Chapter 264: The Organization's Member Goes to the Device

Chapter 264: The Organization's Member Goes to the Device

Richmond Park is open to the public from 8 AM to 8 PM.

At this hour, the park is closed, making the night here even more serene.

Adjacent to the park is a top-tier golf club, and the park's golf course is filled with lush green grass.

In the center of the park, there's a lake, its rippling waters reflecting the starry sky and the city's neon lights.

The scenery here is usually pleasant, but tonight, it carries a hint of desolation.

Lu Heng finds a golf ball on the grass and hits it with the flat of his sword, sending it flying out of the course and into the lake.

Just then, a dense wave of shadow energy rolls in from behind him.

Lu Heng turns around and sees a metahuman covered in shadow armor standing on the grass—it's Modred, the Shadow Knight from the files he had seen earlier.

Modred is enveloped in shadow energy, like a demon emerging from the abyss, with an eerie glow emanating from his pupils.

Upon seeing Lu Heng, he asks in a cold voice, "So, you're the one who attacked the mercenary base?"

Lu Heng stands tall before him, locking eyes for a moment, and replies, "Yes, it was me."

"You dare to meet me after killing my men? You're asking for death." Modred's eyes flash with arrogance, not giving Lu Heng any regard.

"I'm just returning the favor; it was your doing in the first place." Lu Heng notices the arrogance in his eyes but doesn't let it anger him.

The more arrogant his opponent is, the more satisfying it will be to trample them underfoot.

Modred's face twists in disdain as he scoffs, "When we obtained the Tempering Furnace, you should have given up the tempering market. This is something you're not qualified to possess. You forcefully swallowed it, and death is what you deserve!"

"Then let me see if your strength matches your words."

Lu Heng waves his right hand, and the Aurora Blade appears in his grasp, emitting the powerful aura of an S-grade divine weapon.

Modred's eyes widen at the sight of the Aurora Blade, for he recognizes the sword.

The news of Guru Master forging an S-grade divine weapon had spread throughout the world long ago.

There was even a video capturing the appearance of the Aurora Blade, so any metahuman who had paid attention to this information could identify it.

When it comes to weapons and equipment, if you can get your hands on it, it's yours.

Therefore, Modred's eyes gleam with greed at the sword in Lu Heng's hand.

Even if he doesn't use the sword, it can be used as material to forge the Knight's Spear.

Modred snorts coldly, flips his palm, and an A-grade Shadow Spear appears in his hand.

He takes a step forward and leaps into the air.

However, the spot from which he jumps is still quite a distance from Lu Heng, making his leap seem a bit odd.

After jumping, Modred lets out a mighty roar.

As he roars, an undead warhorse appears beneath him, and he drops down onto it, mounting the undead steed. He raises the Shadow Spear and charges towards Lu Heng.

This skill is a summoning skill, and he has summoned the undead warhorse.

In the Iron Blood's database, there's no record of Modred having the skill "Summon Undead Warhorse."

Apparently, he hasn't demonstrated this skill in front of others before.

This skill, along with the Recon Eagle, belongs to the summoning category, but the undead warhorse is an A-grade skill, far superior to the D-grade Recon Eagle.

Modred charges forward, raising the Shadow Spear, and unleashes a wave of shadow energy towards Lu Heng.

The Shadow Spear vibrates, creating ripples of shadow energy, and the powerful shadow pressure makes Lu Heng feel a strong sense of suffocation.

Lu Heng activates Swiftwind Speed, side-steps to dodge the charge, and starts charging his own power.

After Modred's first charge, he turns his horse around and launches a second charge.

This time, Lu Heng doesn't dodge; with Swiftwind Speed fully charged, he moves like lightning.

With 105 agility points, Swiftwind Speed provides a 360% speed boost, allowing him to reach an incredible speed of 338 meters per second.

This speed is very close to the wind speed, and in that moment of sprinting, a white cloud forms around Lu Heng's body.

It's a sonic fog, and at 338 meters per second, he's on the verge of breaking the sound barrier, moving too fast for the naked eye to capture.

Modred only sees a flash of movement, and Lu Heng has already swept past him, sword flashing.

The undead warhorse lets out a painful whinny and explodes, turning into smoke and dissipating.

With a single slash, Lu Heng has destroyed the undead warhorse and is now a hundred meters away.

As the undead warhorse is destroyed, Modred falls from the horse, his face contorts in anger. He turns around to counterattack, leaps into the air, and swings the Shadow Spear, releasing a sharp blade of energy.

Lu Heng easily dodges the shadow blade with a side-step, and Swiftwind Speed charges for the second time, breaking the limit and reaching a speed of 339 meters per second.

The sonic boom cloud around him becomes more distinct, and his figure flashes past Modred, sword swinging.

Boom!

Modred's shadow armor shatters with a loud crash, and the powerful impact knocks him to the ground.

This only fuels his anger, and as he prepares to counterattack, he turns around, only to find Lu Heng already a hundred meters away.

At this moment, Lu Heng's Swiftwind Speed charges for the third time, and his figure shoots out, breaking the limit once more, reaching a speed of 340 meters per second. Even without the 300% speed boost from Shadow Traverse, his physical body has broken the sound barrier.

Boom!

An explosion rips through the air, and Lu Heng dashes forward, sword aimed at Modred.

Modred senses the immense threat, and with his high agility attribute and combat experience, he raises the Shadow Spear to block the sword.

Clang!

The sword and spear collide, creating a loud, ringing clash of metal.

Immediately after, the Shadow Spear is severed by the Aurora Blade, and the spearhead flies off, embedding itself in the wall.

Modred stares at the broken spear in his hand, his eyes filled with disbelief.

He wielded a +9 Tempered A-Grade weapon, yet it was severed with a single strike.

However, Lu Heng didn't give him a chance to catch his breath. The fourth Windrunner's charge was complete, and he unleashed it again, creating a Sonic Fog and slashing out with the fourth sword.

Modred's pupils constricted, sensing extreme danger. He immediately shouted and activated the skill Knight's Shield.

A circle of knight shields appeared around his body, blocking the sword's light.

Bang!

The sword light slashed through, and the energy shield of Knight's Shield exploded, instantly annihilating it.

Modred's eyes were filled with horror. His Knight's Shield was an A-Grade defensive skill, capable of withstanding machine gun fire, making it nearly invincible.

Yet, this powerful defensive skill was shattered by a single sword strike.

What shocked him even more was that Lu Heng's fifth Windrunner charge was already in motion. The sword light resembled a galaxy, slicing through the darkness of the night with blinding brilliance.

In this critical moment, Modred attempted to use his B-Grade skill Commanding Will to control Lu Heng.

Lu Heng felt a surge of psychic energy strike his mind, causing a buzzing sound in his ears.

However, Modred was not a psychic metahuman, so when he used Commanding Will to engage in a psychic contest with Lu Heng, he did not emerge victorious.

Lu Heng's psychic energy was stronger than Modred's, and with the added effect of the Psychic Resistance Ring, he was unaffected by Commanding Will.

The sword light only hesitated for a moment before slashing towards Modred.

Although it was just a momentary hesitation, Modred's strength was sufficient. He seized the opportunity to roll to the left, narrowly avoiding the sword.

After dodging the sword, he finally realized how formidable Lu Heng's combat power was.

Each of the five consecutive sword strikes could counter one of his trump cards.

Even the nearly invincible defensive skill Knight's Shield could only withstand a single sword strike.

If this continued, he would not be able to withstand the next sword strike.

Therefore, he signaled for an attack.

...

At that moment, Lu Heng was charging up, preparing to unleash another sword strike.

Just then, Su Muyu's voice came through the communicator, "Energy fluctuation! There's an energy fluctuation! Three kilometers away, to the north."

Three kilometers away was the maximum range of the sniper known as the Phantom Sniper, Harris Bob.

This Phantom Sniper was renowned for his stealth, and when a sniper like him revealed an energy fluctuation, it meant a deadly strike was imminent.

Thus, when the energy fluctuation appeared, it was time for him to fire.

Lu Heng quickly turned to look north, and in his line of sight, he immediately spotted a flash of light from a lakeside cabin three kilometers away.

It was clear that Harris Bob had fired.

At that moment, Lu Heng was in the midst of charging Windrunner, making it difficult to dodge. Even if he abandoned the charge, evading the supersonic bullet fired by the sniper would be nearly impossible.

In that instant, Lu Heng directly activated his source ability, Ethereal Flash, and his body instantly teleported 30 meters to another position.

Bang!

As Lu Heng teleported, a supersonic bullet whizzed past his original position. After 6 or 7 seconds, the sound of the sniper rifle firing finally reached him.

At a distance of 3000 meters, even at the speed of sound, it would take 8.8 seconds to cover such a distance.

But this Phantom Sniper's bullet was supersonic, enhanced by skills, making it several times faster than a regular sniper rifle's bullet.

So, Lu Heng saw the flash of the gunshot first, then the bullet whizzed past his original position, and only after 6 or 7 seconds did he hear the gunshot.

After avoiding the bullet, Lu Heng's Windrunner charge was complete, and his body shot forward again, slashing his sword towards Modred.

In that instant, Modred felt the presence of the Grim Reaper and had no choice but to play his final trump card.

He unleashed his source ability, and using the Shadow Knight's ability, Shadow Shelter, he dove into the shadows, evading the sword strike.

Lu Heng's sword slashed through, but it passed right through Modred's body without causing any harm.

This was clearly the effect of diving into the shadows, granting immunity to physical collisions, and Shadow Shelter also provided protection against non-physical attacks.

In terms of defense, Shadow Shelter was superior to Shadow Traverse.

Shadow Traverse, on the other hand, provided an acceleration effect, making it more advantageous for offense than Shadow Shelter.

Seeing Modred dive into the shadows, Lu Heng smiled and immediately followed suit, also diving into the shadows using Shadow Traverse.

With Windrunner's 360% acceleration and Shadow Traverse's 300% acceleration combined, the two effects stacked, and with a 105 agility attribute, Lu Heng's speed surged to 558.6 meters per second.

At his maximum speed, in the shadow state, he slashed towards Modred's Shadow Shelter, creating a sonic-level rift sword beam.

Bang!

The rift sword beam slashed into the protective layer of Shadow Shelter, unleashing a violent energy shockwave.

The protective layer of Shadow Shelter shattered, and Modred screamed, falling out of the shadows, his internal energy surging, and he spat out a mouthful of blood."

His face was filled with terror. Before today, his Shadow Shelter was invincible.

The reason he was the first knight of the Round Table Knight Mercenary Group was that he possessed formidable offensive capabilities and two nearly invincible defensive skills.

The first was Knight's Shield, an A-Grade skill, capable of withstanding gunfire and even machine gun fire.

The second was Shadow Shelter, which granted immunity to physical collisions by diving into the shadows, rendering all physical attacks ineffective against him.

However, in this battle, someone had managed to strike him out of the shadow state.

...

Lu Heng and Modred's battle was about to reach its climax.

Meanwhile, after Harris Bob fired his shot, Su Muyu and Lin Zeyu split up to capture him.

However...

Harris Bob's nickname as the Phantom Sniper was well-deserved, as he truly possessed the ability to appear and disappear like a ghost.

The moment he pulled the trigger, Su Muyu immediately directed the Celestial Phoenix to search, but to no avail.

Lin Zeyu, in his camouflaged state, stealthily approached, placing Void Eyes along the way and beginning to search for the opponent.

"Found anything?" he asked quietly in the communication channel.

"Not yet," Su Muyu replied. "The Celestial Phoenix flew past in an instant, but when it reached the shooting position, it couldn't find anyone." Su Muyu found this strange.

In theory, with the Celestial Phoenix's reconnaissance, the faster the opponent ran, the more exposed they would be. So, in just five seconds, they couldn't have gone far.

But the Celestial Phoenix searched in vain.

Su Muyu closed her eyes, concentrating her mind entirely on the Celestial Phoenix's vision, observing the situation below.

The location where the Phantom Sniper, Harris Bob, had fired was a wooden house by the lake.

There weren't many cover spots around the house, nor was there any place to hide.

Unless Harris Bob had a teleportation skill, it was impossible for him to leave the house without making a sound.

Su Muyu frowned as she gazed at the lake below, deep in thought.

As she looked at the shimmering ripples on the lake's surface, a sudden flash of inspiration struck her.

The lake!

Indeed, if Harris Bob was hiding in the water, it would make sense for the Celestial Phoenix to not detect him.

The Celestial Phoenix excelled in high-altitude reconnaissance and could also perform low-altitude reconnaissance when necessary, but both types of reconnaissance were conducted from the air.

If the target was in the water, it would be challenging for the Celestial Phoenix to find them.

This was why Harris Bob had chosen the lakeside wooden house as his sniping spot.

From a sniping perspective, the wooden house by the lake wasn't very high, offering little advantage in terms of shooting visibility.

Typically, snipers preferred elevated positions for sniping.

Combining these clues led to the most likely conclusion.

As this thought occurred to Su Muyu, she immediately spoke in the communication channel, "He's in the water, probably."

Lin Zeyu raised an eyebrow, "Bullets can't hit targets in the water."

The resistance of water was several hundred times greater than that of air, and bullets would lose their power after traveling only a few meters in water.

Su Muyu paused for a moment, then said, "You keep an eye on the lake surface, and I'll make him come out."

She controlled the Celestial Phoenix to dive into the lake, then stirred up a solar wind within the water.

The lake wasn't very large, and as the solar wind churned within it, the water within the solar wind's range began to boil at a temperature of over ten thousand degrees.

The boiling water spread out, and anyone it touched would surely be scalded.

Soon, a human figure emerged from the lake and crawled onto the shore.

Lin Zeyu's Void Eyes, positioned at various angles, kept a close watch on the lake surface.

As the figure crawled onto the shore, Lin Zeyu pulled the trigger.

Bang! The sniper bullet flew out, enhanced by multiple effects such as Wind Resistance, Precision Shot, Plasma Armor Piercer, and Hunter Mark.

The bullet traveled 800 meters and penetrated the back of the figure.

The figure trembled and fell to the lakeside, and a large amount of blood gushed from beneath him, flowing along the ground into the lake.

On his back was a hole the size of a bowl.

"Got him! Check his gun," Lin Zeyu hurriedly asked.

The Celestial Phoenix flew over, picked up Harris Bob's sniper rifle, and delivered it to Lin Zeyu.

Lin Zeyu held the sniper rifle in his hands, his eyes shining with excitement, and exclaimed, "No wonder this guy can shoot so far! With this gun, I could do it too!"

...

Meanwhile, Lu Heng forced Modred out of his Shadow Shelter state, bringing the confrontation to a close.

Even using the ability of a Shadow Knight, Modred had exhausted all his trump cards, yet he had been on the receiving end of the fight, with almost no chance to counterattack.

At the beginning, he hadn't taken Lu Heng seriously, but as the fight progressed, he realized that his opponent's strength repeatedly exceeded his expectations, even forcing him to use his ultimate trump card of phasing into shadows.

His face was filled with disbelief, and he was reluctant to accept the outcome, but he had no other choice.

Lu Heng strode forward, placing his sword against Modred's neck, and asked, "Still feeling arrogant?"

Modred's eyes blazed with anger, and he gritted his teeth, "You've offended the Round Table Knights, and the consequences will be beyond your imagination!"

Lu Heng's lips curled into a cold smile, and he raised his sword, ready to kill him.

Just then, a bird's cry rang out from the sky.

A black crow appeared in the air, circled a couple of times, and landed on the grass, revealing Number 13.

"Stop! You shouldn't be fighting," Number 13 said, trying to mediate.

Lu Heng raised an eyebrow upon hearing his words, immediately guessing the situation.

From Number 13's words, it seemed that this Modred was also a member of the Creator Organization.

Members of the Creator Organization were either peak powerhouses or high-ranking individuals with supreme authority.

As the first knight of the Round Table Knight Mercenary Group, Modred's combat strength was indeed at the pinnacle, so it wasn't surprising that he had been invited by the Creator Organization.

Modred also realized this and asked, "Is he a member of the Creator Organization?"

Number 13 nodded in acknowledgment, "You both are. I came to tell you to stop fighting."

Lu Heng narrowed his eyes and asked, "What's his number?"

"His number is 021."

"How dare a waste like him have a number before mine?"

Lu Heng said, and with a swift motion, he drew his sword and beheaded Modred.

The strike was too fast for Number 13 to stop.

Modred's head rolled to the ground, his eyes wide with disbelief. Both sides had revealed their identities, yet this man, whose number was after his, had dared to cut off his head.

(End of Chapter)

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