Gundam: From Piece to Player

If one can defeat their master in the spiritual realm, they can deal a significant blow to the master's mental strength.

“A mental attack?” Aronnax observed the illusions around him. “Not bad. I didn’t expect the Space Alliance’s research on mental power to have reached this level.”

"You are...Tobias."

“You’ve mistaken me for someone else. I am Aronnax.”

There seemed to be some taboo surrounding this, and the other party absolutely refused to acknowledge this obvious reality.

Karma then realized that the mobile suits they were piloting had changed from the Unicorn Gundam to the Mass Production Sunglasses Gundam.

Is this a Zaku-class mobile suit from the Jupiter Empire?

Although performance differences still exist, the gap has at least narrowed to the point where both sides use controlled nuclear fusion in their machines.

If these intruders are attacked or killed in this mental world, their minds will also be damaged upon returning to reality.

Therefore, this can be considered a gamble with a mechanism, where risks and rewards coexist.

Karma has already prepared methods to cheat.

Seeing that Aronnax did not launch an attack first, Karma tried to control the mobile suit, and fortunately the operation was not much different.

This miniaturized glasses-like device should be the Jupiter Empire's machine—its English designation is Arena Badara, and it should be the Jupiter Empire's second-generation mass-produced machine.

Karma touched it a few times and knew its general performance.

The thrust isn't particularly high, but it's so light; the armor is practically made of paper.

The weapon was modified into a seven-bladed beam saber, which was actually a long stick with seven beam blades.

Without any further ado, Karma tapped the accelerator, then floored it, and the aircraft sped off. Banagher and Du, equally attuned, followed closely behind Karma's plane.

He charged straight at X1, who in turn drew his Muramasa Mad Blade.

The three mobile suits collided head-on with each other, and at the moment of contact, the left and right beam sabers of the Karma mobile suit extended the four-barreled long gun on the left hand. After pulling the trigger, the gun head, along with four unknown material connecting ropes, shot towards X1.

The X-wing behind X1 caused it to slam across, making the chain gun miss, and it pulled a strange weapon from its waist with its left hand.

Karma immediately guessed that it was a beam rifle or similar weapon and tried to dodge, but the distance was too close and the machine was not equipped with biosensors, so she was still a step too slow—the flintlock-like weapon hit her leg directly.

"It's just an ornament!"

Karma didn't care about anything else and charged straight at X1 Pirate. X1 Pirate drew his broken Muramasa Blade with his right hand and stabbed it towards his cockpit.

All of this was within his expectations—as long as he knew where the opponent was going to stab, he could predict the opponent's weapon and even the trajectory of the weapon's swing.

Arena Badara's wrist rotated 180 degrees, changing from a right-hand grip to a reverse grip on the saber, and before the Mad Blade could pierce his cockpit, she punctured the E-CAP hilt of the Mad Blade.

Such a high-risk move also yielded high returns.

To save his wrist, Pirate X1 was forced to abandon his sword. However, the beam flintlock pistol in his left hand suddenly transformed into a beam saber, which, when swung, resembled a glowing fan, attempting to cut him in half at the waist.

It was Durant's crucial forward push at the right moment that prevented Karma from being eliminated directly in the mental realm.

However, the output of her own seven-bladed beam saber was no match for the output of X1. After her weapon was cut off, X1 pulled out a thermal dagger and stabbed it into Xiao Du's cockpit.

In response, Du fired directly at the X1's head monitor, shattering the binocular monitor on its head.

"I'll be going now, Mr. Kalmar."

"Xiao Du!"

Karma could only watch helplessly as she disappeared into the spiritual realm.

That's very well done, Xiao Du.

Even though they are both mass-produced mobile suits, the difference between them and the Gundam mobile suits is just too great.

Chapter 356 Pretending to be Tang Yin

Being killed while invading someone's mind can also cause damage in the real world.

But Karma didn't have time to worry about her right now; she had to take down Aronnax here, otherwise everyone would be killed in the mental world.

In the real world, everyone would die.

"Tobias, come along if you dare."

Karma glanced at the long flashlight in mid-air and thought that was where Tobias would die.

Do this when you see two Jupiter grunts.

Aronnax hesitated for a moment but then chose to follow. Although he had already sensed a conspiracy, he was confident that he could overcome it.

Besides, this is his own mental world; surely there aren't any strange places here that he wouldn't be aware of.

It can only be said that this guy was reckless his whole life and never died, which led to a lot of path dependence.

Watching the two machines enter the "light tube".

Aronnax stopped and tried to use his brainwave abilities to sense the situation inside.

However, he discovered that the "perception" ability he had originally learned was not working.

That's right, his active perception ability hadn't been developed yet when he fought the battle against the God of Thunder.

He hesitated for two minutes, but still rushed in. Although the time flow here was similar to that in reality, he didn't want to waste any more time here.

It would be difficult to handle if other Space Alliance machines came.

He flew toward the cave entrance of the colony, surrounded by various heating lamps.

The long-buried memories also awakened; it was here that he lost his sight.

"You scoundrel! Take this!"

The brat named Banagher in front of him was actually using the mecha's loudspeaker (there was actually air in this place), and was charging towards him with a beam saber in his hand.

Even though the other party is a child, Aronnax will not show mercy if they threaten his life with a weapon.

As X1 Pirate dodged the beam saber's thrust, it grabbed Banagher's wrist, raised its foot, and stomped hard on the cockpit. The small dagger under X1 Pirate's foot effortlessly pierced through the cockpit.

"Too young."

"Banaji, you wretched man, die, Aronnax!"

He had just tossed the brat's mech aside when he saw Karma's battered mech charging toward him with its horn blaring.

What is this, some kind of kamikaze attack?

...Have they realized there was no chance of victory and chosen to give up?

Aronnax has faced many enemies, some of whom are like this.

The Corsair X1 Gundam ripped off its beam shield cape and threw it at the enemy aircraft the instant it charged in.

The Karma machine was completely enveloped by the cape, while the Corsair X1 removed the two Corsair skull gauntlets (with I-fields) from its shoulders and held them with both hands.

He unleashed a furious barrage of punches at the enemy aircraft, which was now covered by a cloak and out of sight.

The machine was already damaged, and after being hit so violently several times, it finally couldn't take it anymore, and the small rice furnace of the Karma machine exploded along with the cloak.

Aronnax relaxed completely, realizing he had overestimated these two guys.

—Or perhaps that kind of thinking is too arrogant.

Since Aronnax had activated Reverse A, he had no intention of holding back.

The fact that his opponent could come up with a psychological attack to turn the tide was completely beyond his expectations.

Shouldn't that break the illusion?

However, Aronnax discovered that the illusion had not disappeared as he had expected; it still existed.

Wait, didn't he shoot down those three guys directly?

By the time Aronnax realized something was wrong, it was too late.

Two bright spots lit up on the X1 Corsair's torso... then it was melted through from behind—two parallel beams of light pierced through it from behind.

"what?"

Aronnax looked incredulously in the direction the beam had come from, at the area that had been incompletely imaged due to damage to the head monitor and had not been observed closely.

"The fourth station?"

Arena Badara held a beam rifle in each of her left and right hands.

Lacking any preparation, X1 Pirate failed to make any evasive maneuvers... The complacency after the victory became the reason for Aronnax's defeat.

Inside Arena Badara's cockpit, Yasna was sitting in the pilot's seat, while Karma and Banagher were on either side of her—they had just set up a recording to launch the machine directly at Corsair X1.

Then they ran onto Yasuna's mech.

Although there are three people in reality, there are actually four souls that are pulled into the spiritual world.

Taking down Aronnax in a four-on-one situation during combat is quite difficult.

So Karma had no choice but to scheme against Aronnax.

"Should we explain to the enemy how we did it?"

Then Yasna got hit on the head by Karma.

"This is war, hurry up and finish them off."

Arena Badara, wielding a twin-beam rifle, continued to bombard X1 Pirate—even without finishing her off, the shots would have hit vitals. Finally, amidst a burst of light and explosion, X1 Pirate was destroyed, its mental world torn apart in the process.

Karma, Banagher, and Yasna have also returned to reality.

Kalmar looked up at the time on the instrument: 2:10.

Unit 8 slapped the back of the Reverse X Gundam's head again with its palm, and this time the Reverse X offered no resistance.

The metallic vibrations transmitted from the contact surface sounded like a good head.

He suppressed his joy and looked at Unit 8 opposite him.

"Du, are you alright?"

"fine."