The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5036

5036 Stormblade Debut

The wheednar warships were taking more and more of a beating as the human mechs flew closer.

Their proud cannons that could repel or destroy a lot of opposing warships had taken down far too few mechs.

Sure, a couple of hundred of them had been wiped out during the lengthy approach, but that still left many thousands more!

The ranged mechs had already begun to pressure the mechs with their firepower.

Meanwhile, the melee mechs were just about to close in and exhaust the defenses of the starships a lot faster at close range!

The only way for the wheednars to delay the human mechs from completely terrorizing their warships was to make use of their own small craft!

Formations of starfighters flew under the cover of the alien warships and began to strafe and harass the human mechs!

The wheednars had already encountered mechs in their past raids, so they knew better than to confront the humanoid machines at closer ranges.

The eight-limbed aliens showed none of the complacency and foolishness of before as they all realized that this would be the most difficult fight of their lives!

While the wheednar starfighters did not boast excellent performance, their high acceleration along with their respectable ranged firepower meant that they could still fight effectively against human mechs!

At first, the swift wheednar starfighters put a lot of mechs under pressure by making cautious attack runs that kept them well away from any threatening melee mechs.

However, the Golden Skull Alliance soon dispatched their own fast mechs to counter these fast and annoying alien small craft.

The Valkyrie mechs fielded by the Penitent Sisters and the Glory Seekers might not have the mobility to catch up to the alien starfighters, but they were still fast enough to give their submachine guns a good chance of damaging the relatively fragile enemy craft!

"The Daughter of Death is watching over us! I can feel her gaze!"

"Bless us, Helena! Let the souls of the aliens nourish your divinity!"

"Hah! Look at them running! The aliens are afraid of our lady!"

The glows of the Valkyrie mechs had become more effective at disturbing the mood of enemies as of late. They became stronger and were able to remain effective at longer distances.

Combined with the ferocity and the determination of the highly trained Hexer pilots, the alien starfighter pilots hated to fight against this mech line the most!

Of course, the aliens did not fare much better when fighting against other human mechs.

The Larkinson Clan primarily relied on the Ferocious Piranhas and the Stingrippers of the Flagrant Vandals to chase the enemy starfighters down to the end!

While the Ferocious Piranhas rarely managed to catch up to the faster alien starfighters, the light skirmishers could still direct the movements of the enemy craft with the help of their disorientation glows.

The aliens had already discovered that as long as any of them came close enough to the deceptively weak light mechs, the starfighter pilots would quickly lose concentration!

The wheednar pilots soon tried to avoid the Larkinson mechs entirely, but that did not help them much when the fast and light Stingrippers flew behind their tails and persistently peppered their targets with their luminar crystal submachine guns!

Of course, the mechs fielded by the other groups did not fall too far behind either.

Though the wheednar starfighters had the capital to pose a more serious threat against most second-class mechs, the alien raiding fleet ultimately brought too few of them to this fight!

After all, the wheednars primarily fielded warships. Starfighters had always been treated as a secondary concern to the indigenous aliens.

The only small craft that gave the Golden Skull Alliance a greater challenge were the ones deployed by the orven battleship.

Even though the orvens only deployed thirty of them, each of them were much more powerful than a typical second-class mech. Their defenses particularly stood out as their transphasic energy shields shrugged off a lot of attacks!

It was a pity that there were too few of them. The Golden Skull Alliance did not even bother to allocate any expert mechs or elite mech units to wipe out these excellent machines.

The ranged Bright Warriors that were still Commandeered by the Minerva only briefly shifted their weapons away from the enemy warships and accurately struck all thirty orven starfighters with accurate resonance-empowered disruptor beams!

The proud but relatively weak transphasic energy shields folded in seconds. Dozens more disruptor beams continued to pelt each alien starfighter until their electronic systems completely failed!

No further intervention was needed as the powerless starfighters coasted off in the distance.

The Larkinsons deliberately tried to keep the alien starfighters as intact as possible this time as they contained a lot of valuable salvage. Their highly compact transphasic energy shield generators were already valuable enough by themselves as they could easily be transplanted into human mechs after a bit of reconstruction!

The alien starfighters no longer became a problem. They had either been eliminated or controlled to the point where they could no longer make any contributions.

The real fight was about to start!

"Come on, sisters! Let us hack into these energy shields and show these aliens that our mechs are still to be feared!" A Swordmaiden captain roared!

"For Lydia!"

"For Ketis!"

"For the Swordmaidens!"

Hundreds of Second Swords flew forward and began to envelop a wheednar heavy cruiser!

While the relatively powerful alien warship tried her best to sweep away the greatsword-wielding mechs with her tertiary gun batteries, the Swordmaiden mechs fearlessly struck their blades against the vessel's segmented energy shields while continuing to stay on the move.

The Second Swords were famed for being able to cut through armor with their sharp and heavy greatswords.

Their weapons had become even sharper due to the influence exerted by Messier 87!

Unfortunately for the Swordmaidens, most energy shields did not care about the sharpness of enemy attacks. They simply absorbed all kinetics at the same level of efficiency no matter whether the weapon was sharp or blunt!

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