Chapter 55: Equipment Combination Skill
After tracking for ten minutes, Su Xiao noticed the red figure ahead suddenly stop.
Hassan-i Sabbah (Hundred Faces) stood atop a building, looking in Su Xiao's direction. Although he couldn't see Su Xiao, he sensed someone was pursuing him.
Black smoke surged, and dozens of Hundred Faces figures appeared, all wearing the same clothes and masks but differing in height and build.
This was Hassan-i Sabbah (Hundred Faces)'s ability: Delusional Illusion. Eighty personalities coexisted within a single body. When he released these personalities, they could gain independent bodies with independent thoughts and could carry out tasks separately.
This ability seemed powerful, transforming one person into eighty. However, Hassan-i Sabbah (Hundred Faces)'s total heroic spirit energy remained unchanged. In other words, the more individuals he split into, the weaker each Hundred Faces became.
At this moment, Hassan-i Sabbah (Hundred Faces) split off twenty personalities. As soon as these twenty appeared, they immediately charged in all directions.
"Not a bad strategy. Unfortunately, too few numbers, and the speed reduction is too great."
Su Xiao leaped toward a signal tower over ten meters away. He quickly climbed up and stood atop the iron tower, dozens of meters high.
Twenty Hundred Faces fled in different directions. According to the Apostle's Eye's detection, all of them were physical entities.
Standing at a high vantage point, the night wind ruffled his short hair. A nearly two-meter-long sniper rifle appeared in his hand — the Spider Empress.
Out of habit, he ejected the magazine to check. Inside were ten 36mm caliber bullets.
Su Xiao inserted the magazine, pulled the bolt to chamber a round, and pressed a metal button on the side of the rifle.
Beep~
The Spider Empress switched from single-shot mode to burst-fire mode. In single-shot mode, he had to pull the bolt after each shot to reload. While slower in fire rate, it was more stable and accurate.
In burst-fire mode, he could keep pulling the trigger until the magazine ran empty.
Adjusting the Spider Empress's 'Optical Infrared Detection Scope' to 8x magnification, Su Xiao leaned toward the scope. With the Apostle's Eye's assistance, the twenty Hundred Faces appeared as red silhouettes. Even if buildings blocked the line of sight between them, he could still see their positions.
This effect surprised Su Xiao. The Spider Empress combined with the Apostle's Eye produced such a result. With these two pieces of equipment working together, the enemy had nowhere to hide.
Su Xiao took a deep breath. His heartbeat slowed. The crosshair in the scope's wobbling decreased until it completely stabilized.
From drawing the Spider Empress to preparing to fire, Su Xiao took less than three seconds.
The crosshair aligned with a Hundred Faces who was quickly fleeing toward the southwest of Fuyuki City. Between Su Xiao and that Hundred Faces stood a large building and two concrete walls.
Su Xiao pulled the trigger. A recoil force pushed against his shoulder as the bullet left the barrel.
A 36mm caliber bullet, even after leaving the casing, was absurdly large — a giant among bullets.
Moreover, the Spider Empress's bullets were special ammunition. Although expensive, they flew at extremely high speeds and had exceptional penetration.
This bullet spun rapidly through the air. Because of its incredible speed, the tip began to glow red. Its first target was the outer wall of a large building.
The bullet pierced through the building's outer wall without any pause, instantly flying out the other side.
Not only that, the bullet then penetrated two more concrete walls, heading straight for a Hundred Faces's throat.
That Hundred Faces sensed something rushing toward him, but before his body could react, a striking sensation hit his throat.
Bang!
The gunshot tore through the night sky. Before the sound spread, the bullet had already pierced through a Hundred Faces's throat.
With a cracking sound, that Hundred Faces's head and upper body shattered. Hassan-i Sabbah (Hundred Faces) was never a tough, thick-skinned heroic spirit. His strength was C-rank, and his endurance was D-rank.
Furthermore, to shake off Su Xiao, Hassan-i Sabbah (Hundred Faces) had already split off nineteen personality clones. So, the C-rank strength and D-rank endurance had to be divided by twenty. The weakness of the split Hundred Faces was easy to imagine.
Because of this, the Spider Empress blew apart a Hundred Faces's upper body in one shot. Of course, this was also due to the Spider Empress's equipment effect 3 bonus.
Equipment Effect 3: Crusher (Passive) — Increases the chance of crushing enemies by 30%.
……
Hassan-i Sabbah (Hundred Faces) had made the wrong choice by splitting into twenty against Su Xiao, who had mastered Gun Proficiency Level 30.
Moreover, Su Xiao had found a high vantage point. With Gun Proficiency Level 30's 'Increases gun-type weapon attack power by 42%' bonus, using the Spider Empress to snipe the Hundred Faces fleeing in all directions was no different from target practice. As long as he hit a vital spot like the chest, head, or throat, one shot shattered one.
Bang, bang, bang…
Su Xiao continuously pulled the trigger. After switching the Spider Empress to burst-fire mode, the firepower was guaranteed. As for accuracy, Gun Proficiency Level 30 compensated for that.
One by one, the Hundred Faces were shattered. Their broken flesh splattered against walls, glass windows, iron doors, and gutters.
Click~
Su Xiao emptied one magazine. Nine personality clones had been shattered, and one had its legs broken. Total time: 6 seconds. With the Apostle's Eye combined with the Optical Infrared Detection Scope's X-ray effect, even with buildings blocking the way, Su Xiao never missed.
He ejected the empty magazine and inserted a new one. Using the Spider Empress, Su Xiao could accurately hit targets up to about 5 kilometers away. At his current firing speed, after the second magazine was empty, the remaining ten Hundred Faces would flee out of his range. So, he had to ensure not a single shot missed.
Although Hassan-i Sabbah (Hundred Faces) could split off personalities and give them physical bodies, he must have a main body.
First, before splitting, all of Hassan-i Sabbah (Hundred Faces)'s personalities were concentrated in one body. After splitting off nineteen personalities, he still had sixty-one left. Where were those sixty-one? The answer was inside Hassan-i Sabbah (Hundred Faces)'s main body.
Hassan-i Sabbah (Hundred Faces)'s main body was mixed among the ten still fleeing. As long as he could snipe the main body, the remaining personality clones were no threat.
Bang.
The gunfire continued. Before each gunshot spread, a personality clone was blown apart. One shot, one kill. Su Xiao was enjoying this immensely.
While Su Xiao was having a blast sniping, Hassan-i Sabbah (Hundred Faces)'s psychological shadow was enormous. Because splitting off personality clones had reduced his strength, he could no longer face Su Xiao head-on.
To be precise, even without using personality clones, he was no match for Su Xiao. Hassan-i Sabbah (Hundred Faces)'s overall abilities were too weak. In a direct confrontation, Su Xiao would crush him. Not only Su Xiao could do this; Heroic Spirit Gilgamesh, Iskandar, and others could too.
One shot blew a personality clone's head off. Only five Hundred Faces remained fleeing below.
At that moment, the five Hundred Faces began to converge. It seemed Hassan-i Sabbah (Hundred Faces) realized that fleeing like this was useless. The enemy's attack range was too far.
Hassan-i Sabbah (Hundred Faces)'s personality clones disappeared, and his attributes recovered. Although personality clones reduced his strength, after they died, the heroic spirit energy would still return to his main body.
After his attributes recovered, Hassan-i Sabbah (Hundred Faces)'s Agility reached A-rank — the only attribute he could boast about.
Sensing Hassan-i Sabbah (Hundred Faces)'s move, Su Xiao put away the Spider Empress, leaped down from the signal tower, and quickly pursued Hassan-i Sabbah (Hundred Faces).