The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4451

The Golden Skull Alliance increasingly managed to get a grip on the alien small craft.

Though the enemy combat drones and starfighters doggedly threw themselves at the mechs in front of them with hardly any regard for self-preservation, the powerful mechs easily held the line.

Even if it was a bit difficult for many mechs to take down the faster and more mobile starfighters, there were always other mechs that would complete the job sooner or later.

Between all of the differences between human mechs and alien starfighters, the former possessed too many advantages over the latter!

However, the real clash between the human coalition and the alien pirate groups had never truly centered around their smallest and weaker combat units.

The regular mech forces of the Golden Skull Alliance lacked the firepower to effectively breach the defenses of the alien warships.

As for the aliens, their starfighters might have a decent chance of shooting down ordinary mechs, but as soon as they fought against anything stronger, they instantly faced defeat!

From the beginning of the battle, the expert mechs and ace mechs showed why they both deserved to be treated as threats that were just as powerful if not more so than warships!

The Dark Zephyr was like a shark that had just entered a pool occupied by little fishes. _{ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm}

The expert light skirmisher might not be any bigger than a typical mech, but its fantastic speed along with its potent melee attacks left no recourse for any small craft in its sights!

Venerable Tusa Billingsley-Larkinson grinned as he precisely controlled his fast and powerful expert mech to chop up one starfighter after another.

The elite starfighters with their transphasic energy shields were almost just as vulnerable. At most, the protective barriers forced the Dark Zephyr to waste a little more time and launch an extra attack to finish the job!

"Tusa!" General Verle barked over a communication channel. "Stop wasting your time on the enemy small craft and proceed to attack their fleet! Our mech legions can already handle the starfighters by themselves."

The light mech specialist grimaced inside his cockpit. "I'm not wasting time here. Can't you see what my presence is doing here? All of the surrounding starfighter wings have fallen into disarray! They can't do anything to me and they know it. None of the terrified alien pilots can concentrate on attacking our other units anymore."

"That may be true, but it is redundant. Our mechs can defeat the starfighters with or without your help. The same does not necessarily apply to the enemy warships."

Venerable Tusa grimaced. "Have you seen what kind of mech I am piloting? A light skirmisher is one of the worst kinds of mech to pit against a warship. The only way I can deliver a powerful blow is if I make use of my transphasic grenades, but I don't have nearly enough of them in my possession."

"You can still be useful even if it takes a while for you to breach the enemy energy shields. Just look at how much disruption you are causing by fighting in the midst of enemy starfighters. You can prevent many more casualties if you do the same to enemy warships. Their firepower is much greater, so the more you can redirect their gun batteries in your expert mech's direction, the better."

"Fine."

Tusa did not enjoy the prospect of hammering away at the powerful segmented energy shields of the alien warships, but he acknowledged that it would be better for the other comrades if he was able to draw the attention of the larger gun batteries to his expert mech.

The Dark Zephyr ignored the starfighters around it and zipped through the enemy formations and accelerated straight towards the warships in the distance!

The expert light skirmisher even engaged warp travel in order to reach its destination faster!

Though the distant enemy warships immediately tried to intercept the human mech that was much more powerful than other machines of its size, none of the powerful gun batteries came close to landing a hit!

Venerable Tusa smirked. The Dark Zephyr's evasion ability was one of its strongest traits. Its characteristic Untouchable resonance ability seemingly produced an optical illusion that successfully diverted a lot of enemy attacks!

No matter whether they were gamma laser beams, super-heavy kinetic slugs or plasma bolts, Tusa laughed as all of the enemy attack salvos failed to get close enough to touch his expert mech's resonance shield.

"These aliens are so easy to fool! Wait, I get it now. Their gun batteries are highly automated! There is no manual aim!"

Although there were many advantages to automating the aiming systems and fire control of large and complicated warship armaments, humans were generally reluctant to pass on too many responsibilities to AIs and software algorithms.

Even the CFA recognized the power of human ingenuity and human intuition. There may be factions within the Common Fleet Alliance that pushed for all-out automation, but there were still a lot of old school fleeters who resolutely opposed this transition.

If the Dark Zephyr was charging towards a CFA warship, then the expert mech would never be able to approach so leisurely!

Unfortunately for the indigenous aliens of the Red Ocean, they rarely encountered any urgent situations where their automated gun batteries failed to this extent, so the crews of the warships didn't know how to deal with this situation.

Once the Dark Zephyr reached the enemy fleet, the expert mech quickly went to work. It approached several nearby warships and struck their segmented energy shields with a flurry of attacks.

"Tch. They're too tough!"

The fast but relatively weak attacks of the Dark Zephyr could not breach the energy shields in a short amount of time.

Though Tusa originally wanted to overwhelm an energy shield and pass through the resulting gap, the alien warship in question quickly shifted the orientations of all of its energy shields, thereby preventing the Dark Zephyr from finishing the job!

Whenever the Dark Zephyr tried to stick around a single warship for too long in an attempt to tire out the vessel's defenses, it would come under siege by the surrounding enemy vessels.

Its Untouchable ability was no longer effective now that it was on the attack!

"Damn these guns! There are so many of them and they all pack a punch."

Tusa had little choice but to abandon his current target and attack another warship in order to prevent his expert mech's resonance shield from getting exhausted.

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