Chapter 182: Zaku’s Bolter
When Chima saw Owen take out puppets like Top Hat, Shinobi Assassin, and Warm Baby from his Spatial Expansion Bag, her expression changed slightly. As a member of the Flesh and Blood Church, she hated encountering opponents without flesh and blood bodies.
However, as a veteran assassin of the Flesh and Blood Church, it was impossible for Chima to admit defeat directly. At the very least, she could escape or negotiate, because no one wanted to offend the Flesh and Blood Church to the death. Otherwise, did you really think the Empire couldn’t deal with a mere church? It was just that the people below were unwilling to put in all their effort.
The Flesh and Blood Church didn’t dare to attack the Imperial Family, but their methods against those who worked for them were as ruthless as they could be. This led to the Empire’s continuous actions against the Flesh and Blood Church, but they never achieved significant results.
There was no other way. At most, those who failed to perform their duties would be dismissed from their posts. If they performed their duties well, their entire family might be sacrificed to the Flesh and Blood Lord. They knew which was more important.
Unfortunately, Chima’s thoughts were too beautiful. The problem was that Owen would give her a chance if he didn’t make a move. However, once he made a move, he would beat her to death first and then talk about other things.
In addition to Top Hat and Shinobi Assassin, Owen also took out a newly made puppet, a special puppet with thick external armor and a large gun.
Top Hat and Shinobi Assassin were both agile puppets. The former was an experimental puppet, while the latter was purely to satisfy Owen’s certain hobbies. Aside from these, the two puppets were more suitable for support roles rather than direct confrontation.
This new puppet was different. Although it was only a little over two meters tall, it had thick plate armor and thick limbs. It looked very resistant.
At the same time, its appearance was also very unique. It had heavy armor and a single eye. It couldn’t be said to be exactly the same as the cannon fodder mecha in Gundam, but it could only be said that it was made according to it. Even its name was Zaku.
However, Zaku was not simply a meat shield. The battle axe it was equipped with was not its main weapon. The large gun was the weapon Owen had meticulously crafted for it.
A 20mm caliber bolter. Since it was used by a puppet, there was no need to consider weight reduction. It was made entirely of sturdy and durable alloys. Therefore, its overall weight was heavier than ordinary two-handed weapons. It was the kind that could crush people to death with its weight alone. It could also be used in close combat if necessary. Ordinary weapons couldn’t really cause any damage to it.
Although the bolter had a large caliber, the bullets were not as long as imagined. They were quite thick, though. A 20mm caliber was no longer considered a weapon against humans, but the length was not even as long as a finger. It looked like a small grenade launcher.
In fact, it was not wrong to say so, because each warhead was filled with refined Black Glue Bug fluid. After alchemical treatment and crystallization, the purity was higher. As long as it was heated to a high temperature and subjected to a violent impact, it would instantly vaporize and explode, releasing astonishing destructive power.
Although the amount of Black Glue crystal filled in the warhead was not much, its explosive power was much greater than that of the same volume of nitroglycerin. Even a fully armed Teutonic Knight would have to lie down if he was hit by one while using his Battle Qi.
If Chima was caught off guard and hit by a shot, her entire body would be shattered.
Unfortunately, this veteran assassin of the Flesh and Blood Church, who looked young but was actually almost a few decades old, had an unimaginably strong intuition. Before the trigger was fully pulled, Chima had already made a dodging move.
However, the speed of the bullet was beyond her imagination. At the critical moment, Chima abruptly broke her spine laterally with the strength of her muscles, thus avoiding being directly hit.
The fired bullet grazed Chima’s ribs. Even without substantial contact, the airflow from the spinning bullet still deeply tore the flesh and blood under her ribs, even exposing her ribs.
This injury would probably cause massive blood loss for an ordinary person. However, for Chima, this injury was nothing. It healed in an instant, and even her broken lumbar spine returned to its original state with a click.
The recovery of her injuries did not make Chima happy at all, because the bullet that missed exploded the moment it touched the ground. The expanding fireball with its scorching heat made her back and buttocks feel the passionate baking. Her hair curled up and smoked, and the flying gravel made the flesh and blood on her back look like a honeycomb. However, it was not filled with bees, but gravel that still carried high temperatures.
Chima was now dripping with cold sweat. She had seen attacks more powerful than this, whether it was magic that destroyed a small town or a Battle Qi Slash that cut off a city gate tower. She had witnessed them all with her own eyes, but they had never given her such a fatal feeling.
The magic that could destroy towns could not destroy everything. The gaps in the ruins were where she could survive.
The invincible Battle Qi Slash could not destroy all of her flesh and blood. As long as her flesh and blood still existed, she was immortal.
However, she was still a flesh and blood body. Explosions and tearing would cause her flesh and blood to fly and lose her ability to resist. High temperatures and burning could restrain her regeneration. Moreover, it was fast and difficult to dodge, meaning that she could be killed by the bolter.
“What kind of weapon is this?!” All the flesh and blood on Chima’s body were twisting, and the sound of bones colliding could be heard from afar. It was unknown if she was frightened.
However, she did not receive a response. Owen usually spoke after killing or subduing the enemy. When fighting, he never spoke or approached. Therefore, Zaku directly went all out, bombarding the entire area where Chima was located with bolter rounds.
This was the result of Warm Baby’s calculations. It did not seek to kill with one blow, but only to interrupt the opponent’s movement.
“Damn it!” The idea of delaying time did not come to fruition. Chima began to flee in a panic.
At some point, Chima’s knees had become reverse joints. Her legs were like those of a monster. Her muscles were tense and bulging. Under her thin skin were clear muscle fibers. With her continuous bursts, one could clearly see the muscle fibers bulging and contracting under her skin. Every time they tensed up, they would bring tremendous power, allowing Chima to dodge at high speed like a grasshopper.
The power of the bolter rounds was immense. Even though Chima tried her best to dodge, she was still covered in wounds. Her whole body was riddled with holes from the flying gravel, and she had large areas of burns. If she were an ordinary person, she would have been a pile of rotten flesh. However, her strong recovery and regeneration ability allowed Chima to maintain high-speed movement and steadily approach Owen.
Obviously, Chima knew very well who the core here was. Only by killing or kidnapping Owen would she have a chance to survive.
“This immortality is interesting.” Facing the approaching Chima, Owen was even more surprised by the opponent’s unreasonable regeneration ability. The accumulated damage was enough to kill hundreds of people, but the opponent was still alive and kicking, and there was no sign of an upper limit.
However, it was impossible for him to be afraid. Owen first asked Charle and Shinobi to retreat, then began to control Top Hat and Shinobi Assassin to meet the enemy. As for Zaku, it needed to change the magazine and wait for the barrel to cool down.
The bolter was powerful, but its pursuit of lethality led to many shortcomings in other aspects, such as the high temperature generated by firing. Even with the best alloy, it was still a bit lacking.
Zaku also discovered some problems. This was originally Owen’s new work. Not only had it not been run-in, but it had not been further improved. The problem exposed now was that its reaction was always half a beat slow.
If it was used as a mobile turret, this problem was nothing. However, it was obviously not enough to snipe a high-speed target.
Otherwise, it wouldn’t have fired an entire magazine without hitting a single shot.
