545: Chapter 189 Exotic Blade 545: Chapter 189 Exotic Blade This instant, Guardian Zhi had been preparing for a long time.

He had been preparing since the moment he rushed into the vice captain’s office and threw the Iron Flower Bomb.

At that time, he had already activated the magnetic system on his body, attracting some “Iron Dust” to the external armor.

This was also a rather ancient and common tactic, which could even be traced back to the era of the Martial Ancestor.

The Iron Dust was incredibly fine.

It was so fine that it was difficult to prevent each particle of Iron Dust from rusting while maintaining its size, so it was prone to oxidation and degradation upon release.

If the Iron Dust clumped together, many of its functions would be compromised.

Generally, Iron Dust is sealed inside Iron Flower Bombs and released only when needed.

And some of those with Gang Qi weapon systems would prepare Iron Dust in advance before a battle began.

This preparation was not as simple as “embedding storage space for Iron Dust within the prosthesis.”

Among these methods, the main one was “activating the magnetism in advance, allowing some Iron Dust particles to adhere to the external armor.”

In doing so, even the “release” process was skipped.

The internal devices would alter the magnetic field, rapidly repelling the magnetized metal particles that were attracted to the external armor, causing them to disperse.

Thereafter, constantly changing magnetic fields established a dynamic equilibrium.

All the flat metal particles, under the effect of the magnetic field, connected end to end.

They were all parallel to each other.

They formed several mutually parallel, nearly reflective discontinuous arcs.

If it could be said that a disordered metal aerosol could only scatter lasers within a specific space, then this Iron Dust mirror could deflect most of the energy from laser weapons.

This device could effectively resist laser weapons—as long as they were not the kind emitted continuously by a warship’s main gun, the Iron Dust mirror could scatter most of the laser’s energy before it could evaporate itself.

Solid bullets encountering it would also decelerate and deflect.

Some bullets with less residual energy might even be captured after being magnetized.

Xiang Shan rapidly changed his swordsmanship.

While his current prosthetic body was very ordinary, he had once used a better one.

[Two hundred years ago, the cutting-edge prostheses couldn’t compare to even a modern ordinary martial artist’s prosthetic.

But in the same way that an 18th-century ironclad warship wouldn’t be sunk by a 21st-century civilian solar-powered speedboat, it’s a matter of positioning.]

This Iron Dust tactic might even have been developed by him…

or David.

Of course, this was a world without magic; it was impossible for “a sword thrust from a mirror image” to become real, or for “hitting one’s own image in the mirror to cause oneself injury.” But Xiang Shan cared about none of that, of course.

Behind this Iron Dust mirror was a powerful magnetic field.

The blade of the Sonicon Blade was fixed to the hilt by the magnetic field.

Moreover, the Sonicon Blade had another special characteristic.

Its hilt’s magnetic field was not operating at full power.

The reason was simple—the Sonicon Blade didn’t rely on kinetic energy attached to the blade to kill enemies.

Compared to the damage the vibrational wave did to metal’s crystal lattice structure, the kinetic energy on the blade was negligible.

In such a case, fully activating the magnetic field of the Sonicon Blade’s hilt to completely fix the blade was actually undesirable.

If the magnetic field only maintained 20% exertion, the blade could move freely.

When encountering external armor, it could also deflect backward, sliding over the armor’s exterior like flowing water, and dissolve the external armor with energy waves that broke down its lattice structure.

But if the magnetic field was kept at 100% exertion, the blade would collide directly with the external armor.

This could easily damage the blade.

This principle is similar to why natural people rarely grasp the hilt of a two-handed sword tightly with all ten fingers.

Limited by muscle and bone structure, if a natural person holds the hilt of a two-handed sword with all ten fingers, the hands would restrict each other, making it difficult to exert force from the wrists or control the blade tendon.

While such a grip ensures the sword is less likely to slip from the hands, it also raises the possibility that the weapon might get bent out of shape mid-fight.

Unless the enemy was wielding a blunt weapon, or their longsword was tasked with blocking, human martial artists did not always grip their weapons with all ten fingers.

The same was true for the Sonicon Blade.

Similarly, this did not mean that a magnetic field at 100 percent exertion had no use.

If a hero swung his sword too rapidly, then at low power, the blade might be flung from the swordsman’s grasp.

In such sword duels, Xiang Shan often chose to adjust the power of the magnetic field at any time, ensuring the output remained between 30 and 50 percent.

Yet, this power output was easily affected by the magnetism generators in the Gang Qi Weapon System.

Xiang Shan hastily withdrew his sword.

At that moment, the Banner Leader had already steadied his stance and charged forward, reaching toward his own back while lowering his body.

And behind him was one of the Sect’s Defenders of the Firearms Path who had set up a firing position on the wall.

As the Banner Leader lowered his body, he would expose Xiang Shan to the line of fire.

Xiang Shan’s movements were restricted by the longsword.

To avoid a direct hit from an Anti-Material Bullet, he too lowered his body.

In that instant, the Banner Leader saw hope.

The previously unknown Sect Defender of the Firearms Path, with a single gun, truly suppressed the formidable martial artist at that moment.

The infinite array of moves displayed by the warrior was rapidly diminishing, the “possibilities” drastically reduced and fading away.

In that split second, even the Banner Leader could predict the guy’s next move.

The Banner Leader pushed his scabbard, adjusting the angle.

Then there was a “ding” sound.

The protector of the Six Dragons Sect actually threw his exotic blade against the wall.

The blade, seeming quite flexible, bounced back quickly, sweeping towards the hilt of the sword in Xiang Shan’s hand.

This move truly caught Xiang Shan off guard.

To be strict, Martial Ancestor had heard of the “Yin-Yang Axes of Subsidiary Meridian.”

But these were meant for “street fighting against unarmed enemies or those wielding short weapons without armor.” Due to their unique design, they e_EOL

could be paired with Bagua Palm techniques, inflicting damage whether swinging or retracting the hand.

However, similar weapons were eliminated in the very first stage of cyber martial arts’ inception, namely the supercomputer simulation phase.

All cybernetically enhanced people were assumed to be martial artists clad in armor.

Short-bladed edged weapons could hardly harm such synthetically enhanced individuals.

Moreover, this type of blade wasn’t well-suited for attachment of high-frequency waves.

By necessity, they would be weaker than straight-blade weapons of the same technological level.

Xiang Shan couldn’t imagine how they might be used.

It was at that moment that the weapon revealed its true potential.

The Yin-Yang Axe had a wire attached to it.

The wire initially outlined the trajectory of the bouncing axe.

However, after the Mirror of Iron Flower, a powerful pull on the wire dramatically altered the direction of the flying Yin-Yang Axe.

The Yin-Yang Axe headed straight for the Sonicon Blade’s tip.