Magical Girl's Knight Brother

Chapter 538 Deadly Sprint

The entire City of Glory resembled a giant, haphazardly pieced-together ukiyo-e painting, frozen in a bizarre and violent black-purple hue.

The spatial rifts seemed to writhe overhead like living creatures, emitting a tooth-grinding buzzing sound and a chilling, ethereal aura, while the broken load-bearing beams, half-finished rooms, twisted jungles of pipes, and massive wreckage floated in the air, seemingly "connected yet intertwined."

These architectural fragments are not static; with each collision of the invisible laws of the sky, they bounce up and down, rotate left and right like driftwood on a tsunami, emitting dull metallic groans and the sound of concrete cracking.

Leisen forcibly suppressed the surging fear and lingering apprehension in his heart. Upon hearing Suolin's voice, his eyes flashed with an almost frenzied light as he fixed his gaze on the distant tower laboratory.

It wasn't completely torn apart; it was merely like a lone peak remaining after a landslide. Huge cracks spread across the walls, and part of the structure at the top had disappeared, revealing the flickering lights and the faint blue glow of the energy pipes inside. An unstable energy barrier flickered around it, like a candle in the wind.

But it is indeed the only building that still has a clear structure.

"I knew running into people like you would never end well." Leisen's voice was a little hoarse.

He no longer glanced at the center of the apocalyptic war, focusing all his will and power on the "road" before him. It could no longer be called a road—if these architectural fragments suspended in mid-air could be considered a road at all.

Climb, Leisen couldn't think of any other possibility besides climbing.

In this chaotic space, using anti-gravity armor or repulsion boots would almost certainly not end well; it might even trigger spatial tremors, at which point it would be completely destroyed.

Thinking of this, Leisen took a deep breath of air filled with burnt and metallic dust, and then exerted force with his legs.

The next moment, he shot out like a cannonball, his rough, large hand precisely grabbing a section of steel bar hanging not far above his head, twisted and exposed like a huge rib.

The heavy steel bar sank sharply downwards with his movement, and the connected concrete blocks cracked painfully.

"Hold on tight!" He yelled at Yedi behind him without turning his head, and with the force of the swing, he carried the girl's petite body and tumbled toward the edge of a half-suspended floor slab covered with cracks and pipes at a higher elevation.

Yedi let out a short scream, closed her eyes tightly, and clung to Leisen's broad back with all her might, like a koala. Her little face was buried in his rough clothes soaked with sweat, and she could feel the vibration of Leisen's muscles taut like iron.

Snapped!

Leisen's heavy military boots landed on the edge of the steeply sloping floor slab, which was covered with broken tiles and slippery moss. He stumbled and almost slipped down with Yedi, but luckily his other hand dug into a broken pipe joint. The metal edge cut his palm, and blood instantly stained it red.

"Damn it!" he cursed, veins bulging on his forehead.

"There's a metal handrail three meters to the upper left, with a sturdiness of 65%. It should be able to support us," Suolin's urgent voice rang out just in time. Leisen didn't even have time to thank her. He glanced at it, then leaped up again without hesitation. Each jump felt like a life-or-death struggle. The seemingly stationary debris was actually spinning constantly, and his footing could collapse at any moment, or he could be crushed by even larger pieces of debris. The scene was incredibly spectacular, yet incredibly deadly.

Two half-human figures, in this devastated space with its dark purple tones, were like the most insignificant insects, darting and struggling among the giants' broken bones.

Above them were ripped spatial rifts and incomprehensible aftershocks of divine battle. Each energy collision caused the area below to feel like a local earthquake. In the distance, the massive, suspended building ruins blotted out the sky like mountains, casting even deeper shadows. Below them lay bottomless chasms and floating dust and debris.

Only Leisen's heavy breathing and the sound of metal twisting with each impact echoed stubbornly in the huge, muffled background noise.

Rayson had completely transformed into a beast driven by instinct; his years of experience honed in the wasteland and his intuition for danger became his most reliable guides.

He climbed up a section of the sloping staircase ruins, and before it flipped over, he lunged toward a bathroom that floated like an island on the opposite side. He then grabbed an exposed steam pipe that was still hissing and spewing steam, using it as a swing to swing toward his next target while it burned his palm. He stepped onto the top of a huge, cracked stone pillar that was floating in mid-air, and leaped off as it began to flip downwards.

Yedi had become nothing more than an accessory to him; even opening his eyes required immense courage. Suolin's mechanical eyes flashed red, constantly scanning the surrounding environment, providing hints for the best path, and warnings of potential dangerous energy points.

As they drew closer to the solitary, towering laboratory, the shimmering energy shield surrounding it was almost within reach, and they could nearly see the details of energy leaping like electric arcs at the edges of the cracks.

For the final stretch, a cliff several meters long with almost no footholds lay before us, with only a few small, scattered concrete blocks and swaying steel bars floating above it.

Above, the collision between the giant shadowy wave and the metal sphere erupted once more, and an even more violent spatial ripple swept across like an invisible tsunami!

Rumble!

The debris from the buildings below and around them tumbled and collided violently like a pile of building blocks being smashed by a giant sledgehammer, the enormous sound almost tearing their eardrums apart. The thick wall that Leisen had painstakingly climbed over shattered instantly, and the heavy, chain-like feeling immediately threatened to drag the three of them into the abyss. "Jump!" Leisen unleashed the last of his strength.

The moment the wall completely disintegrated and collapsed, his legs, like springs compressed to their limit, carrying Yedi on his back and all the strength he had gathered, lunged towards the violently flashing, cracked energy shield outside the tower laboratory.

The burly figure, like a tattered sack, traced a brief path through the chaotic air before crashing heavily into the crumbling energy barrier.

boom!

The barrier was rammed open by brute force, creating a brief gap. The energy membrane rippled violently, and the crack widened instantly.

Leisen, carrying Yedi on his back, crashed heavily onto the narrow metal platform outside the tower laboratory.

From the huge crack in the inner wall of the shield, the leaking blue energy flowed like blood, illuminating the complex and sophisticated equipment inside and some anxious figures running around.

Just as Leisen had climbed halfway up the edge, he saw several guards peeking out from the crack in the tower laboratory. When he saw them, the guards opposite him also noticed Leisen's appearance. Although they were surprised that he had gotten to this height, they did not think much of it and raised their weapons.

Done

Leisen's mind went blank. He instinctively tried to push Yedi away and use his body to block the bullet, but his numb and stiff arm only managed to raise halfway before he saw the guard's pulse gun energy core rapidly charging and emitting a sharp "humming" resonance.

At that critical moment!

Awooo!

A piercing, long howl, metallic and icy wild, like a silver lightning bolt piercing through hell, tore through the alarm noise inside the tower with crystal clarity.

Immediately afterwards, a dazzling silver streak, its trajectory almost impossible to detect with the naked eye, appeared like a meteor exploding out of thin air, accompanied by the sonic boom of a high-frequency electronic hum, at a speed beyond human comprehension, suddenly appearing on the narrow platform between the guards inside the airtight door and Leisen and his group.

The guards only felt a gust of wind brush against their cheeks, and as soon as the brilliant blue light appeared in their vision, they instantly felt an unstoppable force rushing towards them.

Tang Zijun moved with the speed of a phantom, rushing forward without any hesitation. Two muffled thuds rang out, and the chests of the two guards who were charging up in front of her were hit as if by a high-speed train. Their thick tactical armor visibly caved in, and the sound of bones cracking could be clearly heard.

Before they could even scream, the two were thrown backward by the immense force, crashing heavily into the cracked alloy wall behind them, their bodies embedding themselves deep inside, sparks flying everywhere.

For a second, Leisen's mind went blank, then he snapped to attention. "Wolves, wolf riders!?"

As he spoke, Tang Zijun had already dealt with the guards blocking the way. He turned slightly to look at Leisen, a smirk playing on his lips beneath his mask. "Not bad, Mr. Leisen. Your actions just now reminded me of Warframe, but the 2077 version."

"I don't understand a word you're saying." Lei Sen smirked, walked to Tang Zijun's side, and put the little girl down from his back. Tang Zijun smiled, then looked down at Yedi. "No regrets following me, right?"

Yedi still seemed a little shaken, but she came to her senses after hearing Tang Zijun's voice. She stared blankly at Tang Zijun in her wolf-riding form and shook her head slightly.

At this moment, Zolin couldn't help but speak up. "Wait, what are you doing here?"

"If you weren't the one fighting that thing... then who was it!?"

Upon hearing this, everyone turned to look in the direction of the battlefield.