The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5486

Chapter 5486 The Hunt Begins

Though Captain Gheri and her best mech pilots all completed a lot of challenging hunts, they had no experience with fighting this particular opponent.

"It is highly unlikely that our approach has gone unnoticed." Ves told the hunters. "The Giant Stone Eater not only has a powerful command over earth-attributed E energy, but has also utilized its power to claim this entire crater as its territory. While I cannot tell you what that entails, I am So percent sure the beast knows we have arrived."

"I see." Captain Gheri responded over the communication channel. "It is of little consequence. I never counted on taking the Giant Stone Eater by surprise. The mutated beast's shell is too damn hard for us to penetrate in any opening strike. We will have to wear down its defenses step by step."

As the captain proceeded to instruct her troops to conduct their last checks, Ves extended his senses in order to gather more information about their prey.

With the help of Blinky, he was vaguely able to sense the powerful monster's mood.

"The Giant Stone Eater is rousing himself from slumber." Ves speculated. "1 can't tell for certain, but it does not feel like he is planning to lob explosive rocks at us right away. Be on the lookout for new abilities. Do not underestimate this beast. Ever since the Arrow Gods failed in their hunt, this mutated beast most certainly developed countermeasures to increase its ability against similar threats."

"It is a good thing that we did not intend to poke it with spears and arrows. We shall let out greatswords do the work!"

The hunters did not want to give the Giant Stone Eater any additional time to prepare.

They advanced up the hill with a few additional pieces of equipment in hand.

What stood out the most was the mining picks by all of the Monster Slayers!

Even though the Swordmaiden mech pilots fully intended to make use of their greatswords from beginning to end, they were still prudent enough to carry backup weapons.

Sometimes, their love and dedication towards swords had to make way for practicality.

Not even Swordmaidens could deny the fact that mining picks were the best tool for the job when it came to breaking through rocks.

The offensive mechs all stepped forward while the two auxiliary mechs followed at a more respectable distance.

Just like the support mechs of the Arrow Gods, the two Hymenopteras had been equipped with chain hooks that could quickly pull away a downed mech.

The only issue was that the lack of a third support mech made the retrieval process a lot slower.

The hunting team could not afford to make as many mistakes.

Inside the cramped cockpit of one of the Hymenopteras, Ves had already summoned an expansive control panel.

Though the conditions were anything but ideal, Ves was able to monitor the conditions of the mechs just fine.

The tension in the air rose as a sense of mutual hostility started to settle over the crater environment.

Both sides had become aware of each other. A confrontation was inevitable, and neither side wanted to back down.

After the mechs approached the raised edge of the crater, the Monster Slayers stopped.

The first objective of any difficult hunt was to test the capabilities of a mutated beast and attempt to draw out any new abilities if possible.

The intelligence that Ves had gathered yesterday had already become obsolete due to the rapid mutation speed of powerful beasts in the wild.

"Go!"

The lone Huntmaster jumped over the edge and started to sprint down and rapidly closed the distance to the Giant Stone Eater.

Compared to the last fight, the mutated beast had clearly grown in size again, making it clear that it had definitely grown stronger than before!

"Watch out. Its mass and volume has increased by at least 10 percent, but its movements haven't slowed down to the same extent."

The Huntmaster courageously sprinted forward but did not appear to be in a hurry to get into attack range. It shifted its path and circled around the massive beast as if he was looking for an opening.

The Giant Stone Eater did not look easy to mess with. It had kept its body low to the ground, using its giant exterior to shield its legs.

At a certain point, the Huntmaster tried to provoke the beast by throwing a grenade at the creature.

The toss accurately caused the grenade to land on top of the monster, right at the junction of its catapult arms.

Splash!

Instead of producing an explosion, the grenade released a lot of acid that instantly started to burn at the monster's rocky top layer as well as its thick and resilient catapult arms!

Though the acid was unable to inflict much damage to the parts reinforced with an abundant amount of earth energy, the pain enraged the mutated beast!

Ves could clearly sense that the Giant Stone Eater had lost its cool. The fires of fury stimulated its savage instincts and prompted him to go on the attack!

Powerful earth energies started to converge on the powerful beast as its catapult arms prepared to throw explosive rocks.

At the same time, the Giant Stone Eater also began to expand its control over the ground around its massive bulk.

"Watch out! The beast is likely to summon a forest of spikes!"

The warning gave the Huntmaster mech pilot enough time to jump back from the moment dozens of sharp black spikes extended from the ground!

"They're taller and thicker than last time!"

It appeared that the Giant Stone Eater discovered how useful it was to summon all of these spikes. They formed a powerful restraint against melee mechs.

While the Huntmaster continued to circle around the beast while occasionally throwing acid grenades, the Crystal Lords started to get into action as well.

Their tuned second generation luminar crystal rifles might not be anything impressive compared to the latest fourth generation equivalents, but they had proven their power and reliability in many hunts.

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