Chapter 1 The Fierce Battle

Seeing this, Romero grinned, his yin-yang eyes burning even more intensely. Li Ge, you're only getting serious now?

How much do you underestimate me, Romero?

Basta, watch closely! Everyone from the Apocalypse, watch closely!

At this moment, Basta of the Fire God Team stood solemnly. He knew that Romero was desperately trying to create an opportunity for him.

Chao Qinglong, Maxis, Orff, Van Rivet, and others all wore grave expressions. Although Romero was cunning and solitary like a lone wolf, he was truly in a league of his own when it came to bravery and ruthlessness, both to others and to himself.

Violent flames crackled, entwined with black lightning.

The Underworld Fire mech advanced, the Black Night mech advanced. The two mobile suits strode towards each other, their speed not particularly fast, but incredibly steady.

In an instant, the two mobile suits reached the center of the arena. The Underworld Blade was raised, rolling flames intertwined with black lightning. The attack of the Underworld Blade was very, very slow. The Blood Moon saber of the Black Night also swept across, equally slow. At this moment, the titanium blades in their hands seemed to weigh a ton.

Buzz.

Heaven and earth collapsed, light exploded, a dazzling white light accompanied by a piercing sound and a violent explosion, instantly deafening everyone, their minds filled with a buzzing sound...

After a long time, the battlefield returned to calm. The flames dissipated, and the Kepler battlefield had become a scorched wasteland. The earth looked as if it had been plowed by the claws of a demon, filled with deep ravines.

The two mobile suits remained motionless. The entire arena was silent. Concerned about their own fate, both the Tianjing Mech Academy and the Wolf Warrior Academy held their breath, eagerly awaiting the verdict.

Clang.

A crack appeared on the chest of the Black Night mech, a huge gash. A cry of alarm erupted from the Tianjing Mech Academy, their eyes filled with despair, while the eyes of the Wolf Warrior students instantly burned with passion. The Martians in the audience clenched their fists, eagerly standing up.

But then, *crack*.

A crisp sound rang out, and the Underworld Blade shattered, *clang boom*.

The Underworld Fire mech lost its function and collapsed to its knees. At this moment, an ear-piercing alarm sounded in the operations room. Romero had lost consciousness...

The entire arena fell silent once more. Then, the referee's voice rang out, "Romero eliminated. Tianjing Mech... wins!"

At the No. 2 battlefield in the center of the galaxy, a wave of noise erupted. The number of Earth viewers was the smallest, mainly because they hadn't recovered yet. They won?

Was this a joke?

Tianjing Mech Academy actually defeated the Wolf Warrior Team?

Because they needed to maintain the minimum proportion of viewers from the four major federations, there were still some Earth viewers, but Tianjing didn't have many fans, and most people didn't think they could win this match. They just wanted to watch a competition. But they won?

And they defeated the Wolf Warrior Team?!

Tianjing Mech Academy was completely boiling. They had really won this match. They had unbelievably defeated the Wolf Warrior Team and advanced to the top 16.

Everyone sang and danced. Being able to defeat Wolf Warrior, they had already let go of their worries. No matter what the outcome, they could accept it. Tianjing Mech Academy had completed an impossible task.

Puppet God!

Puppet God!

The shouts echoed through Tianjing Mech Academy, resonated through Tianjing City. The streets were filled with cheering crowds. No one had ever dreamed that Tianjing Mech Academy would actually win.

Colorful Pizza Shop.

The owner was squatting in the toilet when a thunderous knock came from outside the door, "Boss, boss, boss!"

"Damn it, don't knock! You'll break it! You'll have to pay for it!"

"Boss, Little Li won! Little Li won!"

"What are you yelling about? I know, calm down. It's just the top sixteen, acting like you've never seen the world before. Cough, cough, remember to call him Brother Li from now on. No manners at all. High-quality service is the foundation of our Colorful Pizza!"

The owner, who had been secretly watching Tianxun, was all smiles. Little Li was capable. He felt that Romero was just exhausted at the end, haha. He was at least half responsible for that. The foundation of delivering takeout is stamina!

Back at Tianjing Mech Academy, Li Hao was lifted up by a group of people as soon as he came out and thrown into the air.

"Wow, wow, put me down! I'm going to throw up my breakfast."

The crowd wouldn't let him go, tossing him around for a while before finally putting Li Hao down.

"Li Hao, you've finally done something reliable for once!" Zhou Nanyi couldn't help but praise.

"Class Monitor, if you're going to praise someone, praise them properly," Li Hao said, laughing and crying. "It's all thanks to Brother Zuo's strength. We all did well. It looks like our bonus can be further increased."

"No, no, I was just filling a spot," Zuo Xiaotang said, embarrassed.

Everyone laughed. "Now let's see who else dares to look down on our Tianjing Mech Academy!" Ma Long roared.

"Continue to work hard!"

"Keep moving forward!"

"We are the best!"

The entire team was in high spirits, filled with laughter. Li Hao glanced at Tianxun, turned off airplane mode, and a pile of messages popped up. Before he could find A Youyou's message, he saw Kevin's urgent message.

He frowned as he opened the message.

"Cough, Class Monitor, Class Monitor, well, I have something to do. I'll be back later," Li Hao said softly. He didn't want to ruin everyone's good mood.

Zhou Nanyi glanced at Li Hao, "Go ahead, be careful."

"Yes, Class Monitor!"

Li Hao hurried away. "Where is he going again?" Sheng Man couldn't help but ask.

"Who knows?" Zhou Nanyi smiled. "Everyone's happy today, let's not worry about him."

The Wolf Warrior Team was silent. The doctor had arrived immediately, given emergency treatment, and carried Romero away. The team members were helpless, but they had no complaints about this loss. Their opponents had played really well and were really strong, but their days were going to be difficult.

The Wolf Warrior Academy was already filled with curses. Some students even started smashing things and setting fires. If the team members were in front of them, they felt like they would be immediately drowned by the crowd.

They couldn't accept that the great Wolf Warrior Team had fallen in the top 16 battle, and had lost to the unknown Tianjing Mech Academy...

The No. 2 arena in the center of the galaxy was also a bit chaotic. The Martians were very irritable, but they could only shout. This was Moon territory, and the Moon's laws were very strict. Many Martians were also frustrated. Wolf Warrior was really useless. They thought this year would be the year of their rise, but unexpectedly it was the year of their fall.

Romero was also useless. What kind of flame ability was that? What could it do? Warm them up? Cook?

It seemed like he had just exhausted himself. Was his stamina that bad?

The live broadcast also concluded with a record-breaking 2.2 billion viewers. Of course, Fire Man also donated 50% of his live broadcast income to Earth's charities. Since he might have a bad memory, Mad Warrior repeatedly reminded him.

The audience did not leave immediately, but instead enjoyed a highlight reel of the team battle, all of Tianjing Mech Academy. In the team battle, the Tianjing Mech Academy members showed remarkable calmness, composure, and exceeded all expectations.

Zuo Xiaotang's marksmanship was absolutely superb. Perhaps he had many weaknesses that could be exploited, but his offense as a sniper was simply divine.

Accurate and calm intelligence processing, flash sniping while rolling, incredibly accurate!

There was no doubt that based on this performance alone, he had the qualifications to enter the sniper ranking selection.

The 2v2 of Musashi and Zhou Nanyi was well-coordinated, especially Musashi. This new generation, a supernova from the Musashi family, after losing the vanguard battle, had seen his EMP comments plummet to rock bottom. Various experts had criticized him so much that he was almost unable to function.

Of course, the fiercest was still the Puppet God!

This was Puppet's second battle against Romero. The first time, Romero hadn't used his full strength. This time, he had used his Liuxin Soul skill, the flame ability plus teleportation ability, and almost defeated Puppet's Black Night mech. However, in the realistic mode, after forcibly using the Fire Dragon Soul skill, his body couldn't handle it, resulting in him being defeated in the final blow.

Some abilities, when combined with mechs, can put a huge strain on the body. It was very likely that this was the case with Romero.

Almost all the streamers were commenting this way, although some people felt that the final blow was a bit strange.

Did Romero have problems with his stamina?

However, Mad Warrior and Fire Man did not draw any conclusions. They knew Romero and Li Hao very well. In the previous match they had commentated on together, they had exchanged a look and seen the doubt in each other's eyes.

"Director, replay that at 0.05x speed," Fire Man said.

The director was stunned, but didn't mind and continued to slow down the speed.

At this moment, a new scene appeared. What they had seen before was a heavy blow, but at this moment it turned into a series of exchanges, blade shadows blurred, a series of overlapping images, feeling like dozens of blows...

A series of exclamations rang out in the arena. Fire Man curled his lips. Damn, there was nothing to say, he just couldn't beat him.

Tita, Leica, and others were also discussing. Romero's Liuxin Martial Art was genuinely strong, but unfortunately, his ability was a bit weak. His body couldn't handle it after using it once.

Maxis stood up and glanced at the direction of Wolf Warrior. "Alright, stop talking. None of you can take that move."

Orff, Leica, and others were surprised, but didn't argue. They still respected Maxis very much.

Intuition told Orff that it was definitely not dozens of blows, it might have been the speed of a hundred blows. He didn't know how they had done it.

Yan Peng, Robbie, and others obviously only felt a little strange, but didn't know what the problem was. Anyway, it was right that Second Brother had won.

"Hmm, something's not right. Knowing that teleportation consumes a lot of energy, why didn't he use the Yin-Yang Eyes earlier?" Lomachenko frowned. "Romero couldn't have made such an obvious mistake."

Everyone looked at Chao Qinglong, who had been silent all along. Maxis also looked at Chao Qinglong with a smile.

"Romero's ability is not just flames. It should have derived some kind of time-based ability. That's not teleportation," Chao Qinglong said.

Maxis nodded. "I know one kind, thermal time dilation, which can slow down time. It creates an almost teleportation effect in our eyes."

"The final blow may have exceeded a thousand blows..." Chao Qinglong said indifferently. "If he hadn't met Second Brother, he wouldn't have feared anyone here."

The contestant area suddenly fell silent.