Chapter 355: One! Instant! Thousand! Strikes!
The Main Brain's camera did a 180-degree reversal, and its most vulnerable brain-in-a-jar landed heavily, forced to bear a portion of its own weight, over 30 tons, pressing down on it.
If not for some metal components being ripped out as it separated from the ground, creating depressions that accommodated the protrusions and protected the Main Brain's reinforced casing, the casing might have shattered on the spot.
However, the Mammoth, now in its Bounty Head Flesh-and-Blood War Chariot form, clearly hadn't finished its attack.
The leaping kinetic energy from its multi-functional assault treads, while flipping the Main Brain, also launched the massive creature itself into the air… its pointed head inevitably colliding with the metal ceiling.
The upward kinetic energy was gone, but the downward kinetic energy still remained!
The multi-functional assault treads of the accelerating Bounty Head Mammoth slammed heavily onto the Main Brain's chassis, which lay overturned on the ground, embedded like a giant spinning top!
Half of the Main Brain's body was driven into the ground.
Accompanied by an almost imperceptible sound of glass shattering, the 1.8W representing the HP limit on the Main Brain's overhead serpentine light-and-shadow health bar also shattered, finally re-coalescing into the number "1.35W".
Under the Mammoth's "Mount Tai Pressing Down" attack, the Main Brain's inverted right sub-brain was skewered by a metal pipe that had crossed through the base ship's interior, piercing straight through it.
[Right brain damaged, HP limit reduced by 20%.]
It's rare to see an entity like the Main Brain, which so openly displays its weakness to players. It should be punished to sit at a table with the Martian Root!
At this moment, the Main Brain was in an unprecedented state of disarray and danger.
From its initial design, the Main Brain, theoretically a biological computer controlling a Matching mecha , was conceived with dual forms: a fortress commander and a mobile mech, even clearly incorporating simulations for operation in zero-gravity space.
However, among all the design considerations, there was no pre-set method for "how to escape when someone overturns it in a gravity-filled environment."
After all, such a massive body couldn't just flip itself over with a bit of spring power, like the small battle bots in "Robot Wars."
In the corresponding Full Metal Panic series, while the mech designs referenced real armaments from that world, the mechs' sizes were scaled up to Gundam levels, with all stats increased by roughly 3 times.
The Brodia was expanded from 5 meters to 15 meters, yet it retained the powerful kinetic energy it had at 5 meters.
Originally, the Zero Gouki should have also had a massive specification of over 18 meters, but under the constraints of the dungeon rules and Cheng Tian's choice of Gates LB as the transforming mech, its final specification was limited to 6 meters, while almost retaining its intended maneuverability.
Overturned into such a miserable state, the Main Brain found itself in the greatest predicament of its life, simultaneously experiencing a tearing sensation of "How can I, of all beings, be forced to such an extent by an inferior species!?" This was particularly unacceptable and deeply humiliating for the Main Brain.
In an instant, the Main Brain's twin-headed dragon mechanical arms, still exposed outside the ground and appearing to be mere wreckage, exploded, revealing a pair of even shorter mechanical arms within, with two turret-like objects at their ends.
"...Let's die together!"
The Main Brain's face, buried beneath the floor, was exceptionally twisted, and the muzzles of the short mechanical arms were aimed at each other.
A tiny black dot appeared out of nowhere at the point where the muzzles met.
At the same time, various metal fragments scattered on the ground, as well as various broken parts falling from the Main Brain's inverted mech body, were all being drawn into that tiny black dot... or more accurately, pulled!
This was the Main Brain's most dangerous attack method—the miniature black hole cannon!
The Main Brain, whose original self was likely some genius scientist, clearly had a skill tree that had branched off in an unknown direction; while being very poor at biological cloning, it had mastered the means of artificially synthesizing black holes.
In normal pre-set environments, the Main Brain would only use this move in space, because it was a special ability that affected both friend and foe.
Once a miniature black hole is generated, it automatically absorbs all surrounding matter and expands its volume.
Its best application is actually to throw it into the center of an enemy formation, or as a special defensive measure when facing an overwhelming barrage of enemy fire.
The former can indiscriminately annihilate individuals who fall directly into the black hole, until the miniature black hole reaches its absorption limit and self-destructs.
The latter can absorb projectile attacks from both friendly and enemy sides, buying time for reloading and replacing parts for its own side in a long-range shootout.
But when the Main Brain forcefully used this move in a relatively enclosed environment, it was clearly with the intention of mutual destruction!
In terms of HP loss, the Main Brain was actually still quite healthy, but its extremely high pride made it feel an unbearable and intense humiliation. This overwhelming surge of emotion directly affected its rational thinking, which it, as a biological computer, should have possessed.
Now, it only wanted to eliminate everyone present!
Whether it was Cheng Tian and his group of rebels, or its own soldiers, anyone who had seen it in this state had to die!
This was quite disastrous.
Especially the current situation, which was disastrous among disasters!
Because the base ship everyone was on was too massive, and the entire command room was specially made, the previous bombardment hadn't affected the ship's ascent.
However, the miniature black hole's devouring of everything around it was unstoppable.
The ship's ascent paused, half of the Main Brain's biological computer mech chassis had already been devoured, and it was only a matter of time before the entire spaceship was eaten away.
Cheng Tian and his team could certainly retreat directly and attempt an emergency landing with their mechs, but the cannon fodder materials on the ship would inevitably all perish.
In a flash, Cheng Tian made a decision.
A red crescent moon pattern suddenly flashed above the Zero Gouki's head.
Then, a female figure, with pure white wings spread and numerous holy light feathers falling with her, materialized from nothingness, appearing in the posture of holding miniature black twin towers in her hands.
In each main quest trial, Cheng Tian had one opportunity to summon the Twin Goddesses for help, and this time, Cheng Tian chose to summon the Red Moon Goddess Fina.
"Throw it!"
Cheng Tian's sudden command made Fina, who had just arrived, a little startled, unsure what he was referring to.
"I said! Throw the black tower in your hand at the black hole!"
"Huh!?"
Fina looked utterly bewildered, yet she still followed Cheng Tian's instructions, directly throwing the portable black tower in her hand at the miniature black hole, which was accelerating its absorption of all surrounding matter.
The portable black tower could temporarily establish a black high tower that could refresh monster units in stages in any area, and Cheng Tian's choice was to directly throw the entire portable black tower at the black hole for it to swallow!
Upon contact with the black hole, the black tower began to expand wildly, but it was entirely absorbed by the miniature black hole... then, like a black bubble, it popped and vanished on the spot!
It turned out that the portable black tower, which should have expanded normally, had forcefully burst the miniature black hole's absorption limit!
This caused the Main Brain, the technical developer who had prepared for mutual destruction, to immediately enter a state of logical conflict and system crash.
And the Zero Gouki mech's built-in energy gauge was already full from taking a large amount of damage, so Cheng Tian then manipulated it to perform the following actions—
Light punch, light punch, forward light kick, heavy punch.
One! Instant! Thousand! Strikes!