The 210 swarm drones had barely flown above the mycelial puppets when they sprayed out large numbers of bombs resembling button batteries from their undersides. The bombs fell among the puppets, instantly erupting into one dazzling burst of fire after another.
"Button bombs—the swarm drones' anti-infantry weapon," Nagano Souya said. "They work well against unarmored targets, but if the target has high defenses, their only function is to obscure the enemy's vision and hearing. There isn't much difference from the second-generation swarm drones in that regard, though the third generation seems to carry a lot more ammunition."
"But if that's the only improvement, then the Dragon City Defense Army really has no reason to buy new equipment," Candle Dragon said. "And this kind of anti-infantry weapon has very limited applications against aberrations... If it's used for riot control, though, its killing power seems excessive..."
While Sun Hang and the others discussed Bai Shi Military Industry's products, the powered armor equipped with twin thermal lances used the thrusters on its backpack to leap nearly a hundred meters in one bound, landing directly in the densest cluster of mycelial puppets!
The heavy armor crushed several mycelial puppets beneath its feet. Then flames trailing black smoke swept from side to side. Viewed from directly overhead, the fire spewed by the twin thermal lances drew a blazing yin-yang symbol in the middle of the battlefield.
"Old Jin! Fall back!" Chen Jing barked coldly. "You've pushed too far ahead! You're already separated from the main force!"
"It's fine! Don't worry, Young Master Chen!" the man called Old Jin shouted back. "With this armor on, these aberrations can't hurt me at all! Let me burn every last one of them to ashes! Then all those contribution points will count toward the Chen Family!"
Chen Jing could