The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3893

Chapter 3893 Success and Loss

The battle wasn't going well for either side.

Both sides kept learning and adapting to each other. Hundreds of mechs and fish-whales began to run low on reserves and started to accumulate damage. Once they exhibited obvious weaknesses, their opponents did not miss the opportunity to finish the job!

As casualties kept mounting for both sides, the mech pilots attempting to contribute to the battle in their own way experienced greater and greater difficulties.

The Phasers started to recognize the threat posed by the small and odd-looking metal machines.

While they weren't as clear of an enemy as the Evolvers, the mechs had an annoying tendency to hit the Phasers where they were weak!

This caused plenty of them to suffer crippling injuries, which eventually led to their downfall!

Although their spatial barriers were highly effective at keeping the mechs at bay, this was not a permanent solution as both the mechs and the Evolvers did everything they could to wear them down.

The Phasers opted to go on the offensive as a result!

One of the more dangerous developments was that the Phasers launched increasingly more attacks onto the mechs as opposed to the Evolvers.

Most Evolvers fighting up close were tough and difficult to kill in a short amount of time.

In contrast, the mechs that were apparently made out of rigid materials crumpled faster when struck by serious attacks!

None of the mechs of Task Force Fisherman excelled at defense. Even if they did, it was hard to imagine that a defensive Bright Warrior or one of the Rigid Wall mechs could remain intact when struck by the full force of a tail strike or a massive bite!

The only consolation to the expeditionary forces was that the mech pilots also became increasingly more adept at finding the right time to activate eject command.

The mechs, while precious, ultimately weren't as crucial as the lives of their pilots. There was no need for the men and women to stick to their mechs to the very end.

The Phasers, while curious why the mechs constantly shot out smaller pieces of metals, did not pay too much attention to the ejected cockpits.

This allowed the mech pilots to flee the immediate battlefield and approach the rear where they could quickly transfer over to one of the many shuttles under guard.

Hundreds of Phasers and Evolvers had already fallen by this time.

Task Force Fisherman also lost over 400 mechs, which represented almost half of its battle strength!

The price of stealing several metric tons worth of phasewater from the Phase Kingdom became higher and higher. The losses became more severe, but that only made the surviving mech pilots even more determined to defeat their foes!

For example, after a long back-and-forth, the Dark Zephyr along with the Everchanger finally managed to push the Storm Prince to exhaustion.

The two expert mechs might not have been able to defeat this powerful phasewater wizard in a short amount of time, but they forced the creature to employ one ability after another in quick succession.

Whether it was putting up a spatial barrier, teleporting its body to another location to summoning powerful localized warp storms that could threaten a relatively thin and fragile expert mech like the Dark Zephyr, the Storm Prince had given both expert pilots a run for their money!

However, after the Storm Prince exhausted the organs responsible for increasing its defenses, the constant positron beam attacks raking the Storm Prince was taking its toll.

Venerable Joshua always made sure to target the parts of the fish-whale's body that it had damaged beforehand. Through a combination of positron beams and kinetic beams, the Everchanger's rifle bit deep into the Storm Prince's flesh!

As the formidable fish-whale reared in pain after the Everchanger's latest attack managed to disable one of its organs, the creature became a lot more vulnerable!

"Tusa, now!"

The Dark Zephyr had been waiting for this. It stopped circling around and accelerated forward with its knives poised to strike!

Venerable Tusa previously targeted the rear parts of the Storm Prince's body, but now his expert mech took the fish-whale by surprise by attacking its front!

The Dark Zephyr zipped in front of one of the Storm Prince's eyes and stabbed deeply, pushing its wickedly sharp blades through the eyelid and protective membranes that ordinarily shielded the organ from damage.

Blood gushed on the expert light mech's frame even as it pulled away in haste to avoid the Storm Prince's retaliatory bite!

"Hah! We did it!" Venerable Tusa grinned. "Only one more eye to go before this fish-whale is as blind as a bat!"

"Don't get excited too quickly, Tusa." Ves interrupted. "The Phasers may possess other senses that we don't know about yet. These fish-whales are born combatants and they should definitely be able to perceive us in multiple ways if that is the case."

As Venerable Joshua and Venerable Tusa continued to whittle down the Storm Prince, many other mech pilots were also struggling to make a difference.

Commander Casella Ingvar became increasingly more exhausted as she exerted her Command Field for an extended amount of time.

Extending true resonance to hundreds of mechs was highly draining, but the Sentinel Commander never stopped lending out her power!

Blessed with a fraction of the power of an expert pilot, the empowered ranged mechs within range dealt significantly greater power towards their targets than normal!

Over a hundred Phaser fish-whales already succumbed to their potent weapons fire!

If not for the fact that the ranged mechs needed to fire way too many shots to take down each large fish-whale, the firepower exhibited by the ranged mechs would have easily been able to shoot down ten times the amount of mechs!

As Commander Casella kept observing the changes taking place on the battlefield, she continually directed the mechs under her influence to make the most out of their capabilities.

"Watch your energy reserves and take care not to overheat your mechs. We have been fighting at a high intensity for more than half an hour now, but there are still too many Phasers left. The Evolvers cannot fight against them alone, so make sure you have enough reserves left to intervene when necessary."

Exhaustion had already begun to creep up on numerous combatants. Not even the fish-whales were able to fight as hard as before.

That didn't mean they were starting to give up, though. The stakes of the battle remained as high as ever and the weaknesses shown by their opponents encouraged them to persist!

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