Bad Born Blood Chapter 219

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Mushir Al-Kashra was wearing a full-body exoskeleton combat suit.

Kashura’s battle suit was a piece that had been modified so many times that it was difficult to tell the original model. Kashura himself must have been an excellent engineer.

‘Even if it’s not as advanced as a human body, an exoskeleton is also an advanced combat equipment.’

The exoskeleton, which supplements strength and agility, was an all-weather combat weapon. Since the exoskeleton was made of metal, it also provided basic protection.

‘With today’s technology, exoskeletons can be as responsive as artificial bodies when directly connected to the nervous system.’

If it’s used by someone like Kashura, it wouldn’t be just an exoskeleton. And there would be a lot of weapons hidden inside that tough armor.

‘The tube and cable attached to the back of the head is a weak point. If you cut there, the exoskeleton suit will stop moving.’

I identified Kashura’s vital points: his head, his heart, his neck, the tubes and cables, and the metal box on his back.

Woohoo!

Kashura, the Flame Sword, or should I call him Flame Spear? He advanced, spinning the plasma spear blade around.

As the air ripened along with the enthusiasm, a haze flowed out.

Cheeeeeeek.

I also dragged my fire-light sword on the floor and walked towards Kashura.

The road that reached the end of Hwagwangyedo was sizzling and carbonized. A black line followed my footsteps.

‘You must not collide with the fireball.’

If you use the Fire series on both sides, it becomes a rather strange battle. You have to show off your skills and attack the enemy with unconventional movements.

I thought back to my fight with Valek. I had simulated it in my head several times, thinking about meeting Valek again.

‘Mushir Al-Kashra is large because of his large exoskeleton combat suit.’

There is such a thing as physical limitations.

A large body meant large movements, and Kashura’s exoskeleton was crude.

‘It’s an exoskeleton combat suit for firepower warfare. It’s not suitable for close combat with rapid attacks and defenses.’

I kicked the ground while pulling up the hanging fireworks.

Kiiiiit!

The fireworks cut through the air.

Kashura slid back with his feet planted on the ground. His feet were equipped with electric wheels, allowing him to move without having to step on them. With his feet and his wheels, he had two ways of moving.

‘We have to push now.’

I know that Kashura isn’t giving it his all right now.

Even though my pride is hurt, I’ll be victorious if I cut off his head. I’ll die after looking after my opponent? That’s truly embarrassing!

I lowered my body, bending my knees and waist.

Shhh!

Kashura’s spear blade slashed past my back. The plasma scorched and burned the hem of my clothes.

‘Further inside.’

I clung to Kashura. Two pairs of optical lenses were looking down at me simultaneously.

Kashura’s wheels are spinning violently in reverse. She must be thinking of retreating again.

‘If you aim for Kashura’s torso, you will fail. He will escape before you can swing your sword.’

Kashura had excellent mobility compared to its size. Despite its large movements, it strangely did not enter my attack range. In a word, it was ‘experienced.’ It was not for nothing that it challenged me to close combat.

He was making up for the shortcomings of a form that was not suitable for close combat with his own abilities.

‘But Kashura has never used a spear-shaped weapon.’

His skill in handling the spear was poor. He also seemed hesitant because he had never fought with a firefighter before.

Chewy!

I cut off Kashura’s spear handle cleanly. A fire-light spear fell from Kashura’s hand.

And the handle of the ‘Hwagwangjachang’ was left with only the length of the sword handle, so it became the ‘Hwagwangjageom’ again.

Whoosh!

I kicked the hilt of the falling Hwagwangjageom with my foot and turned the tip of the sword towards Kashura.

Too- Woong!

I twisted my body elastically and pushed the end of the Hwagwangjageom’s hilt with all my might.

‘Try stepping back to the ends of the earth.’

The fire-light sword shot from the tip of his foot flew towards Kashura’s chest as he retreated. Since he was moving on wheels, it would be difficult to move left and right rapidly.

Even with my Archies Victory’s prediction, I couldn’t see him avoiding the Hwagwangjageom throw with his heavy body.

‘There’s only one way left for him.’

And Kashura also used the method I had in mind.

Cheeeeek!

Kashura stretched out his left hand forward and placed his palm on the edge of the Fire Sword.

‘Throw your arms out to the side before your palms burn and melt.’

Kashura moved exactly as I thought. He sacrificed one of his hands to block the Hwagwangjakken throw.

Crunch! Chew!

The fallen fireball was melting the road and sinking into the lava formed by liquefied concrete and metal.

Knock, knock.

Kashura’s left hand was in the same condition. It had only briefly touched the plasma, but it was melting away.

“Wow, wow, wow!”

Kashura repeated the words strangely. He pretended to clap his hands, tapping his melting left wrist with his right hand.

“Excellent, Luca. It was arrogant of me to fight in your specialty.”

Kashura spoke as he stepped away. He didn’t even glance at the fallen fire-light sword.

‘Damn, I couldn’t fatally wound him when he let his guard down.’

I cursed inwardly, but a corner of my heart was excited.

Finally, Kashura will reveal his special ability.

“And I can see why the Firelight series was a failure. I wonder how many people on the planet Novas can handle this in a practical way. Even the excellent Valek can’t handle it perfectly.”

Kashura threw the remaining fire-light spear into the floor as if he was discarding it. The fire-light spear melted the floor and sank deep inside.

‘Kashura is a type of person who is free from material desires.’

The Hwagwang series is traded at a high price even though it failed as a weapon. Not to mention the value of its main material, Ignium.

However, Kashura foolishly threw away two of the Hwagwang series.

“Luka, I will hand over Balek’s position to you. It seems that you are the one I need right now, not Balek or Kinuan.”

It was a subtle statement.

Ding, ding.

A noise came from the metal box on Kashura’s back.

Two more pairs of folded auxiliary arms emerged. The auxiliary arms were holding four firearms. They ranged from live ammunition to energy weapons.

‘Kashura’s specialty is projecting firepower.’

I expected it.

There was no reason for the personal exoskeleton combat suit to be so large. It was heavily armored for solid firepower projection.

‘The nickname ‘one-man army’ also kept bothering me.’

People like me, no matter how skilled we are, have a hard time being given the nickname of a one-man army.

Kashura had the firepower to take on the troops on her own.

Clank, clank.

The two auxiliary arms attached to Kashura’s back moved, loading and aiming their weapons. The movements were too natural to be artificial intelligence or programming.

Machines may be sophisticated, but they can hardly move naturally. Naturally means that there are sometimes delays and errors unique to living things.

‘Is the prosthetic arm a cybernetic prosthetic?’

I felt a chill down my spine. Maybe I was misjudging.

‘Perhaps Mushir Al-Kashra is not an exoskeleton combat suit, but… … a full-body prosthetic body.’

I never thought that such a heavily armored combat vehicle, or a fully armored vehicle, would exist outside the Empire.

It’s probably no coincidence that when I see Kashura I think of ‘Legion’.

‘The individual possesses a Legion-level full-armor body.’

I was curious about Kashura’s background and identity. The armored body was a special-purpose body that went beyond the concept of a permanent body. It was not a weapon that could be owned and operated by an individual.

‘Besides, this is outside the empire.’

I stared at Kashura’s two pairs of auxiliary arms.

‘Originally, if you combine the arms, you are using three pairs of arms.’

It was a very cumbersome and inefficient form.

As the body deviates from its original form, the burden on the brain increases. This is because the brain also changes to fit the form when an organ that was not there before is created and controlled by the nervous system. The loss of humanity due to the form that is far from human is an added bonus.

Kiing.

Kashura’s optical lenses are in two pairs, meaning it has four optical lenses.

Kiing, kiing.

The four optical lenses were moving in different directions. Unlike before, they were not looking in a consistent direction.

The same was true of the auxiliary arms holding guns. Each of the auxiliary arms was aiming in different directions along the lens as if it were a separate entity.

‘How did the brain structure come to be?’

The words rose to the tip of my tongue. I was capable of doublethink, but I was incapable of such multiple separations.

It was impossible to guess what kind of development and advancement Kashura’s brain had undergone.

Creak.

And soon I couldn’t even think about the question.

Too- Woong!

Kashura’s firepower projection began. Four arms were aiming for my path, pulling the trigger without stopping.

‘It feels like four first-class marksmen are aiming at me at the same time.’

… … It was terrible.

My current location, the direction I want to go, the route I thought of as a second-best option, and even a surprising third option.

Kashura’s shots were tricky as they blocked all my paths.

Ta-Ang!

I deflected the bullet with the back of my Hwagwangyedo and dodged the energy beam.

Too- Woong!

A concussion grenade exploded in the direction I was going. I suddenly miss Ruina.

Just avoiding it was urgent. There was no visible path to approach Kashura.

Kashura kept his distance and poured his firepower on me, then loaded the gun with his remaining right arm and passed it to his off-arm.

He didn’t even give me a chance to breathe.

‘If I continue like this, my concentration will be depleted first.’

It was nothing short of a miracle that I was still holding on. It was all thanks to the bullet-dodge training I had done with Ragnata in preparation for Illei.

‘Kashura thinks as fast as I do. And… …he’s using the Akies Victima.’

I could feel it instinctively. He wasn’t watching my movements and reacting, he was thinking at the same level as me.

Kashura blocked the anomalous movements I was trying to create with the same level of thought speed.

‘Are you from the Royal Guard? If you use the Archies Victory, what does that have to do with Kinuan?’

My head was clear. My body was being driven by an exquisite concentration.

… … But it was still suffocating. Even with Akiess Victory, there was no breakthrough in sight. Every time a variable or solution flashed in my head, Kashura blocked it at the same time.

‘It’s annoying when you experience it.’

I tried to get off the road by just running sideways. It would be difficult to shoot if I entered the city.

Boom! Boom!

Concussion grenade blasts repeatedly pinned me to the road, blocking my escape route.

‘Ha, this son of a bitch!’

It just came out as a curse.

‘It’ll only take a moment, just a moment!’

I had only one way left. I ran between the roads and approached the wrecked cargo truck.

Kkeeeeek!

I ran and slipped under the truck.

‘Akes Victima is not a technology that creates something from nothing.’

No matter how great Mushir Al-Kashra is, he does not know all the functions of pie.

The pie has a cooling function as well as a preheating function.

Cheeeeeeeee!

I crawled out from under the truck, thrusting the blade into the pie’s cooling hole and pulling it out. The thick vapor created by the cooling action of the refrigerant cartridge enveloped me.

king!

The hardened refrigerant cartridge was forcibly discharged after absorption was completed.

Tzuzuzuzu!

As soon as the high temperature refrigerant cartridge fell, it melted the floor.

I came out from under the truck with the steam. The heat of the blade had subsided.

Swish-!

I walked straight towards Kashura, my body covered in steam. One of his optical lenses stopped as if it was stopping on my blade.

You didn’t expect it to have a cooling function! Long live Lapis Lazuli, you son of a bitch!

Opportunity comes only once.

I’m going to fly straight ahead at high speed, blocking all of his shots from now on. I promise you, you won’t get a second chance.