“So, this is… the battle… over?”
In the screen, the dust of the battlefield had already settled.
And looking at the settlement screen displayed on the 1024×786 monitor, Yu Xiao rubbed his eyes, his expression somewhat surprised.
He’d clearly been worried at first, whether just one hour of autopilot time would be enough.
Who would have thought the result would be that it played him all the way to clearing the stage.
Then he
[Destruction Report]
[Tank-class – 1239]
[Grappler-class – 127]
[Rush-class – 89]
[Fortress-class – 13]
[Laser-class – 279]
[Total Kills – Beta 1747]
…How should I put it, seeing this, Yu Xiao was more or less dumbfounded.
Truly worthy of being the simulation AI of the Red Comet, Char, huh?
A grand harvest of battle results—it wasn’t even at such a simple level anymore.
Annihilating nearly 2000, a full company-sized force of Beta, in one breath.
Even stepping outside the source material and measuring it from the angle of a musou game, this was an extremely exaggerated result.
After all, that was 2000 of them, 2000.
To use the words of a certain well-known historical comedy TV series, even if those were two thousand steamed buns, you’d have to gnaw through them for at least half a month.
…Yet in the end, it took only less than an hour to achieve the result of victory?
Not to mention, this was accomplished by one person and one machine, with no outside help.
At this moment, Yu Xiao felt even more the gap in level between himself and those truly elite pilots, or rather, the high-level AIs in the game.
Thinking it over carefully, even in the previous match, there were some elements of taking advantage of the Tallgeese’s performance.
And when both sides pilot machines of similar performance, only then does the gap in skill truly manifest…
So Yu Xiao continued to look at the next battle results briefing.
[Additional Rewards] [Destroyed two hundred Laser-class in one battle! 1000 Technical Points, obtained the title “Laser-class Killer”]
“Laser-class Killer,” huh.
This title, it’s the same kind of thing as the previously obtained “Fortress-class Killer,” right?
However, if one had to compare, this one should be more useful.
Yu Xiao judged.
After all, on the battlefield, the number of times one evades the Laser-class’s ray attacks is always greater than the number of times one faces a Fortress-class head-on.
And, although obtaining an equippable title was certainly delightful, the gains from this battle did not stop there.
[Final Settlement]
[Battlefield Points obtained: 60940]
That’s right, based on that massive kill count, in the feedback the system gave, Yu Xiao also obtained a huge amount of points.
…And more importantly, the experience obtained was quite plentiful.
The Leo-S’s level, after this battle ended, should at least be able to rise to around level 11.
He estimated.
And if so, then he’d be able to develop the Tallgeese next.
Thinking that he’d soon be able to use that pure white MS to sweep across the battlefield, Yu Xiao couldn’t help but feel his blood surging.
…However, what extinguished his blazing inner fire was a line of notification displayed on the screen next.
[However, due to using the autonomous system in battle, the experience and points obtained by the player instead go to the simulation data card!]
“Ah… hah?”
The just-pleased Yu Xiao, upon seeing this line of clearly-intended text, let out a somewhat puzzled throat sound.
He roughly knew what this meant… he just didn’t quite want to acknowledge the fact.
[Final result, Char Aznable’s simulation data obtained a total of 6724 experience!]
[Char Aznable’s simulation data rose to C+ quality!]
[Battlefield Points obtained by player: 0]
[Leo-S obtained EXP: 0]
And in the end, looking at these four lines of text that abruptly popped up, Yu Xiao was truly speechless, choked to silence.
“Char… you tricked me?! Char!!”
Only after several seconds did he, as if venting, clutch his head and, unable to suppress it, let out a somewhat shrill wail.
As for why the line was the famous one also spoken by that young lord in the original Mobile Suit Gundam anime who established the series’ tone of purple-haired misery, Garma Zabi…
Perhaps this is what’s called “when emotion runs deep, the song writes itself.”
But undeniably, Yu Xiao was now, more or less, going a bit crazy.
How could this be?
How could this be?
He thought.
After all, this kind of AI proxy, isn’t it normally applied in games to all sorts of grind-to-get-stronger modes?
Why is it that in “Super Robot Wars VS,” it’s the opposite, and became something that deducts points?
Pulling this kind of stunt, are the development team members a bit lacking in humanity?
…No.
Maybe they deliberately buried a trap here, waiting for naive players to step into the pit.
Yu Xiao speculated with no little malice.
…Speaking of which, what does C+ quality refer to? Enjoying the story? Read on at g.com.
And Yu Xiao, coming back to his senses, began caring about another question.
Returning to the main interface, he opened the hangar and checked the description of the newly obtained item within.
And after a moment, he understood.
…So it turns out, C quality simulation data can substitute for the player and conduct one hour of autonomous combat.
And the C+ quality simulation data, compared to the same-named item of C quality, has its autonomous combat time extended to two hours.
How should I put it… this doesn’t really count as much of an enhancement.
He thought.
You can’t call it “sending coal in the snow,” you can only call it “drawing legs on a snake.” After all, since this thing eats both experience and points, when would it ever actually be useful?!
Yu Xiao couldn’t help but think indignantly.
But at the same time, possibly to divert his attention… he suddenly became curious about a question.
If the C rank simulation data’s function is “take over operation,” then what effect would B rank, or even A rank items of this kind have?
Surely it wouldn’t still be stand-in playing, would it?
Holding such doubts, he again browsed the related descriptions.
But he somewhat regretfully discovered that the descriptions regarding these ranks of items all read “Currently not yet unlocked; please unlock during subsequent gameplay.”
“…Sigh.”
What a mess.
Leaning himself back into his gaming chair, Yu Xiao couldn’t help but think this.
Not only did he fail to properly enjoy gaming due to the home visit, now even the chance to strengthen his mecha had gone down the drain.
Maybe today was fated to be this unlucky… should he just call it a day?
No. Not yet.
As the negating thought appeared, Yu Xiao also naturally shook his head.
If he let a momentary setback damage his enthusiasm, then it’d be hard to get invested afterward.
Only by not stopping will the road of gaming continue to extend…
…Right, don’t stop.
As the words carved into his DNA by a certain dart-headed man in a suit rang in his mind, Yu Xiao also got some thoughts of rallying his spirits.
After all, he clearly remembered.
In the confirm sortie interface he’d seen earlier, the stages the system offered… there were indeed two, weren’t there?
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