The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4257

Venerable Kismet Hawkes and her Filamon had just burst out with great power and needed to cool down before they could pull off another intensive move.

Ordinarily, that would have made the Filamon vulnerable to a counterattack, but this was the moment where Quadknife took action again!

"Dukes!"

"On it, Hawkes!"

As a tag team that had cooperated on the battlefield for years, Venerable Dukes had already prepared to put pressure on the Dark Zephyr the instant his partner had moved past her peak.

This was a familiar routine to them that had worked out many times against many different opponents.

The theory was simple. They both alternated their offenses so that they could apply constant pressure onto their opponents.

Because their expert mechs burst out with maximum power or close to it during the short time they took the lead, their opponent would never be able to do anything but defend and react!

Though the expert pilots and expert mechs applying this tactic would rapidly drain themselves, Dukes and Hawkes preferred not to resort to this measure during large battles.

After all, there were a lot more opponents for them to defeat, so it was an ingrained habit for them to conserve their energy and resources.

It was a pity that they already encountered a tough opponent at the start of their participation in this major battle. The Dark Zephyr posed such a threat to them and everyone else that Dukes and Hawkes felt obliged to commit everything to taking it down!

If an expert mech with this much raw power and piloting proficiency got loose, then a lot of other friendlies would get demolished!

With this thought, Venerable Dukes did not hesitate to draw out everything he could out of his Quadknife.

Its three knives were already glowing and thrumming with both true resonance and transphasic power.

The blending of these two high-level energies generated so much penetration potential that Hawkes was convinced that they could slice through the Dark Zephyr's unusually resilient armor plating!

"Whatever expensive crap your expert mech is made of is no match to the power of Fridayman tech!"

The timing of the Quadknife's approach did not give Venerable Tusa much time to react. His Dark Zephyr quickly activated its strained high-impulse boosters once again to not only dodge to the side, but also spin it around in order to parry the attacks that it could not evade!

Fortunately, Tusa had chosen for his expert mech to spin and evade in the right direction so that only the damaged side of the Quadknife was able to land an effective attack.

The Dark Zephyr ultimately managed to block the Quadknife's strike with its dagger at a clever angle.

Though the daggers that Ketis had personally handmade for Tusa received another chip, the integrity of the weapon did not drop as much this time.

However, just as Tusa thought that everything was safe, he suddenly detected a serious threat coming from below!

There was almost nothing that the Dark Zephyr could do under these circumstances except to trigger all forward-facing boosters, with the lower ones burning harder than the ones above!

This allowed the Dark Zephyr to distance itself from its current opponent while at the same time angling itself in a way that made it harder for it to get struck from below.

Even so, the Quadknife's surprise attack had come so suddenly that part of the attack still grazed a piece of the Dark Zephyr's ankle, causing the foot below to become unresponsive!

"You've got another set of blades?!"

"Legs can hold blades as well, you idiot!"

For the first time since the start of this battle, Venerable Tusa encountered a phenomenon that did not match the intelligence.

The intelligence leaks and other sources collected fairly detailed information about the Quadknife's design, but none of them ever suggested that its legs not only possessed the same range of motion as a pair of arms, but also contained integrated knives!

When Tusa directed his expert mech's optical sensors towards his opponent's legs, he saw that a knife-like spike had extended from each foot!

Tusa cursed at the sight. "This is cheating!"

It turned out that the Multi-Limbed Designer wasn't even honest when she named it the Quadknife.

A name like that would always make people assume that the Quadknife could only ever possess four weapons.

In most cases, the legs of a mech played a negligible role on battlefields. It was too easy for people to dismiss their existence. Aside from kicking, absorbing damage and maintaining the balance of a mech in flight, they seemed to serve no other meaningful purpose!

This was the brilliance of Master Veldam's design.

On the surface, the pair of legs of the Quadknife looked like they were normal. Many classified records that the Fridayman had on file showed that the legs were also of normal design according to its design schematics.

In truth, their internal design looked a lot different! Only the exclusive maintenance crew of the Quadknife as well as a select few other other people knew about this extra feature.

As a result, whereas everyone thought that Venerable Dukes piloted the Quadknife, he had secretly gained a Sextaknife!

Though the Dark Zephyr had turned the Sextaknife had turned into a Quintaknife, this still gave the Fridayman expert light skirmisher a lot of limbs to work with. The positioning of the legs granted Venerable Dukes a lot of tricky attack angles that were difficult to block for humanoid mechs.

Dukes felt incredibly irked that he had been forced to expose this crucial trump card at the start of his first real battle in the Red Ocean.

Instead of getting angry at his failure to stop the Dark Zephyr through normal means, he vented all of his fury and hatred towards the source of his misfortune.

"I won't forgive myself if I don't chop you up like sushi!"

"Have you ever thought about switching to a nutrient pack diet?!"

Venerable Dukes was far from done with his latest offensive. His Quadknife might not possess the instantaneous displacement and spinning capabilities of the Dark Zephyr, but it came equipped with a stutter flight system that allowed it to rapidly reposition itself so that it was able to charge at the Larkinson expert mech again.

When Venerable Tusa saw that the Quadknife had transformed its legs to the point where it looked like it had become a deformed horror monstrosity, he felt extremely depressed.

Just like Dukes and Hawkes, Tusa attempted to defeat his opponents while conserving his resources as much as possible.

However, the deep combat potential as well as the strongest abilities of their expert mechs had caused Tusa to misjudge the situation too much.

His expert mech already suffered considerably more damage than it was supposed to incur if Tusa fought all-out at the beginning!

"Maybe too much of Ves has rubbed off on me." Tusa grumbled. "Serves me right for acting like a cheapskate."

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