Chapter 86: Chapter 86: My Name—Shura!
Editor: Noodletown Translations
“The meteor crash site has an unknown mech!” The deputy leader inside the Thunder Slash Mecha heard the voice on the channel and instinctively glanced at the radar of the area behind him. It did not display anything.
As he scanned other directions, he could still identify the military mechas, each marked with a red dot.
“Hmm?” The deputy leader controlled the Thunder Slash, activated the leg thrusters, and leaped across several rooftops to a vantage point. He saw the mech ten kilometers away, but it was only visible via the optical imager!
He looked down at the radar, and there was still no mark!
The deputy leader’s face turned grim. A presence undetectable by a Warrior-class mech’s radar, who could this be?
Everyone saw the dilapidated appearance of that ghostly black mech through the battlefield surveillance monitors. This mech, which appeared out of thin air from the meteor crash site, seemed as though it had just crawled out from the wreckage of a battlefield. It had no mounted long-range firearms or traces of any mecha weapons, only gripping a sheathed long blade with the right hand. Was this mech limited to just this one weapon?
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“Who is that?” The major asked the officer.
The officer was a bit surprised, “I don’t know, there is no identification information and… the radar cannot detect it at all!”
The Star Thief aboard the Near-Earth Guard Ship stared at the mech below, astonished, “What the hell is this?”
“Huh? Radar can’t detect!”
Everyone else noticed the mech’s anomaly, but it stood on the rooftop unmoving. Neither side knew whether the mech was friend or foe.
The military observed that the mech was clearly not one of theirs, and the Star Thieves also saw that it was not theirs. Since the mech made no other movements, neither side fired at it.
The military had no time to worry, as the Star Thieves, having just lost fourteen Reapers, were now eager to wipe them out.
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Mu Fan still felt the sensation of floating on one side. He could only share all the sensations of the current body. Initially, he could move, but now he could not.
In the blood-red vision, he noticed the battle between the two sides in the distance. He wanted to alert this body to head to No.1 City Zone, but he sensed a fluctuation. The body’s target seemed to be behind that hillside, which appeared safer?
Why go there? Mu Fan did not understand, but he couldn’t take control. Helplessly, he watched as the body bent its knees and jumped. The scarlet cloak soared in the air, drawing a red line as the silhouette flashed by!
The mech moved?
Such quick actions!
The observers were stunned as they noticed the black mech slightly bent its knees before turning into a black shadow, appearing a hundred meters away on another rooftop.
The mech charged straight towards them. When the observers saw the black mech’s jumping trajectory repeatedly, they suddenly realized its target seemed to be them.
“Major, what should we do?” the officer asked.
The major grimaced, “What else can we do? Fully counterattack the Star Thieves. Do we have the strength to deal with that mech?”
“Deputy leader, what should we do?” The Star Thieves on the Near-Earth Guard Ship were also asking the Thunder Slash Mecha.
“If it comes closer, fire!” With variables arising one after another, the deputy leader also felt a bit anxious and irritated.
The black mech leaped to the foot of the mountain and then fiercely pushed off, soaring into the air.
“The mech is coming!”
“Focus fire, take it down! All of them!” The mech pilots of the Star Thieves had been ordered, deploying six Reapers. Their shoulder cannons lit up with white light and fired several cannonballs, weaving a white net of armor-piercing bombs and magnetic energy bombs towards the black mech.
In his consciousness, watching his body advance, Mu Fan suddenly felt a nerve in his brain twitch, was this hostility?
Then the bloody vision intensified, and the entire view began to change. Mu Fan felt his consciousness return to his body yet was instantly oppressed by an unknown force, becoming bewildered and lost in a semi-conscious state.
In the dream filled with danger, Mu Fan’s arm muscles swelled with power as twelve cannonballs flew towards him. Massive amounts of information were forcibly injected into his brain, and Mu Fan felt his muscles tense with strength!
In reality, the black mech’s arm muscles suddenly bulged as if real muscles lay beneath the hand armor. Swiftly, the right hand gripping the sheathed long blade transformed into a blur of light.
Mu Fan felt he could easily deflect the incoming warheads one by one. In his mind, the speed of the incoming warheads seemed incredibly slow, so he used the tip of the sheathed sword to accurately strike each warhead aside.
In reality, it appeared as if the arm of the black mech flashed and then relaxed. The red afterimage only manifested as the arm withdrew, while the twelve warheads suddenly vanished mid-air before reappearing behind the black mech, exploding violently!
What!?
The Star Thieves were completely stunned!
The military personnel were left speechless. This mech was bizarre to the extreme!
Simultaneously, a chill spread through everyone’s heart because, after the black mech landed, it did not move again but stared directly at the group of Star Thieves.
Blood-red light surged in its eyes! It adjusted its direction, bent its knees, and leaped!
In Mu Fan’s eyes, blood-red light surged as if something had angered him, and intermittent voices echoed at his ears, “… enemy… slash… kill!”
“Keep firing! Keep firing!” A Star Thief mech pilot shouted, urging to destroy the malevolent mech.
Thus, four more Reapers joined the firing, with twenty shoulder cannon shots coming from ten mechs!
Mu Fan had lost his calm, and once again voices resounded in his ears, this time icy and emotionless.
“Shu… ra… command!”
Then a familiar sequence of actions appeared in Mu Fan’s mind, compelling him to follow them, as hidden power seemed to explode instantly!
The black mech leapt into the air, raising its left arm. As its palm curled, ten blood-colored light darts emerged and were fiercely thrown. The Star Thieves only saw a black silhouette flash by before ten beams of light spread out.
“Boom!” Nearly simultaneous explosions erupted, sounding as cannonballs detonated in mid-air!
A series of “ding” sounds followed, and Star Thieves controlling the mechs looked down to find a red dot shimmering at a fresh wound on each mech.
The black mech landed lightly, stood up, eyes as red as blood, and clenched its open palm strongly!
“Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!” Ten Adventurer-level Reapers exploded simultaneously, with flames lighting up half a mountain! A single strike annihilated them all! Both the military and Star Thieves halted fire, and the battlefield plunged into an eerie silence.
The deputy leader, witnessing it all through the optical imager, suddenly exclaimed from his cockpit, “This is impossible!”
Who or what was that! What kind of mech was this!?
When the black mech landed upright, Mu Fan’s muddled mind faintly heard four words:
“… my name—Shura!”
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