The King of Black Fog

A thousand meters away, an incredibly bright red mecha stood silently, like a flame descending from the sky!

Even at a distance of a thousand meters, the fifty-meter-tall humanoid steel beast still grasped people's hearts and squeezed their breaths with an indescribable force of intimidation.

Gorgeous, blazing, majestic.

Hum—

The mecha's eyes glowed bright red, like a crimson demon.

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Just arrived in another world, it felt like waking up from sleep.

"Lan! Lan! Lan Aister!"

Sense of crisis pricked at her body, as if someone had yanked her collar hard, Yang Qinglan suddenly woke up.

A blonde beautiful girl knelt by her side.

Around her ears were the fierce sounds of gunfire and explosions, the shock wave created a storm that tossed her and the blonde girl's hair, the smell of gunpowder filled her nostrils, and waves of heat radiated from the fiery flames.

She turned her head to see, a red mecha and a white mecha were battling with a dozen mechanical monsters.

{Imperial Knight Order's custom-made mechas, unlike standard issued mechas, utilized the most advanced neural connection technology.}

{Under this technology, the twenty-six-meter mecha nearly became the pilot's second body, evolving from merely piloting to "wearing."}

{The pilots of these two mechas respectively were Cha Gloria and Yao Steinman.}

She had one too, Yang Qinglan suddenly "remembered,", her gaze involuntarily drifting to a certain area, a blue mecha, stacked up like a corpse at the forest's edge, the earlier smell of gunpowder, the heat wave, mostly came from this mecha.

It was already destroyed.

To stop the Imperial Mecha, it had received almost fatal damage; thereafter, it was targeted by the 'scout type' mechanical creatures in front of her, "herself" had thus fainted, rescued by the Princess.

"Zzz...Zzz..."

The mecha key on her wrist suddenly received a message from the mecha that had already "died."

Yang Qinglan looked down.

[Time: 1678, Early Summer]

[Location: 'Isolde Empire' Frontier]

[Background: The war between the Empire and the Duchy is coming to an end, you are ordered to protect the Princess and the heir of the Empire in a marriage alliance, on the border, ambushed by an unknown mecha unit, with the help of rearguard troops, you and two other Imperial Knights managed to escape with the princess but were soon discovered by scout-type mechas]

[Main Mission: Knight's Mission]

[Mission content: Safely deliver Princess Beia Triss to the Imperial Capital of the Isolde Empire]

[Remark: For the knight's mission, sacrifice!]

{Lan Aister... Leistain Duchy's Imperial Knight... guarding the princess to the Isolde Empire} looking at the information, she simultaneously "remembered" who she was.

"Boom! Boom!"

A new heat wave came, the red and white mechas had taken care of the 'scout-type' mechanical creatures, their massive bodies, stepping agilely, walked towards this side.

"Qing Lan, this thing is too amazing! It perfectly replicates my movements! Just a pity it can't use Visualization," the red mecha called out.

"Qing Lan? Visualization?" Princess Beia Triss asked, puzzled.

"That's a secret of the Imperial Knights," Yang Qinglan casually explained.

"Stop chatting here, get on!" the chest hatch of the white mecha opened, Yao Steinman sat inside, dressed in military attire, looking spirited and vigorous.

Simultaneously as the hatch opened, the white mecha's right hand spread beside them.

Yang Qinglan also quickly got into the mode, she said to the princess, "Princess, you ride in Yao's mecha, I'll ride in Cha's."

Princess Beia Triss did not move, she weakly shook her head, "It's no use, the Empire sent three Imperial Mechas to attack us, no matter what we do, they will find us, and kill us. "

Yang Qinglan had no time to comfort her, she stood up and threw her into the white mecha's hand.

The white mecha's hand closed, its five mechanical fingers imprisoning the princess like a prison, the wrist lifted to send the princess into the cockpit in its chest.

The air compressed, the hatch closed, as the white mecha stood up, Yang Qinglan also entered the red mecha.

The cockpit was very narrow, that was one of the reasons why Yang Qinglan wanted to separate from the princess.

Li Qianxia sat in the pilot seat, wearing a military vest and shorts, her agile, long arms and legs exposed.

Her hands stretched into the grooves of the neural connection device, her right foot pressing on a pedal, which could control the output power of the power furnace, and her left foot also had a pedal, which was the cockpit ejection device—once triggered, the body would self-destruct according to a pre-input program.

"Where's your brother?" Yang Qinglan asked immediately.

"He's fine," Li Qianxia said, operating the mecha to keep up with the white one ahead, "For some reason, this world bans the use of teleportation skills, so we can't call him over."

The two mechas, each weighing hundreds of tons, raced through the mountains like giants, but they emitted only a faint hum from their motors, quieter than the rustling of leaves they brushed past.

Yang Qinglan thought for a moment and said,

"Maybe it has to do with our mission. If we could use teleportation, you could call your brother over and find a picture of the Imperial Capital; our mission would be very easy to complete."

Li Qianxia was about to nod in agreement when the princess's voice came through the team channel.

"You three should run, the Empire's target is me. As long as you split from me, they won't hurt you."

"What you need to be doing now is to shut up and just wait to be the new bride," Turquoise Pool ruthlessly lectured.

Princess Beia Triss did not get angry because of her attitude but continued persuading with a worried tone, "Yao, Lan, Xia, you are the elite of the Empress's Knight Order and have confronted the Imperial Knights head-on. There's no need to sacrifice yourselves for an impossible cause."

Contrary to what the princess thought, the three had no recollection of the Imperial Knights.

Yang Qinglan asked Li Qianxia to turn on the communicator and said, "Princess, precisely because we have fought with Imperial Knights, we cannot run away. The enemy has marked us, and to eliminate loose ends, they will not spare us even if you sacrifice yourself."

Silence ensued on the other side.

After a long while.

"...I'm sorry." The voice was frail, making it seem as though the speaker had curled up in a corner of the cockpit.

"It's okay!" Li Qianxia quickly comforted, "As long as we work together, we will definitely reach the capital safely!"

The princess did not respond.

Li Qianxia turned off the communicator and said sympathetically, "Poor girl, at our age, having to marry into another country for the sake of her nation, and even being targeted by assassins along the way."

"Are you confident in facing the Imperial Mecha?" Yang Qinglan asked her.

"If it's the same model as my mecha, there's absolutely no problem. But according to the princess, it must be stronger than mine. Competing in terms of power certainly won't work, but we still have skills."

Yang Qinglan considered carefully for a while, feeling that the situation was not as optimistic as Li Qianxia imagined. Many skills were ineffective against mechas.

She had 'Attract And Repel,' while the opponent had Flying;

Hallucinations needed the pilot to be visible, but the pilot would never exit the cockpit.

However, if they chose to actively attack and find the pilots during their meal or rest times, assassinating them would be easy again.

"Enemy mecha detected"

An alert popped up on the optical display, and both looked towards the radar screen, where a red dot was following at the same speed overhead.

Li Qianxia "looked up," and the figure of the enemy mecha appeared on the display.

The cyan-colored mecha, nearly sixty meters tall, moved fast yet gave the impression of casually strolling, exuding an arrogant and composed aura.

"Judgement!" the princess cried out through the communicator, "Run quickly!"

"Is this the Imperial Mecha?" Li Qianxia was eager to try.

How strong could it really be? A trial would tell, and Yang Qinglan agreed to the encounter.

"Locked on"

"Locked on"

"Judgement."

A cyan beam of light roared across the Earth, sending waves of air skyrocketing, creating a visible wall of air.

The massive energy beam, as if stealing all the light in the world, made everything around it darken.

Between the mountains, birds and wild animals scampered in panic as if it were the end of the world.

When all the disturbance had ceased, the ground bore a canyon over a thousand meters long and a hundred meters deep.

Li Qianxia's red mecha and Turquoise Pool's white mecha lay in shock at the edge of the canyon.

The leg of the red mecha moved unconsciously, and the kicked down rocks took a long time to make a dull landing sound.

It was a close call, nearly annihilating both the people and the mecha!

Was this the power of an Imperial Mecha?

No wonder the mission was only to escort the princess to the capital, not to eliminate the assassin!

Is this even something humans could achieve?

"Boom!"

The cyan-colored Imperial Mecha, like God descending, slowly lowered its height. Against the backdrop of the azure sky, it hovered over the canyon, gazing down at the two insects that had narrowly escaped.