Editing City Series:Volume6d Chapter8 (section)

===Part 6===

<The Emperor strikes down his enemy.>

Neue Kaiser suddenly accelerated.

It was headed toward the group of interceptors up ahead.

The fat gray planes with a black line painted on the top were P-47 Thunderbolts. They were the latest model, just put into service.

There were a lot of them, but Neue Kaiser intended to break through the center.

It accelerated forward and broke the sound barrier in only a few seconds.

Water vapor exploded and a white umbrella ruptured in the purple sky as the white Grösse Panzer flew forward.

The wind roared.

Behind it, Schwarz Löwe also accelerated.

<The Messiah accompanies destiny.>

The black and white broke through the air and raced forward with only a moment’s time lag between them.

The white continued to transform in front of the black.

It was evolving.

Its Ober Emblem used the pilot’s willpower to give its body the most suitable form for the battlefield.

<The Emperor never stops.>

Its armor grew sharper and its white wings grew larger and longer.

It flew. It flapped its six metal wings, blasting the wind behind it.

It flew forward.

White vapor trailed behind the sharp points of its armor, forming clouds.

The white Grösse Panzer drew out its own path with clouds.

Schwarz Löwe flapped its wings more quickly to try and catch up.

Its armor groaned and the frame below audibly bent.

It was approaching its limit. Both of them had long since passed their intended top speed.

But the enemy was coming all the same.

Up ahead, a formation of four planes approached from the left. Their circling path would allow them to attack and immediately escape.

The bullets arrived as soon as the four started showing their bellies.

In that instant, Neue Kaiser vanished within a white shadow. Its supersonic maneuvering had changed the momentum and shape of the front shockwave and the air around it had burst.

It fully spread its wings and blew away the bursting air while raising its own voice.

“Ah.”

With that voice, it swung a giant pillar of light to either side.

The attack was made before the bullets could even arrive and it was more than 100 yards long.

It blew away the enemy bullets and the four enemy crafts that were showing their bellies as they began their turn to escape.

The Thunderbolts’ bonds crumbled and a few armor panels stripped away.

They were all slapped by supersonic air resistance and inertia.

They tumbled backwards and broke apart.

Their engines broke from their frames, their wings broke off at the base, and they simply fell apart in the sky.

Neue Kaiser swung its sword again to break through the raining components and continue forward.

“Sir Alfred!” shouted the red Grösse Panzer behind it.

“Stay back, Nein! You be my witness! Witness to the fact that I showed the Messiah the power needed to guide her!”

Neue Kaiser did not look back. Nor did Schwarz Löwe.

The wind stood in their way like a wall, but they flew through it all the same.

Several long-range antiair Drache Kanonen fired at them like pillars of light.

The beams audibly scorched the air and passed either in front of or behind them.

Nevertheless, Neue Kaiser accelerated.

Its wings responded to the speed by evolving. All so it could continue onward and bring down its enemy.

A Drache Kanone arrived on a collision course from dead ahead.

“Ahhhhhhhhh!!”

The white sword sliced through it and the dragon light turned to spray.

Neue Kaiser shouted without slowing.

“Berger!”

Hundreds of white lines were drawn in the sky ahead as the enemy bullets flew in.

These weren’t from long-range weapons any longer – they were midrange divine spell bullets.

“Watch carefully!!”

Neue Kaiser flapped its wings.

With the first flap, it suddenly launched upwards.

It tilted forward in midair, placed its left hand on empty air, and then spun forward.

It performed a flip similar to a cartwheel and fully spread its six wings.

Wind erupted from the wings as the white Panzer performed its supersonic flip. Once its feet were below it again, it took a crouching landing stance. In that upright position, it flapped its wings to resume accelerating.

“––––!”

A great wind rushed out as it more ran than flew toward the incoming bullets.

Smoke burst from its overworked leg and hip thrusters. It used his still-evolving wings to glide through the sky and then twisted as if sliding to the side.

“Come!”

<The Messiah will not defile destiny.>

Schwarz Löwe roared.

Both Panzer’s flew right into the barrage.

Neue Kaiser used its legs to spin, sway, and slip past the countless destructive spears. It bent its upright body to just barely remain untouched despite its large size.

It looked like a dance.

Behind it, Schwarz Löwe focused only on the bullets arriving from head on and escaped them using its speed.

It twisted its body, swung its arms, tilted its body, and twirled.

Its armor groaned and the inertia of its spiraling movement damaged its left arm. The arm that corresponded to Berger’s prosthetic arm broke halfway up.

It used a single flap of its wings to correct its attitude.

The two Panzers used their speed to continue forward.

They passed through the barrage of bullets.

Behind them, the bullets collided with each other and exploded.

The explosions made a lot of noise, but that noise couldn’t keep up with them.

They left the wall of light behind them and raced through the sky.

They couldn’t even hear the blowing wind. Hazel simply used the radio to shout the name of what she saw in front of them.

“The flagship!”

They were less than 10 miles from it.

Neue Kaiser flapped its wings.

Schwarz Löwe’s armor creaked and groaned as it tried to catch up.

Neue Kaiser’s Ober Emblem gathered ether around its broken chest and created new armor there.

Neue Kaiser flew, accelerated, and evolved while Schwarz Löwe shouted and accelerated.

But the two Panzers were beginning to pull apart.

Little by little, Neue Kaiser was moving further out ahead.

Close-range antiair fire flew in from the flagship.

The gunfire’s control mechanism was used to predict the target’s trajectory, but the two Panzers flew too quickly for the mechanical calculations to keep up.

The antiair fire covered the stormy sky, but none of it could catch up.

The entire flagship came into view.

Left behind by Neue Kaiser, Schwarz Löwe narrowed the light in its sight devices. The view of the flagship had suddenly grown much clearer.

That was thanks to the sunlight. Dawn had arrived.

The sunlight shined bright in the sky above the flagship and shined on the six-winged machine out ahead.

Then an easterly wind blew in.

That was the morning wind. The sunlight spurred the air into motion, getting the entire sky to move as a powerful wind.

First, the wind blew in a white fog.

The damp North Sea air was shaken, producing thin clouds.

That instantly produced a wavy ocean of clouds below them, blocking their downward view.

“Berger!” shouted Hazel.

“I haven’t lost it!”

The flagship disappeared into the mist, but Neue Kaiser knew where it was. As did Schwarz Löwe.

Schwarz Löwe blasted the fog backwards and whipped up a powerful wind as it raced forward.

Ahead, Neue Kaiser glittered in the sunlight shining up through the clouds.

Its white color had changed to a faint gold.

That color came from the sunlight shining on it through the fog.

It was dyed by the foggy sunlight as it raced above the fog.