The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5126

The burning wreck of the largest yurzen battleship caused the confrontation between the two disparate forces to enter into a new phase.

The aliens no longer dared to take the lone human factory ship lightly anymore.

Even though the Spirit of Bentheim had come by herself along with a modest amount of mechs, her 'firepower' exceeded their imagination!

Human tech was too powerful and confusing for the aliens. These extra-galactic invaders not only possessed a dizzying amount of high technologies, but also appeared to be capable of making a joke out of the laws of physics!

Flames were not supposed to be that effective against their starships!

The conditions needed to make their alloys combust and burn outside carefully controlled lab conditions led them to assume that they could never possibly lose one of their largest and most well-defended assets through a simple fire.

They were right.

Venerable Isobel Kotin and her Promethea just so happened to harness more than a simple fire. The combination between the two combined so many advantages together that their synergy had broken through to an entirely new level!

On paper, a low-tier expert pilot combined with a mid-tier expert mech represented a threat that was not inferior to a sizable warship!

The fact that the pair only needed to sneak Kiroshi onto the hull of any starship in order to light the entire vessel aflame meant that their capacity and efficiency for mass destruction was unparalleled at their respective tiers!

As Ves witnessed the Macharia Excelsia and the Amaranto directing their damage output at another yurzen battleship that was only a little smaller than the burning alloy wreck that had already drifted out of formation, he became inspired by what had happened.

He began to gain a new appreciation and understanding of how extensively E energy radiation could change warfare forever.

Although he had always imagined this profound shift in his mind, it always hit him hardest when he had a concrete example of what it actually meant in front of his face!

The Age of Mechs was largely dominated by mechs and mech pilots.

The Age of Dawn did not necessarily replace mechs, but exotic radiation unlocked a lot of additional means to enhance the performance of existing combat platforms!

It all depended on how extensively these assets were able to leverage E energy radiation.

Ves even began to develop more ideas about designing fire-themed mechs that could reproduce what the Promethea was capable of on a smaller scale!

Even if these standard mechs were not able to harness as much fire energy as a prime expert mech, they could easily become a powerful force of their own by relying on a numbers advance!

What would it be like to deploy a full mech regiment's worth of fire mechs in battle? The conflagration they could produce could burn entire cities!

The destructive forces that they could evoke through their collective effort was no less than a genuine weapon of mass destruction!

Ves felt extremely reluctant to put aside this promising idea.

"I already have too many design projects on my hands. I really don't have room for other mechs."

He turned his attention back to the battle.

The powerful direct damage output of both the Macharia Excelsia and the Amaranto quickly induced a lot of strain on the defenses of the yurzen battleship in their sights.

Combined with the fire beams launched by the Promethea that caused the enemy vessel's energy shields to endure constant thermal damage, it looked as if it was only a matter of time before this large and powerful warship shared the same fate as her predecessor!

The yurzens grew increasingly angry, frustrated and afraid at these circumstances.

Their own warships tried harder to damage or repel the Spirit of Bentheim, but the factory ship was difficult to catch under warp, and any successful strike failed to inflict any real damage due her unusually effective defenses.

The alien vessels needed to get a lot closer to bring their more powerful and devastating gun batteries to bear. However, the puelmers continued to insist on keeping all of their vessels in place in order to protect Stingray 1 as best as possible.

It became increasingly harder for the aggrieved yurzens to stick to the orders issued by the puelmers.

For now, all of the yurzens hoped that the combined damage output of all of their warships would steadily drain the defenses of the Spirit of Bentheim and drive this dangerous human starship away!

Just as the two sides reached a tentative new equilibrium, the other remaining mechs stationed aboard the Spirit of Bentheim began to make their moves as well.

Both Commander Taon Melin and Commander Casella Ingvar had been waiting for this moment.

The Transcendent Punishers had been withholding their fire for a long time. It was only when the operation had reached this phase that the classic Larkinson heavy artillery mechs finally came close enough for their cannons to effectively strike the distant enemy warships!

Taon carefully studied the performance and the behavior of the enemy warships. His insights combined with the occasional whisper from Ylvaine granted him an understanding of how his unit could advance the objectives of the Golden Skull Alliance.

"The yurzens are growing more and more frustrated with their inability to prevent their starships from suffering. Let us give them more reasons to worry about!"

The Ylvainan mech pilots began to aim the old but still fairly powerful cannons of their Transcendent Punishers at the designated targets.

Surprisingly enough, Commander Taon did not direct them to focus their damage output on the large yurzen vessel that was getting increasingly more surrounded with flames.

Adding additional firepower to this effort would not make much of a difference aside from creating a hole in the energy defenses a bit sooner.

What Taon actually wanted to accomplish at this time was to spread more panic and distress among the opposing aliens!

"Open fire!" He roared!

A score of Transcendent Punishers had precisely aimed their weapons in the direction of one of the many relatively small yurzen destroyers.

The alien ship's transphasic energy shield flared up as it resisted the salvo of kinetic projectiles and positron beams!

A surprising proportion of attacks managed to strike the destroyer despite her evasive maneuvers. The hit rate of the heavy artillery mechs had reached a whopping 75 percent!

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