The Undying Mecha Emperor

Six European golden mechas were deployed that fateful day to search for Princess Loisa and her golden mecha.

It was a blatant show of supreme force meant to send a clear message to the world, and to the Chinese Federation in particular.

"Don't try to do anything funny. We have the power to level your entire country, and we aren't afraid to use that power."

To the potential enemy who might have kidnapped their precious little princess, the message was even simpler.

"We will find you, and we will kill you."

Unfortunately for them, as the Princess Louisa's kidnapper, I completely misread their message.

Instead of a threat to my life, all they managed to elicit out of me was…

"Six golden mechas!" I shouted rather breathlessly while imagining the sheer incredible-ness if I were to successfully devour them.

"Don't be greedy. Quickly get the hell out of this area! Stay close to your sister in law, and let's enter the passageway back to the mainland from all the way from the North Korean entrance." My big bro popped the greedy bubble that was starting to form around me with a simple instruction.

"Ah shucks. It would be epic if I could devour all six… I would instantly be the strongest individual in the entire world…" I said dreamily.

Of course I was probably already the strongest human being in the world. But apparently, in our home planet which was starting to feel less and less homey and more and more fearsome, human beings are not sitting so prettily at the top of the food chain.

If there were blue dragons in this world, then there could be anything.

Like literally.

Secret entrances to secret realms could very well be hidden somewhere deep in the mountains or in the desert or in the ocean.

Even now, I am very certain that we have not completely discovered, much less solved, all the mysteries that this world has to offer.

And as such, my personal strength, which was at the earliest stage of a golden mecha, could hardly be categorized as OP in the grand scheme of things.

But life is never about one on one fights. A fair fight is one for entertainment. Tournaments, races and the like. Things people clap for. Things far removed from the real world.

Life on the other hand, especially wars, are determined by faction strength.

My personal strength is only as useful as my faction's overall strength. Of course, it would be a completely different story if my personal strength was enough to rival entire factions. But it was not the case then.

And at that moment, against six golden mechas who are probably peak ones at that, my faction's strength could only be described as pitiful.

"Those golden mechas sure got here really quickly. Were they hiding in the vicinity? Or do they have some sort of movement skill?" I muttered.

"The Chinese Federation is not a superpower, and we already have powerful movement based technology which allows us to move near instantaneously. The Europeans, as true superpowers, definitely have something similar." My big bro said.

"But I thought the Chinese Federation got the movement system part of the alien tech? Movement based tech should be our forte!" I argued.

"Yes, movement speed and controls are our forte. This could be seen in Chronos and Void Walker. The Americans and Europeans can't beat us in terms of movement based tech applications in mechas. But in long range transportation, they are probably no less advanced than us." My big bro explained.

"Why? If they could design long range movement tech, they could use that tech on a smaller scale with mechas." I pressed on.

"Long range transportation is mostly ridiculous speeds on a straight line. They don't need sophisticated and complex tech to achieve mach 50 on a mega high speed transport. Just strap a stupidly large engine and cover that transport with lightweight, heat resistant armor, and you're probably done.

However, if they want their mechas to move extremely fast and be agile at the same time, that would require tech which they currently have no access to. Plus they are approaching the problem all wrong. You can't achieve high speed and high agility in mechas by physical means. The explosive power required to physically bring the mecha to those thresholds are as harmful to the mecha as full powered attacks by an enemy.

The way to extreme speed is through time dilation tech, and that particular tech is something completely unique to the Chinese Federation." My big bro said rather proudly.

"Unique to Chronos, specifically." My sis in law said with a half sour half amused tone. "The Chinese Federation would be a superpower if that tech is readily available for all of our mechas."

"I see. Why don't you let me take a look at Chronos' blueprint? It'll be good to have two of us who are capable of time dilation instead of just one. Who knows we might need me to move really quickly." I suggested very casually and innocently.

"Ha! You would like that, wouldn't you?" My big bro smirked at my greed. But I could tell he was thinking about it. He did not say no, afterall. Plus, my argument made sense. Letting me absorb the blueprint was something completely free.

It would be a great boost for the Chinese Federation as long as I remained on the Chinese Federation's side.

Of course in terms of loyalty, I was not a hundred percent safe bet. But I doubt that they were worried about that. They were probably worried that I might fall into the enemy's hands, and then somehow forced to serve them.

That, I suspect, was the main reason why my big bro hesitated.

I was, after all was said and done about my ridiculous personal strength, a ten year old boy.

There was silence for a moment as my big bro mulled over the question.

Well, silence as in, we did not say anything.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The explosions continued to ring out unabated from above us as the Europeans cleaned up the biomechs violently while they searched for Princess Louisa.

I casted out my resonance briefly then to see just how much firepower the Europeans had mobilized, and couldn't help but gulp in awe.

"They have at least a thousand white mechas combing the area." I said with surprise lining my voice.

"This Princess Louisa seems pretty important. I think we just caught ourselves a big fish." Jeanette Wen said with a laugh.

"It would be really bad if the Europeans caught us. We are the prime suspects because I actually traded blows with her mere minutes before she disappeared. Sister in law, how good is your void shield?" I asked her curiously.

"It's very good." Jeanette Wen said enthusiastically. "How it works is that my mecha core would manipulate a unique sort of energy called space energy. And by covering our mechas with this space energy, we would become completely undetectable. Anything that moves and touches us from the right, for example, will just continue through the space energy and exit on our left as though we don't exist."

"What the hell? That's ridiculously powerful!" I couldn't help but remark in shock.

"Yes it is. Right now it's strong enough to do that to sensors and little objects. But as the tech progresses, I should be able to do that for bigger things as well until one day, I would become completely impervious to damage! Wahaha!" My sister in law gave an uncharacteristic evil laughter at that moment.

"So the water is completely flowing through the space energy right now? We're just a bubble traveling through the ocean?" I asked and marveled at the impressive tech. At the same time, I couldn't help but think that the skill felt strangely like the abilities of an experimental mecha core of sorts.

"Indeed. Not all, of course. Those things that are too big to pass through my space energy lining would just be bumped away. And so unless the Europeans are looking very carefully at every little thing that's moving in this turbulent ocean, they would never be able to detect us." Jeanette Wen said very confidently.

"I see. Well, I hope you're right. Because I think three of their golden mechas are moving towards us. At very high speed." I said with a gulp.

"Uh. Bruce?" My sister in law said slightly worriedly to my big bro.

"They are only sending three. They do not know for sure that the Princess is here. But that's still half their force, so they have a strong suspicion that she's here. They are picking up clues somehow." My big bro said slowly.

"Let me create something to distract them." I suggested.

"It's too late, they have probably locked in on this area. Anything new that suddenly appears would only raise their suspicion. Let me think." My big bro said.

"There's no need to think. Let's fight and devour those three golden mechas!" I said enthusiastically.