The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7322

Chapter 7322: Limited Defense

A large battlefield encompassing the orbit of a planet was a large tapestry of violence.

Chaos reigned more than order.

The mutated voribugs primarily attacked from one direction. While the Goliath Hive diverted a large amount of Goliaths as well as swarms of smaller bugs to the flanks, the main thrust of their offense closely aligned with the trajectory of the Incubator.

At this range, the VOBM no longer served as a purely psychological weapon.

It had come close enough to intervene in the surrounding fights.

The planet did not only serve as a womb for a scarily powerful Goliath.

It also functioned as a massive moon-sized battle fortress!

The Incubator took advantage of its organic nature and rapidly grew thousands of cannons on its surface.

Each of these cannons began to besiege anything that crossed their sights!

Plasma cannons launched large and formidable plasma bolts at distant orbital fortresses.

Their accuracy was so terrible that more than half of the attacks missed the large and stationary targets.

It was clear that the mutated voribugs had yet to make much progress in advancing their proficiency in fire control systems.

However, with hundreds of cannons firing at a brisk frequency, the Incubator could afford to miss so many shots!

Many attacks struck the titan shields of the orbital fortresses and exerted a lot more strain onto the defenses.

Their situation rapidly deteriorated as most of the structures were already half-damaged or largely depleted from having to fend off prior attacks.

One massive structure that had born the brunt of the Incubator attacks outright lost its titan shield.

This instantly caused the surrounding swarms to descend onto the exposed structure and begin to eat into its metallic exterior!

The Incubator and other ranged voribug units did not cease in their attacks. They launched plasma bolts, laser beams, physical projectiles and acid bombs without any form of rhythm or coordination.

The chaotic attacks often struck many cannon fodder bugs that just so happened to be in the way before finally striking the vulnerable orbital fortress.

Yet the Goliath Hive clearly did not care about the friendly fire. The swarms massively hindered evacuation efforts while lowering any chance for the defenders to save the key defensive asset.

The enemy bombardment methodically chipped away at the structure of the orbital fortress.

To the credit of the Rubarthans, they had not skimped on the physical construction of the fortress in any way.

The prideful first-raters had long progressed the designs of their orbital defenses to a very high standard.

Even if the Rubarthans largely guarded against the Terrans and the Big Two, the incredible hardiness of much of the orbital fortification meant that just breaching its exterior was not enough to knock it out of commission!

Many anti-swarm defenses went active. Bombs, firestorms and lethal radiation continually cleared the approaching swarms and bought time for the crew to do their jobs and take more bugs with them as they went down with the crumbling fortification.

Such an event was not unique on the battlefield. While the defenders had been able to hold out for multiple hours, now that the Goliath Hive had made its most serious push to date, many units and structures had been pushed past their breaking point!

As brave men and women continued to fight and die across the orbital battlefield, the champions on both sides struggled in their own ways.

Of the four quadrants of the orbital battlefield, only one of the teams of Ascended Giants was doing fairly well.

Those stationed in the remaining quadrants were having a much more difficult time!

For example, Ur-Titan in charge of defending one of the flanks roared in frustration as he fended off an avalanche of attacks from two Level 7 Goliaths!

While a proper Ur-Titan should handedly defeat a Level 7 Goliath without suffering any harm, facing two of these massive creatures at the same time was a different story!

The Ur-Titan wielded his Rubarthan plasma halberd like a furious wildcat, choosing to stay as mobile as possible in order to avoid getting caught.

The most acute threat was a Level 7 Goliath of the Sudhar strain. This was a monstrous beast of claws and acid.

Not only did it possess the disgusting habit of spitting acid into the face of its enemies at random moments, its claws struck quickly and relentlessly.

What was worse was that the Sudhar Goliath were also capable of grappling!

The Ur-Titan in question constantly had to remain on guard to avoid getting caught by the enemy. He needed to utilize the reach of his plasma halberd very carefully to avoid giving the clawed Goliath an opening.

The second Level 7 Goliath made this a lot more difficult!

The Korcho Goliath was normally known as a ranged specialist. It was unusual for such a creature to move closer to a formidable human champion and make itself vulnerable to reprisals.

However, the Goliath Hive had apparently cooked a variant of the usual Korcho Goliath.

Instead of growing a long-ranged artillery specialist, the latest variant bore with multiple kinetic cannons.

Their calibers were not big, but they possessed an impressive firing rate while simultaneously possessing enough power to knock the Ur-Titan aside!

Though the penetration power of the projectiles was not good enough to punch through the Ascended Giant’s mid-grade superdimensional raiment, the concussive force was still strong enough to break the phase lord’s rhythm!

If this was the sole contribution of the Korcho Goliath, then the Ascended Giant did not necessarily have to take this second alien champion seriously.

What truly scared and infuriated the Ur-Titan was that the Korcho Goliath was constantly trying to strike the plasma halberd in his arms!

Though the weapon was designed with very hard transphasic alloys, the high-tech weapon was ultimately not as durable as a superdimensional weapon.

Worse than getting damaged, a powerful enough hit could actually dislodge the weapon from his hands!

This was why the Ur-Titan constantly had to be on guard. He had to maneuver in more complex ways to prevent the Korcho Goliath from striking his hands or his precious weapon.

Fortunately, his superior training and prior combat experience as a human soldier saw him through.

"Fight me fair and square, you bugs!"

"I need help!"

"We can’t! These Goliaths are getting in our way!"

"We can’t last as long!" One of the Faceless Giants cried out in desperation.

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