Counterfeit Hero

”Chase them out?!”

Sade and the others’ faces instantly turned pale. Before they could react, several cold-faced bandit soldiers had already approached them. In full view of everyone, the leading soldier rudely shoved Sade in the chest, causing him to stagger. Sade, both shocked and furious, shouted, ”How dare you...” Before he could finish his sentence, the soldier pushed him again even more rudely than before. The soldier’s cold gaze at Sade was as if he was looking at an idiot.

It wasn’t just Sade; the other three also suffered the same treatment. Not a single one of the soldiers was polite, and they roughly pushed and shoved Sade and the others out of the training room’s door.

The four of them were chased out in disgrace, their minds completely blank. Sade and Bridgeman, being sect masters, were so infuriated that their lips trembled and their limbs turned cold.

This was an utter humiliation. Everyone knew that in the civilian Mecha Fighting World, strength was always respected. Sect masters of the Mingxin Sect and Black Dragon Sect, ranked in the top ten, would still have to show some respect even to the Absolute Kill Stream. Given their strength, not to mention speaking harshly to Old Smith just now, in the past, even if they had cursed and ranted, no one would have dared to say a word!

But what they never dreamed of was that just as they were trying to assert their dominance, they were chased out by a more domineering Fatty! It was as if these four individuals, who could make Mars tremble with just a stomp, were nothing but four flies!

In the arched corridor of the Tai Sect Building, several disciples from the four sects escorting their masters to Puluo Town, were sitting or standing at the training room door, chatting and smoking. Seeing their sect masters being pushed out like beggars by a few bandit soldiers, they were stunned for a moment, then rushed forward, shouting angrily.

The commotion immediately alerted the other disciples from the four sects waiting in the hall not far away. Amidst the hurried footsteps, dozens of people ran over quickly, some shouting angrily at the bandit soldiers standing at the door, and a few, in their excitement, rolled up their sleeves and charged forward.

They didn’t know why the sect masters, whom Old Smith had just invited in courteously, were chased out, but the disciples of the four great schools, always overbearing and bullying others, could not tolerate their sect masters being so humiliated! Regardless of the reason, they had made an enemy!

But soon, the angry commotion fell into a dead silence.

The bandit soldiers took off their guns, disengaged the safety, and pointed their chillingly charged guns at the people of the four great schools, remaining expressionless and silent.

The shouting ceased, and the few disciples of the Mingxin Sect and Black Dragon Sect who had reached the steps of the training room could only stare blankly at the gun barrels pointed at their chests, foreheads, and eyes, their bodies stiffening.

They then remembered that those who had invited Sade and the others in were from the Phantom Stream, a sect that no major sect ever took seriously. But those who had chased them out with guns were the now formidable bandit army of Puluo Town! Just a glance at the cold eyes of these bandit soldiers, just a feel of their murderous intent, made everyone understand that if they dared to charge forward, these bastards would dare to shoot! Not only would they dare to shoot, but they would also mercilessly turn everyone, including the two sect masters and two Level 1 Mecha Commanders, into sieves and dispose of their bodies in a dumpster!

However, they couldn’t advance, nor could they retreat. The honor of the four great schools, not to mention the face of the two sect masters, could not be let go!

In this dilemma, the most embarrassed was the sect master of the Mingxin Sect, Sade, because it was he who had convened the other three great schools!

Since the split of the Tai Sect, with the formation of the Sect Mutual Aid Alliance by the New Tai Sect and the Phantom Stream in Puluo Town, Sade had been keeping a close eye on this seemingly fragile union. The Phantom Stream was not worth paying attention to, and the power of the New Tai Sect at the moment was even less than the Phantom Stream. Sade’s concern was on the fifty black Military Mechas that had suddenly appeared in Puluo Town and the forces behind these people!

And when a quasi-military Armored Group of the Northern Alliance, equipped with simple energy shields and mixed cannons, was completely annihilated in Puluo Town by one hundred and twenty black Mechas, the world was shocked. The situation was entirely beyond Sade’s expectations. He began to consider the specific implications of the Sect Mutual Aid Alliance for the Mingxin Sect.

Subsequently, as the Northern Alliance launched a massive offensive, the newly emerged Combat Mecha group swept through various forces, leaving the Three Major Schools in defeat and the smaller sects unable to face their might. For a time, the entire Free World was in panic. The former status and power of the various sects became nothing but bubbles, and it seemed like even their current territories would soon be lost.

As the situation for the Mingxin Sect became increasingly precarious, Sade grew more worried. When the bandit army suddenly launched a raid and swept through Silicon Valley, then swaggered back the same way, he could no longer remain calm.

He had witnessed the combat power of the bandit army, and he was certain that behind these one hundred and twenty Mechas, the Fei Alliance was hiding an even more formidable force! He could not believe that any lunatic would dare to be so arrogant with just these one hundred and twenty Mechas!

The crucial point was, this force with the Fei Alliance background, was using the banner of the Sect Mutual Aid Alliance! It was almost openly recruiting these desperate sects, offering them the terms of a new Sect Federation, a return to the traditional framework of the past.