Post-Battle Reckoning

Some died as lightly as a feather, some died as heavily as Mount Tai, and some were sat to death by a Titan, dying with a thunderous crunch.

Li Qinwu had let his glutes take control of his brain and pulled that stunt, which brought him some very serious consequences.

The first consequence was that the Titan immediately electrocuted him to death, starting a six-hour resurrection countdown.

And before Li Qinwu's consciousness faded, he sensed the Titan cursing his old man and swearing that even if it rusted away and rotted into scrap iron in a warehouse, it would never let Li Qinwu into its cockpit again.

As for the second consequence...

A Tech-Priest at the scene scratched his head. Looking at the Reaver Titan sitting on the ground with its legs spread apart, he asked a Sage beside him:

"Lord Sage, isn't it somewhat improper for the Titan to sit on the ground like that?"

The Sage gave him a round of applause.

"Wow, you really are a genius. So, genius, why don't you go help it up?"

The Tech-Priest shrank back and said nothing more, but the question took root in the minds of the thousands of Tech-Priests present. How were they supposed to help the Titan back up?

That steel creation weighing thousands of tons sat there. Unless it got up by itself, or there was another Titan roughly its size, who could possibly move such a massive thing?

And so, the Titan remained seated on the ground for over ten years.

It was not until more than a decade later, when the Titan Legion's Titan Fleet arrived at Industrial World 496A to retrieve the Reaver Titan.

When the Legion commander saw that the Reaver Titan had been sitting on the ground for ten years, he nearly