The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7467

Chapter 7467: Unproven Soldier

One of the problems faced by Saint Commander Casella Ingvar was that her importance vastly exceeded her ability to defend herself against direct attacks.

As a command unit and one that acted as the most powerful force multiplier of the Larkinson Clan, the Minerva Mark II always ranked high on the enemy’s priority elimination list.

What truly vexed the Larkinsons was that despite the recency of her upgrade, the Minerva Mark II had yet to become a superdimensional mech.

She still relied on a good old transphasic hyper armor system to fend off attacks when evasion and energy defenses failed to keep the living mech spotless.

Though the Minerva Mark II’s sacrifice ended up benefiting the Riot Mark III in a massive way, that did not change the fact that the ace command mech had become extremely vulnerable to quick takedowns in the current day and age!

As the failed arche sneak attack just proved, the native aliens made increasingly greater use of superdimensional armaments.

From the increasingly more prevalent Saint Piercers to the newly unveiled munitions enriched by small amounts of superdimensional matter, any of these weapons could easily blow apart the Minerva Mark II’s relatively weak resonance shield and tear through her thin layers of transphasic armor plating!

Due to lacking both a proper Saint Kingdom and a superdimensional armor system, the Minerva Mark II had turned into a highly inconvenient asset that needed to be treated like a fragile vase.

Casella found it... inconvenient.

She knew that even if the Minerva Mark II received her promised superdimensional upgrade in the future, the ace command mech would still have to avoid direct combat whenever possible. Her inability to project a traditional Saint Kingdom deprived her of a powerful means to protect herself against a wide variety of attacks.

Fortunately, all was not lost.

The addition of the Victrix granted her an alternative means of getting close to the action.

Ves may have labeled the Ultimate Module as a remote command fey, but to Casella, she was nothing less than an avatar of the Minerva Mark II and by extension herself!

The Saint Commander had already experimented with the Victrix during previous engagements. She developed quite a bit of uses for the large and powerful remote command fey.

Using the living Ultimate Module as an extension relay for her Command Field was her most fundamental purpose.

Though it did not sound particularly exciting, the applications were myriad.

What she truly appreciated about the Victrix was that it became a lot easier for Casella to channel her various resonating abilities and other powers from a distance by using the remote command fey as her surrogate.

The importance of this benefit could not be overstated.

The inclusion of Mindstorm Alloy as the key resonating material for the Minerva Mark II was supposed to compensate for her weakness by giving her the option of intervening directly from the rear.

While its potential was great, her resonance strength was not yet fully up to the task of producing powerful psionic storms on the other side of the battlefield.

Distance remained a persistent problem. She had relatively little issue with generating a psionic storm a few hundred meters away from her ace mech, but that was practically useless.

However, the story was different if she could accomplish a similar feat with her remote command fey.

From the moment the Victrix arrived before the mysterious archecruiser, Casella was able to exert much greater control over the alien vessel.

The intensity of her Command Field penetrated deeper into the hull, though the Saint Commander also noted that she still encountered far greater resistance than typical.

Different from conventional alien homeships, archeships were entirely made out of archemetal, which possessed very similar compositions to the iconic shells of the arche race.

This had many implications. First, archeships were generally a lot denser and more massive than a similarly-sized homeship belonging to a different native alien race.

All of these dense and electrically charged layers of archemetal happened to form more effective barriers that repulsed foreign or hostile influences.

They also generated a lot of interference that diminished the amount of details that she could glean from the interior of the vessel. The center of the immobilized archecruiser was especially fuzzy to Casella’s senses!

Furthermore, while the archecruiser could not be regarded as a living warship, her full archemetal construction along with the fact that hundreds of arche spacers interfaced directly with her hull through their archeshells meant that she was not fully lifeless either.

The alien ship possessed more traits of life than any other alien vessel that Casella encountered up to this point.

This hindered her power expression even further. Even with the boosts provided by the Victrix, when she finally attempted to generate psionic storms in every compartment that contained relatively more powerful lifeforms, the output was just a fraction of what was possible in open space!

The deeper into the hull, the lower the intensity of her psionic storms.

This was bad news. Though Casella could still ascertain that she was causing at least some amount of disruption to the enemy crew, she could not guarantee that one of the alien officers could activate the self-destruction function.

The only way to truly preserve this strategic prize was to secure her the old fashioned way!

"According to intelligence derived from various sources, the arche soldiers stationed on a more prestigious ship like this will generally be much better armed and armored. You are guaranteed to encounter stiff resistance, especially when the alien opposition is able to make ample use of internal defenses. The good news is that I have successfully disabled the arche crew stationed in the peripheral compartments. You can ignore them for the time being. The aliens stationed closer to the center of the hull will still be able to resist to varying degrees. It will take a substantial amount of time to overcome their defenses."

The Saint Commander continued her briefing. "If our estimations are correct, then the only unit in the first wave that can break through the enemy defenses and enter the citadel in time is the detachment from the 2nd Apocalypse Wardens. Your mid-grade superdimensional gear will grant you an overwhelming advantage against the alien opposition. According to my senses, the arche has not managed to preserve any superdimensional matter, though I cannot be fully certain when it comes to the deepest compartments of the archecruiser. Your priority is clear. Let the other boarding troops take care of the riffraff. Your mission is to reach the center and either capture or kill the highest-ranking alien officers. You are permitted to destroy or disable any alien devices that you perceive to be a threat or hindrance."

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