As soon as everyone in the hangar heard Luo say they had to assemble four mecha in twelve hours, they thought it was pure fantasy—an impossible task. Even routine maintenance on a mecha could take anywhere from several hours to over a dozen hours, depending on its condition and available manpower.
And that was without even mentioning modification. You could not simply decide to modify a mecha and do it. The modified sections had to be designed, planned, and prepared through a whole series of preliminary steps. Even modifying a single component would take considerable time and effort.
Yet now, Luo intended to create four mecha from scratch. Even with ready-made blueprints and components, the performance of every part could only be similar, never exactly identical. Differences in manufacturing details were inevitable, and many things required precise adjustment—not to mention the countless inexplicable problems that could arise.
Dividing the several dozen people present into two groups and having each group assemble two mecha within twelve hours was, in everyone's eyes, an utterly impossible mission.
But before long, two brand-new mecha were hoisted from the backup hangar into the Third Hangar. In Luo and Renard's eyes, one was an assault firepower type, while the other was an assault melee type. Both were equipped with Energy Conversion Armor and Solar Furnaces, universal backpack interfaces, panoramic-screen cockpits, main Mecha Skeletons that required no modification whatsoever, and primary energy systems that did not even need adjustment.
The assault firepower type resembled Strike Freedom, while the assault melee type resembled Infinite Justice. They needed very few adjustments or modifications; six hours would be enough to transform them into upgraded versions of Strike Freedom and Infinite Justice.
But to the others, including Kira and Athrun, although the two new mecha had different colors, appearances, armor structures,