From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars

For an empire that pays attention to weapon aesthetics and painting consistency, it is generally difficult to personalize the appearance of HCPs driven by noble children.

The most they can do is add more gold rims to the outer armor and then spray-paint their family crest.

Therefore, if an HCP can have a personalized paint job in the military, its pilot will only be an ACE type character.

Although the Federation and the Empire have coexisted peacefully for so many years, the Empire's pilots have not had many opportunities to encounter enemy HCPs in battle.

Most of the time they are dealing with main battle tanks, armored vehicles, or multi-legged tanks.

Therefore, in the current imperial army, many pilots have the title of ACE or ace just because of their record of "undefeated in 2000 simulated battles".

The situation on the federal side is basically similar.

But no matter what, these people will be more difficult to deal with than ordinary pilots.

Two of our own rookie pilots have been sent by Amber to support the troops attacking the core area.

Let them participate in the bloody HCP battle, even if they are fighting against these "human-machine kings", they will probably lose their first and second blood.

But if you just use the firepower, defense and excellent mobility of HCP to support other troops in attacking an enemy army without heavy equipment.

These two can still show off.

After all, as a novice, it is more appropriate to start from the novice field.

So Amber is currently fighting alone.

"Lilith, how is the spread of the virus?"

Amber deployed the charged particle cannon behind her shoulder, and her eyes were firmly locked on the red HCP that was approaching in a zigzag path.

"Master, I'm sorry! The spread process of the virus was discovered by the Imperial Army. Currently, they have begun to carry out targeted defense against the virus. The spread rate is currently only 34.8%, and most of them are individual soldier terminals and small vehicle terminals. There are also a small number of HCP.”

"It's okay. The empire's response was faster than I expected. The virus spread rate of nearly 35% is already very good. At least the battle of other friendly units will be easier."

While Amber and Lilith were talking, the charged particle cannon on the weapon rack behind her shoulder also fired.

The charged particle beam hit the traveling red HCP without any surprise.

With Lilith's auxiliary aiming, even if the target has been performing irregular evasive maneuvers, it cannot avoid light-speed weapon attacks.

However, after the charged particle beam hit, the front hemisphere of the red HCP also lit up with white light as the deflection force field unfolded.

In the long-range shooting session, the battle between HCPs was so unpretentious.

You shoot, I shoot, see whose weapon overheats first, or whose deflection field generator overloads first.

If there is no winner in the long-range shooting session, and the pilots of both sides do not intend to stop there.

Then the battle will immediately change from a slightly boring shooting to an exciting melee combat.

At this stage, what is tested is the basic driving skills and courage of the pilots on both sides.

As the distance between Amber and the red HCP got closer, he also raised Steppenwolf's mechanical arm, extended the body of the Gauss rifle out of the range of the deflection field, and then started firing towards the target.

Amber's incredible reflexes, coupled with Lilith's auxiliary locking ability, kept the muzzle of the Gauss rifle aimed at the red HCP's chest.

This position is the dot of the deflection force field of the front hemisphere of the HCP. After the rod hits this area, it is not as easy to be twisted away as it hits the edge area.

The deflection force field generator often needs to use higher power to twist these high-speed penetrating rods that are almost perpendicular to the deflection force field to one side.

At the same time, Lilith didn't know where she got the information about the specially painted HCP opposite.

"Red Wolf? It's a call sign I've never heard of before. It's not famous. It doesn't look like the other guy is a powerful pilot."

After confirming the news, Amber's mentality suddenly relaxed, and her whole state of driving HCP became very relaxed.

Since you are not encountering masters who really have two skills, there is no need to panic at all.

In this state, Amber's shooting accuracy also increased significantly. The Gauss rifle fired through the rod at high speed and almost hit the center of the circle.

After the Red Wolf, who took the initiative to attack, was suppressed by Amber's precise shooting, he began to feel sweaty while sitting in the cockpit.

This was the first time that someone used a Gauss rifle to point him to doubt his life.

No matter how he dodges or maneuvers, the charged high-speed piercing rod will hit him as promised.

There were even several times that after completing his evasive maneuver, he hit the piercing pole straight up.

"What kind of monster is this?"

Although the automatic thermostatic units in the cockpit and the heavy-duty hydraulic anti-gravity suit have been continuously taking effect, Red Wolf is still sweating profusely.

After receiving a signal from Rudolf and others requesting support, these HCPs came under the cover of friendly forces and risked the collapse of the defense line.

As a result, when we arrived at the area where the signal was sent, we saw only two Zealots that had been stabbed through the cockpit.

On the other side, while Amber was constantly maneuvering toward the rear to slow down the speed of the two sides' approach, Lilith's slightly urgent voice suddenly came from the cockpit.

"Warning, you are locked!"

"Warning, strong electric field reaction detected!"

When broadcasting the emergency warning, Lilith honestly followed the preset warning and did not add any weird names.

But these two warnings still made Amber's heart beat a few beats faster.

He subconsciously increased the output power of the deflection field generator, then raised his left robotic arm and used the electromagnetic projection device mounted below to fire a series of anti-infrared smoke bombs in the direction of the red wolf.

Almost at the same time that he completed this series of actions, a blue-white beam of heavy particle cannon struck from high above the base area.

The panoramic screen in the cockpit first lit up, and then was quickly reduced by Lilith.

Although the deflection force field blocked the attack of this airborne heavy particle cannon, Steppenwolf's outer armor, especially near the hit area, still showed signs of redness under high temperatures.

After the opponent's attack ended, Amber immediately pushed the plasma propulsion array to the full power operation position, and then rushed in the direction of the heavy particle cannon.

The red wolf, whose optical and infrared sensors were blocked by high-temperature smoke, could not see Amber's movements, but a sonic boom suddenly came from ahead, which made him feel bad.

He drove his special machine through the smoke and saw Amber, who had rushed to the base, suddenly jumped up, and the propulsion array behind the machine sprayed out a long blue wake.

At some point, this Steppenwolf had changed the weapon held by its mechanical arm from a Gauss rifle to a heavy plasma sword.

The red wolf had no time to stop him, and watched helplessly as Steppenwolf rushed up to the heights and raised his knife, splitting the cockpit of the cold-blooded fanatic into two pieces.