"Look! He has made his way up the tallest building! And his men are setting up formation in a wide semi-circle around his position.! Perfect!"  I cried out. "They''ll just stand their ground and let the ck Smanderse to them while Da Jun snipes the living daylights out of them!"


    "Stop looking at the Giant Pegasi and look at the ck Smanders. You won''t like what you see." Emma chuckled lightly.


    I turned around to study the ck Smanders. Their scouts have returned and they were…


    "What on earth are they doing?" I asked incredulously.


    "Weaponbination." Emma replied smugly. "It is a Whitefrost n special development. "We are able tobine weapons to increase their grade. As you can see, all the mechas in the ck Smanderpany had sacrificed their armor modules to open up more weight allocation for their rifles. As such, they are all carrying their original light rifles as well as an additional medium rifle!"


    "WHAT! I didn''t know that''s possible! You… You cheated!" I used Emma.


    "Haha! Of course I didn''t cheat. YOU didn''t do enough due diligence before cing your bet! You only have yourself to me if you lose!" Emma cackled evilly with glee.


    "Grrrr. Cheater." I grumbled. But despite my misgivings about not knowing that the light mechas were able tobine their weapons, my eyes were shining.


    "This is incredible! We''re going to have a mecha shootout!" I thought eagerly to myself.


    The ck Smander light mechas quickly set up their weaponbinations.


    "Two light rifles canbine to be a medium rifle, two medium rifles canbine to be a heavy rifle, and two heavy rifles canbine to be an ultra heavy rifle." Emma exined generously.


    I have noticed this about Emma. Although she is generally impatient and short tempered, she is surprisingly patient when teaching. I have benefited from that patience of hers while she was teaching many times.


    "Combined weapons provide an unparalleled flexibility for lower grade mechas to fight above their sses. However, they are not without weaknesses. Abined weapon is much less durablepared to a normal weapon of that grade.


    The logic behind it is actually very simple. A high grade weapon deals with a much higher amount of firepower and energy. As such, detachable parts from a lower grade weapon are unable tost very long.


    This is especially true for light riflesbined to be an ultra heavy rifle. In the best case scenario, such a rifle could only fire six times before breaking downpletely. In most cases, being able to fire four times would already be a cause of celebration."


    "Are they making ultra heavy rifles?" I frowned deeply. If all the light mechas sacrificed their medium and light rifles, they could end up with eighteen ultra heavy rifles, one heavy rifle and one medium rifle. Although the remaining thirty would be unarmed, the eighteen ultra heavy rifles would be enough to destroy the entire Giant Pegasipany.


    The ck Smander Company was truly an impressivepany.


    "It appears so. An ultra heavy rifle will have no problems piercing the armor of the heavy mechas!" Emma said with barely suppressed excitement. Whether she was excited about the uing battle or the one thousand credits that she thought she was about to win, I had no idea.


    "They have absolutely no armor though. Even simple machine gun fire can totally wreck them." I pointed out.


    "They had no chance to survive the heavy mechas'' heavy rifle fire in the first ce. Might as well go all out on offence." Emma shrugged. "It''s a shrewd strategy. I like it."<novelnext></novelnext>


    "They only have twenty armed mechas against Da Jun''s fifty! That''s insane! Plus they have very little margin for errors. If we go by your estimation of four shots per ultra heavy rifle, they only have 72 shots before their rifles break down." I noted. "They have less than one and a half shots per enemy mecha!"


    "No problems." Emma grinned at me. She was probably already thinking what she could do with my thousand academy credits.


    The ck Smander light mechas quickly finished their work and true enough, twenty mechas wieldingrge ultra heavy rifles, a medium rifle and a heavy rifle appeared. Twenty of the remaining thirty partnered themselves with a rifle-bearing mecha each and they began to disperse. The remaining ten took to the skies once more to maintain a supply of up to date information regarding the enemy''s positions and movements.


    Half of the ten who took to the skies began to pepper the northern Giant Pegasi groups with their light grenades. Although they did next to no damage to the heavy mechas, they made a huge ruckus and drew the attention of the heavy mechas north.


    PEW! PEW! PEW!


    The heavy mechas opened fire at the light mechas.


    However, the ck Smander pilots showcased their impressive skills andpletely dodged the sporadic heavy rifle fire by the seven mechas in the northern group.


    "That''s some impressive flying by the ck Smanders." Imented to Emma.


    "Indeed. The ck Smanders are really famous for their ace pilots." Emma said. "But today, the stars of the show aren''t the fliers. Look! The twenty light mechas wielding the ultra heavy rifles are almost in position!"


    She was right.


    The group of forty light mechas had managed to stealthily position themselves in several half-destroyed high rise towers in the south-eastern area of the training ground - cing the heavy mecha groups well within range of their ultra heavy rifles, but cing themselves just slightly beyond the range of the heavy mechas'' heavy rifles.


    It was the perfect sweet spot, the result of excellent scouting work.


    After a few seconds of coordinating their targets, the ck Smanders opened fire.


    BO-BO-BO-BOOOOOMMM!!!


    Several loud shots rang out almost simultaneously.


    SPLAT! SPLAT! SPLAT!!!


    Red paint exploded on eighteen unlucky mechas of the southern groups and instantly, their heavy mechas powered down.


    "EXCELLENT SHOTS!" Emma whooped for joy. "Eighteen for eighteen!!"