Because Xiao Ran had released three unmanned fighters midway, he had been delayed by several minutes on his way to the Ptolemaios. Those few minutes might have meant nothing under normal circumstances, but given the Ptolemaios's current situation, they were enough to pose a considerable threat to the poorly armed ship.
Fortunately, Xiao Ran had warned Miss Huang beforehand that the target of this Tri-Nation operation was the Gundams. As such, she had not made any plans to have the Gundams draw the enemy away or fight independently. Instead, they stayed close to the Ptolemaios, fighting as they retreated in one direction.
But the Ptolemaios's situation was truly dire. The Tri-Nation Allied Forces had nearly two hundred MS units, packed together so densely that everyone aboard the Ptolemaios felt their scalps tingle. At least fifty of those pilots were elite-level pilots from the three major nations, not even counting the more than fifteen Participants mixed among them.
Most of those Participants were using C-class mecha. Whether in terms of Mecha Performance or Piloting Skill, they were absolutely no weaker than the three Gundams deployed by Celestial Being. From the moment the two sides made contact, the Ptolemaios had been battered by concentrated attacks. If not for the GN Particle Shield, supported by the charging output of two Solar Furnaces, it would have been blasted to pieces by that barrage long ago.
Other than firing at them, the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces steadily compressed the Ptolemaios and the three Gundams' operating space. They did not care whether their attacks hit. The Ptolemaios was a large target anyway, so firing in that direction was enough. More importantly, they focused on responding to every attack from the Gundams and protecting their own lives.
As for the Gundams, the Participants in their various machines