Chapter 366: Recovering Destiny Gundam
Boom!
A violent tremor shook the cockpit of the Lightning Aegis, accompanied by the roar of an explosion. After the cockpit screens flickered with static and swayed for a moment, a new image finally appeared. Though sound could not travel through the vacuum of space, impacts to the mecha could indeed be heard inside the cockpit. And Xiao Ran heard not one sound, but two explosions in rapid succession.
The beam Energy-diverting Armor blocked the direct strike from the Dragon Fang behind him at the critical moment, but the mecha's head was struck without any obstruction and completely destroyed in an explosion. At the same time, the GN-BITs launched by the Lightning Aegis struck the Destiny Gundam without resistance, blasting its backpack apart. Eight GN Fangs stabbed directly into the unarmored areas beneath the Destiny Gundam's arms, sending out showers of flashing sparks. The massive Beam Saber went out instantly.
Yet the lingering heat inside the cockpit told Xiao Ran that the Lightning Aegis had also been hit by the Beam Saber. Two long melted scars had been left across its torso, and the Siren Array Energy Cannon on its chest had been completely destroyed.
At such close range, Xiao Ran simply did not dare use the Siren Array Energy Cannon on his chest. Energy would gather while the cannon charged, and with Cruze's abilities, he would definitely have been able to evade it. He might even have seized the opportunity during the charging process to attack the cannon's muzzle directly. At that point, Cruze would not have needed to do anything else—the Lightning Aegis's chest would have exploded on its own.
The second reason was that the two mechas were too close. Even if he hit the Destiny Gundam, it would one hundred percent