The Mech Touch novel Chapter 6703

After struggling for decades to defy his original fate, break past his seemingly impenetrable bottleneck and forge a new future for himself, he finally succeeded!

General Ark Larkinson managed to break through!

The unmistakable signs of a second apotheosis had gripped the Lionheart.

The expert command mech never looked brighter, dazzling and more magnificent than today.

As a light-attributed hyper masterwork mech, the lion-headed machine had always had a morale-boosting effect on nearby soldiers.

Now, that effect was amplified by at least an order of magnitude!

Those who stared closely at the Lionheart instinctively felt that it was the right decision for them to admire and worship the expert command mech or more precisely the brand new ace pilot that used it as his vessel.

It was hard for both humans and aliens to ignore the presence of the Lionheart. Despite its limitations as an expert mech, the valiant machine was explicitly designed to attract attention.

General Ark’s breakthrough clearly played into this trait and amplified it with his surging willpower!

Though the Lionheart currently shone almost just as brightly as the Amaranto Mark III at the beginning of this battle, the way the two treated the light element were completely different.

Saint Davia Stark never wanted to produce a spectacle. The light radiating from her unconventional archemech was a byproduct of her incredible ability to absorb and concentrate an extreme amount of light energies into her mech frame and Instrument of Vengeance.

Light was a resource and a weapon to the Amaranto Mark III. Neither the pilot and machine held any special thoughts or beliefs about the property of light. They mostly saw it as a form of energy that they could shape into a lethal energy beam that could travel at a blazingly fast speed and penetrate through any target in their sights!

In contrast, General Ark and the Lionheart treated light as a complimentary tool.

Light drew attention.

Light was able to direct where people looked at stuff.

Light made everything that shone under its rays look good.

It was for these reasons and more that General Ark had taken a liking of the light element.

Heroes fought under the light, while villains crawled in the darkness.

Previously, General Ark always struggled to attract the most attention while he was fighting in large battles.

It was difficult for him to remain at the center of attention when there were hundreds of thousands of small craft whipping around, of which dozens comprised of expert mechs and even ace mechs!

The latter were especially effective at stealing his thunder. _{freeωebnovēl.c૦m}

Prior to his breakthrough, the Amaranto Mark III, the Amphis Extremis, the Minerva Mark I and the First Sword Mark II hogged most of the attention.

The worst part about it was that General Ark couldn’t blame the masses for keeping their eyes on all of those machines.

The Amaranto Mark III only remained active for a short amount of time, but had contributed the most to this battle so far by eliminating an orven lesser phase lord!

The latter three machines stepped up from there by directly confronting the two greater phase lords!

Saint Linda Cross was the only ace pilot with a proper ace mech in the star system. She had taken on the most burdensome task of holding back the Herald of the Void by any means necessary.

As an envoy of the Red Cabal, the Herald of the Void was a considerably better developed jureg greater phase lord than usual.

He had access to more powerful and specialized phasewater organs. He not only developed his physical body to withstand a lot of damage and inflict a lot of it in return, but also developed a few powerful spatial abilities that complimented his fighting style.

The Herald of the Void fought like a crustacean-shaped battering ram. His fanatical loyalty to the phase whales compelled him to push through all of the attacks that battered his spatial barrier and head straight towards the orbital defense ring that served as the bulwark of human resistance in the star system.

So long as he personally battered much of the orbital defenses into pieces, it became untenable for red humanity to continue the fight!

Against an opponent that appeared to be nearly unstoppable, only the Amphis Extremis had a chance of holding back his advance, and only on a temporary basis.

The Amphis Extremis was not a proper match against the Herald of the Void, but Saint Linda Cross somehow did a decent job with the help of fire support from the Knights and Barons empowered by the Saint Commander.

That still left another greater phase lord. The Lower Herdmaster did not possess the same degree of resilience and momentum as the Herald of the Void, but his threat level was arguably just as high!

This was because the Lower Herdmaster had been awarded with a Saint Piercer arm. The greater phase lord wielded his superdimensional weapon with considerable skill and power.

Even the formidable defenses of the Amphis Extremis could not block the incredible penetration power of this confounding weapon!

Amazingly enough, Saint Dise Larkinson and her outdated First Sword Mark II somehow managed to distract and slow down the advance of the Lower Herdmaster.

Similar to Venerable Rosa Orfan, Saint Dise squeezed out all of the performance she could out of her First Sword and her masterwork Decapitator.

The difference between the two Larkinson pilots was that Saint Dise was simply much better at it. Her resonance strength alone was stronger by at least an order of magnitude, and that made a huge difference!

Together with her Saint Kingdom, she was not only able to defy reality to a much greater extent, but also leverage a lot more metal E energy from the environment!

As a Domain Shaper who developed a strong affinity for the metal element, the recently emerged ace pilot was already capable of reinforcing her expert mech to a certain extent even if the machine was not explicitly designed for this purpose.

The First Sword moved faster and was able to endure far greater stresses than usual. It was not just her armor system that had become a lot tougher and more damage resistant than usual.

One of the tricks that Saint Dise applied to her old battle partner was to reinforce the internals with lots of metal energy!

Combined with her powerful true resonance, this effectively allowed Dise to get away with pushing the First Sword way past her safe levels!

The Lionheart subsequently tried to serve as another distraction by performing charge attacks whenever the Lower Herdmaster had overcommitted in his attempts to impale the First Sword!

The charge attacks did not inflict that much damage on the greater phase lord’s spatial barrier, but they were enough to relieve a bit of pressure for Saint Dise.

General Ark was not satisfied with this contribution, though. He was not fulfilling his objective by being the brightest star on the battlefield.

The three ace pilots that were currently active on the battlefield rightfully earned most of the glory from this battle due to being the main reasons why the greater phase lords weren’t able to advance and kill everyone else!

As for General Ark, his Lionheart was unable to outshine the mechs of the three. His contribution to the fight was so low that he felt he was being relegated to a side character!

This was intolerable to an expert pilot that was determined to become the object of admiration and worship by his subordinates and other soldiers on the battlefield!

Ark had already been thinking about suspending his attempts to steal the show by attacking the Lower Herdmaster.

There had to be another way for him to find his calling and make a much more meaningful impact on the battlefield.

It was only when he saw the Riot and subsequently the Bastion getting overwhelmed by the much larger plasma sword wielded by the orven lesser phase lord that General Ark suddenly made an important realization!

"I am not just a mech pilot."

He was a mech commander. He was responsible for the safety and wellbeing of all of the soldiers of the 77th Warborn Mech Division.

This included Venerable Rosa Orfan, who had decided to transfer to his mech division along with a couple of other Larkinson expert pilots.

Though General Ark never maintained a close relationship with Venerable Orfan, he still considered her to be one of his key assets and subordinates.

As long as she was in trouble, Ark had an obligation to bail her out so long as doing so did not compromise his other objectives!

After he made this critical realization, General Ark suddenly felt as if he had fit the final piece of the puzzle that prevented him from rising above his current limitations.

As long as he remained the strongest combatant in the 77th Warborn Mech Division, he had an obligation to step up and bear the greatest burden!

The main reason why he had always been so desperate to pursue greater strength was so that he could deal with the strongest enemies and prevent them from directing their lethality towards his subordinates!

To allow an enemy champion to kill one of his subordinates in front of him was not only an affront, but also a failure to a responsible mech commander like himself!

"I have already failed Imon Ingvar once. I will not fail Rosa Orfan if it is the last thing I do!"

The Lionheart abandoned the effort to assist and reinforce the First Sword without warning and instantly flew towards Zren-Divar for the purpose of relieving the Riot and the Bastion!

"Wait for me! Your savior is coming!"