Mech: Shattering of the Galaxy

(The following plot will have a significant twist, and it's even later now. This is the third update, delayed until 2 AM. I apologize to everyone.)

A dark shadow suddenly appeared in the space right in front.

It was a terrifying monster standing nearly three times the height of the Taigu. Due to the close distance, Mu Fan couldn't even see its entire form clearly.

He only saw a blood-soaked hand covered in white bone armor suddenly rise in his view, with sharp claws gleaming.

Then, in the unavoidable position of the Taigu...

A heavy swipe downward!

Bang!

The Taigu Mecha, which was advancing at triple the speed of sound in a reverse assault, was subjected to the same supersonic attack.

The massive bone claw struck hard at the front of the Taigu Mecha, instantly crushing the spherical gravity field.

From extreme motion to stillness, Mu Fan's body endured unimaginable pressure, like a severe blow to the chest, causing a mouthful of blood to be spat out from his throat.

Then the red Taigu Giant was slammed back like a ball.

"Mu Fan!"

Black shouted anxiously. The instant overload of over 20 g caused unexpected internal injuries in Mu Fan, with a terrifying peak surge appearing in the body monitoring system.

The out-of-control Taigu spun and flew backward.

In the violent spinning, Mu Fan gritted his teeth and swept his hands like wind over the control panel, issuing wave after wave of reverse micro-control commands from the Central Light Computer.

After being struck and knocked back over three kilometers, the Taigu finally stabilized.

The swarm of Guardians behind was now less than five kilometers away. Seeing the suddenly returning Taigu Mecha, they launched an attack once again with fervor.

The plump white insect even excitedly jumped off the bug's back.

Under its command, the Guardians went completely berserk, with the Brain Worm's thought waves controlling millions of insects to recklessly swarm forward.

In the Brain Worm's perception, this human Mecha almost disrupted its grand rite, marking it as an absolute target for slaughter.

However, what it didn't know was that human inside the Mecha, Mu Fan, was not focused on himself at that moment but on the humanoid insect beast beyond the brown mist!

The pale bone armor attached to muscle without any skin, the right claw that had just swiped at him hung down, while brown blood dripped from the left claw.

The tattered bone wings behind it flapped gently, with its sturdy backward-bending lower limbs stomping in the air.

That dead gaze looked at him...

Mu Fan forcefully coughed up the clotted blood in his throat, then pushed hard on the engine's pressure lever, causing a purple blast wave to shoot up into the sky from the back of the Taigu.

"What is that!"

"I... don't know, there's no information on such a creature in the database, and Mohandas never mentioned it to me. Mu Fan... I'm sorry." An inexplicable guilt appeared in Black's thoughts, blaming itself for holding Mu Fan back at the critical moment.

"Not knowing is normal, it's okay, I'm not dead yet. I'm definitely going to beat this guy, right?"

Mu Fan grinned, but his eyes were chillingly cold.

The right arm suddenly bent backwards.

The sharp steel spike in the right hand of the Taigu Mecha suddenly ejected, with Mu Fan's eyes fixed intently on the terrifying humanoid insect beast.

He planned to deliver an unforgettable blow with a hundred-ton piling machine.

With a violent sonic boom, the Taigu charged into the sky again.

The sharp steel spike was about to slam into the fearsome bone face.

Yet at that moment, Mu Fan's pupils suddenly contracted, forcibly twisting his body.

As a result, the Taigu Mecha rotated mid-air...

It slightly deviated, passing straight through the bone-faced insect beast!

No, to be precise, it was the beast's afterimage.

A massive sense of crisis bubbled from his heart, and Mu Fan now realized that he had severely underestimated the enemy's strength.

Because the enemy was too fast!

Bang!

A heavy thud.

A bone claw flashed out from the brown mist, leaving five blood scratches, instantly tearing space and grabbing heavily onto the Taigu Mecha's back.

The Gravity Domain was once again forcibly compressed, and the massive force pushed the Taigu Mecha back into the mist.

This time, however, the bone-faced insect beast gave Mu Fan no time to recover, transforming into a figure woven from pale and brown, flickering within the mist.

One by one, the purple streams were shattered from the Mecha's surface, as the Taigu Mecha flew like a massive ball through the air.

This time, the Taigu never fell out of the brown mist again.

Meanwhile, the sea of insects commanded by the Brain Worm halted miles away.

Without the Brain Worm's command, they wouldn't move an inch forward.

The Brain Worm's eyes gleamed as it watched the figure in the mist, openly admiring and adoring in its mind.

Although the entity was merely the Commander's weapon, when could it have such a level of weaponry?

The Zeg Clan it led was nearly exterminated by humans in this universe, which left a relentless point of anger in its consciousness.

Now that the Commander's weapon had joined the battle, it decided to watch quietly.

Its brain, weighing over a ton, was the real reliance at the pinnacle of its race.

As for actual combat, it would never participate.

Thus, the plump white Brain Worm quietly lay on the back of the largest Guardian, looking up at the brilliant scene in the sky.

...

Intense impacts came from all directions, Mu Fan slammed the control panel heavily, and the endless alarm finally stopped.

"How fast is it?" Mu Fan, constantly being struck, asked coldly in between blows.

"Breaking through Mach 20, and it's not the limit."

Black struggled to provide an answer.

Power enough to suppress S-Class Taigu Mechas, almost as fast as the Thunderhawk.

This essentially constitutes the conditions to crush S-Class Mecha.

If not for the powerful Gravity Domain, the Taigu Mecha would have likely been torn to pieces by now.

That heavy, super-speed claw strike—only by experiencing it firsthand can one understand what it feels like.

Is this the true combat strength of the Zeg Clan?

His brain can still maintain the ability to think amidst this intense shaking, which is already the limit.

When another heavy claw strike drilled down, the cockpit abruptly turned red.

This time, it was not the piercing attack alarm, but the lowest energy warning.

[Energy dropped below 3% warning line!]

Taigu Mecha is not like Shura's terrifying mecha which can sustain an entire battle at 3% energy.

Developed around Meteor 3 with its large size, its energy consumption speed is several times that of ordinary mechas!

"Mu Fan! Mu Fan! You must escape, the Gravity Field can't hold for a few seconds!"

Black was struggling to restrain its tone, aiming to keep Mu Fan's mind calm.

The more critical the moment, the less it must offer adverse effects.

In this rapid back-and-forth, the pilot's role is infinitely magnified, now all hope rests on Mu Fan!

"I'm trying; the opponent isn't giving me any time to concentrate the force field!"

Whenever the purple light in Taigu Mecha's hands just started to glow, that inscrutable figure would deliver a precise heavy claw, fiercely knocking him away.

The purple light dissipated into nothingness.

Outside, the once-thick force field began to thin bit by bit.

When the purple light shield completely disappears is when Taigu will be entirely shredded.

Mu Fan controlled the mecha to turn sharply, meeting the opponent's attack; during the moment of bracing against the claw strike, his left hand released a severe blast with [Red Flame].

Six bursts of Fire Meteor exploded directly on the opponent's chest bone armor.

Other than blowing out some powder, there was no substantial impact.

This made Mu Fan's heart sink infinitely.

Boom!

Crossing both arms before him, the thinning Taigu was slammed back into the flesh web.

The Guardians naturally spread out.

Without the Brain Worm's command, they wouldn't attack.

A shadow slowly solidified from beneath the brown mist, a colossal Bone-faced Insect Beast, seventy meters tall, its eyes still cold, indifferent, dead—as if it had accomplished something of no importance.

Now the opponent's defense was close to being unravelled; it needed to deliver the final blow.

Thus, its arm reached behind, its claw clutching its nape, slowly extracting a massive...

Bone Blade.

At this moment, an overwhelming sense of life-and-death crisis emerged in Mu Fan's heart for the first time.

That consistently reliable fighting instinct never lied to him.

Mu Fan, whose body was completely soaked in sweat, suddenly raised his head, his eyes blood red!

In the deepest part of his pupils was the madness of a fierce beast cornered to the end.

His hand trembled as he raised it, teeth grinding audibly.

For the first time in his life, he was trembling in battle.

But it wasn't fear...

His gaze looked toward an inconspicuous spot on the control panel, a glimmer of longing and sorrow in his eyes.

Boom!

The Bone-faced Insect Beast's form disappeared instantly, a white flash streaking through space.

A gigantic bone blade appeared instantly in front of Taigu.

Under intense slashing, the massive mecha was like a baseball struck flying straight towards the stargate.

During this process, that thinning Gravity Domain finally... shattered with a bang.

In the cockpit, the energy gauge dropped to 1%.

Mu Fan's chest bone bore immense pressure, instantly breaking several ribs, and a mouthful of fresh blood spurted heavily.

"Mu Fan, what on earth are you doing!"

Black was genuinely panicked, Mu Fan's severe injuries shattered its logic database.