The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3730

Chapter 3730 - Command Field

Commander Casella Ingvar and her new battle partner started slow at first.

There was no time pressure in the initial test. The Avatars, which had been assigned to play as the adversaries for this mock battle, did not launch attacks or move from their positions.

This allowed the sixth expert pilot of the Larkinson Clan to take her time with exploring how to resonate with the key resonating exotics of her expert mech.

Having been exposed to the thoughts of the designers of the Minerva through the design network, Casella possessed a decent understanding of the two most important resonating exotics in her new machine.

She could already feel a material called Talasmir reach out to her so that she could expand her willpower and presence across a wider area.

Even when she wasn't actively resonating with this material, her influence had already expanded to a modest extent.

From the theories she had inadvertently learned, this was a sign of excellent compatibility between herself and Talasmir. It was incredibly lucky on the part of the Larkinsons for being able to find an excellent match and be able to acquire a sufficient quantity of this rare material back in Chance Bay!

As her willpower ranged even further throughout the frame of her expert mech, she was able to sense a different resonating material with a strong response.

This one stimulated her willpower in a different way. Instead of expanding it, the material known as Pecker Carbon concentrated it to the point where she felt that she had gained increased dominion over a smaller area!

Both resonating exotics strongly affected her willpower but in different ways. It was easy for Casella to distinguish between them and resonate with them without making the wrong choice.

She briefly tried to see whether she could resonate with both Talasmir and Pecker Carbon at the same time, but the burst of pain and the feeling of tearing from her mech quickly disabused her of this notion!

Talasmir essentially expanded her reach over a larger area while Pecker Carbon concentrated it in a single location! Anyone could figure out that their effects were mutually exclusive!

"Since that is the case, let's start with Talasmir."

This was the most compatible and gentle resonating exotic to her senses. As Casella closed her eyes and steadily figured out the knack to resonating with it, the Minerva golden glow became more diffused.

The resonance glow initially surrounded the expert mech like a bubble. After Casella resonated with Talasmir, the glow expanded like an inflating balloon and became more diffused over a wider area.

Seconds passed by as the bubble grew at a brisk but steady pace. Its radius reached hundreds of meters but did not slow down in the slightest.

When the radius of the diffused golden sphere around the stationary Minerva surpassed a kilometer, many observers became a lot more impressed at the sight!

The expansion continued until the sphere had reached an impressive radius of 8 kilometers, only slowing down near the end as Casella had clearly reached her limits at this time.

This meant that a large chunk of space that could easily fit hundreds if not thousands of mechs turned into a special field where Casella held sway!

It just so happened that the mech companies of the Living Sentinels that had sortied into space were all within this 8-kilometer sphere.

Although the Sentinel mechs did not glow or exhibit any special signs of empowerment at this time, Commander Casella was not finished with her attempt!

"What is your current state, commander?" Ves asked.

"I am under moderate strain at the moment, patriarch." Casella answered. "I can keep this up for a time, but it is much less exhausting for me if I rein in the expansion of my Command Field."

That did not fall outside of Ves' expectations.

"Try and retract your 'Command Field'. At what point can you comfortably keep it up for several hours?"

This required a bit of experimentation on Casella's part. She reduced her effort and had to feel how much easier it became to maintain this state.

The Command Field steadily shrunk until it had reached a rather disappointing radius of 300 meters.

"I can maintain my Command Field without getting exhausted if I keep it at its current state." Commander Casella reported. "If I get more practice and increase my resonance strength, I think I can increase the range of my Command Field when in equilibrium and when exerted to the maximum."

That was to be expected. Every expert mech grew stronger as their expert pilot rose in strength.

Masterwork expert mechs just happened to help their pilots grow stronger at an accelerated pace, so Ves did not have to wait too long for Casella to become a monstrous existence in the Larkinson Army!

"Alright. We can explore the nuances of your range later, but right now I want to know what your Command Field can do. Can you apply your power to one of the Sentinel mechs within your range?"

Commander Casella had already been exploring this idea herself. She had already made a bit of progress in mastering her Command Field and focused on a random Sentinel mech.

It was strange to describe her power. She felt she could latch a portion of her willpower onto the mech pilots in her range.

When she explored this facet, she found out that her willpower easily latched onto the minds of her Sentinel mech pilots. Not only that, but she was also able to extend her influence to the mech itself!

It helped a lot that the mech was alive. The living consciousness of the mech served as a hook that Casella could grapple without too much effort.

She figured that it would be a lot harder for her to do the same to a lifeless mech, if it was possible in the first place.

As Casella slowly tried to infuse the power of her Command Field in a specific mech and mech pilot, she gained a lot more awareness of them both.

She understood their conditions, their moods, their inclinations, their conditions and more. Although she did not understand them on a detailed level, what she managed to learn from them could definitely be useful in the right circumstances!

Casella knew she could do more than that, though. When she began to push more of her power into the new bonds she established, the mech and mech pilot she had chosen began to acquire a faint glow!

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