic energy to bullets, the attack range would be limitless.
Her psychic energy didn’t contain the extremely rare manifestation ability, which meant she couldn’t directly create physical psychic energy bullets. After preparing the energy-imbued bullets and pressing them back into the magazine, she tossed it back to Li Mei:
“Be careful! The trajectory of the bullets will change!”
“I know.”
Li Mei shrugged her shoulders and replaced the magazine. Shaping ability gunners greatly enjoyed creating energy-imbued bullets using similar methods. Compared to directly manifested bullets, these energy-imbued bullets carried much less psychic energy and had reduced power, relying on quantity for effectiveness.
She test-fired two shots, familiarized herself with the trajectory, and hit the target with the third shot.
A blazing ball of light exploded directly on Pilate’s palm, charring a patch of stiff hair on his body.
Pilate let out a painful cry and plucked the melted bullet from his hand. The high temperature of the Divine Light didn’t harm him, but the pain it brought was very real.
If he hadn’t sensed the psychic energy attached to the bullet and blocked it with his hand in time, he might have been blinded.
One precise bullet after another struck his body, some even piercing through his bat wings. Despite Pilate constantly adjusting his flight trajectory, he still couldn’t dodge these incredibly accurate bullets.
His ferocious Beast of Darkness form was scorched and marred by the light, with patches of neatly arranged black hair missing, as if he had contracted a disease which caused patchy hair loss. Even the pair of bat wings on his back had been burnt with several large holes.
“Roar!”
Pilate was rendered helpless with rage. His psychic energy inclination was enhancement and shaping abilities, and his psychic energy could only attack targets up to a distance of 1,200 meters.
Li Mei pried open the bullet tip of a round and manifested a psychic energy bullet using her own psychic energy, pushing it into the chamber. Even a sun-level holy relic couldn’t overcome an opponent two levels higher; her goal was to blind Pilate.
Chapter 96 Deduction of Energy Techniques <TOC> Chapter 98 Playing Tricks