With a flash of light, Shin Dragon, which had visibly sustained heavy damage, saw its health bar shoot straight from 49% to 99%!
Dr. Saotome had used the Mental Command "Grit," whose effect was to immediately restore 50% of the piloted unit's total HP.
Using Mental Commands on your own side felt just as satisfying as it felt awful when the enemy used them.
Percentage-based healing was especially practical for units with enormous health pools.
It was like blasting the opposing Venusaur down to critical health with a Flamethrower, only for its Trainer to casually throw out a Full Restore. That health bar, red enough to nearly turn black, would instantly fill back up and return to its safe blue-green color. It dealt a devastating blow to a player's morale.
Cheng Tian was doing all right, though. He had already used Shadow Serpent Form to inspect the enemy's stats, so he had long anticipated Dr. Saotome's healing. As for everyone else... they couldn't see the health bar, so naturally they had no idea just how terrifying that 50% recovery was.
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The Insect Army had truly gone mad. With their city destroyed, they vented all their rage on Shin Dragon. Meanwhile, the Scorching Sun, the true culprit, only suffered attacks from a small number of flying insects and Insect Robots. It was having a grand old time slacking off.
Although Shin Dragon resembled a gigantic land-based hive and released large numbers of Getter G units like worker bees to fight the Soldier Ants, whose size was no less imposing, it was inevitably at a disadvantage in terms of numbers.
There were indeed many Getter G units, but they could not stop every Soldier Ant in the insect army. Those