Chapter 258 - Wolf in Rabbit Skin (1/2)
Qin Fen’s impatient voice from the Red Lotus Phantom echoed in the spacious arena field.
Originally, it just sounded like an impatient urging, but when in entered everyone’s ears, there was an indescribable arrogance, hegemony, and rampancy.
At this time, the five meters tall Red Lotus Phantom seemed incomparably tall to everyone. It was as if it was taller than the Galaxy Steel Spirit and was filled with a mighty prestige.
The European recruits were still reeling in from the shock created by the Jungle Ranger’s outstanding maneuvers. As such, when several people looked at the comrade-in-arms standing by their side, they could see the intention to collaborate in each other’s eyes.
As everyone was a mobile armor pilot, their understanding of mobile armor’s combat mode was far from that of ordinary recruits.
As the main force of the air defense force and ground troops, new mobile armor tactics and combat skills would be introduced every year.
However, as far as the mobile armor pilots were concerned, whether it was new tactics or combat skills, the most important thing was still the mobile armor maneuvers.
In the face of the air superiority of aircraft, maneuvers to dodge the air-to-surface missiles from the opposite side was of vital importance.
In the face of grounded mobile armor, as well as anti-mobile armor artillery operated by a single soldier, the speed of maneuvers was extremely demanding for the driver.
The normal output of the drive furnace was also limited. For a very long time, mobile armor pilots were having a headache from this limitation.
Until one day, a mobile armor pilot, who used to be computer hardware enthusiast, invented a way to exceed the limit of the drive furnace output, which was quite similar to the overclocking of the computer’s CPU.
Compared to the overclocking of the CPU, the overclocking output power of the drive furnace was far more dangerous. Just a single mistake would cause the drive furnace to run out of control and cause the drive furnace to self-destruct.
The explosion of drive furnace due to overclocking had happened more than once in the battle. Similar explosions of drive furnace from overclocking have also occurred even when one was an ace mobile armor pilot.
The overclocking of drive furnace had always been regarded as an extreme way of fighting for mobile armor pilots — it was akin to walking on a tightrope. No one was willing to touch such a minefield if it wasn’t necessary.
Of course, mobile armor enthusiasts often liked to intrude upon this minefield.
Even if the mobile armor pilots didn’t have enough qualifications to become ace pilots, it was of the most basic skill set to see whether he or she could do a certain level of drive furnace overclocking.
Even more, when the mobile armor pilots compete in strength, they would choose the same model with exactly the same performance parameters as the mobile armor to fight to make it fair.
As the matter stood, it could often be seen that whoever could overclock his or her drive furnace better was truly the strongest.
In the past, in the fight with the same Galaxy Steel Spirit, Guss had easily defeated the Galaxy Steel Spirit with the same type drive furnace that was running at a normal output of a hundred percent by just overclocking his drive furnace to a hundred and sixty-five percent.
All European recruits had the ability to overclock their drive furnace to a certain level. As such, they were far more aware of how dangerous it was for Qin Fen to overload the drive furnace to that level, as well as Qin Fen’s true strength compared to East Asian recruits.
Overloading the drive furnace to three hundred percent!?
Several European recruits had migraines when they thought of the data that might have just appeared. Any ordinary ace mobile armor pilot would not be able to do it. In an estimate, no more than five hundred experts with such level could be found among all the mobile armor pilots in the entire Federation, including other planets.
If there was an age limit in the estimation, an age limit among the East Asian recruits present before them… the European recruits suddenly understood one thing…
The East Asian recruit operating the Red Lotus Phantom before their eyes possessed enough strength to be called the number one mobile armor pilot among the Federation recruits!
The battle between mobile armors was totally different from the melee fight among humans.
Humans had their own strengths: some were powerful and some were weak. A high-rank martial artist could easily sweep a large number of low-rank martial artists.
In contrast, the fights between mobile armor were different. After all, all the models of the machine were placed here. The performance they could display did not differ much from what everyone knew. Rarely a chance would present itself where a single mobile armor could sweep through a group of mobile armors.
However, today!
The European recruits were perfectly clear that a mobile armor battle that could rarely be seen was truly going to happen! The East Asian recruit before their eyes was no longer piloting the weaker Jungle Ranger but rather a relatively stronger model, the Red Lotus Phantom.
“Jungle Ranger, according to the official data, has an overclocking limit with its drive furnace of three hundred percent.”
“Red Lotus Phantom, according to the official data, has an overclocking limit with its drive furnace of three hundred and fifty-six percent.”
As several recruits quickly calculated the difference in the strength of both sides, the solemn look on their faces gradually relaxed. Someone even pursed the corner of their lips into a smug smile. Six against one, and not to mention, it’s just a Red Lotus Phantom. We should not lose!
Some times, a mobile armor battle was also a battle of data! Even if the Red Lotus Phantom pilot can go against heaven and overclock its drive furnace to three hundred and fifty-six percent, his chances of winning is no more than three point two seven percent.
“What are you waiting for? Hurry up, will you?” Qin Fen urged, once more.