Mecha Master: Rebirth in a New World
Chapter 9

War God Armor Battle Suit

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A Sky Wing Mercenary wore a fully enclosed Armored Combat Suit. The eye section of the helmet was shaped like Sunglasses. Its silver-gray armor was sleek and streamlined, with flowing stripes running from the body down to the thighs. A pair of Small Thrusters was mounted on its back.

Following the instructions, he entered a special virtual simulation room.

A set of simulated combat equipment lay before him. A broadcast from the room instructed the mercenary to put it on.

The environment in the room suddenly changed. Ruined buildings surrounded him, many of them riddled with bullet holes or reduced to shattered rubble by bombs.

The mercenary stood inside a dilapidated house.

He immediately took cover behind an obstruction as the Quantum Exploration System scanned the environment within fifty meters of his location.

It discovered three enemies upstairs in separate rooms. The mercenary immediately activated his stealth function and carefully infiltrated the upper floor, making no sound with each step.

The three enemies failed to notice that the mercenary had already arrived. He drew a military dagger and silently took all three of them out.

He then remained cloaked as he left the house. The Scanner on his helmet swept the area and detected three enemies in different ruined buildings.

A warning appeared in his vision: stealth would be deactivated in twenty seconds. He immediately hid inside a building, then revealed himself when the stealth function ended.

A mission prompt appeared in his vision. His objective was to eliminate the three detected enemies.

Using cover to advance, the mercenary reached a sniping position. He lay prone, set up his Sniper Rifle, and let the small computer in his helmet calculate the distance to the target location and the wind direction.

After adjusting the sniper scope, he pulled the trigger. The shot blew apart the target's head.

The remaining two targets immediately sought cover to protect themselves.

The mercenary immediately changed positions.

After sniping the second enemy, he immediately changed positions again.

However, he encountered an enemy armored vehicle along the way. Its turret aimed at him, and he immediately activated the thrusters on his back. The instant the vehicle fired, he shot into the air like a rocket.

As he descended, he used the thrusters to rise and fall several times before vanishing into the cluster of buildings.

Soon afterward, several enemy infantry squads began hunting the mercenary.

Using the ruined buildings and the thrusters on his back, he exploited high ground and his brief aerial combat capability to fire down from above, picking off the infantry squads pursuing him one after another.

He then plummeted from midair and landed atop the armored vehicle. With one punch, he smashed through the turret hatch, tossed a grenade into the vehicle, and activated his back thrusters to fly to a ruined high-rise. An explosion erupted inside the vehicle, black smoke pouring out.

Finally, the mercenary spotted the third target moving inside the high-rise. Using his elevated position, he sniped the target with a single shot.

After the mission was completed, the environment changed back to its original state.

However, there was now a tank in the room. Its cannon was a 105mm high-pressure smoothbore tank gun, and its muzzle was aimed at the mercenary.

The broadcast instructed the mercenary to activate the War God Armor Battle Suit's defensive function, Stonewall. He followed the order, and the entire suit suddenly took on a marble-like outer layer.

The tank fired. A shell struck the mercenary, kicking up thick smoke. When the smoke cleared, he was still completely unharmed. However, the previously activated Stonewall function had reached its threshold limit and could not be activated again for the time being. The War God Armor Battle Suit returned to its original appearance.

Elsewhere, Long Fei and the project team observed the mercenary testing the suit from the observation room, watching the data displayed on the computer.

"Boss, the Stonewall function has reached its threshold limit," the person in charge reported truthfully as he looked at the data.

The other two team members stared in stunned disbelief. They had not expected the defensive capability of the armor suit their boss had designed and developed to be so high once its defensive function was activated.

After all, a single round from a 105mm high-pressure smoothbore tank gun could directly penetrate the armor of a light MS.

"Mm. Continue with the space combat capability test."

The virtual simulation room changed environments again, forming a weightless space environment.

During the test, the suit's internal balancing function operated while the mercenary flew. Whenever he lost balance in flight, the balancing function automatically activated, immediately stabilizing him so he could continue flying.

They then proceeded to test combat in a space environment, followed by combat capabilities in different environments, including both on the sea and underwater.

The War God Armor Battle Suit's propulsion system could be switched for different environments. For underwater combat, for example, the thrusters on its back would be replaced by propeller thrusters suited for underwater operations.

They then tested other special weapons, such as a specially made electromagnetic rifle and a Sniper Beam rifle.

Long Fei was extremely satisfied with the test results.

However, the War God Armor Battle Suit was expensive to manufacture. A complete set cost two million, far more than an armored vehicle. At present, even the most advanced and expensive tanks only cost around one million in universal currency.

For the War God Armor Battle Suits he had developed, Long Fei currently planned to equip only designated troop types within his mercenary group.

The first reason was their high price and the considerable maintenance costs. The second was that the mercenary group did not have many personnel to begin with. Although nations possessed many military branches, mercenaries did not need so many. The infantry responsible for occupying and suppressing enemy bases could conduct land, naval, and space combat. Such infantry were collectively known in the mercenary group as Suppression Soldiers.

The Skywing Mercenary Group currently had only around five hundred Suppression Soldiers.

If every troop type in the mercenary group were equipped with War God Armor Battle Suits, the Skywing Mercenary Group would immediately go bankrupt.

Long Fei did not currently plan to sell the War God Armor Battle Suit either. He intended to wait until he developed more advanced armored combat suits before selling it.

On his way back to his office, he came across Li Xiucheng talking with the mercenary who had tested the armor suit.

The mercenary who had tested the armor suit was a red-haired young man named Markway.

"Hello, Boss." x2

"What did you think of the armor suit during the test?"

"I only have one thing to say: it was absolutely fantastic. A weapon like this can raise the survival rate of us Suppression Soldiers on the battlefield."

"Mm, that's good."

Long Fei returned to his office and continued handling his next tasks. He was considering developing a Gundam. He had once wanted to develop something like Wing Gundam Zero, 00 Gundam, or a Gundam SEED Gundam, but unfortunately, most of the necessary materials and other requirements did not exist in this world. He had to find substitutes for them.

Take the Gundanium Alloy he had developed himself, for example. Its performance was even better than the Gundanium Alloy from his previous life.

Science-fiction concepts could be imagined freely, but turning them into reality was truly difficult.

For example, this world's current technology could not produce the Solar Furnace from Gundam 00. The Phase Shift Armor from Gundam SEED also required time to research, so Long Fei could only temporarily pass on them.

Some of the technologies Long Fei had introduced truly surpassed this world's level by at least twenty years.

For now, he had to use the technologies he understood and possessed to develop Gundams and other things that could actually be manufactured.

Long Fei was also developing something called a Super Energy Reactor, a technology he had taken from another science-fiction novel.

If the Super Energy Reactor could be developed, it could provide the power needed for the Gundams he would build next.

There was originally the Minovsky-type Thermonuclear Reactor. If it could be developed, that would be even more ideal. However, current technology simply could not develop it, so the GM MS and Gundams he had produced used other technologies as power sources.

The Super Energy Reactor was merely a reluctant substitute for the Minovsky-type Thermonuclear Reactor. Although the power it generated could rival that of a Minovsky-type Thermonuclear Reactor, its endurance was unsatisfactory. If energy were expended carelessly, it might be depleted in less than ten minutes of combat.

Long Fei raised a hand and rubbed his temples, sighing inwardly, "After coming into this world, I know about all these science-fiction concepts I saw in my previous life, but for some reason, I also possess all the data and theories needed for these technologies in my head. I can put them into my computer or onto blueprints for research. The theories behind many things are feasible, but putting them into practice is not, or rather, current technology does not permit it."

A few hours later, Long Fei stretched his back and suddenly remembered the golden bank card his aunt had given him.

He checked the amount on the golden bank card. It contained a total of ten billion Hanxia currency. At the exchange rate, one Hanxia currency unit could be exchanged for 1.5 universal currency units.

"I never expected Aunt to give me so much money. Then I can continue developing more Gundam MS. Besides the RX Series, I can also develop the GP Series."

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