The Mech Touch novel Chapter 2806

Chapter 2806 - Helpful

The match between the Valkyrie Redeemer and the Frokyn was close!

Both mechs circled around in the air and clashed against each other, attempting to slam their weapons into each other’s frames.

Each time they closed in, the audience clenched their fists and gritted their teeth. They cheered whenever the Valkyrie Redeemer incurred a serious blow. They g.r.o.a.n.e.d or shouted their dismay any time the Frokyn received a serious wound.

Overall, the energy of the crowd see-sawed so frequently that it was as if they were all affected by the Ferocious Piranha’s glow!

Even Ves felt a bit nervous about the outcome of this battle. The Valkyrie Redeemer was one of his great successes and the mech that best represented his mother. It lost a bit unjustly in the first phase, so he hoped it would be able to make a comeback in the second phase.

"It’s close." Vincent commented as he became engaged at how the mechs were fighting each other. "I don’t know too much about the mechs, but I can tell the mech pilots are treating this like a high-stakes match. They don’t want to lose, so they don’t dare to pull off any daring moves. They just want to grind each other down. It won’t end until one of the mechs falters."

This was an approach that removed many variables from play. Instead of using their wits and the special capabilities of their mechs to outmaneuver each other, Mireilla Linschoten and Carter Day both chose to fight each other in one of the simplest and most straightforward methods.

The only variables that mattered was their skill along with the resilience of their mechs!

Their skill was roughly even. Both of them were experienced mercenary mech pilots. While neither Mireilla nor Carter received any elite training, they invested decades into polishing their fundamental skills, allowing them to perform quite well even if they piloted relatively unfamiliar mechs.

That left the mechs. This was where the real differences lay.

The Valkyrie Redeemer lost badly the last time and still suffered the consequences for it. Its reduced performance and patched armor left it in a relatively dire state. Mireilla constantly had to employ caution in order to prevent a single strike from damaging a critical component!

Yet the mech was still putting up a good fight regardless. Its spear granted the mech a longer reach than its opponent, thereby granting the metallic mech an inherent advantage in performing its attack runs.

Second, Mireilla constantly became more in tune with her mech.

Unlike Carter Day who only formed a shallow relationship with the Valkyrie Redeemer, Mireilla became increasingly more in tune with the mech.

She was not a Hexer. Far from it. She was loyal to the Life Research Association and had no intentions of changing that. Yet that did not prevent her from getting charmed by the mech she piloted.

"No mech has made me feel as strong as this one!"

Even in a damaged condition, the Valkyrie Redeemer could still beat the mechs she utilized before!

She never piloted a mech this good outside simulations. The power she wielded and the additional systems at her disposal caused her to become more and more enamoured with piloting the Valkyrie Redeemer.

What was even more fascinating to her was how the mech responded so well to her. The Valkyrie Redeemer seemed to possess a mind of its own. In fact, she felt as if there were two minds. One of them allowed her to forge a closer connection to her mech while the other one was vastly more profound than anything she had felt before.

When she tentatively deepened her bond with the latter, she became more and more in awe. The more she reached out, the more she came in touch with. There was an endless depth to this indescribable bond that completely fascinated her but miraculously did not distract her from the battle.

"Is this what it is like to be a Hexer?" She asked herself.

She felt as if she was caught up by an enormous wave of Hexer-ness for a lack of a better description. Whenever she reached out with her mind, she felt as if she became more inured with values associated with strong and assertive women.

"Women are better."

"Women must take the lead."

"Women cannot lose."

Why should she lose this battle?

She won with the Frokyn before! Was she destined to lose because she hit the Valkyrie Redeemer a little too hard the previous match?

"It’s not fair!"

She was a winner! She refused to concede against Carter Day. Even though he respected her opponent, it did not change the fact that she thought she was better.

"If my Valkyrie Redeemer was in the same condition as the Frokyn, then I would have won by now!"

This was not an idle boast. The performance of her current mech fell below that of the Frokyn, yet she was holding her ground just fine so far. Her skill expression slowly rose over time as she became increasingly more familiar with the Valkryrie Redeemer in multiple ways.

Clang!

The Frokyn managed to chop apart the shield held by the Valkyrie Redeemer! Axes were highly suited to destroy shields to begin with and Carter Day already knew that he had to get rid of this obstacle in order to launch a fatal blow against the Valkyrie Redeemer.

However, Mireilla Linschoten wasn’t stupid. She always knew that the shield wouldn’t be able to last the fight. It was not a thick and sturdy tower shield that was designed to withstand immense bombardment. It was more of a delaying tool that could be utilized to make favorable trades.

A spout of purple blood sprayed from the wound as the spear retracted from the flesh. Scabs hastily formed over the nasty wound, preventing the organic machine from leaking out more blood, but the damage was already done!

Eventually, Carter Day decided to throw caution to the wind.

"I’ll accept any blow as long as I can get close enough to hack at you with my axe!"

The Frokyn fearlessly dashed forward! It held its axe in a blocking manner in an attempt to guard its c.h.e.s.t, but the spear that sn.a.k.e.d forward keenly avoided every obstacle and stabbed deep in the already-wounded abdomen of the biomech!

Yet no matter how serious this injury appeared, the Frokyn succeeded in getting close!

Its biometal axe is already chopped down like a descending moon. The air whipped as the sharp and resilient axe blade hungered to split apart the c.h.e.s.t plating of the Valkyrie Redeemer!

Yet just before the axe was close to doing so, the Valkyrie Redeemer abruptly detonated its last Starburst grenade while simultaneously activating its strongest Shock and Awe Pulse yet! More raw power had been pumped into the latter than ever before, causing Carter Day to be blanked for a small moment before he regained his wits.

The Valkyrie Redeemer’s spear was still thrust into the abdomen of the Frokyn, but the mech that previously held the weapon was gone from its place!

"Where!?" Carter became alarmed. The Frokyn’s axe cut through empty air, signalling that its opponent was truly gone. "Wait a second..."

The sense of doom that was directed towards him no longer came from the front.

Instead, it came from below!

It turned out that the Valkyrie Redeemer cut off its propulsion at the same time it activated its close-ranged counter-measures!

This caused the mech to lose altitude for just a moment until its flight system came online again. Mireilala Linschoten pumped more power into the flight system than ever before, causing it to rise up just enough to empower her next blow!

"This is the end!" She yelled as her will seemed to echo with her mech and the spirit that was supporting her from behind!

The Valkyrie Redeemer’s backup knife rapidly rose up from between the legs of the Frokyn before sinking straight into the crotch of the biomech!

More purple blood leaked out from the mech than ever before as the spear dug deep into the flesh and internals in its way!

The Frokyn suffered a terrible blow!

Carter screamed, and so did much of the audience!