The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3689

Chapter 3689 The Melee Mech Problem

The pacification of the alien starships did not fully go according to plan.

The pakklaton infantry soldiers did not put up a lot of resistance. The losses they suffered before this battle along with the depletion of their supplies left them in a pretty bad shape.

When their broken and tormented mentalities came into play, the pakklaton soldiers completely degenerated into suicidal animals that only sought to kill at least one filthy human before they died!

In contrast to the pakklaton resistance, the voribugs were much more difficult to defeat than everyone thought.

With the manpower, training and equipment of the Golden Skull Alliance, the various boarding teams were experiencing considerable difficulties in securing the vessels.

Even if they killed millions of bugs and wiped a couple of nests, there were still a lot more voribugs scurrying around that had drilled into areas that were incredibly difficult to access by humans!

The only way to reach these isolated areas quickly was to employ a mech to dig into these sections, but that would be ruinous to the alien ship in question.

There was no good solution at the moment aside from steadily grinding down the voribug numbers to a more manageable level.

Casualties had fallen among the soldiers sent to secure the alien ships. The constant engagements against the swarms of voribugs and especially the elder voribugs that remained behind took their toll against the enthusiastic but inadequately equipped troopers.

Morale among the men remained high, though. The soldiers of the Golden Skull Alliance were not meek, and everyone was aware of the realities of combat.

This was what they had trained for! If they could not show their value in this instance, how could their organizations possibly increase their investment in them? Demonstrating their willingness to fight was the best way to show that the expeditionary forces consisted of more than mechs!

The constant fighting gradually achieved results.

"Look! The voribugs aren't attacking us anymore! We're making progress!"

The human forces discovered that as long as they reduced the population of the voribugs below a point, the insects became a lot less active.

They needed time to breed and replenish their numbers before they resumed their offensive!

Back on the Spirit of Bentheim, Ves did not pay any mind to the ongoing fights anymore.

Boarding actions and infantry-level battles were not his specialty and there were lots of other officers that could direct the cleanup operation.

He left the bridge and quickly headed down to the main design lab. He quickly spotted his wife along with a number of other Journeyman and approached the group.

Gloriana grinned at her daughter as she held the baby high in her grasp.

"Say it again, Aurelia. Say 'mama'!"

"..Mamaaa."

"Good girl!"

Gloriana leaned in and kissed Aurelia's cute face.

"What do you say to me when you see me again?"

"Mama!"

"What a clever girl!"

Gloriana smooched her daughter for the umpteenth time.

"When your father and I come up to you at the same time, who do you run up to first!"

"Mama!"

"You're so cute!"

As Ves observed this spectacle, he looked anything but happy. Aurelia barely learned how to say her first word and already Gloriana was indoctrinating her daughter with all of this 'mama' nonsense!

"Ahem."

"Hmm? Oh, the loser has arrived. Look, Aurelia. He's your father. What do you call your father?"

The baby girl grew confused as she wondered why Gloriana wasn't showering her with love this time.

"Guuu…swataaa?"

"Hihihihi! Just call mama, dear!"

"Mama!"

Ves grew so annoyed at this stupid display that he stepped forward and tried his best to wrench his daughter's pink-suited form out of Gloriana's grasp!

"Hey! What are you doing, Ves! You don't get to hold her right now! I won this contest!"

"Our daughter isn't a vehicle for you to compete! She is the product of our love!" Ves hissed at Gloriana before he tried to direct a gentle expression towards his baby. "Don't listen so much to your mother. I'm much saner than her! Call me papa."

"Boooo…."

"No, not boo. Papa. Paaaaapaaaa. Papa. Can you say it, honey?"

Aurelia didn't seem to understand what he was trying to convey. She looked around as a line of drool leaked from the corner of her mouth. Her face, which was moist with all of he kisses she received, began to look increasingly more droopy.

"No! Don't go to sleep yet! Say papa, please! Paapaaa!"

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