The black mecha was dyed with a layer of green as it released GN Particles, but that green turned red as it flew toward the sky. The rune-like patterns across its armor, along with the exposed Mental Power Frame, shone with golden light. More than a dozen GN Dragoons sprang from the connectors and compartments on its backpack, radiating red and gold as they rapidly ascended around Darkness Sky.
As Darkness Sky came to a stop, the two large GN Dragoon shoulder shields also detached and floated at its sides. More than a dozen GN Dragoons, trailing red light like stars, began circling Darkness Sky. As Darkness Sky raised the weapon in its hand—a weapon equipped with two high-powered Beam Guns and a miniature MACROSS micro-quantum cannon—all the GN Dragoons plummeted like meteors.
Red targeting frames appeared across the screen under Xiao Ran's control, each one representing a unit from the Steel. They also represented the DC Army units that had withdrawn some distance away. Since Bian wanted to stand aside and see his strength, and since Bian had doubts about him, Xiao Ran did not mind using force to dispel those doubts and demonstrate his power.
Ever since he acquired it, Quick Lock had been the skill Xiao Ran used most often. Whether it was the Innovator bloodline or his current mecha, everything had in fact developed around this skill, which was only B-rank. From the beginning, it had given him the ability to operate GN-BITs and thus wield Floating Weapons. Even now, as an A-Class Pilot, Xiao Ran had never forgotten this skill.
Making a mecha perform multiple rapid locks seemed like a function that should have been handled by Mecha Performance and computational systems. Yet once he activated this skill, it forcibly locked onto every enemy on