With Graham, Basak, and the others joining in, along with the Drone Unit dispatched by the Burning Legion to protect the battleships and assist the pilots who had not yet fully matured, the Burning Legion had effectively joined the battle, both directly and indirectly.
The Drone Unit Mwu deployed was not just a handful or a dozen machines, but a full hundred—twenty mixed drone formations. There were Variable Fighter-type drones and Zovok diamond-type drones, all B-class Mecha manufactured using the Burning Legion's current technology.
They did not possess Super AI like the Brave Express machines, but their pure combat capabilities were exceptionally strong. As War Weapons, they were more than qualified. In the OG World, without Xiao Ran, drones like these alone had suppressed most of the Federation's fighting strength along the normal course of events. These were drones produced using Burning Legion technology, no less.
With these hundred drones joining the operation, even without directly entering combat, their protection of the battleships and mecha had already established a forbidden zone. As long as an enemy target fired upon something under drone protection or entered threatening range, it would absolutely be met by the drones' concentrated fire.
Though they had not proactively entered the battlefield to attack the enemy, their impact on the situation was just as immense. The only difference was that proactive attacks would have caused greater enemy losses, while these passive attacks now protected the battleships and certain mecha as they steadily advanced.
Though they were only drones, a hundred units nevertheless narrowed the numerical gap between both sides to some extent. They were all B-class Mecha as well. Against the Mars Successors' machines, which Xiao Ran considered utterly insignificant, one-on-one was effortless, and one-on-two was no problem. Once they formed up into combat formations, Xiao Ran