The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5481

Chapter 5481 The Arrow Gods

The Giant Stone Eater displayed a remarkable ability to weaponize the ground!

This attack method exceeded the scope of biological attack methods. No ordinary exobeast could manipulate the soil to the point of causing them to spawn abnormally strong and sharp spikes.

"What a strong application of earth-attributed E energy." Ves admiringly said. "It is amazing to think that this mutated beast is able to utilize energy in such a directed fashion solely by relying on its new instincts."

Based on his comprehension of the Beginner Five Elements Spells Manual, it would take a qi cultivator years of hard work and practice to manifest his power in a similar fashion!

It was unheard of for qi cultivators to be able to execute these kinds of spells without studying them first. Even those with an excellent affinity in the earth element still needed to figure out stuff on their own before they could apply their powers with such skill.

Apparently, Arrow Gods did not expect that the Giant Stone Eater could summon a forest of spikes.

The most annoying part about them was that they lingered upon appearance. The powerful mutated beast even continued to channel earth-attributed E energy in them, causing them to retain their abnormally strong resilience.

The earth element was often associated with defense and toughness, so the Huntmaster mechs were unable to break them with ease.

The forest of spikes effectively limited their maneuvering space!

Since it took way too much time and effort to get rid of all of these ground spikes, the Huntmaster mechs circled around and tried to poke at their target's weak points from another angle.

The spearman mechs barely had any time to interfere with the Giant Stone Eater up close when the mutated beast summoned even more earth energy!

Though the mech pilots of the Huntmasters had a low sensitivity towards any shifts in E energy, their living mechs were different!

From the moment their living mechs detected the massive shift and warned their mech pilots of the impending danger, the latter did not hesitate to back off from the Giant Stone Eater!

Another forest of spikes shot out of the ground, this time larger and wider than before!

Crack!

Though two of the Huntmasters managed to get out unscathed, the one that was closest to the mutated beast failed to avoid the spike that tore up its left leg!

The crippled mech stumbled as the stone spike surprisingly tore through so many components that the limb had become inoperable!

"Damn! That Huntmaster is falling!"

The Giant Stone Eater had suffered attack after attack since this confrontation began. Now that one of the annoyingly mobile mech had lost its speed, the mutated beast quickly took advantage of this opening!

A pair of rocky slabs shifted apart, revealing a scaled nozzle that resembled a short rifle muzzle.

Soon, that nozzle began to spit out an erratic but rapid torrent of crude stone projectiles!

Reinforced by earth energy, these relatively small chunks of rocks struck with greater force and impact than they should, causing them to strike at the vulnerable Huntmaster with the force of ballistic projectiles!

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!

The fallen Huntmaster's armor began to get chipped at a steady rate. Its inability to evade attacks exposed a serious flaw in its ability to cope with attacks.

Though the armor system designed by Sara Voiken held up remarkably well against these rapid physical attacks, there was only so much she could do for an offensive mech.

"That is also new." President Yarich remarked. "The Giant Stone Eater must have evolved this imitation rifle after it had exhausted the ammunition of the previous hunting team that thought it could win a battle of attrition with this monster."

That strategy made sense if the hunters attacked an ordinary opponent, but a mutated beast that could continually absorb earth-attributed E energy did not play by the rules.

The other mechs of the Arrow Gods tried to relieve pressure on their injured comrade by focusing their attacks on the scaled nozzle.

It hardly worked. The organic weapon was so embedded in the body of the Giant Stone Eater that it could only be attacked from a limited angle!

Anytime the ranged mechs positioned themselves at the correct angles, the Giant Stone Eater simply lobbed a pair of explosive rocks at them, which forced them to abandon their attacks and move away!

BOOOM! BOOOM!

The Giant Stone Eater actually showed another adaptation by throwing smaller rocks. Their explosive power was weaker, but the mutated beast was able to form them quickly enough to pressure the archer mechs and rifleman mechs much better this time!

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!

The crippled Huntmaster had rolled onto the ground and changed its orientation in order to narrow its surface area to the monster.

This actually reduced the hit rate by a significant margin as the organic rifle was incredibly inaccurate.

It might be bearable for the Giant Stone Eater to fire a stream of rock projectiles at closer range, but it had yet to figure out how to make it accurate at longer ranges!

As the Arrow Gods struggled to save one of their own, a trio of auxiliary mechs finally stepped forward.

Ves did not recognize their design, but he could see that they were utilized as pack mules and additional labor.

Each of them happened to be equipped with chained hook launchers, though Ves imagined that the mechs could swap out their hooks with sharp harpoons.

The machines quickly fired three identical hooks that magnetically attached themselves to the fallen Huntmaster at the right sections.

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