Translator: ryuxenji Editor: H2dH2mr
At this moment, Lingtian No.7 was like a ferocious beast that had been let out of its cage. Facing Leiting No.9, who was more experienced than him, he had no fear at all. The mecha's running speed did not slow down at all due to the appearance of the enemy. Those with keen eyes could even see that Lingtian No.7's speed was even faster and more agile than before.
As for Leiting No.9, after preparing his weapons, he saw Lingtian No.7 charging over fearlessly. Lingtian No.7's actions clearly carried a trace of provocation. This made him feel a little angry, thinking that he had been underestimated.
In order to not lose out to his opponent's presence, Leiting No.9 did not hesitate to operate his mecha to rush towards Lingtian No.7. Both of them chose to fly closer to each other. After more than ten seconds, they finally entered the range of their respective long-range attacks.
"The lightning is attacking." At this time, the spectators' hearts were in their throats. They were all guessing who would react faster and be the first to shoot. From the looks of it, Leiting No.9 was more experienced in running and attacking. He was a step ahead of Lingtian No.7, aiming the beam gun in his right hand at him and pulling the trigger.
A powerful energy beam shot out from the muzzle of the gun, shooting towards Lingtian No.7.
"Ah, be careful!" In the audience, compared to the calmness of the seniors, the freshmen who had just entered the academy, as well as those who cared about the Lingtian Mecha Clan, could not help but exclaim in surprise.
At this moment, whether it was the freshmen or seniors, everyone's attention was on Lingtian No.7. If Lingtian No.7 didn't have a good way to deal with this shot, regardless of whether he was hit or not, he would fall into a passive state. In that case, it could be predicted that Leiting No.9 would be the final victor of this battle. On a mecha battlefield, whoever gained the initiative first, unless the difference in strength between the two opponents was too great, would basically determine the final victor of the battle.
"Good!" The audience once again burst into enthusiastic cheers.
This was because Lingtian No.7's response was simply too brilliant, causing everyone to gasp in amazement. Lingtian No.7 didn't panic and choose to use beam attacks to counter the opponent's attack, nor did he allow himself to be suppressed by the opponent by dodging the opponent's attack. He only calmly operated his mecha to perform a dodging maneuver, allowing that beam to brush past his mecha by a hair's breadth to hit the ground, sending up a large amount of sand on the ground. In an instant, this pervasive sand made his entire mecha flicker in and out of view.
Seeing that the opponent's figure was suddenly covered by the sand, Leiting No.9 was stunned for a moment, but he did not give up on attacking. He predicted the possible angles that the opponent could dodge and crazily poured out beams from his beam gun.
"Bang bang bang!" After a few consecutive shots, countless amounts of sand instantly covered the figure of Lingtian No.7. Lei Ting realised that his attacks did not seem to have any effect, and only then did he feel that something was wrong. He immediately chose to retreat rapidly, wanting to increase the distance between them. In a situation where he was unsure of the other party's location, maintaining a safe distance was the best way to protect himself.
Unfortunately, his reaction was still too late. He had just activated his mecha to retreat when a shadow suddenly appeared on his left side. By the time he could see clearly, he found that Lingtian No.7 mecha had already arrived on his left side. A cold light flashed, and the other's beam saber had strangely stabbed towards him from a position he could not block...
"What's going on? How can the opponent appear in front of me in an instant? " Although Leiting No.9 could not believe what he was seeing, he still operated his mecha calmly, pushing his mecha's engines to the maximum in an attempt to dodge as quickly as possible to avoid this unexpected attack of the opponent's.
Because the person involved could not see clearly, Leiting No.9 had not been able to see the movements of Lingtian No.7 hidden by the sand. However, the spectating cadets had chosen to remove all obstacles, so they could see Lingtian No.7's movements clearly. Just as Leiting No.9 was attacking furiously with his beam gun, Lingtian No.7's mecha suddenly made a move that could not be explained by common sense. The extremely strange and uncomfortable footwork caused the space around Lingtian No.7's mecha to distort to a certain extent, and then in the next second, he suddenly appeared beside the opponent, creating a visual illusion of teleportation.
"This is the most impossible heaven-defying technique for advanced mecha warriors to master: Irregular Flicker!" While everyone was still in shock, a portion of the cadets who recognised this technique could not help but exclaim.
Compared to the slanted footwork and Z-shaped dodging of advanced mecha warriors, this Irregular Flicker was the ultimate technique that advanced mecha warriors could only dream of. In order to master Irregular Flicker, one would need to be thoroughly proficient in all the basic footwork, perhaps even instinctively so. That was not all — Irregular Flicker also required extremely high comprehension ability. Without this innate comprehension ability, no matter how thoroughly one mastered those basic footwork, they would not be able to convert it into Irregular Flicker.
Meanwhile, the evolved version of the irregular flicker was the irregular flicker. The irregular flicker was an important basis for advancing to ace operator status. Thus, in the world of mecha piloting, there was a saying that mastering the irregular flicker basically meant that an operator was already half a step into the realm of ace operator.
Unfortunately, most advanced mecha warriors were unable to master this heaven-defying technique. In fact, many mecha masters who had advanced to special-class operator status were not even sure if they could master this top-level technique. This was also why the number of ace operators was so low. To a large extent, many excellent seedlings had been eliminated from the ranks due to this point.
This was something that could not be helped. Without being able to master Irregular Flicker, even if an operator was forced to operate an ace mecha, on the battlefield, a mecha master who did not know Irregular Flicker would only be sending himself to his death. Thus, in the world of mecha piloting, there was no such thing as making do. Every advancement level had to be met with strict requirements, or else they would not be allowed to advance.
Tang Yu saw this action of Lingtian No.7 and his eyes once again flashed with a strange light. If the principal had not already agreed to add an additional student quota, he might have already overturned his original idea and abandoned his original list of students to recruit this Lingtian No.7.
No matter how talented a mecha piloting prodigy was, if they did not have frightening comprehension ability, their future growth would still be limited by the barrier of advancement. And for this Lingtian No.7 to be able to reach this level, he should have entered Mecha World at the age of 13 to learn mecha piloting. Taking everything into account, to be able to master this heaven-defying Irregular Flicker in just 4 years, it was clear to see that his comprehension ability was outstanding. And this point was even more valuable than his mecha piloting talent. This was also the biggest reason why Tang Yu was moved.
"Screech!" Mecha and beam saber collided violently. Leiting No.9 felt his mecha shake violently for a moment, and then the entire cockpit dimmed for a moment before returning to normal in an instant.
Experienced as he was, he immediately confirmed that he had been hit. His series of maneuvers and dodges just now had not allowed him to dodge the other's extremely strange and insidious beam saber. Fortunately, he had activated his mecha's beam shield at the same time. Under the protection of the beam shield, the other's beam saber had not caused any significant damage to his mecha.
However, this did not mean that he was no longer in danger. Although he operated his mecha to retreat rapidly, the other was still following him like a shadow. The beam saber was still pressed viciously against his mecha's cockpit, using the beam saber's energy to rapidly deplete the energy of his beam shield. Once his mecha's beam shield ran out, that beam saber would mercilessly pierce through his cockpit, and then he would be facing death and leaving the field in defeat.
"Warning, mecha's energy can only last for 10 seconds, 10, 9..." The A.I. began to report to Leiting No.9 the time his mecha's energy could last. Leiting No.9 did not dare to gamble that the other's beam saber would run out faster than his beam shield. He could only increase his speed and break away from the other's beam saber, which was following him like a shadow, to salvage the situation.
With just one move, the situation between the two had been reversed. Leiting No.9, who had initially seemed to have the upper hand, was now the one in a passive position and not the Lingtian No.7 he had been at the start.
"Who would have thought that Lingtian No.7's close-range attacks would be so strong?" The spectating cadets could not help but sigh in admiration when they saw this. This was because the outer appearance of Lingtian No.7's mecha, as well as the related equipment it carried, were all geared towards long-range attacks. This was also why the spectating cadets had initially thought that this would be an intense long-range battle.
The spectating cadets naturally didn't know that after following a close combat maniac boss for so long, members like Lin Zhong-qing and Han Jijyun who chose to attack from afar, under Ling Lan's merciless torture for over a year, had improved their close combat skills to the level of those close combat mecha operators. It could even be said that in terms of close combat reflexes, Ling Lan's close combat skills were better than theirs.
It could not be helped. Lin Zhong-qing and Han Jijun had no chance to use long-range attacks against their boss. Boss Lan's speed was just too fast — no matter how far they managed to pull away, their boss would catch up to them in the blink of an eye and attack them from close range. Under these circumstances, they could only engage in close combat with their boss. This was also one of the reasons why long-range attackers like Lin Zhong-qing and the others would have extremely high close-range combat skills. After being abused so much, even if they were not strong, their close-range combat skills had to be strong.
Under this great threat, the sweat on Leiting No.9's forehead was already dripping down. He frantically revved his mecha's engines, cranking them to the maximum. Not only that, the two secondary engines also began to roar to life. The sudden overload of his mecha caused his mecha's speed to increase by a notch. Lingtian No.7 seemed to have not thought of this, and his reaction was a beat too slow. Leiting No.9 successfully pulled away from him, escaping the threat of Lingtian No.7's beam saber...
Leiting No.9 saw that he had pulled away from the opponent, but before he could let out a sigh of relief, he heard his mecha's A.I. blaring with warning, "Warning, evade, warning, evade..." Leiting No.9 stared in shock at the notifications on his mecha's screen. His mecha had actually been locked onto by the opponent's long-range weapon. All the hair on his body stood on end, and his fingers danced wildly in an attempt to evade this great danger.
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