Xiao Ran quickly glanced over the information on the system screen. With a pull of his right hand and a press of a button with his left, the Variable Fighter's nose immediately lifted, shooting straight into the sky. The outer armor pack that had been protecting the Variable Fighter instantly broke apart and ejected, each piece beginning to fall as the Variable Fighter rose.
All the armor, along with every Missile Pod, was abandoned. The instant the scattered armor collided with the beam fired by Guren Gishin, countless sparks burst from the external armor. Xiao Ran took the opportunity to detonate every missile inside the Missile Pods.
All the missiles exploded at once, immediately forming a massive fireball where the beam struck the external armor. It mixed with the beam fired by Guren Gishin, triggering an energy convergence reaction and a second, even larger explosion. All the external armor was blasted into fragments that flew everywhere. Even inside the Variable Fighter's cockpit, Xiao Ran heard several impacts.
With the external armor removed, the Variable Fighter's speed received another brief, slight boost before returning to normal within seconds. However, after shedding the energy burden of the external armor, its energy recovery rate increased somewhat. Losing every weapon except its main weapon also left the Variable Fighter with an extremely limited range of attacks.
Now, facing two enemy machines with clearly heavy armor and special attack capabilities, the Variable Fighter in its current state had no effective means of inflicting definite damage on them. Faced with such a predicament, Xiao Ran unconsciously frowned.
All Xiao Ran could rely on now was the Variable Fighter's speed and agility, which completely surpassed those of the enemy machines. They could not hit him, but even if Xiao Ran hit them, it would have little effect.