The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3271

Chapter 3271: Fear No Death

Many people in the expeditionary fleet already knew that the expert mechs designed by the Larkinsons were a little abnormal compared to others of their kind.

From the participation of Journeymen with unusual design philosophies to the contribution made by an MTA Master, the four expert mechs that the Larkinsons had currently managed to produce at the time of this battle all exhibited significantly greater power than expected!

A single expert light mech managed to traverse a large distance in open space and overcame a huge number of obstacles until finally taking out an expert heavy artillery mech that must have outmassed the former by at least eight times!

A masterwork expert rifleman mech not only managed to pave the way for the destruction of that oppressive expert artillery mech, but also continued to make its presence felt in every corner of the battlefield. As long as any of the friendly expert mechs entered a crisis, the powerful luminar crystal rifle would surely bark out a powerful energy beam that temporarily hindered the enemy from exploiting an advantage.

An expert swordsman mech that oddly wielded a masterwork mech sword fended off three different peers through a combination of exceptional skill and brilliant sword techniques. The expert pilot was so skilled that she handedly managed to fend off a famed dwarven hero as well as two extra helpers that were doing their best to drill through the human expert mech's extremely resilient armor.

And finally, a hefty spearman mech turned out to be way more resilient than anyone including its designers expected. The taunting expert pilot enraged the three opposing dwarven expert pilots so much that they continually tried and failed to inflict any meaningful damage onto the spearman mech. After working so hard to overcome its resonance shield and upper armor, it turned out that its second armor layer was much harder and much more resistant to damage!

To Ves, the effort the latter two expert mechs were making to keep three enemy expert mechs occupied each was nothing less than heroic!

It was absolutely worth the tradeoff to expend two expert mechs to keep six enemy expert mechs occupied. The former didn't even have to beat the latter. Just making sure that the enemies who tried to use gang tactics against the surprisingly resilient Larkinson expert mechs granted the humans a huge advantage in this battle!

In effect, the role of the First Sword and the Riot was to do their best to reduce the disparity in numbers as much as possible. So far, the two offensive expert mechs were indeed managing to hold off their opponents, though to be fair they were far from defeating any of them. That was still a step too far for them as the interference from multiple expert mechs were hampering their moves.

It was not as if the dwarven expert pilots failed to realize what was going on. The problem was that they were in a rather helpless position themselves.

The strength of the First Sword and the Riot rose far beyond an average expert mech, and that was just by their armor alone. Their Unending alloy exterior practically made them immune to regular attacks and also enabled them to take much greater risks and trade blows for blows, knowing that any hits they received was just a fraction of the damage that they inflicted on the enemy machine. _{freeweɓnøvel.com}

That turned the two human expert mechs into rascals of some sorts. They couldn't be treated with common sense and had to be restrained by at least three different machines to prevent them from running away with their aggression and destroying a dwarven expert mech by relying on brute force!

Ves wasn't sure whether these confrontations would remain stable, but he had a lot of confidence in the protection offered by an armor system made primarily out of Unending alloy. As long as Venerable Orfan and Venerable Dise guarded the weak points of their machines carefully, they should last long enough to buy time for other elements of the expeditionary fleet to achieve a breakthrough.

"Hm, there are still a couple of enemy expert mechs that are unrestrained."

The expeditionary fleet still didn't have enough expert mechs to keep the remaining dwarven expert mechs pinned. One of them was currently rampaging close to the center of the battlefield.

The Burza Fens was an expert axeman mech that was similar to the Trementine. The expert pilot of the former was a lot younger and more inexperienced than the pilot of the latter.

Given these circumstances, General Kebrinore ordered the Burza Fens to reinforce the faltering lines of Molten Hammer mechs that were already beginning to flag after they witnessed thousands of comrades die from a massive area attack.

Initially, the Burza Fens made a huge impact. Its arrival rejuvenated the deflated morale of the Molten Hammers and also allowed them to reverse the tide and go on the offensive once again!

With each swing of the axe, the fast and unstoppable Burza Fens hacked Crosser and Larkinson mechs left and right. Not a single human mech was able to withstand a single blow from this simple but still powerful machine!

"Where are our expert mechs?!"

"We don't have any left to spare. They're all locked in their own duels!"

"Then what are we supposed to do, sir?!"

"We'll just throw enough mechs at it until it succumbs."

"Then where's our ranged support?"

"It's coming now!"

It took a short moment to organize a proper response against the Burza Fens. Just as it was about to chop a Bright Warrior in space knight configuration, its resonance shield rippled as a volley of ultra-heavy gauss rounds struck the barrier.

The dwarven expert pilot sensed something unusual from these attacks. They weren't as negligible as other regular ranged attacks.

The Eternal Redemptions had entered the fray! Although only a squad of them had turned their powerful cannons on the Burza Fens, it was still a useful form of support.

Sadly, if the Eternal Redemptions thought they could chew through the dwarven expert axeman mech's resonance shield in a minute, then they were sorely mistaken!

"NO!"

"Then let us tackle this great and terrible foe and prove to the galaxy once again that even gods can be slain by mortal hands!" Dietrich cried out as his Bright Warrior raised its glowing luminar crystal rifle! "Fight until you die! Die until you fight! We fear no death because duty and service is in our blood! Attack!"

The Battle Criers advanced towards the unscrupulous Burza Fens with a pre-prepared plan in mind. Once their rifle-wielding Bright Warrior mechs reached a certain distance, their mech companies dispersed into squads which subsequently split up into individual mechs.

A couple of hundred Battle Crier mechs proceeded to fan out in order to attempt to surround the enemy axeman mech in a spherical formation.

The dwarven expert pilot, though consumed with hacking as many Larkinson mechs to pieces as possible, wasn't ignorant of the enemy's maneuvers. His eyes narrowed as he sensed something more out of this response than normal.

"Is this their plan to handle an expert mech? Hah! They're too naive!"

The Burza Fens stopped pursuing the retreating Crosser mechs and began to pivot towards the nearest Bright Warrior, accelerating with an impressive burst of speed that caused a lot of Battle Criers to miss their initial shots.

Hundreds of white light beams lanced the space just behind and around the dwarven expert mech. In this great forest of attacks, a handful of mech pilots finally managed to strike their target.

The dwarven expert pilot wasn't worried. The Burza Fens might just be a low-tier expert mech, but it was equipped with a serviceable resonance shield that could block the majority of mundane attacks with great efficiency.

Yet when the shield was finally struck by some of the laser-like beams, the dwarf uttered an alarmed cry as he experienced a greater sting than he thought!

"Those rifles!"

It was only now that he took the enemy's rifles more seriously.

When his Burza Fens finally closed in and chopped the entire torso of a Bright Warrior into half with a single powerful swing of its resonance-enhanced axe, the brethren of the fallen mech furiously fired their crystal rifles at the expert mech, their job now made easier now that the expert axeman mech had briefly stagnated in order to perform its attack!

Over fifty different light beams struck the resonance shield of the Burza Fens from different directions. Though the dwarven expert pilot ordinarily didn't pay much attention to it, he discovered to his horror that the stability of his first line of defense had already declined by at least 8 percent!

"Impossible!" The dwarven expert pilot cried. "They're not expert mechs or even pseudo-expert mechs! How can they deal so much damage?!"