Power Cutter

 

The signal for the start of a Silhouette match echoed through the underground arena.

A Kazakh and a Shrike, both of whom had made it through the preliminaries, stood on one side—joined by a Raven, a high-performance mass-production unit.

Opposing them was an orange-colored Worker piloted by Yeld.

「Huh?」

The moment the match began, the Worker took flight and destroyed the Shrike with a charged particle cannon.

Many in the crowd were seeing this for the first time and were left speechless.

Veterans like Bardo, however, only grinned.

「A charged particle cannon scaled for Silhouettes, huh. Must be an Antique Silhouette. That Worker…」

Hyoue stared at the battlefield with keen interest. He’d fought Antique Silhouettes equipped with charged particle cannons before, but never had he seen one so compact.

「That’s not a weapon a Worker’s supposed to be using.」

Bardo nodded in agreement. Its combat performance far exceeded that of standard work units.

Before their eyes, the Kazakh took several