BAM!!
Lu Xing wasn't here for pleasantries.
The moment the Knight Captain avatar manifested, it immediately launched an attack against the four individuals opposite him. The battle between the Space-Time Crystals and the VF-0s had been entirely autonomous, yielding far too little information. Now, Lu Xing would personally experience the might of quantum energy weapons with what he considered a comparable level of power (approximately).
After nearly a year, he had come to continue their unfinished battle.
KRA—
CRACK!!
Hundreds of meters separated them. Intertwined red and blue light flashed and vanished! Accompanied by a clear grating sound, the ocean between the Knight Captain and the Armed Dolls instantly froze into an incomparably magnificent ice trajectory!
Atop this, scarlet flames wreathed him, his warhorse's hooves reared high!
In the blink of an eye, the Knight Captain instantly closed in on Belladonna, who was positioned furthest back in the group of four, responsible for control and ranged output. Frost and flame converged at the tip of his lance; a storm, following the Knight Captain's motion of raising his arm and thrusting the lance, shot straight towards Belladonna's chest!
"[Frostflame Charge]!"
BOOM!!!
The storm swept across the sea. Directly in front of where the lance had thrust, a "sea trench" several nautical miles long and over ten meters deep spontaneously formed!
Belladonna couldn't react at all—no, it should be said that no one in the entire Armed Doll squad had clearly seen that charge!
Along with the passive quantum shield that had sprung up before her, Belladonna was directly blasted into a shower of fragments that filled the sky!
Clack!
Ice chips scattered beneath the warhorse's hooves.
"Quite good."
Lu Xing assessed the power of his move and the resistance he had encountered.
The [Frostflame Charge] just now had been a full-power blow combining speed and strength. Normally, in Knight Captain form wielding [Radiance], this move could easily pierce the defenses of an Emperor-class Honkai Beast.
The sensation just now...
The individual comprehensive strength of an Armed Doll was less than that of an Emperor-class Honkai Beast. But the Knight Captain had indeed felt significant resistance in that attack. Among single-target moves, the armor-piercing effect of [Frostflame Charge] was superior to [Frostflame Thrust] without the [Dawnbreaker] ability applied.
In short, when using quantum energy to battle Honkai Beasts, the combat power of human-made constructs increased by roughly 30%-50%. This was an estimation based on the Knight Captain's Honkai energy concentration; if it were an ordinary Honkai Beast, the power of quantum energy could probably be doubled again.
These enhancements were essentially pulled out of thin air.
The threat of quantum energy to Honkai Beasts… Lu Xing's judgment was correct. They had to be completely eradicated before mass production!
"Bastard!"
While Lu Xing was assessing quantum energy, Yang, having witnessed her teammate's death, was the first to charge forward!
Sizzle!!
Red flames surged from behind her! Aided by the acceleration from [Explosive Burn], golden lightning-fire flashed violently in the air. By the time the Knight Captain raised his lance to meet the enemy, the surface of Yang's armguards was already completely covered in explosive energy!
A fist descending from the heavens—
BOOM!!!
CRACK!
Upon the frozen surface of the ocean, the warhorse was pushed back over twenty meters by the immense recoil.
Thud.
The "remains" of the Armed Doll, a gaping hole blown in its chest, its quantum drive core directly blasted to powder, fell lifelessly to the ground.
This was the cannon form of [Radiance]. From the tip of the lance, a high-concentration Honkai energy flow converged into a "cannonball" of immense power, unleashed by the Knight Captain using the [Dawnbreaker] skill. Based on the energy consumption ratio from using [Frostflame Charge], Lu Xing could precisely control the power of this move: break the shield and inflict damage, using not a bit more, not a bit less Honkai energy than necessary.
CLANG!!
Simultaneously with eliminating the second Armed Doll, the Knight Captain's warhorse was once again knocked back over ten meters by an impact. The dark-gold greatshield was held before him. The moment the quantum energy sniper bullet hit the shield, it was reduced to elementary particles in the clash between the two energies.
A rare opportunity vanished. Lu Xing hadn't used [Aegis] just now—unleashing that skill with the Knight Captain's attributes (Constitution), very few within the entire civilization could break through its defense. Instead, he had relied on consuming a large amount of Honkai energy, blocking the sniper bullet's attack with [Echo].
In that very instant!
ZING!!
WHOOSH—
BANG!
The condensed edge of a rapier grazed past his forehead. The Knight Captain's protruding left horn was severed at its base by this strike!
"Possible..."
Ruby's snipe was merely cover, its purpose to enable Schnee's closely following fatal blow!
"But, not enough."
The idea was good, but her speed couldn't keep up!
Although quantum energy had a significant suppressive effect on Honkai, this attribute did not enhance the Armed Doll's speed. Even such a sudden attack had only managed to barely sever one of the Knight Captain's horns.
Truly inconsequential.
But the price to be paid for this—
WHOOSH!
Intense wind pressure blew fiercely forward! Before Schnee could adopt a defensive stance, the more oppressive greatshield had already slammed viciously into her chest!
BAM!!
The quantum shield shattered explosively; over seventeen body modules lost responsiveness!
CRUNCH—
The shield bash was merely an appetizer. As the distance between them was passively widened, the Knight Captain, tightly gripping the greatshield in his left hand, saw it instantly transform into countless components, flying towards the lance!
THOOM!!
A giant shield axe, more than twice his height, was held aloft before him by the Knight Captain with both hands!
Spin, bring down!
"Super-Breakthrough—"
Exploding lightning danced wildly on the shield axe!
"—Slash!"
BOOM!!!
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The third Armed Doll was annihilated into dust.
From the start of the engagement until now, in a mere five seconds, the Armed Doll squad, Mu Continent's pride, had been almost completely wiped out.
As for the last one…
Ruby, in the distance, had already lost her will to fight. Armed Dolls could not exhibit physiological reactions like trembling or sweating, but her stance, not even daring to raise her scythe and charge towards him, already indicated that even brave and fearless Armed Dolls could feel fear.
Snap.
The Knight Captain lightly snapped his fingers.
The [Subspace Lances], which had been on standby for a long time, instantly shot out from above Ruby's head!
An intense premonition of death made Ruby swing her scythe to block the first strike, but the second [Subspace Lance] that followed closely behind still pierced her quantum core without any hindrance.
Zzzrrraa—
BOOM!!
With the last Armed Doll completely eliminated, the operation to test the might of quantum weapons could be declared a complete success.
Snap!
With a second snap of his fingers, the wreckage and parts floating on the sea surface—be it from the Armed Dolls or the VF-0s—all began to burn with deep purple flames.
Quantum energy could annihilate Honkai energy, which also meant that a large dose of Honkai energy could similarly overwhelm the existence of quantum energy.
Between the all-consuming flames and the ice sculptures veiling the ocean, the warhorse carrying the Knight Captain began to pace, slowly walking into the ring of space-time and disappearing from sight.