BXBX NOVEL Chapter 175: Different Combinations
Chapter 175: Different Combinations
The desert that the battle royale was taking place in seemed to be infinitely massively, so no one had any sense of direction. Thus, Adam and his allies could only follow Hook to visit the clusters of buildings in search of resources.
Their team was moving very quickly. Aside from Hook, Nie Yiyi was the weakest member of the team, yet even she could enhance her speed with the help of wind, allowing her to cover 100 meters in roughly five seconds on average. As a result, she was able to travel over a kilometer per minute, and after only seven or eight minutes, they arrived at the next cluster of buildings.
However, this place had already been searched before, and the team that had searched the area just so happened to run into Adam and his team while they were leaving.
"I know them." King Arthur was immediately able to identify the team of four. "They\'re the four mecha brothers. All of them are A tier combatants."
"Well, well, well, if it isn\'t King Arthur and Lean Mean Killing Machine. We\'ve already searched those buildings and killed the anomaly in there, so there\'s no need for you to waste time searching the area again."
The four of them didn\'t recognize Nie Yiyi, but they certainly recognized Adam, who had recently earned a resounding reputation for himself, and King Arthur, who was an established S tier combatant.
The four of them were all humanoid mechas that bore a very close resemblance in the psychic world, so it was clear that they were either friends or related by blood.
Not only were the styles of the mechas very similar, their colors were identical as well. The only difference was the weapons that they were wielding.
"Leave the cards behind and you can go."
As a long-time resident of Shadow City, King Arthur wasn\'t about to let anyone off the hook.
"Yo, that\'ll work on those spineless outsiders, but the same intimidation tactics aren\'t going to work on us!" Even though the four of them were only A tier combatants, they didn\'t seem to fear King Arthur at all. "Let us go, and we\'ll pretend as if this encounter never happened. If you don\'t let us go, then none of us are going to have a good time. Honestly, if Lean Mean Killing Machine isn\'t here, we\'d be the ones asking you to cough up your cards!"
The four of them were speaking in perfect synchronicity and saying the exact same things.
Furthermore, while they were speaking, they had already aimed their weapons directly at Adam and his team.
Adam had no idea what these guys were capable of, so he turned to King Arthur. "What do you reckon?"
"I think..."
Before King Arthur had a chance to answer, the four mecha brothers began to assemble.
In the blink of an eye, the four mechas had assembled together to form a giant mecha that was around seven to eight meters tall.
Following the assembly, the barrel of the mecha\'s cannon had become thrice as thick, and it turned around to aim its cannon at a building behind it before firing off a blast.
A resounding boom rang out, and the entire cluster of buildings was instantly reduced to ruins in a display of formidable power.
Adam had only witnessed this level of destructive power and explosive energy in Sithu\'s psychic world. The cannon blast wasn\'t as powerful as that anomaly\'s self-detonation, but at the same time, this was also nothing more than a casual attack from the giant mecha.
In terms of destructive power, the mecha was no less fearsome than Oni no Hanzou.
That level of destructive power, coupled with its enormous and clearly extremely durable body, indicated that it possessed a level of power that would\'ve placed it in the upper reaches of the S tier.
It came as quite a surprise to Adam that there were such powerful combatants in the A tier.
"Look, we don\'t want any trouble. We don\'t want to make enemies out of you, especially Mr. Lean Mean Killing Machine, but if you\'re just going to try and blatantly rob us, then we\'ll have to put up a fight. Even if you win, you\'ll definitely suffer heavy losses. How about this?" The mecha pulled out three golden cards as it spoke before tossing them at Adam. "Take those cards and let us go."
Adam caught the three golden cards to find that they were all points cards.
There were definitely more than just three points cards in that cluster of buildings, but the four mecha brothers were being quite sincere, and they were also quite formidable. Just as they said, if a conflict did arise, then Adam\'s team was sure to suffer heavy losses.
Furthermore, Adam was here to win the battle royale. If he could grab some resources along the way, then that would certainly be extremely welcome, but it wouldn\'t be worth it if he had to give up too much in exchange for those resources.
With that in mind, Adam accepted the offer made by the four mecha brothers before King Arthur had a chance to say anything.
At the same time, he tossed the three points cards back to the giant mecha.
"You can keep those. Even if we can\'t be friends, I don\'t want to make you my enemy."
"You\'re an upstanding guy, Lean Mean Killing Machine!"
The mecha caught the cards, then retreated in a cautious manner before rushing away as soon as it had retreated to a safe distance away.
After rushing away into the distance, the giant mecha split back up into the four brothers. It was clear that maintaining that form was quite taxing on them.
"How are they only A tier combatants when they\'re this powerful?" Adam asked as he turned to King Arthur.
"Because they need to be together to maximize their powers. Individually, their combat prowess is quite mediocre, only around the average mark among A tier combatants, but as you saw, they\'re a real force to be reckoned with when assembled together. They participated in the last battle royale as well, and they did quite well."
King Arthur was far more knowledgeable about matters related to Shadow City than Adam and his friends were.
Compared with the information gathered by Hook in a short timeframe, King Arthur\'s knowledge was more extensive, and he knew about more than just the combatants in the S tier.
"There are some people like them in the A tier. Otherwise, why would they enter the battle royale? Do they have a death wish?"
"I see."
The four mecha brothers reminded Adam of the Golden Iron Triangle that he had faced in the past.
Individually, the trio of adapters were very mediocre, but when together, their powers were enhanced by severalfold.
Adam turned back to look at his own teammates, and it seemed that there was no potential for such combinations.
"Don\'t get your hopes up. S tier combatants are very rare to begin with, and it\'s even rare to see S tier combatants that come in sets." King Arthur patted his dragon steed as he spoke, and it opened its mouth to pick up Hook again. "Let\'s go to the next location."
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By the time Adam and his team arrived at the next resource location, there was already another team nearby.
Everyone had spawned at different points on the map, and the people who had spawned near this place had clearly gotten to it before Adam and the others.
The style of this team was completely different from the four mecha brothers.
Psychic bodies couldn\'t lie, and they perfectly reflected one\'s personality and their strengths and weaknesses in battle.
This team consisted of a technomancer with his face completely concealed within his cloak, a goblin engineer with a cunning grin on his face, an invisible wraith, and a psychic puppeteer.
With their respective appearances, the four of them formed a very sinister and insidious team.
They had spawned near this cluster of buildings, but even though a long time had already passed since they reached this point, they were in no hurry to go in. Instead, they had been setting up various things in the nearby area this entire time.
The goblin engineer had buried countless psychic landmines of all types around the area, the technomancer had set up an array that was invisible to everyone else, the wraith had concealed everyone\'s aura, and the psychic puppeteer was constantly ready to pounce as they awaited their prey.