The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5426

Chapter 5426 Elemental Power

The swordsmanship of the alien lightning warrior was good.

Ves did not understand swordsmanship as well as Ketis or even his second daughter, but he had witnessed enough excellent swordsman mechs in action to know that the four-armed alien was both skilled and dedicated in this discipline.

It was not even all that alien to be honest. There were only so many ways that a humanoid arm could swing a sharp and fairly long bladed weapon.

Despite the weird set of eyes and the inhuman pair of digitigrade legs, the four-armed swordsman made out of tribulation lightning fought in a surprisingly familiar fashion if Ves focused on its swordsmanship alone.

If that was the extent of the lightning warrior's combat capabilities, then Major Jankowski should readily be able to defeat his opponent!

After all, outside of high-ranking mech pilots such as Venerable Dise and General Ark Larkinson, the first-class mech pilots of the Red Association received the best overall training and enjoyed the most high-tech augmentations and facilities.

Though Major Jankowski's fighting routine was disturbingly standard and devoid of the extremes that characterized traditional swordsmanship styles, he did not fight in an overly rigid or mechanical way.

He adjusted his sword techniques based on the properties of his current mech frame as well as his personal preferences.

Right now, Major Jankowksi fought like an instructor that sought to suppress his more inexperienced sparring partner rather than for the killing blow right away.

It was rather clever of him to hold back as soon as he recognized that the lightning warrior was not as difficult or dangerous to deal with when confronted at close range.

The most important priority at the moment was to delay the next wave of attacks and to learn as much information as possible!

If they finished off this relatively weak lightning warrior right away, the Elemental Lord would not have enough intelligence or buffer time to put up a good fight against a more powerful lightning manifestation!

Right now, Ves and Major Jankowski became most fascinated by the 'physical' properties of their current adversary.

While the sword-wielding mech did not do its best to land any deadly blows against its opponents, the transphasic hyper sword struck the 'body' of the lightning warrior on occasion.

Despite the lightning manifestation's appearance, whenever it got struck by a sword attack, it did not respond with a violent or overwhelming discharge of tribulation lightning!

Instead, it only produced a moderate shock that the main body of the Elemental Lord could reluctantly tolerate.

Ves even grabbed hold of his improvised lightning rods so that he could resume the strengthening of his body.

"This alien lightning swordsman behaved somewhat similar to a physical body." Major Jankowski noted. "Every hit with a sword is met with physical feedback. It is not quite the same as hitting metal armor or organic flesh, but the resistance is close enough that it doesn't matter."

Ves made another important observation. "The shock feedback is growing over time. Compared to the initial shock when your sword first struck the lightning warrior, your last hit incurred a response that is 30 percent more powerful. Although the lightning warrior is losing its charge at a faster rate, the more you stall this duel, the more threat it poses over time."

This was bad news for them because they would only have a limited amount of time to figure out the rules and prepare for the following waves!

"I do not feel that my current opponent is a thinking or living alien being, but it is simulating an intelligent being close enough to adapt to my fighting style." Jankowski spoke. "It is becoming harder and harder to pull off the same feints. However, the skill level of this alien swordsman is too low to gain the upper hand."

That sounded a bit odd, but not completely out of expectation. It was yet another form of pressure against the target of this tribulation storm.

"How are you coping against its elemental attacks?"

"They're annoying, but my mech has been able to use the same defensive measures as last time to mitigate the damage."

The lightning warrior did not fight like a simple swordsman.

Even though its sword techniques were relatively basic, they actively sucked in the surrounding E energies and converted them into more powerful lightning attacks!

The lightning warrior was able to form lightning waves, lightning shields and lightning spears that occasionally caught Major Jankowski off-guard.

If not for the fact that the Elemental Lord was able to mitigate these strange elemental moves by boosting its defenses with metal and earth E energies, the mech frame would have sustained much more severe damage!

Both Ves and Major Jankowski grew more concerned about the lightning warriors that would show up in subsequent waves.

Whether the lightning tribulation would produce another four-armed swordsman or a completely different alien warrior, the ones that emerged in the later waves were bound to be a lot more challenging to defend against!

"Ah!"

"Meow!"

The regular contact between the Elemental Lord and the lightning swordsman provided the former with a regular and relatively controlled infusion of tribulation lightning, but that would not last long.

The gradual increase in shock feedback was already starting to approach dangerous levels!

This was even after the first brother and the third brother worked together to promote the defenses of the mech frame!

With the power of metal and earth turning the main body into a surprisingly resilient combat platform, it had been able to bear shock after shock without anything important getting fried!

"Unless the Elemental Lord can strengthen its defenses further, we need to wrap up this duel." Ves spoke. "Try and see if you can cripple the lightning warrior's limbs and organs."

The sword-wielding drone mech no longer held back as much and began to convey a lot more aggression!

Major Jankowski began to exert much more of his skill as a first-class mech pilot. The machine under his control expertly side-stepped the lightning warrior's slash and utilized its metal and earth-infused sword to amputate one of the four arms!

"It works!"

The lightning warrior simulated a pain response and reeled away as it lost its other greater arm!

The crippling injury continued to debilitate the lightning warrior, making it easier for Major Jankowski to dominate the fight and cut off other body parts.

"Cutting off the legs does not do anything aside from giving it more pain." Jankowski frowned. "The lightning manifestation does not need to support itself on the ground, so its legs are completely redundant."

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