The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7475

Chapter 7475: An Optimistic Beginning

The fight came to a decisive end.

Unlike the previous duel, the next bout of fighting began and ended almost in the same instant.

The power disparity was too great.

Though the archeshell mech admittedly possessed its own points of brilliance, it was far too lacking in the ways that mattered.

In addition, the alien ’pilot’ lacked too much practice and familiarity with his new strength. He was not a soldier who excelled in personal combat, but a commander who issued orders to those who fought in his stead.

This meant that there was a mismatch between skills and responsibilities, as was the case for many other phase lords.

High-ranking mech pilots usually did not suffer from these problems because each and everyone of them earned their strength.

Through blood, sweat and tiers, expert pilots and ace pilots had to crawl through hell and push themselves further than 99.99 percent of other mech pilots!

Saint Dise particularly excelled among her colleagues as a duelist and a swordswoman. She was quite possibly the worst matchup for the newly ascended native ’god’.

The First Sword Mark III did not even bother to perform any extraordinary techniques. The ace swordsman mech rushed forward with blazing speed and surgically chopped off the archeshell mech’s limbs without any noticeable effort!

Unlike the tiny mid-grade superdimensional hammers wielded by the Apocalypse Wardens, the Decapitator was a true high-grade superdimensional weapon.

The difference in scale, mass, density and spatial supremacy was so much greater that the archeshell mech could never offer any meaningful resistance in the first place.

The archecruiser captain’s moment of glory had come to an abrupt end for that reason.

Though Saint Dise wished to complete her task by decapitating this disturbing alien construct, Gloriana insisted otherwise!

"Do not cut off the head, Dise!" She shouted over the communication channel. "The archeshell mech is not a mech. It is a phase lord that possesses a body that partially resembles an archemech. If you kill a phase lord, his entire true body will cease to function properly. I presume the same rule applies to this research specimen. If it is possible, I want our forces to secure it without inflicting any unnecessary damage."

Her request sounded reasonable if somewhat cumbersome.

"The Red Association harbors a great amount of interest in studying this so-called archeshell mech." Jovy Armalon entered the command channel and voiced his offer. "We have the necessary capabilities to put the damaged but living subject under stasis long enough to ship it back to the Yernstall Central Star Node where our research institutions can dissect its workings."

"Not so fast, Mr. Armalon." Formation Master Andrea Vos interjected. "Multiple mech designers have confirmed that the archeshell mech is not a mech. It is just called this way because of its superficial resemblance to one. Properly speaking, the subject is actually a mutated phase lord. According to the relevant agreements, phase lords of any kind or species fall under the jurisdiction of the Red Collective."

"This offensive operation is taking place under the auspices of the Terran Alliance. Do not deny us the right to study this capture." Caracalla Shuku said. "Our territories are also just over the border. Instead of sending it on a long and dangerous journey back to Yernstall, it is better to send it to the heart of our colonial alliance to minimize the risk of interception from both human and alien parties."

More voices joined the conversation. Each of them wanted to stake a claim on this priceless alien treasure. That included the Larkinson Clan!

Ves already expected this to happen. The Nemesis Campaign was bound to yield a large variety of unprecedented gains.

He just felt surprised that the representatives did not even bother to wait until the combined fleet had fully tallied all of the loot.

"Everyone who has contributed to this battle gets to have a share." Ves decisively declared. "In my opinion, leaving this research specimen to the Red Collective is the best overall option as far as I am concerned."

The others could not easily refute this argument. The Red Collective was indeed the most open superorganization around. Everyone participated in it, which meant that everyone would ultimately be able to access any benefits from studying the research specimen.

Though the Terrans still insisted on shipping it back to their own turf, the mechers strongly objected to the notion.

The rivalry between the two parties still remained as acrimonious as ever. The mechers probably feared that the Terrans would play dirty and deny them proper access.

In any case, the conclusion of this event marked the formal end of the battle.

Though the fighting had not totally ceased at this point, most forces became more preoccupied with search, rescue and salvage operations.

Many mechs and warships still remained on guard in case the large numbers of intact enemy forces decided to initiate a rematch, but that was more of a precaution.

Only skirmishes broke out on occasion. The combined fleet not only busied itself with salvaging the most valuable spoils from the debris field, but also moving further in-system in order to raid and raze the orbital and planetary outposts, supply depots, fueling stations and other military infrastructure.

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