As soon as the mecha took off, Xiao Ran, as an S-class Pilot, immediately sensed its flight characteristics. Even a brief hands-on experience revealed far more about the Soul Reaver's subtle condition than leaving it parked on the ground ever could. The feedback from actual operation always gave a clearer impression than data displayed on a screen.
As it shot into the sky, the red cape behind the Red Mecha billowed in the wind. It clearly looked like nothing more than a simple piece of red cloth, yet it possessed extraordinarily powerful defensive capabilities. The combined effects of its materials and technology allowed the seemingly useless cape to defend against and deflect Beam Attacks, while also providing a certain degree of protection against physical ammunition. Compared with KF armor alone, this cape shield was even more durable.
And this was merely an external defensive measure used by the Soul Reaver. The Soul Reaver itself had reduced armor strength in pursuit of greater agility, yet even so, it surpassed KFs in every regard by an unknown margin. Even a new-generation machine like the Lancelot could not compare to it. That alone showed just how terrible this world's KFs were.
If not for the fact that the legions who had joined this world needed vast amounts of Sakura Stone to unseal their own mecha, along with the restrictions and suppression of the Main Mission, this world would have long been thrown into chaos by those legions, as though the apocalypse had arrived. Charles would never have been able to maintain his current lofty position.
Xiao Ran did not spend long testing the mecha itself. He merely moved around to familiarize himself with it and roughly tested where the Soul Reaver's limits lay. As for its weapons, there was nothing much to say.