The Engineering Demolition Vehicle's driver could barely see anything else.
Even after losing its balance, the sixteen-meter body retained its momentum. Its frontal impact shell first plowed through the trench, then its entire bulk toppled left. Lin Cuo instinctively hauled the control stick all the way back. The Shen Hu Mech's left-arm Rope Dart shot out, driving into the chest and abdomen that the particle beam had already burned through, while its thrusters fired sideways.
The machine forcibly dragged the body, weighing dozens of tons, less than two meters off course.
The Assault-class narrowly missed the front of the Engineering Demolition Vehicle and crashed into a shell crater. Flying dirt and stones, dark red fluid, and charred tissue struck the Shen Hu Mech's outer shield. Its absolute defense barrier flickered violently. The demolition vehicle's driver panted over the channel for a long time before finally squeezing out a thank-you in a distorted voice.
"Keep moving!" Lin Cuo was panting too. "Don't stop beside the corpse! It'll block the road!"
Only after speaking did he realize that his right hand was shaking even harder than before. Killing an Assault-class had not made his fear disappear. Instead, it had made that fear more concrete.
It really would charge at him. It really was that big.
So big that when the Shen Hu Mech looked up, the cockpit's external display could barely fit its entire upper body; so big that Lin Cuo had needed three consecutive shots, aimed precisely at the connecting section toward its rear flank, just to bring it down a few dozen meters away.
And the moment it fell, three more appeared behind the dust and smoke.
"Your Highness, advance two hundred meters to the right. Do not remain in the low ground."
Todo's voice cut into the tactical channel,