SWNOVELXO Chapter 741 - 452: Old General Lian Po, Braver in Battle as He Ages
Chapter 741: Chapter 452: Old General Lian Po, Braver in Battle as He Ages
Harrison Clark was observing the Blade Mantis.
The Blade Mantis was also observing Harrison Clark.
As the most powerful weapon of war created by the Compound Eye Clone Human at the cost of giving up life and personality, the Blade Mantis had a mission to gather information.
Just a short moment ago, during their brief encounter, this human’s tiny double-edged weapon was able to block its blade arm that had the Great Unified Cutting Force, revealing dangerous information.
Although it had no emotions, the instinct to gather information made it slow down its attack slightly in the face of this small combat unit it had never seen before.
Harrison Clark’s purpose in observing the opponent was to verify something.
He quickly compared the differences between the Blade Mantis in this timeline and the previous one in his mind, to avoid capsizing in the gutter due to relying on his experience and judgment in the upcoming battle.
A lion still uses its full strength when hunting a rabbit, let alone Harrison Clark who is trying to defeat a more powerful foe.
He was facing enemies that had already suppressed him and all humanity for eight generations and were about to suppress mankind for the ninth time.
If he relied on the Warp Armor and took his enemies lightly, dying here again, Harrison Clark felt he would not do justice to the fallen or to Freddy, who had poured his heart and soul into creating this armor.
“Blade Mantis. Weapon load information: Great Unified Force Cutting Blade Arm, Spitting Particle Beam. Mobility performance: Conventional mobility can quickly reach half the speed of light and has a short-range warp capability. (Manual entry above). Test energy reaction intensity: 10,000 Dyson Index.”
Due to Harrison Clark leaving the game and movie Compound Eye Crisis behind in the previous timeline, the Dyson Index, a standard parameter used to assess the performance of battleships, warplanes and individual equipment in interstellar civilizations, was inherited across timelines and had the same Joule values as before.
Since the Dyson Index is identical, Harrison Clark can now draw a conclusion.
Although the war between the Compound Eye Tribe and humans has been going on for a hundred years, and the Compound Eye Tribe has absorbed human warfare wisdom and Stargate technology, the Blade Mantis has not changed.
It indicates that the design and manufacturing process of the Blade Mantis in the Compound Eye Civilization’s scientific system has reached perfection and cannot be improved.
It’s not surprising, considering that the Compound Eye Civilization absorbed the Warp ability of the Egyptian tribe and created the Blade Mantis, which has undergone millions of years of evolution, and any shortcomings and possible improvements may have already been made.
The Compound Eye Tribe has spent a million years gradually improving a technology, while humans were still playing with mud a million years ago.
The Compound Eye Civilization either manufactures a new weapon or has nothing left to improve.
Although it is a long story, both sides only spent three seconds observing each other.
Hum!
Without any prior agreement, they both moved almost simultaneously.
Harrison Clark and the Blade Mantis disappeared from their original positions almost at the same time.
Both sides used their warp capabilities at the same time.
They both reappeared almost simultaneously in the three-dimensional universe, having switched positions with each other.
Both were following the same idea.
However, after switching positions, Harrison Clark recovered his mobility first.
He raised both hands, holding the double-edged swords in his hands, but extended them behind his head, aiming his elbow at the Blade Mantis.
The two palm-sized spheres on his left and right shoulder armor suddenly lit up with a dazzling glow.
This was the Coronal Hand Cannon charging up quickly.
The Coronal Hand Cannon was Freddy’s truly original masterpiece, specially designed for Harrison Clark’s small Warp Battle Armor.
Many people have a misconception that the temperature of a star is stratified from the inside out in a progressive manner.
But that’s not the case.
A star can be divided into four parts, from the inside out: the core, the photosphere, the chromosphere, and the corona.
The temperature of a star decreases gradually from the core area to the photosphere, but increases again after reaching the chromosphere.
The essence of temperature is the speed of particle movement.
At the corona, there are ultra-fast plasma and electrons with immense speed – converted into temperature, they reach several million degrees.
The principle of the Coronal Hand Cannon is that Freddy placed two high-energy batteries with an extremely high energy compression ratio here. When activated, the batteries supply energy, and the ions with induced charges continue to spin and accelerate, approaching the state of plasma in the corona.
Similar to the Stellar Cannon in the previous timeline.
After accelerating to a certain extent, it is then fired through the gun barrel attached to Harrison Clark’s forearm.
The gun barrel is shaped like bamboo joints. The joints are not for appearance alone; each joint injects a new energy segment into the plasma stream, including various high-energy rays and phase energy, as well as physical toxins, and one segment of Osotopes.
Through Freddy’s precise calculations, his chosen combination of energies is optimized and will result in an effect far greater than the sum of its parts.
At the time of detonation, the different layers of energy will interact with each other.
In the previous timeline, creating such a complex multi-stage injection structure required the gun barrel to be designed at least hundreds of meters long, and with a diameter of several tens of meters.
But in this timeline, Freddy first found a cosmic metal for the gun barrel structure that had the same level as Osotopes. He then fine-tuned the equipment to its extreme, finally completing this miraculous creation.
Although the Coronal Hand Cannon is small, the energy it releases within a small range is comparable to a main battleship cannon in the Eighth Timeline, and its energy density is even higher, with a sustained temperature of up to 6 million degrees after the impact.
It may not seem like much, but humans in the 21st century were already able to create temperatures comparable to the Big Bang using particle colliders. However, the astronomical numbers of high temperatures created were only sustained for a brief moment of a fraction of a second.
The energy burst released by the Coronal Hand Cannon can last for a full five seconds, with the charge and firing time being just five-thousandths of a second.
The first thousandth of a second just passed.
Two streams of burning compound energy hit the left and right sides of the Blade Mantis’ waist simultaneously.
A violent explosion erupted.
Radiation splattered, and space shook.
Harrison Clark jumped forward, activating the Micro Warp Engine and the Medium Engine at low speed simultaneously.
In a very short time, he accelerated himself to half the speed of light, moving forward like a bolt of lightning.
The Warp Battle Armor passed through the reflected energy streams, sometimes hidden in the light and sometimes exposed.
In just a moment, he crossed a distance of over thirty kilometers and appeared right in front of the Blade Mantis.
Harrison Clark’s expression was neither sad nor happy, nor excited or impulsive, just coldly watching ahead.
Arrive.
Strike.
He swung his twin blades downward in parallel cuts.
Sparks and plasma trailed from the top of the Blade Mantis down to its bottom.
As Harrison Clark passed the Blade Mantis’ waist, he saw two large holes emitting white smoke.
It turned out that the dual coronal hand cannons specifically designed to deal with the Blade Mantis were incredibly effective!
The black hole explosive bullets were too slow to keep up with the speed of the Blade Mantis.
Even if the antimatter bombs were successfully detonated at close range, they would have been completely immune to the Blade Mantis. Harrison already knew this from the previous timeline, where humanity had deployed a large number of Particle-interference Bombs, but the Blade Mantis remained unscathed.
Therefore, I must win this time!
Harrison raised his twin blades again, ready to pursue the victory, but saw a flash of light suddenly appearing on the slender leg of the Blade Mantis in front of him.
The Blade Mantis disappeared.
Harrison looked up in search of it and, according to the battlefield information system’s prompt, the Blade Mantis had already appeared 980,000 kilometers away deep within the fragmented asteroid belt!
It finally reactivated short-range warp and then fled!
The emotionless, combat-driven Blade Mantis had actually run away!
There was only one explanation.
The commander controlling the Blade Mantis remotely had issued an order for it to withdraw from the battlefield.
That was why it suddenly drew a distance using its warping ability.
Harrison snorted coldly through his nose.
Want to run?
No way!
The next moment, he reappeared behind the Blade Mantis.
Although it took a long time to discuss, it took only seven ten-thousandths of a second from the time Harrison decided to pursue until he arrived behind the Blade Mantis.
Three ten-thousandths of a second later, the Blade Mantis moved.
But realizing that Harrison’s reaction time was even shorter and that it wouldn’t be able to escape, it changed its mind and tried to use its bladed arms to slash at Harrison.
However…
Harrison had already calculated all of this.
So when he chose to warp into position, although his goal was to track his opponent, he deliberately maintained a distance of several kilometers so that the Blade Mantis couldn’t reach him immediately.
Two ten-thousandths of a second later, the Blade Mantis’ long arms, carrying cutting force capable of easily tearing space, swept toward Harrison like a pair of scissors, intent on cleaving him in two.
But just at the moment before his body was about to be cleaved, Harrison moved.
He first gently extended one of his blades, placing it at the junction of the two blade arms.
At the same time, the Medium Engine at his feet gushed with surging energy.
Facing the blade, he moved forward instead of retreating.
The three-meter-tall Warp Battle Armor’s body traced an arc in the air above the Blade Mantis’ blades, leaping over them.
As soon as Harrison’s feet had crossed over the blade, the explosive energy stream gushing from the Blade Mantis’ mouth came roaring up, but was first blocked by the Warp Battle Armor’s energy shield.
The explosive energy was powerful, almost surpassing the shield’s ability to withstand it, and some of the energy couldn’t be stopped.
However, this energy didn’t harm Harrison at all.
Because beneath the black paint of Harrison’s battle armor was a layer of metallic foil made from the cerebral core metal of the Egyptian tribe, added by Freddy!
Instead, this energy became Harrison’s driving force. He first flew downward, then adjusted his position to face the Blade Mantis from the side.
The two Medium Engines at his waist spewed energy like mad, propelling his body into a rapid spin.
Harrison’s twin cutting blades spun with him.
In an instant, Harrison transformed into a whirlwind and charged at the Blade Mantis, striking it with his blades at a rate of over a thousand times per second.
In the blink of an eye, the whirlwind that Harrison had transformed into had completed at least a hundred rotations around the Blade Mantis’ waist.
Harrison moved away again, his coronal hand cannons, now cooled down, recharged and fired two more shots!
Bang! Bang!
The Blade Mantis shook violently, and its waist connection was nearly blasted apart.
Without stopping, Harrison rushed back toward the explosion’s energy trail.
This time, he didn’t limit himself to one spot, but rather, went all-out slashing at every defense armor joint on the Blade Mantis’ surface, continually disrupting its outer membrane distribution and destabilizing its energy.
Thirty seconds passed, and Harrison retreated abruptly.
The 55-meter-tall Blade Mantis exploded with a tremendous bang!
Finally, he had single-handedly defeated the Blade Mantis in a head-to-head confrontation!
Harrison grinned from ear to ear.
So what if I’m old?
So what if I’m more than a hundred and twenty years old?
An old soldier still fights valiantly!
In the meantime, flickering lights were seen in the distance.
A gigantic sphere approached from afar.
Harrison’s pupils contracted suddenly.
A spherical battleship! Not a prism ship!
Good!
Bring it on!