The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5138

Venerable Tusa Billingsley-Larkinson resonated with his Dark Zephyr to the utmost as he concentrated on how to overcome his latest challenge.

The expert pilot had been searching for a way to make himself more relevant in battles against warships for a long time.

No matter whether the Dark Zephyr received his long-awaited upgrade or not, a light skirmisher simply did not possess the hard power needed to effectively breach the ubiquitous transphasic energy shields that so many alien warships possessed!

Any other mech at the same level could do a much better job than a machine that primarily wielded a pair of short weapons.

Although Tusa knew that he could make his expert mech a little more suitable for the job by switching to a heavier and more powerful weapon loadout, he instinctively resisted such a shift.

This was not because he disliked making greater contributions for the clan. He just felt that he would be turning his back on his true self if he diverged from the archetype of a light skirmisher.

Expert pilots needed to stay true to themselves. This was why Tusa opted to focus on learning how to defeat alien warships in his own way as opposed to resorting to other solutions that were much less perfect.

The Shadow Dance that he had been obsessed with as of late offered a small amount of hope of being able to bypass the shields.

As long as a practitioner completely immersed himself into shadow, he could theoretically become as insubstantial as one!

However, turning into a literal shadow was far easier said than done. It demanded a lot of training as well as a lot of comprehension of the nature of shadow.

Tusa had thought long and hard about embracing the power of shadow even further in order to gain the qualifications to pull off the most advanced techniques of the Shadow Dance.

However, his latest sparring session against Ketis ultimately caused him to reevaluate his fighting style and his approach towards combat. _{fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com}

The enlightenment fruit gifted by Ves had opened Tusa's perspective on how he could utilize his power a lot better.

However, Ketis was right that the foreign knowledge had also led him to turn away from his original fighting style and methods.

Expert pilots needed to stay true to themselves.

Tusa had often heard this adage from the advice given by older high-ranking pilots, but he had somehow overlooked it in his greed for power.

"No more."

He acknowledged that the shadows had become a part of his life, but that did not mean it represented his best and strongest aspects.

He had always yearned to be free and move without any constraint. During some of his live practice sessions with the Dark Zephyr, he often liked to fly around at high speed until his expert mech started to run low on energy.

Even though he did not get that much done during these extended flight sessions, Tusa still experienced a lot of peace and enjoyment in these times.

"YOU HAVE MADE THE RIGHT DECISION, TUSA." The Dark Zephyr spoke as the expert light skirmisher continued to close in on Stingray 1. "YOU ARE NOTICEABLY MORE PASSIONATE WHEN YOU ARE TRYING SO HARD TO EMBRACE THE SHADOWS."

"I would have thought you would have liked that more considering your name."

"I DID NOT CHOOSE THIS NAME."

The Dark Zephyr had grown alongside Tusa for years. The machine fed off him and evolved to complement his pilot even better than before.

Although the mech recently acquired a touch of the element of shadow, he still retained much of his original character.

Now that Tusa fully returned to his original self, he felt that he was able to resonate with his expert mech considerably better than before.

This encouraged him to commit to this action even more!

As the Dark Zephyr rapidly tried to close in on his target, Stingray 1 already became embroiled in a dance with the Jedda Sandivar.

The ace light skirmisher of the Adelaide Third Fleet had caught up to the maneuvering puelmer heavy cruiser a lot faster than any other machine!

Saint Marissa Lewandowski had already activated her smokey domain field, which readily engulfed the entire alien vessel and drastically reduced her ability to shoot down mechs!

Although the puelmer warship oddly managed to continue with shooting down mechs by relying on targeting data collected through other means, the Jedda Sandivar still played an extensive role in reducing the threat posed by this technologically advanced vessel!

Venerable Tusa was able to charge forward with greater confidence for that reason. Whatever attacks the debilitated warship launched at his Dark Zephyr did not even come close to striking his machine.

As his expert light skirmisher continued to advance, Tusa tried his best to succeed with his next move.

He took a huge risk by deciding to charge towards the enemy vessel at a steep angle!

This not only increased the chance of a painful and damaging collision, but also made it a lot harder to split away at the last second.

Tusa intentionally wanted to corner himself in order to make sure he fully committed to this course of action!

The risk of causing his Dark Zephyr to collide almost straight onto a solid transphasic energy shield like a giant projectile was not light, but it was the only way he could think of to squeeze out the utmost of his potential!

Even though the yurzen raiding fleet had become a lot less dangerous and threatening now that the Spirit of Bentheim had drawn away Stingray 2 and a bunch of lighter alien warships, pilots such as Tusa still had ways to raise the stakes and press themselves to their limits!

"Come on, Blackwing! Let's do this together!"

"Chip chip!"

Tusa's avian companion spirit emerged from his head and began to inhabit the Dark Zephyr's flight system.

This caused the expert mech to move a little more vigorously than before!

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