(This is the second chapter. Please vote! Yi Zui is still a person of integrity; any missed updates will be made up for, haha.)
"So you really did take me for an enemy." Xiao Ran raised an eyebrow and began his counterattack.
The shield on Black Astray's left shoulder spun around to block the front. Its right arm drew the Beam Rifle from the weapon mount at its waist. A green beam streaked across the dark sky, flying toward the incoming missile swarm.
Watching the green beam pass through the missiles' trajectories, Xiao Ran's lips curled slightly. But before he could celebrate, he saw that hitting the missile had merely shattered it and produced a small spark—there was no explosion at all. His face fell, and he gave a bitter laugh. "Damn it, Training Rounds!"
Training Rounds were Training Rounds. Unlike normal ammunition, they were not packed full of explosives. Aside from the propulsion system, everything else was just an empty shell. Even if struck by a beam weapon, they would not explode. Xiao Ran had thought that hitting one missile would cause the force of its explosion to affect the others, allowing him to deal with all eight missiles in a single attack.
But Xiao Ran had failed to realize that. By the time he reacted, it was already too late to evade the remaining missiles. He could only raise his shield and desperately maneuver the machine into a sideways evasive move.
Just as Black Astray shifted several meters to the side, the Training Rounds plunged into the ground around it one after another. If they had been real missiles, Black Astray would already have been engulfed by the blast zone and might have suffered considerable damage.
Just as Xiao Ran thought Archangel's attack was over and was about