Starting from the Collapse World, I became the behind-the-scenes boss

Of course, given the white fluffy ball's heart and intelligence, the other party will most likely never understand.

Even so, Shihen still had to adopt this posture.

This demonstrates his professionalism as an actor.

Kiana: "..."

So what exactly are you referring to?!

She felt like she was about to go crazy.

"Kiana, I won't ask you what you're looking for, but at least..." Shihen took a deep breath, his expression turning serious, "No matter what, you must protect yourself."

This is advice that a friend should give.

Meeting the boy's incredibly earnest gaze, Kiana was momentarily taken aback, then smiled and nodded gently: "...Yes, I will."

"Well then, I hope you can find the treasure you're looking for." Shihen said softly, picking up the backpack the girl had placed beside her. "Also... the train has arrived."

"..."

As Kiana watched the words on the screen change to "Ticket Checking in Progress," her spirits, which had just lifted, plummeted to rock bottom.

Parting always comes unexpectedly.

"Anyway, see you in North America, Kiana."

Shihen said with a smile.

Although he knew that the two would meet again much sooner than this.

"Yes, we agreed. You absolutely have to come find me then!"

Composing herself, Kiana flashed a victory sign at the boy, a smile spreading across her face as her white teeth gleamed in the sunset's afterglow.

"Yes, it's a promise."

Shihen nodded emphatically and handed the large backpack to the girl.

Taking the backpack, Kiana waved without looking back and walked forward with firm and powerful steps, like a general leading a vast army alone.

Just as they were about to turn the corner, the girl suddenly turned around and gave the boy an incredibly bright smile.

She remembered that the other person had said he liked to see her smile.

He couldn't help but smile as well. Shihen watched the bright white figure disappear from sight, and only after a few seconds did he walk away at a leisurely pace.

Once he exited the station, there were no black luxury cars waiting for him at the entrance; Shihen didn't need those things to highlight his awesomeness.

So he simply strolled leisurely down the street, just like any ordinary person, only to be greeted by subtitles that only he could see:

[New Player Quest - Gate of St. Freya: You have already witnessed the madness of this world. It's time to join a secret organization fighting against the Honkai and find a group of like-minded companions to save the world. (Completed)]

You have received a new reward: Gangdaruff.

[Gundaruf: The Right Hand of God is proof of bravery; you can skillfully wield any weapon you come into contact with.]

With this ability, coupled with the superhuman reflexes that his current body possesses, competing for the title of leader of the Anti-Entropy Alliance shouldn't be too difficult, right?

As he thought about it, a faint smile appeared on the boy's lips.

Chapter 71 The Birth of an Ace

In the half-ruined city, herds of white beasts roam.

Each individual beast was over five meters tall, and their movements were like the collapse of mountains. Deafening roars echoed continuously, causing the ground to tremble and countless grains of sand and gravel to leap up, as if the entire city was shaking.

Even in the air, a large number of white flying mosquitoes, each about the size of a person, soared and danced, creating gusts of wind and whistling sounds in the air.

If you look closely, you can even see a few streaks of crimson on the sharp, blade-like wings of the flying mosquitoes—the color of human blood.

Even in the ruins of cities on the ground, red seeps out from the piles of bricks and stones everywhere. On the streets and in the corners of walls, you can easily find thousands of human corpses, each with a different appearance but all too painful to look at.

This is the land ravaged by the collapse, a place where demons roam freely and corpses litter the ground.

woo-

The roar of the organic machinery filled the air, and a patch of gray-blue suddenly appeared on the distant horizon.

Soon, the gray-blue area grew larger, revealing hundreds or even thousands of armed drones.

In a short while, the drone approached the half-abandoned city, and the rattling sound of machine guns immediately filled the air, with large numbers of white flying mosquitoes being hit and falling to the ground like dumplings being made.

While the Assault-class Honkai Beasts possess the most agile movements among all types of Honkai Beasts, their mosquito-like body structure also means that their defenses are as fragile as paper, and they can be devastated by ordinary machine guns.

Despite suffering significant losses in the face of a large number of drone attacks, the Assault-class Honkai Beasts managed to evade the initial barrage of bullets and launch a flanking attack on the drones.

In an instant, the steel machine guns and the collapsing beast horde clashed. White flies were frequently hit by machine gun fire and fell to the ground, while drones occasionally exploded in the air as a burst of fire.

This is a war of attrition, a test of endurance.

As the aerial battle began, the ground war also commenced simultaneously.

High in the sky, streaks of meteors suddenly streaked across the sky, piercing through the clouds and falling to the ground, leaving long trails of flame in the air.

But if someone looks closely, they will find that these "meteors" are all made of dark blue steel.

This wasn't a meteorite falling from space, but a Titan mech launched from a floating warship; the exhaust plumes were simply a phenomenon caused by the deceleration device.

Otherwise, if it were to undergo free fall from such a height, even if the steel used to build the Titan armor was of the highest quality, it would only turn into a pile of scrap metal.

Boom boom boom——

A series of deafening roars echoed as a large number of Titan mechs finally landed, stretching out their curled-up bodies to reveal their massive size, which was in no way inferior to that of Honkai Beasts.

Bigger is better, more is more beautiful.

Entropy fully embodies this industrial aesthetic concept, and has never been ambiguous in the manufacture of Titan armor.

Before long, the mech forces made their first contact with the white beast horde. Countless Honkai Beasts were torn apart by the Titans' steel hands, and light purple liquid spilled all over the ground.

Their enormous size endowed the Titans with terrifying power far exceeding that of humans, allowing them to hold their own even in battles against Honkai Beasts.

But soon, the Honkai Beasts launched a counterattack.

The humanoid Temple-class Honkai Beast, wielding a shield in one hand and a spear in the other, flapped its auxiliary wings on its back, rose into the air, and then swooped down to accelerate. Its sharp spear instantly pierced through mechs, causing them to collapse and become scrap metal amidst the exploding flames.

The ballista-class Honkai Beast, clutching a giant ball, also hurled its own projectile, condensed from Honkai energy, which crashed into the Titans and exploded, instantly engulfing the nearby mechs in flames.

Meanwhile, unlike the standard blue-purple Titans, some white-painted mechs also began to enter the battlefield, and their superior performance, far exceeding that of ordinary Titans, quickly turned the tide of battle once again.

In the reverse entropy, mechs can be roughly divided into four types.

One type is the ordinary Titan with a blue-purple paint job. These are often controlled by AI and can only make some relatively simple commands. They are usually used as cannon fodder.

Just like in this battle, they will be the first to be deployed to the battlefield to separate the Honkai Beasts and test their combat capabilities.

Once the battle situation becomes clearer, the manually controlled, white-painted command mechs will make their appearance.

Their performance far surpasses that of ordinary Titans, enabling them to issue more complex combat commands, which necessitates human control over them.

Combat AI is incapable of processing complex information.

Or rather, it's something that combat AI carried by mechs cannot do.

The next level up from the white paint is the yellow paint series, where performance and stability are inversely proportional.

Its performance is brutal, but as for its stability... well, you could only say that those who can afford to pilot this kind of mech are elites, and perhaps even heroes.

In another world, they have a more common and easily understood name—the Godfather.

As for the remaining red-painted series, those are limited editions created solely by Dr. Tesla, the top scientist of Anti-Entropy.

With performance pushed to the limit and stability reduced to an appalling level, anyone who can pilot it can earn an Iron Cross medal... That's the impression people have of the red mech.

On the battlefield of this level, the red mechs did not appear, but the Godfather series, which are absolutely elite, did appear in large numbers, and the most eye-catching of them was a squad composed of the Three-Body Godfathers.

Warhammer, battle axe, falcon.

Simply put, they represent the roles of heavy artilleryman, heavily armored warrior, and lightly armored swordsman, respectively.

The Warhammer mech can provide firepower comparable to a small arsenal, while the War Axe mech's arms are heavy hammers capable of crushing even the shields of Temple-class Honkai Beasts.

The Falcon mech, on the other hand, possesses unparalleled agility compared to other mechs, and the two thermal swords mounted on its arms also endow it with immense destructive power.

On the other hand, its defense is so weak that it's even weaker than that of a regular Titan, so under normal circumstances, no one would choose such a mech.

The Godfather series is already not very stable, and choosing the Falcon, which has a low fault tolerance rate, is probably just asking for trouble.

Even the top management of Anti-Entropy is considering whether to discontinue the Falcon series.

On this battlefield, however, the squad composed of these three mechs performed with a value comparable to that of ten normal Godfather mechs.

The Warhammer mechs provided suppressive fire, the War Axe mechs tore apart the charging Honkai Beasts one by one, and the Falcon mechs used their agility to fill in any gaps, so even the sneak-attacking Rush-class Honkai Beasts could not break through their blockade.

They charged headlong into the Honkai Beast horde. The three mechs were so close together that they seemed like one person, each pushing their own capabilities to the limit. It was not incomprehensible that they achieved results far exceeding those of the other Godfathers.

The bridge of a floating warship high in the sky.

Looking at the enemy and friendly distribution map displayed on the screen, three yellow dots suddenly entered a group of white dots, and then the white dots disappeared rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. The officers in charge couldn't help but fall silent.

To this day, they still cannot understand how the pilots inside these mechs manage to do it.

That's right. The reason why these three mechs work together so well, as if they were one person, is simply because there is only one pilot inside each of them.

To control three mechs single-handedly, and for each one to perform no less well than other elite pilots, is something a human can do?

Not to mention that the three mechs work together seamlessly, and the power they unleash far surpasses that of the other mechs that are scattered.

After all, the other Godfathers' partners are mostly ordinary Titans, which only limit the Godfathers' performance.

The higher-ups at Anti-Entropy had tried to get the Godfathers to team up and attack, but... there was a reason why the Godfathers were so unstable.

Even the slightest lapse in coordination between a few Godfathers can become a fatal weakness in a high-intensity battlefield.

Rather than taking a risky gamble, it would be better to pair the Godfather with a regular Titan to slightly reduce the intensity of the battle, which would be safer for both the mechs and the pilots.

That's why the cooperation of these three godfathers was so glaring, making it incomprehensible to these battle-hardened officers, who could only wave their flags and shout "666" from the sidelines.

"After this battle, Major Shihen will probably be promoted again, right?"

someone said.

Similar to the Valkyrie units of Destiny, Anti-Entropy's combat order is also linked to military rank.

In theory, a colonel rank is enough to command a battlefield, and the highest commander in this bridge room is only a colonel.

"That's for sure. I heard that Major Shihen has only been with Anti-Entropy for less than half a year. This must be the fastest promotion since Anti-Entropy was founded."

Some people expressed their feelings.

"However, given Major Shihen's abilities, it's not surprising that he's moving at this speed. If someone like him doesn't get promoted, then the higher-ups are truly incompetent."

Some people nodded.

The capable ones go up, the mediocre ones go down.

This is the talent selection standard that Anti-Entropy has always adhered to.

"That's it."

Some people chimed in.

Talented people are always in high demand, no matter where they are.

Moreover, being able to control three Godfathers single-handedly... that already qualifies him as a genius.

That is something that humans cannot comprehend, something they can only look up to and admire.

"Alright, let's stop discussing this. Keep an eye on the situation on the other battlefields and provide timely support to the soldiers."

The colonel, who had remained silent until now, finally spoke.

"Yes, Colonel."

"As ordered."

The officers responded enthusiastically.

If the boss doesn't care, then it's no big deal if they gossip a bit.

But since the other party has made a statement, they naturally have to show their own attitude as well.

In reality, the battlefield situation was so favorable that there wasn't much for them to worry about.