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Chapter 238 Charles's Abilities

"Time-space shortcut, swift and unexpected attack!"

Mo Cheng's figure transformed into elusive orange afterimages amidst the horde of beasts. His dual pistols seamlessly switched between assault rifle and shotgun modes as he unleashed a barrage of fire, shooting down the winged beasts that were trying to bypass Mark.

The Hive Tactical Shoulder Cannon occasionally fired electromagnetic pulse bullets, accurately hitting the chest cavity of the distant Monarch-class Ghostwing Beast. Although it could not directly destroy the Spirit Seed, it could effectively interfere with its energy gathering.

Mo Cheng's ability is to launch surprise attacks with incredible speed.

The essence of the ability is to distort the relationship between oneself and the surrounding small area of ​​spacetime, thereby gaining ultimate mobility and tactical advantage.

Its capabilities are manifested in instantaneous acceleration: it can perform ultra-high-speed linear movement in an extremely short time, leaving a realistic afterimage in place, which can be used for dashing forward or dodging fatal attacks.

Time Slowdown: Mo Cheng creates a small area where the flow of time slows down, slowing down the movement and energy attack speed of enemies within the area, creating excellent opportunities for himself and his teammates.

Shortcut Traversal: Within short distances, it can penetrate physical obstacles, as if traversing invisible shortcuts in space, achieving tactical repositioning that is unpredictable and elusive.

Synergy with the mecha: The ability perfectly compensates for Mo Cheng's old leg injury. Combined with the high mobility of the Starry Sky mecha and the transforming firearms system, it makes him an elusive presence on the battlefield.

……

The White Night Chaser, like a calm ghost, occupied a relatively safe high ground, setting up its electromagnetic railgun.

Data streams rolled rapidly through her V-shaped eyepiece.

"A karmic nemesis is bound to be struck by an arrow."

She didn't fire easily, but waited, waiting for Longxin and her intuition to mark the most fatal moment together.

Flying Snow's power, karmic nemesis.

The essence of the ability: The ability can interfere with micro-probability, forcibly binding the act of sniping with the result of hitting the target at the causal level.

Ability Manifestation, Weakness Intuition: Passive ability, can intuitively perceive the enemy's most vulnerable "points", not only spirit seeds, but also nodes of energy flow, structural stress points, ignoring some visual obstacles.

Ballistic correction, an active ability, allows the fired bullets and energy beams to automatically make minor trajectory adjustments to bypass obstacles or evade interception, greatly improving the hit rate.

Causal locking means that once a target is locked in, the next shot will inevitably hit the locked target point, unless the target has the ability to make a long-distance spatial transfer or completely rewrite causality during the bullet's flight, otherwise there is no way to avoid it.

Synergy with the mech: The ability is a perfect match for the Night Chaser's electromagnetic railgun and AI-assisted system.

Causal locking ensures the possibility of a one-hit kill on the core of a monarch-level Devouring Beast in any complex environment.

The marking assistance provided by the floating cannons allows for faster causal locking.

……

"Hehe, come on, you stinky bats!"

Erica's wild laughter rang out in the channel. The zero-gravity vector thrusters on the back of the Storm Shark instantly unleashed a violent thrust, making her spin through the beast horde like an orange-red top. Her electromagnetic railguns spit out a metal storm of 36000 rounds per minute, blasting one after another of the Ghost Winged Beasts into the air.

Her Hive shoulder missiles seemed to have a life of their own, automatically locking onto individuals attempting to unleash sonic attacks and delivering precise kills.

The arrival of the Shadow Squad instantly turned the tide of the battle, buying precious time for the repair of the Lighthouse Barrier.

Erica's ability is called Burst Resonance.

The essence of the ability is to resonate deeply with metallic substances and explosive energy, shaping and strengthening them.

The ability manifests as metal activation: It can manipulate metals in the surrounding environment, such as debris and shell casings, on a small scale, making them fly like living things, aggregate into temporary shields, or turn into metal storms to attack enemies.

Burst Enhancement: Allows the user to infuse their own life essence into explosives, greatly enhancing their explosive power, range, and additional effects such as armor penetration, combustion, and electromagnetic interference.

Synergy with Mechs: This ability transforms the Storm Shark into a true mobile war fortress.

Metal activation compensates for the limited ammunition belt, and explosive strengthening makes the power of micro-missiles comparable to that of large missiles.

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Vatican's mech immediately activated its false light camouflage, moving like a true ghost along the edge of the battlefield.

She transformed her life essence into spikes that directly attacked the spirit body, locking onto a king-level phantom beast that was releasing a sonic attack, and the spirit spikes shot out silently.

"Uh!"

The king-level winged beast that was hit let out a painful howl, its sonic attack interrupted and it even fell into a brief state of confusion.

At the same time, Vatican released a mental echo, creating a continuous field of mental noise that further disrupted the coordinated attack of the beast horde.

The power of Vatican City, the echo of pain.

The essence of the ability: to transform the life essence into spikes and waves that directly attack the spiritual body.

The ability manifests as a mental spike: it launches an invisible mental shock that directly pierces the target's soul and mental core. It is extremely effective against Devouring Beasts that rely on mental links, such as Earth Vines and Command-type Beasts, and can cause instantaneous stiffness, confusion, or even backlash.

Pain Link: Forcibly links the pain receptors or mental perceptions of multiple enemies, causing some of the damage and pain suffered by one enemy to be transmitted to the others.

Mind Echo: Creates a continuous field of mental noise that continuously disturbs enemies within its range, making it difficult for them to concentrate and easily interrupted.

Synergy with the mech: Abilities are perfectly integrated with the Arbiter's optical camouflage and mental interference weapons.

She can remain invisible on the battlefield, silently eliminating key targets with mental spikes, or using painful links to throw the Devouring Beasts into disarray.

At this moment, the Shadow Soldiers also appeared, clad in nanosuits, and unleashed a barrage of electromagnetic laser guns.

With the cooperation of the Shadow Squad and Vanti, as well as the combined attack of the Lighthouse Defense System, the offensive of the Winged Beasts was effectively contained. Although the energy barrier fluctuated violently, it was never breached.

However, the three exceptionally cunning and ferocious King-level Shadowwing Beasts, relying on their speed and regeneration abilities, broke through the firepower network and rushed straight towards the dome at the top of the lighthouse from three different directions.

From their mouths, destructive energy breaths had already taken shape.

"Oh no, they've broken in! The top defenses can't stop them in time!" Jingnan exclaimed.

At this critical moment.

A dark red afterimage, moving faster than the visual senses could perceive, arrived first—it was Charles, piloting the Abyss Armor.

Charles also awakened an ability called Life Resonance, which allows him to resonate with the Abyss Armor to a greater extent, enabling him to harness its power to a limited extent without being completely devoured.

Demonstrated ability, life perception: Ability to clearly perceive the flow and weaknesses of the life essence.

Source Deflection: Can deflect or disperse energy attacks directed at oneself for a short period of time.

Willpower Domination: Charles strengthens his own will to resist the backlash of the armor's consciousness and slightly weakens the fighting will of the surrounding enemies.

"No matter how many come, I will kill them all."

Charles's voice pierced through the armor, brimming with killing intent. His life perception allowed him to clearly see the trajectory and intensity of the three-headed monarch-level ghost-winged beast's energy breath.

He met the breath of the first king-level phantom beast head-on, arms crossed.

Diamond-shaped barrier!

The azure energy wave bombarded the barrier of distorted space. Under the effect of the source matter deflection ability, it was cleverly guided to the side and collided with the breath released by the second ghostly beast, bursting into huge energy ripples in the air.

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At the same time, life-source tentacles shot out from behind Charles like venomous snakes, not to attack, but to disrupt, piercing the wing membrane of the third winged beast and causing it to lose its balance.

The next moment, a burst of particles erupted beneath the feet of the Abyss Walker, propelling him at supersonic speed to the front of the first Winged Beast.

The dark red particle fist blade, carrying high-frequency vibrations and scarlet pigment erosion, sliced ​​through the chest cavity and bones instantly, like a hot knife through butter, precisely crushing the pulsating spiritual seed.

Without pausing for a moment, the neural pulse cannon blasted from the chest, and the wide-range mental shock caused the other two monarch-level ghost-winged beasts, who had just regained their footing, to immediately fall into a brief state of paralysis.

Seize this fleeting opportunity.

"Now!" Mark roared.

The causal lock of the flying snow has been completed.

She interferes with micro-probability, causally linking the next sniper shot to the outcome of hitting the core.

call out!

A sniper beam, imbued with all her spirit and mecha energy, swiftly traversed the battlefield, inevitably striking the core of the second Monarch-level Ghost Winged Beast.

Erica's Storm Shark unleashed its full firepower across all weapon systems, unleashing a raging storm of metal and enhanced missiles that completely engulfed and tore apart the third stunned Monarch-class Ghostwing Beast.

The three king-class monsters that broke through the defenses were instantly killed thanks to the perfect coordination between Charles and the Shadow Squad.

The remaining Shadowwing Beasts, leaderless, finally scattered under the powerful firepower of the Lighthouse and the mopping-up operations of the Shadow Squad and Shadow Soldiers, disappearing into the distant horizon like the receding tide.

The battle ended, and although the lighthouse's energy barrier had dimmed, it remained intact.

Loongson's report rang out: "The defense system's energy reserves have decreased by 60%, all critical structures remain intact, and there have been no casualties."

Mark and his group gathered on the lighthouse deck, looking somewhat tired.

Charles deactivated his Abyss Armor. His face was pale and his breathing was rapid, clearly indicating that the intense battle had taken a heavy toll on him. However, thanks to his willpower, he successfully resisted the backlash from the armor and did not suffer irreversible damage.

At that moment, Jingnan's voice came through the communicator, "Thank you all for your hard work. The lighthouse survives because of you."

"Well done."

At the same time, Chen Yuan, who had returned long ago, revealed himself. He hadn't made a move earlier because he wanted to see how Mark and the others would respond.

The result was still very good; even though he disappeared for more than two months, Mark and the others were still able to guard the lighthouse.

“City Lord!!”

"You guys are finally back."

Everyone was both surprised and delighted. Mark strode forward, patted Chen Yuan on the shoulder, and finally showed a relieved smile on his tense face.

With Chen Yuan around, they seemed to have found their backbone.

Chen Yuan smiled slightly, his gaze sweeping over everyone: "During my absence, you not only protected the lighthouse, but also gave me a huge surprise."

His gaze swept over Mark, Ran Bing, Mo Cheng, and the others one by one. "Each of you has awakened your own source potential. The Lighthouse will be safer from now on."

Mark spoke first, his tone steady yet tinged with seriousness: "During a ground cleaning mission, my visor was accidentally damaged, and I inhaled an excessive amount of scarlet... I thought I was going to die, but unexpectedly, I turned misfortune into a blessing. My consciousness seemed to connect with the entire Mana ecosystem, and I saw... the flow of those life essences. After waking up, I found that I could influence, and even control, them to a certain extent."

Mark clenched his fist, feeling the surging power within him. "This feeling is strange, but it also makes me wary, as if I'm borrowing the power of the abyss."

"My abilities are more inclined towards protection."

Ran Bing continued, "During a evacuation of soldiers, in a moment of urgency, I felt everything around me slow down, and a chill spread involuntarily... I gradually mastered it and found that I had a high degree of compatibility with the mecha."

Mo Cheng grinned and stretched his leg, which had once been deemed disabled but was now incredibly agile thanks to his mecha and abilities: "Well, I was just running around when I suddenly felt like the space was getting thinner, and I was able to grab onto some gaps that others couldn't."

Feixue succinctly replied, "My situation is similar; it just happened naturally."

Erica gestured excitedly: "A month ago, I could feel the metal and explosions breathing, like an extension of my body, and I could make them explode however I wanted."

As she spoke, Erica also used her abilities to make some small metal fragments float slightly.