KID's Tank and Medic Duo System
Commentator hesitated before speaking: "It seems like that blade has a linear attack."
Everyone looked at Huo Yan's blade. The blade seemed quite ordinary, like a typical A-level mecha light blade weapon. Those who understood immediately analyzed the weapon when they saw it. It was evident that the blade had a linear attack, similar to the blade wind when swinging a sword. However, the speed of its blade wind was faster, almost instantaneous, and the vibration followed a straight line.
[Isn't it 40 meters?!]
[I just noticed that the distance between the two mechas should not exceed 20 meters!]
"The movement speed of the guard is indeed faster than the tank, but speed needs a certain distance to gain an advantage. In the initial stage, both sides can't open the distance at all. The tank uses this weapon to achieve the effect of keeping the opponent close." The Gale designer paused after saying this, "But Yuan actually used this type of shock ability for the blade... like air vibration? Wouldn't it be better to make it a cannon-type weapon?"
Making melee weapons into remote control devices is rare in the Alliance, but not impossible.
For example, melee control weapons like swords and blades aim for achieving speed control effects in a short period. For instance, the metal control blade of the Gale guard can paralyze an undefended mecha in the instant of contact, causing the mecha's movements to stall for 3-5 seconds. Due to the short distance and fast speed, the control effect is very significant. Even if they have to carry remote control weapons, they usually choose mid-range cannon-type weapons with both damage and control capabilities.
Making a blade or sword into a remote control weapon is quite extreme.
How far can a blade or sword reach?! It is not as good as cannon-type control weapons for long distances, and it's not as fast as short-range control for close distances.
In KID's rest area, as the barrage in the live broadcast room discussed, Gu Xiaotian looked at Jiang Simiao beside him with confusion, "Brother Lin, how did Yan plan to make this blade?"
Jiang Simiao: "He didn't tell me the idea behind making this weapon."
"Using the shock ability crystal to make a cannon-type control weapon is indeed good; a single shot can achieve remote repulsion control. But he said that such a design is too simple." Shen Xingtang had been to the repair room, heard the discussion between Ying and Grandpa Gu, and added, "The hit rate of cannon-type weapons is definitely higher than the straight-line shock of the blade wind, but cannon-type control weapons require charging time, and the tank's charging is the slowest among all mechas."
This special shock ability, classified under the special Wind attribute ability crystal, compresses the charging time and will slow down the control time of the shock ability.
But the tank's aggregation speed with melee weapons is faster than using remote cannon-type weapons. Therefore, he turned this weapon into an air shock blade. The weapon model used is the light blade that Huo Yan is good at, designed to maximize the functional ability of the shock ability.
"And this blade is not just a remote blade."
Shen Xingtang looked at the two mechas in the live broadcast room and chuckled, "The farthest attack distance is 25 meters, and the straight-line shock range is about 10 meters. It's not just a long-range blade; it's a straight-line functional blade."
The Beacon Fire guard was knocked down near the ruins. The front and high roads have been blocked by the tank, leaving only debris behind him.
But he didn't plan to stay in place. Long-range weapons are easier to predict than bullets, as long as he sees the position of the opponent's blade, he can judge the direction of the attack.
The blade looks heavy, and even if the swing is fast, it shouldn't be as fast as bullets.
As long as he can avoid it—
The Beacon Fire guard seized the time, identified the direction of Huo Yan's blade, and, utilizing the fast speed of the guardian mecha, broke through from the opponent's diagonal. This time, he firmly locked the direction of the opponent's weapon, decisively changing direction at the moment when Huo Yan raised the blade.
Everyone in the live broadcast room thought that the Beacon Fire guard was finally going to break through, but they saw the tank mecha's blade suddenly swing horizontally. The originally vertically slashed blade instantly turned into a horizontal slash, and the shock produced by the blade wind rushed out horizontally, hitting the mecha trying to escape again!
[Horizontal slash?!]
[???]
[I didn't even notice the shock range when he slashed vertically just now.]
"This is a large-range blade wind when swung out from a long distance!" The commentator hesitated before saying, "KID's tank carrying this weapon should have a shock-type ability crystal. It's normal to have a broad range... Many melee weapons have linear attacks, but Huo Yan's prediction is too accurate."
Many people in the live broadcast room had watched team battle matches before, and they used to feel that KID's matches were chaotic.
But now they suddenly realized that this group of seemingly chaotic mecha pilots from KID had their own confidence in chaos.
[I suddenly remembered that in the previous KID matches, Yan could always protect other KID mecha pilots very well.]
[Yes, I remember the cheating match of the DE team. When Trace was almost hit, Yan rushed to him to block the attack at the first time.]
Even though the linear attack was long-range, and the range was broad, it was undoubtedly within the weapon forging range allowed by the Alliance. However, in such an ordinary linear attack, Huo Yan could accurately predict the escape direction of the Beacon Fire guard every time.
Everyone in the live broadcast room looked again at the tank mecha, which was clearly the least threatening. It had no outstanding attack ability, no super-high movement speed, and no surprise feeling of getting a headshot with each shot. Yet, just by standing in that position, it could give others a tremendous sense of oppression.
Tank mecha blocking a control-equipped guardian mecha?! Who would have thought of this situation?
But KID did stop it.
Inside the polluted area, the Beacon Fire guard realized that the tank in front of him was not simple. The linear shock distance of the light blade was not terrifying; what was frightening was this man's precise prediction. Even if he predicted the direction of Huo Yan's blade, he couldn't predict the path of Huo Yan's blade.
If it were a long distance, he could completely escape Huo Yan's control. However, crucially, this was a short distance, surrounded by debris, and his movement speed, even if fast, could not escape Huo Yan's control range before he swung the blade.
On the other side of the separated battlefield, the other four KID mechas faced the four mechas of Beacon Fire.
The lineup of the Beacon Fire four mechas against KID was not advantageous at all. Two of them carried control weapons, the medic and tank were both defensive types, and the only output position for the whole team was the artillery captain of Gale. On the other hand, KID's side had the semi-tank Lin Yao, the stealth expert Ji Qingfeng, the high-output artillery You Su, and the functional control mecha Lu Xi.
Each KID mecha had considerable firepower, and the Gale four mechas couldn't support their teammates on the other side and couldn't escape from the encirclement of these four mechas on this side.
The captain of Beacon Fire's said, "We neglected Huo Yan; we didn't expect his ability to keep people here would be so strong. Let's not engage in one-on-one combat with him. Cooperate with the stealth, and use Yan or Sink as a breakthrough. He can control one person; I don't believe he can control two."
The Beacon Fire guard and the stealth were both high-attack mechas, and in some sense, facing the KID tank and medic mecha should not be at a disadvantage. Huo Yan's two weapons indeed restrained melee attack mechas like the guard and the stealth, but the medic mecha was different.
Even though Sink from KID was the legendary one, his carried weapon was an energy cannon.
Energy cannons could indeed suppress Gale's stealth mecha, but the weapon required charging. If two mechas attacked simultaneously, the possibility of breaking through from the medic side was better than the tank.
The Beacon Fire Gale guard and the stealth immediately retreated a few steps, locking onto the two mechas directly in front of them.
Many people in the live broadcast room noticed the subtle changes on the field, especially the movements of the Beacon Fire guard and the stealth. They immediately realized that these two mechas were going to cooperate.
[Could their change in direction mean they want to...]
[Want to break through from Sink's side...?]
[Wait a minute? Did you guys notice? Sink hasn't brought out the restraining lock so far.]
The audience in the live broadcast room realized, as they had been focusing on Huo Yan, that they had completely ignored Sink.
Sink seemed to have only used the quickly charged energy cannon to bombard Gale's stealth mecha from the beginning. The close-range restraining lock, which had control effects, had not been used so far.
[I have a bad feeling.]
Outside the ruins, the streets were in ruins.
In the chaotic block, KID and the Beacon Fire four mechas were not far apart.
At this moment, the Beacon Fire guard and the stealth from Beacon Fire simultaneously activated their thrusters and rushed toward the direction of KID's tank. The attack speed of the two mechas was extremely fast, almost instantly closing the distance between them, but just as Huo Yan raised his blade, the two Beacon Fire mechas suddenly changed direction and rushed toward the medic mecha in the elevated position.
Huo Yan shouted, "It's a feigned attack!"
The speed at which the two Gale mechas changed their attack direction was extremely fast. At the moment when Huo Yan swung his blade, the Beacon Fire guard immediately locked onto Sink, the medic mecha of KID. Before being hit by Huo Yan's air shock blade, his charging gun had already fired towards the direction of the medic mecha. The barrage of the charging gun was famous for its fierce firepower, and the overwhelming firepower served as natural cover. Seizing the opportunity of the firepower cover, the Beacon Fire stealth took advantage of the gap and threw out the three darts in his hand.
The Beacon Fire stealth carried darts and short blades, and his darts were poisoned with the needles of venomous bees. Once hit by the darts, the speed would be slowed. Taking advantage of the cover of his teammate's firepower, he found the opportunity, and the darts were aimed directly at the left hand of Sink, who held the cannon.
The commentator, seeing this scene, exclaimed, "Beacon Fire Stealth is trying to escape!"
In the torrent of firepower and the approaching poison darts, everyone held their breath and looked at the medic mecha hovering high. In this critical moment, the thrusters of Sink suddenly pushed, almost at the same time the battlefield was covered by the war, his right-hand weapon box suddenly lit up, and the chain-type restraining lock appeared in his right hand.
In less than a second, his execution speed was as fast as Beacon Fire Stealth.
He seemed to have anticipated such an attack long ago. In the instant when the poisoned darts approached, the entire mecha moved to the right without fear, facing the assault cannon of the Beacon Fire Guard. He threw the right-hand restraining lock out, catching the stealth mecha that had moved away from him. Ying Chenlin slightly lowered his head, exerting force with his right hand, pulling down the stealth mecha that was about to escape from his upper left.
"F**k!" The Beacon Fire Stealth mecha cursed, "Sink, d*mn it, he brought a restraining lock."
These actions almost happened in an instant, whether it was the assault cannon of the Beacon Fire Guard or the poisoned darts of the Stealth mecha.
Yet, despite all this, the medic mecha not only avoided getting hit, but also stood guard nearby.
The Beacon Fire Guard stopped, "Attack-type medic mecha?! Restraint lock and energy cannon!?"
Melee control weapons paired with long-range attack weapons...? What a bizarre combination!
After catching the Beacon Fire Stealth in the restraining lock, Ying Chenlin did not stop. With the Stealth mecha in his right hand, he switched control to the energy cannon before the control effect of the weapon wore off. The medic mecha's unique efficient charging caught up with the control time. He aimed the cannon at the Stealth mecha, and with a close-range blast, he directly knocked the Stealth mecha back to the ground.
Ying Chenlin said, "Huo Ge, lend me a hand."
Huo Yan asked, "What do you want to do?"
Ying Chenlin locked onto the mecha in front of him, "Help me keep an eye on the Guardian."
As soon as Huo Yan heard this, he immediately said, "Don't worry, even if he runs 20 meters away, I can still shoot him down."
The entire live broadcast room was shocked by Sink's restraining lock.
The movement of Sink's hand when he threw out the restraining lock surprised them. Although they had seen Sink single-handedly take down other mechas, at that time, they didn't realize how fast Sink's speed was. It wasn't until they saw someone daring to control others in the midst of the assault cannon's fire that they noticed how quickly Sink operated with both hands.
And this was not the end. After the two mechas of Beacon Fire broke through towards the medic mecha, the battle inside the arena suddenly accelerated. KID's tank and medic mecha, while the Beacon Fire mechas were in action, also moved simultaneously.
When the Beacon Fire Guard's assault cannon fired again towards Sink, Yan rushed over and blocked it, redirecting the barrage back, forcing the Beacon Fire mechas to change their direction passively.
The poisoned darts from the Stealth mecha had not been thrown out yet when they suddenly saw the cannon fire from the diagonal direction being rebounded. He was just about to evade that attack.
Suddenly, the protected medic mecha moved. Turning around, the medic mecha almost aligned with the direction of the rebounded cannon fire, lurking under the barrage, using the thrust of the thrusters, it flipped gracefully, seizing a momentary gap in time. In his hand, the restraining lock accurately targeted the escaping Stealth mecha at the moment it tried to flee.
The Beacon Fire Stealth, unable to escape, was bound by the medic mecha's restraining lock, forcibly enduring the damage from the barrage rebounded by his teammate. They had fought elsewhere before, and the Stealth mecha's defense was already weak. The initial 15% damage had gradually increased due to the successive harassments from KID's medic mecha. Now, facing the damage reflected by his teammate, the mecha's damage level instantly rose to 25%!
KID's medic mecha, after the rebound of the assault cannon, quickly closed in on the Beacon Fire Stealth. Stepping on the Stealth mecha's shoulder, he kicked the mecha down while flipping the restraining lock in his hand into an energy cannon. The energy cannon aimed downward, charging with a hum, accurately hitting the Stealth mecha.
Seeing this, the Beacon Fire Guard wanted to go help, but the shockwaves coming from the diagonal direction instantly separated him from the Stealth mecha.
He suddenly stiffened, seeing that Huo Yan had already moved around him.
Everyone outside the arena saw KID's tank and medic mecha cooperating. Their movements were fast, the tank's shockwave blade became a weapon to separate the two Gale mechas, and the counter-attack shield blocked the attacks perfectly. Each support was timed just right. On the other side, the medic mecha's attack speed became smoother in the melee against the Stealth mecha, and everyone saw him continuously switching weapons, playing the role of a bold assassin who treated long-range weapons as close-range ones.
More like a Stealth mecha than the Beacon Fire Stealth.
Everyone in the live broadcast room was astonished. They watched KID's two mechas working together, the tank's obstruction assisting to prevent the Beacon Fire Guard from rescuing his teammate. The shockwave blade cut through the situation, the counter-attack shield blocked the attacks, and each support was perfectly timed. Meanwhile, the medic mecha's attack speed became more and more fluid. All they saw was him constantly switching weapons, a flexible and free-spirited close-quarters assassin.
Until later, when the Stealth mecha threw out the poisoned darts, his predictions completely surpassed the opponent.
One blast after another, everyone watched the Stealth mecha's damage slowly increasing.
Beacon Fire Guard: "Can the medic mecha come over and help!?"
The medic mecha on Beacon Fire's side was being harassed by Ji Qingfeng on the other side. Not to mention coming over, he couldn't even move. "Can't go."
The medic mecha's attack was indeed not strong, but no one could withstand such a high-frequency close-range bombardment. Seeing the Stealth mecha's damage increase from 25%, everyone realized too late, and when they reacted, the Stealth mecha's damage had already reached 58%.
Next shot, 60%!
As the Stealth mecha's damage reached 60%, Sink from KID continued his actions. He seemed to have sensed the panic of the Stealth mecha, and his movements became more composed. Taking advantage of the panic revealed by the opponent, he calmly seized the gap in time. The charging time of his energy cannon began to lengthen, and the damage of each shot exceeded the previous one.
Everyone in the live broadcast room stopped, watching the moment the Stealth mecha was caught, and certain familiar scenes and actions emerged, as if they had seen something similar a long time ago.
These smooth close-quarter movements, the increasingly fast firing speed, daringly treating long-range weapons as close-range ones—
[Do you all remember? It's the medic mecha that single-handedly killed the Stealth mecha in the virtual battlefield.]
[It seems like it is indeed the case... and at that time, the medic mecha also used close-range attacks.]
[Oh, no way! Is that mecha Sink???]
[...I had a hunch it was him from the moment he entered the field!]
The trend of attacking medics first emerged in the virtual battlefield when a medic mecha, equipped with a restraining lock and energy cannon, achieved a solo kill against a stealth mecha.
At this moment, inside the arena, Sink had one hand pressed against the head of the stealth mecha. His entire mecha executed an extreme somersaulting maneuver. With a sudden press of his right hand, the restraining lock in his left hand transformed into an energy cannon. Pressing the opponent with just one hand, he completed the final charge of the energy cannon.
As the stealth mecha reacted, attempting to counterattack, Sink flipped and landed behind it. The energy cannon pressed against the stealth mecha's back, and with a buzzing sound, it unleashed a powerful blast!
[KID-Sink eliminates Beacon Fire - ynh]
KID's tank and medic combination, under intense pressure against Beacon Fire's Guard and Stealth, forcibly eliminated Beacon Fire's Stealth!