A creeping fear gripped his heart, as if the Grim Reaper itself had locked its eyes onto him and was simply waiting for the right mont to harvest his life...
The others also sucked in deep breaths to calm their nervousness before instinctively backing away and creating distance between themselves and the human ch.
"Damnit!! Even if they are not defending doesn’t an they are defenseless!! We all thought too lightly of it..." said the squad captain.
"If we can learn and shift our tactics... then so can the humans!!"
As he spoke, he looked toward the human ch, which appeared completely unbothered by their presence.
In the next instant, the ch charged forward and quickly took down two more enemy chs!!
One was pierced straight through by its spear, while the other was drowned beneath intense fire from a hidden hand-mounted weapon system!!
What he didn’t say was that it wasn’t simply that the humans were "learning"!!
While that was indeed part of it, the more the humans fought, the more perfect their movents and control over their chs beca—constantly increasing their lethality in battle.
And that was sothing he could tell just from observing the ch ahead of him for only a few minutes...
But beyond that, he couldn’t help but realize that the fighting power these humans displayed belonged to elites among elites!! A level far above him and his team, who themselves were already considered specially trained elites for this kind of warfare...
And yet, not only had they failed to react quickly enough to the sudden attacks and changing flow of battle—they had suffered losses almost the instant they entered the battlefield...
That deeply troubled him.
A growing uneasiness filled his heart as he began questioning whether what they were doing would even change the course of the battle at all...
Looking around, he saw that others engaging their own targets had suffered similar setbacks as well—so with fewer casualties, others with even more devastating losses.
Just then, one of his subordinates spoke, breaking the captain from his thoughts.
"What should we do now? How should we proceed?"
"The mont we enter its active range, that ch attacks us with terrifying precision..." he stated uneasily.
anwhile, on another part of the battlefield within the 4th Wing, Squad Number 10 rushed forward without even maintaining formation—or at least, that’s how it appeared from the outside.
They too had suffered the sa setbacks, but unlike Division 9’s squad, they were far more decisive. Without fear of death, they charged ahead with frightening determination.
Moving between debris fields and the wreckage of five destroyed ships, several chs at the rear unleashed volleys of charged pulse shots and plasma fire toward the human chs!!
Around four hundred Hegemony fleet chs were now converging against barely twenty human chs from the 4th Battle Fleet.
A terrifying twenty-to-one nurical advantage stood on the Hegemony side.
And yet, the human chs were still battling against two to five enemies each while simultaneously trying to quickly eliminate their current opponents before turning to face the incoming wave—
Which resembled a wolf pack rushing toward a wounded bear already being held down by another swarm of jackals.
One other ch, with a completely different color sche from the mostly black units around it, fought fiercely against four enemy chs already. Unlike the others, this ch was colored blood crimson!!
Inside it, a young man with red hair and crimson eyes smiled faintly as his eyes glead with red light.
"Oh? More are here to join the fight, huh? Well, well, well... good for ..."
Saying that, he manipulated Crimson Star, his ch twisting sharply mid-battle and avoiding incoming particle beam attacks fired from behind.
"Looks like it’s ti for to finish you all and go fish the new little fishes that just entered the pond!!"
Adjusting one of the charged energy laser cannons mounted on his ch, he aid toward three enemy chs and fired three rapid salvos in succession before imdiately turning his attention toward the last opponent charging directly at him!!
At that exact mont, three bright flashes erupted behind him—
And with those explosions, the three Hegemony 4th Wing chs instantly exploded without even being able to defend themselves against the highly charged laser blasts, which tore through their already crumbling defenses!!
anwhile, he quickly sidestepped using his thrusters and effortlessly avoided the energy sword slash launched by his final opponent.
"Checkmate," he said calmly toward the pilot, who desperately tried to retreat after realizing his attack had missed.
But it was already too late...
Crimson Star’s energy sword stabbed directly through the chest area of the Hegemony ch, piercing through it effortlessly before erging from the ch’s back!!
The intense heat from the blade instantly evaporated the pilot inside before he could even scream.
Finished with its enemies, Crimson Star, under the control of its pilot, calmly turned toward the approaching chs of the Hegemony Fleet’s 10th Division.
anwhile, the pilots of the 10th Division froze mid-flight for a brief mont after witnessing four of their own destroyed in re seconds...
And the chilling gaze of the crimson human ch sent even greater shivers down their spines.
"What the fuck?! How did that ch even do that?! And with such speed and accuracy?!" one pilot said, his voice trembling through the comms.
Others were about to agree and voice their own fears when their commander suddenly roared through the channel—
"What are you fools doing?! Focus on the battlefield!! That ch is rushing toward us, damnit!!"
"What?!"
Many instantly shouted in terror as they looked ahead and indeed saw a crimson light rapidly approaching their formation!!
"Fuck!! That human demon is coming at us!!" one pilot cried out urgently.
"Calm your nerves!!" the commander barked. "Just because it took down four from the 4th Wing doesn’t an it has the overwhelming edge you all are imagining!!"
"Don’t forget who we are!! We are elites among elites!! Compared to us, those brothers who just lost their lives in such brutal fashion were ordinary soldiers without abilities anywhere near our level!!"
"Indeed!!""Yes!! Commander is right!!"
The others quickly echoed his words, rapidly regaining so of their confidence.
Seeing that, the commander of the 10th Division sighed in relief before speaking seriously.
"Still, the enemy is abnormally strong—far stronger than any we have faced before!! So I need all of you to be absolutely serious, understood?!"
"Yes, Commander!! As you order!!"
"Good!! Then follow my commands carefully!!"
"Knight chs—you will move ahead first, intercept, and engage the crimson ch!! I need at least five of you there!!"
"The remaining knight chs will hold back the other human units until we finish this one. With support from the speed-type and marksman-type chs, that should not be difficult..."
"As for the rest, focus on supporting fire and drawing attention away from the knight chs engaging the crimson unit!!"
"Speed-type chs will harass it constantly and focus on bringing down its shield!!"
"Marksman chs will provide precision fire support at the right monts to prevent losses on our side!!"
"Spear chs—you will charge forward and coordinate alongside the knight chs to force the crimson ch back!!"
"Swordsn chs may attack from the flanks and look for chances to inflict damage as well!!"
"But rember one thing!! Until we crack and destroy the shield of that crimson ch, none of you are to rush in for the kill!! Otherwise, you’ll only endanger yourselves and everyone else by disrupting the rhythm and formation of the assault!!"
"Understood?!"
"Yes, Commander!!" roughly four hundred ch troops responded seriously.
Soon after, around three hundred chs broke formation and rushed toward their designated targets with determination to stop the humans in their tracks and hold them there until further reinforcents arrived.
"Good!! Rember this!!" He looked toward the remaining forces and spoke in a grave tone.
"Our work here is crucial!! If we fail, then our entire wing could be brought down by the enemy!! So I expect no mistakes, and I expect all of you to take this with the utmost seriousness!!"
"Yes, Commander!!"
Nodding his head, he turned his gaze toward the now rapidly approaching crimson ch of the human fleet.
"Everyone, charge according to your assigned roles now!!"
The five knight chs, each nearly one hundred ters tall, charged ahead while the marksman units unleashed volleys of charged pulse and plasma shots toward Crimson Star once again—this ti with far greater precision than before!!
Taking advantage of the distraction caused by the bombardnt, the speed-type chs vanished from their positions, while the spear chs followed closely behind the knight units. anwhile, the swordsn chs began circling around the crimson ch as they closed in from multiple angles...
Inside Crimson Star, the crimson-haired boy naturally noticed all of this.
But he was too busy executing evasive maneuvers to avoid being struck by the relentless barrage of highly charged energy attacks as he rushed directly toward the five heavily armoured knight chs!!
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