While the Eden Institute of Business & Technology was preparing to hold an event that was utterly unique in the academic community, the ongoing contact between the Spirit of Bentheim and the yurzen raiding fleet had taken a new turn!
Powerful and entrancing mechs such as the Macharia Excelsia, the Amaranto, the Promethea, the Minerva and the Transcendent Punishers all exerted an increasing amount of pressure towards the yurzens.
Of the unusual and unconventional living mechs of the Larkinson Clan, the Promethea's presence in this clash had become so great that its contributions exceeded that of the Macharia Excelsia!
The principal reason why a mid-tier expert mech was able to outshine an ace mech was due to how much better the former adapted to the Age of Dawn!
With so many fire energies converging on the Promethea and Kiroshi, the Golden Skull Alliance obtained a strong visual example of the limitless potential of prime mechs and prime resonance in this new era!
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He couldn't be bothered to offer a more detailed reply than explaining that he was too busy to bother with additional mech design projects.
"Our performance in this operation exceeds our expectations." General Verle informed the patriarch. "The Promethea is already on her way to burn a third large yurzen battleship. I am actually thinking about ordering Venerable Isobel to shift to a lower priority alien warship once she and her expert mech are done with their current prey. If we keep letting this pair of pyromaniacs have their way, nothing will be left of the most valuable derelicts aside from burned and ruined alloy funeral pyres."
The general of the Larkinson Army raised a good point. This battle was not just about breaking the alien raiding fleet and preventing it from raiding the colony built on Corellix III.
This was also about getting their hands on a lot of valuable intact tech and materials!
The Promethea's conflagrations were too powerful for their own good in this regard. They could burn almost anything. Nothing remained untouched in their wake. The warped and blacked metal structures that remained after a warship became completely engulfed in purple flames had become distorted beyond recognition!
What was especially painful for the Golden Skull Alliance was that the flames not only burned and evaporated any available stores of phasewater, but also caused transphasic alloys to lose their most valuable properties!
"To be frank, the Promethea's capacity for destruction has reached the level of a weapon of mass destruction." General Verle noted. "The Red Association generally doesn't step in because all of that destructive potential is under the control of a disciplined expert pilot, but if a day ever arises where we abuse this power to inflict untold harm onto our fellow human beings, the mechers may see fit to confiscate our expert mech."
That was indeed a rule enforced by the Mech Trade Association and presumably the Red Association.
This was why the Destroyer of Worlds never destroyed entire cities or planets occupied by lots of humans.
Mechs were supposed to provide humans with more targeted and less destructive means to beat each other up. Although it was always possible for these new small machines to pack so much power that they could replicate the dark days of the Age of Conquest, few if any serious incidents occurred due to the strong suppression of the Big Two.
Aside from that, the mech pilots who tended to wield the greatest power also tended to be the least willing to open fire on innocent civilians!
This was why Ves did not worry too much that Venerable Isobel would allow her flames to go out of control and threaten the lives of millions of humans.
Fire had a reputation for going out of control, but Kiroshi's authority over it was so strong that it was highly unlikely for the Promethea to inadvertently commit war crimes.
Besides, so long as Venerable Isobel Kotin and the Promethea reserved their most threatening attacks to the aliens, the Red Two should have nothing to complain about.
Aliens did not possess human rights by definition.
Just as Ves wanted to study the telemetry of the Promethea in greater detail, he suddenly noticed that the Everchanger had started to make his move in the fight!
"What?"
When Ves took a closer look at the projection that displayed the exterior and the interior of the living expert mech, his spiritual perception immediately noticed a lot more activity than usual!
"What the hell is doing on over there?" He questioned.
His quick observation told him that the Everchanger was channeling the combined influences of Joshua, himself, Helena, Ylvaine, the Golden Cat, the Illustrious One and Titania!
Even though not all of the aforementioned design spirits were all that present, Ves never imagined that his Everchanger could become so messy at this time!
That was not all. This odd and crowded combination of participants empowered the Everchanger to such a degree that the death beams fired by the Gray Lotus not only became a lot more powerful and accurate than usual, but also carried additional influences and properties!
From the way that Stingray 1's movements became considerably more erratic than before, the Everchanger clearly disturbed the puelmers a lot more than all of the other mechs.
This was quite impressive considering that the Promethea had already deprived the aliens of a couple of powerful armed capital ships!
Ves couldn't hold in his curiosity. He concentrated his mind and forged a connection to the Everchanger.
Though his old masterwork mech became a little more crowded as a consequence, Ves tried his best not to mess up the delicate balance.
Once he was able to 'get inside' the Everchanger and study what everyone was actually doing, Ves grew even more surprised than before!
He never anticipated that the Everchanger could be used to mess with the enemy in this fashion!
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