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However, that would be a long time from now, and Kayn wasn't even sure if he would have the chance to see it, because the place he was about to go was even more dangerous.

All the suffering and conflict on the Chitauri planet stemmed from Thanos's forceful intervention. Now, the Chitauri king chosen by Thanos is mobilizing global forces, seemingly to attack somewhere. Kayn doesn't know what they're planning, but he knows one thing: whatever the enemy wants to do, they must not be allowed to succeed!

Off we go! To the recruitment base!

"Hey, do you really want to join the army and go invade other planets with those guys?" In the recruitment base, a man dressed in clothes that weren't too tattered asked his fellow villager.

His fellow villager had been checking the condition of his weapon according to the maintenance manual online. When he heard his friend's question, he paused for a moment and asked, "Do I have any other options?"

The two remained silent for a long time. They were criminals, convicted because their fathers and grandfathers were members of the Allied Resistance Army. They were supposed to be working under the supervision of robots, but due to a shortage of manpower, they were forcibly transferred to become auxiliary soldiers.

They are not isolated cases. At least two-thirds of the people at this recruitment base have similar or even identical experiences.

The rest weren't much better off; after all, the slightly better ones had already been conscripted.

"Don't worry, I heard that once we're on the warship, there will be mind control devices that influence us. Then we won't be so conflicted anymore," the fellow villager said, his face showing an expression that was hard to tell whether it was a smile or a look of relief.

Alarm! Alarm! Intruder detected!

At the same time, pop-up windows appeared on the systems of all soldiers in the entire recruitment base, and the loudspeakers also sounded alarms.

"It's the Revolutionary Army! It must be the Revolutionary Army!" The man's voice was filled with suppressed excitement.

"So what if they come? There are thousands of fully armed soldiers and tens of thousands of robots here. What can we do?" the fellow villager retorted.

"We have guns now!" the man said, raising the weapon in his hand. They had only been issued one gun so far, and individual combat armor was in short supply, so these people didn't get their turn.

"A gun? This thing can be locked on," the fellow villager said calmly.

The man was about to retort when he noticed his fellow villager's hands constantly doing something inside the gun. They had secondary administrator privileges for the first maintenance and inspection of the equipment. Then, the man saw his fellow villager gently twist a component, changing the gun from an active state to a ready-to-use state, and then using secondary administrator privileges to switch it back to a scrapped state.

"Give me yours," the fellow villager said, raising an eyebrow at the man and beckoning him.

The man suddenly realized what was going on and quickly handed over the gun. His fellow villager had managed to become self-taught despite having nothing in prison, and after only a few days at the base, with access to various military books, his skills had skyrocketed.

“A gun in a scrapped state can’t be locked in theory, but it also can’t be connected to a wireless energy delivery network, so it can only be fired using the existing energy, but it’s enough for a few hundred shots.” After finishing the modification, the fellow villager tossed the gun to the man and said, “This is a method that I and a few others came up with. We haven’t tested it, so we can only take a gamble.”

Outside the recruitment base, Kayn dragged his scythe, activated Shadow Step, and various attacks, including concentrated energy bombs and high-energy explosives, exploded around him, creating shockwaves that swept over his body and rippled outwards.

The robots in the entire base were already in formation, and the high temperatures generated by the firing of various weapons had raised the surrounding temperature by more than one degree.

A shattered shadow!

Kayn burrowed into the body of a robot within sight, and in the instant he emerged, he chopped off its head with a single slash. Then, with a fierce swing of his scythe, he cut down several robots before wedging into the body of the next one.

Rat-a-tat-tat! High-speed lasers were already being fired from the other robot guns.

Shadow Step!

His body and weapon turned into a phantom image, and the laser beam passed through the phantom image, directly igniting several robots behind him.

"Just one person?!" the man who came out with his fellow villager asked, somewhat incredulously.

There were a couple of thousand people who shared his thoughts. These people, who thought that a large revolutionary army had come to rescue them, were visibly disappointed when they discovered that Kayn was the only one there.

However, most of them, despite their disappointment, still raised their guns slightly when firing.

What? The chip in your mind has shooting assistance capabilities?

It's been said that it's an auxiliary system, so they still decide where to shoot. I think the auxiliary system has some flaws, so what if it needs to be raised a few centimeters?

Compared to these slackers, the man's fellow countryman is the real talent, his gun locked on Kayn, putting on a convincing act.

However, Kayn moved away from his spot every time his fellow villagers fired. Considering the speed of the energy bullets, his attacks were all ineffective. But you can't say they were ineffective; the number of friendly fire incidents kept rising, didn't it?

He has already managed to destroy three robot soldiers in his spare time, which is an astonishing achievement considering that he has no individual combat armor, no information interference, and no corresponding weapons.

Kayn also noticed this, and consciously controlled the attack at the start, directing it all towards the machine soldiers. At this moment, the two sides inexplicably reached a tacit understanding.

Unfortunately, this tacit understanding did not last long. After analyzing the current situation and the firearms shooting that only caused friendly fire without any effective attacks, the AI ​​of the recruitment base issued a warning to all human soldiers and put the scrapped weapons in the hands of men like the fellow countrymen into the detonation and destruction state.

Of course, this state can be canceled, as long as their effective shooting reaches a certain level.

Chapter 181 I am both a Darkborn and an Ascended One!

The gunfire throughout the entire recruitment base suddenly subsided considerably.

"Why don't you... shoot a couple of shots?" The man looked at the gun in his fellow villager's hand; this thing was about to explode!

"No way! I've had enough of this life!" The fellow villager looked up at his friend and said, then strode straight toward the machine soldier.

Currently, the fellow villagers are still classified as yellow and unclassified in the identification modules of all robot soldiers, so they will not be attacked immediately.

After getting within a few meters, the fellow villager swallowed hard, steeled his resolve, and pulled the trigger.

The gun barrels were pointed directly at the robotic soldiers.

Beep beep beep beep... Boom!

A series of rapid sounds rang out, followed by a huge explosion.

Detonate and destroy? Then wouldn't this thing be the best explosive device?

The violent tremors swept over several robotic soldiers, and the shockwave knocked them to the ground.

This action was like firing the first shot of resistance, and those marked to detonate and destroy their weapons rushed towards the surrounding enemies.

Explosions rang out one after another, each sound representing the loss of a life and symbolizing the roar of anger under oppression.

"Damn it! We all have two shoulders and one head! I'm not a coward!"

Angri curses rang out from the crowd. After the cursing subsided, a locked gun was thrown to the ground, and a man charged at the enemy bare-handed.

With bloodshot eyes, he lunged at a mechanical soldier, baring his teeth and fists in a fierce attack. Even if he died today, he would tear off a piece of flesh!

Rat-a-tat-tat! Laser bullets pierced through his chest, and the machine soldier shoved the corpse aside and stood up again.

Kayn hurled his scythe, which arced through the air and sliced ​​the machine soldier in two.

"Brothers! Today is the last moment of resistance!"

The man stepped forward, tears streaming down his face like blood. His best friend was dead! He couldn't let him die in vain!

"I'm willing to join them and die as cannon fodder!"

"I'd still be willing to join us! Like a hero sacrificing himself!"

"We may never see the dawn of our victory, but everyone will remember that a group of rebels fell in the darkness before dawn!"

With a roar, the gun in his hand fired bullet after bullet. Before it could be locked on, a guided shot instantly vaporized the man from the face of the earth.

"Damn it! I don't have that many thoughts, just one sentence! I've lived a very unhappy life!"

"Let's get it!"

"Get them!"

The entire recruitment base was in complete chaos. Under the leadership of one role model after another, the anger that had been suppressed in everyone's hearts for decades was finally ignited!

Where there is oppression, there will inevitably be resistance!

"Rhaast, I need your help." Kayn felt he couldn't kill them all and had no choice but to submit to the Darkin within his weapon.

“Take it.” Rhaast remained unusually silent.

Meanwhile, in orbit around the stars, inside the control room of a starship, the operator was playing a game while glancing at the alarm next to him.

"Hmm? There's been a rebellion somewhere? And there are people who seem to be revolutionaries?"

The operator paused for a moment, then pulled up the data from the recruitment base. There were only a few thousand D-level personnel; the rest were near-obsolete machine soldiers, of little value.

Tsk tsk, the operator hesitated for a second.

Forget it, I'm too lazy to deal with all that. I'll just clean it up.

The operator pressed the launch button next to him, and the starship turned its bow to aim at the recruitment base below. The escort ship, secondary guns, and first-level plasma cannon were ready, the target was locked, and it was ready to carry out orbital bombardment... Launch!

Kayn on the ground immediately felt an indescribable pressure. He waved his hand, severing the mechanical soldiers beside him, and looked up at the sky.

"Prepare for the space battleships' energy-based weapons," Laast warned.

"What?" Kayn was taken aback.

Before he could react, a huge beam of energy shot down, turning half the sky a deep blue.

"They arrived so quickly?!" Kayn gripped his scythe and flew into the sky, preparing to withstand the secondary cannon alone. Rhaast's support gave him more than one layer of energy to draw upon.

Just then, layers upon layers of white vengeful spirits flew out from around the recruitment base, heading straight for the ion cannon before Kayn could react.

The banshee wailed!

A piercing sound rang out, and invisible ripples spread outwards from the mouth of the vengeful spirit, forming a semi-circular protective shield above the recruitment base.

"Mom?" Kayn exclaimed in surprise as his eyes swept over one of the vengeful spirits.

The ion cannon landed on the protective shield, and the two collided violently, with the scattered ion beams sweeping directly across the vengeful spirits in the air.

Each vengeful spirit let out a final wail before its spirit dissipated before everyone's eyes.

"Mom!" Kayn cried out in alarm, using Shadowstep to leap into the air and soar into the sky.

By the time he arrived, the ion cannon had completely dissipated, along with the countless vengeful spirits that filled the sky.

Inside the frigate's control room, seeing the initial strike successful, the operator pressed the fire button again. The frigate's main gun and level 3 plasma cannon charged... and fired!

Shadow Assassin! Transform!

Kayn withdrew the power that had been suppressing Rhaast, and a surge of violent power rushed into his body, causing intense blue energy to explode out of him.

A sharp blade pierces through!

A massive, kilometer-long slash erupted from the scythe's blade, shooting straight into the sky and colliding violently with the descending plasma cannon.

A crack ran straight through the plasma cannon from beginning to end, and then disappeared into the air along with the plasma cannon.

Whew... Whew...

Kayn was panting heavily; this level of attack was still too much of a strain on him.

"Get ready, the second one is coming," Laaste reminded them.

Kayn gritted his teeth and swung his scythe in a semi-circle, the giant scythe sweeping across!

In the blink of an eye, the plasma cannon struck the crescent moon in front of Kayn, blasting him directly to the ground, his scythe nearly slipping from his grasp.

After getting up from the ground, Kayn was able to sense the plasma cannon condensing again without Rhaast reminding him.