Superman Termination Manual - Chapter 117

Chapter 117 – 097: Instance No. 10 Boss Battle (Part 2)
The eight cannons on the ship adjusted their directions simultaneously, pointing their dark muzzles toward the five players on the land. They looked like a giant spider with eight eyes, staring somberly at the ground below.

At that moment, a voice that was eerily calm resounded by Ke Mingye’s ears.

“Split into two groups. Spider Man and the crafty man board the Ghost Ship’s deck; Cai Bing, keep an eye on me and the punk girl, we’ll play support,” Fan Quan said.

“Boom!”

Before he could finish, the eight cannons on the ship had already spat out intense flames.

Ke Mingye abruptly lifted his gaze, his sight piercing through the barrage of gunfire in that instant, scanning the nearby buildings.

The only high structure they could use was an abandoned Ferris wheel. If they could climb up that Ferris wheel, they should be able to get close to the Ghost Ship.

Without a moment’s hesitation, he dashed toward the Ferris wheel, fast as a fully sprinting leopard, and in just a few seconds, he was out of the barrage’s shadow.

Meanwhile, Magical Girl Hongyue infused her Magic Power into the scythe. Dark red ripples spread out from her feet, and her body slowly lifted off, her feet leaving the ground.

After all, nearly every Magic Girl can fly.

However, most Magic Girls must rely on the power of Magic Cards to fly;

As for those who possess Mutant Magic Wands, they can fly by infusing Magic Power into the Magic Wand.

Therefore, Magical Girl Hongyue could float in the air with that scythe-shaped Magic Wand.

At this moment, she followed behind Ke Mingye, hurtling in the same direction. Since the goal was to approach the Ghost Ship, following Ke Mingye couldn’t be wrong.

The barrage rained down like a storm, dense shadows casting on the ground, painting it with holes even before the cannonballs hit the earth.

Ke Mingye and the paranoid one had already left the range of the barrage. Enjoy more content from empire

But Fan Quan and Qing Meng didn’t have that speed; after all, either their physical fitness wasn’t as exceptional as Ke Mingye’s, or they couldn’t soar high like a Magic Girl.

Staying where they were would only mean waiting for death.

“Stop slacking, hacker girl, can you make yourself useful for once?”

Qing Meng, holding her Thompson submachine gun, looked up at the cannonballs about to rain down and said.

“What’s the rush?”

At that moment, Cai Bing had just finished a game of Minesweeper on her phone. She looked up from the phone, casually drawing a long sword from her baggage, and tossed it onto the ground.

The sword didn’t actually hit the ground, but instead hovered about a foot above, and in an instant, expanded several times its size.

This was her C-ranked Skill “Sword Flight,” which required a real sword to cast.

When Ke Mingye first heard of this skill, he was surprised, thinking that a hacker choosing a Wuxia skill was completely out of place and discordant. It simply didn’t fit at all, right?

Cai Bing had also said before entering the instance that there were better options available in the specialty sales page, but she thought this skill was quite nice, as she had always wanted to try what it felt like to fly on a sword when reading Wuxia novels.

“Why would a hacker like to read Wuxia novels?” Ke Mingye had asked this question back then.

“Because hackers enjoy Wuxia novels,” Cai Bing replied, lifting her gaze from the phone and giving him an exasperated look, countering, “Otherwise, what do you think I should read, brother?”

“Hacker novels? Cyberpunk? Like ’Neuromancer’?” Ke Mingye gave some examples offhand.

“Setting aside the mixed quality of those novels, the fake scenarios that make me want to throw up make my hand automatically close the app… For instance, if you specialize in history, wouldn’t you want to see some history-related novels, even if they are just mindless entertainment products?”

“Makes sense,” he admitted.

Back to the present, as the suspended sword grew larger, the swift and icy patterns on the blade became clearer, emitting flickering, cyan glows.

Fan Quan and Qing Meng stepped onto it without hesitation, while Cai Bing stood at the very front of the blade.

Then, the giant sword rose into the air, skimming over the ground, racing forward like a wild storm, narrowly avoiding the bombardment thundering down from above at the last second.

The roar of medieval cannonballs exploding sounded like rolling thunder, so oppressive it made their hearts tremble.

Qing Meng leaned forward slightly, placing her palm on the blade, while activating her newly acquired D-ranked Skill from the specialty sales page yesterday—”Plant Shooter.”

With this skill, she planted two “Pea Shooters” on Cai Bing’s sword.

The Pea Shooters were highly cartoonish, with green bodies similar to ordinary pea pods and heads that were rounder with huge openings at the mouth for launching green pea bullets.

At the same time, Qing Meng activated her D-ranked Skill “Aggressive Focus,” which would greatly increase the hit rate of all her attack methods, and the Pea Shooters would also receive the same bonus.

Streams of data flashed in their eyes as if wearing invisible lenses.

At that moment, Qing Meng tilted her head to the right, lowered the muzzle of her Thompson submachine gun, aimed at the cannonballs flying toward the flying sword, and pulled the trigger.

The Thompson submachine gun fired at full force, the blaze flickering at the barrel, as a deluge of bullets poured forth;

The two Pea Shooters were equally busy, taking in a deep breath and then opening their wide mouths, forcefully tilting their heads forward.