Wow! The item-dropping rate is really high!

In front of it, only those three hive guards who had already lost their defensive targets remained.

"Gulp."

The clear sound of swallowing saliva echoed inside the quiet armored vehicle.

The female messenger subconsciously made this gesture before realizing how inappropriate it was, but when she cautiously looked around, she discovered that her companions had the same dumbstruck expression on their faces.

What happened?

Did they get the wrong script?

Could a human Mech actually dance like a dragon amidst the encirclement of giant beasts?

Penetrating deep into the Bug Race's territory as if entering a no-man's land!

Even the Mech Pilots in the imperial capital couldn't achieve such impressive feats.

With just one Mecha, he had flipped over five thunder beasts protected by three hive guards.

The arrogant Mech Pilots in the capital wouldn't even dare talk big like this.

The messenger team leader moistened her somewhat dry lips and looked to the Blackwater City diplomat she knew best, "Is this the strength of your supreme commander?"

The Blackwater City diplomat proudly puffed out his chest, the Mecha standing tall on the earth, just like his unyielding backbone, "Yes! This is the power of our General Bai E!"

"General Bai E..." the messenger team leader softly repeated the name, which he heard for the first time since coming to Blackwater City.

His gaze returned to the surveillance footage transmitted by the drone, which showed a Mecha holding a war blade facing the three hive guards alone.

These guards were even more difficult to face.

If during the fight against the thunder beasts, one might dodge the guards' pursuits and execute a beheading strategy, then confronting the guards directly would not be as easy to manage with such tactics.

The guards' defenses were more comprehensive, and they were even harder than the thunder beasts.

Not to mention they possessed terrifying strength and a pair of indestructible Vajra Claw Blades.

Only through continuous and relentless strikes could one cause these beasts with extremely frightening defenses to reveal the slightest flaw.

In direct combats, Mech Pilots from the imperial capital usually chose to gang up...

"Is no one going to help him?" the female messenger asked softly.

In the midst of silence, the Blackwater City diplomat selected the most emotionally intelligent response, "Our General Bai E prefers to fight alone..."

"Oh~" the messenger team leader nodded in understanding.

Understood.

Such caliber of strength was indeed singular.

The higher the skill level, the better the cooperation.

The reason for preferring to fight alone was simply because there was no one on the same level as him.

Just like the situation with that lord from the imperial capital.

In this world, there are geniuses.

However, many times, special talents are serendipitous.

The imperial capital has a "War God," but so far, they have been unable to cultivate a second War God.

That Blackwater City managed to nurture a "General Bai E" doesn't mean they can cultivate another genius Mech Pilot.

He decided to report this name with emphasis back to the capital. General Bai E might just be the greatest "value" Blackwater City had to offer the capital!

But before that, it was first necessary for "General Bai E" to survive on the Bug Race battlefield.

His escape routes had been completely blocked by the three guards in his thrust for the decisively beheading strike.

Ahead lay the true depths of the hive, with even greater terror yet to emerge.

Behind, three guards were lying in wait, ready to launch a deadly encirclement at any moment.

Facing the three guards alone, this pressure...

On the guards' side???

The situation on the field shocked everyone once again.

The three hive guards, after a brief standoff with the blue and white Mech, gathered together cautiously in a defensive posture, and slowly retreated toward the deeper parts of the hive, completely yielding the path back to their forces.

"What are they doing?"

"Since when do these bugs let their prey slip away?"

"Perhaps the reason they stopped fighting was because their target to protect had died?" another member of the messenger team posited, looking at the speaker with an incredulous and questioning gaze.

Did he even believe what he had just said?

The human army was already on their doorstep; did they expect the humans to turn back now?

It would be foolish not to take advantage of this isolated opportunity to surround and eliminate them. Allowing such a force to regroup with their main army would only increase their own difficulties.

The Bug Race's leader would never make such a stupid mistake.

Therefore, the only explanation could be...

"They… are scared?" the messenger team captain said with narrowed eyes and a somber expression.

Even the Bug Race, which felt neither fear nor pain, would avoid the deadly threat posed by the Mecha of Blackwater City.

It was a bold thought, but when all other possibilities had been ruled out, however improbable the remaining answer might be, it had to be the correct one!

The three guards were scared of the lone Mecha fighting valiantly!

General Bai E!

This was the true measure of the enemy's worth!

But the more this was the case, the less they could afford to watch their opponent fall completely!

"Honorable sirs, issue the order to retreat!" the messenger team captain couldn't help but urge, "Our Imperial City has already encountered two Bug Nests, and the Great Horror has yet to appear. If their overlord shows up, I fear your forces will suffer losses... they cannot afford."

The messenger team captain wouldn't really grieve the Blackwater City troops' deaths; at most, out of solidarity with his human kin, he would mourn them for a moment.

But if the astronomically powerful General Bai E were to fall to the overlord, that would be a real loss for the empire.

If General Bai E, with his strength, could join forces with that person in the Imperial City, they could revive the twin fortresses of the human empire!

However, upon hearing these words, many high-ranking officials of Blackwater City just sneered, "The overlord? We are set to take down the overlord!"

General Bai E's invincible performance had already confirmed the city think tank's prior internal analysis of him.

With a Mecha at his disposal, General Bai E was capable of going in and out of the Bug Nests, wreaking havoc as he pleased. Given that, what was there to hesitate about?

The end of the Bug Nests would be today!

General Bai E was to stay out of the city's internal politics.

But when facing external enemies, they had to let specialists take charge!

"Honorable messengers, please be patient, just watch," they said.

Seeing the shortsighted arrogance of these so-called high officials, the messenger team captain couldn't help but curse in his mind.

'A bunch of idiots!'

Was the overlord something humans could defeat?

In the two Bug Nests the Imperial City had destroyed, they had encountered two overlords. Both had been brought down only through nearly endless barrages of long-range heavy firepower and the suicidal charges of Mecha squads.

Now, were they expecting General Bai E and his partner to take one down in a Mecha with theoretical limitations?

Theory wasn't enough!

Not to mention the overlord's ability to unleash large-scale psychic shocks that could easily incapacitate all soldiers, turning them into lambs to the slaughter.

Apart from soldiers who had undergone special training to resist psychic pressure, no one could withstand the overlord's suppression.

Who would be able to come to General Bai E's aid then?

Oh right... even if they hadn't lost the ability to move, the Blackwater City army, without heavy firepower support, wouldn't be able to back up General Bai E, either.

So never mind...

'Your mother died!'

The messenger team captain's brain raced as he considered how to save the life of General Bai E, potentially one of the future twin pillars of the empire.

But time waits for no one.

As a wave of Spiritual Energy ripple spread, a huge, crimson figure slowly rose from the depths of the Bug Nest.

The blades of its four arms breathed like living things, demanding submission from the entire battlefield the moment it appeared!

"It's over!" said the messenger team captain, his face deathly pale, "It has arrived..."

Under the cover of the Spiritual Energy field, a look of bewilderment appeared in the eyes of the soldiers.

Even the most strong-willed needed time to break free from the overlord's control.