Chapter 409: General Ren Nora vs General Sylvari Charr! [3]

General Sylvari Charr pulled the lever, and Ren Nora climbed with him as the ADE density in this battlefield rose to stratospheric levels!

The air trembled like a kid stranded in a cold blizzard. Oxygen was squeezed and strangled out of the air as Leon and all the spectators of this battlefield suddenly felt it difficult to breath.

But neither of the Generals paid attention to this, locked in the violent dance between both of them.

The battle ramped up, and then all hell broke loose.

CRKSH!

For the umpteenth time in this battlefield, reality fractured!

The shockwaves of the battle were like rolling thunderclaps as the 2 C Rank NetRunners clashed!

On both sides, neon green ADE erupted like a mighty tide!

Data Manifestation!

BZZZZ!

The moment General Sylvari ramped up the battle and took the first step to involve Data Manifestation, burning ADE like water from a tap just to go all out, General Ren Nora didn’t hesitate to do the same.

Both Generals went band for band but they were not the ones who suffered, the world suffered.

Unlike General Sylvari who materialized 2 cloned avatars of himself, each of them wielding cloned versions of the great plasma Odachi while escorted by a metallic army of the Odachi, Ren Nora took a different route.

The Freegrid General materialized 2 cloned avatars of himself too, but unlike Sylvari’s style, he materialized Energy Cannons for both of his cloned avatars.

One of them wielded a cutting-edge rapid fire Rotary Machine Gun built out of raw data, while the other wielded a Rail Cannon.

As for Ren Nora himself, he didn’t just leave his original body isolated against 3 Sylvaris. He materialized a legion of replicas of his black daggers.

Bzzzz!

Together, when he moved, the legion of black dagger replicas swarmed towards the enemy in a lethal battle formation, assaulting from weird angles even as the 2 clones supported from range!

BAM! BAM! BAM!

The battle intensity ramped up instantly.

It was safe to say that the world groaned in the wake of the extreme violence that followed as both C Rank NetRunners went all out.

Reality groaned and fractured repeatedly!

The 3 different General Sylvari Charrs moved not like individuals but like 3 different parts of a single whole organism, like different parts of a seamless and ruthless killing machine. And each one of them had harrowing power.

They were indistinguishable from the General himself in terms of power, each of them wielding the harrowing power of a bonafide C Rank NetRunner.

And together, they moved with violent menace!

WHOOSH!

When one slashed, the other stabbed, and the last circled, prowling like a predatory Tiger.

When one aimed for the head, the other aimed for the throat, while the last tried to sweep the enemy off his feet with a devastating sweeping attack.

And they were not alone.

Around them, the dozen great plasma Odachi replicas sang!

SHWING!

General Ren Nora embraced the violence of his enemy with equal violence.

For him, due to the strategy that he took with his Data Manifestation ability, it became a 3v1, him against 3 Sylvaris that were breathing down on his neck with murder in their eyes, swinging their great Odachis with murderous intention.

But for what he sacrificed and put his main body through, he dealt even more to his enemy through his 2 ranged clones.

Both neon green cloned versions of the ’Glitch’ burned through ADE, unleashing a barrage of attacks at the trio of General Sylvaris with eerie accuracy.

Ren Nora stood his ground against his enemy, and the violence that ensued was simply harrowing.

BAM! BAM! BAM!

Ren Nora became drowned in steel!

The sharp burning blades of Odachis cut towards him from a dozen different directions, and with his pair of daggers, he stood his ground, losing himself completely in the cadence of battle.

Around him, the neon green replicas of his daggers that he materialized sang a song of violence as they also clashed against the great Odachis to sing a harrowing song of steel.

At first glance, it seemed like Ren Nora was now losing.

But despite how it seemed like he was being overwhelmed, he was actually not. It was just that both Generals approached this phase of the battle with different combat strategies.

While Sylvari aimed to overwhelm him with raw power and steel in close range, with a mix of mental manipulation and assault with his Class Specialization abilities, Ren Nora sought ranged dominance.

So long he could stand his ground, sooner or later, the 2 cloned versions of himself were going to shoot through Sylvari’s defense!

It was not a matter of if, it was a matter of when.

Besides, he already adapted to fighting General Sylvari and this is why anytime he tried to assault his mind, Ren Nora began reacting one step ahead.

BZZZZT!

Ghost-in-the-Machine!

Ren Nora’s main body was like a ghostly apparition, shifting and drifting in and out of existence, clashing violently with his enemy in reality while fleeing to the psionic realm anytime Sylvari targeted his mind.

He escaped back and forth between the psionic realm and reality so fast that it didn’t look like he left, it only felt like he was blinking on and off like a lightbulb.

This quickly formed a loop in the battlefield that neither General could bypass immediately, but they didn’t mind.

They drowned and indulged in the harrowing cadence of their battle.

Around General Sylvari, glowing halos of neon green barriers surged to life repeatedly as he materialized replicas of his damaged energy shield with Energy Manifestation, only for them to be repeatedly shattered from range by the 2 Ranger Ren Noras!

The power of each shot from the clones hit with the force of a mountain.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

While Ren Nora desperately tried to survive with his main body at close range, from a distance, his 2 clones kept on bombarding Sylvari.

Sylvari struggled to defend himself reliably from the ranged attacks. Sooner or later, they were going to breach his defense.

He survived the intensity of the battle by delegating a part of his mind to focus on defense by materializing energy shields repeatedly, but this was not going to last for too long.

By now, the nature of the battle already changed.

From a simple battle between Ascended, it already turned into a conceptual clash involving clones and conceptual weapons created from raw data!

The energy being emitted from the clash between the 2 Generals was enough to power a Megacity for days!

And as they fought, drowning in the cadence of their harrowing battle, around them, the wasteland was slowly turning into a giant crater.

For each step that they took, the ground suffered.

For each clash, each movement, each swing of the great Odachis and daggers, the terrain suffered.

There were already 8 different gigantic craters in the vicinity of the battlefield, each created by them as the battle never stayed in one place, moving from one place to another at a rapid speed.

It was already morning.

And at some point, while the harrowing battle raged on, even as the Federation Megacity remained under curfew, the Federation Army mobilized.