Assault Colossus of the Nemesis Warfront

time, the shelling and Familiar support units also proceeded to prime their armaments.

Three armored combat vehicles armed with large rocket containers fired two missiles each.

『Second salvo! Indirect bombardment.
Commence firing!』

『Shell trajectory confirmed.
Commencing fire.
20 seconds to impact.』

A transmission came from the artillery unit.
Their 155 mm self-propelled howitzer shells howled as they soared through the air.

『Third salvo.
Indirect bombardment.
Adjust your impact time accordingly.
Commence firing!』

The last command echoed out.

The estimated impact time of the shells can be adjusted accordingly by changing the firing angle.
Landing shots simultaneously is called coordinated firing.

Jenny opted for a strategy of landing two shots per salvo, concentrating firepower on the areas weakened by the first salvo, and finishing the job with the second and third.

The Familiar mortar unit was performing support bombardment at a location that was close to the artillery unit.
Their 120 mm double-barreled mortars fired alternately.

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The timing adjustments of the dog and cat-shaped familiars were impeccable.

The barrage continued relentlessly for three minutes.

If the Enyo’s head had not been destroyed earlier, most of the shells would have been intercepted by its anti-air lasers coupled with the lasers of the surrounding Worker-types.

In conjunction with that, if the number of Worker-types weren’t thinned out as well, the effect of the barrage would have been reduced by more than half.

No matter how tough high-dimensional projection armor was, even it can’t withstand a sustained barrage of highly destructive ordnance fired from a distance of several tens of kilometers.

The Ant Worker-types that got caught up in the attack were almost all wiped out, and only the barely moving giant Queen remained.

『Cease indirect fire barrage.
Target damage confirmed.
All units proceed to the mop-up phase.』

Jenny’s command echoed out from the comms once more.

The final mop-up battle had commenced.

「Guess it’s finally time to put down the goddess of destruction for good.」

Kou made Unit 5 head straight for the Enyo.

There was a Metal Iris Silhouette nearby as well.

「Get out of there!」

Kou shouted in warning.

The Bear that tried to close in on the Enyo got knocked down.

It got caught in one of the Enyo’s indiscriminate tail swipes.
And then, a giant Telkhines made its appearance.

The Telkhines gave off an aura similar to that of unbridled rage as it approached.

It was probably a Commander unit.
It was one size larger than a regular Telkhines.

It held a great sword similar to Unit 5’s.

In fact, Telkhines actually had more advantages in sword fights compared to Silhouettes like Unit 5.
After all, they’re equipped with a prehensile mechanical tail that can function as a pseudo-third leg.
This gives the Telkhines its signature stability and maneuverability.

Even a brute force sword swing from one would be enough to cause critical damage.

However–

Kou could see it.
He could read the trajectory of its attack.
And as a result, he could aim for it with pinpoint precision.

It unleashed a full-powered and wide downward swing in order to cover its front.
Due to Kou’s unrelenting training in iaijutsu, he was incredibly familiar with the trajectory of the enemy’s sword attack.
A kesagiri wasn’t a technique that’s only used to cut the soft parts of an enemy’s bone structure.

Perhaps this was also the effect of Unit 5 enhancing his senses.
Kou instinctively realized this.
Unit 5 was making up for the weaknesses of the young man who hasn’t even participated in a serious match with an opponent back in Japan.

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In return for its assistance, Kou placed great trust in Unit 5 that moved according to his inputs.

「I can do this.」

The young man muttered softly to himself.
Unit 5 will surely answer his expectations.

What would his counter move be?

He decided to meet the opponent’s slash with an upward slash of his own delivered from a low stance.
He hid the sword’s length behind Unit 5’s flank in order to mask the trajectory of the slash.
Since Unit 5 was a machine, it would largely make up for the disadvantages of swinging upward from below.

Kou matched the timing of the opponent’s kesagiri and delivered an upward slash that transitioned into a horizontal sweep.
Unit 5’s great sword cleaved the air apart along with the enemy.

Both of the Telkhines’ wrists were severed cleanly.

The enemy probably didn’t see it coming.
The moment the enemy’s movement stalled, Kou performed a follow-up thrust with Unit 5’s great sword.

The Telkhines’ torso was pierced cleanly, and its movements completely ground to a halt.

He pulled the great sword out and delivered a final full-power horizontal slash to cleave the enemy’s torso clean in half.

The severed upper body slowly slipped and fell to the ground, accompanied by a loud booming noise.

Now he was finally free to deal with the Enyo.

However, there was still an Ant Commander-type that was left.
Kou noticed this and prepared to get rid of it first.

However, the Commander-type got blown back by an explosion before he could make a move.

「Kou! I’ll cover you.」

It was Blue.
After replenishing her machine’s ammo and undergoing emergency repairs, she finally managed to return to the front lines.

「Hey there.
I guess you just managed to pay me back for my earlier save with this huh.」

He jokingly thanked her.
It was great to have comrades who had your back at times like this, Kou thought.

「You sound pretty relaxed.
I don’t think I’ve already managed to repay my debt with just this.」

A deadpan voice replied from the comm.

Kou’s lips curled up in amusement as he made Unit 5 jump on top of the Queen Ant’s torso.

Unit 5 swung its sword and cut through a particularly damaged section of the Queen’s torso.

The Queen Ant-type Keres finally keeled over and collapsed to the ground.

The power unit supplying Whis energy to its gigantic body was completely destroyed, finally deactivating the Queen.

It was a resounding victory.