"Boom!" A warship belonging to the Madmen exploded.
Amid the flames, a faint, translucent silhouette lingered on everyone's retinas for an instant before vanishing like a ghost.
"Boom!" Another warship fell nearby. Even the two mechas along its path were sliced in half in an instant, yet the attacker was nowhere to be seen.
"Damn it, I can't see him! I can't lock on at all!"
"Our radar's useless! Force him out with saturation fire! Mecha squadron, seal off every bit of nearby space!"
"..."
The comms channel was filled with pandemonium.
Yet their countermeasures accomplished nothing. That phantom continued to weave and dodge at leisure amid the assault of thousands of mechas, occasionally striking down a few enemy units.
The spherical propulsion devices installed at its elbows, knees, chest, back, and elsewhere erupted in momentary bursts of brilliant light, allowing the Shadow to execute unimaginable instantaneous changes of direction in the void, as though using Shave from the Six Powers.
Countless attacks flew toward the phantom, yet none could so much as graze it.
Wide-area AOE attacks lacked power and were simply shrugged off by its Crystallized Shield.
The Shadow was a Legendary Mecha with its agility pushed to the absolute limit. Combined with its powerful stealth capabilities and Crystallized Shield, it was unquestionably one of the most aggravating things to face on a battlefield.
The moment Dark Shadow discovered that contact with the Kalon Beast had been completely lost, he knew the battle was lost.
He decisively ordered the fleet to withdraw at once, while he, confident in his own formidable skills, stayed behind alone to cover their retreat, practically using himself as bait to hold up the entire pursuing fleet.
Of course, there were still things capable of threatening him... other Legendary Mechas, for instance.
"Dark Shadow,