“Are you kidding me!?” Seeing Constanza and her teammates pulled into the combat space and vanishing on the spot, Nanjiamu’s eyes bulged, and he stood up abruptly.
Ince also noticed this scene, his body twisting in an exaggerated posture while the hand holding the microphone shook.
“It’s the president of Assassin's Creed, Lu Shuhang! Lu Shuhang just launched a Visiting Battle by Overstepping Authority against Constanza, forcing the nuclear smelting cannon to stop!”
“Wait, that’s not all!”
Ince quickly switched the feed, his hands leaving afterimages on the control console. Over a dozen screens were pulled up, showing almost every member of the Pilot Army who had entered Fire Street being targeted simultaneously by stealth players who had suddenly appeared beside them. There were nearly a hundred such activations in total.
It wasn’t just members of Assassin's Creed; there were also elite combatants from the King's Clan, Heterogeneous Front, Winter Dawn, and a series of other major guilds. These stealth players had been lying in wait in Fire Street for a long time, just waiting for this exact moment.
The situation reversed in an instant. One pillar of light after another lit up throughout the streets and alleys of Fire Street. From left to right, right to left, the pillars of light shattered all imprisonment and obstacles, piercing straight into the sky together!
In the same moment, dozens of Visiting Battle by Overstepping Authority sessions were initiated, with the total number of combatants exceeding three hundred people!
This scene instantly ignited the atmosphere of the entire venue, pushing the mood of the qualifiers to an unprecedented climax!
“Holy crap, that’s intense!”
“Goosebumps everywhere! I’m fired up!”
“This is so satisfying my scalp is tingling. A legendary moment in the making.”
“Go for it, Light-Chaser Garden! Use Visiting Battle by Overstepping Authority on them!”
“Incredible! Was this all part of your plan too, Dark Gold Rose?!”
“So cool! Dark Gold Rose is so cool!”
“Fly high for me!”
“It’s Visiting Battle by Overstepping Authority, they’re all Visiting Battle by Overstepping Authority!” For a moment, Ince was incoherent.
Xu Xiaoyou knew that her time had arrived. She shouted at Cervantes, who was calmly holding his head behind a piece of cover:
“Find the weakest team nearby and mark them!”
Five red dots appeared on the tactical map in front of her, and they were moving. Clearly, the enemies had realized the crisis and were retreating toward the outskirts of Fire Street.
“After them! Don’t let them leave!”
Having been hunted for the entire match, the girls were already full of suppressed rage. Upon hearing the command, they exchanged looks and nodded. Simultaneously dropping everything they were doing, they sprinted toward the position of the five red dots!
“Run, damn it! Run!” Nanjiamu’s roar echoed through the communication channel, urging the five people to escape. “Leave Fire Street! Run as far as you can!”
During the match, unless forced out by external factors, players were not allowed to log out of the game. And this particular squad happened to be the only logistics squad in the Pilot Army without a grade 4 expert stationed with them. Nanjiamu hadn't been worried about Xu Xiaoyou targeting them initially.
If anything, that squad was supposed to be bait. Once Xu Xiaoyou showed any intention of a decapitation strike, he would have redirected manpower to intercept her on her path.
But now, the tables were turned. He hadn't expected the other party to have enough influence to rally so many guilds to ambush him in Fire Street. All of a sudden, the Golden Navigator was forced into an absolute disadvantage, pushed to the brink of despair!
Over seventy percent of his elites had been pulled into Visiting Battle by Overstepping Authority. He only had a few squads left at his disposal. If he couldn't intercept Dark Gold Rose and her team before they could initiate their own battle, his side would inevitably lose this guild war.
Allowing Dark Gold Rose to return to Pangard would be no different from letting a fierce king return to her wolf pack. Given her influence, it wouldn't be impossible for her to rapidly scale up her forces and confront the Golden Navigator head-on in a short period.
If he failed to successfully surround and eliminate her even with such a massive advantage this time, what could he possibly do to defeat that person in the future? She would become his nightmare.
The alliance turned a blind eye to guilds waging war, but once a winner was decided or one side's 'value' became significantly higher, the loser would inevitably face sanctions from multiple parties.
The Golden Navigator would fall into a state beyond redemption.
No, he absolutely couldn't just stand by and watch this happen. He couldn't accept the guild entrusted to him by the president being destroyed under his watch, and he certainly couldn't accept so many brothers suffering because of his recklessness.
A heat born from various tangled emotions overrode his logic. Nanjiamu turned and walked toward a titan. An analyst beside him tried to dissuade him, but seeing the young man’s state, the analyst sighed, shook his head, and silently abandoned the thought.
As the armor on the mech’s chest opened to reveal the cockpit inside, Nanjiamu took a deep breath and sat down. His wavering eyes turned ruthless. Before the dust settled, he would end this war personally!
“Do you know what you look like to me right now?” Chun Sanyue brushed her hand across her face, her voice playful.
Nanjiamu didn't respond. His hands swiped across the control panel, switching the titan from unmanned mode to manual control and maximizing every parameter as the armored cockpit closed around him.
“You look like a dog that has lost its mind and started biting people at random.”
“If you order a full retreat now, it’s still not too late to preserve your combat strength.”
“Say whatever you want. If I lose, I will bear the responsibility alone.”
Driving the titan, Nanjiamu surged into the sky, flying toward the battlefield at maximum speed.
Chun Sanyue looked up, shielding her forehead with her hand as she shook her head and let out a soft sigh.
“How boring. Fine, game over. I’m going somewhere else to play.”
“Wait, where are you going—” The strategic analyst beside her tried to reach out to stop her, but a bullet hole instantly appeared in his forehead. He collapsed to the ground, blood pooling out as his life faded.
Chun Sanyue covered her mouth and giggled, the muzzles of the Forbidden Twin Slayers smoking.
“Hehe, our pleasant cooperation ends here. The traditional segment of backstabbing allies is now being performed~”
With that, Chun Sanyue raised her guns and began picking off the nearby analysts who hadn't yet recovered from the shock.
“Oh no, get away from her! She’s crazy!” Before one person could finish shouting, he exploded into a large spray of colorful pigments.
The blood in his entire body flowed backward into his heart, spraying out of his chest in massive quantities like a squeezed tube of graffiti.
“Wait, she’s not a bionic—ugh!”
In a short while, the last person collapsed with a wail, his dilated pupils staring fixedly at the girl's back. A youthful voice began humming a cheerful lullaby as her slender legs skipped away, disappearing into the outskirts.
“Nana~ nanana~ na~”
“I hear the sound echoes hell~”
“Angels and hell lines meet~”
“The light on the weapons~”
“And I’m straining to reach~”
“Reaching for ways to kill angels~”
“As I sing them lullabies~”
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