The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3510

Chapter 3510: Helping Hand

The Thornbearer possessed an extremely powerful attack method. Its entire design was based around delivering fast and powerful stabs. Any mech that got struck even once would definitely receive a painful blow. The chance would be great that such an attack could easily breach through the armor of its opponent.

Once that happened, the performance of the damaged mech would definitely become impaired, thereby giving the Thornbearer an even greater chance of succeeding in its next attack!

The Heart of Victor could not allow itself to get stabbed even once. Yet instead of pursuing the more prudent course of action and assuming a more defensive posture, Lyain Kepper sought to lay a mark on the enemy mech with each exchange of blows!

Though it was extremely difficult for any mech or mech pilot to divert the course of a powerful and rapid spear stab, it was not impossible to pull off this risky move.

As long as the spear attack failed to hit its mark, the Heart of Victor always gained a brief window of opportunity where it could use its chainsword to land a fierce blow on the Thornbearer!

The only issue was that the frontal armor of the spearman mech was too strong!

If the Heart of Victor landed the same attack on the Zenomon Gamma, the axeman mech would have lost a decent amount of armor integrity.

The Thornbearer on the other hand was the product of a collaboration between a spearman mech specialist and a defensive specialist. The latter invested a considerable amount of attention and resources in making the Thornbearer as difficult to damage as possible!

[Even though the Thornbearer is not in a good situation at the moment, it is still not a great concern for Team Voiken. Their spearman mech's excellent armor system provides it with an enormous degree of fault tolerance. It will take forever for the Heart of Victor to penetrate through its opponent's thick frontal armor at this rate. In the meantime, the Thornbearer's mech pilot can keep varying its attacks in order to land a successful attack.]

[The Heart of Victor's is almost just as heavy as the Thornbearer but its defenses are definitely a tier below. The disparity is quite glaring and fully demonstrates the difference that a defensive specialist can make. Mr. Dulo Voiken deserves great credit for implementing such strong defenses with limited resources and severe time constraints!]

Though Ves briefly became concerned about the snail's pace of progress his competition mech was making, he became more reassured when he saw that the Heart of Victor maintained the upper hand throughout these exchanges.

Sure, the swordsman mech only dealt light damage with each successful attack, but so far the Thornbearer failed to succeed even once.

The difference was very glaring, and that made this sight so perplexing!

The more knowledgeable mech designers and mech pilots among the crowd were able to understand this current sequence of events much better than all of the laymen.

The mech designers clearly understood the strengths of the Thornbearer and expected the mech to hold a clear advantage in this duel. Although the Heart of Victor was also a respectably strong mech, it was supposed to experience a lot of trouble when fighting against an opponent with much greater weapon reach!

Meanwhile, the mech pilots tried to imagine how the battle would unfold if they were sitting in the cockpit of the Heart of Victor. They quietly admitted that they wouldn't have been able to hold out nearly as long as Lyain Kepper.

Many of them knew their way around with a sword, but it was practically a superhuman feat to parry so many powerful and threatening spear stabs in a consistent manner.

[Has Lyain Kepper broken through already?]

[That's impossible! We would have been able to witness a manifestation if that happened. From what I can see, the Heart of Victor isn't being affected by forced resonance at all. It's operating well within its existing parameters.]

[Then how can the Heart of Victor defy all of your earlier analyses and hold out so well against the Thornbearer? The strengths of the two mechs should be well-known by now! I don't see the Heart of Victor moving any faster or performing any stronger attacks.]

[It's not the mech that has changed… it's the mech pilot.]

Lyain Kepper's abrupt increase in skill and judgment did not go unnoticed. It began to dawn on more and more people that he was fighting way better than he used to in the first three rounds!

While Lyain was already a good swordsman mech pilot, the skill he displayed this time was insane!

An occasional feat of brilliance might not be that special, but pulling off a high-risk maneuver on a consistent basis was impossible at this level!

The only other conclusion that people could make was that Lyain Kepper had broken through to expert candidate, but that was clearly impossible. There were no signs of a breakthrough, and if the man had already broken through beforehand, he would have been barred from participating in the fourth round of the tournament!

After ruling one possibility after another, the expert commentators finally settled on a single, improbable explanation.

[If we assume that Mr. Lyain Kepper is still the same mech pilot as before, then an external factor must be responsible. The only explanation that makes sense is that the Heart of Victor is making up the difference.]

[But how? It's a mech, not an autonomous warbot!]

[Perhaps… we have unfairly judged Swordmaster Ketis' design capabilities. The swordsman mech that she has designed is more effective than what is obvious from the surface.]

Though not everyone agreed with this explanation, more and more people began to come around to Ketis again.

The results were just too dramatic this time! The only reason why the Heart of Victor hadn't defeated the Thornbearer already was because the latter was too tough.

Even so, after getting struck for over forty times, its chest armor was already bearing a lot of scars!

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