The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4001

Chapter 4001 The Dark Saint

As the Battle of Shardeen Fortress reached a new and more intensive phase, the soldiers of both sides were no longer the protagonists.

Instead, the gods and heroes dispatched by the Oblivion Empire and the Abyssal Empire attracted all of the attention!

Everyone knew that the only way the Oblivion Army could prevail on the battlefield if the Oblivion Empress and her Saintly retainers were both able to repel their godly opposition.

Yet how easy was it for them to repel three dark gods at once?

None of them were that much weaker than the Lady of the Night!

Past confrontations had shown that Lady Nyx was able to defeat a single dark god only after exerting a lot of effort.

There were even rare instances where she encountered two of them at once, during which the Oblivion Empress was only able to hold off her powerful enemies long enough to buy time for the Oblivion troops to retreat from the battlefield!

This time, the price of running away was much heavier for the Oblivion Army.

If the defenders retreated from Shardeen Fortress, the Oblivion Empire would lose an important and vital stronghold and logistical hub!

This would profoundly affect the battle readiness of the Oblivion Army in the coming years.

Even though the non-core elements of the Abyss Army was not that well-organized, their numbers and constant reinforcements from outside made it hard to repel their constant offenses.

Vital bases such as Shardeen Fortress played an essential role in increasing the depth of the Oblivion Army! Without enough defensive and logistical support, it became a lot harder for the Oblivion Empire to maintain their place in the Nyxian Gap.

At worst, the Abyssal Empire might actually win the Nyxian War!

Not only would this be devastating for the soldiers who pledged their loyalty to the Oblivion Empire, this would also rob Lady Nyx and the Dark Saint of their only form of shelter against their great enemy!

Ryncol Larkinson knew more than anyone aside from his wife how important it was to maintain their foothold of the Nyxian Gap.

The complex terrain and anomalous conditions were the only reasons why the two Larkinsons had been able to fend off the Compact's hunters for so long.

After the ignomous fall of an arrogant Holy Daughter, the Compact clearly wisened up and displayed more caution in fighting against its opponents this time.

By using the Abyss Empire as a vessel, the Compact leaders gathered a large number of splinter organizations and other hidden elements under a united banner!

For over a year, the Abyssal Army grinded the Oblivion Army and checked its growth.

At the same time, the new generation of 'dark gods' frequently showed up in order to clash against the Oblivion Empress!

Many ordinary people held the mistaken belief that the Oblivion Empress and the dark gods were all god pilots who were fighting a private battle in the corner of human space for some reason.

Despite the fact that no one had ever seen them display anything that remotely resembled a mech, the belief of all of the mech pilots and soldiers who flocked to the Nyxian Gap could not be shaken!

This was because god mechs completely surpassed the common definition of mechs!

What was amazing right now was that the Devil Tiger was currently able to put up a decent fight against an opponent of this caliber!

The giant manifestation of a blue frozen woman made repeated attempts to freeze or cut the gigantic predator cat, yet none of the frozen attacks proved fatal.

Just as how the Cold One was able to regenerate her bitten arm by channeling her vast reserves of energy, the Dark Saint's own energy manifestation was able to heal up as well!

Even so, the man known to the outside as the Dark Saint struggled to keep up with the Cold One's offensive.

"We can do it!" Ryncol Larkinson gritted his teeth. "Alone, we are weak. Together we are strong! Isn't that right?!"

A loud roar echoed through his fiery will. Ever since his wife partially merged him with Zeigra, he had grown closer to this design spirit than anyone else.

Over the years, Ryncol had gained a huge amount of power from Zeigra, though it had been hard for him to absorb the influx as it threatened to subsume his mind!

Fortunately for him, he managed to endure all of the mental torture and rapidly polished his will and spirit as a result.

With the occasional help from his wife, his force of will developed at a rapid pace, and he found out that the bottleneck that stopped a huge number of expert pilots from advancing further was no hindrance to him at all! He easily advanced to ace pilot with the help of his son's evolved work.

As a masterwork mech, the Devil Tiger not only provided a huge amount of support to Ryncol, but also benefited enormously from its pilot's rapidly rising spiritual feedback!

Over time, the new ace pilot found himself surpassing the strength of his other peers who had recently joined the Oblivion Empire as well.

Even though Ryncol felt that he was only as strong as a junior ace pilot, the synergies he was able to achieve with both Zeigra and the Devil Tiger allowed him to channel the battle strength of a strong and developed senior ace pilot!

It sounded as if there was hardly any difference between these two ranks, but their impact in battle was far apart!

A junior ace pilot was more aptly described as an expert pilot that had grown mature.

A senior ace pilot was seen as a mech pilot that had come closest to reaching the strength and majesty of a god pilot!

Ryncol had learned from more knowledgeable and educated peers that those at the senior ace rank already merged with their ace mechs at least in part!

This was an essential requirement for them to be able to complete their last steps to godhood!

While Ryncol's resonance strength had not developed that rapidly after his recent breakthrough, his close cooperation with his two feline 'battle partners' allowed him to fight leapfrog battles!

This was why he dared to confront the Cold One!

Of course, he was one of the few who knew the truth about the dark gods. If the Cold One was an actual manifestation of a god pilot and a god mech, the Dark Saint was absolutely certain that he would stand no chance!

However, the Cold One was just a powerful Compact sorceress. No matter how strong she had grown, she was only by herself whereas Ryncol always fought alongside his two battle partners!

Pure aggression suffused his mind and will as he continued to maintain the strenuous effort of maintaining total resonance with both Zeigra and the Devil Tiger!

The lines between them had already blurred to a large extent. While they hadn't been together for centuries, they grew so close and fought so many battles together that each of them had shared pieces of themselves with each other.

There was a bit of Ryncol and the Devil Tiger within Zeigra.

There was a bit of Ryncol and Zeigra within the Devil Tiger

There was a bit of Zeigra and the Devil Tiger within Ryncol.

With the sharing and blending of each other's aspects, they not only understood and trusted each other to an unprecedented degree, but also found it easier to merge themselves together and evoke the legendary state of Unity of Man and Machine on demand!

This was currently his capital to resist the Cold One!

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