The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5487

Chapter 5487 The Evolved Swordmaidens

Ves became shocked at the strong posture of the Swordmaiden mech pilots.

Their performance exceeded his expectations.

They did not fight like normal swordsman mech pilots!

This immediately became evident when they successfully imitated a small part of Ketis' extraordinary swordsmanship.

While the Monster Slayers under their control were not able to perform dazzling sword techniques similar to the ones of the First Sword, their sword attacks were not normal in the slightest!

Ves grew confused as he saw that Captain Gheri and her fellow Swordmaidens had apparently developed a unique sword style that blended the strengths of many different factors together.

Although their unorthodox but highly effective combat solutions looked awfully messy and underdeveloped in his eyes, the power they wielded exceeded mortal limits!

Before this hunt commenced, Ves did not entirely know why Captain Gheri possessed so much confidence in her ability to counter the difficult abilities of the Giant Stone Eater.

Now he knew!

"They're fighting as if they are sword initiates at the scale of a mech!"

That was the most coherent description he could muster based on what he was witnessing in front of his eyes.

The Giant Stone Eater had begun to utilize its inaccurate rapid-fire rock shard rifles to suppress the aggressive swordsman mechs.

This was quite a good solution as the high firing rates made it a lot more difficult for the Monster Slayers to evade all of the attacks.

Even so, their fluid and proficient evasive maneuvers made it a lot more difficult for the Giant Stone Eater to track the mobile melee mechs as they circled around the forest of spikes!

Every few seconds, the Monster Slayers and their mech pilots combined their will and spirit to generate extraordinary power!

The mech and mech pilot seamlessly worked together to channel this power into their greatswords, charging them up so that they effortlessly sliced through all of the earth-empowered spikes that poked out of the ground!

Ves or rather Blinky looked closer at how the empowered swords interacted with the stone spikes upon contact.

The Monster Slayers swung their blades so quickly that it was hard for the companion spirit to capture what was happening at this distance.

However, the energetic swordsman mechs repeated their actions often enough to give Ves a few vital clues!

Ves had confirmed through his observations that none of the Swordmaidens had experienced any breakthroughs. They were pure mortals, though their willpower were all strong compared to other standard mech pilots.

Even though their talent was relatively poor, they made up for it with excellent swordsmanship and willpower honed through plenty of struggles.

Yet that was not enough for them to fight beyond their mortal limits.

The Larkinson Clan's production of companion spirit fruits had yet to reach a sufficient scale.

Though Ves was aware that the T Institute had already begun to hand them out to Larkinsons, the clansmen serving in the expeditionary fleet obviously had priority over these much-coveted fruits.

That meant that the Larkinsons assigned to the growing number of side branches of the Larkinson Clan still had to wait a few years if not longer before they received their turn.

That obviously did not stop Captain Gheri and her Swordmaidens from mastering a different approach to enhancing their combat effectiveness.

Somehow, they managed to combine their willpower with the spirituality of their first order living mechs to form a version of resonance!

Ves recalled the old phenomenon of false resonance, but this was a much stronger version of that because it possessed real substance!

Rather than relying on the mech pilot to develop a strong force of will, it was theoretically possible to form a similar phenomenon using the components from two different sources.

This could only be done if the mech and mech pilot trusted and knew each other at a deep level!

"How amazing! I never thought that this could actually happen in practice!"

This was a different approach to mech piloting or rather artifact cultivation.

Traditionally, artifact cultivators were always able to display greater combat power despite not being strong themselves.

They did so by borrowing the power of their artifacts, but that was just the start.

The truly powerful artifact cultivators did not merely rely on the power of their artifacts, but also combined it with their own inherent strength to produce amazing synergies that far surpassed the sum of all parts!

Ves was witnessing a case like this in front of him. The 6 Swordmaiden mech pilots worked so well with their own living mechs that they effectively fought like quasi-expert pilots!

In order to confirm his hunch, he pulled up the readings from the resonance meter of the Hymenoptera.

Usually, this meter should have played no role in this fight, but at this moment the specialized sensor picked up resonance manifestations that reached as high as 0.01 laveres!

"What?!"

This was on par with an expert candidate!

While none of the Swordmaidens came close to performing like an actual expert pilot, the fact that they were able to fight as if they were 1 level higher was already a miracle in his opinion!

As the Monster Slayers continued to work closely with their mech pilots, they effortlessly broke one powerful rock spike after another.

The forest was being cut down at a rapid rate!

This caused the Giant Stone Eater to take the threat up close a lot more seriously. The immediate response to this was that the mutated beast no longer lobbed any explosive rocks at the Crystal Lords.

Instead, the arms began to grow and lengthen to the point where they could directly toss their dangerous rocks at the swordsman mechs that were working their way inward!

This was another new adaptation that it had yet to display before.

Compared to the clearly ineffective artillery strikes of before, the earth monster's ability to threaten mechs with explosive attacks had become much stronger!

The disturbingly human-like arms directly tossed the rocks straight at the nearest two swordsman mechs.

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