The powered armor descended in a blaze of fire, plunging through who knew how many traps and defenses that had been set up in vain. 

With its sheer mass and terrifying acceleration, it instantly shattered the already failing defensive barrier and brazenly crashed into the observation center’s domain. Sharp snapping sounds rang through the air like strings breaking as the spirit circuits collapsed at once.

Relying on nothing but sheer mass and momentum, Assault Horsey smashed through all the layers of force-field defenses and blockades before plunging down from above. Nothing could stand in its way!

Weighing dozens of tons, the armor struck like a meteor, tearing straight through the workshop’s outer shell, walls, and defenses before crashing into its very center.  The earthshaking shockwave alone brought down countless wall panels. 

Even more devastating was the mercury buffer formed from overlapping coatings of hardened and fluid mercury. The metal vaporized on impact, filling the raging storm with shimmering silver, while countless fragments blasted outward at tremendous speed under sheer kinetic force. 

Devastation stretched as far as the eye could see. Everything in sight, no matter what it had originally been, had been reduced to twisted wreckage. More than half the workshop was turned into ruins in the blink of an eye. 

From the mercury vapor, raging winds, flames, and smoke, the shrill screech of grinding...