"Boom boom boom boom!"
Across the battlefield, scarlet laser beams and shrieking missiles flew in every direction. Colliding energies splashed outward, kicking up dust, collapsing chunks of ground, and leaving craters of every size behind.
Though there was an obvious disparity in size and firepower between the two sides, even the Titan mech piloted by Samael was little more than a kid brother before the nearly twenty-meter-tall Destiny Gundam.
However, the Imperial Titan equipped with an Evolution Core, together with the King of Knights bolstered by both Kamen Rider and Jedi buffs, was no ordinary opponent. They still had the strength to fight.
Before the flickering control console, Samael's hands twisted and moved in a blur. Relying on extraordinary neural perception, he controlled the Imperial Titan beneath him as easily as an arm, making it vault, roll, dodge, and charge through the dense barrage of beams and missiles.
"Energy pack! Core engine! Wings of Light! Cockpit!"
Once they closed the distance, the ancient serpent raised his energy shield and solemnly called out a string of components.
"Buzz!"
Keeping pace with Samael, Artoria, who had been hiding behind the Imperial Titan, received the order. Amid the trembling hum of the air, she burst unexpectedly from the shadows. With her smaller frame and overwhelming mobility, she clung close to the Destiny Gundam's steel body, racing upward in search of the giant's weaknesses and vital points.
Yet, facing this one-large, one-small pincer attack from above and below, the Destiny Gundam responded with dazzling maneuvers—backflips, Thomas flares, and all manner of eye-watering evasive movements.
Though constrained by its massive size and the delay of mechanical operation, the Destiny Gundam's speed and reactions were not outrageously fast. In Samael and Artoria's eyes, it even carried a strange sense of sluggishness.
But whether it raised an