The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7167

Chapter 7167: Quick Resolution - Mass Release Day 4/5

As Ves and Dulo continued with their collaboration, they gained plenty of inspiration from their current work.

The plasma spear was an exquisite weapon that could be used as the basis of a first-class spearman mech design or even a first-class multipurpose mech design for the Larkinson Clan in the future.

They just needed to scale it down and substitute the rarest materials for more common ones in order to make it suitable for mass production.

The only feature that Ves was not sure about removing was the self-exploding aspect.

Other people could not detonate the weapon willy nilly. They needed to practice and master the right cultivation technique. This was doable, but not in the short term. Any mech pilot that wanted to master the capability to throw exploding weapons had to cultivate the requisite steps in order to make proper use of this feature.

Without a suitable wielder who mastered this capability, the spears simply wouldn’t explode as desired. It would be a waste to design all of those extra complications. The Larkinsons would be better off if they made use of regular spears instead.

In fact, the same rules applied even if Zanthar Larkinson sought to master this amazing new tech. He may be able to adapt the tech to kinetic projectiles, but as long as they needed to be primed by the mech pilot beforehand, it became a lot harder to use them in combat.

Oh well. If Zanthar was unable to automate this process, then at worst the Larkinsons could raise a special mech battalion that was filled with ranged specialists who worked hard to master the necessary technique to prime their projectiles to explode.

As Ves and Dula finalized the design of the segmented high-penetration self-exploding transphasic darkness hyper spear, they finally turned their attention to the equipment configuration for the third duel.

"The Divine Harpoon is one of the lesser threats according to our analysis and predictions." Ves explained to Dulo. "That doesn’t mean we have to take him lightly. Regardless of how much resistance he puts up, he will definitely ensure that we have to work towards our victory. Since he specializes in throwing harpoons, I do not want to bet on whether the Dark Apostle will be able to evade his signature harpoons. That requires way too much experience and skill. It is better to just assume that the harpoons will land on their targets. What we need to ensure is that my other self is able to withstand this blow."

He waved at the projection that showed a draft design of a heavy raiment paired with a short spear and an oval physical shield.

This was a fairly defensive configuration where the physical shield was clearly designed to block as many harpoons as possible before it inevitably got wrecked.

"I understand your intentions." Dulo said as he scrutinized the depicted gear. "I have one question. Do you have any special demands for the spear that you carry into this battle?"

"There is only one real demand, and that is that it needs to be fairly light. I intend to allocate most of my mass budget for this duel into beefing up the oval shield and the frontal armor of the raiment. It is absolutely critical that the Dark Apostle can withstand all of the harpoon strikes."

"Static defense is not a real solution, Ves. Harpoons are often attached to chains or wires that enable the thrower to pull them back. The Divine Harpoon can keep retrieving and reusing the same harpoons. At worst, their tips may degrade due to repeated impacts to your defenses, but if you do not cut off their connections to their owner, they will continually strike at you. Normally, I would suggest that you try to close the distance as much as possible, but that is not feasible if your thick defenses are compromising your mobility."

Dulo indeed raised a good point, but Ves had an answer to this. "I will try to utilize my new fighting techniques to degrade the harpoons thrown by the leader of the Faceless Giants. The power of darkness is good at weakening and corroding everything it touches. I will make sure that the raiment and the physical shield will not let a single harpoon go unscathed after making contact."

Ves had a bit more confidence in this as his prior experiments gave him a better insight in what kind of damage he could do with the darkness element.

"Okay, sir. I will take your word on it. If the harpoons can be dealt with, then this armored configuration may still work. It is likely that the Divine Harpoon will close in on you and attempt to beat you in close combat when he is down to a single harpoon."

"I know. That is okay. I am more than prepared to fight against him up close. At worst, I will purge a bit of my armor if that is hindering my movements. I am not too afraid of losing against him in this circumstance."

"If that is the case, do you truly need to equip yourself with a different weapon from the last duel?"

"Huh?"

Dulo summoned a projection of the segmented high-penetration spear that they had just completed a short time ago. "We can dynamically lengthen and shorten this weapon by adding and removing segments. If we cut this spear down to size, it will become much lighter but still remain a serviceable weapon that you can wield in a single hand. My advice is that instead of working hard to design a new spear, we can simply reuse this one. We can still abide by the mass limit by bringing in less segments than last time. What do you think?"

Although the choice of reusing the same kind of weapon was not entirely optimal, Ves did not have much objections to this idea.

Sure, the tip of the high-penetration spear was extremely lethal and might easily killl the Divine Harpoon by accident.

That was bad because there was plenty of proof that he was the most pro-human Ascended Giant among his kind.

If Ves did not have enough confidence in the Dark Apostle’s ability to avoid a killing blow, then it may be better to equip a less lethal armament.

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