Chapter 294 Strategic Support

Strategic support builds are known for their powerful off-site firepower, and Han Xiao was particularly fond of this rogue playstyle. Over the past two years, he had replenished the number of satellite orbital cannons, always keeping them in the BlackLight Stealth ship's warehouse. They were indispensable weapons for home travel, murder, and looting.

The fiery mushroom cloud was still expanding and rising, its momentum astonishing, and the ground had been blasted into a sinkhole.

Han Xiao did not delay. The mecha's thrusters suddenly roared, and he took the lead, rushing into the blast area, heading straight for the bottom of the sinkhole.

The battle information prompted the damage caused by this round of salvo. Sarna was constantly reinforcing the magnetic field shield, offsetting a large amount of damage. In addition, with her equipment's defense and personal resistance, this attack was not enough to seriously injure her. Moreover, dozens of orbital strikes firing at the same time naturally lacked concentrated attack power, wasting a lot of power.

The greatest effect of this attack was to briefly reverse the situation, interrupting the other party's control. Han Xiao did not intend to give Sarna a chance to breathe and immediately pursued. He saw that Sarna and her shield had been blasted into the soil. The hemispherical magnetic field shield was exposed at the bottom of the sinkhole, very conspicuous in the flames and dust.

Boom—

Just then, Sarna suddenly raised her head. Her mask had been shattered, revealing a distorted face, a trickle of blood flowing down her forehead, her eyes full of killing intent. She seemed to have expected Han Xiao to pursue. Her palm pressed against the ground, and a fountain of metal particles suddenly spurted out from the ground below Han Xiao, grabbing at him.

Grade A Supers all had rich combat experience. The moment she was hit by the orbital strike, Sarna guessed Han Xiao's next move. While resisting the attack, she set up a trap, condensing metal particles into the surrounding underground, just to catch the Black Star flying around like a fly.

However, the next moment, Han Xiao's figure suddenly disappeared.

Whoosh—

A gust of wind suddenly came from behind less than a meter away. Keen perception told her that there was already one more person inside the magnetic field shield.

Racial talent—High-level Void Shuttle!

"How did he break through the magnetic field shield?!" Sarna's face changed drastically. Before she could turn her head, a large hand wrapped in bone-white armor grabbed the back of her head. An irresistible force erupted, and with a bang, she was directly pressed face-down into the soil.

The next second, the gray light of void energy overflowed from inside the Void Dragon mecha, surging and gathering on the arm.

Full-power void ejection!

Boom boom boom—

Void ejection could be used continuously without cooling down, but the cost was that the energy consumption was constantly increasing. Han Xiao did not hold back at all, almost exhausting all the remaining energy of the Void Dragon mecha.

At the first shot, he activated the injection module in the mecha and injected a genetic potion. Over the past two years, he had caught countless Star Pirates, and the private prison had been renamed "Star Pirates' Warm Little House". He collected a large number of genetic potions that could adapt to any situation. This potion granted the temporary ability to cause dizziness more easily with combos.

The continuous void ejections directly triggered this effect. Sarna entered a dizzy state, her brain was in chaos, she had no power to resist, so she could only obediently endure Han Xiao's storm-like offensive, letting him do as he pleased, and was blasted to the point of trembling.

After the last shot, Sarna was still in a dizzy state and could not use her ability. Han Xiao didn't say a word and directly switched to Mad Ape, entering the violent overload state of lightning and thunder!

He raised his arms high, and dazzling lightning energy gathered in his fists.

The next moment, his fists slammed down!

Bang!!

Spiderweb-like lightning exploded, and the bottom of the sinkhole was once again covered with cracks, erupting in a deafening roar!

Han Xiao went all out with this attack. Mad Ape's [Power Blast], his own [Gene Liberation], plus the critical hit that Sarna accidentally triggered in a dizzy state, a full ten times the damage multiplier, the destructive power was extremely terrifying!

Crack!

Even though the impact was deafening, Han Xiao clearly heard the sound of bones breaking from Sarna below him.

Han Xiao was calm and ruthless. He grabbed Sarna's neck, stepped into a bow stance, and twisted his body violently, like throwing a baseball, he flung Sarna out with a flick of his hand. The moment he let go, a circle of ring-shaped shock waves exploded in the air.

Violent Throw!

Whoosh—

Sarna flew out straight like a cannonball, instantly flying out of the mushroom cloud's coverage area, the distance getting farther and farther, almost disappearing from sight.

However, this set of combos was not over yet!

Sarna flew far away and was about to recover from her dizzy state when dozens of starlight lit up in the sky again.

The second round of orbital salvo!

Rumble—

The second mushroom cloud rose slowly.

The shock wave arrived as expected. Han Xiao's leg armor nanomorphized, turning into a foundation, firmly stabilizing his body and preventing him from being blown away.

Han Xiao flicked his hand, and a huge square firearm appeared beside his feet, like a large box, two meters high. There were densely packed more than twenty nozzles at the top of the box. This was a burst projectile launcher. He shouldered it and fired at the center of the second mushroom cloud in the distance.

Thump thump thump—

Densely packed special grenade missiles with tails shot out of the box, drawing parabolas, crossing a long distance, hitting the target location, and erupting in continuous violent explosions.

All the fired grenade missiles were small-yield nuclear grenades and space distortion bombs, quickly emptying the magazine.

In the distance, Gardley finally rescued Jen from the metal sphere.

The two looked at this scene and swallowed their saliva at the same time.

——Too brutal, it's simply ravaging…

The magazine was emptied, and this set of combos dealt tons of output, but there was still no kill notification, proving that Sarna was still alive. As an almost Grade A+ Super, her resistance to beatings was also very strong. Han Xiao switched back to the Void Dragon again, consuming Stamina to restore some of the mecha's energy.

He was about to pursue the victory when Sarna's figure suddenly rushed out of the mushroom cloud, rose into the air, and sped towards the sky. All the metal giant snakes followed closely behind, merging together, like a solitary peak rising from the ground.

"She's going to escape? No! She's going to dismantle my satellite orbital cannons."

Han Xiao's eyes narrowed, he activated the thrusters and chased after her.

The two rushed straight towards outer space one after the other.

"Damn it…" Sarna glanced at Han Xiao chasing below and gritted her teeth.

She had suffered a burst of combos, and the damage suffered in the dizzy state was the greatest. At this time, she was seriously injured. Her left arm was limp and drooping, the bones in her arm had been shattered into an abstract work of art, her left leg was also abnormally twisted, and the left half of her body had been severely devastated by Han Xiao. She didn't know how many ribs were still connected. Her chest and back were burning with pain, and her condition was extremely poor.

It had been a long, long time since she had suffered such a serious injury. At this moment, she was both shocked and angry, shocked by the sudden outbreak of Black Star's firepower, and angry that she had been seriously injured.

"If Aerlenette were here…" Sarna inevitably thought of her mage partner and secretly regretted her solo action. This time, she had really underestimated the enemy.

Although seriously injured, Sarna was angry and had no intention of retreating at all. She was going to dismantle all of Black Star's firepower support in outer space, so that the battle could still be fought.

In Han Xiao's vision, the surface of the earth was rapidly shrinking. The two rushed all the way to the high altitude. He controlled all the God's Might Eyes to aim at Sarna and take turns shooting, trying to block her flight speed.

However, Sarna was prepared. Her flight path was irregular, never in a straight line. At the same time, she used the huge metal giant snake as a shield, and all the orbital energy cannons were blocked or dodged by her.

Looks like he can't stop her… Han Xiao calmly judged and did not hesitate at all. He activated the recovery system of all the satellite cannons. The God's Might Eyes flew back to the BlackLight Stealth ship's warehouse one after another. He was going to let Risda take the weapons and leave the battlefield again. With the BlackLight Stealth ship's mobility, Sarna was helpless.

The two finally approached the edge of the atmosphere. Before them was the dark universe environment. The BlackLight Stealth ship had recovered all the satellite cannons and was starting to move away from this planet.

Sarna gritted her teeth, barely raised her right arm, and was about to activate her ability.

Han Xiao's High-Level Void Shuttle had not cooled down yet, and he was preparing to give Sarna another void ejection when suddenly, a curved light cannon shot from the surface and accurately hit Sarna. This time, she was unprepared and was blown away, rolling in the sky.

On the ground, Gardley was operating a super-giant orbital sniper cannon with both hands. This shot was fired by him. As a Mechanic, he carried firearms adapted to various situations. This giant firearm was specially used for orbital sniping.

Gardley was a Grade A Mechanic. Although he was badly beaten by Sarna due to ability restraint, it was not without its highlights. Sniping targets in outer space on the planet still required considering parameters such as the speed of rotation. However, at his level, this was a routine operation. As long as the performance of the firearm itself was sufficient, his sniping range was extremely high.

This interrupted Sarna's ability, and the BlackLight Stealth ship accelerated and slipped away, leaving Sarna's ability range.

Sarna barely stabilized her body, floated in the air, stared at Han Xiao, and felt that the situation had become extremely tricky.

In her current state, the chances of catching and defeating the three Calamity Grades, including Black Star, were extremely slim. Sarna immediately had the intention of retreating.

Sarna didn't want to bet her life on things that were obviously not certain. There was no need for that. Even if she failed, she could come back with her companions next time. This failure was at most a warning.

But in her opinion, even if Black Star was alert, it would be useless. She didn't reveal any information, and Black Star didn't know who was targeting him at all.

Next time, as long as she brought powerful partners, with overwhelming combat power, no matter whether Black Star was prepared or not, he would still be defeated.

Thinking of this, Sarna's anger subsided, and she regained her composure, bitterly accepting this loss.

She didn't want to entangle any longer. With a wave of her hand, the metal giant snake rushed towards Han Xiao, and then she summoned a single-person spacecraft and quickly sat in the cockpit.

Han Xiao was entangled by the metal giant snake and couldn't chase after her. He didn't think about chasing after her either. The Void Dragon mecha couldn't outrun the spacecraft, and Mad Ape would be restrained. It was indeed difficult for him to keep Sarna.

Most importantly, although Sarna was a rare and powerful enemy, Han Xiao didn't want to kill Sarna here.

Sarna's spacecraft quickly moved away. Before entering the warp, Han Xiao threw an observation mark at Sarna.

Without Sarna's control, the metal giant snake instantly collapsed and fell to the ground like rain.

Han Xiao floated in the air, looked at the streamer trajectory left by Sarna's spacecraft, and curled his lips.

"Treating me as prey, it's not that easy…"

The mysterious organization to which Sarna belonged was targeting him. Even if he killed Sarna, there would be powerful enemies coming to hunt him down in the future. It was a temporary solution, not a permanent one.

At present, Han Xiao knew nothing about this mysterious organization and urgently needed intelligence.

The observation mark was an excellent ability to steal intelligence. Letting Sarna go, Han Xiao wanted to cast a long line to catch a big fish.

Finding out the origin and scale of this mysterious organization and finding their base was the key task. After all, there was no reason to guard against thieves for a thousand days. Han Xiao didn't want to be on tenterhooks every day, and would be attacked at any time.

This mysterious organization was a time bomb. To solve the hidden danger once and for all, this was the most efficient way.

Although he would still have to face Sarna, who restrained him, in the future, Han Xiao decided to change the focus of mechanical manufacturing during this period, start building non-metallic materials on a large scale, and manufacture special machines that could target magnetic field manipulation, to minimize Sarna's ability restraint on him.

As long as the Mechanic class was given preparation time, any means of restraint could be created.

"However, this woman is really a bit powerful. If I didn't have two helpers, I would have a very hard time."

Han Xiao exhaled. In a one-on-one fight, he had blood-blue conversion, and the battle would become a war of attrition. The chance of Sarna overturning him was extremely low, but relying on his meatiness alone, he would be beaten very uncomfortably. Fortunately, he had two helpers, Jen and Gardley, to share the firepower, so that he was not at a disadvantage throughout the whole process.

After repelling Sarna, the hidden Grade A chain mission [Prey] popped up with the completion prompt of the first ring, and more than 30 million experience points were obtained. Han Xiao did not immediately extract Sarna's ability. Fording was not around, and he had no confidence in his heart.

"I'll extract it when I get back to the base…" Han Xiao shook his head helplessly.

He tried so hard and couldn't catch up with the goddess of luck, but Fording could make the goddess of luck actively open her legs. People were just different, and he was also desperate.