The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4877

After the announcers finished their effort to recap the fights that led to this point, they finally went on to business and revealed their arrangements for the final match.

[Out of the 71 teams that have presented their mechs and allowed them to fight each other over the course of several rounds, only 3 remain standing. The works of Team Larkinson and Team Clive have both been tested over the course of four grueling rounds. Team Reemus on the other hand has been fortunate enough to skip the fourth round due to lacking an opponent during the random matching process, though its mech designers did not receive as much time to repair their mechs as a consequence.]

Despite the fact that Team Reemus was able to pass through the fourth round without a fight, it still had the capital to be strong.

Eric Reemus, a 71 year old Journeyman, clearly led the team. He was one of the many travelers who had come to Davute in order to make his name in the tournaments.

His partner Yzard Holliston was less remarkable, but he was a long-time friend and collaborator of Eric Reemus. The two worked well together as evidenced by the quality of their works.

Both of them happened to be beast mech designers. The combination of their mechs was a little unusual, but seemed to work out well against the opponents they faced before.

The simply named T1 was a light tiger mech that stood out for its light construction and high offensive power.

The T1 was difficult to defend against due to the natural advantages afforded by its tiger form and its left paw that was able to deploy plasma claws!

Although the T1 undoubtedly had low endurance due to its excessively high energy consumption, it could tear apart any mech with the help of its plasma claws.

Eric Reemus must have mastered melee plasma weapon technology to a high degree if he was able to reproduce a simplified version out of low-quality materials.

It wasn't the T1 that caused the opponents of Team Reemus a lot of grief.

It was the S1 that was primarily designed by Yzard Holliston that generated a lot of alarm!

The S1 was a heavy artillery spider mech that featured a simple but considerably massive design.

As its name suggested, it featured eight thick and sturdy legs that provided unparalleled stability and footing for the upper body.

The S1 mounted multiple simple but powerful kinetic cannons that could fire a large amount of rounds in multiple different directions!

It was clearly a ranged mech that was designed to stand in place and throw out as many projectiles in the vague direction of the enemy! _{frёewebnoѵēl.com}

Unlike the aforementioned Daugen, the S1's guns weren't particularly powerful or precise, but the heavy artillery spider mech made up for it with sheer volume of fire!

Slower and more armored mechs could not withstand its firepower for long. No matter how much protection a defensive mech carried, it would never be able to resist the attacks forever!

The S1 did not have to worry about running out of ammunition anytime soon. Its large frame provided plenty of capacity for reloads. The matches often ran out long before the heavy mech expended all of its rounds!

The spider mech did have its shortcomings, though. Its defenses were not as tough as that of an actual doom crawler, and its movement speed was terrible.

It had already taken a lot of time and effort to design the basic structure of the S1 and mount all of its formidable weapon systems onto its frame. If Team Reemus had more time, then its mech designers would have definitely mounted it with thicker and stronger armor!

In any case, it did not seem to matter all that much. No other mech in the competition fielded any mechs that possessed nearly as much ranged attack power as the S1!

Even the Daugen designed by Team Clive would probably struggle to disable all of the weapon systems of the heavy artillery spider mech before it got blasted into pieces!

The only viable way to disable the S1's weapons systems and eliminate it entirely was to send in a melee mech that could tear it down while evading its weapon arcs.

Of course, the T1 always stood ready to punish those that tried to get close!

All in all, Ves did not think that Team Reemus reached the fifth and final round without merit. The T1 and the S1 had always been able to demolish their opponents in quick order due to their overwhelmingly high attack strength.

Ves actually had a headache when he considered how well his Twin Souls could fight against these terrible beast mechs.

The Sensia had managed to take out the Lancernaut after jumping onto its equine back, but that was when the latter did not have an effective helper by its side. The Killer Kitty was a joke of a light mech and played no role aside from annoying mechs with its weak laser weapons.

The works of Team Reemus were much more threatening because both mechs could effectively back each other up.

No matter whether the Twin Souls focused on the T1 or the S1, one or the other would always do their best to prevent themselves from getting defeated in detail!

However, before he thought about what sort of confrontation was about to ensue, he first needed to know the details of the final round. The rulebook had accounted for the possibility of uneven teams at this stage, but it was a big mess as far as he was concerned.

[Now let us get back to the main event. Only three teams stand tall at this time. Since we cannot resolve the winner of this tournament by holding a straightforward match between two teams, we must consider an alternative means to decide the championship. Team Larkinson, Team Clive and Team Reemus are allowed to vote on a choice on how to structure the last round of the combat phase of this competition. This is a rare privilege and one that might add extra spice to the final match!]

Ves frowned for a moment. He did not like what he heard. As far as he was concerned, the tournament should have structured its admission process to ensure that only two teams would be left in the final round. Ending up with 3 teams instead of 2 made this process far more complicated than usual.

Then again, that wouldn't be as fun. The rules of the tournaments were set up in a way to force the participating Journeyman Mech Designers to contort their designs in order to meet unusual demands.

All of this gave him the impression that a bunch of Masters working for the Davute University of Technology got bored and wanted to break their monotony by setting up an unusual ruleset.

[All three teams are allowed to vote on a favorite option. Allow us to present the methods in which they can determine the winner among themselves. First, is any team willing to withdraw at this stage and claim third place without any suspense?]

Ves looked around for a moment before he realized he probably needed to provide an answer. He took a single step forward.

"No."

Jocasta Clive did the same.

"No."

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