"Damn it, these bastards are insane!"
One of Kloros's personal guard mechas staggered out of the explosion, looking decidedly worse for wear.
Other players were not as extravagantly equipped as a top-tier team like the Knights of the Round Table, which fitted a mere cannon-fodder mecha with expensive but immensely powerful "Pluto"-series works of art.
Still, even an ordinary mecha reactor could explode with the force of a nuclear bomb.
This was the first time the Locke Conglomerate's mecha pilots had encountered players who normally served as harmless meat shields, only to seek out a chance to take their enemies down with them the moment things went wrong. It made their scalps prickle.
Over their long combat careers, they had certainly encountered two-mecha tactics before.
But this was their first time seeing one mecha focus on attacking while the other focused on exploding.
They could not understand it. The way these mechas moved clearly indicated that they were piloted, so why did their pilots have so little regard for their own lives?
With the players providing fearless cover, the Ghost Pirate Gang's Mecha Forces barely managed to offset their equipment disadvantage, but the cost was a rapidly rising casualty count among the Earth players.
Fortunately, this situation did not last long. The Twin Stars' pincer attack soon began to take effect, forcing the enemy to divert some of their forces to face the attackers from the other direction. This greatly eased the pressure on the Ghost Pirate Gang.
Before long, however, a new development appeared on the battlefield.
A mecha had appeared on the battlefield at some point. With its arms folded across its chest, it passed through the two fiercely fighting sides as though taking a leisurely stroll, moving far faster than it appeared to. Its destination was the