The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7474

Chapter 7474: Growth and Sacrifice

Although Casella Ingvar wanted to give the Apocalypse Wardens as much space as they needed to overcome this challenge, she could not indulge in their ego without limit.

Gloriana’s demands were not entirely unreasonable. The so-called archeshell mech possessed inestimable research value to red humanity. Capturing it and preserving as much of its unique structure as possible remained a high priority.

This was why the Saint Commander set a time limit. The longer this went on, the greater the chance that something could go wrong.

The announcement did not cause the Apocalypse Wardens to change their approach.

They already instinctively figured out that time was against their side. Too much could go wrong if the fight dragged out. This was especially the case when confronting a completely new and unfamiliar opponent that possessed an abundance of technological depth.

The archeshell mech continued to become more proficient with its own strength abilities with every passing minute.

Its two-limbed and four-limbed gait visibly improved. Not only was the archeshell captain able to accelerate faster, but he also became increasingly more agile and limber with his maneuvers.

He frequently caught the Apocalypse Wardens off-guard by making strange movements that people never expected to see from a turtle-like alien construct. The archeshell mech rolled his body around and even leapt a few times!

Each of these maneuvers severely tested the elite human soldiers. The ongoing duel matched the worst virtual training scenarios, the ones where defeat became an expected outcome.

All of the remaining active Apocalypse Wardens knew that if they wanted to come out on top, they had to grow as well!

They continued to analyze their adversary and developed numerous responses against known problems.

Though the archeshell mech made increasingly more bizarre movements with the help of its powerful limbs and its growing mastery of spatial manipulation, the alien mind in control of the construct did not exhibit complex thinking.

He was clearly not a professional groundpounder by profession.

The arche captain likely hailed from his own race’s version of the highborn caste.

These privileged arche might not have enjoyed as much luxuries as human scions, but they benefited from a diet of quality exotics that elevated the strength and beauty of their archeshells far above the mundane citizens of their race.

Such arche were destined to become senior officers and scientists. They never had to do any dirty work in their lives. The uglier arche with worse archeshells naturally assumed such duties.

Though red humanity did not know whether highborn arche engaged in duels on a regular basis, the former archeship captain clearly did not possess a lot of actual combat experience.

He may have been intelligent enough to learn the new capabilities of his partially divine body relatively quickly, but judgment stayed on the level of an amateur!

"This alien guy telegraphs most of his big attacks."

"He doesn’t know the importance of performing feints."

"His actions are constrained by his momentum. His turning radius is fast, but not fast enough."

"His mentality is impaired. He is either in pain, exhausted or engaged in excessive multitasking. He responds poorly to unexpected situations."

The Apocalypse Wardens fought more vigorously as knowledge was power. The more they learned what their enemy was capable of, the greater their chance to stay one step ahead!

The elite cultivator soldiers demonstrated this brilliantly by baiting the archeshell mech into another charge attack.

Though the alien leader tried to be clever and roll to the side in order to rush down a soldier that was previously positioned out of the way, the soldier in question had already anticipated the possibility and activated his boosters at full power in advance!

This not only caused the archeshell mech to waste its chance, but also collide against the side of the hall!

The powerful impact created a significant dent in the thickened and reinforced bulkhead.

Before the alien construct could recover from the collision and turn around, the closest team of Apocalypse Wardens dove in and repeatedly struck their superdimensional hammers against the rear of the enemy’s archeshell!

Each and every powerful impact shattered the crystalline components and completely destabilized the phasewater that reinforced the organic composite materials.

Cracks continued to spread across the knobbed surface as individual archeshells crumbled into pieces.

In certain cases, the underlying layers of archemetal became exposed, along with the alien blood that connected them all together!

The archeshell mech roared in pain, signifying that it was more of a new body rather than a mech for the archecruiser captain!

"#&$@&$!"

The alien responded in a furious fashion by jumping and landing backwards, hoping to crush the annoying human soldiers between his damaged archeshell and the deck of the large chamber!

Of course, the Apocalypse Wardens anticipated this move and jumped away just as the alien bent its limbs.

The entire compartment seemed to shake as the powerful alien landed hard with its belly up!

This offered the humans a priceless opportunity to attack the softest side of the alien!

Half-a-dozen Apocalypse Wardens dove in and struck with their superdimensional hammers.

This time, the thinner layers of individual archeshells offered considerably less resistance. More blood spilled from the wounds while lots of crystal fragments flew into the air!

Suddenly, the space around the damaged archeshell mech seemed to freeze.

Though it did not significantly affect the movements of the nearby human soldiers, they grew so alarmed that they preemptively jumped away.

They barely managed to get clear before an enormous clap of light and sound erupted from the large construct’s position!

"It blinked!"

The giant archeshell mech appeared in the same upside-down position right above the most distant Apocalypse Warden!

Though the soldier responded quickly enough by trying to boost away, the completely unexpected nature of this new ability meant that he failed to reach safety in time!

CRUNCH!

Superdimensional armor or not, getting dropped by a large and remarkably dense archeshell mech exceeded the defensive properties of the relatively thin armor layers!

The Apocalypse Wardens suffered another loss.

Not that they became discouraged by this event.

"Avenge the fallen!"

"Death before ruination!"

As the clock continued to tick down, the Apocalypse Wardens doubled down on their offensive and took greater risks!

They attacked the archeshell mech relentlessly even as it tried to swat the superdimensional flies with its large but clumsy frame.

It utilized its short-ranged teleportation capability several times, and managed to clip a couple more human soldiers.

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