The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5124

Venerable Isobel Kotin observed with envy as the Macharia Excelsia and the Amaranto exerted serious pressure onto the alien warships.

While it was understandable that the Macharia Excelsia was able to land its shots with an impressive hit rate at these distances, the Amaranto's performance exceeded her expectations!

The younger Larkinson expert pilot underestimated the skills of the older guest pilot.

The Amaranto also truly showed to everyone that a machine that was entirely dedicated to long-ranged combat could accomplish this difficult feat with greater ease than others!

Isobel frankly could not even understand how Venerable Stark and her Amaranto could effectively calculate their firing solutions when their laser beams also turned by up to 45 degrees!

The complexity of trying to land a hit under those circumstances increased dramatically under those conditions!

"FOCUS ON YOUR OWN GAME, ISOBEL." The Promethea spoke. "WE HAVE OUR OWN ADVANTAGES TO RELY UPON. I MIGHT NOT BE A MASTERWORK MECH LIKE THE AMARANTO, BUT OUR RIFLE IS FRANKLY BETTER AFTER MY PROGENITOR HAS APPLIED A POWERFUL UPGRADE."

Venerable Isobel nodded as she focused her attention back to her own machine.

The power of fire surrounded the upgraded Ignitron Transphasic Luminar Crystal Assault Rifle.

Though nothing seemed to have changed on the surface, one of the six attack phase crystals that were usually chambered in the weapon had not only become a lot more purple, but actively absorbed the fire energies floating in the environment!

The more time passed by, the more the transformed prime crystal began to embody the element of fire.

"We should get ready to open fire ourselves." Isobel concluded as she noticed that the Spirit of Bentheim continued to close the distance.

Though the ship was taking more and more serious damage by making it easier for the enemy to land their many shots, Venerable Isobel hoped to bring the firefight back in the favor of her side by adding her own firepower to the mix.

"Ya. Ya."

Her purple companion spirit was already eager to contribute to the fight.

Different from the last battle, Kiroshi learned a couple of useful tricks from Ves. She had only just managed to figure out how to turn herself into a firebolt and propel herself forward!

Now, Venerable Isobel Kotin and the flaming purple cat just needed to see whether their recent gains could make an actual difference on the battlefield.

Their hopes were high, but it remained to be seen whether their abilities and their recently upgraded expert mech could give them the edge they needed to make a more substantial difference.

A sense of anticipation and excitement welled up inside Isobel. The expert pilot slowly broke her carefully controlled facade as the rush of battle started to put her into a more fervent state.

"The Amaranto can bend her beams like a noodle, but my own machine's damage output is a lot hotter! Come on, Kiroshi! Let's charge up the Ignitron!"

"Yayaaaa!"

The companion spirit phased through the cockpit and dove straight into the waiting Ignitron.

The weapon immediately seemed to grow hotter as Kiroshi entered the new fire beam attack phase crystal.

The combination between the two seemed to produce a mutually reinforcing effect that caused the attraction of fire energies to multiply by several times.

As Venerable Isobel began to resonate with the Promethea and the rifle occupied by her companion spirit, she found that the Ignitron rifle harnessed much greater power this time!

As a hot and flaming purple corona began to surround the prone Promethea at an increasing intensity, the weapon braced before the expert mech began to glow increasingly brighter as different energies combined together in a charge that held exceptional burning potential!

Venerable Isobel and the Promethea both started to grow concerned about holding back such powerful energies.

They felt as if the Ignitron rifle might explode if they failed to pull the trigger in the ensuing moment!

Isobel gave up on trying to strike at the smaller and weaker exposed targets and simply trained her rifle at a distant yurzen battleship.

As soon as she locked her target, she pulled the trigger!

"FIRE!"

"Yaaaaaaaaaa!"

Isobel almost gasped as she could feel Kiroshi riding along the stream of positrons!

This was the first time her companion spirit moved so far away from herself!

"It worked! The patriarch was right!"

Different from the Amaranto, the Promethea fired a resonance-empowered positron beam that was just a fraction slower than an equivalent laser beam.

Nonetheless, it also possessed transphasic properties, which meant that it could inflict much more effective damage against transphasic defenses.

The difficulty of striking an alien battleship was much lower. Isobel did not look too surprised that she managed to land her shot at this distance.

A silent but fiery purple burst of flames and energy struck the yurzen warship in question.

Though the vessel was a lot easier to strike than her smaller counterparts, her capacity to resist damage was also a lot greater.

Minor race or not, the yurzens clearly understood how to make the best out of their limited tech by making everything bigger!

At first, the alien officers and crew members did not even take the attack too seriously.

The native aliens learned much about their human foes. They understood that their opposition largely utilized second-class technologies and that ordinary expert mechs could not make a significant dent on their defenses.

However, a few observant crew members soon began to notice that the purple burst of flame that initially struck the segmented transphasic energy shield did not fade like normal.

This was not a normal phenomenon. Transphasic energy shields were not flammable, and their surfaces were too unstable to make anything stick for long.

The alien crew members began to exchange more alien words with each other as they tried to figure out a way to douse or shake off the flames.

The only reason why they did not exhibit more alarm was because the persistent purple flames did not stress the defenses of their battleship.

Several minutes passed by as the Promethea continued to charge her Ignitron rifle and fired flaming purple energy beams at the same target.

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