The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4134

Chapter 4134 Superior Performance

Everything about the Mars lived up to its promise.

It performed like a veritable war god like its namesake, and that was when it was still technically an expert mech!

Everyone who had the privilege to witness it demonstrate its awesome power in this nameless star system felt incomparably insignificant in front of such a powerful war machine.

"The Mars is like a warship but with only a hundredth of the footprint." Gloriana aptly contextualized the insanely powerful expert mech's performance in combination with its new ace pilot. "If we were testing the performance of a battlecruiser at the moment, I don't think any of us would feel surprised at the power that the vessel is able to demonstrate. We humans are already hardwired to expect superior performance from physically imposing objects. This is also why we tend to fear the phase whales the most out of all of the native races of the Red Ocean."

She made a good point. Everyone indeed developed a general sense of power by looking at the size of a war asset.

The dimensions of a mech or warship turned into a shorthand measurement of their combat effectiveness.

Of course, size was hardly the sole factor that determined their power. Their tech played an important role as well, hence why people started to divide these assets into three different power levels.

On paper, the Mars was classified as a second-class high-tier expert mech. This created the suggestion that it would not perform that much better than the Bolvos Rage.

Yet there were multiple factors that turned the Mars into a completely different beast than its predecessor machine.

The insane tech put into the Mars was one reason. Patriarch Reginald's incredibly breakthrough was another reason.

Together, they produced an incongruous result that completely caused a lot of people's minds to crash as they found it difficult to come to terms with the current performance of the Mars!

Equating it to a warship was a useful way to contextualize the Mars, but the fact that the two were closer in performance than was apparent on the surface also signified how insane it was to possess this combination of expert mech and expert pilot!

As the Mars continued to explore the limits of its firepower by readily engaging its ARCEUS System at different asteroids, the firepower but more notably its endurance truly matched that of a warship that was armed with main cannons that were larger than the frames of entire mechs!

Warships were already strong to begin with. By leveraging the advantage of scale to the utmost, these vessels overpowered their opposition by relying on brute force.

The Mars was different. It was smaller and more maneuverable at shorter ranges. It was also a lot smaller and therefore a lot harder to pin down at range.

This provided it with significant advantages if it was ever confronted by a hostile warship.

Even if the Cross Clan had yet to equip it with a minidrive, the inherent advantages of the mech already enabled it to maneuver around an actual warship with ease. This would allow the Mars to escape the firing angles of the most devastating naval weapon systems!

This was an unreasonable tactic that essentially made it impossible for a warship to defeat the Mars at close range.

Even from a distance, it would be incredibly difficult for the warship to land a lot of hits on a small, fast and maneuverable target.

All of this meant that Professor Benedict successfully attained his goal of developing a mech that was powerful enough to fight against alien warships and powerful exobeasts!

The Cross Clan and the Golden Skull Alliance possessed a lot more options against those types of enemies from now on. It was no longer the case that their entire forces were unable to fight against these native threats.

"Alright, that is enough for the ARCEUS System. It is already beginning to reach its limits after firing so many times." Professor Benedict said.

As much as the ARCEUS System was designed to support extended operation, the intensity in which its weapon systems fired in the past few minutes was a little too much. Everything possessed limits and even a super-expensive transphasic energy weapon system was no exception.

The Mars subsequently tested out its other capabilities. Though it was lacking its shoulder-mounted missile launchers at the moment, it still possessed another ranged solution in the form of its custom shotgun.

Not only was it equipped with a dimensional ammunition drum, the weapon was also capable of firing a variety of different shotgun rounds.

This time, the Cross Clan decided to fill its ammo drum with a mixture of cheap and expensive rounds. _{frёewebηovel.cѳm}

The Mars rapidly flew closer to a nearby asteroid and pointed its weapon straight at the surface.

A silent explosion erupted from the muzzle as it spat out an extremely powerful transphasic slug!

Though the velocity of the projectile was incomparable to that of an energy beam, the transphasic round partially phased through the solid matter of the asteroid while at the same transferring a huge amount of kinetic energy along the way!

The result of this was that the transphasic round was able to penetrate well into the interior of the asteroid without wasting too much of its destructive potential at the outer surface of the target!

"Let's see how much damage a non-transphasic shotgun slug can do in comparison."

The slug created such a giant crater in the asteroid that it was as if it was a planet that had undergone a mass extinction event!

"If the target was a starship, then the non-transphasic round is not effective at taking down the targeted vessel." Sara Voiken observed. "The key to taking out starships in the most effective manner is to disable or destroy their vital systems. Dealing damage to their hulls is not useful in comparison. The only thing that will do is make it easier for follow-up attacks to penetrate into the interior."

In other words, a transphasic round was drastically more effective at taking out large targets than a non-transphasic round.

"How much phasewater did it take to produce that transphasic round?" Ves critically asked.

"...Let's not talk about that."

Unless the Crossers were able to recover the fractured and broken remains of the transphasic slug, firing this expensive projectile was no different throwing a precious drop of phasewater out of the airlock!

Fortunately, there was no rule that stated that the Crossers had to keep supplying the hungry shotgun with transphasic ammunition.

As the Mars kept firing the weapon, it began to blast out in many different ways.

One shot released a conventional hail of pellets that rapidly spread out and dug in lots of tiny holes on the surface of an asteroid.

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