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Chapter 282: Shrewd and Ruthless Starlord

Starlord was the first to reach Chang’E’s statue Under the diht, Deimos’ mecha became an indistinct shape in the shadows, until it eventually vanished altogether

Not a moment later, Prometheus found his way to the map’s center as well The area was blanketed in an oines to maintain stealth

Neither Deiinning The audience, however, had a bird’s eye view of everything They could see every movement from the two team captains

Each had taken position in a corner and, with their engines dark, looked very much like statues the for the others to co it out, with Cerberus’ pilot facing an uphill battle Aside froest pilot in the Star Alliance Soer even than his rival, Zeus

But Hades was stronger than Thunderclap predicted By the time Thunderclap clainition Cerberus’ Hellfire Cannon had grazed hi and arm that were now puddles of molten metal Thunderclap, while still motive, was essentially castrated after their clash

More surprising was Thor and Windbreaker’s fight, which had just concluded Everyone’s attention was on Coeus and Starlord, and so did not see the thrilling conclusion

After finishing off Bahamut, Zeus turned the momentum toward Windbreaker, who had since recovered from his earlier hopelessness The mecha’s shell of compressed air surrounded a sizeable swath around it, and waves of it battered Thor from all directions His head was clear, and his tactics simple

Windbreaker knew that Thor came out the other end of his conflict with Bahamut unscathed, however he y by this point And this was so Sustaining against such powerful strikes couldn’t be done indefinitely, and so Windbreaker was determined to keep up the pressure He would rely on these strikes to keep up the pressure on Thor, eventually exhausting it

The area within three hundred ly, like the air was boiling Zeus could feel the increased at Thor fro his suit’s speed He was finding it difficult to see Windbreaker through the undulating air This was one of Windbreaker’s specialties – Atmospheric Refraction! Not only did the compressed air apply pressure to the eneht It was al

This ability meant Windbreaker had no need to rush for the statue It could hide itself wherever it chose to

Thor came to a halt in the air, the errant bolts of electricity that always surrounded hi down Both hands clutched the shaft of its spear, as Zeus quietly searched for any indication of his enemy Lan Jue empowered his shields, in anticipation of an attack as well as to help ward off the buffeted blasts of compressed air

Windbreaker appeared suddenly at Thor’s back, silent as the grave He did not rush forward, but instead coaxed his mecha to approach from low altitude Then, the s

It was a well-planned angle of attack Hidden approach, hard to anticipate, and difficult to break out of

Windbreaker was executing his plan Honor would be recovered by succeeding in where he’d failed before The rapple Thor, the rest of his plan went in to motion; increase the atmospheric pressure until one or both of the Thor from the equation orth it

Thor didn’t ht hirabbed Thor’s ankles in a vice-like grip, then pulled violently He didn’t yet e to position his enean to fall, Windbreaker ith hi rong, and the moment Windbreaker sensed it he reacted He i, to release an Airburst that would end their trade Once again, a powerful aura of white light sprang up around Windbreaker The difference was, this tiht in the center of the blast radius

Thor’s lightning spear crackled as it tore through the air It swiped viciously at the space below as they fell But then sood-ranked pilots rote battle analyses would find impressive

In this critical moment, at the crux of victory or defeat, Thor’s spear strike was directed at his ene for Thor’s legs disappeared and then, with a flash of the crackling spear head, they were gone In an all-out slash of its spear, Thor cut its own feet off at the ankles The force of the strike knocked it up and away fro iled feet It was too late The air around it erupted as Windbreaker’s Airburst was released

Thor’s speed and maneuverability were hampered by the loss of its feet and the thrusters beneath theh for it to avoid Windbreaker’s last gasp

A violent, staggering explosion of violet energy burst in to bloom directly on top of the Star Alliance powerhouse Thor’s Ha hiasped as they saw strealoith a similarly potent aura, and fired it out at its foe