After the Solar Squad members arrived close behind,
they, like Graham, piloted green Courage Types in MA form, firing continuous beam attacks from the GN Beam Cannons mounted in their noses.
As they moved, they constantly shifted the angle of their fire.
Then they circled behind the 00 Gundam Quantum Type Full Saber, speeding around it in a ring formation.
Like the jets of a fountain, they continuously spread their beam attacks outward from the center.
They tore open a breach in the encirclement of small ELS drone units.
"Go carve out the future, boy. Leave this place to us!"
"Yeah, I will... Thanks."
Seeing Graham and the Solar Squad's help, Setsuna quietly expressed his gratitude.
Then he retracted the deployed GN Sword Units, drawing them close to the machine's body before charging at high speed toward the breach.
However, the numbers and strength of the ELS swarm were not so easily underestimated.
Before long, a cluster of battleship-class ELS units near the parent body separated out a massive number of small ELS drone units.
They filled the breach that had just been opened once more, blocking Setsuna's path.
Seeing this,
Graham gritted his teeth and issued an assault order to his squad.
"Everyone, activate Flame Formation and follow me as we keep the passage open. At any cost, we will carve out a path for humanity's future~!"
"Yes~, Captain!"
"Understood~, Captain!"
"For humanity's future~!"
"Everyone, I hope that after the battle ends, we can all gather again at the victory banquet!"
Looking at the Solar Squad members, who feared neither death nor danger, Graham smiled in satisfaction.
"TRANS-AM System, activate~!"
"TRANS-AM System, activate~!"
Amid the unified, forceful shouts, the fourteen green Courage Types shifted into MS form, their entire bodies erupting with crimson light.
Trailing red afterimages, they rushed to Setsuna's side at high speed.
With their backs toward the 00 Gundam Quantum Type Full Saber as the center,
each of them swung the beam attacks fired from the GN Mega Cannon in their hands as though wielding kilometer-long greatswords.
Meanwhile, Graham continued escorting Setsuna forward in the blue Pioneer in MA form.
Elsewhere on the battlefield,
the New World Federal Government military's precarious defensive line looked ready to collapse at any moment.
Not only had a large number of space cruisers been assimilated and corroded to varying degrees,
but even one of Tenshi-go's two Death Star Cannons had been assimilated and corroded by ELS fragments blasted over when an ELS unit exploded.
Fortunately, Kati made the prompt decision to dismantle the modularly assembled Death Star Cannon turret, causing the assimilated sections to self-destruct along with it.
Otherwise, the ELS army's firepower would have increased considerably.
Lyle Dylandy's Gundam Harute Final Battle Specification had also temporarily lost its ability to suppress the entire battlefield with firepower after repeatedly unleashing three consecutive red bursts.
He still had to rely on his brother's Gundam Virtue Kai 3, using high-density compressed GN Particle Cannon beams to protect him.
Facing the countless small ELS drone units across the battlefield, Lowe Guele could only sigh helplessly. He did not even need to aim as he repeatedly alternated between pressing the firing triggers for the GN Rocket Launcher and GN Cannon.
Each sweep wiped out a large swath of small ELS drone units.
Even with the TRANS-AM System activated, he could only unleash a few large-scale area attacks like the Gundam Harute Final Battle Specification.
But against the enormous ELS swarm, such losses remained insignificant.
If their machines had not, like the 00 Gundam Quantum Type Full Saber, activated plasma high-voltage defense layers over their armor surfaces,
even their machines and weapons might no longer have remained intact.
Meanwhile, the Gundam Garubraja Final Battle Specification, racing across the battlefield at high speed, had long since unfolded the faceplate on its forehead, revealing its six-eyed features.
It had activated the ultra-high-speed Maruta Mode, which could only be controlled through the trinity Brainwave of Alleluia, Hallelujah, and Marie.
Making use of the Gundam Garubraja Final Battle Specification's extraordinary speed and reaction capability, Alleluia darted ghostlike across the battlefield, attacking the ELS swarm while constantly rescuing assimilated allied forces.
Though Hallelujah verbally despised Alleluia's saintly words and actions, he still cooperated fully with his rescue efforts in practice.
Marie could only smile faintly as she listened to the two of them bicker affectionately.
Of course, there were also those who did not need their rescue, such as 2nd Lieutenant Patrick.
His extraordinary Undying Strong Luck talent had once again earned him the title of Immortal Patrick.
Just as the ELS assimilation and corrosion was about to reach his cockpit, he had intended to self-destruct in a heroic sacrifice. But another assimilated soldier nearby entered the self-destruct password, 2887, before he could.
The tremendous impact generated by that soldier's self-destruction struck the unassimilated half of his machine as well, smashing his Accelerator Doom Type cleanly in two at the waist.
Not only did it eject Patrick from the cockpit,
it also sent him tumbling onto a space cruiser that had not yet been assimilated and corroded.
His dumb luck was truly unmatched.
On Tieria's side,
because the newly added Archangel Gundams did not have plasma high-voltage defense layers on their surfaces, they had all self-destructed after being assimilated.
She could only wield a GN Particle Cannon and, together with Regene, struggle to cover each other as they drove back the ELS swarm and advanced as much as possible toward Setsuna.
So that when he communicated with the ELS, he could more quickly and effectively help her divert the enormous flood of consciousness information.