The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4402

All of the theories that Ves came up with could not achieve the same impact as seeing the results in reality.

For a long time, the astounding effects of the Amaranto's final attack still lingered in his mind.

For a transphasic laser beam to be able to penetrate so many asteroids at once was an outcome that could truly change the entire game.

This was in line with his prediction, but the test result was so visually shocking to Ves that he reacted as if he was completely overtaken by surprise.

The truth was that he doubted his own calculations. Surely the extrapolated data couldn't be that ridiculously high, right?

Perhaps the Phase King might exhibit more and more difficulty in applying his abilities to a weapon that was much larger and more massive than a handheld luminar crystal pistol.

The reality was that the vastly increased scale of the Instrument of Doom didn't seem to matter all that much.

The Phase King still had plenty of strength and control left to affect a weapon of this magnitude!

"Is this truly real?" Gloriana asked as if she too found it difficult to accept the result in reality.

"You're not dreaming, honey."

The active intervention of the Phase King took a luminar crystal cannon that was already oriented towards extreme firepower and gave it wings.

As Ves and his wife studied the sensor data on the asteroids affected by the Amaranto's latest attack, they found that the results largely matched their expectations.

Much of the power of the laser beam passed right through the rock substances in the way. This was the power of phasewater being manipulated by an ancient and extremely proficient fish-whale king!

While the Phase King's powerful efforts allowed the transphasic resonance-empowered laser beam to strike the sixteenth asteroid in a row, the actual damage inflicted on all of the space rocks was not as great anymore.

Of course, this was just relatively speaking.

Assuming that the damage of the laser beam spread equally across all sixteen asteroids, which was not entirely the case in reality, then each rock absorbed damage equal to a strike with a damage index of just 125 points.

That was not only worse than the base damage output of the Instrument of Doom, but the energy was also dispersed along the entire trajectory of the laser beam when it was drilling through solid matter!

The visual inspections confirmed the math. Instead of the big and clean holes they witnessed before, the latest attack instead produced messy, blackened portions of rock that had melted rather than vaporized.

A stronger material such as second-class armor plating probably would have maintained at least some of its integrity.

"The power of the Phase King hasn't actually increased the absolute damage of the Instrument of Doom to a significant degree." Gloriana remarked. "There are situations where it is not that useful to employ transphasic attacks. If attacking the exterior of a target is just as useful as attacking the interior, then Venerable Stark will waste much less resources by employing more normal attacks."

Ves nodded in agreement. "The Instrument of Doom was never designed to be employed against cannon fodder. It is a contingency weapon that should be reserved against enemy warships or other powerful threats. That is because this weapon is our only option to damage the deeper and more vital internal systems of those kinds of threats."

This was the advantage that he was trying to create for his clan. The Instrument of Doom's greatest power was not its damage index of over 2000 or something, but it was instead its ability to spear through 15 useless asteroids before passing on at least some of its damage to the sixteenth asteroid that could stand for a more vital component!

For example, it was extremely hard for a single ranged mech to take down a fleet carrier like the Wild Torch.

The massive kilometers-long vessel was designed in a way that her exterior was made up of thick and fairly sturdy hull plating.

An incoming laser beam could damage this massive, dense and heavy exterior layer all day and still not come close enough to crippling the ship, let alone reduce her performance in any way!

The laser beam could only truly begin to degrade the Wild Torch's performance if it was able to go through the dense and thick outer layer, either by relying on brute force or by taking advantage of the power of phasewater.

Once a laser beam got through, it would probably end up in an outer compartment where relatively ordinary work was being done.

In the case of the Wild Torch, this most certainly corresponded to her carrier-related duties.

The laser beam would probably strike a few mechs, repair machines or even valuable workshop machines before running out of steam.

Though the damage inflicted by such an attack most definitely harmed the Larkinsons, the integrity of the Wild Torch was still mostly intact aside from gaining a deep hole!

A powerful ranged mech could still attack the Wild Torch a hundred times like this and still be rendered helpless as the fleet carrier merrily flew away, though looking a lot more like swiss cheese of course.

There were at least several ways to put down a capital ship for good.

One was to shoot it so many times that her entire structure started to fall apart.

This was highly inefficient but it was usually the only solution available to mechs when fighting against enemies that were much larger and more massive than themselves.

Another way was to employ a weapon that was so overwhelmingly powerful that it could efficiently cripple or blow up a vessel like the Wild Torch.

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