The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7315

Chapter 7315: Taking a Toll

According to Gloriana's latest theory, the physicality of artifacts deserved further investigation.

An artifact was neither fully material nor fully spiritual in nature. It was a combination of both, though neither Ves nor Gloriana could supply any further details.

Ves intuitively felt that there was a lot of depth in how the spiritual affected the material.

He really wanted to investigate this matter and conduct experiments but this was clearly not the time.

Besides, even if he proved the validity of this assumption, that did not necessarily mean that he was able to convert his gains into tangible benefits.

Ves inwardly shook his head and decided to set this profound subject aside for the time being.

"Thank you for sharing your theory with me." Ves told her. "Your perspective is quite refreshing. You have certainly given me a lot of food for thought."

Though she did not lead him to develop a solution, she at least got him to think. New possibilities already began to pass through his mind. So long as he spent enough time investigating them, he may be able to solve the problem one day.

"I do not think that size-changing artifacts are attainable at the moment." Gloriana shared her opinion with him. "Do not let your newfound responsibilities with the Phase Lord Department detract you from your true vocation. You are a mech designer first and an Ascended Giant second. No matter how physically strong and imposing you become, a phase lord will always be inferior to true manifestations of strength. God pilots always triumph over everything else. We should do our best to strive to become Star Designers."

Ves nodded in agreement. "You don't need to remind me, Gloriana. I will get to work on our ongoing mech design projects as soon as this battle has come to a conclusion. I do not intend to abandon our current campaign, but we will definitely need to take time off in order to learn from our lessons and prepare more thoroughly."

The battle outside was still ongoing. Even if nothing exciting happened due to the voribugs being content to throw lots of cannon fodder at the defenses, the situation could grow worse at any second.

The more time passed, the greater the probability that the Goliaths would finally enter into play.

That was when the defenders would truly get tested!

After completing the Withering Sting, Ves no longer bothered to fabricate additional gear.

Perhaps he could still put his time to good use by rushing to fabricate a handful of exploding spears, but the material costs were too high.

Ves felt it was better for him to pay more attention to the ongoing battle now that it was approaching a red-hot stage.

After all intelligence was essentially to earn a clean victory. Without understanding the details of both sides, it would be difficult to pursue a solid goal.

"I intend to head over to the command center." Ves announced to his wife. "Will you come as well, or do you prefer to stay?"

Gloriana pressed her lips. "I will not be joining you. I do not have an eye for strategy. You can go ahead and liaise with the Rubarthans. As for myself, I intend to stay behind and lead the Design Department into assisting with repair and maintenance work. The initial first-class multipurpose mechs deployed by the Bluejay Fleet have already begun to return to replenish their supplies and undergo emergency maintenance. I can speed up this work especially for the more powerful mechs."

"As you wish. Just be careful, alright?"

They talked a bit more before they finally went their separate ways.

When Ves entered the command center of the Tarrasque, he entered a space where all of the officers and specialists were already engrossed in their own work.

His entry did not attract much attention. All of the mechers had become consumed by the heavy responsibility of coordinating the Bluejay Fleet's participation in the ongoing battle.

While the Bluejay Fleet was not one of the main participants of this decisive clash, its warships could still provide a lot of fire support. The RA contingent also sent out at least half of its mechs.

The frontlines sorely needed elite mech units to serve as 'firefighters'.

Anytime a defensive installation started to show signs of getting overwhelmed timely reinforcements could prevent a catastrophe from occurring. Even if the defensive site had incurred too much damage, an elite mech unit could still buy enough time to evacuate any crew and salvageable supplies.

At this time, the battle had already lasted long enough to exhaust the fighting power of numerous mech units and defensive platforms.

The ordinary mech units organized by the Rubarthan Pact were not pushovers, but even if they consisted of excellent first-class multipurpose mech units, they still possessed limits.

Ves observed mechs that had fought continuously for many hours and began to falter for various reasons.

Mechs with strong melee combat features slowed down and started to make more mistakes as their pilots could no longer maintain their focus.

Mechs that had blocked many attacks with their azure energy shields started to suffer real damage.

Even their shield link transceivers declined in effectiveness due to how heavily they had been used.

Unless a mech was truly high-end, the quality of their components could not endure repeated high-intensity combat.

Ves' expression turned grave as he witnessed how extensively human fatigue and mechanical breakdowns degraded the combat power of the defensive troops in real time.

"How insidious." He whispered to himself.

He suddenly felt that the mutated voribugs possessed an excellent understanding of red humanity.

The voribugs had deliberately sent out swarms of voribugs at the defenders of Philaster Crestia III in order to deplete the defenders.

The previous scale of conflict induced enough pressure to prevent the soldiers from relaxing entirely.

It also caused their hardware to get worn down at an accelerated rate.

What was most important about this was that the Goliath Hive never gave the defending units enough time to recuperate and repair all of the worn down gear.

Though the Rubarthans tried their best to rotate their soldiers and perform deep maintenance on heavily used assets, they were fighting an uphill battle.

The difference in numbers was simply too great.

All of this meant that the efforts of the preceding days finally bore fruit for the Goliath Hive!

As Ves continued to observe the data, he easily noticed that much of the accumulated attrition from the previous days pushed the defensive assets to their breaking point.

The rate of human errors and machine-driven malfunctions continued to pile up with every passing minute.

The mech pilots and other soldiers had tried and failed to reach their peak conditions at the start of the battle.

The hours-long slog where a seemingly endless tide of voribugs continually threw themselves at their guns only worsened their conditions further.

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