Editing City Series:Volume6e Chapter4 (section)

===Part 16===

The bullet was about to hit.

Neue Schwarz tried to lower the left fist it had swung upwards to hit the shell earlier, but it was no use.

The bullet would hit before the fist was in position.

And Gelegenheit in its right hand was still without its light.

Nothing it could do would be fast enough.

It only had time to determine where the 88mm armor-piercing round would hit: the center of the chest. That was the hardest location to dodge.

Neue Schwarz made up its mind.

Its answer was to raise its voice. The black Heavy Barrel surrounded itself in wind and roared into the sky.

“Fully open all weapons and abilities to respond to the enemy threat. Begin full drive!”

A pair of wings spread in the purple sky.

But these were not black.

They were white.

The Ober Emblem seemed directly dyed by bluish-white ether as it instantly covered Neue Schwarz. The armor was a nearly-blue white and the joints were black, creating a dual colored armored warrior in the sky.

“Ober Emblem Weiss König – activate!”

It pulled its left arm back against its side.

The 88mm armor-piercing round struck the fictional armor still being formed from ether light.

The Ober Emblem armor shattered.

But the original black armor below survived with only a single crack.

Its left arm strained under the force of the impact and its white body was covered by new ether armor.

At the same time, it counteracted the backwards vector with a flap of its wings.

The explosion of wind behind it was far greater than ever before.

It shot out like it had been kicked forward.

Weiss König’s metal body groaned as it flapped its wings again and reaccelerated.

The third barrage was up ahead.

The impact on its left side was still affecting it, but it didn’t care.

Seeing the sea of clouds below, it tilted its body forward and moved its wings all the more forcefully.

The power of its wings and its forward-tilting attitude caused it to tumble forwards.

Its left hand stretched downwards and scratched at the clouds.

It seemed to bounce from there and flew forwards.

It all happened in an instant.

It was practically flipping forward as it broke through its inertia and the air resistance. As soon as it was nearly upside down, its wings fully opened in the direction it was flying.

Each wing worked independently. Their individual feathers blew out their own winds, accelerating the rotation.

The eruption from the wings rotated the Barrel.

It completed its flip and its feet were directed downwards again.

The white Heavy Barrel landed on the cloudy ground with its hips somewhat lowered. Then it flapped its wings to accelerate again.

It raced forward in its standing position.

Its speed was so great it erased all sound.

The thrusters on its legs and hips maintained its attitude while the power of its wings made it glide along the clouds. It twisted around as if sliding to the side and blew away the clouds behind it.

The barrage reached it just as it released the white sword from its left hip.

Nearly a hundred destructive projectiles attacked it from the left, right, and above. Each and every one of those winds could destroy the Weiss König.

The white Heavy Barrel soared and swung its white sword within those many winds.

It twisted its body toward the winds coming from the left, swung its blade toward the winds coming from the right, and ducked below the winds coming from above. It maintained its forward speed the entire time.

The winds collided, beginning an explosive chain reaction.

The Weiss König left light, smoke, and flames in its wake as it gracefully spun and advanced.

It raised an arm, tilted its head, stepped on the clouds, and scattered those clouds while sliding along them.

“I will make it through.”

It did.

After one more flap of its wings, it was past the last of the barrage. A giant explosion erupted behind it.

But Weiss König continued gliding across the clouds, leaving the range of the blast in an instant.

The pursuing smoke, flames, and even sound could not keep up.

It was unscathed.

But this was not over yet.

Weiss König put away its white sword, readied Gelegenheit in its right hand, and shouted its Aerial Words.

<Destiny is a testimony to the past.>

It sliced through the sky.

The green Heavy Barrel was visible up ahead.