Great, we're doomed now!

This is why, when Ye Shou proposed Project [K] based on this reason, Obik tacitly provided data such as height and weight, allowing them to develop a complete set of equipment.

After all, except when it is necessary to come out and help, humans will never disturb Obik under normal circumstances, fully respecting its personal choice and without any coercion.

Being treated with such utmost respect, and having all his requests fulfilled... Obik felt that he could agree to their demands.

The stakes involved are quite clear. Even the tanuki, who is more worldly and whose values ​​are more like those of humans, couldn't help but nod: "That's right, I also want to see 'Kyoto 26' perform at the Budokan... Let's give it our all!"

A puff of white smoke rose, and the raccoon's enormous body disappeared.

Chapter 219 Divine Strategist Deploys - I Am Bayel!

In the distance, the temporary construction site was bustling with activity, and shouts of "Completed!" and "Ready!" signaled that damage control was nearing completion.

Ye Shou threw down a section of rope and walked towards Bayeli. His steps were somewhat heavy. The fatigue from the battle had long been cleared away by the ripples, but now something even heavier was invisibly binding him.

But he walked more and more lightly, without being hindered by these things at all.

Just then, a pair of arms suddenly hugged him from behind, and at the same time, he felt a soft touch on his back and a familiar scent that made him pause.

—It is glass.

"Please don't turn around." The maid's voice was a little muffled, her forehead pressed against Ye Shou's back, seemingly trembling slightly. "I won't do or say anything... at least don't turn around now."

Ye Shou neither struggled nor turned around, but simply stood quietly for a while.

"My face must look terrible right now."

Liuli's voice was gentle and ethereal, as if it were right next to Ye Shou's ear, causing ripples in his heart like spring water.

"You absolutely must not see this."

"……Um."

"All right."

Liuli slowly released her hand. Ye Shou didn't ask her anything or linger. He simply continued walking towards the silver mecha surrounded by the crowd.

The maid stared at Ye Shou's retreating figure, her face devoid of any unsightly tear tracks.

She always maintains her elegance. She had already quietly washed away the mess on her face. Without time to put on makeup, she looked fresh and graceful, with a melancholy look in her eyes.

She, who has always been diligent and hardworking, now has a lot of complaints, but she will wait until Ye Shou comes back before she speaks them.

"How did it go?" Ye Shou asked Lucy.

The female hacker's personal computer temporarily served as a calibrator, having just run a simulation of the Gundam's built-in system.

"Let's say it's all working. The leg sensors are a bit sluggish, and the newly attached arm has one-fifth less range of motion. After all, it's a part of the Valkyrie... Even the size isn't right. The fact that it could be forcibly installed and successfully connected is already an engineering miracle."

"At this point, we can't be too particular about things."

Ye Shou's expression darkened, and he looked up seriously.

Damage control was complete; the man before him, Bayeli, was a forcibly assembled, wounded soldier. 4

Its torso was covered with rough welding marks and makeshift steel plates, and a spare arm of a mismatched size and slightly shorter had been attached to the broken arm. The paint had peeled off, revealing the original alloy of varying shades underneath.

It stood there, missing an eye, half its face covered by new armor plates, and its armor was pieced together wherever possible. If it were compared to a human, it would be covered in patches, looking incongruous, like a rough statue from the former Soviet Union, its messy details full of wild vitality and tenacity.

Yet it possesses a fierce and unyielding spirit that rises from the ruins and will never fall, captivating you with its indomitable spirit that comes from the brink of death at first glance!

Ye Shoupan climbed into the cockpit and sat down. The cockpit was filled with the smell of rust and engine oil, and some screens flickered with unstable graphic waves.

Outside, a group of workers covered in oil were chanting as they used a makeshift crane to insert a recharged power module into the power tank of the Gundam rifle.

"One, two, three—push!"

Someone was shouting at the top of their lungs.

Another team lay on the back of the aircraft, using a laser calibrator to make final adjustments to the severely deformed propulsion nozzles.

"Prepare to remove the supports!" Zong Fang commanded, blood seeping from the edges of his bandages, but his voice remained steady.

Several heavy scaffolding structures—converted from damaged tank and aircraft parts—surrounded the aircraft and were connected by cables.

Dozens of soldiers and engineers gripped each rope, and with a command, they pulled in unison:

"One, two—!"

The cables tightened, the scaffolding creaked and groaned, slowly tilting backward before crashing to the ground with a thud, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Losing external support, Bayeli's massive body swayed violently!

The newly reattached arm swung uncoordinatedly, and the repaired leg reacted sluggishly from the knee down, failing to adjust its center of gravity. The heavy fuselage tilted to the left, on the verge of losing balance and falling over.

Ye Shou reacted extremely quickly. The machine under his control instinctively reached out and pressed its hand onto the scaffolding, just like a human, and then crushed it...

hum!

The main thrusters on its back adjusted their angle downwards, while the auxiliary thrusters on its legs emitted blue tail flames of varying lengths. The machine trembled violently amidst a tooth-grinding metallic scraping sound, and finally took a step forward. The powerful thrust caused the loosely connected parts to groan, and finally, amidst a series of cracking and collision sounds, it stood up again and stabilized its body!

It stood there, teetering on the brink of collapse, yet still firmly rooted to the earth!

Clang!

The reactor delivers energy to all parts of the body, the exposed energy tanks glow faintly, and the remaining single eye also lights up.

--call!

【Bayeli】 took a step forward, breaking several steel cables that had been forgotten to be loosened in the rush. The heavy wind pressure carried up a cloud of yellow dust, which passed over everyone's heads and landed firmly six meters away.

The next step is yet another one...

At this moment, players around the world, just like everyone present, craned their necks to gaze at the silver giant walking past them, and for a moment even forgot to breathe.

The machine stopped, its head turned slightly to the side, and its single eye looked at everyone... The main thruster increased its output and gradually deformed, eventually stabilizing at an extreme value, and the demon god also left the ground.

[ASW-G-01·Bayeri, Kuze Yoru, Dispatch!]

boom!!!

A scorching heatwave swept across the land!

The thrusters, without control valves, can only increase power but not decrease it. Once a certain limit is exceeded, they become completely out of control, with the powerful overload penetrating the entire machine and Ye Shou's body.

He didn't know the current state of the battle, but in the worst-case scenario, the Ginajindar could even summon a three-headed monster, and his backup plan was no match for it. At this moment, every second was extremely precious.

Fortunately, the Gundam frame prepared for the Calamity Sacrifice Battle remained sturdy. Even though it was somewhat twisted, it still held the whole structure together and continued to accumulate kinetic energy under powerful propulsion.

The outline of the machine was difficult to observe with the naked eye; all that could be seen was the sonic boom cloud that had been shattered. He had also long since disappeared from the game's live stream.

The players' perspective is as if they have entered a blackout, and they also control the "Seventy-two Demon Gods", following [Bayeri] to the battlefield in the story.

No cameras could capture the silver figure, so all they could feel was the incredibly realistic, intense vibration and overload, as if all the blood in their hearts was being drained away.

But as they endured, an unbelievable thought also surfaced in their minds:

Faster!

We must fly even faster!

It wasn't for the game rewards, but simply to see this machine descend from the sky like a demon god, crushing the enemy with overwhelming force, proving that all the efforts were not in vain!

Why is this...? Why is this terrible game, with its flawed flow and forced CG playback, so captivating?

Are they too emotional, or is the character's silhouette too dazzling?

Drawn to a certain indescribable charisma of the leader, everyone was deeply moved, as if they had actually experienced a series of battles and truly met that character, rather than just a fictional one.

Even just once would be fine...

I really want to pilot my own mech in real life and fight alongside [Bayeri]!

A line of small text appeared at the bottom of the black screen; it was the player character's dialogue, but at this moment, it inexplicably made everyone feel disoriented—

[I am Gundam]

[I am the Demon God]

—【I am Bayeri!】

Ye Shou suddenly opened his eyes wide, and a change that he himself had not anticipated erupted!

The heart pounded powerfully, and pure, immense ripple energy overflowed, flowing naturally throughout the body like veins outlined by golden threads, crawling all over the skin and then penetrating into the surrounding machinery.

At this moment, his time was stretched infinitely, and he could clearly perceive every part of the machine, as if his body was no longer flesh and blood, but this twenty-meter-tall steel body.

Bang~ Bang~ Bang~

hum~ hum~ hum~

The heartbeat and the reactor's waveforms inexplicably matched, as if connected by an invisible magnetic field, forming a perfect cycle, gradually merging into one—

boom!!!

An incomparably dazzling golden light erupted from [Bayeli], plating the entire machine into flowing gold. The micro-particles released by the reactor, like gold dust, trailed a magnificent rainbow behind the thrusters.

The diffused golden particles gathered and dispersed in a wider dimension, and souls and machines appeared in the brilliance. A single machine seemed to carry an endless army of demons!

The size of space becomes meaningless in the face of speed; vast distances are eroded in seconds, and a golden ray pierces the azure sky, dividing it in two.

"scare!"

The sixty-meter-long Dankshadel trampled the armored Obik beneath its feet. Buildings were destroyed in their battle, the giant raccoon embedded deep in the rooftop, while the strange bird, seemingly immortal and tireless, opened its beak, gathering terrifying energy, and aimed it at the terrified Shadow Mage—

boom!

The golden demon, like a meteor chasing the moon, knocked the strange bird over in one fell swoop, and like Saint George slaying the dragon, the sharp longsword pierced deeply into its chest!

"Huh!!!"

The wound sizzled as it was being burned, and Dankshader screamed in agony, viciously swinging his death claws, powerful enough to cut through alloys, before he could even see his enemy.

Clang!

The golden sword blocked it, and the demon god instantly retreated from the strange bird's attack range like a flash of light. At the same time, the bone-plate-like back thrusters on its back rose high, and long ropes hung down like wings of light.

A series of blinding flashes appeared in the space, and beams of golden light shot onto the strange bird, instantly igniting crimson lotuses!

Chapter 220 The Giant Standing at Dusk

Boo!

call!

The golden Gundam sped through the city like a streak of light!

The monstrous bird Dankshader roared and flapped its iron wings, stirring up a gale, but it was always dodged by extremely illogical maneuvers just as it was about to touch its opponent.