From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 739 I Save Myself

The training of the Imperial Guards was naturally rigorous, but in terms of experience and creativity in hand-to-hand combat, they were clearly no match for the millions of players decades later.
What is the player group of "Starry Sky OL", especially those players who like to drive HCP?
To put it nicely, he is a robot enthusiast who is full of "Soul of Steel" and works hard to improve his skills in the game.

To put it bluntly, that is helping a madman.

Because the biggest advantage of players is that they are not afraid of death, they can rely on this characteristic to develop and try out some skills, especially hand-to-hand combat skills, in a large number of "actual combat missions" in the game.

Players who excel in hand-to-hand combat may even be given the title of "Swordsman" or "Sword Saint" by other players, and Amber is one of them.

Amuro Ray, Shin Asuka, Setsuna F. Kiyone, Mikazuki Augustus.
Generation after generation of ace pilots in different mecha worlds have used their personal experiences to tell all HCP players that the life of a pilot who is not good at hand-to-hand combat is incomplete.
However, Amber still admitted that the Imperial Guard ACE on the opposite side was indeed much stronger than other pilots of this era.

After all, if any other pilot was in the position where the ACE just was, the cockpit would have been completely cut open by the Heavy Sword.

"Okay, okay, you're great. You've successfully piqued my interest! Now I'm going to get serious next time~"

Amber directly turned on the public channel and the body's external speaker. The excited and warlike voice sounded so abnormal to others.

Not to mention the Imperial Guard ACE who was SOLO with him. He felt a little numb at the moment, and was madly cursing the Imperial Guard commander who asked him to lead the team.

After the two sides crossed each other, the pilot felt cold sweat dripping down his forehead. Although the sweat was dried by the environmental control components inside the helmet before it left his forehead, he did start to panic.

After hearing Amber's "declaration" on the public channel, he couldn't help swallowing.

"What do you mean? You weren't serious just now?"

Before the Imperial Guard ACE pilot could understand Amber's words, he saw Amber's crimson plane rushing towards him again after quickly adjusting its direction. The plasma propulsion array behind it emitted an even brighter light, and its speed instantly increased significantly.

The King of Guards obviously did not expect that Amber's consecutive attacks would be so short in intervals, and was caught off guard for a moment.

Because Amber adjusted the direction of the aircraft almost at the moment of crossing, and then skillfully decelerated the main propulsion array and then accelerated again in the opposite direction. This instantaneous adjustment of the acceleration direction is not easy to withstand for most pilots whose physical fitness is far beyond that of ordinary people.

The Imperial Guard ACE knew at this moment that he was already passive. The hand-to-hand combat of HCP was "one step slow, every step slow", so he could only choose to put up a shield and try to adjust his posture for defense, but Amber's attack had already hit like a storm.

The plasma heavy sword left afterimages in the air, and every swing was a declaration of death.

This ace of the Imperial Guards could only barely parry and dodge, and his machine could only keep retreating under Amber's violent attack.

After just a few rounds, the heavy shield of the "Royal Priest" was destroyed like a peeled apple, and multiple damages appeared on the torso of the machine.

However, Amber's plane was completely unharmed and still maintained its powerful suppressive power. During the entire continuous attack, the Imperial Guard ACE pilot found that he did not even have a chance to fight back.

The Imperial Guard pilots who were trying to intercept the ATT Squadron with their numerical advantage were all stunned when they saw this scene.

They were very clear about the strength of this Imperial Guard ACE and were very impressed by him, so when they saw their ace being suppressed so badly, they felt a sense of unreality.

"Don't just stand there, send a few people to help!" A pilot of the Imperial Guard reacted and quickly called on others to come forward for support.

But the next moment, a "Woodworth" appeared in front of it like a ghost, and its white body almost occupied the entire front of the full-circle screen.

"Hasn't anyone ever told you not to be distracted during a battle?!"

"boom!"

The heavy shield slammed hard on the front of the Royal Clergyman's fuselage, and at this moment, the pilot of Woodworth activated the small deflection field on the heavy shield.

A large number of sensors on the front of the "Royal Hierophant" were completely damaged or short-circuited and restarted due to the impact and electric shock, which also caused multiple snow noise points to appear on the screen all around the cockpit.

But the most fatal thing is the imbalance of the body caused by a head-on collision.

Although the HCP operating system has its own balance correction capability, it is only an auxiliary function after all. Its biggest use is to prevent novice operators from falling into the mud due to improper operation.

Before the Royal Clergyman could even respond with its automatic balance correction, the heavy sword slashed horizontally and completely cut through the cockpit of the machine.
In just a short while, the ATT squadron cleanly killed two distracted HCPs of the Imperial Guards, and they also noticed that these Imperial Guards intended to support their ACE. Although the ATT people had absolute confidence in Amber, they still increased their attack strength in order to be cautious, tightly entangled their opponents and did not give them any chance to escape.

On the other side, the high-speed hand-to-hand combat between Amber and the Custodian Ace continued.

However, after a few minutes, the disadvantages of this Imperial Guard ACE became increasingly obvious. His body had been damaged in many places and his movements became sluggish.

Amber became more and more courageous in this long-lost and enjoyable battle, and each attack was more fierce than the last.

He had no intention of teasing the other party, but this Forbidden Guards ACE pilot was indeed quite capable and had truly relied on his own skills to hold on until now.

However, in another fierce exchange of blows, Amber's sudden flying kick caused the 'Royal Cleric' of the Imperial Guard ACE to lose his balance and fall heavily to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, the sharp blade of the heavy sword pierced through his cockpit without hesitation.

The surrounding HCP pilots of the Imperial Guards could hardly believe their eyes, but in just a few minutes, their ace was defeated.

When they saw the friendly mark with the special pattern disappear on the HUD of the all-around screen, they realized that this was not an illusion and their ACE had really been cut down by the enemy.

"Even the ace has been breached?!"

"How could this be possible?"

"How to do?"

"Is there anyone else who can stop that red machine?"

The communication channel of the Imperial Guard HCP suddenly fell into chaos. Although the remaining three squadron leaders wanted to stabilize the situation, the scene of their ace being defeated by the enemy in a few moves and having his cockpit pierced was still too shocking for them.

Naturally, the people of ATT would not miss this excellent opportunity. They took advantage of the chaos to launch a round of coordinated attacks, directly breaking up the formation of the HCP squadron of the Imperial Guards near the Grand Palace.

Although during this process, a 'Woodworth' was completely destroyed by the heavy particle cannons of multiple 'Royal Clerics' of the Imperial Guards, the casualty ratio in just this short period of time had already reached an exaggerated situation of 1:17.

"Boss, we broke through the interception!" The ATT squadron leader shouted in the communication channel while turning around and holding up a shield to block a charged particle beam fired at the plasma propulsion array.

"Very good, overload the propulsion unit, create some distance between us, and then provide support according to the combat plan!"

Amber, who had already pulled out the Heavy Slash Sword from the body of the Imperial Guards Ace, exerted force on both feet of the body, and with the explosive power of the propulsion array, she directly performed a supersonic close-to-the-ground flight, quickly widening the distance from the surrounding enemy HCPs.

"I will break through from the direction of the Grand Palace's western wing wall. You guys take control of the battle zone. The vanguard of the 1st Heavy Combined Brigade is already heading this way. I estimate that the HCPs of the reconnaissance team will be here soon. You guys will meet them up when the time comes!"

"Understood, Boss!"

Amber's scarlet machine quickly disappeared into the distance. His goal was very clear, which was to break into the Grand Palace from the direction of the west wing wall and reach the location where he encountered the Martyr Corps HCP when he traveled through time before.

At this point, he was very sure that the HCP that rushed over to kill the 'Apostle' of the Martyrs Legion was the one he was driving in this timeline!
"What do you mean I saved myself? So this time travel is a closed loop?"

When Amber drove the 'Woodwater' to break through the interception of the Imperial Guard HCP, she did not suffer any serious attack until she reached the vicinity of the west wing wall.

Because the distance from the Princess Villa to the Grand Palace was not far, for the HCP it was even just one or two rounds of high-speed charge. The Imperial Guards and the Martyrs' Corps that were besieging the Grand Palace simply did not have time to organize another force to intercept them.

As soon as Amber reached the vicinity of the west wing's protective wall, he saw the "ill-fated" section of the protective wall that had been destroyed by the siege troops. He ignored the troops fighting for the gap in the protective wall, and after casually shooting down two HCPs that were trying to intercept him, he rushed into the Grand Palace at a high speed.

Soon, through the enlarged window on the all-around screen, he saw a Martyr Corps' dedicated HCP 'Apostle' and a Princess Guards' 'Improved Zealot' fighting in the distance.

At this moment, the 'Apostle' had just pulled out the iconic plasma double-edged battle axe from the chest of the 'Improved Zealot', and the main monitor on his head was looking to the other side.

And at that position, a pitiful, weak and helpless figure wearing a black biological exoskeleton was about to turn around and run away.

(End of this chapter)