The fact that special conditions could upgrade Super Robot Mecha instantly gave Xiao Ran the feeling of playing a mobile card game—needing a pile of certain fragments, a particular item, and then fusing them together to upgrade.
Of course, that was merely Xiao Ran's own imagination. How could he know whether it really worked that way? After all, he was not a participant from the Super Zone, nor did he possess a true Super Robot Mecha. If he had to name one, the machines Luo had created in G World could perhaps count, but they were still classified according to Real Robot standards, and most of their weapons belonged to the Real Robot category as well, aside from those Master Asia-style skills.
Saki Maski's Camilla, on the other hand, clearly belonged to the Fantasy type. Even now, Luo had no way to make many modifications to that mecha. He could only handle its cooling and heating systems; the rest could not be altered at all.
Some things, though, Xiao Ran could have figured out even without reading the Newcomer's Manual. For example, Super Robot Mecha possessed tremendous individuality and lacked the broad versatility of Real Robot Mecha. The Newcomer's Manual also stated that if one obtained something unusable, the best option was to sell it and exchange it for something that could be used.
The book also gave a brief explanation regarding pilot ranks. A pilot's rank did not rise entirely according to proficiency, which differed somewhat from the Real Robot system. The example in the book said that even if proficiency reached its maximum and someone advanced into an Elite Pilot, that did not mean the participant truly possessed the strength of an Elite Pilot.
It depended on how well the participant could master fighting spirit. A normal pilot