Chapter 691: Chapter 228 Reuel Bible Defects
On the earthen slope outside the Upper State Prison, amidst the pitch-black darkness, a figure emerged from a hole in the ground covered in dust and dirt.
The barriers of the Upper State Prison could contain the miners, but they couldn’t trap a top fighter like Barre Shepherd.
The old man had already spent many years in the mine and knew the situation inside the tunnel better than anyone else, including the vulnerabilities of the barriers.
Then he had shown such a path to Leonard Churchill.
Locating a weak point in the barrier, Leonard had broken through and emerged above ground.
Leonard stretched his body, his joints cracking loudly.
His muscles ached so much he grimaced and couldn’t help complaining, “Man... that old man really packs a punch.”
In the past few days, in order to learn the “Overlord Fist,” he’d taken a thorough beating.
The kind of beating from an Air Skill Grandmaster wasn’t ordinary physical damage; it included the erosion of laws and the mysterious attack of fighting intent.
The pain was felt in the flesh, nerves, and consciousness alike.
This kind of injury was completely unaffected by ordinary potions.
Besides, in the old man’s words, getting beaten up was how one’s body formed muscle memory—a required course for any fighter.
Leonard himself thought it made sense, was reluctant to use the few life-saving potions he had, and just let his body hurt.
But it was worth it, after all.
Despite his grumbles, the look on his face was one of immense satisfaction.
His visit to the Upper State Prison for more than two months not only allowed him to learn the subsequent parts of the Secret Skill “Gluttony,” but his martial arts path had also genuinely undergone a qualitative change.
Inside his bag were heaps of Fighting Intent Crystals, and he’d also glimpsed some ancient secrets...
The gains had far exceeded his expectations.
With these thoughts, he took out his steam motorcycle and headed towards Lower City in Sinless City, spraying steam along the way.
...
Leonard rode his motorcycle swiftly through the streets.
The previously potholed roads had been mostly repaired and even had lane markings painted on them.
The Sinless City of thousands of years past was a top-tier megacity with main roads spanning eight lanes in both directions throughout the city.
Diverse steam cars flowed incessantly on the streets.
The once chaotic and disordered Sinless City was transforming into a well-organized supercity.
Leonard made his way to Downing Street.
This place, along with the Old Continent’s Gold-Digging Dock, remained Sinless City’s most bustling area.
Leonard parked his motorcycle at the roadside.
The crowds were as expected.
What surprised him was the quality of the mechanical equipment used by these hunters.
“This level of mechanical equipment can be mass-produced now?”
Leonard watched thoughtfully.
Mechanical arms, mechanical exoskeletons, all sorts of steam spray guns, grappling claws, one-man boilers... the hunters were equipped with technology far more advanced than what was available two months ago.
Having spent some time at Seven Brown’s Machinery Workshop, he had a good understanding of the steam machinery of this era.
That’s why he marveled.
Previously, the steam machinery that low-tier hunters could use was basically pure mechanical equipment.
Crude, fragile, and low-powered.
Enchanted machines inscribed with curses that had special effects had previously always been exclusive to noble armies.
The materials were not only costly to produce, but the technology was also strategic-level secrets, not to be disseminated among the public.
But now, almost all the mechanical equipment on the hunters in the streets were enchanting pieces with various strange high-tech novelties.
The fact that low-tier hunters could afford them indicated that this caliber of mechanical equipment had reached mass production.