Star Rank Hunter

hen, it opened its mouth and let out a powerful roar.
Everyone who heard it felt as if someone had stabbed an entire stack of needles into their eardrums.
The roar was unblockable even with the helmets of their protective suits because it wasn’t just made up of sound waves.
This was evident from the fact that all the robots within hearing range of Wheeze’s roar, which was very far, started to lag all of a sudden.
Xi Kai’s newly made robots were no exception.
However, the researcher’s robots lagged much less than the Robert Family’s robots, and the small difference was all it took to widen the gap between the two robot armies into an unbridgeable chasm.This was just the beginning, however.
After wing-slapping a couple of eyesores out of its sight, Wheeze officially began venting its anger.
In terms of speed, not even Xi Kai’s new robots were a match for it.
The gray cat might be unreliable at times, but it was hardly slow-witted when it got serious.
Since the moment it joined the battlefield, Borat’s robot army had been unable to land a solid hit on it.
The best they managed was a glancing hit.Reysen visibly shuddered when Wheeze popped out its claws and went to town on a big robot.
This particular enemy had beaten the crap out of his men, and the gray cat had clawed out half of its waist in one swipe.Inside the spaceplane, Mo Heng pointed at the gray cat rampaging across the battlefield and asked Xi Kai, “So, when do you think you can build a humanoid or beastial robot that’s a match for Cillin’s pet?”Xi Kai shot him a mirthless smile and said nothing.
The pleased look on his face also vanished completely.Comparison breeds competitiveness, and competitiveness breeds excellence.
While it was true that Xi Kai’s robots were superior to the Robert Family’s, they were nothing compared to the gray cat.
Without exaggeration, Wheeze’s performance had snapped Xi Kai out of his smugness and made him realize that he still had a long, long way to go.

It wasn’t just Wheeze either.
Czedow was another robot that he felt was completely out of reach to him.
If Wheeze was the definition of high profile, then Czedow was the example of the complete opposite.
Like a true shadow, he was someone you would notice only if you were actively looking for him.
Even so, he had done countless astonishing things when no one was looking.
He was an anomaly you could not help but be impressed with every time you really looked at him.
Right now, Czedow was battling the robot army just like anyone else, but unlike usual he stood out like a sore thumb because of several reasons.
For one, he was dressed in casual clothing when everyone else was covered in protective suit or Armor.
Two, he was fighting with his bare hands.
Three, he had no wings like Wheeze, but he was flying no slower than all of the robots around him.
And four, his attacks were neither flashy nor impressive-looking, but the trail of bodies he left in his wake could only be described as terrifying.Mo Heng was right.
When could he build a robot like this? When could he create a robot army where every robot was as strong as Czedow or Wheeze?He had a long, long, long way to go.Mo Heng scratched his gray hair and let out an awkward chuckle when he saw Xi Kai’s mood going from highly spirited to gravely solemn.
Not knowing what to say, he kept his silence and returned to watching the battle on the screen.
He was old, and as much as he hated to admit it, he could only watch a battle like this from a safe space now.
That did not mean he had departed the battlefield, however.
When he built Cary and his friends their space fighters, when he improved the Eleventh Squad’s weaponry, and when he watched these children fighting on the battlefield with his creations, he felt like he was right there with them.
His heart might be old, but his blood still boiled as easily as ever.Meanwhile, Cillin wasn’t idle either.
On one hand, he wielded a thin, long blade that carved through any metal as if they did not exist.
On the other, he wielded the PTS S, a Snake King that devoured any and every prey without mercy.
Not only did the robots shot by the PTS S crumble with little to no resistance, Aikenseth, Reysen and Blue all noticed that quite a number of robots had exploded before they even got close to him.
Heck, he wasn’t even pointing his gun at them, but they were still destroyed somehow.Aikenseth recalled the first time they had encountered Cillin and Czedow on the passenger ship.
He had no doubt that they would have died if he had given in to his suspicion and chosen to fight the duo back then.
Forget Czedow, Cillin alone could’ve sent them all to hell without a scratch, and while he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, he was sure that that strange cat was on the ship as well.Once again, he was glad that he had not made an enemy out of the Eleventh Squad.
It might be a small, unassuming force with only a few stars in it, but they had pleasantly surprised him so many times that it would be outright idiotic to continue judging the book by its over.We must continue this alliance no matter what.
That was the promise Aikenseth made to himself after this experience.Unnoticed by Aikenseth, Blue was experiencing a revelation of her own.
What caught her attention was the blade Cillin was wielding.
Most people wouldn’t be able to recognize it, but she knew because her late adopted father—a former boss in Sector V who was assassinated by his enemies—had kept a diary, and inside was a record the infamous Star Rank Hunter, Oskulos and his thin, long blade.Blue was already suspicious when Cillin had pulled out the blade, but after she saw him cutting down the robots with borderline supernatural ease—something their expensive blades could could barely achieve—she became certain that it was none other than the blade of Oskulos!

Oskulos was killed by someone.
That was the rumor that had spread throughout Sector V.
However, there had never been a definite conclusion as to who his killer was.
Some people said that it was the other Star Rank Hunters who did him in, and some said that it was the Heavenly Edict Generals who killed him.
No one had any reason to suspect otherwise because at their level, it was almost unthinkable that they could die to anyone else.But now, Blue discovered that Cillin was wielding Oskulos’ blade.
How could she not be shocked? Just who on earth is he?!Xi Kai’s robot army, the Eleventh Squad and the Free Army weren’t the only ones who were fighting against the Robert Family’s robot army.
From time to time, traps such as spike traps, pinion traps and more would appear out of nowhere and impede the robots further.
They were all controlled by White Night as a matter of course.
The planet had had many visitors in the past, but they had all been devoured without leaving a trace behind.
The traps might be far less effective against robots than they were organics, but they were still a major boon for Cillin’s side.The tide began to turn in their favor.
Inside the spaceplane, Borat looked like a demented man as he watched the ongoing battle with bloodshot eyes, fingers scratching his own head hard enough to bloody the scalp and tear out chunks of his well-groomed hair and muttering indecipherable things underneath his breath.
When a subordinate came over and tried to persuade him to escape, he slapped them hard enough to bleed out of their mouth.His subordinates did not care about the act of violence, however.
Together, they physically dragged him away from the control room and toward the escape ship.
Keeping Borat alive was their number one priority because it was a direct order from the higher-ups of the Robert Family.
If they failed their duty, they and their families would all goto the grave with him.Half an hour later, a disc-shaped spaceplane abruptly ejected itself from the main spaceplane and sped toward the sky.
Borat and his main subordinates were all inside as a matter of course.The spaceplane was clearly a special construct.
Xi Kai’s robots tried to shoot it down, but it was gone in just the blink of an eye.“Meow dammit! I can’t believe he got away!” Wheeze exclaimed in anger before grabbing an enemy robot who was unfortunate enough to be in its path at this exact moment.
As if venting its emotions, it swallowed the robot in one gulp, chewed visibly a couple of times, before spitting out the pile of scrap metal it had been turned into.Xi Kai pressed a fist to his forehead when he saw this.
How the fuck am I supposed to create a robot like this!?The mastermind had escaped, and the remaining enemies were all fodders.
So, Wheeze ditched the robots and flew straight toward the abandoned spaceplane, hoping that Borat had left behind some valuables in his haste to escape.