The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3822

Chapter 3822 Variant Creatures

Only a handful of blue fish-whales had already managed to breach the defensive line earlier.

Now, seventeen of them had emerged from the portal at once. From the way they spread out and took control over their lesser brothers, it looked like they were preparing to launch the same attack run!

"The blue ones are much stronger than the white ones! We can't let them go through with their charges!"

"What are our ranged mechs doing?! Shoot them down already!"

"We can't! There are too many white bodies in the way!"

Hundreds of ranged mechs were trying to land their attacks on the blue fish-whales, but aside from a few rare exceptions, each of their attacks fell far short!

While the white fish-whales were not that big and tough compared to an actual mech, they were still solid enough to absorb pretty much every ranged attack trying to pass through their bodies.

It took entire volleys to obliterate a white fish-whale, but that didn't help as much when another one immediately occupied the position vacated by its dead brother!

As the blue fish-whales were about to perform their organized charges, General Verle finally allowed the more powerful mech units in reserve to take action!

"The Minerva is moving forward!"

Up until now, Commander Casella Ingvar had done nothing aside from issuing orders and providing an invisible morale boost to the Living Sentinel mech pilots holding the line.

She was proud of her mech legion. She was also pleased that the combination of the Rigid Wall and Rigid Spine mechs held up so well against so much physical pressure.

Though the blue fish-whales had eventually managed to break through the shield wall, she did not blame her pilots for this failure. The more elite enemy units were simply a bit too strong for them to handle with their current means.

"It's time to take action, Minerva." She whispered.

As much as she agreed with General Verle's stance that this was just the start of an extended engagement, she did not feel comfortable with standing aside so that her troops could handle this challenge by themselves.

Part of the reason why mech commanders like her wanted to lead the troops from the front was because of their strong desire and obsession to do everything in their power to protect their comrades and succeed!

The Minerva glowed brighter as its Command Field expanded a bit. Even though Casella did not use it to lend her power to her fellow soldiers as of yet, the Sentinels and other friendly mech pilots gained a bit more confidence after they picked up her influence.

Not only that, but Casella also extended her influence among the hundreds of alien creatures that were madly trying to press forward.

It was easy enough for her to detect the blue fish-whales that were about to perform their formation-breaking charges. They were not only 50 percent bigger than their lesser kin, their bodies also exuded a lot more mass and power!

The threat they posed was much greater!

Aside from gaining greater awareness of where the blue fish-whales were located, Casella also tried to figure out how smart they were. How much autonomy and intelligence did these larger fish-whales possess?

"They're smarter than the white fish-whales, but what cleverness they've gained is entirely dedicated towards aggression and conflict!"

The blue fish-whales were also bred for war! Casella sensed nothing in them that spoke of an ability to think rationally or apply themselves to other pursuits than fighting.

The Minerva brought its custom luminar crystal rifle to bear. The Irvan was a transformable rifle that came with two firing modes.

This time, Casella had left the weapon in its marksman configuration. A long and heavy rifle that vaguely looked similar to the Amaranto's Instrument of Vengeance laid in the expert command mech's arms.

The weapon glowed as Casella and her expert mech generated a fair degree of true resonance.

At the same time, Casella switched the attack phase of her primary weapon to a slicer beam.

"If my attacks can't get around all of the cannon fodder, then let them go through the bodies instead."

When Casella pulled the trigger, the Irvan spat a deceptively thin but concentrated energy beam.

If not for the fact that Casella empowered it with resonance, few people and aliens would have noticed the powerful attack!

The beam instantly propelled forward and sunk through the body of a white fish-whale that was just about to slam its head against the tower shield of a Rigid Wall mech.

Then the beam penetrated through the other side of the injured fish-whale before passing through the body of the next alien victim!

More than a dozen white fish-whales fell victim to this unstoppable attack!

The craziest part of this was that the slicer beam hardly lost power after passing through all of those bodies!

When the thin beam finally struck the blue fish-whale, it accurately penetrated through the middle of the skill and cut through the brain that governed the monster's actions!

The blue creature thrashed and for numerous seconds before falling silent.

Commander Casella didn't pay much attention to the results of her attack. She had already estimated how much penetration power the slicer beam possessed after empowering it with her will.

Although the bodies of the white fish-whales were rather annoying, the power of an expert pilot and an expert mech was not trivial!

The Minerva adjusted its aim and fired a second shot!

An instant later, another blue fish-whale got injured!

This time, the slicer beam failed to hit the brain but cut through the spine of the monster instead. This caused it to lose control over itself. When the blue fish-whale became increasingly more vulnerable, the white fish-whales no longer respected it anymore.

"The white ones are eating any blue ones that show weakness!"

This dynamic provided a lot more convenience to the troubleshooters that were tasked with eliminating the blue fish-whales.

Due to the cannibalistic behavior pattern of the fish-whales, the defenders only needed to draw enough blood for the surrounding fish-whales to finish the job!

This was highly convenient for Casella as she never needed to land another shot to finish off her targets.

As the blue fish-whales began their charge, the Minerva was nowhere done with eliminating all 17 of the high-priority targets!

Expert mech or not, the Minerva could only attack one of them at a time.

Fortunately, there were additional units on the job.

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