The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4864

Chapter 4864 Low Margins

The Sensia continually slashed its knives against the modular shields of the Double Up from the front.

Although the strikes dealt little damage, the light skirmisher designed by Team Larkinson could swing its knives at a frighteningly high pace, enabling Lizzie Cado to employ her knife fighting skills without too many hindrances!

The Furia burned the Double Up's exposed rear armor by firing its wrist-mounted flamethrower at full blast.

The concentration of damage was low, and none of the metal that came in contact with the flames melted in an instant.

However, the transfer of thermal energy was so great that all of the modular armor situated in the rear of the Double Up's frame began to glow as they continually absorbed more and more heat!

Already, the modular armor plates that bore the brunt of flames had already begun to droop and deform.

At a certain point, these plates abruptly seemed to lose all life in them and began to fall onto the ground as the Double Up could no longer command them as before.

It turned out that the excessive exposure to overwhelming heat had shorted out the circuitry and electrical systems that held them aloft!

This normally wouldn't happen to the modular armor systems of properly designed mechs, but the lack of time put into the design along with the use of cheap, low-quality materials caused the components of the armor system to become far more vulnerable to these kinds of attacks than normal!

What happened to the Double Up was one of the reasons why modular armor systems had not broken through the mainstream.

It was fine to use it as a supplement to a regularly constructed mech like how the Battle Skirt System augmented the defensive properties of the Maiden of Adversity model, but to use it as the main source of defense for a knight mech was a risky choice!

However, the Double Up was not a regular knight mech.

The pilot of the mech knew he was in trouble. The light skirmisher and the hybrid mech were wailing on the Double Up from both sides.

Meanwhile, the Triple Spray continued to linger outside of the smoke cloud, its sensor and communication systems unable to penetrate the interference produced by all of the particles in the air.

The only way for the Triple Up to relieve the Double Up and make contact with it was by going inside.

It would be a mistake for the light harasser mech to do so because it would only allow itself to get caught by the Sensia at close range!

Since the Triple Up could not come to the Double Up, the Double Up just had to get out of this smoke cloud and link up with its partner mech again!

The Double Up did not have many options at its disposal. The Sensia at the front and the Furia at the rear tacitly worked together to pin the beleaguered knight mech in place.

If the Double Up made any careless movements, it would inadvertently expose its sensitive weak point at its front, thereby allowing either of the Twin Souls to attack its most vulnerable area and knock it out at an instant.

There was only one option left for the Double Up.

"Purge armor!"

Inside the middle of the smoke cloud, the strained and modular armor plating that covered up the entire frame of the knight mech no longer tried to hold itself together anymore.

Instead, the modular armor plating all separated from each other while exploding outwards!

Though the force of all of those purged modular armor plates did not properly constitute as projectiles, they completely caught the Sensia and the Furia off-guard!

The latter did not endure that much disruption as the Furia maintained a healthy distance from the knight mech.

The Sensia on the other hand became bombarded by lots of little armor plates at close range. As it was a light mech to begin with, getting hit by a lot of small metal projectiles was like getting blasted by a weak shotgun at point blank range!

While the Sensia wasn't fragile to the point where it could withstand this rain of metal plates, Lizzie Cado had been forced to command her light skirmisher to back off and cross its arms across its chest in order to protect its critical weak point.

This was exactly what the pilot of the stripped knight mech wanted to accomplish!

After purging its entire external layer, a much lighter and skinnier melee mech remained underneath. It held one straight shortsword that had previously been buried along the length of its arm and held a small physical shield made of what little modular armor plating that hadn't been flung away like the rest.

The smaller and nimbler knight mech successfully managed to slip away and run outside of the radius of the smoke cloud!

"So this is why Beatrice Hendrix called her work the Double Up." Ves sounded impressed as he along with everyone else watched the knight mech reach its second stage.

The arena had special optical tech that allowed observers to look through the obscuring smoke cloud and accurately witness what was happening underneath.

Otherwise, any battles involving smoke would turn into an unwatchable mess!

Ves closely studied the design of the mech underneath the mech.

Despite having lost almost all of its modular armor plating through a sudden purge command, what was left did not look like an easy machine to take down.

The second stage form of the Double Up initially looked like a light skirmisher that tried really hard to pretend as if it was a knight mech but failed.

However, Ves and many other mech designers began to look impressed as this was not exactly the case!

This was not a mere 'cute' version of a knight mech.

The current form of the Double Up was definitely a light mech, but it no longer fit into any neat categories.

It possessed greater speed and agility than before but it could not catch up to the likes of the Sensia and the Triple Spray.

The Triple Spray had not yet been hit and only depleted a portion of its energy and ammunition reserves. _{freёweɓnovel.com}

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