Shi Lang dragged the big cannon out from the lobby and placed it on the main door of the Manor building. Then he aimed the cannon at the artillery outpost and pulled the lever on the cannon, a phaser beam lit up the night like day, in a blink, Shi Lang adjusted the direction and shot again, just in time to hear a loud boom and another shot being fired from his cannon.
The enemy was shocked, Earlier they heard the cannon fire and thought that there was an enemy, but the silence followed quickly giving them the impression that the enemy has been dealt with. After all, with common sense, who can survive the head-on attack with the cannons?
Yet, not only did the enemy survive the damage from the phaser cannons but was using their own equipment against them, the lizardmen were enraged. They all quickly adjusted the artillery to aim at the mansion. The officers had tried to contact the leader, Zana, but upon no response, they established that Zana was dead, and now they had to kill the enemy at all costs.
On the other side, Shi Lang was attacking the Artillary outposts with no worries on his mind, in the fast ten minutes, he has taken out five of the command posts, it was not because he slowed down, but because the outposts had shields and it took more than a dozen shots to get past them.
Sparrow was paying attention to the outposts and upon sensing activity, she said, “General, they are all adjusting their turrets to aim at us.”
Shi Lang nodded and said, “I know, you can take the escape tunnel and bypass them to meet me outside. I will come after finishing them off. Go now.”.
Sparrow wanted to say that she would like to stay but when he said, ‘Go now.’, her body moved on its own, with no grounds and power to refute the command. As if she was a puppet. Shi Lang stopped paying attention to her and set the cannon on automatic fire. Then he walked over to other cannons and shot at the walls next to the door, to enlarge the space, arranged three cannons next to each other, and began to shoot again.
The firepower increased and Shi Lang stood behind the cannons using them remotely. The time taken to destroy an outpost had decreased a lot. Out of twenty outposts, Shi Lang had taken out ten, but the enemy was not going to give him everything on a silver platter. They had turned their turrets and the artillery shot at the manor entrance together.
Shi Lang had no choice but to flee, he was not yet strong enough to walk sideways under such heavy fire. He did not rush back to the escape tunnels but charged straight at the outposts while dodging the cannon fire. The suit had entered complete stealth mode, the lizardmen could not detect it at all. So, even if the young general walked slowly in front of them, they will not know.
When the lizardmen confirmed that the enemy has been dealt with and was about to relay the news to the higher command, screams rang out in the outposts. Shi Lang had started to reap the lives of the lizardmen with his sword. The enemy did not even know, what and who was responsible for the mess before they died.
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Sparrow was waiting for Shi Lang at the end of the escape point. She could not express her emotions at this moment. She was glad that Shi Lang was so strong, but the bloodshed and mania he displayed was something she was scared of. She could not help but shiver on recalling that scene.
Just when she was immersed in the thoughts of the massacre, a figure came over slowly. She could tell that it was Shi Lang. The surroundings were completely silent now. Upon coming closer, Shi Lang asked, “Did you call for our ride back?”
Sparrow quickly clicked on the holographic panel on her communicator and said, “Was waiting for you boss.”
Her address had changed back from general to boss because she did not sense any mania from Shi Lang, the young man also noticed this and thought, ‘Looks like the effect of the battling shura sutra is a bit too much. I need to find a way to keep it in check.’
Soon the scout ship descended from the edge of the atmosphere and landed in front of them. Shi Lang said, “How about you take the first seat, I need to rest for a bit.”
Sparrow nodded and the two people got onboard. The scout ship left the place and Sparrow turned on the stealth mode. She was also keeping an eye on Shi Lang to check if the young man was fine. Sparrow was even a few years older than the young man next to her. So, she looked at him like the younger brother she never had and that was why she was so worried about him.
Shi Lang did not know all this, he was focusing on dispelling the baleful aura he had accumulated on his person, the battling shura sutra was a cultivation method that allowed him to become stronger as he kept on fighting. However, this sutra was very delicate, it could lead people to dementia.
In his past life, Shi Lang had found a lot of cases, where those who used this sutra would turn into bloodthirsty maniacs, however, upon extensive research he found that if the baleful aura is dispelled quickly, the effect will be negated. Surprisingly, the method to dispel the baleful aura was only to circulate the spiritual energy throughout his body and refine this aura.
Spiritual energy was akin to water, it will cleanse every aura that was deemed contaminating, however, the process was really slow, Shi Lang could not use this technique too much, or the accumulation will exceed the effect of cleansing and this will be troublesome.
At this moment, the baleful aura had condensed inside his dantian, it was like a ring of gas around a planet. The planet was slightly golden in color while the gas ring was glowing red. Shi Lang had to reduce this red ring or once it reaches a certain level, it will infuse the golden core, which will lead Shi Lang to a crazed state of mind.
He could not allow that to happen. The scout vessel navigated through the stars and made its way to the mother ship, but Shi Lang did not wake up, he entered a state of deep cultivation. Sparrow thought something was wrong with him so she notified the bridge, by now all the teams had returned to the warship.
They hurried over to the ship and Amelia checked Shi Lang with a spiritual energy probe, she said, “He is just in a deep cultivation state, do not disturb him. Sparrow, please tell me about the mission proceedings.”
Hawk and Sonic carried Shi Lang out of the scout vessel and placed him back in his room. Meanwhile, Sparrow narrated the happenings of the mission to Amelia and the others, the people were shocked to hear about how crazy Shi Lang became during his battle. They were looking at Amelia, who sat in the command chair and sighed.
She said, “This happened once before, during our incursion of the Arcadian capital planet. He killed twenty thousand arcadian soldiers, and still would have kept going if not for the fact that his body was not used to the strain. Another thing is that, after that battle, he hardly went into killing missions or death situations.”
Milo nodded and said, “Given that he is in a state of deep cultivation, I think he understands his situation and is trying to rectify his flaws.”
The rest of the people nodded and began to discuss this.
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In a big mansion, Jaccuba was listening to reports coming in from five of his Zerg hideouts in the komodian space system. Around him, the decorations were placed on the floor losing their glamor, and a lizardwoman was lying in the corner, with no sign of life coming from her.
He was indulged in the pleasures of life when the news of Zana’s demise came, in a fit of rage he killed the lady. Jacuuba was roaring in rage when the room was opened and a Komodain walked in. The aura of domination radiated from this person was too strong, it made the roaring lizard calm his balls.
The komodian asked, “Jacuuba, any suspects, who could have such a huge hatred for you and us, that they breached our space and killed so many of us?”
Jacuuba shook his head, he said, “I would have pointed at the Terrans, especially that Shi Lang, but he has been keeping himself content and focusing on assimilating the Zerg territory. It cannot be him.”
The komodian nodded and said, “I have ordered for a comb search, we will find out who did this and then have them served on the platter alive.”
Jacuuba nodded and said, “I suggest that we raise the security to another level as well.”
The komodian nodded and agreed with this fact. He also did not want his people to die like this. The discussion continued and actions were taken to prevent such attacks again. Shit escalated.