Odaiba.
The first time Cheng Tian heard this particular term, it had to date back to "Odaiba Elementary School" in the first Digimon series. It was only much later, after he had grown up, that he learned the spherical thing perched atop Fuji TV was actually real.
He had come here partly as a pilgrimage, and partly for the life-sized Unicorn Gundam displayed here.
As mentioned before, Cheng Tian wanted to replace the life-sized Gundam models in his current world with the genuine articles. The Freedom in Shanghai counted as one, and the Unicorn before him was another.
Unfortunately, he had yet to see either of them for sale on the Player market.
Of course, Cheng Tian understood that these bipedal Combat Vehicles, standing sixteen to twenty meters tall at the slightest, were nowhere near as practical as they seemed. Without an infinite-power trait like the one from Armor Hero, they might gain an overwhelming advantage for a short time and crush Player units that had already cleared more than a dozen Main Dungeons head-on. But once they ran out of power and ammunition, they were no different from iron coffins.
Even if Players brought spare batteries and extra ammunition magazines beforehand, it was difficult to give such vehicles any real long-term combat endurance.
To bring out the proper strength of this kind of vehicle, a suitably matched combat mothership was essential.
One might be able to grit their teeth, work hard, and perhaps dream of acquiring the mecha itself, but a relatively complete combat mothership that could provide logistical resupply for the mecha and accommodate enough employees...
Just look at Cheng Tian's Scorching Sun to understand how difficult one was to obtain.
That was acquired only after, in the final decisive battle of Metal Slug 3, he had surpassed