Slaying

Yang Bo had charged into the midst of them with gritted teeth. All twenty mechas carried ranged weapons—where could he run? If there hadn't been soldiers and Air-to-Ground Fighters outside, Yang Bo would have fled without hesitation. But if he went out now, he would probably have to obediently step out of his mecha and take the blame for everything.

After all, he was dressed as the Black Armor Knight. Only after crippling three mechas in succession did Yang Bo realize that these mechas seemed to carry no melee weapons. Of course—they were surrounded by so many Gene Evolvers. If they carried melee weapons and everyone scattered, what then? Yang Bo switched the Energy Shield on his left hand to automatic defense mode. In the instant he crippled three mechas, several others had already scrambled back up.

Why use the word "scrambled"? Because just moments ago, all twenty mechas had been sprawled on the ground like bowling pins.

Invisible High-Energy Particle Beams struck the Energy Shield on the mecha's left hand, creating ripples of multicolored light across its surface.

The entire mecha leaped into the air. With a Leaping Slash, it not only caused the ranged attacks of the other mechas to miss, but also cleaved the remaining most dangerous mecha in two with a single blow.

As for why Yang Bo was so skilled at mecha melee combat, naturally, he had practiced it in the game.

"This Plasma Blade made of Energy Metal really is powerful." Yang Bo looked at the mecha that had been split in half. The Plasma Blade in his hand, forged from Energy Metal by the Dimensional Modification Company, was incredibly strong. Yang Bo had once thought the company's advertisements were exaggerating.

A mecha's evaluation system assessed enemy mechas by danger level. After Yang Bo landed from his Leaping Slash, he could see from the cockpit that the mecha's left hand was constantly waving its Energy Shield to block shots from the High-Frequency Laser Guns.

Yang Bo's hand left an afterimage inside the cockpit. The powerful Shielding System in this place meant that everything had to be controlled manually.

Countless people watched Yang Bo split an enemy mecha in half with a Leaping Slash and felt a chill run from their heads to their lower bodies, as if they themselves had been cleaved in two. Along with it came an urgent need to piss.

Blood splattered across the wreckage of the split-open mecha.

Then everyone saw the Blade Mecha's Rocket Pack ignite. With another burst of propulsion, it lunged at another mecha in an instant.

The opponent's pitch-black mecha dodged with a flash, but the five-meter Plasma Blade instantly cut it in half.

"An expert!"

"Arc Assault. This tactical maneuver is the easiest way to confuse the enemy."

"An Ace Mecha Pilot, no doubt about it."

"Look at the marks on the ground. Curved Advance mainly relies on controlling both feet after advancing. One foot applies force to alter the mecha's movement path."

"At such close range, the difficulty of operation is immense. Dome Entertainment City has activated an extremely powerful Shielding System. Other than the livestream signal channel left by Red Earl, no one can contact anyone else. At a time like this, the Mecha Pilots inside the mechas are relying entirely on hand speed." Those who understood what they were seeing began discussing it one after another.

Of course, there were also many innocent people at the scene. When those mechas missed Yang Bo with their fire, they hit innocent bystanders instead.

"Quick, shoot it!"

"Idiots! Aim properly—you hit me!"

"I'm not familiar with this High-Frequency Laser Cannon. It's a new product."

"Fire together!"

The opposing mechas shouted loudly, creating an impression of utter chaos, as though they had no commander at all.

What Yang Bo did not know was that an Extremist Organization would never hand command authority to outsiders. Nor would the commander have imagined his own people would strike from behind. Left with no choice, these Extremist Organization members piloting the mechas could only shout their communications openly.

Besides, their group combat training was poor. They might as well have fought alone. After all, useless teammates were the best at dragging others down. Moreover, the mechas had seized newly exhibited weapons, and without training, they definitely would not handle them smoothly.

Mechas using ranged weapons in combat were like snipers in the military—they required a particular direction of Gene Evolution. Otherwise, they simply could not hit rapidly moving Enemy Mechas.

Their weapons were unfamiliar, they had no unified command, and perhaps their Gene Evolution directions were not even suited for ranged fire support. As a result, their threat to Yang Bo was greatly reduced.

Yang Bo noticed something else was wrong. The information stream was wrong.

"Why is it all Battleship Repair? Could it be that these people aren't proficient in Mecha Piloting?" Yang Bo knew that the abilities he randomly acquired were each person's strongest abilities. He had killed so many people, yet not a single one had Mecha Piloting? It sounded like a long time, but from when Yang Bo killed the Silver Armor Knight to crippling five mechas now, less than ten seconds had passed. After slaying the Black Mecha, Yang Bo did not slow down. Borrowing the instantaneous acceleration of his Flight Backpack, he performed another Leaping Slash, evading the attacks of more than a dozen other mechas. Most of them were High-Frequency Laser Cannons and Particle Guns.

The power of a High-Frequency Laser Cannon was already devastating against an individual, but it was not threatening enough against a mecha.

Furthermore, Yang Bo's mecha was made from Energy Metal used by the Dimensional Modification Company. In other words, the material itself contained energy. The energy supplied to the mecha by its modified battery could make its defenses even stronger.

Yang Bo did not count how many enemy mechas remained. Their firepower was fierce, and warning alarms rang continuously inside his cockpit while the Energy Shield on his left hand flashed repeatedly.

Leaping Slash, Charging Slash!

In the end, it turned into Yang Bo chasing more than ten mechas around. Those mechas scattered in every direction. One mecha took flight, only for Yang Bo to strike it with a Soaring Strike. It could not climb high anyway; the ceiling here was limited.

As they ran across the ground, unable to communicate with one another, they even began hitting each other and crashing into one another.

Suddenly, a huge hole appeared in the dome, and countless fragments came raining down.

"Run!" Yang Bo had been watching outside all along. The moment the dome broke open, he jolted and quickly fled.

Seeing the broken dome, quite a few Gene Evolvers turned into streaks of light and rushed toward the opening, some even carrying their families.

That chairman or whatever he was called was carried into the air by two burly men.

Yang Bo used an Impact Strike to slay another mecha, then jumped. His mecha's foot came down hard on the second mecha he had crippled. That mecha's leg had been severed, leaving it unable to control itself. It could not even open its cockpit hatch, because most of its control center had been destroyed. Its pilot could only watch in despair as the massive mecha foot descended from above.

Another mecha, whose shoulder had been severed, had been twitching continuously and could not be controlled at all. Yang Bo cut open its cockpit with a single slash.

Just then, the dome shattered again. This time, it was the Air-to-Space Fighters.

Yang Bo was near the stage basement. With a jolt, he rushed inside and quickly began taking off his clothes within the mecha.

Several people were beside Li Aido in the stage basement. Among them was an unremarkable middle-aged man with one swollen hand, staring vigilantly into the distance.

Yang Bo was not very familiar with the basement. After entering, he discovered that it was enormous. With a whistle, he grasped its general layout.

On Li Aido's side, the middle-aged man relaxed when he heard the sound of the mecha disappear.

Yang Bo looked at himself turning Stealth the moment he left the mecha, and his heart filled with delight.

Earlier, Yang Bo had taken out the mecha onstage while he was already inside the cockpit. This time, he stored the mecha back in his extradimensional space without opening the cockpit, and directly landed in Stealth. The mecha had also entered the extradimensional space. From now on, no one would see him when he took the mecha out or put it away.

As for the Black Armor Knight suit he had stripped from someone else, he had placed it inside the Mecha Cockpit and stored it together with the mecha in his extradimensional space. Yang Bo could not be sure whether the armor contained his DNA.

Following the image from his earlier Sonic Detection, Yang Bo, still in Stealth, smoothly reached the stands. By then, several Air-to-Ground Fighters were already flying above the Dome Concert. The mechas Yang Bo had not slain had been blown apart, and some unlucky audience members had been caught in the explosions.