The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4620

The Amaranto and the Promethea were both expert rifleman mechs, but fought in completely different ways.

The former was the classic marksman mech that sat back far in the rear and took down high-priority opponents by targeting their weak points.

Normally, that worked out great because every mech or starship possessed a weak point. Whether that was a hole in the outer surface, a joint with much less armor cover or the rear of a starship where the thrusters were dangerously exposed, there was often a way for the Amaranto to turn a battle around by crippling a powerful opponent with one, dazzling precision strike!

The expert rifleman mech was not omnipotent, though. If that was the case, then the Golden Skull Alliance would have defeated its previous opponents with much greater ease.

The greatest hindrances that impeded the Amaranto were energy-based defenses and lots of junk in the way.

Right now, Venerable Stark found herself in a less than enviable position as much of the potent firepower of the Instrument of Doom kept destroying abandoned hull structures as opposed to more useful ship elements.

Venerable Isobel Kotin and the Promethea actually faced the same problem, but there was a crucial difference.

Ves had expressly conceived the Promethea as a ranged expert mech that could take down an entire warship by herself!

Though Ves hadn't actually expected the Promethea to confront an armed capital ship of this caliber so soon, that did not detract from the fact that she was in her element at this time!

More hull structure did not necessarily represent more hindrances that prevented Venerable Isobel from completing her objectives.

Instead, when affected by her fire-oriented true resonance, the enormous structure began to get engulfed by increasingly more expansive flames.

The Promethea's damage output produced a much more impressive visual spectacle than that of other high-end mechs!

This was especially the case when the expert mech had a sufficiently large enough canvas for Venerable Isobel to express her power!

"The ship… is actually on fire!"

"This is impossible! How can a single expert mech produce so much damage? The hull is constantly heating up and melting as we speak! Solid alloys that have incredibly melting points are turning into molten slag with each passing second."

Not only were the flames spread by the Promethea softening up the hull on a large scale, but they also made it easier for the other expert mechs to inflict greater damage to the formerly solid structure.

When Ves looked at the data related to the effects produced by the flames, he saw that they were not that exaggerated.

Venerable Isobel Kotin still possessed limits and her flames found it particularly difficult to 'burn' through more solid first-class materials.

Oh, they were burning alright, but the speed in which they did so was incredibly slow!

However, that did not matter that much as the inner hull incorporated lots of softer metals and materials that burned a lot easier!

The result of all of this was that the purple flames began to reach deeper and deeper towards the middle of the alien battleship.

This was an alarming outcome and one that most definitely spooked the alien crew!

"The alien battleship is redirecting some of her gun batteries. They are about to fire on the Promethea!"

"Careful, Isobel!"

Ves didn't need to worry. Venerable Isobel had took into account that her Promethea would become a priority target after she single-handedly began to torch the Tower of Babel.

The expert mech was far enough from the alien battleship to exacerbate any minor mistakes in aim.

It did not escape the attention of the Golden Skullers that the Tower of Babel's formidable warship-grade cannons exhibited much poorer accuracy than before.

Even if the Antonio Cross and her complement of expert mechs stayed much further away than the doomed starships of Cenatus Prospecting, it was rather strange that the warship had not produced any better results than a few rare glancing blows.

"The laser cannons have become misaligned." Master Benedict made an educated guess. "When the Unrelenting charged straight into the forward half of the enemy battleship, the ace mech applied a massive amount of force during its charge. This not only resulted in a great amount of direct damage, but also warped and deformed large sections of the hull, including the rear half that mostly appears to be intact."

Ves raised his eyebrow. "Shouldn't warships be more resistant to the negative effects of hull warping? They are dedicated combat units, after all. They are designed to withstand enormous blows and keep going."

"Ordinarily, you are correct, but this is a special case. The full charge of the Unrelenting under the influence of Unity of Man and Machine was a sight to behold. The ace mech managed to charge deeper into the throat of the battleship than anyone could have imagined. It is exactly because Saint Neville Magrin managed to deliver a strike so deep into the center of the hull that the rear half got affected. Aside from that, the aliens aren't doing their abused battleship any favors by making any movements. There is so much dead weight attached to the vessel that it will only make the hull warp even more."

In short, all of the gun batteries had become askew and urgently needed to be straightened out again. This was anything but simple unless the entire vessel was made out of smart metal. A full recalibration of all of the armaments could easily take months!

All of this was good news to the Golden Skull Alliance. Ves worried less about the alien vessel producing any significant casualties.

"The Promethea could still do more, though."

While the expert ranged mech was inflicting a lot of damage, not all of it mattered. There were simply too many alloys to burn through.

"Is there a way to stoke the fire?" Ves wondered.

He briefly glanced at the list of assets on the battlefield before he developed an idea on how he could strengthen the Promethea.

He opened a new communication channel to one of his masterwork expert mechs. "Casella!"

"Yes, patriarch?"

"Isobel and her Promethea could use an additional boost. Can you empower them with your Minerva?"

"We've tried in the past, but it is not easy." Casella replied. "Expert pilots and expert mechs generally do not wish to develop a dependence on outside help. My brother is different because we are close siblings, but I do not share the same intimate bond with Isobel."

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