Ink Shadow Saint Machine

Countless Fly Eye drones scanned and reconnoitered behind the United Army's four major army groups, searching for concealed Dion Army units.

The Fly Eye drones' Anti-stealth Devices had to be within fifty kilometers of a cloaked Dion Army fleet to barely detect it.

Besides fitting their warships with Stealth Devices, the Dion Army had also miniaturized the technology and developed the Ink Shadow Mass-Produced Saint Machine. It stood seventeen meters tall, with a head resembling an assassin's hood and eyes styled like Gundam eyes. Its entire body was pitch-black, and it primarily used solid projectile weapons.

To enhance Ink Shadow's stealth, they had also designed a stealth cloak that further improved its concealment, granting it exceptional visual invisibility and anti-scan stealth capabilities.

The stealth cloak had been reverse-engineered after they seized cloaks from the Cross Vanguard.

The Dion Empire had once taken down several smaller Gundams, such as the F90 and Mass Production Type F91, for research and reference.

They had wanted to miniaturize their machines and had even studied the Minovsky Super Energy Thermonuclear Reactor. However, the Dion Empire's scientists did not understand Minov Particle theory, nor could they develop specialized communications technology immune to Minov Particle interference.

Ink Shadow was the finished product developed with miniaturized Gundams as reference. Still, reducing the machine to seventeen meters was already the limit of the Dion Empire's scientists.

Although it was still not as compact as Gundams like the F91, Ink Shadow was shorter than other Mass-Produced Saint Machines.

An Ink Shadow Saint Machine, completely covered by a stealth cloak, hid behind an asteroid. It set up a long-range Sniper Rifle and aimed at a Fly Eye drone conducting scans.

After calculating the target's heading, trajectory, and speed, the pilot pressed the trigger. A solid round burst from the long-range Sniper