The Absolute Dragon God's explosion left Gary with nowhere to run. The blast did not kill him on the spot—after all, he was a level-twenty powerhouse—but it left him covered in wounds and barely alive. Before his own people could rescue him, Claudia seized him in her hand first, then... crushed him into a pulp!
The Absolute Dragon God had merely opened the road of death for the Gundam battleships. Though the Gundam battleships were powerful, they were still far from invincible before the current Zerg.
While Claudia battled the Absolute Dragon God, the ordinary Gundam mecha also sped toward the Zerg battleships. Their bodies were more agile than humans', and as long as they could get close to a Zerg battleship, they would be like tigers among sheep, beginning a wholesale slaughter!
However, do not forget that the surfaces of Hive Battleships were equipped with powerful siege units, Ironclad Octopuses whose defenses were no weaker than those of Starsea Behemoths. Every Hive Battleship had at least three Ironclad Octopuses on its surface, while many more guarded the area around it. The mere eighty-odd melee Gundam battleships realized something was wrong the moment they charged in.
Their alloy greatswords and vibrating light blades should, in their eyes, have been able to cleave an Ironclad Octopus in two. Yet when the Ironclad Octopuses swung their tentacles and clashed with their weapons several times, although slash marks appeared across those tentacles, they were clearly still capable of resisting. The Gundam battleship pilots found this utterly unacceptable.
If they could not kill their opponents instantly, it meant they would be swarmed by the enemy's overwhelming numbers!
Thus, by the time they realized their strategic mistake, they were already surrounded by hundreds of Ironclad Octopuses. Gundam battleships were basically still humanoid in form. Even