On the battlefield, the battle had reached a white-hot stalemate.
In the center of the battlefield, the duel between Lan Qing and Lan Jue was still raging.
Bolt after bolt of blinding lightning shot out in all directions, all wide-area attacks. The pressure was on Lan Qing, and he couldn't break away from the fight.
Lan Qing was starting to get a little surprised. While the wide-area attacks made dodging ineffective, they were weaker in terms of individual attack power. But they cost a lot of energy.
Lan Jue's Forest of Lightning had been used seven or eight times, and the Lightning Sphere Array four times. But his lightning Discipline didn't seem to stop. It was as if he had an inexhaustible supply.
As a matter of fact, another attack from the Forest of Lightning forced him to retreat and defend himself.
He was stalling for time. Did he really think that his special training class would be able to defeat his army?
But as he fought against Lan Jue, Lan Qing's eyes began to fill with surprise. He'd been looking at the battlefield from head to toe.
The A.R.C. class was stronger than he'd imagined.
He knew how strong Xiu Xiu and Mika were. Those two girls were going all out, and the An Lun army was suffering heavy losses.
But the losses were still manageable. If he could defeat Lan Jue in time, then the situation would be irreversible.
After all, he had the An Lun army!
But there were other battles that forced Lan Qing's attention.
Especially Tang Xiao's side. Be it tactics or the application of his Discipline, they were both excellent.
On the other hand, his battalion was suffering more and more losses.
Lan Qing had been wondering how Lan Jue was able to launch attacks from five different directions when he couldn't use his radar to detect the enemy's movements.
He'd cut off the snake's tail.
If it hadn't been for their tactical success.
Even if they had the advantage in terms of individual strength.
They wouldn't have been able to fight like this.
It could be said that in terms of tactics and military control, he had actually lost to his younger brother this time. This was something that Lan Qing had never expected.
The battle raged on, and more and more of the An Lun army's mecha retreated. In close combat, the students of the A.R.C. class were much stronger.
Especially after gradually adapting to the rhythm of the battlefield, these students were at least first-rank mecha pilots.
He was able to display a rather powerful combat strength.
The combination of mecha and Discipline was a huge problem for the An Lun army.
Lan Qing slightly frowned and green light blossomed from his body. At the same time, a faint layer of golden light burst forth from his body. This was the power of Hannya.
This couldn't go on.
They were at a disadvantage. Mika and Xiu Xiu were too strong for their own good. With their combined strength, they'd dealt with the rest of the An Lun mechas. They were already closing in on Tang Mi.
With them around, the situation over there wouldn't be any better.
In other aspects.
There wasn't much of a difference.
He had to end his fight with Lan Jue as soon as possible. Then he had to gather up the rest of his troops. That was the only way to turn defeat into victory.
Lan Qing's Discipline and Hannya's power poured into his mecha. The protective barrier around his mecha began to turn a greenish-gold color, and a gentle aura of light repelled the incoming lightning bolts. Lan Qing's mecha sped up, becoming a greenish-gold hurricane that swept toward Lan Jue's mecha.
Right at this moment, a strange light suddenly descended from the sky.
It was strange. It looked like a mixture of black and white, but the colors weren't even.
Lan Qing's eyes flashed, and a green light burst forth from him. It transformed into a small tornado. As soon as it left his body, it bloomed and expanded, its core flickering with golden light.
As soon as the tornado appeared, the blue lightning around it was obliterated. It was a testament to its power.
However, a strange scene appeared. After the black and white light came into contact with the small tornado, it quickly penetrated through it.
It landed directly on Lan Qing's mecha.
Lan Qing was stunned. How could this happen?
Immediately afterward, he realized that he couldn't control his mecha. The mecha that was rushing forward suddenly lost control.
That black and white light was a data stream?
Lan Qing was shocked.
With his intelligence, there was nothing he could do at this time.
Lan Jue's voice came through the communicator. "Hehe, brother, I forgot to tell you. We don't have 56 people, but 57."
A cloud of smoke rose from the tactical bag behind Lan Qing, and the surrounding lightning also disappeared.
Lan Jue's mecha flashed and appeared in front of Lan Qing.
In the distance, another mecha that was doing the same maneuver quietly approached. That action looked as wretched as it could get.
The surprise in Lan Qing's eyes faded. His brows furrowed as he thought back to what had just happened.
"So you're saying you calculated the timing of your attack?
You have someone on your side who's good at calculation? "It wasn't long before he figured out what had just happened.
Lan Jue's response was frank. "Yes. Allow me to introduce you.
This is the Accountant, from Skyfire Avenue. "He didn't mention that the Keeper was the grandson of the Keeper. This was a sign of respect for the Accountant.
No one wanted to be shrouded in a halo of glory.
"Hello, War God.
Hehe, I had no other choice.
If you're upset, you can take revenge on the Jewelry Master.
He's the one who made me do it. "The Accountant chortled.
From the very beginning, Lan Jue had never imagined that she and her A.R.C. students could defeat Lan Qing's Iron Army.
It wasn't just because the Iron Army was strong. More importantly, it was because Lan Qing was too strong.
When it came to her brother, no one knew him better than Lan Jue.
The An Lun Supersoldier, the God of Wisdom, Prometheus, was far stronger than the rumors made him out to be.
However, even under such circumstances, he still had flaws.
And that flaw was the mecha!
If today's battle had been a one-sided affair, with Lan Qing piloting his God-ranked mecha, Prometheus, then Lan Jue and the others wouldn't have stood a chance.
But the mecha was different. The quality of the mecha meant that there were certain things that Disciplines and martial arts couldn't influence. Things like the mecha's mechanical structure and AI.
The Accountant had improved a great deal in his training, not because of the training, but because of the assimilation.
When Lan Jue had accompanied him to Cerulean, the Accountant had suffered at the hands of the Bookworm. But at the same time, he had learned a great deal.
The Bookworm had once told the Keeper that the Accountant was the best candidate to inherit their abilities.
The Accountant's Discipline wasn't particularly strong.
But how strong could the Keeper and Bookworm's Disciplines have been?
They had become Paragons not because of their talent, but because of their understanding of science and technology. In other words, it was because they understood the world to a certain degree.
Therefore, their cultivation method was naturally extremely strange, and almost no one could imitate it.
But the Accountant's Discipline, and the Accountant's talent, was enough to inherit it all.
Compared to the Keeper and Bookworm, the Accountant was a lot more lazy.
But he had stood on the shoulders of giants, and had been taught by two Paragons. Even if he was a pig, he was a pig that knew how to count!
What's more, the Accountant's Discipline wasn't weak either. He'd studied with the Keeper since he was a child, and had a natural talent for many things.
Since arriving on An Lun, the Accountant hadn't bothered to join the others in their training. Instead, he'd hunkered down in his dormitory. When he had nothing better to do, the Keeper and the Bookworm had been feeding him the latest information. The new knowledge he'd learned, and with the help of the Bookworm's antidote, the Accountant had broken through in less than a month's time.
His Arcana cultivation had risen from Level 7 to Level 8.
Lan Qing's judgment was correct. The black and white light he'd seen was a stream of data.
The mecha's AI wasn't bad, but compared to the Accountant's knowledge it was weak.
Prometheus was a different story. Prometheus's AI wasn't bad, but it had a dozen layers of anti-jamming software. The Accountant wouldn't be able to penetrate them in a short time.
Unfortunately, all of this was built on Prometheus's foundation.
Of course, if Lan Qing was alerted by the Accountant's stream of data, then it would be much more difficult to pull off the attack.
But after the previous battle, Lan Qing had been careless under Lan Jue's relentless assault.
After all, in his eyes, his younger brother's strength had increased and was starting to pose a threat to him.
Lan Jue's timing of the Accountant's attack was perfect. Lan Qing was ready to go all out against the Accountant, using his Discipline and Prajna as an entry point.
This was when Lan Qing was at his strongest, and also when he was the most confident.
The Accountant's attack wasn't aimed at that, but at the mecha.
Lan Qing's confidence was high, and he didn't choose to dodge. He chose to defend.
His defense wasn't weak, but the Accountant and Lan Qing weren't on the same level. That was why he lost control of the mecha.
When the smoke rose from the bag, it was the end of the day.
Lan Qing didn't get angry because of this, nor did he blame himself.
This was the first time he'd encountered such a situation, and for him it was a good experience.
At the very least, the same trick wouldn't work on him a second time.
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