The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7267

After half an hour of unceasingly killing bugs of many different shapes and sizes, the skirmish finally came to an end.

The Goliath Hive only sent out a finite amount of cannon fodder at the defensive lines.

It was still so much from what Ves could observe. If this battle amounted to a mere skirmish, he feared how much worse it would be when the mutated voribugs Finally got serious.

At that point, the defenders would no longer have the luxury of maintaining reserves. All of their assets had to contribute right from the start in order to prevent the overwhelming number of bugs from overrunning any of the critical defensive nodes.

“It is only when you witness a massed voribug attack in person that you truly begin to appreciate the threat posed by so numerous weak bugs."

All of the Goliaths got defeated, though not without a struggle.

The Ekstrom Goliath lasted the longest and put up the biggest Fight. The Divine Arsonist needed a lot of time to tear apart the flesh of his enemy with his hands.

His combat performance was incredibly disappointing, to say the least.

The Ascended Giants were supposed to be good against other champions, but to see one struggle against a voribug equivalent was discouraging.

The Phase Lord Department did not make a good first impression on the battlefield.

The Divine Arsonist presented himself before his superior with a lowered head and a difficult expression.

His raiment and gear looked a lot worse than before. The mutated voribugs had been able to gnaw on him long enough for holes to form.

Even his flesh got eaten, though the voribugs were SO weak that they were unable to handle more than a single shallow bite of transphasic flesh.

“I'am sorry, sir. I failed to defeat the Goliath as cleanly as I promised. I shamed the new polemarchos and the rest of the Ascended Giants. I... am prepared to accept any punishment."

The Divine Harpoon placed his large hand on the giant trooper's injured shoulder.

"None of us are blaming you. Our gear and tactics prepared us to fight against high- ranidng mechs and alien phase lords as a team. Fighting alone against a Goliath assisted by millions of voribugs is as far as you can go from that. We expected you to stumble, though not to this extent. What is important is that you ultimately won the duel without requiring any external assistance."

"You are not... upset?"

"You have proven that a single Faceless Giant is strong enough to contend against a single Level 7 Goliath. Why would I not be pleased? The fact that you had to struggle so much to secure your win is a consequence of our lack of preparation, and no one is to blame for that. What is important is to learn from your fight and do better next time. Go back and get yourself checked out. After that, write a report so that we can discuss how to defeat the enemy Goliaths faster.”

"Yes, sir"!

Many people observed the initial performance of the Divine Arsonist and came away disappointed.

Not all of them realized that he was one of the weakest Ascended Giants that the Bluejay Fleet could dispatch.

While the Ascended Giants were eager to prove they were a lot stronger than many observers thought, Ves was not in a hurry to put them back into the field.

He at least wanted to wait until the Aseelided Giants received better gear.

Outfitting 30 Ascended Giants with brand-new superdimensional gear was a big operation.

Ves was willing to do a custom job for his own needs, but it would be too much for him to build all of the parts for his men.

In order to fulfill their needs in a hurry, lie approached the Rubarthans to take care of their needs.

Lord Richard Brownstone looked shocked when Ves voiced his request.

"Are you sure you wish to entrust us with the responsibility of accepting your shipments of hull-grade superdimensional matter and outfit your Ascended Giants with superdimensional raiments?"

Ves nodded. "So long as it conforms to the designs that I have sent you. The raiments must be made with the tech and standards of the Phase Lord Department. You can make small modifications if there are any supply problems, but please inform me of the changes beforehand. Generally speaking, speed is of the essence. The sooner my big boys are equipped with serviceable protection, the more they can defend this star system. You would be helping yourselves as well as my department.”

The Rubarthan Senior Mech Designer looked flattered. "We are honored to receive your trust. Our production facilities in our star system are not the best. We certainly do not possess the high-tech machines needed to work with superdimensional matter. If you can predict your shipment to one of our major industrial planets, the Brownstone Principality C311 complete this order in a week with the help of newly developed hardware. It will take a few more days to ship the completed products to this star system, but this is our limit."

Ves smiled. "That sounds Fine. I am not expecting any miracles here. The quality of the raiments does not need to be perfect either. As far as I am concerned, they are merely stopgap products. Aside from that, I have another request. I would like you to produce a batch of 15 plasma weapons at 1.5x scale for the Faceless Giants. I also need another batch of plasma weapons at 2.5x scale for the Ur-Titans. From what I have witnessed so far, superdimensional weapons are not that useful if they cannot secure a Kill fast enough. The plasma swords utilized by your high-end mechs are much more effective at killing megavoribugs as they inhibit their rapid regeneration. In the absence of a better solution, I can only think about placing this order."

The request was expensive and troublesome.

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