The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4619

The aliens crewing the enemy battleship were previously content to ignore the other human mechs and starships in the star system.

They recognized that an ace mech was by far the greatest threat a human pioneer could deploy on the battlefield. As long as they could take down the Mars, the rest of the human mech force posed no threat!

However, a part of that calculus changed once the other human units proved that they could pose a more substantial threat to the alien vessel.

This was why the aliens showed a greater willingness to redirect a part of their formidable firepower towards the Antonio Cross and her compliment of expert pilots!

"Incoming!"

This time, one of the powerful laser beams managed to get lucky enough to inflict a glancing blow on the Cross Clan's fleet carrier! One of her energy shield's managed to block most of the blow, but it did not come without a cost.

"One of our shield generators has been overloaded! Our engineers report that it will take at least 44 minutes to replace the blown parts and bring her back to operation!"

"Turn our ship around and don't expose the same section towards the enemy battleship again!"

The Antonio Cross experienced a few close shaves, but the Tower of Babel quickly gave up on striking the fleet carrier. The latter proved to be a lot more difficult to hit than other fleet carriers on account of her slender and relatively mobile profile!

Perhaps the aliens didn't mind if they could strike down a human fleet carrier with ease, but that wasn't the case at this moment.

Taking down a human fleet carrier only provided marginal help to the aliens as it did not directly impact the combat effectiveness of mechs already in the field.

At most, taking down the Antonio Cross would damage the morale of the mech pilots and prevent the mechs in the field from replenishing their spent supplies.

No one intended for this battle to drag on to this extent. Despite the amount of mechs that the Golden Skull Alliance had brought to bear, Ves and the others did not think that they would be able to win a battle of attrition.

Even with only half of her hull left intact, the Tower of Babel was a typical battleship that could fight for several days if her crew managed everything well!

"We are not wearing the Tower of Babel down fast enough." Ves frowned. "The Mars needs to circle around and attack the front half of the vessel."

"The enemy battleship is making that harder by continually turning her rear side to our ace mech."

"Then I guess we will have to rely on our expert mechs to put pressure on the enemy vessel's weak point."

The alien commander wasn't stupid. The front sections of the damaged battleship represented a massive weak point. A mech as powerful as the Mars could easily finish what the Unrelenting started in a prior battle!

This was why the alien crew did their best to utilize the strained maneuvering thrusters of the Tower of Babel to keep up with Patriarch Reginald's attempts to outflank the damaged vessel.

Reginald became increasingly more annoyed at this. The distance between the Mars and the Tower of Babel was far enough that the ace mech had to traverse a lot of distance in order to change its angle towards the enemy vessel.

"I need to get closer!"

"Please wait before you approach any further! We do not know how effectively you can occupy the attention of the enemy battleship if you get entangled by the alien phase lord. Please follow the plan and make sure that the enemy battleship exposes her weak side to our expert mechs."

Patriarch Reginald struggled for a moment. The plan demanded that he coordinate his actions with other mechs in order to maximize their chances of defeating the battleship, but that clashed with his personal desire to challenge the enemy phase lord!

Although he could earn plenty of glory by contributing to the downfall of an alien warship, he would earn a lot more renown if he was able to defeat one of the famed 'gods' of the indigenous aliens in single combat!

"I will maintain the current distance… for now." Reginald eventually squeezed between his teeth. "You better produce enough results. If we aren't making any progress, then I am going in so that I can do the job myself."

The Cross Clan was used to this, but Ves did not look particularly good at the moment.

Fortunately, the plan accounted for Reginald's willfulness. He was at least predictable in that aspect. _{fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com}

As the Mars continued to circle around the battlefield, the alien battleship eventually exposed her ruined front side to the group of expert mechs.

"Finally! We get to damage something more solid this time!"

The ranged attacks launched by the expert mechs were no longer blocked by energy shields this time!

Instead, the energy beams all struck the ruined and abandoned hull sections that comprised the front half of the vessel.

Many chunks of hull structure melted or got vaporized when struck by the resonance-empowered energy beams of mechs such as the Minerva.

The expert command mech looked a lot lonelier than usual this time. She worked best when she exerted her power over large formations of regular mechs, but it was deemed too risky to do so this time.

The expert mechs may be capable of evading most of the long-ranged fire of the enemy battleship, but the regular mechs might not be able to match this capability.

As such, the Minerva continued to fire her Irvan luminar crystal rifle while applying her Single Empowered resonating ability onto the Blade Chaser Mark II.

Piloted by Commander Casella Ingvar's brother, the Blade Chaser Mark II once again fought in a manner that went against his own nature by carefully firing the Gray Lotus pistol at the distant battleship.

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