Seigya likewise encountered an opponent designed to counter it: the Dion Empire's Mobile Armor, Fenrir. It possessed both beast and humanoid forms. In beast form, it resembled a wolf, measuring 40 meters long and 30 meters at the shoulder. In humanoid form, it stood 45 meters tall.
Fenrir carried a 30-meter-long rocket launcher, the Super Impulse Cannon, which fired spiral triangular Spike Bullets.
The triangular Spike Bullet fired from a single shot spun in a high-speed spiral, effortlessly piercing through Seigya's layers of protective barriers and boring straight through its body.
Moreover, when Fenrir transformed into its beast form and pounced on other Mobile Armors, its claws could effortlessly rip apart their armor. Even anti-transfer armor was torn open like paper.
Apollo MS found it immensely difficult not only to deal with Mass-Produced Saint Machines, but even to fight the automated MS Scorpion Tigers and Wing Birds.
Wing Birds stood 20 meters tall, with thrusters beneath the rear waist-skirt armor and on their legs. They also had a pair of wing-shaped thrusters on their backs. Like Scorpion Tigers, they could be controlled by AI in combat, carried powerful weaponry, and could transform. Their transformed form was a bird form, capable of extremely high speed and maneuverability in both space and the atmosphere.
In terms of performance, Apollo MS was not inferior to those two AI-controlled MS. Strictly speaking, it was even slightly superior to both, but Apollo units were being suppressed by sheer numbers.
A single Apollo might have to face three or four Scorpion Tigers and Wing Birds. Apollo MS was being overwhelmed by superior numbers.
Even when Apollo MS activated Efficiency Boost Mode, Scorpion Tigers and Wing Birds possessed the same mode, and its effects were even better than Apollo MS's.
Instead, under Efficiency Boost Mode, Apollo MS