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Chapter 348 Pterodactyl + Mech + Pilot = ?

"I'm coming!"

Cheng Tian and the others piloted their mechs and descended from the sky with the help of the landing thrusters.

Upon hearing Cheng Tian's strange cry through the communicator, Azrael, who was the spearhead of the entire team and bore the brunt of the enemy's firepower, relaxed his tense expression slightly.

Because of his whitewashing, Azrael's battle strategy has been completely changed, and in a sense, he has become less like the ruthless tyrant who would stop at nothing to achieve his goals, and has instead become naive.

Before Cheng Tian cleared his name, Azrael would have definitely used his subordinates as bait or piled up kills to create openings, attacking and destroying the enemy's mechs.

But he can no longer do that now.

He did not want to sacrifice these like-minded individuals who shared the same ideals of restoring the nation to achieve his strategic goals, even if they were willing to do so.

So, as the train was about to enter the heavily guarded core base, Azrael, who chose to strike first, took the initiative to absorb the pressure from the three advanced mechs on the other side as the spearhead of the entire team.

In the original storyline, Azrael fought the Blood Armor Squad three times, losing each time. However, his first two escapes resulted in his warlock character receiving two buffs.

But right now, the Azrael Warlock is the original version. Without any additional enhancements, the Warlock can withstand the pressure from Helios, the Blind Engineer, and the Sprinter, which is entirely due to the pilot's performance.

"Watch out! They are—"

"give it to me!"

Before Azrael could finish his reminder, Cheng Tian cut him off with a single sentence and immediately began assigning combat targets.

Bazett was assigned to greet the blind engineer.

Because it is unmanned, the Blind Engineer doesn't need to consider the safety of the passengers inside, so its speed is as high as 7 stars. Apart from Azrael's Warlock, which can predict and shoot based on the pilot's performance, other Gates-class ships with a speed of only 2 stars can't even smell its exhaust.

It is also equipped with an arm component called the "Shield Cannon," which is extremely rare on both sides.

This is a part with a small missile launcher and an electromagnetic cannon embedded inside the shield, and it is the only part among all the arm parts that can perform shield defense.

From a pure player's perspective, as long as you can get your hands on this shield cannon part, then the game is essentially over.

But now this thing is in the hands of the enemy, and it's an unmanned mech with extremely fast movement speed and the ability to accurately block and parry, so you can imagine how troublesome it is.

However, Cheng Tian chose a targeted approach.

Since the blind engineer can block and move around to deal damage, I can just assign a melee mech that can punch missiles to fight it.

Although Jag's movement speed is only 3 stars, he is equipped with a turbojet engine, which allows him to move regardless of the terrain. Now he is just waiting for an opening and an opportunity to get close.

The Scorpion Sprinter, though slower than the blind sapper, is also quite annoying due to its unique "three-color armor system".

Its insect-like legs make its movement unpredictable, and its multiple weapons allow it to attack the same point from different directions simultaneously. However, when its paint scheme changes color, Speedster gains a corresponding special ability.

Blue corresponds to "wave-shaped plasma flow," which can release a plasma flow that surges forward like a wave, an area attack that has a chance to paralyze the mech for a short period of time.

Green corresponds to "high voltage current," which has extremely strong destructive power. The pilot inside the Gates mech who was electrocuted let out a short scream of "Aaaaaaah!" and then fell completely silent. The mech could still be operated, but it was unclear whether the pilot was dead or had suffered an electric shock.

The red color corresponds to "explosive injection," which involves inserting high-explosive bombs into the ground using walking legs, pincers, and tail spikes, easily melting away Gates's fragile armor.

Such an individual poses a significant close-range threat, so it's only natural to assign it two ranged specialists.
Irene, piloting the Elf, and Mina, piloting the Metrodora (temporarily borrowed), began to leverage their long-range expertise, employing rapid-fire suppression and precision strikes in tandem, further compressing the speedster's movement.

As for Cheng Tian himself, he and the Warlock directly confronted Helios, who looked exactly like the young Devil King Stun.

As a mech that can switch between helicopter, half-helicopter, and humanoid forms, Helios possesses the strongest air superiority among the Armored Warrior mech systems.

The turbojet attachments on the legs of ordinary mechs are mostly just enough to keep them suspended in the air for a few meters at most, which is enough to allow the mech to traverse complex terrain. Even the attachments they use are only similar to the catapult launch of the radar, and are far from true flight.

So when Helios's pilots discovered that Cheng Tian and his group were coming to reinforce them, they decisively chose to transform back into helicopter mode, dodging ground artillery fire while quickly taking off and further widening the distance.

Due to the machine's positioning and structure, Helios cannot use full-coverage metal armor in the cockpit area. Instead, it can only use reinforced glass that allows direct vision, which minimizes the pilot's safety. Only fully mechanized soldiers can operate it.

The reason they didn't run away earlier was that, according to the built-in program of the Helios pilot, the existing guards and three advanced mechs were enough to gradually wipe out Azrael and his party who had rushed over.

If the warlock character that is bearing the pressure collapses, the entire team will collapse in a chain reaction.

But when Azrael managed to hold out until reinforcements arrived, the situation immediately changed.

After the camera quickly scanned and confirmed that the support unit was Cheng Tian and his group who had taken the radar, the pilot immediately made the decision to "sacrifice the other mechs and return at full speed" and put it into action.

Cheng Tian's Heart Barrier has a very low capture rate for units that do not touch the ground. The Helios also has a 6-star movement speed, making it difficult to capture accurately... But this does not mean that Cheng Tian has no ability to pursue the Helios at all.

Suddenly, a magical fluctuation, representing the activation of a Nightmare-type skill, emanated from Cheng Tian's body. The Gates LB "Orange," which he was currently piloting and which had been incorporated into the tank matrix sequence, suddenly had a line appear between it and the "Rins of the Primal Wyvern" in his inventory. Soon after, the rim disappeared, and in its place, the Orange, which Cheng Tian was piloting, began to undergo a shape change as if it were a biological mutation.

A pair of pterosaur wings, matching the specifications of the aircraft, "grew" out from Gates' back. At the same time, Gates' head camera also began to multiply and eventually turned into a dragon head that was exactly the same as the original pterosaur.

When the dragon's mouth opened wide, it revealed a mechanical face that seemed to be identical to the one etched onto Cheng Tian's blazing sun mask—

Demon Concerto! Activate!

Gates LB + Primal Pterodactyl = Wing Gates!

Based on this, Cheng Tian's main body chose to superimpose and merge with it...

Soaring into the sky! The blazing sun, the flying wings of Gates!

(End of this chapter)