Chapter 520: Under Attack II (2/2)

The shooter was skilled! Of the five laser beams it avoided, three nearly hit Celest.

The blue beams continued to strike, leaving Ye Chong barely enough time to process them. Duo Ka did not have the habit of talking it out.

The Level 6 shooter was powerful. The shooters around him watched in awe. There were no bells and whistles, but his solid techniques were enough to suppress the giant. Each shot was faster than the one before it. A normal shooter would not have survived the assault.

Ye Chong was experienced in defending himself against long range attacks. Ever since he chose to specialize in close range combat, he had faced all kinds of long range mechs time and again.

However, he was now in a very, very precarious situation!

Compared to all the ambushing or sniping he had survived, this time was much, much worse. The shooter barely took time to aim between shots. The laser beams came strongly at accurate and dangerous angles that made Ye Chong's life difficult.

Celest had switched its alloy sword for a diamond shaped shield. Even so, avoiding the shots was hard.

Ye Chong suddenly recalled a conversation he had with Mu a long time ago. He had once asked Mu if the mech was the strongest attacker. Mu had said no. When Ye Chong asked why, Mu had said that his attacks lacked spirit.

Ye Chong remembered that particular exchange right now. He knew now how deadly a skilled and focused shooter could be. Strength, speed and spirit – of the three elements, the spirit was the most neglected. However, when excellent spiritual training met long range shooting, the result was a deadly long range attacker.

Xi Feg Tribe had its mentalists, but Ye Chong felt that the shooters here were the ones who truly unlocked the potential of combining spiritual training and shooting.

Ye Chong was not in control of his thoughts. He did not know why he was thinking about all these irrelevant thoughts when in the midst of a battle.

He did now know that his body was fighting back in the most direct way right now.

Evasion!

Evasion and shooting are like twins or nemesis to each other. In the Five Galaxies, long range mechs had been developed for a long time. In this time, evasion techniques were also innovated at an astonishing rate.

Ye Chong's evasion techniques were all over the place.

Irregular Veers, Parallel Retreat, Thomas' Spin, Speckled Moon Spin …

Effective evasion techniques worked not only to avoid the enemy's attacks, but also to interrupt the shooter's rhythm of attack. Only then could a close range mech close the distance between itself and its opponent. The evasive techniques were all designed to confuse, to make the shooters shoot off target.

Celest moved like a ghost, avoiding all the blue lasers raining down on it.

If Duo Ka's shooting was impressive, Celest's evasion measures were even more astonishing to the observing shooters.

They could not figure out how a massive figure like this giant could make such impossibly deft movements in the air. Compared to the giant, their aircrafts looked unwieldy.

Duo Ka turned grim. He had not wounded the giant so far. The giant was too fast, using evasion techniques that he had never seen before. So far, he could not do real harm on the giant.

Ye Chong was also having a hard time. His hands never stopped moving. The blue aircraft never stopped shooting its blue laser beams. All he could do now was avoid being hit at the mech's vulnerable spots.

Duo Ka decided to ramp up his attack. The giant was too slick to tackle.

He activated all the guns on his aircraft, and even put his rarely used high explosive grenades into the fray.

Ye Chong noticed Duo Ka's change in strategy instantly.

However, he could not think of any solution aside from trying his best to defend himself. His hands moved faster, turning into a blur on the controls console.

The sudden increase in intensity of the battle came as a surprised to the onlookers. The battle turned more violent as Duo Ka's fighter began spitting out laser beams with even higher frequency.

The giant's diamond shield was already covered with holes, all from the laser beams that hit it.

Without the shield, the laser beams would have hit on Celest's main body.

Ye Chong held on with difficulty as he tried to figure out another way. He must get out of his situation quickly. Just then, a high explosive grenade hit his shield.

Bam! The air cracked with a loud explosion, together with a bright sphere of white light that hurt the eyes.

The explosion was so powerful that it broke the diamond shaped shield into pieces. Celest was pushed to the ground from the shockwaves of the explosion.

Then, Ye Chong cursed himself for being an idiot.

The battle had started suddenly, and Duo Ka's attacks were so intense that Ye Chong did not have time to think properly. He now realized that fighting a bunch of crazies in the sky with his close range mech was just turning the odds against him.

On the contrary, the dense forest down below was a close range mech's home ground.

Celest curled into itself, blasted its engines at maximum and shot down like a meteor to the bafflement of the onlookers.