From 64 to 32, the first battle, Saudi's famous super soldier Xia Mu would face Apophis of the Blazing Legion. After a full day of repairs, the fight was set to start at 8 AM sharp the next morning.

In times of war, the two were enemies, but now they were competitors. Both had the strength to stand out and reach this point, making it a fifty percent chance for them to encounter each other. But more so, it was based on the grouping arrangements. Kexiao had intentionally placed the two in the same group, part of which was due to Xia Mu's performance on the battlefield.

In the competitor's area of the arena, Xia Mu was unusually excited upon learning the result, having wanted to fight for a while. This was an opportunity created by Kexiao for him, and he decided to give this bastard a good lesson.

As a super soldier, his overall performance still held many advantages over the Assembly 9th Generation, and he definitely didn't consider his enemy's feelings.

Apophis, upon receiving the battle result, seemed unconcerned. A handsome face flashed an arc that seemed to see through everything. Or rather, Apophis had noticed this point a long time ago—hmph, this must be Saudi intentionally arranging them in the same group, right?

As one of the few direct entrants of Golden Sword Academy, if Apophis couldn't even discern this much, it would be over for him. Regardless, what always mattered in battle was not the mecha performance, but the pilot. Born into a civilian mecha style, the combat skills he mastered were not only simple military routines. With various street-level tricks, plus Feng Yi's guidance, why fear Xia Mu?

The opponent probably thought he would use the Assembly 9th Generation, but instead, if he was behind in performance, he had to surpass the enemy in one specific area.

In the fast-paced battlefield, mobility was always the foundation. Adhering to the principle of agility first, Apophis uncharacteristically chose a beast-form mecha just 5 minutes before the fight, and Thunderbolt leaped into the battlefield.

Standing in the center of the battlefield, Xia Mu had been anxiously waiting for a long time. Did the opponent really choose a beast-type mecha, sacrificing defense for better mobility?

The Thunderbolt mecha was silver-gray, symbolizing the civilization of speed. As a 7th generation beast-form mecha, such an extreme body that sacrificed defense was rare in mainstream battlefields, more common in special operations or secret missions. This was indeed unexpected.

Even though Thunderbolt's speed couldn't match a super soldier's, its toughness and agility were both superior to the Counterattacker. Of course, Xia Mu was only slightly surprised and quickly began to contemplate tactics against his enemy.

Meanwhile, countless federal spectators outside the arena had already begun to jeer. As an ace and the pilot of a super soldier mech in battle with a driver who had just entered the ranks of aces, it seemed quite unreasonable.

However, neither of the two could hear this. As the buzzer sounded, the fight was about to explode.

With the advantage of agility, Thunderbolt unexpectedly spun its body 0.2 seconds before the super soldier Counterattacker could react and dashed quickly into the simulated environment…

The simulated environment, as its name implied, consisted of model-like buildings, a genuine environment tailor-made to meet the varied terrain preferences of pilots, including complex topographies like cities, hills, plains, snowfields, deserts, marshes, jungles, waters, and even zero-gravity space environments, with a total of 16 different terrains.

Taking into account the size limitations, individual competition areas were not roomy enough to contain them all, so the event organizers would, during high-level battles, merge the 16 competition areas into a central competition area. The arena where the two were located was, in fact, the original central competition area and did not have terrains like hills or jungles.

Facing a super soldier, Apophis obviously wouldn't be foolish enough to confront a mech that combined firepower, speed, and defense head-on. Therefore, the use of terrain would become crucial.

Xia Mu's eyebrows furrowed sharply at this! Controlling his mech to give chase, his brain rapidly calculated his opponent's movements...

That position is… hills? Hills are typically an excellent hiding place for snipers, not suited to the beast-type mecha's strengths. It couldn't be the hills either; in hill battles, a beast mecha lacking defense would face direct threats from sweeping firepower.

Could it be water? For agile mechs like Thunderbolt, water, marshes, mudflats, and deserts could all effectively leverage their agility—no, that's not right either. If the water, marsh, and desert terrains could bring Thunderbolt's agility into play, facing a super soldier capable of flying and adapting to any terrain would give it no advantage. Therefore, the terrain Apophis chose could not possibly be watery areas. "Is he trying to lure me?"

As a seasoned veteran in white, Xia Mu's extensive combat experience surpassed even that of Jiu Ling's Dark Edge. He quickly ruled out several environments Apophis was unlikely to choose and eventually locked on to the two most probable locations—snowfields and towns.

It's well known that Thunderbolt is gray and white, and with the reflective properties of nanocrystals for camouflage, apart from detection devices like heat source infrared sensors, even Sky Eye would have a hard time distinguishing it. Therefore, the most likely destination for Apophis would be the snowfields.

As for towns, the complex environment not only hinders the super soldier's performance but also helps the Thunderbolt mech exhibit its agility advantage. Thus, his second probable option was the town area.

With the super soldier's rapid traits, intercepting the Thunderbolt mech before it could leap towards favorable terrain would make victory in this battle a foregone conclusion. In fact, Xia Mu, in his super mech, already held a tremendous hardware advantage, and with his rich battle experience as an old warrior, he couldn't find a single reason for failure.

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