Chapter 48

Ajax noticed that he was being targeted by the enemy, making him change tactics slightly. Now he moved around more, he would get behind cover, and open fire with his beam rifle and his anti-material energy cannon before moving elsewhere and repeating his actions. He was specifically targeting the areas where the firepower was the densest.

As he was fighting, Ajax noticed that the reinforcements had arrived. The operators who heard the alarm bell came to provide backup totaling around 100 operators and 10 mechs with more people on the way.

The leader of this group of reinforcements was Rick, the leader of the Four Tribes whose people had been living with the Lazoole Society once their camp had been ambushed and destroyed by the hell's league, barely allowing them to escape with their lives. However, Bomen didn't trust them enough to dismantle them and accept them as part of the Lazoole Society.

He wanted to observe their behavior for a while before doing so and therefore he didn't allow them entry into important places like the business district or mining area. Due to this, Ajax had never had any contact with Rick, he had never met the man. However, he recognized the red Rakshasa-Level Echo Type Mech, code-named Tomahawk, which was the pride of the Four Tribes.

"Give me a rundown of the situation!" Rick obviously recognized Ajax and greeted him as soon as they arrived. At the same time, he raised the heavy shield in his left hand and blocked an incoming missile.

But what surprised Ajax was the female voice that greeted him. The leader of the four tribes was a woman? (*Her name is Erica but everyone calls her Rick*)

"Someone betrayed the camp and collaborated with the enemy. We're being besieged by the Hell's League right now." Ajax got behind cover, barely dodging a missile and then immediately returned fire.

"Where's Bomen?" Rick activated her 3.5-meter-long lightsaber and rushed forward with the Knight shield in hand, intending to fill the gap in the broken gate.

"He's.....he's unavailable, told me I hold the helm until he says otherwise." Ajax didn't disclose Bomen's current status as he feared that it would affect morale. He then activated his thrusters and jumped out of cover, seizing the opportunity to destroy another Knight-Level mech.

Rick seemed to have caught onto the underlying meaning of Ajax's words, and glanced back at Ajax before getting in a stance to fight with a Parallax-Level Trailblazer mech at the door.

The defensive line gradually stabilized as more and more reinforcements were arriving. The dozen or so mechs were a major help in maintaining the defense line. Although most of them were at the Knight and Parallax level, the mech's defense line was unparalleled in comparison to one made by the previous defense line composed of meatshields (humans).

Rick had also done quick work of the Parallax-level mech that was powerless to fight back. She seized the opportunity to slash the core with her lightsaber and hacked down a Knight-level mech that was coming to support it.

With more mechs to fight, the enemy no longer targeted Ajax, allowing him to think, strategize, and wreak havoc. With his terrifyingly high firepower and accuracy, no enemy attack point within 300 meters was safe and was promptly destroyed. Even a Parallax-level Roscoe-type mech that was positioned stealthily around 300 meters away with an M70 Sniper Rifle was not safe.

Ajax spotted him and took a single shot with his anti-material energy cannon three hundred meters away. The mech took a direct hit to the cockpit of the prone mech splitting its pilot in half from head to toe before the shot embedded itself in its core, prompting a massive explosion that engulfed the footsoldiers around them.

"Man, if only I could keep on killing these fuckers with a single round, this shit will be a field day. The Hell's League wouldn't last long..." Ajax thought to himself as he watched the blue fireball in the distance.

However, this time the Hell's League was well prepared and reacted swiftly and counterattacked. A few seconds later, the 2 jets did a run on the defense line and dropped napalm on the gate of the camp, creating hell on earth. Many operators were slow to react and were engulfed in the sea of ​​flames, their guttural screams piercing into the night sky.

An incendiary bomb hit a Knight-level mech that had no fire protection. "AHHHH AHHHG, GBHFUI, FUCK FUCK MOOOOMMM, FUC-*bang*" Ajax could only helplessly hear the screams of the pilot as he was being roasted alive before hearing the sound of a gunshot. He looked over at the mech and saw its lights still on as it just stood there engulfed in flames.

"Can you do something about them?!" Rick, aware of the danger, called out to Ajax through their coms.

"No! I didn't load any missiles!" Ajax opened fire on a passing jet, but it was moving too fast for him to land a hit on it. With the speed of the jets, anti-aircraft weapons and missiles were needed to take it down. Only a lucky shot with conventional weapons would take it down.

Fortunately, one of their Parallax-level mechs was loaded with missiles, and all six of its missiles were launched into the air, forcing the two jets to engage in evasive maneuvers and use their flares, causing them to temporarily leave the airspace.

Before they could breathe a sigh of relief, the unrelenting barrage from the Hell's League began once again. At the same time, more than a dozen Parallax-level mechs of different types appeared on the horizon, maintaining an offensive formation as they rushed over.

"You still in this fight?" Ajax quickly adjusted the angle of the anti-material energy cannon, and the Particle Compression Cannon on his chest also began to condense.

"You fucking bet I am!" Rick understood what Ajax meant and charged forward like a Viking, shield and lightsaber in hand.

However, things didn't go as smoothly as before. Although Ajax's attack blew up one of the mechs and seriously damaged another, he was immediately suppressed and forced to retreat back into cover.

The same was true for Rick, who had rushed up and was instantly surrounded by three melee mechs. Although her mech was durable and her fighting skills weren't half-bad, she couldn't fend off so many attacks at once. She was hit and forced to retreat together with Ajax.

If it weren't for the protection of her shield and Ajax's cover fire, she might have been turned into another statistic.

"Those fuckers are not from the Hell's League!" Ajax and Rick said in unison.

As soon as they fought against them, they discovered that the new team of mechs was well-coordinated and quite accurate, not like the inexperienced pilots of the Hell's League. It was almost impossible for people from small and medium-sized forces to afford to support a team like this.

Cooperating with the two jets that had suddenly appeared today, Ajax had a premonition. Ajax wasn't a fool, he could tell that this team was a mech team from the authorities. After they came from the Blauth Empire, they stayed in the camp of the Hell's League until tonight, and all of them had been mobilized just to bring Ajax back.

They could even use Rakshasa-level mechs since they were seasoned strong control pilots. However doing so would be too expensive, they would not be able to afford to fit so many pilots with them, so they could only use the common Parallax level.

In addition to appearance and basic performance, mechs of different levels also have gaps in weapon slots. Like the Knight class, there are only three conventional replaceable weapon slots, the hands, head, and shoulders, and missiles could not be equipped.

In addition to conventional weapon slots, the Parallax class has six missile slots. In addition to regular weapon slots and missile slots, the Rakshasa-level mech also has a special weapon slot, which is the weapon that comes with the mech and is something that cannot be replaced.

The Warlock-Level mech came with two weapons and a chip slot, which can open the chassis ability. As for mechs above the Warlock-Level, they were more complicated with each level bringing a qualitative change.

However, for the mech team of the guard, a Parallax level mech was more than enough, weren't they just after one man?

They sacrificed two mechs as they continued their unrelenting advance toward Ajax and Rick. Ajax and Rick thought these people were troublesome, and the casualties around them increased dramatically under the fierce offensive.

"What do we do?" Rick looked at Ajax, she didn't know what to do against this new threat.

Ajax quickly analyzed the situation and noticed that the jets were returning and that their defense line was gradually collapsing. So Ajax ordered a retreat: "Everyone fall back! Move to the defense building and establish a new perimeter! Exhaust them! If you have any anti-aircraft weaponry, you're with me!"