The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7459

Chapter 7459: The Starting Move

The first assault commenced.

The combined fleet of Larkinsons, mechers, fleeters and Terrans fell upon the gathering of mixed alien enemies like a pack of sharks.

Relying on their sophisticated tech and their blazing fast superdrives, the relatively small but formidable human armada managed to shorten the time between detection and contact to the point where most alien commanders had yet to form a coherent response!

The inherent arrogance of the major alien races was on full display as multiple different fleets and racial groups failed to unite and coordinate properly against the sudden assault.

The orvens and nunsers worked fairly well together, but the puelmers and juregs fought in separate formations that isolated them from other alien ’allies’.

Even children could recognize that their timings, positioning and strategies were all misaligned!

The only major advantage that they possessed was their numbers. These were all fleets that were either on the cusp of assaulting the human regions or prepared to go a little deeper to hunt supply convoys.

Yet despite outnumbering the invading humans by more than 10-to-1, the attackers still remained completely confident in their ability to achieve victory on the battlefield!

As the unwieldy and uncoordinated alien defenders brought their forces to bear against the sharp thrust of the human foes, one particular machine had gone ahead of the rest!

The Dark Zephyr Mark III Revision 2 relied on his blazing mobility to fly way ahead of the main force and harass the enemy defenders!

Though enemy sensors managed to detect the powerful machine’s approach in advance, they struggled to track the living mech as he began to flit around like a flighty bird.

Long-ranged interception fire bombarded his coordinates, but the ace light skirmisher dodged and weaved through every attack without letting anything strike his masterwork armor plating!

This could not last forever.

The alien barrages grew denser and more coordinated by the second. The alien spacers began to employ systematic firing solutions that enabled them to saturate entire regions with firepower.

The Dark Zephyr Mark III became increasingly more boxed in by all of the energy beams and kinetic projectiles!

As the distance shrunk at an alarming rate, the probability of getting hit also began to rise.

If the Dark Zephyr Mark III sported a superdimensional armor system, then the ace mech might have been willing to brave the attacks head-on.

Unfortunately for the ace pilot and his battle partner, the downside of being the first of the Larkinsons to achieve sainthood and receive an ace mech upgrade was to miss out on the superdimensional revolution.

The Dark Zephyr Mark III was still clad in tranphasic hyper archmetal!

The light skirmisher did not boast thick layers of armor plating to begin with. Though its transphasic hyper alloy still boasted comprehensively good performance compared to other comparable high-end light mech, its defensive capabilities could not even come close to matching that of the much newer First Sword Mark III or the Minerva Mark II.

Saint Tusa Billingsley-Larkinson sighed inside his cockpit.

"How long do we need to wait until you get an upgrade?"

"AS LONG AS IT TAKES." The Dark Zephyr replied. "I HAVE MANY BROTHERS AND SISTERS THAT HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR YEARS. THEY SHOULD GET A TURN FIRST."

Though Tusa felt envious of the few peers that already managed to pilot a real superdimensional mech, he did not truly feel upset about being put on a waiting list.

After all, the Dark Zephyr was the ace mech that relied the least on armor to protect himself on the battlefield!

As the aggressive ace mech continued to fly closer to the enemy positions, the machine finally veered to the side in order to target one of the flanks.

Diving right in the middle of all of the enemy formations was too much even if the Dark Zephyr could rely on his Saint Kingdom to mitigate a lot of incoming hits!

By approaching one of the outermost enemy fleets, the Dark Zephyr could not only make it more difficult for distant enemies to land their hits, but also use the nearby alien vessels as his makeshift shields!

That was exactly what happened. When the ace light skirmisher finally arrived, the machine only bled off a bit of speed, but displayed a huge amount of agility in turn.

Even as phasefighters tried to corner the Dark Zephyr from all sides while the point defenses of every warship sought to overwhelm his defenses, the ace light skirmisher still remained virtually free from harm!

The experienced Tusa skillfully threaded through the formation of jureg homeships and caused many gun turrets to end up hitting their fellow ships instead of the sole enemy unit!

What was worse was that the enemy targeting systems experienced further difficulties.

The ace light skirmisher’s Electronic Gremlin System began to produce a large amount of interference. The custom ECM system had received numerous updates over its lifetime as Ariana Roux, its developer, became increasingly more familiar with the military software and hardware employed by different major alien races.

Though the Electronic Gremlin System could only be considered a minor feature of the Dark Zephyr Mark III, its effects still received an unreasonable degree of amplification from his Saint Kingdom.

The relatively outdated and disposable alien warships could not fully defend themselves against this interference!

All of this ensured that the Dark Zephyr got hit way less than it should.

Even if the Dark Zephyr could not evade every attack, the mitigating properties of his Saint Kingdom combined with his azure energy shield left his thin armor system untouched for the time being.

Though the constant attacks still drained Tusa’s willpower and his battle partner’s energy reserves at an elevated rate, the ace pilot knew that he only had to keep this up for a moderate amount of time.

Though Tusa had to direct much of his attention to evasion and damage mitigation, he did not intend to remain harmless.

The Dark Zephyr periodically utilized his Dark Wind Ultimate Module to bypass enemy azure energy shields and strike directly at the hull!

After returning the precious tier 3 Destroyer spear to the Riot Mark III, Tusa’s machine no longer possessed a weapon with a long reach.

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