As the phantom image of the Silver Pocket Watch enveloped the entire world, time stopped flowing throughout the entire mecha warfare dungeon.
Even Lightning Angel, who had been unleashing a furious barrage in an attempt to snap Unit-03 in half at the waist, was affected.
Its core was releasing an ultra-high-temperature reaction, making it the most dangerous state it could be in, but that also meant its core was exposed—its most vulnerable point.
In fact, even without Unit-03 neutralizing Phase Space, Cheng Tian's Time Stop would have been the nemesis of Lightning Angel and the other bosses in every sense.
Although Lightning Angel's AT Field provided a massive 5,000-point damage reduction and calculated each hit separately, Cheng Tian's Time Stop caused all attack damage inflicted on a target during the stopped time to erupt in a single frame, stacking the instantaneous damage cap.
Cheng Tian's high-damage, slow-attack-speed skills for stationary target practice had no possibility of missing during Time Stop. At the same time, the External Incarnation and Great Sage's Root he had inherited from the Great Sage could further stack that damage.
Combined with the authority to use all subordinate mechas' Mecha Armaments granted by Heaven and Earth Throw, Cheng Tian was confident he could recreate the iconic scene from Super Robot Wars V where Lightning Angel got ganged up on, all by himself.
Yet at the very instant Time Stop's Countdown began, Cheng Tian instinctively sensed that something was wrong!
The first issue was his mana consumption. Under Sakuya Izayoi's "blessing," the cost of Time Stop had originally been reduced to 200 MP per second, yet it had suddenly soared to 600 MP per second!
With Cheng Tian's Spirit Attribute having reached 185 points during the day, his maximum mana pool was 11,100 MP. At the original consumption