What, You Can Do That Too?

"If it went at full speed, its straight-line velocity could reach elite Chunin level. Its strength could even surpass that of an ordinary Jonin. Combined with the lethality of modern firearms, it was absolutely a battlefield weapon. It was just a shame about its painfully poor agility, bulky and cumbersome size, and troublesome supply and maintenance requirements."

Having fully put the Sunderland through its paces, Xu Yue had gained a much clearer assessment of this mass-produced machine.

If a green recruit were piloting it, even an elite Genin could take down a mech by seizing the right opportunity and using Explosive Tags. If they chose to ambush the pilot instead, the cost would be even lower. After all, a pilot could not remain in the cockpit forever.

But if an ace pilot like Suzaku or Kallen were driving one, its combat power would undoubtedly soar. Mechs were especially suited for coordinated and large-scale operations. Once their firepower network reached a certain level, even Jonin would be finished.

And this was only the most basic model. The technological path absolutely could not be underestimated. He might not choose to follow it, but he had to understand its characteristics.

As his thoughts wandered, the enemy on the other side of the passage had already noticed Xu Yue’s breakthrough. The Electromagnetic Cannon had finished charging.

Then it fired!

A mother shell shot out with a deafening roar, compressing the air throughout the passage into a piercing shriek.

Then the mother shell split apart.

A dense swarm of projectiles almost covered the entire passage!

Red warnings flashed wildly inside the cockpit.

There was simply nowhere to dodge beneath such a dense barrage!

"Oh, it really is fast."

The three Magatama in his eyes spun continuously as Xu Yue’s controls suddenly blurred into afterimages!

To Xu Yue, the dense projectiles looked like they were moving in slow motion, spiraling through distorted air toward him.

Yet amid that dense and chaotic barrage, there were still patterns and distributions of their own.

The MVS Sword unfolded.

The next instant, without slowing down in the slightest, Xu Yue began to move in a full-on dance.

The projectiles struck the newest model of weapon and were immediately sliced apart and melted.

The barrage that had surged forward in one continuous wave hit that ordinary Sunderland’s dancing wall of cutting blades like water crashing against a reef, only to be split apart and sent flying behind it!

The walls on both sides of the passage were left riddled with bullet holes.

"Is there a simplified human-sized version?"

Using such a next-generation weapon to cut apart shell fragments gave Xu Yue a taste of what it had felt like to be beaten down by that Jedi Knight.

He had a Nuibari and used it fairly well, but in terms of cutting power, it could not compare to this weapon.

Xu Yue then saw the mech’s damage report.

The main shaft had already triggered a yellow warning, while several other joints had suffered varying degrees of wear.

It was ultimately a machine. Even if it could be controlled, it could never possess the flexibility of a living body. After Xu Yue pushed it beyond its limits and played it into all sorts of tricks, this unit was beginning to buckle under the strain…

On the other side, the dreamlike scene displayed through the feed linked to the mech’s camera left everyone in the command room dumbfounded.

Every one of them wore the same expression: You can do that too?

Was that even human?

Cornelia’s guard unit, Cornelia herself, and that mad scientist Earl Lloyd were all outstanding pilots. The Earl also had a thorough understanding of mech units, so they naturally knew how terrifying it was to pull off such movements.

It could be said that the Sunderland had never even been designed to perform such movements!

Just as an ordinary car was not designed to be an F1 race car.

"That was an incredible operation, but the Sunderland’s main shaft should have exceeded its load limit under those exaggerated movements."

Earl Lloyd might have been poor at piloting, but when it came to a unit’s performance and limits, he was unquestionably above everyone else.

While everyone else was still immersed in that terrifying display, he had keenly spotted the crucial issue.

The Baharuth Empire’s manufactured mechs were simply built tough. Their main shafts were made to withstand long-term wear, and the setup exceeded standards to ensure stability. Otherwise, if those few moves had been performed in a Japan-developed Burai, it would have fallen apart long ago!

"What? Damn it, you actually used inferior products!"

Cornelia had still been stunned, but upon hearing that reminder, she immediately snapped out of it.

"I’m telling you, that has nothing to do with me. Besides, think about it. Did the Sunderland need to meet performance requirements like this? Could you even achieve it? And if not for the weapon I provided, he wouldn’t have blocked that wave just now."

Earl Lloyd was not intimidated by Cornelia at all and remained perfectly calm.

As soon as he said that, everyone present fell silent.

"This is bad. They’re loading again. The cooldown is so short."

At that moment, one of the guards watching the screen hurriedly issued a warning, immediately drawing everyone else’s attention and concern.

If the unit had been intact, they would no longer have worried after seeing that dreamlike operation.

But now the mech had likely exceeded its load limit and developed problems. Then there was truly no saving it!

Cornelia immediately grabbed the communications microphone again and ordered,

"I command you, as Governor of Area 11, to stop advancing immediately, retreat, and cover Lancelot."

However, Xu Yue’s Wood Clone, having gotten a new toy, clearly had no intention of listening to her. He directly cut off the internal communications.

(Cornelia: (╬▔皿▔))

Its charging speed did not decrease in the slightest.

Then another mother shell fired, bursting into countless projectiles that came screaming toward it!

Crack, crack~

Several joints on the Sunderland sparked abnormally, as though it had failed while attempting some major maneuver.

There was no more time to react. The dense barrage swallowed the Sunderland whole the next instant.

Cornelia could not help viciously pounding the armrest.

Yet strangely enough, after the barrage ended, that Sunderland, though riddled with holes, continued charging forward without losing any speed!

No one could understand how it had done it.

"Huh? What he did just now was actually pretty interesting."

The mad scientist seemed to have noticed something and chose to replay the footage in slow motion. As the dense barrage swept past, the Sunderland used every movement currently available to it and twisted as much as possible.

The MVS Sword in its hand was no longer as frenzied as before, but it still assumed a defensive posture through the simplest movements, protecting every vital point.

The areas pierced through were all armored sections. The core bearings connecting the limbs and the main cables had not been struck!

Even though the entire mech had been blasted into something resembling a skeleton, it still retained its most essential functions.

"This is truly terrifying. I should have agreed to let him test Lancelot."

Even Earl Lloyd’s ever-smiling face was now filled with bewilderment.

After the second barrage, the Sunderland was about to reach the Electromagnetic Cannon. Naturally, the four mechs carrying the cannon would not simply wait to die.

The moment the analysis footage finished, the third shell had already left the barrel. But the next instant, the MVS Sword sliced it cleanly in half!

However, it was a mother shell! Even after being cut apart, the only result was that the barrage avoided the direction of the cut. It still covered most of the mech’s body.

Boom!

The violent impact nearly tore the Sunderland in front of them apart. Other than the cockpit area protected by the MVS Sword’s cut, most of it was destroyed by the shell that had been split in two.

But during the destruction, using the final momentum of its controls, the mech completed a dazzling turn and activated its escape system.

The cockpit on its back ejected the next instant.

Because it had turned in place at the last moment, the force of the ejection struck the set-up Electromagnetic Cannon at exactly the right angle and knocked it down.

Yet because the mech had turned around, the camera at its front could only face the rear of the passage. No one in the command room knew what was happening inside.

The four Japan mechs carrying the Electromagnetic Cannon were also furious and terrified at the cockpit that had wrecked their cannon.

They surrounded it at once!

That miracle-like operation from earlier had already completely shattered their will to fight.

If the enemy were still inside the mech, even that skeleton-like wreck, they would not have had the courage to oppose him.

But what a pity!

Your mech had already been destroyed. With only the cockpit left, you were no longer a threat!

The pilots of the four mechs all wore savage grins, using them to conceal the fear they had felt earlier.

Clang~

The reinforced cockpit hatch, warped and jammed shut by the collision, was kicked open from the inside with a single blow.

The metal hatch, weighing over a ton, was sent flying more than ten meters away…

Second update complete. That was all for today…

I’ll start working hard on tomorrow’s chapters~

There’s a recommendation slot on Saturday. Even if it kills me, I have to post three updates… As for tomorrow, I don’t know yet. Let’s see if I can finish what I need to do.