The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5552

Chapter 5552 Piling Up Disadvantages

"Interesting choice."

"Hm?"

"I gave you a good look at my mech design yesterday. It should have been clear to you that my Nelerat is a hyper mech that is entirely centered around the application of earth energy." The much older mech designer elaborated his thoughts. "It has become well-known that there are strong complementary and oppositional relationships between the most common E energy elements. Fire energy inflicts less damage on defenses that are reinforced with earth energy. This is because fire can actually feed earth. Surely a mech designer that is familiar with extraordinary sources of power should understand this basic fact."

Master Kreshnik essentially referred to how the Fey Fiannas were inflicting much less damage against their opponents than the other way around.

The luminar crystal rifles along with the luminar crystal cannon fey had all been equipped with fire beam attack phase crystals that shot fire-empowered laser beams.

Although Ves had managed to develop much better attack phase crystals that could inflict much more serious damage, the most basic fire beam attack phase crystals were cheap, efficient, easy to mass produce.

That made them particularly suitable for a mass production model like the Standard Edition of the Fey Fianna.

Despite launching fiery hot laser beams at the distant mountain-shaped fortification, the energy weapons harnessed by the Fey Fianna hardly produced any waste heat. Their energy cells also did not get drained at an alarmingly fast rate. They could easily keep up the firepower for quite a while.

At first, these fire beams were making brisk progress.

Even though Master Kreshnik had made the unusual decision to equip his Nelerat Mark I with earth-attributed energy shields, their capacities were small because it was impossible to equip the rifleman mechs with larger generators.

Even so, the earth energy reinforcement along with the favorable environment toughened up the rifleman mech's energy shields so much that they neutralized a significant portion of the thermal damage.

The small capacity energy shields of the Nelerat Mark I's managed to last significantly longer as a result!

However, it was hard to turn a molehill into a mountain by relying on a lot of earth energy.

Eventually, the energy shields broke, allowing the Fey Fiannas to channel their collective firepower at the actual fortification.

The repeated fire beam attacks were starting to make real progress. They began to melt and vaporize the hard and thick alloys, especially at certain sections that were easy to target due to the fact that the fortification was completely stationary!

The Fey Fiannas did not manage to do all of this with impunity.

Their water energy shields were taking a considerable beating during all of this time. The painful aspect about orienting all of their defenses around the water element was that they shared a common weakness against earth energy-based attacks!

Ves had to refrain himself from wincing each time he saw one of the water-based energy shields of his mech or fey getting destabilized at an alarming rate.

The high rate of fire along with the elemental advantage of the Nelerat Mark I was a nightmare to the Fey Fiannas!

The only saving grace was that the relatively good maneuverability of the drone mechs enabled them to evade a part of the incoming attacks. This helped to ease the strain on the energy shields at the cost of expending a lot of energy in order to power their intensive energy maneuvers.

The Fey Fiannas did not let their energy shields burst, which induced the greatest strain on their generators. What they did instead was to alternate their energy defenses.

Whenever an energy shield fey was nearing its limit, it retreated and allowed another fey or mech to put a new energy shield forward.

This was a relatively simple but effective rotation that enabled the energy shield generators that no longer came under strain to recharge and return to their optimal states with the least amount of complications.

If the opposing side deployed melee mechs or tried to attack the Fey Fiannas from angles, then it became a lot harder to grant the nearly depleted units enough rest to restore their conditions.

However, because the Nelerat Mark I's all huddled together inside their makeshift fortification, it became very clear that every attack they launched only followed a single trajectory.

The Fey Fiannas merely had to concentrate their defenses in a single direction to block all of the attacks coming their way.

It hardly helped. The Nelerat Mark I did not rely on positioning to gain an advantage on the battlefield. They were hard hitters that preferred to hide inside their little castles. Their gauss rifles continued to fire round after round with no abating.

The elemental disadvantage of the Fey Fianna became increasingly clearer as a result. Despite the fact that the drone mechs and fey were able to rotate their energy shields, each of them were getting drained at a much faster rate that they could replenish in so little time!

This was especially problematic when the Nelerats tried their best to focus their fire on one of the Fey Fiannas. Their goal from the beginning was to eliminate one of the three drone mechs as soon as possible.

In the meantime, the barrage of fire laser beams was making moderate progress in burning through the earth-reinforced external armor plating.

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