novelA Hare Biting a Lion to Death
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Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
Brilliant!
European recruits praised Guss's Galaxy Steel Spirit's stance in their hearts. The attacking angles were just perfect. Not only did they block all the attacking routes of Jungle Ranger, it also completely enveloped the Jungle Rangers in a rainstorm-like attack.
The East Asian recruits became nervous. Although the power of these warheads that were specially crafted to be used in the tournament had been weakened a lot, the armor of the Jungle Ranger was far worse than the large-scale mobile armor. If they were hit by ground-to-ground missiles, the pilot would be heavily injured if not dead...
The overloading operation of the drive furnace was only two hundred percent! Operating at seventy-five percent! One hundred and fifty-seven percent! Sixty-three percent, two hundred percent!
Under a series of commands, in the time it takes for a spark to fly off a flint, the Jungle Ranger suddenly accelerated and decelerated before rapidly accelerating again.
In the short moment, Jungle Ranger's unique lightning footwork had reached the point where everyone was shocked.
In front of Qin Fen, that perfect salvo of rounds was like a broken fishnet. The Jungle Ranger was like an incomparably sly loach. In the blink of an eye, it broke through the salvo of rounds as its barrel appeared in front of the Galaxy Steel Spirit.
"How is this possible?" A voice filled with disbelief immediately resounded from the Galaxy Steel Spirit.
Several spectating European recruits were shocked at first before the corner of their lips rose into a confident smile. They all knew perfectly well how strong the attack power of the Jungle Ranger was. Even if it broke through the blockade, it would only be like a tiger trying to eat a turtle, nowhere to bite!
The strongest attack of the Jungle Ranger was just the four missiles hidden in the breastplate. It would be near impossible for it to blast away the specially processed armor plate of the Galaxy Steel Spirit...
Suddenly, the sounds of gears rotating appeared from the Galaxy Silver Spirit's abdominal region as the abdominal missiles emerged at the same time, locking on to the Jungle Ranger in the blink of an eye.
A confident smile presented itself on Guss's lips. He admitted that he had underestimated Qin Fen's ability to operate. A mobile armor's drive furnace could not be often overloaded for a long time. If one was not careful enough, he or she might blow up the entire mobile armor.
Nonetheless, even after a few sudden accelerations, there was no sign of any damage whatsoever. This clearly showed the extraordinary understanding of the Jungle Ranger's operator in regards to mobile armor's driver furnace...
Several missiles, as well as continuous salvo from two heavy grenade launchers on its shoulders, shrouded Qin Fen, once more.
Swish...
Drive furnace overloaded to three hundred percent! Drive furnace cooling down! Drive furnace starting up!
Leaving only an afterimage under Galaxy Steel Spirit's crotch, the Jungle Ranger rushed behind the Galaxy Steel Spirit at an unbelievable speed.
Lying on the ground was a huge arm. It was the weapon damaged by the Galaxy Steel Spirit, the Vulcan-level missile!
This arm had been removed, but the missile was already in an activated state. The only thing it was lacking was the final ignition command, that's all.
Originally, this arm's Vulcan missile was not able to reach this final step and was removed by the other side.
Before the start of the match, the European recruits, in order to wantonly kill, had deliberately given the Asian recruits a chance to see hope. And had killed this hope at the last minute.
The coolest scene of the last match.
Now, at this moment, it had become a readymade ace in the hole.
The Jungle Armor lifted that huge arm, launching that Vulcan missile that had no chance to launch earlier.
The European recruits were all dumbfounded. How does he accelerate so quickly? Even if the drive furnace is overloaded to two hundred percent, its speed should not be that fast!? Is the drive furnace overloaded to three hundred percent? How is that possible? That requires the most precise timing for an advance shutdown or a delayed shutdown, otherwise, the drive furnace would explode!
Before the Galaxy Steel Spirit pilot, Guss, could feel surprised from the recent speed, the Vulcan missile just so happened to have fired from a unique angle, making it impossible for him to dodge!
BOOM!
A violent tremor ran through the ground as the dazzling explosion gave rise to a cloud of dust. The recruits on both sides subconsciously raised their hands to block the dust and rubble blown over due to the heat wave and the wind.
Amid the vague shadows, the Galaxy Steel Spirit also raised its thick arm to block the front side, blocking in the same way that the ordinary people do with their hands when they were attacked.
Huh? What's going on? The Vulcan missile missed!? The Galaxy Steel Spirit pilot, Guss, couldn't believe that he had actually escaped death.
The European recruits couldn't believe that just when the Jungle Ranger was finally about to turn the tide, there would be such a dramatic event at the last minute.
Everyone was quickly searching about, looking for that Jungle Ranger that had given everyone a shock just from its appearance.
Not on the left, not on the right, not at the front, not at the back? It's not like it can disappear from this world just like that? While Guss was searching, he suddenly discovered that his comrades were looking at his mobile armor's shoulder with surprise.
Much to everyone's surprise, the Jungle Ranger, at the moment of explosion, was standing on the Galaxy Steel Spirit's shoulder.
Finally, in those surprised eyes of Guss flashed a smile. The Galaxy Steel Spirit might not be that fast, but it didn't mean that its arm was clumsy.
On the contrary, this kind of large mobile armor's arm was highly flexible in order to have a better air-to-air capability and catch those fighter jets that could fly at supersonic speed.
There were even rumors that a BT mobile armor pilot had once used a large mobile armor to do tricks so quickly that it seemed like he was doing magic! This could only be done with a highly flexible robotic arm!
Guss admitted that he was unable to do magic trick-like maneuvers with the robotic arm, but he could quite easily catch a Jungle Ranger standing on its shoulder. After all, the power of Galaxy Silver Spirit's drive furnace was far greater than that of the Jungle Ranger's. If all the power was used to support the robotic arm, the arm would be so fast that it could leave afterimages in the air.
Click...
Much to Guss' dismay, a sound of gear struck suddenly rang. He discovered that he was unable to move the Galaxy Steel Spirit's arm!
"This?" Guss started a self-diagnostic test at once and found the reason immediately.
There was some problem with the command control circuit of the Galaxy Steel Spirit's arm. Now, the machine was doing intensive self-repair. Presumably, it would be repaired very soon.
"Can't move it, right?" Qin Fen raised the left arm of the Jungle Ranger.
Not long ago, it was still a complete arm. But now, it was completely scrapped. It appeared to be the consequence of hitting something very, very hard.
"You..."
"That's right, that Vulcan missile was just my expression of the possibility of revenge of my comrades-in-arms." The Jungle Ranger jumped down to the ground, standing before the Galaxy Steel Spirit."Just now, I used the Jungle Ranger's left hand to temporarily disable all the mobility functions of the Galaxy Steel Spirit. You must be feeling glad to hear me talking like this, right? Thinking that you are buying some time, am I right?"
Guss, who was sitting in the cockpit, was completely stunned. Qin Fen had spoken his inner thoughts. Buying time! That's right! So long as I can buy some time, it will be the end of the Jungle Ranger when my Galaxy Steel Spirit can move once more.
Qin Fen raised the Jungle Ranger's arm, pointing at the lower part of the Galaxy Steel Spirit."Here, this is the key part of your mobile armor, am I right?"
Several European recruits looked surprised at the same time. That's the key part of the Galaxy Steel Spirit's secret transformation move. How can he see through it in one glance?
Before everyone could react from the shock, Qin Fen had already started moving. The Jungle Ranger bent its leg before jumping into the air, heavily kicking at the key part of the Galaxy Steel Spirit. The thrusters at its back started firing, improving its speed.
As it was the key location, the defense of the Galaxy Steel Spirit there was very sturdy.
As such, it was even less likely for just a strike of Jungle Ranger to achieve any remarkable result.
Just as the Jungle Ranger landed back on the ground, it leaped once more, kicking in the same way as before.
Bang... bang... bang...
Hammering sounds like the ones heard in a blacksmith's shop resounded throughout the quiet battlefield as the Jungle Ranger kept on attacking the same location, again and again, patiently.
Meanwhile, Guss kept on staring nervously at the display before him, which was showing the data from the mobile armor's repair system.
"Hold on a bit.... hold on a bit more... as long as I can hold on a bit, it can move again!" Guss kept on muttering to himself, persuading himself. He was afraid that he would be unable to persevere and take the initiative to walk out of the mobile armor and choose to concede.
"I can move..."
Bang... kacha...
Zizi... zizi...
Suddenly, electrical sparks jumped out from the display before Guss's eyes as numerous plumes of smoke rose from various locations of the mobile armor.
Not long after, the huge Galaxy Steel Spirit fell onto the ground. The Jungle Ranger, without a moment of delay, stepped aside and picked up a lower limb of a mobile armor that was dismantled by the Galaxy Steel Spirit.
Bang!
The Galaxy Steel Spirit's head was immediately flattened. The lower limb that was dismantled not too long ago played a huge role in this attack.
Bang... bang... bang...
A flustered Guss crawled his way out of the Galaxy Steel Spirit. When Qin Fen finally stopped attacking, this mighty Galaxy Steel Spirit was reduced to a pile of scrap.
The recruits on both sides couldn't believe the scene on the battlefield.
The giant mobile armor, that was approximately ten meters tall, was actually defeated so horrendously by a two-meter tall Jungle Ranger in a duel! And even reduced to a pile of scraps at that.
Ten meters vs two meters.
In terms of both power and speed, it was almost like an adult fighting a child who had just learned to walk.
Or one could even say that it was like a fight between a lion and a hare.
Adult or lion, both of whom should have won, was actually defeated by the child.
This kind of ending was completely out of everyone's expectations. After all, the difference between the performance of two mechs was like the difference between heaven and earth. Never before in history had a Jungle Ranger defeated a Galaxy Steel Spirit single-handedly.
Disgrace!? No, this could no longer be described by the word "disgrace" alone. If the pilot wasn't a European recruit, but an East Asia recruit from the State of Japan, then, he would have already chosen to commit seppuku*.
Such a disgrace could not be washed clean even after committing suicide a hundred times!
The recent winning streak momentum of the Galaxy Steel Spirit...
The recent prestige of Galaxy Steel Spirit set up by disgracing others...
They all completely vanished in the puff of smoke with the end of this unexpected battle.
The cockpit of the Jungle Ranger slowly opened as Qin Fen jumped out and walked into the Red Lotus Phantom.
"I am in a hurry, I have other plans tonight. All of you, come at me together!"
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