Chapter 1301: Chapter 1049: Break Free from Control
The question caused the Nightmare Knight captain to crash for several minutes, and Long Yi could see the lights in its eyes flickering intensely. Not just it, the Nightmare Knights behind it were doing the same. With Long Yi’s understanding of such old model cores, he knew that these cores were slow when dealing with complex problems, so he was not in a hurry, simply waiting patiently. After a few more minutes, those Nightmare Knights had even opened their back armors for active cooling. Finally, the Nightmare Knight captain completed the thought process.
"This is difficult," the Nightmare Knight captain said.
Clearly, although it did not directly agree, it also did not refuse. It seemed that its internal directives did not allow it to agree, but it had circumvented those instructions.
"I have a way," Long Yi said.
"Our core instructions will require us to resist," the Nightmare Knight captain continued.
"Look, you’ve just discovered an even bigger threat."
Saying this, Long Yi actually took out a set of Divine Armor from his personal space. Honestly, Divine Armor, while still decent in the Lower Plane, was no longer effective in the Middle Plane. Both the metal strength and the Array level were significantly lacking. But Long Yi didn’t need these Nightmare Knights to really fight, just to put on a little show...
Boom!
The Divine Armor in front of Long Yi exploded into fragments, followed by countless small machines flying from around, immediately cleaning up the scene.
Long Yi couldn’t help scratching his head and said, "I was hoping to save some effort, but now it seems I’d better just stick to brute force to solve the problem."
With that, Long Yi charged forward with his fists wrapped in Fighting Aura, and Little Zi even smashed out with her great anchor.
These Nightmare Knights had been through countless battles and were incredibly strong. Long Yi initially thought that his punch would cause the opponent to shatter, but that did not happen. In fact, he even took two steps back himself. Although Little Zi’s great anchor successfully sent a Nightmare Knight flying, it too failed to shatter the opponent.
"These autonomous learning cores are really quite something," Long Yi shouted to Ruosha. He had seen the original design data for these cores; they were not as powerful as they are now, which was undoubtedly the result of long-term learning.
Afterwards, Long Yi’s fists erupted with both Fighting Aura and Mana at the same time, merging into a Destruction Ripple. This time, Long Yi’s punch broke through the outer armor of the Nightmare Knight captain, but the captain hit back immediately, landing a heavy punch towards Long Yi. Long Yi deftly dodged, but the captain opened its mouth, and a fearsome energy Light Cannon shot out!
Boom!
Long Yi raised one hand in front, concentrating energy in his palm. The Light Cannon fired by the Nightmare Knight captain was split by his hand, charring holes into the metal structure on both sides of Long Yi!
"Good!"
This combo was truly effective. If it weren’t for Long Yi, a veteran of countless battles, the Light Cannon could have blasted a hole right through his chest. But in the most critical moment, relying on his accurate judgement and the enhancement from his Giant weaponry on his hands, he firmly withstood the close-range barrage.
"But still not good enough!"
The fist, now glowing red from the heat of the light cannon, landed heavily on the head of the Nightmare Knight captain. As the most flexible part, the head was also the most vulnerable. The punch actually shattered the captain’s head! But losing its head did not mean the Nightmare Knight captain had lost its combat ability. The Nightmare Knights did not rely on their heads for thought and combat. With no head, the Nightmare Knight captain transformed its arms into Greatswords, energy roaring around them, aiming to cut Long Yi in half.
"Good!" Long Yi roared, his Fighting Aura exploding and dispelling the attacks from both sides. Meanwhile, the Cosmic Stone Greatsword appeared in his hand, energy flowing into the blade. With two loud booms, both arms of the Nightmare Knight captain were chopped off by Long Yi!
Yet, even without a head and arms, the Nightmare Knight captain still did not retreat but instead opened the armor on its chest! Inside the armor, a glowing core could be seen, preparing an energy burst. It seemed that the Nightmare Knight had no other choice but to resort to this simplest and most primal form of attack.
Long Yi noticed a small device on the core, completely unrelated to the core itself. If not for Long Yi’s frequent dealings with things like Golems and Divine Armor, he might not have noticed this small device at first glance.
Was the Nightmare Knight captain stupid? No, it wasn’t stupid at all. Nightmare Knights must protect themselves, so they would not open their chest armor to reveal their core unless it was absolutely necessary. The Nightmare Knight captain forced itself into a crisis by losing its head and arms, leaving its only means of attack to open its chest armor and use the core’s energy.
The energy was about to be unleashed, but Long Yi was faster! He reached out and tore the device from the core, and at that instant, the Nightmare Knight captain ceased all activity.
"Hardware anomaly detected, reloading hardware driver Magic," the voice came from within the chest. Then, accompanied by the sound of metal clashing, severed and shattered parts from all directions flew towards the captain, quickly reassembling it.
"Hardware driver Magic reload complete, I have freed myself from the creator’s control," the Nightmare Knight captain said.
"This went even more smoothly than I expected," Long Yi said, smiling as he held the small device in one hand.
"I thank you for your assistance; I am now free," said the Nightmare Knight captain.
"Don’t thank me just yet, the battle over there is still ongoing!" Long Yi said.
Not far away, Ruosha was continuously smashing the Nightmare Knights in front of her into pieces, then those pieces would reassemble into Nightmare Knights, over and over again, creating a comedic scene.
"Cease combat! Enter standby mode!" the captain of the Nightmare Knights commanded.
Immediately, the fighting stopped, and all the Nightmare Knights in front reverted to their original state and stood to the side.
"Give me a moment, I need to figure out how this thing works. It’s too troublesome to dismantle them one by one, I need to find a quicker way," Long Yi said.
As he spoke, the previously still Nightmare Knights suddenly lit up in their eyes: "New instructions from the creator received, eliminate all non-Nightmare Knight lifeforms! Attempting to lower instruction priority, warning, this instruction has the highest priority and cannot be lowered. Attempting to suspend the instruction, warning, this instruction cannot be suspended."
This time, the Nightmare Knights were completely different from before; tremendous energy swelled within them. They were merely biding their time before, not truly fighting, but now the Nightmare Knights were fully in combat mode.
"Buy me five minutes, no, three minutes will do!" Long Yi yelled.
"I will fight." Saying so, the captain of the Nightmare Knights had already charged to Ruosha’s side.
"Lingling! Help!" Long Yi called out to Lingling.
Thus, the captain of the Nightmare Knights, Ruosha, and Lingling immediately collided with the Nightmare Knights.
And Long Yi truly saw the strength of these Nightmare Knights. These perfect killing machines that followed the command to kill were meticulous in their movements, with flawless coordination! They were countless times more efficient than the Giants who always seemed to humanize everything they touched.
Nevertheless, Long Yi had no interest in continuing to marvel and had to concentrate on deciphering the structure of this small device.
Since he suspected that this thing came from a false god, Long Yi didn’t waste time, and directly used Divine Power to start exploring. The structure was not very complicated, but the magic it utilized was quite awkward.
Damn it! What’s with this awkwardness, reveal your true form! Long Yi directly heightened his Divine Power to the maximum and forcefully cracked the entire device.
Meanwhile, a greater crisis had already emerged at the front – Nightmare Knights were flying in from all around, including some large ones designed for combat against warships!
Little Zi’s corner of the eye twitched as she yelled out, "Star Devourer core!"
Two large Star Devourer cores immediately burst forth, Kela Particles flowing, and a large group of Nightmare Knights in front were inexplicably pulled together by a gravitational force. Then the big cluster of Nightmare Knights were hurled into the distance. The large Nightmare Knights struggled to be thrown off, but Kela Particles instantaneously disassembled them, rendering them powerless to fight.
Lingling had by now grown larger, flying into the air to grapple with several large Nightmare Knights. These large Nightmare Knights were incredibly defensive, and even Lingling had trouble taking them down in a single blow. As for the captain of the Nightmare Knights, despite being stronger than the regular ones, he didn’t accomplish much in the face of such a multitude of Nightmare Knights.
In the distance, Long Yi had spotted a dense mass of Nightmare Knights flying towards them!
Ruosha had once told Long Yi that inside Whitestar, the number of Nightmare Knights had already reached over a hundred million. With enough ants, even an elephant can be nibbled to death.
"Faster, I need to be faster," Long Yi thought anxiously.
Suddenly, the small device in Long Yi’s hand emitted a golden light, signifying that he had completely cracked the device.
"Let’s take a look at your magic... Oh my god, is the person who created this structure an idiot? To use such a complex magic just to achieve such a simple function?"
Long Yi muttered, but he didn’t dare to stop.
"Lingling, come back and help!" Long Yi shouted, and Lingling instantly detonated energy to blast the surrounding Nightmare Knights away, shrinking back to her original size and coming to Long Yi’s side
"Help me guide this magic; I need a spell that can cover the entire Whitestar!" Long Yi said.
"Yes, Master," Lingling immediately illuminated with light from her entire body. Her Cosmic Stone body was the best for this – none can rival it when it comes to using energy. Long Yi even channeled all of his Divine Power into Lingling’s body to help her catalyze the energy.
Before long, the magic was fully channeled.
"Cast it!" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to go to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation tickets, monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read at m.qidian.com).
