Chapter 155 Pissed Off

The Chitauri originally thought it would take some effort to find their target.

Little did they know, Luke had been waiting for them all along.

Instead of waiting to be found, Luke, accompanied by the Four Roses, took the initiative and jumped straight out.

The main cannon crotch-mounted fired first, initiating the opening strike.

Without missing a beat, Luke ruthlessly swept out with an Asura Evil Spirit Wave!

A brilliant blade aura, more than a dozen meters wide, crossed the vacuum of space and arrived instantly!

In the blink of an eye, a long gap tore through the dense Chitauri soldier formation. Those Chitauri soldiers vanished completely from space, as if wiped away by an eraser.

A wave of chaos rippled through the Chitauri ranks.

Yet, driven by a compulsive will, all the Chitauri charged fearlessly toward Luke and the Four Roses.

Shuttles filled the sky as they swarmed around Luke and his group. A dense barrage of gunfire enveloped the mechs. It felt as though Luke and the others had been transported back to the battlefield of the Battle of New York.

The Warlord stood unmoving, dodging nothing, as an orange glow suddenly flared around its body.

Nen Guard!

Every single one of the dense Chitauri attacks was blocked by the Nen Guard. Like raindrops lashing against a pond, the barrage of bullets sent countless ripples spreading across the surface of the orange energy shield...

Dozens of weapons fired simultaneously from the Warlord, launching a counterattack!

Anaka and Olivia, piloting their respective modified Gales, gripped glowing plasma sabers and fiercely stabbed into the enemy ranks. As their nimble mech silhouettes continuously crossed paths with the enemy, patches of Chitauri were wiped out.

Roxanna and Amy Tan flanked Luke to his left and right, acting as his wingwomen while providing sustained fire support. Their mechs were also equipped with saturated firepower configurations.

Luke’s design philosophy for this mech upgrade was crystal clear: a single person's firepower had to match that of a reinforced company.

Since he and the Four Roses were limited in numbers here, they had to make up for it with sheer technology.

After a brief exchange of fire, the Chitauri had already suffered massive casualties. Luke’s single Asura Evil Spirit Wave had instantly wiped out a fifth of their forces, and within just a few short minutes, another fifth was obliterated.

Nearly half their forces were gone just like that.

A colossal behemoth appeared at the center of the battlefield. It was the Leviathan that had accompanied the squad.

Roxanna and Amy Tan concentrated their primary firepower on this Leviathan. However, they quickly realized it had little effect. The Leviathan’s defensive capability exceeded their expectations, and the weapons of these Chitauri could not pierce its defense.

"Great General, there is nothing more we can do!" Amy Tan said over the comms.

"Don't worry, leave it to me!"

With that, Luke piloted the Warlord, maintaining its Nen Guard as it flew straight toward the Leviathan, braving the dense onslaught of Chitauri fire.

Facing the Leviathan, the Warlord brought its hands together, and the Shadowless Sword materialized abruptly. Though the blade itself was invisible, it carved out astonishingly brilliant arcs of sword energy!

"Illusion Sword Dance!"

This Leviathan was no different from the ones that had invaded Earth; it was a giant beast clad in metallic armor, bearing the typical technological traits of the Chitauri: a hybrid of biology and machinery.

Though the Leviathan looked ferocious, its actual combat capability was quite limited.

At least in Luke's view, aside from its massive size, its knack for reckless charging, and its ability to transport troops, this creature had no other redeeming qualities.

A lack of flexibility was its greatest weakness.

To him, the threat level of a single Leviathan didn't even match that of a Chitauri squad.

Yet, it could provide a thousand times more raw materials. That was simply fantastic.

If he had formed the Defender and then used Illusion Sword Dance, that single move would have been enough to hack this Leviathan into tiny fragments.

The Warlord was somewhat smaller in size, so Luke aimed straight for the Leviathan's head.

A flurry of chaotic blade lights flashed brilliantly. The sword rays came and went in a flash, and suddenly the Leviathan’s head shattered into countless pieces, decomposing, floating, and scattering across the vacuum of space.

The entire Leviathan instantly lost control, its massive body gradually curling up as it drifted along by momentum.

The ensuing battle was, of course, entirely without suspense.

Ten minutes after the engagement began, the entire army sent to encircle and suppress Luke was completely wiped out...

Luke packed every piece of loot salvageable from the battlefield directly into his storage space. Even the headless Leviathan he had just killed was stuffed inside, instantly filling his storage space to the brim.

Before the news of the encirclement team's failure reached back, the Chitauri leader remained supremely confident.

They were merely a few stray Earthlings; there was no need to waste his precious time.

The Chitauri leader did not believe that such a massive encirclement force could possibly let the target escape.

Right now, what concerned him wasn't this matter, but rather how he was going to explain his failure on Earth to Thanos.

"Next time, I will destroy Earth with my own hands..."

As the Chitauri leader thought this viciously, preparing his excuses to face Thanos shortly, he received the shocking news that the entire suppression army had been wiped out.

"This is impossible! How did a mere handful of Earthlings pull this off?" the Chitauri leader roared. "Was it Earth's Avengers?"

At the mere thought of this possibility, the enraged Chitauri leader's expression twisted hideously. He wanted revenge!

He immediately issued an order to dispatch half of his forces for another encirclement, demanding that these Earthlings be captured at all costs. Yes, he wanted them alive, so he could subject them to the utmost torture!

Half of his forces—that was essentially deploying an entire mothership for the hunt. Evidently, the annihilation of the suppression army had finally jolted the Chitauri leader into alertness.

When Luke saw that the Chitauri had actually deployed a mothership just to hunt him down, his jaw dropped in astonishment for a long while before he abruptly turned tail and fled with the Four Roses.

Luke's retreat was decisive, clean, and without a trace of hesitation.

No matter how strong he and the Four Roses were, there was a limit; even ants could bite an elephant to death. He had no intention of fighting a desperate, life-or-death battle against these Chitauri here.

It was better to slip into the shadows and pop out to deliver sneak attacks whenever he felt like it. Yes, doing it that way was much more satisfying...

For the next few days, Luke spent his time constantly on the run.

The Chitauri were utterly determined to take him down this time, keeping the mothership in hot pursuit. Although they couldn't catch up to him, the tsunami-like hordes of Chitauri soldiers dispatched after him still made Luke's scalp tingle. There were just way too damn many of them...

Over twenty Leviathans—a number that already exceeded the total used in the invasion of Earth.

The Chitauri army blotted out the stars, a true "sky-covering" spectacle. There were so many of them that the sunlight was completely obscured, leaving only a dark, oppressive mass resembling a black tidal wave flying toward him.

The Chitauri were cyborgs, a trait that granted them physical capabilities far surpassing humans and made them completely tireless.

After days of continuous pursuit, an exhausted Luke and the Four Roses had flown an unknown distance, yet within their field of vision, that very same Chitauri planet still loomed large.

Even at the supersonic flight speeds of mechs, distances on a cosmic scale remained utterly insignificant.

直到五天后……

"Strange, why did they stop chasing?"

On this day, Luke suddenly noticed that the Chitauri behind him had finally ceased their pursuit. The black tide that had clung to him like a shadow was gone.

On the Chitauri mothership, the leader gave his command: "Stop chasing. Quarantine the surrounding sector. Once they enter that region, there is no way they will come out alive. The Hive-Mind will slaughter them all for me!"