Reborn as a Mechanist with a God-Tier System-Chapter 319 - 1 minute [2]

Leon fought like a God.

BAM! BAM! BAM!

The moment the Bulwark MK.II Titan Frame descended from the Zerphyr-7 into the battlefield, he became inevitable.

And the moment that Colonel Alphonse tried to hop into the mech suit’s neural node and was repelled, and the moment his Psionic Assault attack was defended by the mech suit, he realized that he already lost the duel.

And in that moment, he confirmed it. ’D Rank Mechanists are the bane of D Rank NetRunners!’

’What Class Specialization is he exactly?’

It wasn’t a debate really.

In terms of offensive power, even without calling on the Bulwark MK.II Titan Frame yet, it was already clear that Leon overwhelmed him completely in this aspect.

NetRunners were never front-line combatants, they were more like cyber assassins and preferred ambush attacks.

His chance to win the duel was within the first few seconds when the Mechanist was still taking it easy but with Leon predicting his moves and countering them perfectly, he lost his chance.

And now, he could only run for his life.

After activating Overclock Mind, before it was, ’How long will he last?’

But now, it was, ’How long will I last?’

This was because he was currently fighting in Hell for survival!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The entire combat Arena that was as big as 3 stadiums combined was engulfed in flames from the firepower of the D Rank Mechanist!

Inside the Bulwark MK.II Titan Frame, Leon moved like a natural disaster as flames and destruction spread in his wake.

BZZZZ!

Whenever his ADE flared around the mech suit, destruction followed.

Enhance!

From the shoulders of the mech suit alone, Colonel Alphonse was forced to face not just the visible Artillery Cannons, but also the retractable missile pod arrays that opened occasionally and shot payloads of devastating missiles, and the shoulder-mounted Rotary Machine Guns.

The Bulwark MK.II Titan Frame created an impenetrable net of firepower around the D Rank Mindbreaker NetRunner.

Tutututututututututututu...!

And the scariest fact was that he was not alone.

Command Link Network!

With the Tank Class Doom Rovers supporting with ranged firepower, and the Skimisher Class Doom Rovers pursuing him relentlessly like they had an ancient vendetta, Colonel Alphonse couldn’t even rest as he kept on hopping through the psionic network to avoid the damage.

He had to keep on moving to avoid being defeated in a single second.

And by moving at such desperate speeds to avoid being defeated, his ADE drained like water from a running tap.

And it was not even a matter of bravery. From just running around, he already tried to go on the offensive 3 different times.

Afterall, even though his strongest powers which were related to the psionic network were nullified by the mech suit, he still had his sword and his physical power as a D Rank Ascended.

So he went on the offensive against the mech suit 3 times. But all 3 times, he rammed himself straight into a wall.

With the Retractable Plasma Blade alone and with Leon’s personal sword-fighting skills, the Colonel stood 0% chance of defeating the mech suit in close-range combat.

But that was not even its original defense.

Apart from Leon’s own skill with the Plasma Great Sword, the combination of the shoulder-mounted rotary machine guns, point-defense Gatling guns that were embedded along the torso and hips of the machine, the directed EMP Projector, plus the R9 energy shield itself presented a defensive combination that the Colonel had no chance of bypassing.

Every time that he tried to go on the offensive, he inevitably ran into a wall.

And during this time, though he didn’t suffer any other damage yet due to his high mobility, he was losing ADE faster and he simply couldn’t sustain such rapid movement in such a high-intensity battle.

Colonel Alphonse was losing, but he didn’t give up.

The entire interior of the floating arena already turned into a sea of flames from the reckless attacks of the D Rank Mechanist and his weapons.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

’24 seconds remaining before Overclock Mind disappears,’ he thought, yet he still saw no way of turning the tides of the battle around.

Colonel Alphonse didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

’So this is how D Rank Mechanists fight...’

’What monsters!’

’But I feel that even at that, he’s different’.

Leon effortlessly sustained the same destructive intensity for dozens of seconds, wearing the NetRunner down slowly, not just in terms of his ADE but also by burning the mobile smartphones that he threw into the air and limiting his neural nodes for Neural Projection.

With every smartphone that was destroyed, it reduced the Colonel’s options, pushing him further and deeper into the abyss.

And with each EMP blast that the Bulwark MK.II Titan Frame unleashed, Colonel Alphonse was left weakened and vulnerable to counterattacks.

The only reason why he wasn’t yet suffering serious injuries was because his Overclock Mind was still active, enabling him to think in a state of overdrive as adrenaline surged through his body.

The battle was intense and was climbing increasingly closer to its climax.

Colonel Alphonse’s brain whirred throughout. He thought, he plotted, he tried his very best, but against the D Rank Mechanist’s tight defensive and offensive system, there was no hole to exploit.

And finally, 1 minute elapsed.

The moment a minute elapsed, his rapid thinking dropped immediately, slowing him by a fraction of a second and that was all Leon needed to hit the nail on the coffin.

Enhance!

EMP Blast!

BZZZ!

This time, the EMP blast hit Colonel Alphonse with the force of a mountain as he was directly forced out of his psionic ghost state!

And within that single moment of vulnerability, multiple Vita7 Magnesium Nanites ignited the air with explosions around him, engulfing him and dealing deadly burns to him even as a few Mosquito i7s snuck through his defense finally.

The Colonel didn’t even know when they snuck through and bit him due to how much his body was burning.

Neural Projection!

Bzzz!

He recovered and jumped into the psionic network again but this time, he was slower and more lethargic.

Noticing this, Leon didn’t unleash his worst on him. Afterall, this was a duel, he didn’t want to injure the Colonel too much.

He let the foreign fluids now inside the Colonel’s body to work their magic, and the Colonel was completely oblivious to the outside influence.

A D Rank Gene Augur would have detected the foreign presence immediately, but not a NetRunner.

Anytime the Colonel was forced back to his normal human form, the poison worked, infiltrating deeper into his bloodstream.

And 20 seconds later, Colonel Alphonse froze suddenly and started having a seizure as he was forced out of his psionic ghost form.

The Colonel’s eyes widened. ’Poison???’

Thud!

He collapsed to his knees.

This was not a poison that could kill him or damage his organs, instead Leon deliberately made the Mosquito i7s inject neurotoxins into him.

They paralyzed his nerves and his body completely within just 20 seconds!

After that, the battle came to an end.

Click!

The Bulwark MK.II Titan Frame opened up again and Leon stepped out, his sparring attire still battered and wrinkled.

But in comparison to the Colonel’s own sparring attire, his own looked clean.

He walked forward and stood in front of the Colonel, towering above him as the flames around them raged while the guests in the VIP booths watched with stunned expressions on their faces.

Colonel Alphonse struggled to raise his head, then he smiled. "You won".

"Yeah". Leon smiled slightly.

"What is the name of your Class Specialization?"

He grinned. "Warmachine Specialist".

DING! 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

The ChronoSystem lit up with a new system notification.

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