Wow! The item-dropping rate is really high!

The mech pilot from the Mechanical Court has arrived!

Seeing that streak of light, piercing through the gate and gazing up at the giant, every member of the security team felt a surge of exhilaration.

This was, after all, the strongest combat force in the city. With their timely arrival, surely the situation wouldn't deteriorate any further, right?

Although General Bai E had also arrived on the scene and was indeed formidable, he hadn't brought his exclusive vehicle, had he?

Without his mecha, General Bai E was just not as reliable as the top-notch mechas.

"Whoosh~"

The streak of light rapidly closed in, and several trails with tail flames shot forward even faster than the mecha's flying speed, aiming directly at the giant's face.

However, no matter how fast these were, they couldn't surpass the giant's reaction speed. As the small missiles approached within a certain distance, the giant manipulated its numerous individual weapons to fire instantly.

Even though the missiles followed nonlinear trajectories as they raced towards their target, they couldn't evade the barrage of fire that filled the sky.

In fact, very little of that intercepting fire went astray.

Countless individual thermal weapons intercepted the stray shots in advance, causing a series of explosions to erupt at a certain distance from the giant.

The flames illuminated half of the sky.

The targeting capabilities of these numerous weapons, controlled by a biologic central processing unit, were no worse than the current military's anti-missile systems—perhaps even surpassing them.

If it weren't for the limited output level of these individual thermal weapons, the giant wouldn't have needed to let the missiles get so close, nor would it need to control so many weapons to fire simultaneously.

Seeing the missiles intercepted, the mechs from the Mechanical Court didn't insist on continuing the long-range bombardment.

The amount of ammunition, including its yield, that a flying-type mecha could carry was limited; long-range bombardment wasn't its strength.

Agile close combat and versatile tactics were its true advantages.

A dark purple blade flickered in and out of visibility in the night; the mecha, holding the blade, sped towards the giant.

But the giant, which wasn't actually slow in its movements, easily avoided the mecha's slashing strike, and one of its arms even swept past the edge of the mecha's body.

Predicting the mecha's movement path was much simpler than predicting the trajectories of those stray shots and intercepting them accurately.

If the mech pilot controlling the mecha hadn't reacted in time, they would likely have been hit by the giant's palm.

But even though they dodged the strike, the threat to the mecha was far from over.

"Da da da da da!"

The giant's arm, which could be described as an amalgamation of numerous individual thermal weapons, didn't stop it from opening fire the next moment just because it missed a strike.

Facing fast-moving, irregular missiles that could be precisely intercepted, locking onto the larger, slower-moving mecha was even easier for the giant.

"Ding ding ding ding ding!"

A series of bullets colliding with alloy resonated continuously, with every shot from the individual thermal weapons striking against the mecha's surface.

The mech pilot controlling the mecha had an icy look in their eyes.

It didn't matter.

This big thing was using merely individual-level firearms. The surface barrage seemed dense and intense, but in reality, it was more bark than bite.

The attack wasn't powerful enough; no matter how many, they were just scratching the mecha.

Even the toughest octium alloy had a concept of metal fatigue, but individual-level weapons couldn't achieve that standard in a short time, no matter how many there were.

Water can carve stone, but it requires sufficient time.

'It's just an intimidating appearance.'

The mech pilot's eyes were frosty, becoming even calmer after withstanding the attack.

After all, it was impossible not to have any doubts at the first sight of something so huge.

But now they were letting their guard down.

But the next moment...

A muffled "puff" sound, as if it came directly from the machine, made the mech pilot slightly startle.

The mech's internal systems didn't raise an alarm immediately, and the pilot, fully trusting in the mecha's self-diagnostic system, didn't take the strange noise too seriously.

Some noise caused by movement and aging within any mechanical structure is normal; it doesn't necessarily mean that the mecha's defenses were penetrated.

There was no need to scare oneself.

But the very next moment, the firearms on the giant's arms erupted once more, unleashing a fierce barrage, and countless bullets swarmed towards the mecha like ants shaking a tree.

"Thump thump thump thump thump!"

Unlike before, the sounds were now continuously shaking the moving mech.

In an instant, the scarlet emergency alarms blared within the cockpit, bathing the mech pilot in ominous red light.

"Damn it!"

"How did its bullets penetrate the octium alloy defense?!"

However, by the next moment, the thought was engulfed by flames that burst forth.

The searing heat exploded right at the damaged spot, and a violent blast tore through the middle section of the mecha.

The emergency ejection system shot the entire cockpit out, as the life of a well-trained elite mech pilot was far more valuable than that of a mecha.

Watching the burning mech, split in two by the explosion and plummeting from the sky, fell along with the plummeting hearts of all the security team members.

"How could this happen..."

Caesar's deputy watched in shock as the mech, now a ball of fire, fell before his eyes, his gaze filled with disbelief.

How could the highly anticipated mech pilot from the Mechanical Court be so easily defeated?