Faced with the suicidal ramming attack of the transforming fighter, its sprinting speed under stacked thruster boosts was utterly terrifying. With every passing instant, the Variable Fighter used the blinding sunlight to rapidly close in on its target. In the blink of an eye, it became a shadow cast over the AS, leaving its opponent nowhere to evade.
With no way to avoid it, the blue-gray AS could only swiftly raise its sword rifle before itself and slash upward at the approaching Variable Fighter. A spinning light shield even appeared before the blue-gray AS, rotating in a wide spiral along with the sword rifle it swung.
Yet Xiao Ran remained completely calm at the sight. In an instant, the Variable Fighter thrust diagonally downward, ejecting two legs blazing with bright thruster flames. They slammed against the blue-gray AS's light shield, forcibly erupting with a red glow as the fighter came to a halt before it during its rapid descent.
That brief instant of stillness seemed as long as eternity. In the blue-gray AS pilot's eyes, he had already swung his weapon. Just as the weapon, empowered by the λ-DRIVER's immense strength, was about to strike the Variable Fighter, the transformed fighter abruptly stopped, then uncontrollably slid down past his head.
In that split second, he could feel the roar above him, feel the AS's head being scorched by the blazing thruster flames, and feel that the slash he had swung would never be withdrawn again.
The Variable Fighter came to an abrupt stop, streaked past the AS's head like a phantom, then turned around. At some point, its left hand had already gripped the extended vibrating dagger, while the Laser Gatling in its right hand sprayed countless needles of light.
The dagger flew out, becoming a streak of black light