Chapter 142: SEED
Coalition fleet, Lieutenant Colonel Manekin finally waited for the reinforcements mentioned by the headquarters.
"This is..."
Looking at the huge MA shining with golden light on the screen, this AEU commander felt quite surprised.
She simply counted the GN Drives behind the MA and found that there were actually seven of them, which meant that the output of this MA must be extraordinary.
It seems there is something that can restrain Celestial Being's MA.
With the arrival of reinforcements, the coalition fleet set out again, with the MA in the center and the MS team divided into two groups to encircle the position where Ptolemaios was hiding in the debris belt.
Ptolemaios clearly also detected the coalition's movements, and the pilots made responses under Sumeragi's orders.
The Flag and the Throne Gundam were responsible for intercepting the GN-X unit on the left, while the Kyrios Gundam and Nadleeh Gundam were responsible for the GN-X unit on the right.
Lockon's Dynames Gundam stayed behind to defend Ptolemaios, responsible for solving the fish that slipped through the net.
And the Exia moved forward in the center to launch an attack on the enemy MA.
However, the coalition's MA seemed to possess ultra-long-range shelling range.
A huge golden beam surged from outside the range, destroying all obstacles along the way.
Ptolemaios narrowly performed an evasion maneuver before being hit, dodging the fate of being "one-shot."
But just a graze caused a large area of the outer armor on the left rear hull to peel off.
Looking at the terrifying shelling effect of the Alvatore, Li Boyong in the Flag secretly made a comparison and gasped in his heart.
No joke, the shelling power of this MA was on the same level as a positron siege cannon.
Beep, beep, beep, beep.
However, Li Boyong didn't seem to have the energy to care about others; the six GN-Xs on the left wing had already entered combat range.
The Flag and the Throne fought six GN-Xs in debris combat; Shihe took the initiative to pilot the machine in good condition, the Throne, to the front line to attract most of the firepower, while Li Boyong piloted the Flag to provide cover on the side and rear of the Throne.
Even facing a numerical disadvantage, the two still relied on tacit cooperation and proficiency in debris combat to hold back the six GN-Xs to death.
And on the right wing, the Dynames Gundam and Nadleeh Gundam fell into a bitter struggle against eight GN-Xs.
Allelujah was still affected by the Super Soldier's brain quantum waves and was suppressed by Sergei and Peries working together.
And Nadleeh was suppressed by three GN-Xs due to performance issues.
After all, the only advantage of the Nadleeh Gundam was the Trial System used for Gundam combat; the rest, whether in armor or firepower, was not even stronger than the second-generation Gundams.
In the confrontation against the GN-X, the Trial System was useless, and Tieria, who had lost Veda's assistance, did not have an advantage in piloting technology, so he was suppressed very simply.
This led to three GN-Xs leaking past on the right wing, but
Although in poor condition, Lockon still utilized the firepower advantage of the GN Armor to intercept these three fish that had slipped through the net.
On the other side, Setsuna, who was breaking through the center, also began to engage the Alvatore.
The entire battle situation suddenly entered a stalemate; it all depended on which side's frontline balance would be broken first, thereby affecting the overall situation.
"The most difficult part, I'm afraid, is still on the left flank."
On the bridge of the Ptolemaios, Sumeragi Lee Noriega made a judgment on the stalemated battle.
Although there were only six GN-Xs on the left flank, their own side's combat power on the left flank consisted of only one Throne and one Flag.
Especially Li Boyong's Flag; it already had a performance gap compared to the GN-X, and now that the machine's condition was poor, it really made one unable to help but break into a cold sweat for him.
Facts proved that Sumeragi Lee Noriega's worry was justified.
Li Boyong was indeed caught in a bitter struggle.
The UN pilots were not fools either; seeing such a large weakness on the Flag's side, they naturally would not turn a blind eye.
After paying the price of two lightly damaged machines, the UN forces on the left flank finally separated the well-coordinated Li Boyong and Shihe.
Four GN-Xs, including the lightly damaged ones, held Shihe's Throne fast, while the remaining two began to pincer Li Boyong's Flag.
"Hey, hey, isn't this script a bit wrong?"
Li Boyong muttered, while simultaneously maneuvering the Flag to use the debris belt to circle around with the two GN-Xs.
"Tch, just dealt with Ali Al-Saachez, and now I'm being suppressed by two small fries..."
Li Boyong had quite a few complaints about falling into a disadvantage, but he still had to cautiously perform evasive maneuvers.
"No choice, today I, Li Boyong, can only play the role of 'Li the Circler'."
After the quip, Li Boyong continued to lead the two GN-Xs in circles within the debris belt.
The pilots of the two GN-Xs chasing Li Boyong were also not calm; they had originally thought the Flag would be a great breakthrough point, and perhaps even shift the entire battle.
As a result, after chasing and attacking him for a long time, they hadn't achieved any results.
"What are those two idiots doing? Spending so much effort just to deal with one Flag? Send another one over to help!"
The UN officer commanding the left flank saw this and decisively sent reinforcements.
"A-Yong is in danger over there."
Seeing another GN-X break away and fly toward Li Boyong, Shihe's eyes turned red with anxiety.
But the UN side was also fighting for their lives, clearly determined to use the Flag as a breakthrough point; three GN-Xs tightly entangled Shihe, making it impossible for her to go and reinforce.
On the other side, Li Boyong, who was originally facing two GN-Xs, was already under immense pressure.
Now that an extra GN-X had suddenly appeared, the situation immediately became precarious.
He even used one Evasion Command just to barely save his own life.
But facing the pincer attack of three GN-Xs, Li Boyong, clutching his final Evasion Command, felt his heart gradually sink.
Damn it, I was a bit overconfident.
It seems even circling around for a while is becoming difficult...
The more Li Boyong resisted, the more it incited the anger of the UN pilots.
Being unable to take down a mere Flag after a long attack was a frustration they couldn't swallow.
The three GN-Xs launched another encirclement; two flanked from the sides to block the Flag's escape route, while one circled behind to deliver a fatal blow.
Li Boyong swayed left and right, barely dodging the fire from the two GN-Xs, but with his evasion space suppressed, he inevitably exposed his back to the third GN-X.
"Last chance..."
Li Boyong gritted his teeth, preparing to use his final Evasion Command.
But just before he activated the command, a linear cannon shot struck the back of the third GN-X, interrupting its attack on the Flag.
"This is... has that girl Wang Liumei gone crazy?"
Li Boyong looked toward the direction the linear cannon shot came from and saw the transport pod still firing continuously.
"Die, die, die, die."
Inside the cockpit of the transport pod, Wang Liumei, wearing a spacesuit, muttered to herself, using the only linear cannon outside the pod to fire incessantly at the GN-X.
However, apart from the surprise of the first shot, the remaining shots did not hit the GN-X, which had begun to perform evasive maneuvers.
Yet she stubbornly kept firing, as if she would rather die than stop trying to shoot down the GN-X.
"Run!"
Li Boyong wanted to tell Wang Liumei to retreat, but the Flag did not have communication capabilities in the GN particle environment.
Seeing that the GN-X being shelled by the transport pod had the intention of launching a counterattack against Wang Liumei, Li Boyong hurriedly operated the Flag, intending to stop it.
But being in a pincer state, he couldn't make it in time; the GN-X bypassed this sector and opened fire on Wang Liumei's transport pod.
The crimson beam struck Wang Liumei's transport pod, detonating a ball of fire in space.
"Liumei!"
Shihe, inside the Throne, also noticed the commotion here; upon seeing the transport pod's identification signal disappear, she was overcome with grief.
How could this happen...
That girl, who so affectionately called me Sister Shihe.
After Hong Long met his misfortune, how much I wanted to save this girl who had lost her last relative.
But now, I have watched with my own eyes as the girl died on the battlefield.
Unforgivable!
Shihe looked up, her eyes devoid of ripples, only blue and white.
SEED!
End of Chapter
