Ryza, who hadn't really wanted to take this job in the first place, immediately flashed a hideous grin upon hearing this, chuckling as he spoke:
"Of course not, because the only ones becoming corpses here are you two."
He then extended his hand, pointing a finger straight at Astra Yao, who was standing at the very back.
"Our big client specifically named her and demanded we bring her over. If you're smart and cooperate obediently, that's fine. Otherwise... the commission didn't specify that she had to be in perfect condition."
Seeing the way Ryza looked at them—like he had the three of them dead to rights—Andrew scanned the surroundings with a hint of confusion and said:
"So, surely you aren't stupid enough to think this many people is enough to take us down?"
At Andrew's near-mocking words, Ryza's composure instantly collapsed, his expression turning completely dark.
As the saying goes, with a weapon in hand, the killing intent rises. Even before he got this heavy armor, he hadn't met many people who dared to talk to him like that, let alone now that he was equipped with this gear.
Ryza's rage skyrocketed in an instant, and he shouted furiously:
"Whether it's enough or not, I imagine we'll find out soon enough."
"You lot, get them..."
Ryza waved his arm to give the order, but before the command could fully leave his mouth, Andrew issued a command with even greater speed.
"Gouram, smash that thing away!"
Andrew's voice and the W-Engine installed within Gouram roared in unison. In the next instant, receiving the command, Gouram displayed its terrifying acceleration to the fullest right before everyone's eyes.
The roar of exhaust pipes erupted instantly. In a distance of just a few dozen meters and less than half a second, Gouram's speed had already accelerated to nearly two hundred kilometers per hour.
In the air, only a streak of fluorescent purple light remained.
The moment it closed in, Gouram's front wheel jerked up violently, charging straight toward the Logger mech's mechanical torso.
"BOOM!!!"
Accompanied by a massive blast, the thick Ether Alloy on the Logger's body was like fragile paper in front of Gouram. Before the sound of Ryza's voice had even faded from his face, Gouram's sharp ramming horn had already completely pierced the Logger's torso.
But the acceleration didn't stop.
Maintaining the piercing posture, the motorcycle's rear wheel ground against the ground, kicking up clouds of blue smoke. Pushing the nearly three-meter-tall Logger, it left two deep drag marks on the ground. The immense force allowed Gouram to drive it all the way into the rocks on the opposite side, the ramming horn piercing through and embedding itself deep into the stone behind it.
As for the Logger, a huge chunk of its core torso had already been gouged out by the powerful impact.
With the armor torn apart, electric sparks from short-circuited wires flew wildly from the shattered plating. Yet even so, the remaining autonomous consciousness was dutifully trying to complete the command it had just received. The super-sized circular saw mounted on its left limb was raised with difficulty, high-intensity current causing the blade to spin rapidly.
The remnant consciousness wanted to give its all to fulfill its mission, but before it could swing down, Gouram's robust and terrifying horsepower once again demonstrated its might. The massive horsepower drove straight through the Logger, accelerating continuously, literally stamping the shape of a motorcycle front end right through the shell made of Ether Alloy.
As the last of its consciousness was extinguished, the Logger sparked and completely turned into a pile of scrap metal.
All of this happened too fast.
So fast that even after it was all over, Ryza, the captain, hadn't even reacted and was still continuing his previous command. It was only when Andrew slightly raised his hand to signal 'continue' that he finally snapped back to reality.
Staring somewhat sluggishly at how the two autonomous mechs his gang prided itself on were instantly turned into piles of scrap by a single motorcycle, a drop of cold sweat involuntarily trickled down his forehead.
Not daring to think too deeply, he could only try to comfort himself: there were two Logger autonomous mechs. Not to mention, there was still a hidden ace card yet to be deployed! Although that terrifying motorcycle had directly smashed one, its ramming horn was deeply stuck in the rock.
Trying to analyze the situation, Ryza's eyes grew brighter and brighter.
"As long as we subdue them before it pulls itself out, we can win!"
Thoughts racing, a ferocious look resurfaced on his face. He instantly pulled the trigger on his heavy cannon while simultaneously shouting the order:
"Quick! Shoot! Kill them immediately!"
In the next moment, a dense rain of bullets flew over, but hitting the tower shield in front of Andrew merely splashed scattered sparks. Even the heavy laser cannon he had placed such high hopes on struck the surface like water dripping from a tap onto a tile floor—useless aside from creating a splash. The same went for the high-power heavy laser cannon mounted on the remaining Logger.
Yet, Andrew had absolutely no intention of calling Gouram back.
"Feels like a waste of energy to do that."
Ryza, who was still guarding against the motorcycle behind him, suddenly noticed that Andrew, who had just been holding the shield, was now pulling that super-sized... cylinder?... from his back.
As the gun body rotated automatically, a sharp spear tip spiraled out. In the next instant, the cylinder transformed into an alarmingly large, heavy Knight Lance that was significantly taller than Andrew himself.
Then, he saw Andrew make a throwing motion. Before he could react, a black shadow shot out from Andrew's hand. It was none other than that heavy lance, measuring nearly three meters from grip to tip.
Such a behemoth was hurled directly by Andrew's hand as if it were a common javelin. The already extremely heavy lance, bolstered by Andrew's immense strength, roared through the air like a battering ram. The spiral patterns on the shaft caused the lance to rotate slightly in the air, its shape perfectly aerodynamic, encountering almost no resistance.
"BOOM!!!"
A loud noise, somewhat similar but no quieter than the last one, echoed across the flat ground once again. In the next moment, the Logger that had just fired a laser at Andrew's shield was pierced right through.
The shaft sank directly into its mechanical body. The massive inertia carried it flying backward for a distance before gravity took over, and it was completely knocked down by the lance.
The lance, embedding itself in the ground, turned the Logger into something resembling a display base. With its core directly destroyed, the Logger twitched twice before losing all movement completely.
Ryza looked at the scene before him in disbelief.
He had thought this would be an incredibly simple matter. Just as a gang, they might have been in some danger, but with military equipment plus two fully autonomous mechanical Loggers—originally the gang's strongest units—dealing with a few bodyguards should have been a breeze.
But what kind of bodyguard was this guy they were facing now? This was clearly a goddamn humanoid Tyrannosaurus Rex that had popped out of nowhere!
With this kind of strength, whether in the Military, City Administration, or TOPS, couldn't he go anywhere and have whatever he wanted? Why run out here and play bodyguard if he had nothing better to do?!!!
Is this reasonable?!!!!
I want to report a cheater! He's hacking!!!!
Having his attention completely captured by Andrew, he failed to notice that in this short span of time, the sound of gunfire around him had grown increasingly sparse. And just now, the source of the very last gunshot vanished completely.
The sudden silence around him made him shiver instantly. Only then did Ryza realize, as if waking from a dream—things were very bad!
He immediately looked around in terror.
The initial target they needed to eliminate, that blonde woman Evelyn, was standing amidst a crowd of people lying paralyzed on the ground. In her hands, strings burning with orange-red flames were rapidly being retracted into the W-Engine by its internal mechanical device. Beneath the seemingly warm flames lay his silent subordinates.
A sharp dagger was deftly twirled in her hand, the blood on the blade flung clean by the elegant flourish, before she re-sheathed it in the scabbard hidden at the small of her back. Beneath her feet, artificial blood had soaked the yellow sand.
Even the little idol he had thought posed no threat held a microphone radiating the glow of Ether, while several lackeys lying on the ground bore marks left by Ether energy bombardment.
In just half a minute, he was the only one left standing on the field.
The speed was so fast it gave him anxiety. Anxiety that made him think this was just a hallucination.
But watching Andrew gradually closing in, a cold sense of crisis, like being stared down by a T-Rex, shot from his tailbone straight to his brain. The requirements of the commission were thrown to the back of his mind.
The intense sense of crisis left his mind with only one thought: survival. Ryza immediately shouted at the top of his lungs:
"Typhon! Kill them for me!"
As his voice fell, a large shadow instantly loomed over Evelyn, who was just sheathing her blade. Subconsciously looking up at the sky, she saw a mech over three meters tall, resembling an incredibly burly strongman, smashing down toward her with the force of a collapsing mountain.
The training she had received in the secret organization since childhood kicked in at that moment. Relying on her reflexes, disregardful of looking undignified, she immediately lunged outward, away from where Typhon was landing.
"BOOM!!!"
The heavy autonomous mech, over three meters tall, let out a furious roar upon impact. The massive power hammers on its two arms smashed a huge web of cracks into the landing spot.
Evelyn had just let out a breath of relief after dodging the blow when, in the next instant, a sudden mutation occurred.
Although the landed Typhon remained in its landing posture without moving, the thrusters on its back began to spew violent flames as if preheating. The thrusters erupted violently the moment the preheat peaked, and the power in its arms simultaneously launched a fierce shockwave at that exact instant.
The superposition of the three elements caused a qualitative change in the ordinary shockwave. Visible to the naked eye, an attack that felt almost solid ravaged the surroundings in a three-hundred-sixty-degree dead-zone-free destruction.
Leaving absolutely no possibility to dodge.
Everything around was crushed inch by inch into powder by the shockwave, like the approaching Grim Reaper.
Evelyn, who had sensed the danger the moment it began preheating, found it difficult to dodge from her current position. Helplessly, she prepared to accept her end.
Suddenly, the man holding the shield appeared in front of Evelyn as if he had flashed there. The heavy tower shield slammed into the ground, separating Evelyn from Typhon, his tall figure standing like an impregnable city wall.
"Stay behind me!"
Andrew's voice fell, bringing with it an unparalleled sense of security. The massive shockwave emitted by Typhon struck, but all attacks were blocked in front of them by this heavy tower shield. In the next moment, the devastating impact swept through everything around them.
Powder kicked up by the shockwave formed a smog, instantly obscuring everything around Typhon. Of course, that included the two people closest to it.
Watching the two completely enveloped by yellow sand, Astra Yao immediately shouted in worry:
"Andrew! Evie!"
Anxious at heart, Astra Yao instantly opened full fire, missiles formed of Ether energy shooting toward Ryza.
While dodging the missiles, Ryza was also watching the crimson glow belonging to "Typhon: Heavy Smasher," still faintly visible within the thick smoke. A ferocious grin surfaced on his face once again.
"Haha! Truly too stupid! I thought I'd only be able to deal with that woman specifically named for termination, but I didn't expect this guy to be so dumb as to let me catch them all in one net!!!"
"That is the strongest new power obtained by our Vanishing Wolves! Even in the army, this is a top-tier armed force! In front of it, you'll soon see the corpses of those two!!!"
Ryza was just about to mock them a bit more when suddenly, a white projectile—different from the purple Ether missiles—pierced directly through the smoke and shot out.
The missile, sharp as a blade, shattered the heavy laser cannon in Ryza's hands into powder the moment it hit. If that missile had hit his body, he would probably be saying goodbye to his little life right now.
The resurfacing sense of crisis made him shut his mouth immediately while raising his vigilance to the max. Just then, the crimson indicator light of Typhon in the smoke moved again.
The giant impact hammer swung out with the arm, tearing through the smoke and whipping up a fierce gale.
"CLANG!!!"
The shockwave generated by the collision of the impact hammer and the shield swept away all the surrounding smoke. At this moment, the other two present finally saw everything clearly that had been obscured by the dust.
With Andrew's shield as the dividing line, the conical area behind him was completely unscathed by the shockwave.
Andrew had promised not to let any unmanageable danger get close.
He kept his word.
Andrew was seen gripping the shield with his right hand, blocking all of Typhon's follow-up attacks, while the slinger on his left arm pointed straight at Ryza. And the Slicing Ammo that had just shattered the "Gray Rhino" largest firepower assembly was projected from exactly there.
Behind him, Evelyn was likewise unharmed.
As for Typhon's full-force heavy hammer, it merely pressed against Andrew's shield unable to advance an inch, failing to make even the one-handed shield-wielding Andrew take a single step back.
Threat neutralized.
Andrew turned his head to look at Evelyn, who had already adjusted her stance behind him, and gestured toward Ryza, who had lost his main weapon, saying:
"You handle that guy while protecting Astra Yao. I'll handle this big hunk of iron. No problem, right?"
Evelyn looked at Ryza, who was somewhat scared witless by Andrew's move just now, nodded firmly, and instructed softly:
"Be careful. I'll finish him quickly."
Andrew nodded slightly to show he understood Evelyn's instruction, then turned back to look at Typhon—who had nearly caused Evelyn serious injury or even death—as if looking at scrap metal.
The vicious eyes on the wolf mask seemed to emit a glint of crimson light, and a dangerous aura rose continuously from Andrew's body.
Then, Andrew spoke softly as well:
"Don't worry, I'll finish this quickly too."
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