The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3785

Chapter 3785 Refined Abilities

Venerable Imon Ingvar and Venerable Dise weren’t the only expert pilots exercising their piloting skills today.

The latest expert pilot to emerge from the Larkinson Army was still new and unrefined in his strength expression. He required a lot of personal instruction in order to guide him into constructing his own unique fighting style that would define his career as a demigod.

There was another new expert pilot that also needed to develop her unique battle methods.

Unlike her brother, Commander Casella Ingvar had the benefit of piloting a completed expert mech, a masterwork no less!

While she spent a fair amount of her time on practicing her personal combat abilities, that was not the direction she wanted to focus upon as she evolved into a better expert pilot.

Her Command Field was her true specialty!

For this reason, she often worked together with other friendly mechs in her practice bouts against other expert mechs!

This time, she teamed up with two mech companies of the Living Sentinels.

One of the mech companies consisted entirely of the new Sentinel-exclusive mech models that had recently been released.

Although the Spirit of Bentheim did not produce a lot of copies of the new Rigid Spine and Rigid Wall models, the Living Sentinels still received enough of them to begin systematic training.

Right now, the new defense-oriented mechs formed a defensive sphere around the Minerva.

The expert command mech should never be caught in the open due to its strategic importance. It must always be covered by a sufficient escort of other machines!

This was why the Rigid Walls surrounded the Minerva from each side. Their thick tower shields did not quite link up with each other, but when combined with the bulky frames of the space knights, it was not that easy to circumvent their defenses!

If that wasn’t enough, the Rigid Spines deployed behind the space knights had extended their spears through the notches of the tower shields.

This caused the formation to resemble a hedgehog!

There were multiple reasons for Casella to arrange her troops this way. Not only did it provide all-round protection against maneuverable light mechs, it also allowed the expert pilot to extend her Command Field across all of her Commandeered mechs with minimal wasted energy!

The 80 Sentinel mechs under Commander Casella’s command therefore projected a surprising amount of threat towards Tusa.

The expert mech that served as the Minerva’s practice opponent this time did not immediately go on the attack because of that. The thorny melee formation had become much more formidable now that Casella had Commandeered the entire formation!

“Our expert mechs are getting more and more ridiculous!” Venerable Tusa complained. “Don’t get me wrong. I think it is good that our mech designers are improving their work, but can’t they give an oldster like me some slack?!”

“Fairness doesn’t exist on the battlefield.” Commander Casella replied to the light mech specialist. “Are you going to attack or do I have to make the first move?”

“Heh, show me what you’ve got!”

The shield sphere slightly expanded and opened more gaps in the sides. The reason for doing this quickly became evident as silver-coated Bright Warriors wielding luminar crystal rifles became visible!

Due to the nature of the current formation, only a limited number of rifleman mechs were able to train their weapons at the Dark Zephyr.

Venerable Tusa did not dare to underestimate these Sentinel mechs, though.

Under ordinary circumstances, his Dark Zephyr could easily break open this formation of mechs and mech pilots and cut them down with impunity.

Now that they had come under the control of Commander Casella, their coordination and power had reached another level!

This immediately became evident when a dozen lightly-empowered laser beams struck towards the Dark Zephyr!

The Commandeered ranged mechs exhibited near-perfect coordination as they each fired their weapons in a box around the expert light mech.

Venerable Tusa and his expert mech’s ability to evade attacks was legendary! The pair had become so good at anticipating and evading ranged attacks that Commander Casella saw no point in trying to lead her attacks.

The Dark Zephyr encountered this kind of response many times these days. It was the standard answer to a light mech that was just too difficult to predict.

Even so, Tusa did not show any concern at all! Getting boxed in was difficult to deal with but his current opponents were not numerous enough to pin down the Dark Zephyr!

“Hah! You need a lot more ranged mechs in order to land a hit on my mech!” Tusa laughed.

The Dark Zephyr freely weaved around the shots even as it circled around the spherical formation.

The ranged mechs guided by Commander Casella always fired their weapons at the right time and in the right direction, but with so few weapons being brought to bear at the same time, it was still difficult for the Commandeered mechs to land a blow on the expert light mech!

The easiest way to increase the odds of hitting the light mech was to alter the formation of Sentinel mechs. If all 40 of the ranged mechs were able to aim in the same direction, the Dark Zephyr was bound to get hit by an empowered laser beam!

However, Casella did not choose to do so because she did not wish to break the current formation and expose the rear.

The purpose of this practice session was to figure out how she could protect herself against an enemy expert light mech!

To that end, the Sentinel Commander decided to go serious and employ her Command Field in a more specific manner.

“The battlefield is my chessboard!”

Up until this point, Commander Casella’s Command Field only extended far enough from the Minerva to cover her Commandeered mechs.

Now, she extended it by a kilometer, thereby covering the entire dome of the sphere where the Dark Zephyr was displaying its acrobatics!

The Commandeered ranged mechs under command immediately altered their firing pattern.

Instead of firing at all of the sides and corners around the Dark Zephyr in the hopes of achieving at least a single hit, the enhanced and guided ranged mechs were actively trying to track and predict the elusive expert light skirmisher!

“What?!” Venerable Tusa exploded as he suddenly had to exert a lot more effort to dodge the incoming attacks. “This is impossible! I know your Sentinel mech pilots can receive your help, but this is insane!”

Although the Sentinels had yet to land a hit, they had come a lot closer this time!

This was not just because they received more guidance from Commander Casella.

The true reason why they were able to pose a greater threat towards the Dark Zephyr was because the target in question was moving through a region of space where Commander Casella had faintly spread her will!

Though her Command Field was not even close to matching the power of a genuine Saint Kingdom, it already possessed a shadow of a domain field in advance.

No matter where the Dark Zephyr dodged and weaved, Venerable Tusa always felt that his expert mech was being tracked and observed by a cold and calculating mind.

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