The sight of the 'broken' meat suit and Everchanger reversing all of the damage inflicted by the Point Break shocked a huge amount of observers!
Though there were plenty of people who were accustomed to seeing expert mechs and expert pilots making a mockery out of the laws that governed reality, what they had just witnessed was something else!
"How can a huge mech like this just negate the damage inflicted by a massive charge from an expert lancer mech? The Point Break hit this souped-up Everchanger right in the chest!"
"Do the Larkinsons sell a regular version of this regenerating mech?"
"There has to be a limit to the amount of crap that the mechs of the Larkinson Clan can pull off! How can other mech designers possibly compete if the mechs from this group can easily put themselves back together?"
"Don't be a fool. This mech and additional equipment are anything but average. The cost to make this regenerating mech is absolutely high and the resources it needs to pay in order to repair itself in the field in such a short span of time is bound to be great. It might look completely undamaged, but in my opinion it is already a spent force!"
As usual, the laymen only based their judgment on what they could observe with their naked eyes while the more knowledgeable mech insiders understood the deeper circumstances of what had happened.
What they guessed was not that far from the truth. Venerable Joshua had indeed exhausted a lot of willpower and mental energy in order to activate the Everchanger's intrinsic Regeneration resonance ability.
The key resonating exotic that enabled Joshua to pull off this feat was Fixer Iron. It was not that rare of an exotic and its price was also fairly reasonable.
The only issue was that few expert pilots possessed the qualities to make good use of it. Venerable Joshua was one of the rare expert pilots that was both highly compatible with it while also possessing the right domain to utilize it in the most effective manner.
However, not even Ves expected the Everchanger to be able to regenerate this much damage at once!
He was actually one of the people who were most shocked out of everyone!
"This is impossible! There is a limit to how much Fixer Iron can repair battle damage based on Joshua's current resonance strength!" Ves explained as he sat up straighter on his chair inside the bridge of his flagship. "There's no way that resonating with Fixer Iron can create so many missing materials out of energy. Besides, this resonating ability shouldn't have extended its effects to the meat suit!"
Ves arguably possessed the greatest understanding of the Everchanger's design and characteristics. He had performed a lot of tests over the years in order to quantify its more metaphysical performance parameters.
There had been a time where he had become obsessed with Fixer Iron and what Venerable Joshua could do once he resonated with this amazing material.
It was through repeated experiments where he deliberately damaged different parts of the Everchanger that Ves understood all of the strengths and limitations of the Everchanger's Regeneration resonance ability.
Unless Venerable Joshua progressed into a high-tier expert pilot and became a lot more capable of distorting reality, it should have been impossible for him to repair so many broken parts at once!
Ves leaned forward and narrowed his eyes in suspicion. What did Joshua do to enhance the effectiveness of this ability by at least several times?
After ruling out many possible options, Ves eventually narrowed his sights to prime abilities.
One of the most unique and defining traits of the Everchanger was its ability to switch from one design spirit to another. It neatly complemented Joshua's talent in getting along with many different entities.
"As far as design spirits go, there are several that could amplify the effect of Regeneration. There is the Superior Mother, but there is also Gaia…"
Ves widened his eyes in realization.
Gaia!
He immediately concluded that it was none other than Gaia herself that had lent a hand to Venerable Joshua in this critical moment!
Only a design spirit that had moved closer and closer to the power of a so-called True God could supercharge the Everchanger's Regeneration to this extent!
Ves did not anticipate that Venerable Joshua's relationship with Gaia had grown to this degree.
Despite being her progenitor, Gaia almost never listened to Ves. She even refused to function as the design spirit of a couple of mechs that Ves had come up with over the years.
Apparently, Gaia apparently had no need to gather low-level spiritual feedback from mechs.
Ves also had the feeling that she disdained the mechs that he had designed with her in mind. Perhaps only first-class mechs or high-level mechs could obtain her approval!
"If that is the case, then the Everchanger should definitely be the Larkinson mech that appeals to her the most."
As Ves thought about all of the implications of Gaia's willingness to lend a hand to Venerable Joshua and the Everchanger, the battle between the three powerful expert mechs picked up again.
At the moment, the Everchanger's combat readiness had dropped far below its peak.
Not only did Venerable Joshua exhaust himself to force his mech to repair itself, but the meat suit was also largely a spent force.
Everything had a price. The spatial manipulation abilities that the Titan-5 Project had performed on a continuous basis along with all of the damage its spatial barrier had mitigated had drained a lot of energy already. Recovering and regenerating its battle damage expended even more energy!
There wasn't much time left for Joshua to leverage the meat suit's enhanced strength and additional possibilities.
Once he lost the power of the meat suit, it would be difficult for the Everchanger to defeat the Rekkar and the Point Break by itself!
"I can still finish off at least one machine!" Venerable Joshua mustered up his battle intent again.
The sensors of his enhanced mechs focused on the Point Break that was already circling around in order to perform another charge.
Though Venerable Joshua and the meat suit were no longer in their best state, Venerable Ulrik Valke and the Point Break paid an even greater price to pull off its earlier attack!
Originally, Venerable Valke thought that his most powerful charge would have finished off his opponent.
The Point Break's overloaded charge attack should have at least crippled the Everchanger to the point where the Rekkar could easily finish off the damaged mech!
Now that the Everchanger had repaired itself in defiance of all expectations, Venerable Valke forced himself to ready his damaged Point Break for another charge.
"Why won't you stay down?!" Venerable Valke cursed as he hatefully stared at the meat suit. "George, do your best to hold this damn monster in place. As long as I drive my lance through its back, I don't believe it can pull off the same trick twice!"
Venerable George Baldassare made an acknowledging sound. "Don't push yourself too much, Ulrik."
"I'm not as fragile as you think. I've faced worse situations during the Komodo War."
Unlike the Point Break that looked as if it was nearing the end of a marathon run, the Rekkar was still in excellent condition.
The meat suit launched few if any attacks towards the expert space knight. The Rekkar also had no opportunity to attack the meat suit up to this point.
Now that the Titan-5 Project was under no condition to maintain a warp inhibition field or engage in warp travel itself, the Rekkar was finally able to catch up to its oversized target!
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