On the battlefield, the flames of explosions spread like rings of light in the unusual environment, forming dreamlike halos within the fog bank, like a haze of shifting colors.
Smoke and cannon fire lay hidden beneath layers of fog, yet at that moment, they displayed a strange beauty...
Boom! Amid a flash of starlight, a Black Flag mecha exploded.
Yet in the next instant, dozens of armor-piercing rounds burst out of the smoke almost simultaneously, streaking toward the culprit like lightning!
Although Martia did his utmost to make his mecha roll and evade, his opponents were also the elite of the elite, and their firing angles were fiendishly precise.
Bang, bang, bang! Seven rounds struck home. Their penetrating force fields held against the Crystallized Shield for an instant before the rounds were shattered outright.
Yet even the powerful Crystallized Shield could not withstand the consecutive impacts. Almost at the same moment, it shattered with a crash.
More unfortunately still, stray fire from elsewhere on the battlefield happened to sweep over the unprotected mecha, striking its left shoulder and sending sparks flying.
The armor broke apart, exposing intricate circuitry amid flickering electrical sparks.
"Cover him!"
Seeing their special ally take damage, the dozen or so "wingmen" nearby swarmed forward to shield Martia. Within moments, four had been shot down by the enemy's ferocious firepower.
Martia seized the opening to activate Invisibility and slip into the fog, quietly withdrawing from the front line.
"Hah... hah..." Martia panted softly inside the cockpit.
Including the one he had just destroyed, he had shot down more than seventeen enemy mechas, but the intense fighting was beginning to leave him a little fatigued.
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