The First Sword had no choice but to endure the attacks of three enemy expert mechs. After Venerable Dise and her elite comrades successfully launched a battle formation attack, the Hivar Roarer mechs at the right flank lost a lot of battle effectiveness!
The large amount of cutting attacks they received was not that hard on their Crumbleshell mechs, but a large portion of the bestial mech regiment consisted of lighter and more agile models.
All of these lightly-armored bestial mechs behaved as if their wings had been clipped! With thousands of mechs unable to navigate or fight properly due to their damaged conditions, the Swordmaidens, Heavensworders, Flagrant Vandals and Glory Seekers deployed at this flank were having a feast!
The damage inflicted by the bladestorm wasn't limited to just material damage to the Hivar Roarer mechs. The extraordinary energy storm also carried Venerable Dise's will as it propagated through the dwarven mech formations, which meant that every dwarven mech pilot experienced the hostility that the Swordmaiden expert pilot held towards the enemies of her sisters!
One of the consequences of this mental trauma was that the Hivar Roarer mech pilots were still haunted and completely lacked the guts to confront the human mechs with confidence.
As a result, the expeditionary forces quickly managed to finish off hundreds of vulnerable Hivar Roarer mechs and were on track to overrun the entire right flank if not for the sudden entry of the three expert mechs!
Right now, the Larkinson and Glory Seeker mechs were partially suppressed due to the occasional interference of the Mokra Mark II and the Domingo Daren. The former could easily tear apart normal mechs while the latter fired powerful rounds that heavily damaged or outright destroyed every human mech the expert turtle mech struck!
The only obstacle that stood in their way of wiping out the expeditionary mechs on this side of the battlefield was Venerable Dise and her expert mech!
In just a few minutes of combat, the First Sword had already been smacked around many times. It was incredibly challenging for Venerable Dise to keep her new expert mech intact. There were many cases where she was forced to absorb hits because she wasn't able to evade incoming attacks. The Unending alloy armor plating may not look any worse, but all of the physical impacts and shocks were subjecting the internals of the expert swordsman mech to considerable stresses!
Fortunately, backup was finally on the way.
"Dise!" Venerable Imaris Cross of the Cross Clan called. "My Conavis Mer is almost at your side. Let's work together to stall these Hivar Roarer expert mechs."
Surprisingly, Venerable Dise shook her head. "Don't come to me. I don't need reinforcements. I can take care of these enemies myself. Head over to the center or the left flank instead. There are additional enemy expert mechs there that can't easily be stopped."
Venerable Imaris Cross couldn't believe what he was hearing. "Are you crazy? You're outnumbered three to one!"
"Heh." The Swordmaiden expert pilot smirked even as her mech shook from getting bombarded by the Domingo Darkham. "There are expert pilots and there are swordswomen. I already have the measure of my opponents. These dwarves haven't tasted a lot of blood and don't have any refined fighting skills. The dwarves should be fearing me instead!"
Though Venerable Dise was not an overconfident woman, she recognized the necessity of transferring more expert mechs elsewhere.
From what she could tell, the dwarves deployed 13 expert mechs in total, of which one of them had already been taken out of action.
The Hivar Roarers fielded 4 expert mechs, of which Venerable Dise managed to entangle three of them. The remaining expert mech of this mech division was fighting on the left flank that was further away.
The Slug Rangers used to field 4 expert mechs as well, but the takedown of the Gauss Baron removed a huge threat in their lineup.
That still left three of their formidable expert mechs in the fight, though! Two of the Slug Ranger expert rifleman mechs were locked in a firefight against the Amaranto. Amazingly, it took two of them to suppress the masterwork mech made by the Larkinsons.
The main reason for that was because the Amaranto's firepower was too unreasonable!
The physical rounds fired by the dwarven expert mechs mostly damaged the Graveyard that Venerable Stark was still using as the Amaranto's all-purpose barrier.
In contrast, the Amaranto could snipe at either of the two enemy expert mechs with much greater ease because the latter were flying in the open!
Since the Ferrils were on the attack, a much greater proportion of their mechs were deployed far forward from their fleet. Their ships were built to be tough and sturdy but the need to pursue and intercept the expeditionary fleet left them bereft of many defensive options.
In fact, the two dwarven expert pilots that were exchanging fire with the Amaranto understood that hiding behind their friendly ships wouldn't have changed much.
"The firepower of this masterwork mech is too unreasonable!"
Though the two dwarves were too strong-willed to fall for the ridiculous claim that the human leader was Vulcan and that his works were proof of his divinity, the Amaranto and especially its glowing rifle were challenging the assumptions of many weaker-minded dwarven mech pilots.
For better or worse, the expert pilots battling against the Amaranto had to show their fellow Vulcanites that dwarven craftsmanship was not inferior!
While Venerable Stark was trying to cope with two of her attackers, another Larkinson expert pilot had an even harder time trying to stay in the fight!
Just like Venerable Dise, Venerable Orfan was currently being assaulted by three seperate expert mechs fielded by the Molten Hammers.
Of the three dwarven mech divisions, the Molten Hammers fielded 5 whole expert mechs. Each of them were piloted by dwarven talents who emerged from their respective mech regiments.
This also meant that their expert mechs were similar to the regular mech models that the Larkinsons had already met in battle.
For example, the Gatecrasher was a more powerful and more offensive spin on the Molten Furies of the Vulcan's Chosen mech regiment.
The Trementine was a fast and hard-hitting expert axeman mech from the Avido Berserkers that was good at breaking shields and chopping through armor.
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