Chapter 603: Chapter 378: Charge, The Terrifying Weapon! (Third Release)
(The third update is late, please go easy on me when slapping my face.)
And at that moment, the echoing voice from the sky finally ceased.
“Countdown 3, 2, 1! The first round of the competition, battle— begin!”
Before the people’s hurried breaths and the shock in their hearts could burst forth, the competition abruptly started.
The heavy Earth Battle Fortress mecha stomped down, and the two engines on its back roared into life.
The entire mecha body began to charge forward at a speed that was neither fast nor slow.
Such speed might seem laughable in combat, yet seeing its enormous size, what more could one expect from a mecha that could be called the Land Battle Tyrant?
Donald shifted his greedy gaze from the Dual Hands of the Extreme Special Soldier to the retreating figure of the Earth Battle Fortress.
“Now the Earth Battle Fortress has the strongest firepower and the toughest armor. The only thing holding it back is the engine. Loki Heavy Industry… I must acquire you!”
Until Rodrick died, his subordinates hadn’t managed to obtain any useful data about the Gravity Engine. The engine’s complexity was so advanced that the engineers from Blue Capital’s military couldn’t even figure out where to begin.
And now, the Extreme Special Soldier R had returned to its original owner.
Who could know the rage and unwillingness in Donald’s heart?
“Earth Battle Fortress, blow that opposing mecha— into shreds!”
“Received.”
A calm voice transmitted from the communicator.
Ogden, as a battle-hardened former ace military mechanical master, had seen all kinds of battles.
He had fought against enemy ace mechanical masters not once or twice.
Feeling the control over the mecha that seemed like an immense iron fortress, a sense of unprecedented confidence surged within him.
He was going to blast that mecha into pieces with the most ferocious firepower!
Once he maneuvered around these obstacles and spotted that mecha, he could launch the Flame Dense Array.
Heh heh…
People had already seen the Earth Battle Fortress moving, yet the Extreme Special Soldier’s reaction seemed to be half a beat slow.
Mu Fan made no further moves because his mecha had encountered some issues!
And these issues were beyond Mu Fan’s expectations.
Black’s voice kept echoing inside the cockpit.
“Engine experiencing peculiar reactions, Meteor 3 activated on its own, mecha operating system showing anomaly codes… Anomaly codes are harmless, still executing… Weapon compatibility system detected, compatibility: 100%!”
“Weapon name recognized successfully: Flame Rain Frost Blue.”
“Weapon’s exclusive mecha engine: Gespenst!”
“Fire-ice phase force field established, duration: permanently fixed.”
“Exclusive weapon control mode accessed, FI phase field conversion feature activated…”
“Weapon’s exclusive skill recognized successfully: Time Tide.”
“Phase force field successfully merged with gravity energy source, integration: 100%.”
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“Damn it… which freak engineer wrote code into the engine? Who can tell Lord Black why this engine also has a hidden light control chip?”
By the end, Black finally made a sound of his own, a voice filled with furious cursing.
Lord Black, who always thought he was the boss in the virtual world, suddenly discovered he had been played by the designer of this mecha or rather, by the designer of that engine!
Until now, it hadn’t discovered that hidden within the Meteor 3 engine there was yet an independent chip, a chip that had never activated before.
Who knew that when the weapon known as “Flame Rain Frost Blue” was grasped by the Extreme Special Soldier, this chip would suddenly activate, and with an extremely high level of authority, directly modified the system.
Black initially thought the mecha’s operating system contained many useless code segments but found out that after the chip activated, the majority of those useless code segments linked together to form a complete set of instructions.
And this set of instructions was designed perfectly for this weapon.
“Damn it, it seems this spear and the engine are a match made from birth.”
With a sigh from Black, he inadvertently revealed the greatest secret of the mecha.
That was that the Meteor 3 engine and Flame Rain Frost Blue were not at all products from Loki Heavy Industry’s research and development!
“Black, cut the chatter and get to the point.”
Mu Fan abruptly interrupted Black’s lament.
Black showed no displeasure but quickly explained the series of changes in the fastest speech:
“Engine code name: Gespenst, which is the ancient Guman language for ‘Undead.’ The true meaning of ‘Undead’ seems to refer not to the mecha, but to the engine itself. Loki Heavy Industry’s name is derived from the phonetic translation of this engine.”
“This weapon possesses an FI phase force field, which literally means ‘Ice and Fire Phase Force Field.’ Additionally, the force field can be autonomously controlled and transferred, and the operation mode has been perfectly embedded in the mecha control system. The power source is the Meteor 3 engine.”
“The weapon has a unique skill—’Time Tide’. I don’t even know how powerful it is, but you can try it out.”
“Understood,” Mu Fan whispered, revealing a cold and faint black aura in his eyes.
Mu Fan immediately activated Dark Breath state!
Countless data chains surged across the screen, and that information was recorded in his brain at an exaggerated speed, slowly arranging into the information Mu Fan wanted to obtain.
The Earth Battle Fortress had pushed forward 2 kilometers.
The vast valley had a diameter of 10 kilometers, and the audience had no idea where on earth the Earth Battle Fortress would stop.
However, they knew that once this mecha stopped, that would be the moment when the skies would be filled with a barrage of missiles.
Just how shocking would a volley that could blast through the entire venue be, with Flame Dense Array raining down?
But…
Why wasn’t that Extreme Special Soldier moving at all!
At that moment, they saw the black mecha slowly stand up.
With the long spear in its right hand, casually swung by his side, its spear blade touching the ground.
“Is it charging?”
“Discarding the two heavy swords that could withstand armor-piercing bombs for such a fancy long spear?”
“To be honest, watching the matches up to now, it seems I haven’t seen a mecha wield such a cool weapon.”
“That’s true, just afraid it’s all flash and no substance… Holy shit! Look at that mecha—damn it!”
The last person was originally echoing the comments of those around him, but suddenly his eyes bulged wide, his face flushed with excitement as he pointed vigorously towards the scene below.
People thought that the mecha should just charge forward holding the long spear; staying in place any longer might result in it being struck by a comprehensive attack.
However, when the spear blade of Flame Rain Frost Blue touched the ground, an invisible fluctuation began to rise from the tip and then started to spread a faint redness around it.
A patch of red abruptly appeared beneath the ground at the spear blade.
After that, the redness spread rapidly, and then the entire ground turned a glowing red.
Then…
The ground melted, and within a five-meter radius centered on the spear blade, everything turned into boiling magma!
That fierce flame-red covered the entire spear blade and started to spread bit by bit along the crystalline spear shaft, finally coming to a quiet halt before reaching the middle of the shaft.
There, a surge of Frost Blue color leaped, not only blocking the burning spread but seemingly continued to crawl upward through the diamond-like radiant spear shaft.
The Frost Blue color began to appear in the air, and just a second before, the Extreme Special Soldier’s sheer outer shell was an ordinary dim black.
But in the next second, a surge of ice blue color rose around him!
The entire mecha seemed to don a layer of icy war armor at that instant, a cold blue flame rising around it.
Beneath the leaping ice flame, the black mecha suddenly raised its head, and even the color in its eyes turned to a bewitching ice blue.
Second Tier stance activated!
The Extreme Special Soldier stomped heavily on the ground.
The two engines on its back roared to life.
A ring of white mist exploded, bursting through the sound barrier in an instant.
The ice-blue figure struck out explosively under the shocked gazes of those watching!
However, the jaws of the Observers were trembling with excitement, shaking their fingers at the scene that was about to disappear after the sonic boom.
The ring of mist instantly turned to ice crystals in the air, looking like a ring of air-condensed diamonds under the illumination.
Moments later, these ice crystals scattered on the ground.
To actually freeze a sonic boom into ice slag…
What the hell kind of weapon was this!
What the hell kind of mecha was this!
Yet before these people could close their mouths, they opened them again, no longer caring about their image, as they suddenly stood up from the special seating area.
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Don’t know about it?
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