The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4802

Chapter 4802 Increasing Pressure

As much as Ves wanted to spend more time tinkering with different pieces of alien technology, he didn't have the time to mess around anymore.

The sound of weapons fire became more intense as the pescans on the floor above them intensified their attempts to push the human forces away!

Ves momentarily split his attention once again and accesses the live feeds of his honor guards.

Every suit of combat armor that he built for his personal guards could supply a lot of data to him. This was a way for him to observe what they were experiencing at the front without putting himself at risk.

He could see that Nitaa had been sparring against the aliens for a while now. The tall soldier held her thick and powerful heavy luminar crystal assault rifle and carefully fire high-powered slicer beams at the obstacles that the pescans used for cover.

Although a lot of shots ended up getting absorbed by the metal walls and other solid obstacles, repeated hits eventually created a tunnel that allowed the former Kinner soldier to fire a beam that punched through the last remaining matter and kill an armored pescan soldier armed with transphasic guns!

The alien soldier had already done a lot of damage, though. The pescan was armed with two transphasic laser cannons that could each penetrate through the excellent armor of a Davutan human trooper with just a single hit!

While the combat armor assigned to the elite guard troops of the colonial state was not weak, even if it managed to block most of the damage, even a fraction of the power of an energy beam was enough to produce severe burn wounds!

The only mercy was that the transphasic laser beam attacks did not outright kill the troopers struck by them as long as they landed on the limbs and less critical parts of the human body.

It did produce an awful situation where an increasing number of wounded soldiers had to be pulled back from the front!

At this time, a group of noncombatants had decided to step up and utilize their considerable medical expertise to tend to the wounded!

"Clear more beds and bring us more supplies!"

"We need to sterilize these chambers as soon as possible."

"Have you found their water source yet?! We can't operate on these patients without a source of clean water!"

Even though many of the directors of the various departments of Freewell Medical Services had long retired from conducting medical operations themselves, they still possessed a huge amount of knowledge and experience.

The shabby conditions of the alien base did not stop them from attempting to do their jobs. It did not matter that they lacked access to advanced medical tools and machines as qualified doctors were always educated to be able to treat their patients without relying on excessive automation.

Otherwise, doctors wouldn't be needed at all. People could just toss their wounded into automated treatment chambers and wait until they spat out healthy bodies!

It was the habit of humans to never develop an excessive dependence on advanced and automated technology that enabled the doctors employed by Freewell Medical Services to make themselves useful.

Although they clearly weren't comfortable with the awful conditions they were working under, they were veteran doctors who had worked under a lot of pressure in many different circumstances in the past. They adapted as well as they could and tried their best to prevent the condition of the wounded soldiers from deteriorating.

In a way, the wounded soldiers were rather fortunate to get hit by laser beams. These weapons might produce deep and massive burns at best or outright flash-boil flesh until they exploded at worst, but they were not known to produce massive bleeding. This made it a little easier to stabilize their conditions in the short-term, though depending on their injuries their bodies could degrade for many other reasons such as losing the functionality of essential organs.

However, as much as the old but hard-working doctors of Freewell Medical Services stepped up, their efforts only reduced the losses. They did not directly contribute to a victory.

The only ones who could change the situation were the soldiers risking their lives to fight back against the entrenched pescan defenders.

The situation at the front changed instantly when the aliens tossed multiple bombs down the entrance that separated the floors.

"INCOMING EXPLOSIVES!"

If the infantry troopers were better equipped, then they would have been able to deploy automatic interception turrets that could shoot down the bombs before they could ever get close.

Unfortunately, the rifle-armed soldiers could do little aside from jumping aside or trying to fire their weapons in the hopes of scoring a lucky hit!

Nitaa and the honor guards she fought with did not cower in the face of this latest threat.

They raised their heavy assault rifles and began to fire multiple kinetic beams in quick succession.

They had already dialed down the power setting so that their weapons could fire the beams at a much faster firing rate at the cost of reducing their power.

However, the kinetic damage they inflicted onto the simple alien bombs was enough to give them such a substantial knock that these impact explosives detonated in mid-air on their own accord!

A few bombs managed to get through despite all of these measures. The honor guards who were close enough to get affected by the explosives did not do much aside from turning around and hunkering down behind cover.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Though the bombs were not transphasic in nature, they still tore a lot of alien construction!

A few soldiers who hadn't been able to respond quickly enough to run away from the blast zone got flung aside as if they were ragdolls!

Even if these armored troopers hadn't died on the spot, the powerful collisions had mostly exceeded the protective capacity of their combat armor!

As a weapon personally developed and customized for his honor guards, the weapon possessed a great amount of power and versatility. _{free𝑤ebnovel.com}

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