Revive Rome: Wait! Why not make the empress fall in love with me first?-Chapter 527 - 37: Cheating Again?
In Rasul’s resounding words, there was a fleeting moment when Medea felt completely convinced by him.
However, she was soon awakened by the feedback from her spirituality, making her realize she had grasped the "Manipulation" law.
"Identify the manipulator spreading the Mind Plague, understand his manipulation techniques..."
Medea finally came to a realization.
The truly perfect technique of manipulation wasn’t necessarily about using extraordinary abilities to brainwash the other.
It was about saying the words the other wanted to hear, then cleverly guide them towards the direction one wanted to manipulate, allowing the other to naturally arrive at the conclusion one wished for them to reach.
Just now, merely through simple words, she, Miel, and Mia had already been manipulated.
Yet even knowing this, Medea still had to admit that what the other had said indeed aligned strongly with the reality.
She and Nora...were ultimately bound to determine the victor, and with the other having Eleanor’s support, and with a high probability of Theodora allying with her, it became essential to win over Miel and Mia with Sigrdrifa and herself allied together.
She silently looked at Miel, who at that moment also turned her gaze towards her.
"Don’t rush into a decision," Medea said through mind communication to Miel, "Let’s first see what the Anti-Christ is made of."
"Yes," Miel spoke, "Let’s get back to the main issue, this is about understanding the Revolutionary Army, right?"
"Correct." Rasul patted the golden apple again and smiled, "I have prepared the most direct and convincing narrative method for you."
"So, you..."
"Are you ready to enter my memory?"
Meanwhile, at the Voodoo Gang’s base, in the ruins,
Different from the Golden Skull’s prior tactical prediction, the Lion of Florence, from the Medici Family, almost immediately launched an attack on the Golden Skull.
Bullets screamed back and forth through the air, their trajectories bending and ricocheting across the field. As highly mechanized transformed soldiers, these people had no so-called aiming accuracy issues; optical probes and logic processing chips calculated everything.
You predict my movement and use trajectories to lock on me, I predict your prediction and move ahead to evade, you predict my prediction of your prediction and shoot early to compress my movement... In the end, the decisive factor in the battle became a competition of computing power.
The artificial intelligence Vesta from the Lixini Family, and the computational power competition of the Medici Family’s AI.
In this aspect, the Medici Family obviously had the upper hand, having their main business in finance, they had accumulated significant computational advantages in high-frequency trading, to the point where the Lion of Florence’s tactical coordination completely crushed the Golden Skull’s fighting style.
However, the Golden Skull from the Lixini Family far outmatched the Lion of Florence in terms of hardware, whether it was weapon firepower, armor thickness, or movement speed.
Thus, the situation on the field quickly became clear, the Lion of Florence maneuvering skillfully with refined tactical coordination and clever maneuvers, while the Golden Skull relied on their superior equipment to bravely power through, trading blows, causing the battle situation to remain in a deadlock, difficult to determine a victor in the short term.
And looking at the long-term casualty rate, it was clear the Golden Skull was at a greater disadvantage.
"Are you ready?" Aske said, taking the two girls, hiding at the corner of the underground garage entrance, searching for the right moment to enter the battlefield.
"We’re ready!" Eleanor and Peggy said in unison.
"Recap the key points of knowledge!" Aske said.
"Local coverage, instant opening and closing, grasping the right moment," Eleanor said.
"Multiple clones, restricting movement, maximizing burst output," Peggy said.
"Alright, go." Aske gestured broadly.
Eleanor charged out first. In the past, on such a complex battleground riddled with gunfire, she would have immediately chosen the "Light Transformation" skill to dodge stray bullets, just like when she initially escaped the Lion of Florence’s space rift birdcage.
However, after receiving guidance from Aske, Eleanor understood that it was simply a waste of Spirituality, and thus she did not rashly activate her singular Law Skill but merely accelerated into the battlefield.
Facing this intruder, the Lion of Florence also reacted instantly. Two bullets blocked her left and right, while another two targeted her head and chest.
The precision of artificial intelligence was so accurate that, given her speed, there was no space to evade or escape; she had no choice but to withstand it—this was the power of technology.
Yet, Eleanor’s Will Fog had already expanded in advance. With concentrated focus, she swiftly locked onto the trajectory and her corresponding body parts transformed ahead of time into light, allowing the bullets to pass through without hindrance—this was the power of the Extraordinary.
The clash between technology and the extraordinary seemed to end the first round in a draw.
Eleanor reached the forefront, where these Transformed Soldiers known as the Lion of Florence had their faces replaced with lion-shaped masks, below their bulging noses were dark lion mouths.
Just as Eleanor approached, fork-shaped antennas stretched out from these lion mouths.
Sound wave weapons.
Such weapons were specifically designed to combat special Extraordinary individuals and emitted a wide-ranging, high-energy sound wave to suppress the enemy’s physical transformations through resonance. Suddenly, a blurry vibration passed through, and Eleanor felt something amiss with her body; those parts transformed into light streams were faintly trembling and becoming uncontrollable.
These light streams... after all, were not real light rays and still had what’s called a resonant frequency. When assaulted by sound waves of the same frequency, they began to experience severe disturbances.
"Unyielding Holy Sword, activate!"
Instantly, her entire body was covered by tangible Will, blocking the sound waves coming from every direction.
Eleanor thrust her Long Spear, attempting to sweep the enemies away with the force of Iron Cutting, but the Lions of Florence agilely leaped back before she could strike, perfectly moving out of the spear’s range.
Damn, just a bit short! Eleanor panicked internally, but images of Aske using Conceptual Weapons suddenly emerged in her mind.
If the pure concept of war could materialize into a tangible weapon in his hands... then why couldn’t my own Will do the same?
The spear tip, covered in white light, suddenly extended further, formed by the white light from the spear itself, increasing the attack range of the Long Spear and instantly enveloping the Lions of Florence who had not yet landed.
And it cleanly severed them at the waist.
Aske, watching from behind, was dumbfounded, hardly believing his eyes.
What the hell, no tragic event has happened recently to push her, so how did she suddenly achieve a breakthrough and advance her skills in battle?
Could it be that Eleanor is also a genius with cheats?!
After killing the enemies in front of her, Eleanor immediately deactivated the Unyielding Holy Sword. Meanwhile, her mind rapidly processed the newly understood Law Skill:
Its name was "Will Armor," similar to Conceptual Weapon, allowing her own Will to transform into the form of weapons or armor.
The difference was, Conceptual Weapon could only take the form of historical military equipment that existed and that Aske could comprehend, effectively making it a copy.
Will Armor, however, allowed Will to change shape, more akin to handcrafting. Even if Eleanor wished to shape angel wings out of her Will behind her, it was possible.
Of course, if Conceptual Weapon summoned a rocket launcher, it would be a fully functional rocket launcher. Will Armor, on the other hand, purely changed the shape of Will; creating a melee weapon was feasible, but crafting a structurally complex firearm was a bit tricky.
However, if combined with the Unyielding Holy Sword’s characteristics, becoming an "indestructible" melee weapon...
"What are you spacing out for?" Peggy suddenly appeared in front of her.
Lost in her thoughts, Eleanor snapped back to reality, only to realize that the battlefield had been overtaken by Peggy’s Clones.
Now at Lv.15, Peggy’s Undead Illusion Sword could create as many as 40-50 clones. Although it still didn’t reach the Demigod’s level of "one-man army," it was enough to swiftly turn the tide of the battlefield.
Countless Peggy figures, either plunging headlong, crossing in cover, or transforming into swarms of rats and bats, surged majestically towards the Lion of Florence.