The Fighting Robot, a combat mech designed specifically for close combat, is equipped with a ’Combat Circuit.’ In an unobstructed one-on-one close-quarters brawl, it’s an almost invincible entity.
The reason why Mu You’s mech is performing so brilliantly now is due to its Chaos Circuit. When the Chaos Circuit is equipped with fast attack firearms, it can plunge an entire army into chaos, thus making it impossible for them to perform at their full strength.
However, the Chaos Circuit can only affect long-range attacks, proving ineffective for close combat. Hence, Barney made a decisive move by deploying the Fighting Robots, a type of mech that isn’t commonly used.
[You see all the long-distance robots cease fire and retreat, giving way on the battlefield. Nearly a hundred Fighting Robots charge at you from all directions.]
[You hastily spray rounds, but the low-damage energy bullets prove ineffective against the Fighting Robots. They ignore your attack and continue to advance.]
[You fire in retreat until you are cornered against a wall. You launch upward, effortlessly moving along the wall with mechanical feet, seeking to increase the distance between you.]
[Regrettably, the Fighting Robots are equipped with wall-climbing devices too. Like spiders, they clamber up the wall, scaling and springing between high-rise buildings, still charging at you.]
[The first Fighting Robot gets close and launches a close-quarters attack...]
[Without a Combat Circuit, you are no match for a professional Fighting Robot, quickly losing the upper hand.]
[Another Fighting Robot lunges at you from the side, causing deformity to your knee at impact. Mech health status: 96%.]
[A punch from a Fighting Robot pierces through your lower rib armor. Mech health status: 88%.]
[Your neck is twisted by a Fighting Robot. Mech health status: 67%.]
[More and more Fighting Robots pounce on you, suppressing you at the bottom like a collapsed human tower. You struggle to move...]
"As expected, I cannot win in close combat..."
Mu You watches the prompts on the screen helplessly. This is the biggest drawback of the way he is equipped right now- supreme long-range attack ability, but vulnerable in close combat.
He had overlooked the Combat Circuit that the opponents used, but seeing it in action now, he realized it might be worth getting one for backup.
[Under the suppression of numerous Fighting Robots, a Repulsion Grenade quietly detaches from you and loudly detonates in front of you.]
[The repulsion force spreads, sending all Fighting Robots flying far away from you. You are also pushed into the wall by the strong force and fall inside a high-rise building. Mech health status: 51%.]
Seeing the overwhelming situation, Mu You does not hesitate to choose the ’Run’ command in the game.
"Catch him quickly, don’t give him a chance to breathe!" Barney shouts from below the high-rise building. As the inventor of the Reactive Armor, he is well aware of its power to rapidly rejuvenate. It can revive back to full strength in less than a minute.
At his command, nearly a hundred Fighting Robots crawl back up the high-rise building, closing in on the room where the silver-white Mech had vanished.
But this time, before they can close in, the silver-white Mech jumps out of the window, revealing itself to the enemy, and throws out three Eva Robots.
The miniature robots, resembling toy dolls, charge straight at the three nearest Fighting Robots.
Three explosions sound in the sky, a cloud of dust spreading through the air, and the targeted mechs heavily wounded, falling rapidly.
The other Robots pay no heed to their fallen comrades and continue to rush towards the target. However, Mu You activates the Strong Magnetic Attractor in his mech. Instead of attracting surrounding objects, it targets the mechs descending from the explosion.
Given the weight, Mu You’s mech is still slightly lighter. So, in the next moment, his mech darts towards the ground at high speed, like a falling meteor. As it nears one of the severely damaged Fighting Robots, a two-meter-long blade emerges from the right arm and slashes downward fiercely.
Reaper’s Gold Cutting Knife: A close combat alchemy weapon with extreme cutting force, known to cause extra damage to metal devices.
This blade stands as a mechanical masterpiece and is the only close combat weapon Mu You carries. Having no choice but to endure it, the blade swoops down and bisects the lower combat robot with a single strike.
[Fighting Robot defeated. You have acquired the ’Fighting Robot’ camouflage form.]
[You have acquired the ’Combat Circuit’, ’Wall-Climbing Mechanical Feet’...]
With the camouflage form secured, Mu You’s mech lands on the ground and a flamboyantly designed double hand cannon emerges from both arms.
With that, the Mech turns around, raises the cannon against the air above filled with rapidly descending Fighting Robots. Energy rapidly gathers within the wide cannon’s mouth, and sporadic, dazzling light illuminates the surroundings.
The very next second, a shot is fired from the cannon, a beam of light heading straight for the high-rise building.
A weapon of legend potent even without a power build-up.
In the roaring sound, the high-rise building disintegrates instantly. Countless rocks and metal fragments fall, burying all the Fighting Robots.
The ground trembles at the collapse site, dust billowing around, causing the surrounding Goblins to retreat instinctively.
Once everything settles, everyone looks back.
At the fallen building site, one after another Fighting Robots move the fallen rocks and jump out from the ruins. These defense-specialized close combat robots obviously won’t get destroyed from being buried at this level.