episode_0137

The leader, Paladin, charges forward.

Crossing the barrage of countless enemies rushing towards him, he moves faster than anyone else, taking down the enemies as lightly as a moth.

Pa–ang.

The space marines who followed couldn’t help but have a variety of emotions.

An ‘ally’ who boasts extremely powerful and overwhelming power.

Because they are so active, their role seems to be diminishing, and their work seems to be disappearing.

Even the enemies approaching them are aircraft that have been damaged by the explosion caused by the Paladin’s attack.

Ta-ang.

It is dangerous.

The enemy’s attack is also a deadly weapon that can explode an ally’s aircraft with a single blow, so if you pass by, you may survive in the nick of time, but if you are hit directly, you are guaranteed to die.

Dead.

Thanks to the brain mattress, you can’t die because you’re remotely controlled, but this isn’t a simulation.

If you die, that’s the end.

In reality, the number of Rafale fighter jets is limited, and each person has 2-3 lives, so if they die, they cannot return to the battlefield.

Just once.

If you get shot down, that’s it.

If you are easily shot down, your chance at freedom will be lost.

but.

Space Marines realized a value more precious than freedom.

[Purgo!!]

[Clean!!]

[For the universe!!]

Peace in the universe.

And the overwhelming force that can achieve peace in the universe.

Kwa-eu-ang!

It spins like a spiral and emits ether from the beam rifle.

As soon as the Paladin flew by, coiling around a battleship like a snake, cracks appeared throughout the battleship and an explosion occurred, and the space marines rushed towards Scorpie Dog and Jaco MK.3, who jumped out of the battleship.

For a green and clean universe.

In such a cause, the space marines had no choice but to focus their entire attention.

The realization of self that those who used to hurt, steal, and plunder others are suddenly moving for a greater cause.

Insurance that no matter how much you fight on the battlefield, you will not die.

And above all-

[If you fall now, you will leave this battlefield early–!!]

A longing to stay a little longer in the battlefield where paladins are fighting with all their might.

Someday in the future.

The moment a child is born and you tell that child about this moment.

-dad. What did dad do here?

In response to that innocent question, I hope for the day when people proudly say, ‘I fought for the peace of the universe on the battlefield with the Paladins until the end.’

[Disappear, you cancers of the universe that threaten peace!!]

The space marines pulled the booster with all their might.

[Justice is upon us!!]

Even if the pilot is a clone of a Paladin and the Rafale’s blade antenna is broken and destroyed, even if the aircraft explodes and is destroyed by an enemy attack.

Everything.

A blue and clean universe –

no.

For a peaceful world where no one bleeds to death unjustly.

Kwa—-!!

[Mission, clear.]

The space marines willingly clung to the enemy and pressed the self-destruct button.

* * *

The wire collapses.

I’m charging as much as possible from this side and trying to attract the enemy’s aggro, but the enemy is still spread out to the left and right of the direction I broke through.

Quagwang, quagwagwang!!

A series of explosions.

The leading Rafale unit collides with the leading S-TAR allied force, causing a series of explosions.

To win, one aircraft must destroy 17 aircraft.

However, no matter how much the space marines ignore death, there is a limit to the ability to follow the movements of the aircraft on which the AI Paladin is installed.

The space marines explode.

Just defeating one aircraft and tying up with two aircraft is the best result they can achieve.

However, as the number of space marines decreases one by one, the number of enemies that the surviving friendly aircraft must fight increases.

If so.

‘You just have to defeat that much more.’

Energy is infinite.

There is so much ether on this battlefield that it doesn’t matter if you use it as much as you want.

Die, original!!

And thanks to those ether waves, the intense brain waves reaching towards me stimulated my mind, but I easily dodged the attack and destroyed the flying enemy aircraft.

Kwa-euang!

[They self-destruct with an EMP bomb?]

“Um.”

The aircraft shakes.

There is no problem with the ether itself, but if you went out without these eyes, you would probably have suffered serious damage.

Paba babang!

As soon as I stop for a moment, all kinds of attacks come at me from all directions.

Shoot him! You’ve been hit by an EMP and won’t be able to move!

Lose it! Retired ghost!!

Disappear into the back road of history, old man!!

As if they were waiting for me to pause, concentrated fire comes from all directions with malice.

“You’re an old man for a 27-year-old. This is why androids.”

[Nuclear engine adjustment completed.]

“Are you finished? Then, you have to escape right away.”

I pulled back sharply.

“Jacket purge.”

[Cast off.]

Pa—-!!

The aircraft’s armor explodes and flies forward like a claymore.

Along with the incoming bombardment, a Scorpie dog running towards me to rip off my head gets hit by the armor and explodes.

what’s the matter!

That, no way…!

Is it visible even in the midst of the explosion?

Then you can see me as I am now.

The aircraft…came out…?

An AS popped out of the old Paladin Mk.2.

human…?

It is like a giant shining blue, a human-like form made of ether.

[It’s rude to say you’re a human. After all, it is a robot.]

“It depends on the design, but don’t think about bringing that out in our universe.”

[Tch. I think we could have surpassed 1,000 won for the first time in a long time.]

“Let’s only use things from this universe, only things from our universe.”

The etheric giant gradually takes on a new form.

The aircraft takes on a new form in an instant, as if it is based on Harkon, or as if it is evolving from Harkon into a completely new form.

[Paladin Mk.31. Final match specifications, upload completed.]

Fazizik.

The cockpit changes.

I thought the light of stardust was sparkling, but in an instant, the ether changed shape and took on the shape of a cockpit that was familiar to me.

[Because it is a gas made of 100% pure ether, there will be no strain on your eyes.]

“Wasn’t the burden already gone?”

[This means that there will be no pressure at all.]

“I see.”

I placed my hand on the shiny round spheres on the front and left sides of the armrest.

“Then there is no reason to hesitate.”

[brain wave adjustment recognition completed. Synchronize your senses with the entire aircraft.]

The moment I close my eyes for a moment and then open them.

Flashing.

Field of view expands.

What you see is not a cockpit, but a vast blue universe.

It’s a battlefield.

Just as I am looking at the battlefield through the eyes of an AS, I am observing the battlefield through the eyes of a Paladin Mk.31.

I think I once told Lavender that story.

-Do you know why an AS pilot’s cockpit is sometimes located on his head?

-Isn’t it so that super robots have fighter planes on their heads?

-There is that, but if the size is too large, the aim may be misaligned due to the incongruity of visual information.

The difference between humans and AS lies in the gaze.

No matter how well a human is at controlling the AS, if the main camera is at the head and the body is at the chest, there are cases where control problems arise due to the difference.

Sometimes, in order to solve this problem, there is a style of fighting where a small aircraft is newly mounted on the head of a huge aircraft –

Ku-uung!

It fires a booster backwards and runs forward.

I run as one with the gas-Sapphire Unicorn, as if I were navigating a space battlefield.

Bu-euung!

Avoid the flying beam saber.

Because I could see and dodge with my own eyes, I was able to dodge much faster and with larger movements than before.

Ta-ang.

Avoid incoming gunfire by turning your head to the side.

The moment I saw the red line along the trajectory warned by the ether, my body had already dodged the enemy’s attack.

Kwa-eu-ang.

Fly to the bridge of the battleship blocking your path, aim the tip of your spear and pull the trigger.

The aircraft pulls the trigger on the lance, and an ether bombardment flies from the end of the lance, and those on the bridge are instantly caught up in the explosion.

Some, or most, of them looked similar to me, but it didn’t matter.

There are so many copies of me spread out in this universe right now, why should I pay attention to them all?

but-

[master. coming.]

‘Is it coming slowly?’

I think we’ve processed about 300 so far.

It seems like about 10 of them exploded on one battleship, and as a result, hunters slowly began to approach this way.

Hehehe.

11 gases that emit powerful brain waves.

They have different shapes –

“Ha.”

[Taurus guys, I guess they customized each one of them?]

“Doing useless things.”

As if symbolizing each colony of the 12 constellations of the Zodiac, however, aircraft wearing the Taurus colony’s unique green light blocked my path.

“I feel it. Those aren’t clones…”

[It could be said to be a child object. Design baby created through artificial insemination and rapid culture.]

“Well, it’s just an android.”

[But they are beings created from data from when they were at their peak, right?]

“That’s right. That’s why…”

Let’s stop and wait.

Fazizik.

Purple lightning appeared behind me, opening up space.

[Instructor!!]

[Is that our opponent?]

A red gas appeared next to it as if distorting space.

A red dragon, in the form of a dragon as large as a battleship, and whose size was comparable to the ‘White Bride’, the strongest force of the Virgo Colony opposite, spread its wings and released ether.

“I’ll leave these to you. There is no need to look at it.”

[Instructor. They….]

“These are artificial humans created with my genes. You can call them children, but they are not my children.”

I don’t have any children yet.

“The only children I have are those that I conceived and gave birth to myself.”

Even if I have children, I want them to be born according to the laws of nature.

[…….]

[…….]

Crash.

[Go, instructor. We’ll take care of this.]

[We will get rid of the fakes and show you what is real.]