The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7323

Chapter 7323: No Quitting Half-Way

Rosa Orfan did not know what she was anymore.

Life after getting partially merged with the Riot Mark III was weird to say the least.

As she gradually regained her wits after her life-changing contact with her so-called D-mech, she eventually realized that she may have underestimated the danger posed by her new machine.

The Riot Mark III was so much more than an ace mech and a Carmine mech.

While Ves had made an attempt to explain what she was in for, his words failed to convey the immense magnitude of what he had brought to life.

Now that she had become fused with the machine, she understood that the Riot Mark III was actually a demon in the shape of a humanoid mech.

The Prophet’s Bane had turned it into a shell.

It had also merged with her soul, whatever that meant.

While she lacked the knowledge and expertise to understand the mechanics behind the soul fusion, she most certainly experienced the consequences of this drastic action.

One of her initial observations was that the fusion was far from perfect. Rather than blending together into a single entity, Rosa and the Prophet’s Bane remained discrete for the most part.

They were like a couple that had forcibly been married together. They had no intention of sharing anything between each other. It was just that circumstances had conspired to put them in a permanent union.

Neither Rosa nor the demonic entity were happy with this arrangement.

The Prophet’s Bane could not hide its greedy and hateful intentions towards Rosa. It had come close to taking over her soul. If not for the fact that she managed to trigger her apotheosis and strengthened her willpower, the Larkinsons would have attended her funeral by this time!

At this moment, her extraordinary willpower suppressed the demon. Though it forced her to remain vigilant and split her attention, she did not dare to slack off and become complacent.

The demon’s unambiguous hostility had never faded. In fact, it was the opposite. Getting blocked at the last moment had frustrated it beyond belief. The continued suppression only caused his anger to grow over time.

What concerned the ace pilot even more was that she could feel the demon growing stronger!

Ves had warned her about this. The Riot Mark III was a living mech, so the demon that had taken it over was naturally capable of growth.

This was normally a fact to be celebrated, but because the Riot got converted into an adversarial mech, it had turned into a double-edged sword!

Given these circumstances, Saint Rosa Orfan clearly understood her own situation.

She needed to progress faster than the demon.

While it seemed as if she currently gained absolute control over herself and her mech, that was just a temporary state.

With the demon growing stronger with every passing day, Saint Orfan knew she needed to work

hard to stay ahead of this foreign invader.

She knew it was not enough to maintain a small lead.

The lower the power disparity between the two, the more the demon could bleed through her willpower barrier.

If she suffered a mishap that caused her to lose her wits, the demon might even be able to launch an attack and take over her body and soul in one fell swoop!

After understanding the reality of her new life, Rosa Orfan did not feel about this outcome.

A lesser soldier might have broken down from losing her body or having a demon lurking in wait to take over her life.

She was not a typical soldier.

She was an ace pilot, a half-god whose willpower had reached a higher transcendental state.

Just like how the legendary Evolution Witch managed to advance fast enough to completely overtake the congenital defects of her original human body, Saint Orfan believed with all of her heart that she could conquer her own doom!

She felt incredibly brave not because she had no other choice, but because she truly had no way out of this predicament!

Ves, the doctors and other experts had fussed over her partially fused body and found it impossible to separate her from her living mech.

The original Blood Pact that she forged with the Riot Mark III had mutated into an unbreakable shackle that forced Rosa Orfan to commit to her original gambit.

She needed to evolve or die.

Naturally, an ace pilot such as herself was not resigned to die. Her fighting spirit grew stronger after learning that she could not stop half-way like her colleagues.

Other ace pilots such as Saint Tusa, Saint Stark and Saint Commander Casella may be just as committed to becoming a god pilot, but they could always drop out of the race if they ever changed their mind.

Even if it was a shameful act, the option to retire still existed in their minds. There were many possible reasons why they would want to take advantage of it in the future.

Perhaps they might suffer injuries so substantial that they could no longer engage in combat anymore.

This was the most common reason for expert pilots and ace pilots to retire. Even if human medical science had advanced to a very high level, not every injury could be remedied.

Another reason why champions might choose to retire was because battle no longer excited them anymore.

It was not unusual for high-ranking mech pilots to stagnate as their perspectives changed and became more fixated on other goals such as raising a family.

All of these reasons and more constantly tempted powerful pilots into taking it easy.

Even if they did not decide to retire outright, just a change of mentality was enough to render them stagnant.

Saint Rosa Orfan could not afford to let this happen to herself.

She could neither suffer a blow so heavy that she wanted to quit, nor fall into a state of complacency that would cause her progression to stall.

She only had a single choice, and that was to go full throttle and progress at a brisk pace no matter the cost!

All of this made her feel as if she had turned into a funeral pyre that had just been lit.

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