Chapter 812 - 91: Titan Descends (Part 5)

Brisk’s Titan lost all power and kneeled on the ground.

As the most legendary mercenary leader of this era, after being stripped of his battery, there’s very little he can do...

Especially when facing the enemy of the moment.

In a battle, a warrior’s experience, skills, fighting spirit, as well as the adaptability and power of the weapons will greatly influence the outcome of the bomb’s detonation.

A crushing battle signifies that the defeated side is almost comprehensively lagging behind the other side...

This is Brisk’s first time being on the defeated side.

BT, equipped with all core functionalities, unleashed all its firepower, barely needing extreme operations to suppress the soldiers in the cargo hold and making them struggle to breathe. Two pilots appeared out of nowhere dismantling batteries as easily as eating a meal, and the removed batteries were inserted into BT’s core, allowing this Titan to continuously maintain its dominance...

Brisk named his mercenaries the Top Hunters, but at this moment, he suddenly thought:

This is the real Top Hunter.

Boom!

BT kicked Brisk’s Titan, sending it flying to the cargo hold door, causing a violent explosion that completely blew open the cargo hold doors, with fierce winds howling and sucking away a large number of IMC soldiers and scrapped Titans!

This legend in the mercenary world thus plummeted from a thousand-meter altitude along with his Titan...

Pa!

Lille and Jack both jumped back onto BT’s shoulder, grabbing the Holy Chest’s encapsulation box with three claws—

The Holy Chest had become somewhat unstable amidst the intense battle and turmoil, its special encapsulation metal emitting a blue glow, and when Lille inserted the Octopus Arm’s probe, he immediately realized something was wrong!

[Analyzing time-space energy source...]

[Ironhide: The time-space fluctuations on your side seem off, Lille, you need to leave the fluctuation source.]

[The Holy Chest’s encapsulation is not complete, having encountered excessive kinetic impact in an unstable transport environment, it’s about to undergo energy leakage.]

[Unstable energy is about to explode...]

[Countdown: 30 minutes.]

"This thing is going to explode!" Lille shouted at Jack, "We need to figure out a way to stabilize it!"

"How?! Just like last time?!"

Lille nodded: "Activated Holy Chest must be detonated! We have 30 minutes to handle this:

Control this spaceship, I’ll navigate and modify it, let’s drive the spaceship into the sea!

Otherwise, if this thing explodes in the air, the entire battlefield will be affected!"

Lille feared Jack might not hear or understand, so he paused before emphasizing to Jack once more:

"You have 30 minutes to break through this spaceship, I need to enter its core!"

"I have 30 minutes to break through this spaceship, plenty of time!"

In a way, Lille’s explanation indeed seemed redundant—

Jack instantly understood after hearing the last sentence, opened BT’s cockpit, and jumped in, the engine roared again, ion core charged, breaking through the isolation wall connected to the ship’s next section!

But BT received another communication from Lille:

[Lille: BT, once you break through the energy room, you and Jack must immediately disengage.]

[BT7274: You’re staying behind?]

[Lille: I’m staying to monitor and control the Holy Chest.]

[BT7274: You’ll be blown to ashes.]

[Lille: I won’t, remember the explosion we experienced at the research institute? If all goes well, I’ll avoid this explosion.]

[BT7274: But you might be transported to the wrong time-space, like Colonel Anderson.]

[Lille: I have ample time-travel experience, trust me, BT.]

[BT7274: I understand, good luck, Lille.]

...

Let’s not say the IMC hasn’t seen such a Titan; even the resistance forces haven’t seen it.

BT is a Vanguard-class Titan, the latest product of resistance forces’ Titan technology, a versatile Titan capable of switching weapons and core abilities at any moment.

The production capability and technology of the frontier still have a certain gap compared to the core Star Domain, but in many situations, the Vanguard-class Titan is far more usable than IMC’s old Titans.

However, "usable" doesn’t mean it can pull off such exaggerated feats!

BT took off on the spot and directly caught up with the IMS Draco in mid-flight, a technology resistance forces don’t have at all, not even the IMC has seen Titans with such strong flight capability and extraordinarily powerful aerial combat abilities!

The massive ship was bombarded by the small BT exploding repeatedly, and after explosions in all three engines, the large ship was clearly disabled!

The ground situation was equally promising: with the Air Force Base itself disrupted, breaking through the base from the ground was merely a matter of time—

This timing issue would have stumped the resistance forces’ troops, and before they could reach the Holy Chest, Brisk would have taken it away, but now it’s different!

The improved BT directly caught up with Draco, even intercepting that large ship!

Judging by surface appearances, the ship kept bursting into flames and booms from within, the explosion trajectory clearly showcasing Cooper and BT’s advancing route and efficiency...

They completely broke through that spaceship!

[BT7274: Commander, the Dragon constellation is collapsing, the Holy Chest is in a highly unstable state, if an explosion occurs it will affect the entire battlefield.]

[BT7274: We will control the ship to crash into the sea surface, coordinates have been transmitted to the operations network.]

[BT7274: Please avoid the explosion point, immediately retrieve the Holy Chest after the explosion.]

[Sarah: What? You’re using the Dragon constellation as an explosion shield? What about you?]

[BT7274: Don’t worry about us, we will evacuate and ensure the Holy Chest does not fall into the hands of the IMC.]

Buzz——

The engines of the Dragon constellation suddenly overloaded, the entire ship suddenly gained enormous thrust!

Unbalanced stress twisted the steel, the gigantic ship emitting a piercing low hum mid-air, this vessel originally meant to escape to another time-fold weapon base suddenly plunged toward the sea surface!

BT, ablaze all over, detached from the crashing split ship, Sarah realized the moment was now!

[Sarah: Raiders, prepare to brace for explosion!]

...

In an instant, incandescent light filled the entire sea surface.

Within a limited 30 minutes, Jack completely accomplished the task of penetrating this enormous sky transport ship, Lille and the Cybertron research team perfectly executed the mission of connecting the ship’s core around the Holy Chest, creating a makeshift explosion deterrent.

Thanks to Anderson’s wristband, Lille still recorded the explosion data in detail...

At the moment of the explosion, the ark reactor that had been emptied of energy along the way absorbed the explosion energy once more, activating the wristband device——

Everything around halted at the moment of the explosion.

Before Lille’s eyes was the energy hub of the Dragon constellation, the azure fusion reactor operating here, powering the propulsion facilities including the Jump Engine.

[Ironhide: Your supposition was correct, the prototype of the time-fold weapon in this world is the Jump Engine, transferring massive energy to different timespaces...]

[Ironhide: But the Jump Engine and time-fold weapon will lock the time coordinates, it appears to the people of this world time is indeed a difficult parameter to modify.]

[Ironhide: This is somewhat enlightening for us as well.]

[Ironhide: But I don’t understand, if the IMC or the rebels don’t know how to control time, how did they make that wristband?]

The wristband emitted a dazzling light from Lille’s gauntlet.

[Lille: ...Maybe like the Holy Chest, it wasn’t invented by them.]

[Ironhide: Given the current circumstances, that seems reasonable.]

[Ironhide: Prepare to transit to the other side, but I estimate that over there you’ll only be able to stay briefly, and you’ll need to use your own energy to resist... timespace repulsion?]

As the light from the wristband grew ever more radiant, everything around Lille began to turn illusory——

Just like in the past at the research base where they experienced an explosion, yet finally fixed in a future without an explosion, Lille would now autonomously choose to appear fixed in a past without the explosion.

The light from the Holy Chest explosion nearly engulfed everything: light, vibration, radiation...

All senses and perception vanished completely, as the incandescent light gradually shrunken and faded, the structure of the IMC Dragon constellation vessel where Lille stood continuously disappeared!

[Time is reversing, calculating time adjustment amplitude...]

A row of rapidly flashing time information flickered quickly before Lille: one day ago, two days ago, seven days ago, one month ago...

Finally fixed at seven years prior.

Seven years earlier, the Holy Chest appeared on the surface of Tifon Star as the explosion gradually ended.

Lille appeared by the sea, watching the Holy Chest, raising his head...

An IMC civilian research ship happened to pass through the atmosphere.

They discovered some strange timespace fluctuations.

At this moment, there was no Sera Air Force Base nor IMC research institute in the distance.

Lille’s gauntlet radiated peculiar green light, constantly drawing energy from the ark reactor so he could continue staying in this world.

However, even the wristband began to turn ethereal, seeming not to belong here, entangled in some curious way with the wristband in this timespace.

This time, Lille preempted a hint from his own "system".

[Retaining main consciousness in this timespace will continue consuming Technology Points.]

[Expense: 100 points/hour]

[Note: No Technology Points are needed before energy clears.]

However, considering the current expenditure, even Lille’s ark reactor full of timespace energy might struggle to support him staying here for more than 60 seconds.

So the remaining time was sufficient for him to do one thing.

A palm-sized drone detached and transformed from Lille, carrying a very simple signal, flew toward the coordinates where Lille first appeared in this world...

Seven years later, the IMC would build a factory there.

When a Titan named BT7274, and a Rifleman named Jack Cooper entered the factory perimeter, this transmitter would activate.

Create an AI backup for Lille within the factory, simultaneously releasing the minor stored timespace energy inside...

Adjust the timespace energy fluctuation values to a scope Lille would capture upon entering the void.

He would descend upon this world at that time.