-Quah──!
Before the sound, a flash of light rains down on the city.
Mobius-class Charged Particle Cannon Anti-Personnel Armor x2
A massive mechanical spider. Overwhelming firepower of a land-based super-heavy armored firepower projection weapon.
Originally unable to carry the ultra-high firepower of a several hundred-ton cigar-shaped weapon, it is now able to withstand recoil with a rare new substance called stardust.
The optimal line of fire is drawn by analyzing and calculating enemy movements, terrain, wind, and even gas molecules in the atmosphere that can reduce the power of the beam.
Today's Yakt Spinner can produce legion-sized firepower alone.
It would be impossible for a single individual to maintain form in such a massive interactive force battle. But──
"whaaaaaaaaaa──!!"
The beast roars as a flood of red aura surges forth, charging towards the giant mechanical spider.
-Emergency Firepower. Skip the cooling sequence!
The secondary firepower projectile has skipped the minimum safety sequence required to cool down its massive firepower.
A faster-than-light blast strikes the Orc champion, but his axe flashes.
"Plastic!"
-------!
The axe entangles the beam like a tangle of thread. It was a physical action that was beyond comprehension.
What the ultra-high-powered camera observes and the strong artificial intelligence judges is simply accepting and dealing with what is in front of it.
"Fuck you!"
Kwasik! The sturdy super-heavy armor is crushed. However...this armor is the largest star-iron armor on Earth.
-Die, beast.
The armor withstands the axe and thrusts a 12-gauge, close-combat-flavored Starfirex4.
-Quack, quack, quack!
A shot made of stellar iron is fired from the hands of the Holy Knight.
There are four of them, enough to tear through the armor of even a Holy Knight------
"You underestimate me!"
Balbaza's entire body is covered in dense divine power, blocking the shotgun blasts. As Yappy watched it with his camera eye, Balbaza stamped his axe down and glared at Yappy.
"Who do you think you are? I've fought alongside the Great Khan for hundreds of years. Where were you when I was tearing demons apart and quenching my thirst with the blood of the Archdemons?"
The history of the fight is different. In the midst of that intense struggle, Balbaza has been a champion of commitment.
"Three strokes and your armor will shatter."
-Kwazik!
The armor shatters. It's disintegrating under the weight of his axe.
-Emergency Ejection.
The cockpit's emergency ejection system activates, and Yappy's tiny body is ejected from the Count but he enters another Count-class.
-Cockpit opens. Pilot on board.
-Fully automated special warfare weapon activated.
One down, another to go. Balbaza shouldered his axe as he trampled over the crushed armor.
"Cckk, that's a lot."
Ignoring his mockery, Yappy linked to his entire arsenal.
He moved them one by one to maximize the power of the divine reactor that powered his body, but the destructive power of the enemy far outstripped his AI's judgment.
-All Weapon Link.
All weapons share the power of Yappy's Holy Reactor, an ever-evolving combat program of the Yakt Spinner.
Land-based fire support weapon formations.
-Airborne mobile bombers ready to deliver low to medium altitude firepower.
Multiple Baron and Viscount classes in support. Five Counts and the Marquis, a beast of doom that has been sitting on the sidelines until now to reduce energy waste, was mobilized.
-Full set of Starfire Weapons.
-Yakt Spinner, a unified commander. Peacock-class Final Armor Auxiliary Computing Program contacted. Synchronization complete.
-Initiation of maximum combat effectiveness killing program.
The simultaneous mobilization of all of these weapons, each of which is of high firepower and high output, is too much for even Yappy's divine reactor to handle.
The program is limited to five minutes, and Balbaza can't help but be impressed by the enormity of the momentum.
"I am Balbaza, Champion of the Battle God Helkan!"
-Deploying the Baron-class Specialized Exoskeleton Armor Mk.3.
The androids, firing large-caliber specialty rifle rounds, advance, firing at Balbaza.
Balbaza leaps in, trusting in the armor's protection, and swings his axe through the Mk.3's crosshairs.
-Enemy approach. Second bayonet deployed. Counter with monomolecular cutters.
-Mk. 3, 4, and 5 close the distance and maintain fire.
Two Mk.3s engage Balbaza with bayonet-mounted rifles. The bayonet is knocked back by the force of the blow, but the other's bayonet still manages to pierce Balbaza's chest armor.
"What--?!"
-Molecular Cutter begins to disintegrate.
A crackling, ghastly sound scratched the armor as a thin blade slices through the armor's bonding molecules at the molecular level.
The single-molecule cutter, designed and structurally bonded to stardust on a molecular level, could theoretically cut through anything and not wear out.
"You---!"
Balbaza grabs the Mk.3 with the Monomolecular Cutter and immediately activates Helkan's Great Hand. The unrelenting force rips off the arm in one fell swoop, and the axe blow dismembered the Mk.3.
-Friendly Damage. Baron Class Heavy Armored Multi-Purpose Tank 1800mm railgun fire.
High-powered railgun fire as the other Mk.3s tie Balbaza down. Balbaza dodged with animal-like senses, but the whizzing railguns were enough to leave wounds here and there.
"Squish like a fly---!"
At that moment, a giant foot-shaped spirit body slammed down from the air, powered by Balbaza's divine power. It's not as powerful as the spirit body of Helkan's idol, but the destructive power of the foot alone is enough to crush the city.
-Bam!
The shockwave is like a nuclear explosion. While the shockwave alone crushes the stellar iron, Yappy continues to compute.
A unified command link for all weapons, the combat program to defeat the Holy Knights is predicated on withstanding shockwaves that exceed nuclear weapons at all times.
-Awakening-class high-power bombing weapons.
The best fire support weapon in the arsenal.
Even Balbaza is fed up by this point, and the continuous fireballs are destroying the area.
"Ugh!"
The beast retreats for the first time but that's exactly what Yappy had hoped for.
-Marquis-class 680mm star cannon set.
The most powerful weapon that could destroy even the Great Old Ones with a single shot.
-Block this one too.
BANG! A scream drowns out the sounds of the world. No, more like a deafening roar.
Balbaza knew it was over as he stood in front of the 680-millimeter stardust cannon fired by the Yakt Spinner's largest decisive weapon.
"You---!"
An explosion erupted.
The stardust shell was not a bomb, but a hypervelocity armor-piercing round of pure physical force. The massive cloud of dust and explosion is simply the shockwave byproduct of the shell's overwhelming destructive power penetrating deep into the city's bones.
-Thermal imaging mode. Simultaneous infrared detection mode. Energy observation mode.
The triple observation system is activated to keep track of enemy movements. Yappy spotted a moving figure in the dust, and all the weapons opened fire without hesitation.
The Barons, barely armed, the Viscounts, still with missiles and machine gun shells, and the Counts and Marquis keep firing until the terrain is gone.
The armament was pushed to the limit and the AI's calculations recommend that he ceases fire here.
-Armor depletion rate 75%. Recommendation to abort combat protocol.
He has expended this much firepower. His armor's cooling is at its limit and cannot handle the attrition rate. But------
-Recommendation rejected. Unified Commander insists on continuing the battle.
With a thousand years of combat experience, Yakt Spinner has countless battles under his belt.
His iron war machines have kept the evil cage untouched for a thousand years.
However, even for a Yakt Spinner like him, the experience of the last two years or so has rendered his data useless.
"Glory be to the Lionheart!"
Users with concepts that deviate from common sense. The emergence of a Grail guardian who violates sacred law and physical force──
"Be gone."
Superhuman abilities that are clearly beyond the limits of living things.
Yes, the appearance of a superhuman called the Holy Knight changed everything.
He alone breathes fire, shoots light, performs physical feats that violate the limits of living things, and performs miracles with an unbelievable tenacity of life.
The Yakt Spinner's theory of combat, learned there, was simple.
-Overkill. Kill, kill, kill.
Yappy's power comes from great skill and unlimited resources.
Since he lacked the transcendent eccentricities of the Holy Knights, Yappy decided that the answer was simply to unleash an inexhaustible barrage of firepower.
It was a very accurate judgment made by a machine. But------
"Firing from a great distance!"
The existence of a divine agent is beyond even the irrational overreaction of a strong AI.
Even though blood is shed, the momentum does not diminish at all. By the time he realized that it was a power comparable to the 'great' Holy Descent seen in the fight with Rakshar, countless war weapons had been destroyed and even the Marquis-class decisive battle weapon had sunk.
"How many more do you have left, scrap metal!"
The opponent is a fighter of overwhelming strength and speed that requires no math. It is impossible to meet it head-on.
-Counter.
The Yakt Spinner's greatest strength is its infinite amount and myriad types of power.
An armament that can counter all kinds of numbers is a formidable force in itself.
-Count-class short-range, fully automated special warfare weapon. Full throttle.
"------!?"
Bonded to a holy reactor and scattering its output, it attacks Balbaza at speeds beyond the creature's perception.
In the past, when Yappy defended the city, he used melee weapons, forced by a lack of shells and resources.
"Wire?"
An instantaneous acceleration sends wires flying in all directions at speeds that even a Holy Knight cannot perceive.
-Tactics. A celestial web.
The wire cuts through the city as buildings are sliced and the air cracks.
The collision of the overwhelming speed and the whip-like crack of the stellar iron wire is eerie and dizzying.
An arm was outstretched as armor shattered and blood splattered as the wires slashed across its body.
It grasped the wire that was about to slice it into hundreds of cubes, and the palm that should have been sliced off like tofu grasped the stubborn wire and pulled it toward itself.
-------!
The axe cut down the armament. It is a Count class that exhibits tremendous speed like a fighter plane, but its armor is soft in proportion to its attack power and speed.
-Emergency ejection!
The Count-class armor breaks in two as soon as he escapes but Yappy boards a new Count-class.
A giant, unbalanced fist rushes toward Balbaza. The thrust from the energy jet nozzles of the super-heavy armored Count-class completes the Mach 13 Fist of Doom.
"Kahaha---!"
Balbaza returns the favor with a fist. The savage punching of the Helkcan's large hand, unleashed to its full power, meets the rocket punch.
-Bang!
The terrain is ripped apart by the shockwaves alone but Balbaza is the victor.
"If you have nothing more to show, die!"
Balbaza swings his axe, and imbued with the power of Helkan, the axe cuts through anything.
"Hmm!"
But faster than that, Yappy slips away from the Count-class.
Balbaza is dumbfounded as he watches Yappy shoot through the cockpit.
"Well, that's one way to get away!"
'No more armor now. Just smash that weak-looking fuselage.'
-Energy supply complete. Threshold maxed.
But there's a glow from the weapon he should have destroyed. By the time he realizes it's coming from the weapon itself, it's too late.
"You---!"
The explosion was small, but it spewed a deadly substance, more poisonous than a bomb and that substance is none other than the Holy Power.
-Priestess Beatrice, completing her Death Mist. Confirmed rapid drain of enemy divine power.
The users of the concept are agents of the gods. Therefore, the only way to counter their power is to be a demon or use the same divine power.
Beatrice's artifacts, which she has been steadily mass-producing, contain her holy power and are scattered like biological warfare.
Her ability to inflict mass destruction is embodied in the mass-produced weaponry of Yappy.
-Equipped with Last Arms. Holy Law manifested.
Countless armors were shattered but that is why this last weapon is meaningful.
[Go, my blacksmith, this Heto is with you]
-Divine Advent
The power explodes as Heto, the God of Iron and Blacksmiths, descends upon his Holy Knight.
Normally, even living saints would risk their lives but for the Yakt Spinner, this risk is mitigated.
Now he, she, has the body of a saint created by the gods.
If he abandons this mechanical body and transmigrates, he can recreate a mechanical body from living flesh.
-Strategic law. Duke-level combination. Marquis, Count, Viscount, and Baron combined.
The Holy Knight of Iron and Blacksmiths, whose powers include all the modifiers for iron and the enlightenment as a blacksmith, but which blacksmith can combine the remains of armaments on the fly in the heat of battle?
A miracle made possible by a super-strong artificial intelligence that can compute the history of the universe in an instant.
-Last Weapon. Versus Leon Dragonia Lionheart Battle Specification
A great golden light flashes. This warrior of all armaments is surprisingly armed with no guns, cannons, or bombs, only a sword.
Balbaza is mesmerized by this beautiful, chivalrous sight.
"A sword---! What an interesting machine!"
He had a hunch that this ridiculous tin robot might be the greatest enemy of his life as a fighter.
[Even if there's no danger of a Holy Descent, whether the fuselage can handle the power is another matter, and it needs to be done quickly]
To Heto's concern for his agent, the Mechanical Holy Knight replied with a brusque tone.
-I can handle it.
In imitation of the most exemplary knight in the database, he swings it once.
"Let's see how this ends, tin can!"
The beast charges, axe in hand. In response, the Golden Knight calmly grips his sword with both hands.
Most of the Golden Knight's energy is focused on the golden "holy sword" that has formed.
The brilliantly colored armor is formed to withstand the recoil of a single swing of the sword, an absolute defense.
He bets everything on this strike.
──The Axe of Helkan.
──Holy Sword Manifestation
A blinding flash spread across the city, and everyone saw it.
Ten seconds seemed like a year. As the flashes faded, the figures of the warrior and knight began to appear.
"-------"
Even after withstanding the recoil, the aftermath crushed even the Star Iron fuselage. Yappy slipped and fell from the shattered Golden Knight.
The cracked legs failed to hold the fuselage up, and the divine reactor, with its infinite power, was precariously close to shutting down.
-Yippee!
Yappy looked up at the beast with his camera eye.
"Khhhh---!"
Balbaza looked down at Yappy, the fighter who had fought him to the end.
"I------"
The voice sounded almost cool, and then──
"I have lost."
The great fighter had fallen.
It was Yappy's victory.