The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4872

Ves truly started to experience the competitive pressure of this tournament at this time.

There were no weak teams of Journeymen in the running anymore.

Even if a handful of them managed to luck out and face even weaker opponents on occasion, it was practically impossible for them to match up against three awful teams in a row!

The nine teams that managed to make it to the fourth round had all been tested in multiple ways and came out on top. Few mechs remained intact at this time as there simply wasn't enough time to repair every damaged section and component. This caused the surviving machines to look as if they had aged at different speeds.

Surprisingly enough, even Team Danilov that managed to perform fairly well in the first three rounds did not present any pristine mechs.

The Killer Kitty looked pristine because the mechs of Team Voiken did not bother to attack it at all during the previous round.

Only the Lancernaut mech looked as if it had gone through a beating!

"The mech pilots assigned to my team weren't able to keep up their mechs for long, but they went down swinging." Dulo Voiken smirked. "When the Lancernaut charged our spearman mech, it got impaled by a spear in turn. Our javelin mech meanwhile ignored the Killer Kitty and tried to launch as many javelins at the damaged centaur mech as possible. Quite a few managed to land on its large and formidable horse-like frame before it managed to run its lance through my baby."

The mass and volume of the centaur mech was considerable, so the penetrating attacks hadn't come close enough to take it down.

What the attacks did manage to accomplish was to inflict a lot of spread damage, some of which went a lot deeper than normal.

The large size of the Lancernaut meant that it took a lot more time, resources and effort to repair its condition. Team Danilov obviously did not have the time to fix up all of its holes, so it entered the arena in less than stellar condition.

Meanwhile, the Twin Souls returned to the arena in close to peak condition!

The previous match against the mechs of Team Polter ended faster than usual. This not only gave Ves and Juliet less work, but also enabled them to address issues that were not critical but should still be handled sooner or later!

[Ah, Team Danilov has turned out to become another favorite in this tournament, and for different reasons. The Lancernaut is an impressive lance-wielding centaur mech whose charges cannot be blocked. It is an impressive feat of mech engineering and I have always wondered how it will fare against the other top mechs in the competition such as the Furia. Now we finally have an opportunity to find out and see which one can prevail over the other!]

[Don't forget about their light mechs either. Even though many dismiss them as afterthoughts, they have played a crucial role in many matches time and time again. The Sensia has proven to be a deadly finisher if it is able to attack its targets from the rear, while the Killer Kitty has just as many lives as a real cat.]

Ves twitched at the mention of this name. He somehow felt as if Team Danilov had stolen what should rightfully belong to the Larkinsons.

Cats symbolized his clan!

How dare others try to defeat the Larkinsons by fielding cats of their own on the battlefield?!

It took a surprising amount of effort for Ves to suppress this silly thought. Tiger mechs were fairly common in the beast mech community. Just because they looked like big cats did not mean they were specifically employed to taunt the Larkinson Clan!

[Mobility is key in this match. All four mechs that are about to fight against each other are fairly maneuverable in different ways. The worst of the lot of the Furia, but it is clearly a hybrid mech that has traded armor for additional mobility. I wonder whether the hybrid mech is able to evade the infamous charges of the Lancernaut. A highly inflexible centaur mech is not difficult to defeat if it is forced to a standstill, but the challenge is to survive the initial attack runs.]

[Objectively speaking, Team Danilov has a greater chance of making it through than Team Larkinson. The Lancernaut is too suitable to fight in an arena that features flat and empty terrain. The area of the arena is also too small to give ranged mechs much time to cripple a melee mech from a comfortable distance.]

[I wouldn't dismiss the mechs of Team Larkinson that quickly. The Killer Kitty deals negligible damage and cannot offer too much assistance. Meanwhile, the Furia has a diverse arsenal of weapons. If its pilot is skilled and lucky enough, one of its weapons might be able to deal crippling damage to the Lancernaut by exploiting the battle damage that Team Danilov has only hastily managed to patch over.]

As the commentators prattled on, the mechs all got in position and started to go over their attack plans.

Both sides knew that they needed to take out the 'big brothers' of the opposing team first. The Sensia and the Killer Kitty were not as impressive as the Furia and the Lancernaut. The former mechs complimented the latter ones. It would therefore be up to the hybrid mech and the lancer mech to produce a breakthrough in this match!

[Start!]

"Go Larkinson!"

"Impale another mech, Lancernaut!"

"Here, kitty kitty. Go meow them all to death, little tiger!"

The voices of the crowd turned louder as the fans who did not really care about maintaining their image got caught up in the moment!

The fact that the mechs did not delay at all and immediately took action caused many people's blood to pump faster!

[The Lancernaut has directed its spear towards the Furia and burst into action! It seeks to end this confrontation in a single charge!]

[It is not as if it has any other choice. The longer the Furia remains in the field, the more damage it can pump out with its myriad weapons.]

Bobby Orwell knew that his mech would get targeted by the charging centaur mech from the beginning.

He had been ready to respond to this situation.

The first action he took was to command the Furia to detach its bandolier of throwing axes.

There was no point in throwing them out because the centaur mech was too tough to get taken down by a few axes.

It was not worth it to carry around all of that additional mass. The Furia needed all of the mobility it could get!

The second action taken by the Furia was to fire its full complement of missiles before detaching its cumbersome missile launchers in a hurry!

What was strange was that they did not strike the Lancernaut or the immediate area around it. The centaur mech moved around too much for the smoke to obscure its sight for longer than a second.

Instead, the Furia directed its smoke missiles to detonate almost as soon as they launched in front of the hybrid mech!

The immediate area around the machine became shrouded in smoke, making it a lot harder for the Lancernaut to pin down its target!

At the same time the smoke cloud broke the Lancernaut's line of sight, the EMP missiles continued to fly forward and detonated as soon as they came into proximity of the beast mech!

The Lancernaut slowed down for a moment as the EMP discharges affected the machine more than usual.

If the mech was in peak condition, then the EMP attacks would have done nothing as it was fully isolated and shielded against such effects.

However, the holes poked into its armor during the previous matches had left a considerable amount of weak points and damaged sections that could not easily be repaired in a short amount of time!

The pilot of the Lancernaut adjusted to the changes fairly quickly and the mech itself also possessed damage control functions that automatically prevented its condition from deteriorating even further.

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