Reborn as a Mechanist with a God-Tier System-Chapter 228: The final battle on April 2nd [2]

BZZZZT!

Purgatory was activated!

Amid the sensation of the cyber world overlapping with reality, hundreds of war transports accompanied by warships rose into the sky amid flashes of green as dozens of NetRunners in the city made their presence known.

Yet, the Federation Army didn’t stop.

This time, the Federation Army was less strategic and more aggressive than ever before as under General Sylvari’s orders, the horde of aerial war transports charged head-first into Iron Reef’s city defense like moths to a flame.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The turrets and war weapons installed around the city overheated as they unleashed hell on the invading force.

The defending aerial war transports ascending into the sky also erupted with violence as they shot at the invaders even as the Federation transports retaliated.

The sky became a blanket of fire and raining metallic debris within a few dozen seconds of the sudden night invasion.

Flashes of neon green light littered the aerial battlefield as NetRunners hopped between neural interfaces and aerial transports, hunting down enemy soldiers and sabotaging warships.

The rebel army’s 5 Lieutenants moved together, targeting a specific area of the invading air force as they wreaked havoc!

But then he appeared.

BZZZZZZZZZ!

The sheer ADE presence of General Sylvari Charr cut through the battlefield like a knife through butter, illuminating the night sky with a flash of violent neon green light as he hopped into the battlefield.

The General already had a bad feeling when the warning alarms in the military base blared, but the moment his air force attacked and Ren Nora was nowhere to be found, he confirmed his worst fears.

’He actually dared to do it?’

’He’s already attempting the Trial?’

’But he’s injured!’

’Since when did he start?’

He simply couldn’t understand the logic behind Ren Nora’s reckless boldness and that was the core of the stubborn rebel’s psychological warfare.

General Sylvari Charr realized that Ren Nora just out-thought him!

This damaged his pride as a C Rank NetRunner, but at the same time he laughed coldly because with Ren Nora gone, Iron Reef was defenseless before him even with the power of the city’s defense grid.

’Fool! Did you not think of this?’

He moved.

Even as it looked like he was targeting the D Rank defenders of the city in Ren Nora’s absence, the first thing that he actually did was not to attack.

The first thing he did was hack and search.

Neural Hack!

His neon green ADE erupted like a tsunami as he hacked neural systems and CCTV cameras in the military base indiscriminately, starting with Ren Nora’s room and office in his bid to find out where the rebel leader hid.

Despite his anger at being out-thought by Ren Nora in this crazy war game of psychological warfare, General Sylvari Charr was level-headed.

With all the D Rank Lieutenants of the city huddled together clearly on guard against him, if he put his all into it, he knew he could kill them all eventually. He didn’t even need support from his own D Rank Lieutenants but that was going to take time which invalidated the reason for it.

Right now, the priority was finding Ren Nora and interrupting his Trial.

If he managed to interrupt the stubborn and arrogant rebel’s Trial, Ren Nora’s own Trial would corrupt him, mutating him and turning him into a mindless D Rank Neon Beast.

In such a situation, even inside Purgatory, General Sylvari Charr was confident in singlehandedly slaughtering every single soldier in this city.

In as much as he was out-thought by Ren Nora, to him this was also an opportunity.

This was an opportunity to end the war once and for all!

And just like he expected, the moment he decided to be patient and hack the CCTV cameras and neural networks in the city in search of Ren Nora instead of attacking them, Ren Nora’s Lieutenants became desperate.

Led by Major Kai, they all fearlessly charged at the C Rank NetRunner in what seemed like a suicide run.

Beastframe- Winged Rhino!

BZZZ!

Major Lawrence’s body was engulfed in a violent flare of orange ADE, then the D Rank NetRunner transformed into a mighty Neon Beast!

He became a massive red-eyed and single-horned Rhino with thick and long Eagle-like wings.

Each flap of his mighty wings triggered a gale.

Whoosh!

He rushed at the C Rank General of the Federation Army!

Major Garfield and Major Mendez flanked the enemy General as with anti-gravity gear, they rapidly rushed towards the General.

Apart from the Mechanist Class, the Cyber Gladiator Class is another Class that has an intimate relationship with Mechanist constructs.

As the widely acknowledged penultimate combat Class, at F Rank, the body of Cyber Gladiators become reinforced to withstand the violent strain of ADE surges in combat.

They also gain the innate ability to bond mechanical implants to muscle fibers, this is why most Cyber Gladiators use at least one Mechanist construct if they had the means to get one.

At E Rank, Cyber Gladiators innately become capable of redirecting ADE flow to limbs in real time, and their ADE also fully synchronizes with internal actuators, granting them even higher affinity and bonuses with Mechanist cybernetic constructs.

With the right constructs, all these can massively enhance their already formidable natural speed, reflexes, and power.

Both Major Garfield and Major Mendez fully synchronized with their anti-gravity gear, enabling them to navigate the skies like it was their home grown.

They flew as smoothly as birds!

Major Mendez made the first move.

Knight Exosuit- Legendary Knight of Chaos!

BZZZZ!

Flanking from the left, Major Mendez’s body flared with violent purple ADE.

He was a D Rank Cyber Gladiator of the Exo Knight Specialization.

The moment the Major triggered his Knight Exosuit, a massive 5-meter tall knight of flesh and machinery came to life, born out of his ADE as this massive Knight engulfed his body like a suit of armor.

The heavily armored knight of flesh and machinery which was clearly specialized in combat wielded a Warhammer and a massive Tower Shield.

Major Mendez activated more abilities.

Kinetic Shield!

Adaptive Armor!

Armor Amplification!

Warlord!

BZZZ!

Armor Amplification and Warlord were 2 more exclusive skills of his Class Specialization.

Armor Amplification massively enhanced all his defensive traits and abilities, while Warlord turned him into a literal Warlord, amplifying all his combat instincts, combat intelligence and reflexes while filling him with innate knowledge of myriad combat techniques.

With the mighty Warhammer, Major Mendez struck at General Sylvari Charr!

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While Major Mendez flanked from the left, Major Garfield flanked from the right.

Unlike his comrade, Major Garfield was a D Rank Cyber Gladiator of the Pulse Brawler Specialization.

The moment Major Mendez attacked and Major Lawrence attacked, he also attacked as he clenched his gloved fists tightly, making the air beside his fists to twist and contract.

Frenzy!

BZZZ!

Also called Brawler’s Frenzy, Frenzy when activated pushes a Pulse Brawler into a state of battle frenzy and bloodlust, increasing power, speed, and the efficacy of all other abilities by 150%!

The moment Major Garfield activated Frenzy, he also activated Kinetic Shield, Adaptive Armor, Overdrive Mode, Servo Reflex, and then Pulse Dash, pushing his anti-gravity gear to the limit as he erupted with a burst of speed.

BOOM!

He broke the sound barrier almost instantly then he clenched his right first as it became engulfed in highly concentrated violet ADE.

Then he activated one final ability.

Focused Punch!

Focused Punch, another Specialization-exclusive ability enables a Pulse Brawler to sacrifice 15% of his ADE to unleash a punch at a multiplier of 800% of his base power!

With a staggering 800% multiplier, Pulse Brawlers are the only Class Specializations at D Rank with the innate ability to comfortably punch above their rank at the sacrifice of ADE.

Major Garfield’s punch made the world around him shudder!

KABOOM!

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With their 3 physical Class comrades bravely leading the charge to assault General Sylvari Charr, Major Kai and Major Potter took their time to cook up their own soup of destruction.

Even if the chances of their attack working against a higher-ranked Ascended of the same Specialization was low, they still tried and gave it their all.

Feedback Burst!

BZZZ!

Their first attack was to emit a violent electronic-disrupting psychic pulse to mess with General Cylvari Charr’s anti-gravity gear and destabilize him in mid-air.

After that, embracing their Class Specialization, they combined to assault the General’s mind in a bid to buy an opportunity for their comrades to injure him.

Psionic Assault!

Mind Distortion!

Neural Burn!

General Sylvari Charr faced a 5-fold assault from different directions!