An immense amount of people watched the final moments of the ace mech duel.
Many of them knew what was at stake. If one or the other ace mech remained operational at the end of the fight, then they could instantly dominate the rest of the ongoing battle taking place below with just a fraction of their remaining power!
It was not unusual to see a pair of closely matched ace mechs to end their duels in a draw.
If a lot of interests were at stake and if the survival of the ace mech was deemed essential to a state or organization, then there may be times where the ace pilot voluntarily withdrew from the battle before the worst had happened.
This did not happen today.
Patriarch Reginald Cross had stepped onto the battlefield with the determination to stake everything on this fight.
There was only victory or death in his mind.
His loss would likely doom the Cross Clan and Operation Saturday Market as long as the Neo Amadeus was left standing at the end.
Running away was useless. The Golden Skull Alliance and Task Force Fury had traveled deep into the interior of the Friday Colonies.
The only way the invading forces could deter other parties from dispatching their troops to intercept the fleeing Golden Skullers and Hexers was to ensure it retained the protection of an operational ace mech.
Even if the different coalition partners had stationed their own ace pilots and ace mechs in their key colonies, the benefits did not outweigh the costs. Too much could go wrong to a colony that had lost its most important guardian.
This was why Patriarch Reginald put his all into this mech duel that he had played a large part in enabling!
After risking so much and putting his entire life and future on the line by engaging the Neo Amadeus in a risky duel, he had finally gotten the better of his opponent!
The Mars had struck a decisive blow on the Neo Amadeus!
Though the heavy saber did not cut that deep into the internals of the ace swordsman mech, it nonetheless managed to damage or reduce the performance of a lot of important components!
As the Mars completed its powerful cutting swing, the Neo Amadeus did not sit still, however.
"I'm not out of the fight yet!" Saint Jeremiah claimed as the prospect of a loss caused him to strain his strength and the power of his ace mech even further.
Though their conditions were at their lowest points yet, Jeremiah's proximity to the boundary between life and death activated even greater potential than before!
His resonance strength explosively grew as Jeremiah relied almost completely on his willpower to strengthen and support the functioning of his damaged and failing ace swordsman mech!
Technology had limits, but life possessed no boundaries!
Jeremiah's overwhelming urge to live and protect his people forced him to put up at least one final act of resistance!
The Neo Amadeus somehow managed to conjure up two more phantom arms with the help of this inexplicable outburst!
The limbs quickly unsheathed two more daggers and attempted to stab them forward in a final attempt to cripple the Mars!
"DESTINY STANDS ON THE SIDE OF THE GAUGE DYNASTY!"
However, just as the phantom limbs were about to complete this action, the Mars immediately offered a response.
Patriarch Reginald forced two of the integrated energy weapon modules of the ARCEUS System to fire at the phantom limbs.
Though the weapons weren't supposed to fire so quickly after unleashing a fairly powerful burst, Reginald decisively exceeded their safety limitations and forced them to squeeze out a weaker but still fairly powerful laser beams.
Reginald attached enough true resonance to the pair of beams that they instantly managed to destabilize and dispel the opposing mech's phantom arms!
Two more daggers flung lifelessly into the void as the Neo Amadeus lost its last chance of launching a counterattack.
Jeremiah's final hope of snatching victory from the jaws of defeat had come to nothing!
This time, the ace pilot truly had nothing left to give. His mind and will had run ground to the point where the Neo Amadeus no longer projected any form of domain field.
The ace mech itself also lost so much power due to its intensive exertions and successive battle damage that it could not even muster enough strength to kick at the Mars.
Saint Jeremiah quickly ran through all of his remaining options and found that he could not escape the prospect of defeat.
The only choice he had left was to decide how he wanted to greet this loss.
"It's over." He sighed in his heart that had grown heavy due to falling short of everyone's expectations.
Saint Jeremiah understood that there was no point in staying any further.
He clearly recognized his value as an ace pilot of the Gauge Dynasty. He was a strategic asset to his people and could still offer them protection once again as long as he managed to survive this battle and recover from his loss.
He decisively activated the eject command, which quickly caused the back of his Neo Amadeus to blast open and allow its cockpit to launch into the distance!
This action did not escape Patriarch Reginald at all. He already predicted that Jeremiah would eject as soon as he sensed a profound change in his opponent's aura.
A part of him was willing to let Saint Jeremiah Gauge be. The two of them had fought a glorious and honorable mech duel where both of them relied upon nothing but the strength they had at their disposal to decide the victor.
Though Reginald thought that his opponent was a bit too annoying and sanctimonious when he opened his mouth, Saint Jeremiah was nevertheless exactly the kind of ace pilot that the Cross Patriarch wanted to challenge.
Reginald harvested an unimaginable amount of gains from this mech duel. He accrued a lot of high-level battle experience and stimulated the growth of his resonance strength by putting his life on the line.
He had also attained an unprecedentedly great amount of control over the Mars after truly taking possession of his ace mech.
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