Once Venerable Joshua managed to get a grip on the immense destructive power of the Scarlet Ember, he took full advantage of his great might!
Whenever his burning eyes raked across the alien fleet in front of him, he no longer considered them to be serious threats that could kill a lot of mechs and mech pilots with their powerful gun batteries.
Instead, he started to regard them as prey for his hungry plasma sword!
"You're eager to kill, aren't you, Scarlet Ember?" Joshua grinned. "Well, I'm eager to wipe out these aliens as well. Let's do our best to destroy as many of these ships while our energy reserves last!"
The expert pilot was constantly aware of the immense cost of using this weapon. The Scarlet Ember was originally made to be wielded by the Neo Amadeus, and even Saint Jeremiah Gauge felt reluctant to employ it on the battlefield unless he needed its awesome power to land the killing blow.
Though Ketis' attempts to downsize its length and reduce its power setting had tamed much of the ferocity of the repurposed battle trophy, a wolf always remained a wolf no matter how much the new owners wanted to create a dog.
Right now, Venerable Joshua did not encounter the rejection that Ves and Ketis talked about.
He had made so many preparations to handle a rebellious blade that he became a little off-balanced by how little resistance he encountered.
Perhaps that was because Saint Jeremiah hadn't used it often enough to imprint it with any strong sentiments.
Perhaps removing the head of the expert pilot had 'reset' its personality.
Perhaps everyone misjudged the Scarlet Ember as its wants and desires were much simpler than everyone thought.
Whatever the case, Joshua found it remarkably easy to resonate and attune with his weapon. The only issue was that the weapon's burning need to destroy also began to affect his own judgment.
Fortunately, that was exactly what he wanted to do! As long as he was able to direct the Scarlet Ember's incredible power onto the right targets, he was confident that he would be able to maintain control over the enflamed weapon!
"Let's go! There are plenty of ships for us to chop!"
The 1854210 pirate group and its allies brought over a hundred different warships. Though many of them were small and in various states of disrepair, they were still bigger and more powerful than any mech! Even the smallest frigate could destroy a lot of mechs under the right circumstances!
The Everchanger began to grow hotter as the plasma weapon in its hands continued to channel blazing hot plasma.
The expert hero mech seemed to have turned into a hellfire demon as it jumped from the crippled and burning destroyer that had been the first to fall victim to the Scarlet Ember's might.
The flaming comet flew straight towards an adjacent destroyer whose guns were desperately trying to repel the powerful human expert mech!
"Too clumsy!"
Venerable Joshua didn't feel threatened by the alien warships at all. Their absolute firepower may be strong, but their huge hulls and divided control structure worked against them. Their complete lack of grace easily enabled small but powerful mechs to weave through their attacks and prevent many weapons from posing a threat by moving beyond their firing angles!
The alien warships increasingly worked together to cover each other, but the Everchanger was able to avoid most of it through fast and clever maneuvering.
Nothing the aliens possessed could stop the Everchanger from rampaging through their fleet!
Perhaps only a warship as powerful and advanced as the V'gahnt-Zezne could drive an expert mech as fast and potent as the Everchanger away, but the orven battleship was dealing with her own fair share of problems at the moment!
With the Mars dismantling the 1854210 pirate group's light cruisers one by one, the remaining warships that had been hurled in the direction of the Golden Skull Alliance simply did not possess the means to contain the Everchanger, let alone other powerful expert mechs!
One destroyer after another began to get struck by a large and powerful blade of plasma.
In order to get the most out of the Scarlet Ember, Venerable Joshua did not bother to strike his targets more than two times in a row.
His Everchanger only needed to attack once in order to get through the energy shields of an alien warship and attack another time to inflict crippling damage onto the hull of the very same vessel!
The damage incurred by the alien ships in question varied considerably due to their radically different layouts, material compositions and design principles.
However, getting struck by a resonance-empowered plasma sword attack never failed to sink so deep into their hulls that they inevitably became easy prey to follow-up attacks from other mechs!
"Damn, I love this weapon!"
The infatuated expert pilot believed so much in the power of his weapon that he did not bother to target the smallest warships in the enemy fleet.
Since the Scarlet Ember was strong enough to breach the defenses of alien destroyers, Joshua solely set his sights on damaging as many of them as possible!
The more hulls his Everchanger struck, the more Venerable Joshua became familiar with the characteristics of his Scarlet Ember.
The difference between a high-tech plasma sword like the Scarlet Ember and a plain old alloy blade like the Heartsword was too great.
Perhaps a dedicated swordsman mech specialist like Venerable Dise could increase the destructive power of the latter by an order of magnitude, but Venerable Joshua had never been able to develop his swordsmanship to the same degree.
A weapon that straightforwardly relied on advanced technology and lots of energy to exert a huge amount of destructive power was much more to his liking!
A small but profound shift took place in Venerable Joshua's mind. He developed a greater preference for powerful technology and became less enthused about simpler design solutions.
"Damn, my energy reserves have already dipped below the halfway point." ƒгeewёbnovel.com
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