The Mars played a critical role in defeating the heavy hitters of the incoming alien armada.
The ace hybrid mech had at least partially been designed with this purpose in mind. Any expert mech and ace mech designed in the new frontier had to offer a solution against alien opponents in order to keep up with the times.
So far, the Mars relied on nothing but its ARCEUS System to continually pound an unlucky alien light cruiser with resonance-enhanced positron beams.
The 1854210 pirates probably couldn't believe that such a tiny machine could hit as hard as a warship that was many times larger and heavier!
It was already bad enough that the powerful humans managed to 'miniaturize' their most powerful combat assets to such an insane degree.
For this miniaturized combat machine to also retain all of the size and mobility advantage of small craft was the truly ridiculous part!
Only the most technologically alien races such as the puelmers were capable of producing such a miracle craft, and even then none of them bothered with such inventions due to the excessive costs associated with extreme miniaturization.
The puelmers might as well upgrade their warship homes with a powerful new weapon system or build a completely new starfaring vessel.
It seemed the mysterious humans didn't get the memo because the Mars continued to give the aliens a crash course on why ace mechs were so renowned and feared in human society!
It only took a minute for the targeted light cruiser to look miserable. The penetrating positron beams launched by the ARCEUS System eventually punched through the exterior hull and ruined dozens of compartments.
The 1854210 pirate fleet tried its best to adapt, of course.
The alien commanders may be a bit ignorant about the power of human mechs, but they were not stupid. They wouldn't have been able to command one of the most powerful pirate fleets of the Palace of Shame if they were stupid.
"The light cruisers are getting serious!"
The warships no longer directed their firepower towards other targets. The aliens fully recognized the acute threat posed by the Mars and employed every measure at their disposal to eliminate this superfly!
First, they tried to saturate the Mars with firepower. The primary and secondary gun batteries of all seven warships practically flooded the space surrounding the ace mech. Patriarch Reginald's Saint Kingdom experienced a much higher drain as the excessive attacks quickly drained a lot of energy!
Second, the alien light cruisers also began to employ other solutions.
Two of the warships launched a flurry of missiles that rapidly soared towards the Mars and exploded in a wide area around the ace mech!
The missiles turned out to produce a powerful EMP effect upon detonation, and would have been able to disable or fry the circuitry of many starfighters!
It was a pity that the Mars was so well-designed that an EMP attack of this magnitude hardly stressed out its protection against these kinds of attacks.
Another warship launched a series of torpedoes that eventually unfolded into powerful alloy nets that could envelop any elusive starfighter!
"Heh? Are you serious?"
Patriarch Reginald Cross did not take the incoming nets seriously at all. His Mars easily evaded most of the nets and overcame the remaining ones by blasting holes in them that were wide enough for his mech to easily get through.
It would have been fine even if his ace mech got caught. It had plenty of ways to shred the nets!
The aliens didn't give up, though. Their light cruisers were large enough to accommodate a lot of different attack and debilitation methods.
Since pirates primarily wanted to capture their prey intact, many of their warships were loaded with features that helped them fulfill this goal.
From launching electrifying darts that would subject a target of all of the electrical power that the warships could channel through them to launching nuclear missiles that were ordinarily reserved for larger threats such as the V'gahnt-Zezne, nothing was working!
The Mars made excellent use of its mobility and easily dodged the majority of the tricks that the aliens sent in its direction. The electrifying darts along with many other weird solutions had no chance of hitting anything in the first place!
As for measures that had the potential to hit the Mars or inflict so much area damage that the ace mech would get affected, Patriarch Reginald proactively shot them down before they could get close.
Despite their terrible might and reputation, none of the nuclear missiles managed to inflict any damage onto the Mars!
At this time, the Mars had finally managed to land so many attacks on the increasingly damaged light cruiser that the alien vessel was already losing power!
The crew of the pirate ship did their best to control the damage, but the positron beams launched by the ARCEUS System continually exhibited the damage!
"The first light cruiser of the 1854210 pirate fleet has gone down! Over a third of her hull is destroyed or heavily damaged while the remainder has lost power!"
The Mars could have continued to attack the crippled ship further, but there were other threats that needed to be taken care of. Patriarch Reginald already directed the ARCEUS System to switch to a second light cruiser.
The pirate warships were all the same in his eyes. As long as his ace mech bombarded them with energy attacks long enough, they would eventually succumb to his might!
"Too slow!"
Reginald did not have the patience to grind down so many warships from a comfortable distance. The longer this battle dragged on, the more his Saint Kingdom wore out. This would eventually force him to fall back on the Abasis Armor to mitigate subsequent attacks.
This was why Reginald directed his powerful ace mech to advance forward and close the distance to his enemies as soon as possible!
The Mars had more weapons at its disposal aside from the ARCEUS System. Reginald had chosen to equip it with shoulder-mounted missile launchers this time.
Thousands of resonance-empowered pellets blasted into space and engulfed a large chunk of the incoming alien starfighters in a rain of unstoppable projectiles! frёewebnoѵēl.com
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