Chapter 7: Tyrant
Within M·Tyrant's targeting scope, Su Xiao preliminarily observed the situation over three kilometers away and selected a participant with antennae on their head, likely leaning toward mental control and perception.
As Su Xiao locked on, blue energy patterns emerged on M·Tyrant's barrel. These patterns were faint, ready to dissipate at any moment.
One shot cost 80,000 Paradise Coins—this was the price of M·Tyrant's immense power. Moreover, once locked, this shot must hit the enemy.
Su Xiao had only exchanged for five rounds of M·Tyrant's ammunition. If he couldn't trigger M·Tyrant's high-energy state, relying on this sniper cannon alone to blast over thirty participants three kilometers away into slag was impossible.
Equipment Effect 3: Death Lock (Passive): This firearm is equipped with an 8x to 65x adaptive scope, adjustable manually or automatically. After aiming at a target for 2 seconds, it performs a biological lock, ignoring over 90% of obstacles and continuously providing the user with the target's location.
Note: If the locked target is successfully killed, this firearm immediately enters a 'High-Energy' state! By consuming the user's mana or other energy, 'Energy Wind-Trace Bullets' are formed and automatically loaded into the magazine. The high-energy state ends when the user's mana drops below 10%.
Note: During the high-energy state, the destructive power of 'Energy Wind-Trace Bullets' increases by 80%, and upon penetrating an enemy, they cause area explosive damage.
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Hum~
The twelve auxiliary firing mechanisms inside M·Tyrant began operating. Su Xiao aimed at a Wood Spirit Clan member in the distance.
With antennae on their head, light green skin with cracks, and gill lines on both sides of the jaw—if Su Xiao judged correctly, his target was the Void race: Wood Spirit Clan, native to the Sea Forest Continent.
Su Xiao needed to aim at this Wood Spirit for over two seconds to achieve a biological lock, and the moment the lock succeeded, he could pull the trigger.
Three kilometers away on a barren grassland, near a lakeside where steam rose, a group of participants were discussing something—such as where Su Xiao might appear, whether to unite with other participants on the left peninsula, first join forces to kill the twins, and then deal with Su Xiao.
The atmosphere of the discussion wasn't harmonious, as they lacked a true leader. Shangyue was merely their representative, not a real leader.
"What is this feeling?"
The Wood Spirit with antennae quickly scanned their surroundings. Their current feeling was extremely ominous, as if a cold eye was staring at them. This sensation made their hair stand on end.
"Not good, not good..."
The Wood Spirit suddenly ran toward the freshwater lake behind them. Though it wasn't seawater, it could still activate their racial talent.
"This is..."
Shangyue looked somewhat puzzled at the fleeing Wood Spirit, then immediately thought of a possibility.
"Establish a defensive line here! Anti-air, anti-large-scale long-range weapons!"
As a member of the Feather Clan, Shangyue had received training in this since childhood. She had learned it at age twelve from a lecturer at 'Aiwen Ai Academy,' which was actually a school established by the Feather Clan to systematically teach young Feather Clan members.
Shangyue's combat competence was decent, but unfortunately, those around her weren't her kin—they were participants from at least thirty different races.
"Spread out!"
"Don't! Spreading out means dying faster. Build cover, or we'll be picked off..."
Though Shangyue was usually stoic, she was trembling with anger at her 'useless teammates.' Individually, these people had decent combat competence, but gathered together, they were a mess—not lacking combat power, but all accustomed to fighting alone.
Bang!
A gunshot rang out from afar. An arm-thick white light beam passed over Shangyue's head, leaving spiral wind traces in the air.
With a crackling sound, a large cloud of blood mist exploded in the distance. The Wood Spirit who had reached the lakeside was shattered, obliterated by a 14.22mm wind-trace bullet.
Blood stained the lake water within several meters around. A broken antenna floated on the surface.
Seeing this, Shangyue felt a chill spread from her feet to the top of her head. At most three shots, and she would die—definitely die.
At this moment, Shangyue desperately wished she had the ability to burrow into the earth, but unfortunately, the Feather Clan had no such talent.
Boom!
A frozen war hammer smashed into the ground a hundred meters to the right. A figure radiating cold air was charging out from the distant forest.
Not only that, a dark blue-feathered demon hawk swooped low across the sky.
"Owoo!"
A wolf howl echoed. Hearing this sound, Shangyue confirmed they were surrounded. If they scattered and were caught, they'd die even faster.
Three kilometers away, on an ice pillar, Su Xiao crouched atop it. Due to the recoil from the rifle stock, fine cracks had appeared on the ice beneath his feet.
Several energy threads wrapped around Su Xiao's forearm, the other ends connected to various parts of M·Tyrant's barrel. They were consuming Su Xiao's mana to fill the magazine with energy wind-trace bullets. M·Tyrant had entered its high-energy state.
The magazine was now full. Su Xiao slightly adjusted the muzzle, aiming at an enemy who had already fled nearly half a kilometer.
Su Xiao's breathing was steady. The crosshair in his scope was nearly motionless.
Bang!
Energy smoke sprayed from the cooling vents on M·Tyrant's barrel. The wind-trace bullet left the chamber, leaving its unique spiral wind trail in the air.
In the scope, an enemy who was sprinting forward with occasional evasive steps collapsed. The lower half of their body was shattered by the kinetic energy carried by the bullet.
When the energy wind-trace bullet embedded into the ground, it exploded violently, dealing energy blast damage to a ten-meter radius.
Su Xiao adjusted the muzzle again. This time, his target was a stone golem—a creature of solid granite, seemingly heavy but surprisingly fast.
Bang, bang, bang!
Su Xiao fired three consecutive shots. Three energy wind-trace bullets flew from the muzzle in succession. After a brief delay, the stone golem 3.71 kilometers away exploded, blasted into large fragments of rock.
Su Xiao began bombarding the participants three kilometers away, prioritizing those fleeing into the distance.
On Su Xiao's side, aside from the gunshots, the sound of bullets hitting enemies or embedding into the ground and exploding wasn't loud.
In contrast, on the lakeside wasteland three kilometers away, while the gunshots were quiet, the sound of bullets piercing bodies and the whistling of bullets in flight were very clear. Most exaggerated was the explosion when bullets hit the ground—deafening.
Inside a nearly four-meter-deep earth trench, Shangyue crouched. This trench had been reinforced by eleven different abilities. The wall Shangyue leaned against looked like rock but had been metalized by some ability. This place had become a bunker.
"What a lifesaver."
Nita sat in the trench, bloodstains still visible on her face.
Boom, boom, boom...
Bullets slammed into the metal layer on the front of the trench. Though temporarily transformed by abilities, this metal layer was extremely tough, able to withstand one or two bullets before a section was shattered.
Looking around, the nearly twenty-meter-long trench was packed with participants. They weren't exactly trembling in fear, but they were utterly desperate. Anyone who showed their head would die.
As for those who had scattered and fled earlier, once they got far enough, Baha would find them. Baha didn't need to kill—just holding them back for a few seconds was enough.
The Lizardman, the fierce young girl from the Dream Spirit Clan, Shangyue, Nita, and others were all hiding in the trench, using it as cover.
At first, they thought only one sniper was picking them off from a distance. But after a few minutes, they felt like a whole squad of snipers was bombarding them relentlessly.