The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5421

Chapter 5421 Adding Fuel to the Fire

The lightning birds actually inflicted considerably more damage to the components of the Elemental Lord while the machine was in flight.

The lack of grounding caused the golden current to bounce around inside the mech frame a lot longer, thereby disrupting the internals to a considerably greater extent!

If not for the fact that every lightning bird not only carried the power of destruction but also the power of creation, the repeated strikes would have caused the vulnerable internal systems to fail a lot sooner!

Even so, the restorative effects of the tribulation lightning only provided the greatest benefits when the mech components only sustained light to moderate damage.

Any part that had either broken down completely or sustained serious damage could not be magically restored to full functionality again!

All of this meant that in order for the Elemental Lord to strengthen its capabilities and survive to the very end, it had to repeatedly expose its mech frame to a relatively controlled amount of tribulation lightning.

Blocking everything might be good in the short run, but it would doom the drone mech at the later stages of this lightning tribulation!

Allowing the Elemental Lord to get struck by powerful current in every wave would definitely boost its strength at the highest possible rate, but its parts would collapse too quickly before it could get past the first three or four rounds.

The living mech that aspired to dominate the elements had to strike a careful balance in order to meet both its short term and long term needs!

Ves, Major Jankowski and the Elemental Lord quickly shared their own conclusions with each other.

"You need to land the Elemental Lord to the ground when the birds are just about to hit." Ves quickly advised.

"Good idea. The earth fey's ammunition reserves are too limited. It is best to save the remaining rounds for later."

"You are right about your concerns, but I have made sure to stock up on a lot of additional rounds back in Diandi Base. I originally procured them in order to provide enough ammunition to conduct extensive tests, but they can provide handy reloads for us. I can instruct my assistant to ship them over. The earth fey should be able to load the magazines by itself. I purposefully designed it this way to prolong its usefulness on the battlefield."

That relieved a major concern for Major Jankowski. He was afraid that the small earth fey would only be able to make use of its weapon system for a short amount of time.

Chirp! Chirp! Chirp! Chirp!

"The next wave is coming!"

Ves used his access to the Elemental Lord's systems to study the properties of the noticeably larger swarm of lightning birds.

Not only had every energy bird grown a little more powerful than before, but their quantity had also increased by 30 percent from the last wave!

This was a significant finding because the 20th wave had also been 30 percent more numerous than the 19th wave.

If this compounding pattern continued all the way to the 27th wave, then the storm clouds would spit out so many lightning birds that they would blanket the skies!

Ves couldn't imagine how the current state of the Elemental Lord could possibly resist such a wave of attacks!

He felt a much greater sense of urgency. The Elemental Lord needed to utilize its power of the elements in an offensive capacity a lot better in order to deal with the next waves!

At this time, the Elemental Lord followed the same strategy as before and sought to kite the incoming lightning birds while launching repeated ranged attacks.

That was not all. Both Major Jankowski and the Elemental Lord knew they had to do better in order to stay ahead of the curve.

The fire fey was working hard to control more fire-attributed E energy, but it became a lot harder to do so while it was on the move!

"Use the wood fey to assist the fire fey." Ves quickly advised.

The wood fey was a little odd compared to the rest. Ves had not been able to figure out a spur configuration that corresponded with its element.

After all, who would be crazy enough to use wood in a metallic mech?

There were only a few variations of tree species that could produce wood that was strong enough to be utilized in high-end mechs, but their rarity was too high.

Ves had decided to pair the wood fey with a space suppressor in order to play a constricting role on the battlefield.

The space suppressor served no particular use at this time. The lightning tribulation did not rely on any notable spatial effects, so there was nothing for the wood fey to suppress.

However, that also left the wood fey free to utilize its power over wood-attributed energy to a greater degree.

It just so happened that the lands surrounding Diandi Base happened to be filled with grassy plains and patches of forests.

Most of the flora consisted of fast-growing, genetically modified plant species.

That did not change the fact that all of this greenery attracted a lot of nature energy.

In fact, certain species of plants had even started to mutate into more extraordinary species due to continuous exposure to E energy radiation, causing them to release significantly more wood energy as a result!

All of this provided an environment where the wood fey felt a lot more at home. There was a significantly greater quantity of wood energy for it to manipulate, and right now the living fey tried to channel as much of it as possible to the fire fey with the intent to add more fuel to the fire.

It took a while, but once enough wood fey got fed to the fire fey, the latter finally managed to produce a small purple conflagration as soon as it fired another purple fire beam!

"We succeeded!"

The fire energies attracted by the fire fey successfully ignited and started to burn a quarter of the lightning birds that had come close to reaching their target.

While the strange tribulation lightning manifestations were able to withstand light hits, the purple flames happened to be damaging enough to pop the birds in just a short moment of contact.

In the end, the surviving lightning birds of the 21th wave had dwindled to a smaller quantity than before, which was just enough to give the Elemental Lord another dose of creative destruction!

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