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Chapter 59 Extra Story. Chapter 35.7 Scarlet Heron
Arthur, who lost his main weapon and armored right arm, also fell into a hard battle.

Although there is a spare dagger on the outside of the Night Knight's mechanical leg, because only the left mechanical arm is left, Arthur must first drop the buckler he is holding to get the spare weapon.But the warrior commander's attack was so intensive that he didn't even have time to take a breath and change weapons.

...Moreover, in the battle between the two sides, the warrior captain used his human body to suppress and beat the armored Arthur who was over two meters tall on the opposite side.Arthur was obviously wearing an exoskeleton armor, but he was the one who used speed and agility to dodge.

Or to use a more precise word - Arthur is "escape".

The Night Knight's outer armor is made of the most advanced new alloy, which can even withstand a blow from an anti-material weapon.No matter how large the caliber of the warrior commander's hand cannon is, it is still just a gun, and it cannot actually penetrate this layer of armor.But Arthur did not dare to take advantage of this head-on confrontation. Instead, he took advantage of the power-driven movement performance of the exoskeleton to the extreme, doing all kinds of emergency disguises and dodges that humans could not do all the time, just to avoid the soldiers' long pistols. Every roar.

Because the right mechanical arm he lost as soon as he met has proved that the warrior commander actually doesn't care what his armor can block - whether it is the more fragile transmission part of the exoskeleton or his own body, as long as he dares to block it from the armor or shield After being exposed for a moment, the warrior commander's bullet immediately bit him like a ghost.

The only good news is that Arthur doesn't really need to dodge to avoid getting shot at all.As long as he can move in time, the bullets originally aimed at the vital points can hit the armor plate.

But such a battle situation is ultimately passive.Arthur could only accelerate and decelerate frequently to avoid the shots aimed at his vital points, while calculating how many bullets the warrior commander had left.

After finally waiting for the sixth roar, Arthur decisively threw the round shield towards the warrior leader.Then he pulled out the dagger from the mechanical leg and rushed towards the warrior captain followed by the buckler.

The warrior captain also threw out the empty hand cannon without any hesitation. Instead, he held the tactical knife with both hands. He bent down to avoid the thrown buckler, and then held up the one that Arthur had chopped down. Exoskeleton with large dagger.

"Ha!" Arthur finally roared happily.The two have fought each other until now, and until now it was the head-on confrontation that he liked.

What follows is a dizzying close encounter.Both sides seemed to have returned to their "normal rhythm". Arthur was slashing wildly, without any fancy so-called moves, but just squeezing every drop of speed and power from the powered exoskeleton to the extreme.But the warrior captain seemed to have some kind of premonition and was always able to dodge in all kinds of seemingly impossible situations.Once Arthur reveals a flaw, he will immediately use the surrounding steel bars, pipes, and even some parts of the Night Knight's armor as stepping stones to quickly close the distance and stab Arthur's unprotected head like a snake. Thrust.

But suddenly, the warrior captain jumped far away with the help of Arthur's chop.

"Don't run!" Arthur shouted, the mechanical auxiliary foot kicked the ground hard, and then pursued the warrior leader.

But he was stunned for a moment - the warrior captain stood there, continuing to stare at him with a sinister look, as if to say that he had no intention of running away, and at the same time stretched his right hand towards the sky.Far behind him, a puppet came over at some point and was throwing the revolver that the warrior commander had discarded before.

The warrior captain caught the gun without moving even half a step or looking back.

It was too late to avoid or slow down.Arthur gritted his teeth and instead accelerated towards the warrior captain. He just gave up swinging his sword and instead used his fastest speed to block his face with one arm.At the same time, the roar of the hand cannon sounded again, accompanied by the muffled sound of the armor being hit by large-caliber bullets.

From the touch, Arthur immediately knew that the warrior captain had also dodged his impact.In order to prevent the important and fragile power part of his back from being hit, he immediately jumped up and made a 180-degree turn in the air.The armor fell back to the ground and continued to slide toward the back along with its inertia. The auxiliary foot dragged two deep grooves in the gravel, sputtering countless flying rocks along the way, and finally slid nearly ten meters before it came to a complete stop. down.

Arthur's forehead was dripping with cold sweat, and he couldn't help but cursed: "... so despicable."

It turns out that the warrior commander didn't give up the gun at all, but threw the puppets to the craftsmen and asked them to help load the bullets!
Next, the battle between the two sides returned to a rhythm that made Arthur depressed.On the offensive end, Warrior Captain's shots often interrupt his attacks, forcing him to switch to defense.On the defensive end, because he lost his buckler, he could only use the armor of the robotic arm itself to block bullets fired at his head, which made him even more constrained.

At this moment, a call from Snake Eagle 1 suddenly came over the communication channel: "Knight 202, request permission to launch the remaining cover bombardment, and modify the landing method to be induced by Snake Eagle 1 using laser."

Blocking another bullet with his arm armor, Arthur took the opportunity to look back at the situation of the Snake Eagle Team: In the previous battle, the Snake Eagle Team gave priority to clearing out the puppets in the rear.There was no detonation. It seemed that only the puppet used to deal with Arthur was specially made.Subsequently, with the conscious movement of the team, the Crusaders and puppets that originally surrounded them from the remaining three sides had crowded to the same side, forming a fan-shaped formation towards them.

Arthur immediately understood Snake Eagle 1's tactical intention.So far, the group's covering artillery fire has only been carried out twice before the Snake Eagle squadron landed. The Crusaders may mistakenly believe that the group is afraid of accidentally hurting their own people, so they will not shell again when the distance between the enemy and ourselves is very close. .But in fact... he also came up with an idea to take advantage of this situation, so he immediately said: "Allow! The killing range covers the east side as much as possible!"

More than ten seconds later, through the tactical eyepiece, Arthur saw a bombing target mark appearing on the enemy's position in front of the snake eagle.At the same time, Snake Eagle 1's warning also sounded in the communication channel: "It's coming, all units should pay attention to protection!"

But Arthur suddenly gave up all defenses and took the risk to charge towards the warrior captain. With the momentum of dying together, he struck out with an unreserved blow.

The Night Knight's mechanical muscles were overloaded to 150% power in an instant, and the speed of this attack once again exceeded the warrior leader's expectations.Unable to dodge, the warrior commander immediately adopted a natural strategy - defense, and used his light weight to fly away to relieve the force.

And the direction he flew out was exactly Arthur's goal - towards the Crusaders and the puppets.

High in the sky, the scream of artillery shells approached again.

In the position of the Snake Eagle Team, the EXOS array shrank again, with more defense components against the air, and the overall shape became more like an eggshell than before.And Arthur no longer paid attention to the warrior commander, but quickly assumed a defensive posture: squatting down, holding his head, and blocking the double defense of the arm armor and calf armor in front of him.

After a loud noise, there was a dense explosion like firecrackers, accompanied by the sound of air waves from the explosion and a storm of shrapnel bombarding the outer armor.

When everything calmed down for a while, the rooftop turned into a scene from hell again.There was smoke and flames everywhere.

"Visually all hostile targets have been silenced. Visually all hostile targets have been silenced..." Snake Eagle 1 reported.

Arthur stood up and looked at the flames and smoke in front of him,

"...Wait, there's something inside!" Snake Eagle 1 roared suddenly.

A gust of night wind blew, and the smoke quickly dissipated.

On the west side of the entire battlefield, the original position of the Crusade militants was now dead and silent, with the broken corpses of the militants everywhere.

But on the east side, there is a huge and nightmarish shadow, which is gradually showing its true appearance.

That was...a giant open umbrella.

A handful of white flower buds are made up of the bodies of countless dolls, swaying like living lotus leaves and gradually opening.Although the bodies of the dolls that make up the giant umbrella have been integrated into one, their countless mechanism jaws are still moving.The shaking sounds of countless "kokoko" overlapped together, like the laughter of a monster.

Under the giant umbrella, the only figure still standing on the battlefield was the warrior captain with half of his body beaten to pieces.

But on his blood-stained face, his eyes were still as fierce as those of a predator, showing no sign of losing his will to fight.

Then, the doll's giant umbrella suddenly collapsed.Countless dolls fell like rain, once again creating a cloud of dust on the ground.

But soon, another huge figure rose from beneath the dust mist - the craftsman caused the giant umbrella to collapse in order to allow the puppet to re-form into the nearly six-meter-tall giant it is now.Now, the warrior chief and craftsman are obviously inside.

Arthur looked at the giant and suddenly opened the team channel and issued an order: "Snake Eagle Team, all members restart the EXOS fortress mode again. And this time, you can overload as much power as you can. This only depends on you... No , we can’t deal with it.”

Then he gave the second order: "Blackbird, release A2 'Red Heron'."

The tactical planner on the other side of the transport aircraft responded after a moment: "...It has been confirmed by the technicians that due to the forced skipping of defrost, the A2 'Red Heron' only has about 10 seconds of active time. Even so, do you confirm that it needs to be released?"

"This is what I want, put it in immediately." Arthur answered quickly, then glanced left and right, ran to the shield he had discarded before, and picked it up again.

"Understood. Launch immediately."

The puppet giant mercilessly stepped over the corpses of the Crusaders and walked towards the EXOS Eggshell and Arthur who had shrunk again.However, Arthur didn't respond at all, just stood there, as if waiting for something. ——Suddenly, this time there was no scream, no warning, just a silver capsule slightly larger than a normal human body fell from the sky, hit the middle of the giant and Arthur, and stood there with a "bang". .

Perhaps due to the impact, a gap suddenly opened in the cabin.

Arthur immediately squatted down and hugged his knees again in a defensive posture, and this time he had an extra layer of defense - he also blocked the shield in front.

"Countdown to 10 seconds." He started the timer on the eyepiece and at the same time observed a corner of the sky through the gap exposed by the triple defense - just above the giant's chest.

Heat and heat appear suddenly.

"9 seconds."

There was an inhuman scream in the air.

"8 seconds."

——White aperture, plasma cloud, and flame wind appeared in turn, and finally converged into a wing.

"7 seconds."

Accompanied by the scream that sounded like some kind of bird, the flame wings flapped.

"6 seconds."

And the giant who was able to withstand light and heavy firepower and even shelling and still remain unscathed melted as the wings of flames brushed it again and again, melting and collapsing like butter.

"5 seconds."

When the giant's melt reached the heart, the warrior leader finally emerged from the giant's body.A faint light shield appeared around him, but this light shield also gradually melted in the firelight.

"4 seconds."

The warrior leader's body began to turn black like meat in an oven, but his expression remained unchanged.He seemed to know that Arthur was observing this side.He cast his gaze over, and then made a murderous gesture - as if to say: "I will definitely kill you next time."

"3 seconds."

The halo on the warrior leader's body suddenly expanded, and then suddenly disappeared.

"1 seconds."

The flame wings and the high temperature suddenly disappeared at the same time, leaving no residual heat.

A notification from the tactical planner came through the communicator: "Arrived at the limit, A2 'Red Heron' activity has been forced to stop."

Arthur took a deep breath and wanted to stand up, but found that the "Night Knight" was not obeying his orders, so he had to pull the emergency release wrench.

The back armor of the "Night Knight" exploded after a miniature explosion. Arthur climbed out, looked at the condition of the Night Knight, and shook his head - no wonder he couldn't move, basically all the joints were fused together.

He looked up at the battlefield again - the giant as the primary target had been melted into a sphere, echoing the EXOS eggshell in the distance.And at the center line of the two spheres, the silver cabin is still standing there quietly, with the hatch tightly closed, as if nothing has happened - just, with the cabin as the center, outwards in circles. They are all "crystal wave circles" formed by sand and gravel melted by high temperatures and then cooled.

"Your Excellency, Operation Commander." Command called, "Communications between us and the instance commander have been restored."

"Okay, please transfer the communication."

——After a beep, Zhe Lukui's voice sounded in the communicator.

"How's it going?" she asked.

"The Crusaders on the roof have been completely annihilated, and the warrior commander has moved. But judging from the injury, it is probably close to the limit of action for this life."

"Very good. But there are still some remnants of the Crusaders inside the theater. I am trapped in a place. I will give you the coordinates and ask your people-"

There was a sudden noise.

Arthur frowned and shouted a few times, but there was only white noise on the other end of the communication.

The communicator buzzed again—not the team comm, but another high-level encrypted channel, the same one he'd spoken to before the operation began.

A calm and deep male voice said: "How was the situation at the scene after A2 was released?"

"Not bad. Because the thaw was incomplete, the egret was only active for about 10 seconds, and the migration erosion was far from reaching its peak. So at present, only the damage on the top floor is more serious. Because of the timely response, our operators' The conditions are all good.”

"Where is Zhelukui?"

"We just restored communication, but it was cut off again after a few seconds. But no problem, I've got her coordinates, and we're going to go down immediately—"

But the man ordered: "Evacuate immediately."

"but--"

"It's the Dominion Domain. The Dominion Territory suddenly unfolded in the theater. Prepare your STF and MTF, move to the Yokohama catapult base, and prepare for the Dominion Territory invasion operation."

Arthur frowned and thought for a while, then suddenly said: "I want to stay in this place for a while longer. Is that okay? How about an hour at most?"

"why?"

"intuition."

The man didn't comment and hung up the call.

Arthur sat down on the spot and began to eat military rations.

(End of this chapter)