(Thanks to .psychokI. for the tip! Bonus update 2/2.)
"Daemon!!! Submit to execution!!!"
A tall, bizarre Knight Mech charged out of the Portal. It stood nearly twenty meters tall, its upper body that of a standard Lancer Knight Mech, but reinforced with extensive Adamantium Armor.
The original Lancer Knight Mech had a slender frame designed for melee combat and speed, with relatively weak defenses.
But the upper body of this modified Lancer Knight Mech was covered in densely layered Adamantium Armor, like a warrior clad in heavy plate, protected from every angle.
As for the Lancer Knight Mech's lower body, its two slender mechanical legs had been replaced with the powerful body of a Mechanical Horse!
Reference: a reader posted this picture ages ago. That was when I started thinking about how to chop Luca in half. This looked so damn cool.
That was right. This was Luca after the Iron Skull Archmagos's modifications, his humanoid mech transformed into a centaur configuration.
Previously, Luca's chassis had been cut in half, while the Quadraped Heavy Cannon Knight's upper body had been hacked apart, leaving its lower chassis intact.
The Iron Skull Archmagos had put his DIY skills to work, combining the upper body of Luca's Lancer Knight Mech with the lower body of the Heavy Cannon Quadruped Mech. After extensive integration, he had created this Centaur Knight Mech!
This overhaul had improved Luca across the board: melee combat, ranged combat, defense, and mobility.
First came mobility. Instead of running on two legs, he now ran on four horse legs.
Those four horse legs were long and thick, with eighty percent of their structure forged from adamantium. They were incredibly tough, capable of supporting a chassis nearly twenty meters tall and weighing thousands of tons, and letting it run as fast as