The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4863

Chapter 4863 Adaptive Modular Armor Systems

"What?!" Ves reacted with surprise at this highly sophisticated defensive response.

This was an absolutely remarkable way to minimize the amount of modular plating that got destroyed after getting struck with a powerful kinetic attack.

If the Double Up could continually absorb and direct much of the incoming kinetic blows, then the Furia's shotgun wouldn't be able to penetrate the opposition's armor layers fast enough!

"The degree of sophistication and design work that Beatrice Hendrix put into designing this automatic reactive defense system is inconceivable!" Sara Voiken spoke with genuine respect and appreciation. "Even if she is able to adapt one of her existing implementations, for her to be able to apply it to a competition mech in a matter of hours is truly amazing."

The way in which the modular armor plates of the Double Up morphed and adopted many different configurations was truly impressive.

It put the Battle Skirt System that was originally designed for the Maiden of Adversity to shame!

Against a strong offensive hybrid mech like the Furia, the Double Up had plenty of opportunities to demonstrate the defensive prowess bestowed by Beatrix Hendrix.

For example, Bobby Orwell had clearly listened to Ves' suggestion and looked up how to best launch a throwing axe. The Furia ran forward and built up a lot of momentum, but still maintained a pace that was relatively controllable.

The Furia fired its shotgun at the Double Up yet again before rearing up its other arm that already held a throwing axe.

"Fly, axe!"

After taking a special step that pivoted the entire frame of the hybrid mech and channeled a remarkable amount of force from foot to arm, the axe grasped in the Furia's other hand propelled forward as if it had been launched by a catapult!

Clang!

The automated modular defensive system already detected the incoming axe in advance and make the best possible response to stop the spinning projectile from dealing greater damage.

When the axe finally struck a solid object, it happened to strike a transformed physical shield that was set at a strange angle!

This angle was meticulously calculated so that when the sharp axe blade was just beginning to dig into the angled shield, its trajectory and angular momentum ultimately caused it to ricochet and bounce above the Double Up's head!

"What?! That's nonsense!"

Ves had never witnessed such an advanced and responsive application of modular mech armor.

There were good reasons why modular armor systems never managed to catch on in the mech industry. They were considerably more expensive and introduced more points of failure in a mech. They also weren't able to cope against strong and penetrating attacks as well as plain old solid armor plating.

However, from what Ves could observe from Beatrice Hendrix's work, she was able to utilize the fast response and wide adaptability of modular armor plating systems to form the right defensive shape at the right time.

This was an excellent way to compensate for the inherent disadvantages of modular armor systems!

Ves already guessed that Beatrice Hendrix was probably not the first defensive specialist to come up with such an automated defensive scheme. It was too slick and refined to match the work of a relatively young Journeyman.

It made a lot more sense if Beatrice Hendrix was the direct discipline of a Master Mech Designer, thereby allowing her to inherit much of the accumulation of a predecessor.

Even so, for Beatrice to be able to reproduce the effects of automated adaptive modular armor systems to such a degree during a mech design competition still demonstrated an incredible mastery in this tech!

For a moment, Ves deeply desired to recruit this talented mech designer into his clan. Though he had never put that much thought into expanding the Larkinson Clan's mech catalog with mechs that relied on adaptive modular armor systems as their primary form of defense, he did not have any objections to adjusting his plans and accommodating a greater variety of mech models.

The addition of a second defensive specialist in the Design Department would also relieve Sara Voiken from her excessive responsibilities. It was not easy for her to work on so many different mech designs as she was the only viable defensive specialist in the clan.

He just needed to convince her to put her lot with the Larkinsons, which should be anything but easy as she was more than strong enough to go independent.

He needed to investigate whether she was even eligible to recruit in the first place, but all of that could wait for later.

The match between Team Larkinson and Team Hendrix had only just begun!

"Come here, you rat! Stop running away!" Lizzie Cado yelled as her Sensia struggled to catch up to the running Triple Spray.

The light harasser mech was designed in such a way that it could turn its torso and fire its triple-barreled rifle at enemies pursuing from behind.

With a stream of bullets raining in the Sensia's direction, Lizzie could do little else but perform a lot of evasive maneuvers.

The Sensia even had to put its arms in front of its weak point on the chest in order to prevent it from getting struck by a bullet stream!

"These bullets are too unrelenting!"

The only way the Sensia was able to fight back was to holster one of its knives and pull out the weak backup pistol.

The weapon fired a weak laser beam that struck the side armor of the Triple Spray. A small scorch mark appeared on the latter, but it continued to run and gun without any change!

It would take forever for the Sensia to be able to wear down the Triple Spray this way!

It was much more likely for the light mech with the bigger gun to cripple the light mech with the smaller gun.

Lizzie Cado knew that continuing her pursuit of the Triple Spray was a losing proposition.

She should ideally turn around and threaten to attack the rear of Double Up, but that would leave her Sensia wide open to the relentless bullet attacks of the Triple Spray!

In other words, her Sensia was trapped in a chasing action.

Lizzie was not the only one who was locked into an undesirable state.

She could already feel from that weird new mental connection to the Furia that Bobby Orwell was having a lot of trouble dealing with the Double Up. The former was utilizing every weapon in its arsenal to overwhelm the latter, but the knight mech simply did not fall and did everything it could to stop the hybrid mech from going anywhere else.

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