The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7380

Chapter 7380: Unlocking the Carmine System

Pulling the Chaos Trigger was a big deal.

The consequences were serious, particularly because Ves designed it as an extension of the Riot Mark III’s Carmine System!

Yes, the Carmine System!

Ves did not fully understand his mindset during the time he came up with this idea and realized it, but he must have been in a particularly adventurous mood to experiment on the Carmine System.

This was not an ordinary modification. The Ultimate Module was the equivalent of a companion spirit of a living mech, and thereby existed in a semi-independent state.

This brought both advantages and disadvantages.

From a design standpoint, Saint Rosa Orfan formed a Blood Pact with the Riot Mark III, which the Chaos Trigger was technically a part of. Yet because the latter remained in a locked and dormant state most of the time, the Larkinson ace pilot had only ever piloted the ’incomplete’ version of her battle partner.

Against most enemies, the Riot Mark III in its basic configuration sufficed. A superdimensional ace mech already possessed a crushing advantage against roughly equal or weaker adversaries.

Yet Ves did not solely design the Riot and its iterations to beat up the weak. He had many other assets at his disposal for this task.

The original purpose of the high-ranking spearman mech was to address the threat of qualitatively superior opponents.

The Riot Mark III needed to be able to punch above its weight while enduring powerful attacks in return.

Even if it could not win the duel, it should at least be able to hold out and delay the enemy as long as possible!

With that in mind, Ves devised the Chaos Trigger to give his work a more dangerous edge.

The Chaos Trigger was a double-edged sword. It could theoretically increase the lethality of the Riot Mark III by a huge margin, but also put great strain on the pilot as well as mech frame.

Before Saint Orfan could channel her explosive rise in power towards the right target, she first had to bear its impact through the overloaded Carmine System!

Pulling the Chaos Trigger directly disabled numerous hardware and software limiters.

In other words, the floodgates had been opened!

The most immediate consequence of this was that the volume of blood cycling through Saint Orfan’s vestigial physical body and the Riot Mark III multiplied by at least 3 times!

Not only that, but the density of mostly artificial blood had increased due to the injection of additional stimulants and other substances.

Even the temperature had risen!

The biological components of the Carmine System endured significantly more stresses than normal as a consequence, but they were still able to bear the difficulties due to their completely artificial nature.

The same could not be said for Rosa Orfan’s body, which still possessed many of the frailties of the human race!

If Saint Orfan still possessed a functional human form, then she would have cried out in pain at this time!

Any normal human being subjected to this inhuman treatment from the overloaded Carmine System would have suffered excruciating pain before suffering a total physical shutdown.

However, Saint Orfan’s current physical condition happened to play to her advantage. The ace pilot had become so disconnected to her partially assimilated body that she effectively experienced none of its pain and suffering.

Of course, nobody knew what would happen if the vestigial body expired completely. It was not worth the risk to see what would happen. Preserving it still remained a priority.

This was where the Riot Mark III’s Saint Kingdom came in. The only way for Saint Orfan to help her vestigial body tolerate the brutal treatment was to use her willpower to distort her reality.

Once true resonance fortified her remaining physical form, it no longer deteriorated any further. The remaining technological instruments integrated into the preservation pod also helped to repair and sustain the vulnerable human flesh.

While her physical condition reluctantly achieved stability, the same could not be said for her mental state.

The physical aspects of the Carmine System closely mirrored its intangible aspects!

There was a direct correlation between the Carmine System and the Blood Pact.

The latter therefore experienced profound changes, many of which appeared to be volatile and unstable.

The imperfect wall that mostly separated Saint Orfan from the Prophet’s Bane collapsed!

Both the ace pilot and the Middle Demon that originated from her D-mech were forced to establish a closer and more intimate connection with each other.

The forced convergence between two powerful and very hostile actors sparked immediate conflict as both sides battled for supremacy!

Saint Orfan relied on her surging willpower to defend herself and launch counterattacks against the demon that had gained a huge grip on her soul.

The Prophet’s Bane meanwhile relied on the strong base provided by its D-mech and its accumulated advantages to increase its ownership of the ace pilot’s soul!

The conflict between both sides became a lot more intense than before. This was because the Chaos Trigger provided numerous boosts to both the pilot and machine!

Fortunately or unfortunately, the drastic changes did not significantly alter the balance of power between the two. They entered into a stalemate where neither side could achieve complete dominance over their archenemy.

"You will never be the death of me!" Saint Orfan spat at her own inner demon. "You can rage all you want, but I will gladly take your aggression and channel it at other enemies!"

This was the true purpose of the Chaos Trigger.

It sought to supercharge the Carmine System and cause a series of transformations that ultimately allowed the ace mech to exert much greater power than usual!

The changes went beyond the Carmine System and the Blood Pact.

Many limiters integrated into other components got removed as well.

The Chaos Armor began to spill over its chaotic and anti-prophetic traits into the rest of the mech frame, causing them to undergo increasingly less stable and more dangerous mutations!

"Five minutes are enough." Saint Orfan determined.

"YOU!" She roared at the Voice of Liberty! "IT’S TIME FOR ROUND 2 NOW THAT I AM NOT A PUSHOVER ANYMORE!"

"How ugly." The Voice of Liberty still maintained his composure even as he was confronted by a very bizarre ace mech. "Whatever emergency measure that you have resorted to is more dangerous to yourself than your enemies. I can feel your pain. It is an ugly sound!"

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