The Battle Begins 6

At first glance, Orb's battle situation had reached an unexpectedly even balance!

In some local areas, Orb even held a clear advantage.

The overwhelming firepower brought by its powerful mobile suits, coupled with the exceptional combat abilities of the three pilots, had invisibly defused the Earth Alliance's offensive built on sheer numbers from the very start, plunging it into a stalemate and even forcing it back.

This had greatly exceeded the expectations of the Earth Alliance commanders and Lord Djibril. They had thought this would be a one-sided massacre, but Orb's fangs of retaliation proved far sharper than they had imagined.

However, Xia Ya understood the cruelty of this war. This brief "balance" was merely an illusion, a temporary pause while the Earth Forces' immense war machine made adjustments.

He knew that in an all-out war like this, neither side would reveal all its trump cards from the very beginning. As the world's largest military alliance, the Earth Alliance held countless resources. Its true killing move was undoubtedly still waiting for the right moment, gathering strength.

Secret intelligence that few normally knew flashed through Xia Ya's mind. In this world, Mr. Muruta—as one of the giants behind the Earth Alliance's military industry—would have fully supported and led research into Extendeds in the original history.

The pilots created through that research had their minds and bodies tuned to the utmost limit, becoming the coldest and most merciless killing machines on the battlefield.

Yet in this world, the Muruta Azrael Xia Ya knew, though likewise a cold and ruthless arms dealer with deep discrimination against Coordinators, seemed to have abandoned investment in Extended technology and its related research because of him.

But now, as he looked at the battlefield before him and recalled the intelligence concerning those three new mobile suits—

His