The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4314

The battle against the Sundered Phalanx initially proceeded according to Jannzi's expectations.

The massive, cumbersome battle lines of the Hex Army and the Sundered Phalanx collided against each other. The mech units from both sides then proceeded to grind each other down like they had always done during the Komodo War.

It was not as if brilliant commanders from both sides attempted to pull off clever plans that allowed them to catch their enemies off-guard or outflank vulnerable enemy units.

However, when the scale of mech battles had grown to such an enormous extent, everything pretty much turned into a numbers game.

Even individual expert mechs weren't able to single-handedly affect the outcome of a massive mech battle anymore. The times where heroes such as Venerable Stark or Venerable Joshua could single-handedly collapse an entire enemy mech force were largely over now that the Larkinson Clan took part in battles of this scale.

Only ace pilots such as Patriarch Reginald Cross possessed enough overwhelming power to single-handedly determine victory or defeat amidst the collisions between hundreds of thousands of mechs!

When Venerable Jannzi witnessed the rapidly increasing scope of the battle unfolding before her eyes, she felt more insignificant than ever.

"DON'T GET DISTRACTED, PARTNER. THE ENEMY RANGED MECHS ARE DIRECTING THEIR FIREPOWER TOWARDS OUR SHIPS. WE MUST DO OUR BEST TO LIMIT THE DAMAGE."

"Right."

Jannzi's initial participation in the battle was not that exciting, but that was nothing new to knight mech pilots. They chose their specialization with the knowledge that they would have to perform some of the least desirable combat duties on the battlefield.

No mech pilot liked to put his or her mech in the line of fire and allow their machine to get pummeled without being able to counterattack.

A part of Jannzi even wished that the Design Department added a pair of shoulder-mounted guns to the Shield of Samar so that she could keep herself busy during times like these.

It was a pity that the clan neglected to do so during the latest upgrade round of the Shield of Samar.

The mech designers who upgraded her expert mech a few years ago largely preoccupied themselves with replacing the outdated internal parts and systems with modern, high-end heartland-level alternatives.

Many performance parameters shot up after this upgrade. Jannzi was particularly happy with the massive improvements to the mobility of her battle partner.

Aside from replacing the old and rather inadequate flight system with a heavy-duty model that produced much more thrust power at the cost of increased energy consumption, the Shield of Samar also gained the option of equipping its own minidrive!

The Skidrock AF-2 Heavy-Duty Combat Drive was yet another miniature warp drive that Morton Tech developed for the Larkinson Clan.

Compared to the Stiletto equipped by the Dark Zephyr provided by the same high-end equipment developer, the Skidrock Drive was built like a tank!

Larger and more powerful than any other combat drive developed for the Larkinson Clan, the Skidrock Drive possessed the power and the resilience to propel a heavy space knight across the battlefield and take a beating if necessary.

Of course, the Skidrock Drive also integrated a whopping 800 grams of phasewater in order to effectively enable warp travel for a machine as large and heavy as the Shield of Samar!

Venerable Jannzi did not expect her expert space knight to win a race against the Dark Zephyr anytime soon!

The Skidrock Drive was already sufficient for her needs. _{freeweɓnovēl.coɱ}

In fact, she only activated it once for a brief moment of time when she needed to reposition from the Spirit of Bentheim to the Gorgoneion in order to provide cover for the Amaranto.

The only downside of the new Skidrock Drive was that mounting it on the back of the Shield of Samar prevented the Amaranto from merging its frame with the expert space knight.

This was not a serious loss. The Amaranto was still able to fire its Instrument of Vengeance while huddling behind the Shield of Samar. The two expert mechs just weren't able to share certain resources with each other.

After that, Jannzi returned to her original duty of guarding the flagship of the Larkinson Clan against concentrated enemy attacks.

Though she would have liked to keep Venerable Stark company for a longer period of time, her Shield of Samar would just get battered after enduring one attack after another from powerful enemy expert mechs such as the Star of Liberation.

Massive armored capital ships like the Graveyard and the Gorgoneion were designed to absorb as much firepower as possible. It was much easier and cheaper to replace their damaged hull plating than to fix up a powerful masterwork expert mech such as the Shield of Samar.

Jannzi waited for the moment where her defenses would truly be put to the test.

As the Battle of Pima Prime entered its middle stages, a lot of Larkinson expert mechs began to get embroiled in their respective bouts against the enemy counterparts.

The Sundered Phalanx all fielded their own collection of powerful and modern expert mech. Many of them possessed transphasic weapons and armor systems, which allowed them to give most Larkinson expert mechs a run for their money.

"Still, it looks like this battle is largely proceeding as expected." Jannzi concluded.

The Flagrant Vandals along with Venerable Tusa Billingsley-Larkinson managed to overrun the right flank a lot faster than anyone expected!

The fall of the famous Dukes and Hawkes duo along with the retreat of other expert mechs stationed on this side of the battlefield spelled the inevitable defeat of the Nidin Vergers and other nearby light units.

However, not everything was proceeding smoothly for the attacking forces.

The units stationed at the left flank were encountering a lot more resistance. The reason for that was that the Sundered Phalanx stationed considerably stronger expert mechs at that side.

The Larkinson Army soon came under much greater pressure due to several reasons.

First, the Tensars began to target Commander Casella Ingvar. This made the battle in the center a lot more complicated as the Arma Tensar and the Fila Tensar put heavy pressure on the only command-oriented expert mech of the Larkinson Clan!

Casella had little choice but to stop Commandeering ordinary Larkinson mech units so that she could channel much of her energies to her brother instead!

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