The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4202

Ves smiled as he concluded that Tusa successfully absorbed the valuable Shadow Dance Dagger Style Fruit.

As the most valuable prize that he obtained from a golden lottery ticket, the fruit extensively set Venerable Tusa up to quickly utilize and master the new fighting style.

The expert pilot was so taken in by all of the new approach and techniques that he drew out his personal daggers and began to dance in the middle of the secure chamber!

Ves quickly took a few steps back as he saw that Tusa reenacted the new moves as if he was being possessed.

The charm of the Shadow Dance Style centered around how it was able to combine multiple different concepts into a cohesive fighting style.

As Tusa rapidly spun around while striking his daggers at multiple different angles, he managed to strike quickly while also being able to keep his body elusive and on the move.

Attacking Tusa was quite difficult when he was moving around a lot! His variable and disorienting movements made it a lot harder to predict his trajectory while his quick dagger attacks constantly approached from slightly different angles.

While it was easy for a practitioner to look like he was flailing around, Tusa managed to make his varied and intensive movement look both harmonious and elegant.

What surprised Ves quite a bit was how deceptively silent Tusa moved. It was as if he surrounded himself with a blanket of shadow that muffled all of his sounds and other exertions.

Venerable Tusa even managed to minimize his spiritual and willpower fluctuations by applying a special technique!

This was probably one of the most valuable components of the Shadow Dance Dance. As a method that was partially developed for assassination, it was of crucial importance that the practitioner set off the least alarms possible while pulling off these moves.

If Venerable Tusa ever fought in this fashion behind other people's backs, then the chance was great that no one would be the wiser!

"This is truly a fighting style that excels at assassinations and silent takedowns!"

Ves even guessed that if Tusa truly channeled the power of shadow while utilizing this new fighting style, he might even be able to sneak up on expert pilots in certain conditions.

Even if Tusa discarded everything else that the enlightenment fruit imparted to him, it was already worth it to retain this special dampening technique!

As time went by, Venerable Tusa began to experience a few difficulties. The enlightenment fruit might have given him the knowledge as well as the shadow energy needed to execute the Shadow Dance, but his lack of experience combined with his lack of physical training meant that his body could not keep up with his intentions.

He started to fumble when he wanted to perform the most intricate jumps and dances. It became so bad that he decided that this was enough for the time being.

"So what do you think of your new gift?" Ves asked as he approached the winded expert pilot.

"It's… something else." Tusa said between breaths. "It's a method of assassination, but it's a lot more blatant than that. It looks like it should make a lot of noise, but it is remarkably silent. Whoever invented this style clearly hasn't adapted it to mech combat at all, but I think I can make it work after making a lot of adjustments. The downside to fighting like this is that it is too exhausting. I also need to be able to develop a deeper understanding of shadow to pull off the most outrageous moves."

Ves also noted how much exertion it took to dance and fight like this. Translated to mech combat, that meant that the Dark Zephyr wouldn't be able to keep this up for long when locked into a duel against a powerful opponent.

This was quite bad because the Dark Zephyr's energy management was already strained at this state.

While Ves had made sure to equip the Dark Zephyr with much better energy cells that possessed much higher capacities, they were sorely needed as the Stiletto Drive expended a lot of power when it was being used!

The greater the warping effect, the more energy the Stiletto Drive demanded!

Nothing came for free. Even if the Stiletto Drive integrated a generous amount of phasewater, the entire module still needed to be powered by a lot of juice in order to keep working! _{fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm}

This meant that the staying power of the Dark Zephyr actually hadn't improved all of that much compared to its previous version.

If Tusa ever got the idea of starting to fight with the Shadow Dance Style, then the energy reserves of the Dark Zephyr would drain even faster!

"Utilize your new fighting skills carefully." Ves advised Tusa. "As much as I would like to upgrade your Dark Zephyr's energy capacity, I have already done the best I can for the time being. It is very difficult for me to give you more operating time because the internal volume of your light mech is already so small. The only way I can give you significantly more energy capacity is to pull out the emergency shield generator and put extra energy cells in its place. This will mean that your mech and especially your Stiletto Drive will become a lot more vulnerable to incoming damage."

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