--The battlefield advanced.
The Ashen led the charge, drawing heavy fire. Both its adamantine armor and its Electromagnetic Shield gave it the staying power to hold the front line.
"Eehahaha! You can't stop me!"
Clad in armor, with a cross-faced helmet covering his head, Pica coated his body in Armament Haki and charged toward the Ashen with an intimidating presence.
But his voice was so shrill that he sounded like a little girl deliberately pitching her voice higher, a jarring contrast to his hulking physique.
Ohm intercepted Gladius, Shura intercepted Baby 5, and Wyper intercepted Buffalo.
Reinforcements from the Imperial Guard had also arrived.
One advantage of having a full-map cheat was that teammates could quickly fill the gaps and never arrive late to a team fight.
No one was handling Pica, but the three men were not worried in the slightest.
The champion guarding the Ashen was none other than-
"Vrrrr-hiss-"
Machinery roared, and steam shrieked.
The ground burst apart amid the roar of pressurized steam, sending rocks and assorted battlefield debris flying like buckshot.
Within the thick steam, a crimson monocular lens suddenly lit up like a branding iron glowing deep inside a furnace.
--Babbage, the Mechanical King.
His steel feet crushed the wreckage of several Zaku. His mechanisms roared as gears meshed, each step sending resonant tremors through his steam pipes.
"This road is closed."
"I'll turn you into scrap!"
Pica's shrill voice was utterly incongruous, but there was nothing weak about his fist, coated in Armament Haki.
The gears across Babbage's mechanical armor meshed furiously, components throwing off sparks as they ran beyond their limits. He swung his gigantic Chainsaw Sword and met the attack head-on.
Fist and Chainsaw Sword collided, shaking the air. The adamantine teeth bit into Pica's fist in a dazzling shower of