The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7500

Chapter 7500: Hostile Environment

The Hypeh-Tekas System did not welcome the combined fleet.

At first, the surrounding miasma of death and negativity pressed upon the souls of the human crew members.

Just staying on the edge of the star system already made these people feel uncomfortable!

Yet this turned out to be the least of their problems.

Only a little over 10 minutes passed before the soldiers began to report another alarming development.

"Ghosts!"

"Ah, I am under attack!"

"How are they getting inside?!"

"Damn! My knife passes right through their bodies!"

"How are you able to shoot them down!?"

"Use hyper weapons!"

"If you have a companion spirit, now is the time to test its strength!"

Various shades and apparitions flew through the hulls of various starships and launched attacks at any humans in sight.

As long as they could get close enough to their prey, they could drain the souls out of people’s bodies!

However, most of the soldiers hadn’t been completely caught off-guard. The deathborn may have been a relatively obscure phenomenon, but red humanity still possessed a few records about their properties.

Though these vaguely humanoid ghosts had shown a near-complete disregard for material obstacles, many forms of hyper technology and E energy manipulation could still pose a threat against their existence!

After the initial panic and confusion had passed, the soldiers quickly got their act together.

They swung their hyper blades through the bodies of the ghosts, causing their already-weak intangible forms to disperse almost immediately.

Others raised their rifles or brought their integrated armaments online and opened fire at low power.

The soldiers quickly learned that material firepower made very little difference. It was the hyper technology incorporated in their firearms that truly made a difference.

It only took a little bit of testing to understand that the most efficient way of clearing out the ghosts while keeping collateral damage to a minimum was to employ hyper laser weapons.

Though almost all infantry-grade laser weapons in the combined fleet also happened to be transphasic, this particular property brought more disadvantages than advantages.

Transphasic attacks had a much greater chance of endangering other people and damaging sensitive equipment!

However, it was very difficult to retool them into non-tranphasic weapons, so most soldiers had little choice but to aim their weapons carefully and make sure that there was nothing important behind their targets.

Large amounts of hyper transphasic laser beams therefore seared the bulkheads on almost every ship of the Premier Fleet and the Bluejay Fleet!

The Larkinsons, Terrans, mechers, fleeters and collies all struggled to carve out safe spaces within their starships.

Tens of thousands of ghosts broke down and turned into messy energies in a short amount of time.

However, more of them arrived from every direction!

Minutes passed as the soldiers kept trying to assail the humans. Their human or alien-like expressions displayed mindless hunger and ferocity. It seemed that whatever thinking processes governed their behavior solely fixated on killing and devouring the living!

The good news was that these weak but extremely numerous deathborn completely ignored the sensitive and expensive hardware around them. It was not as if they could inflict much effective damage against all of the first-class parts if they wanted to. Everything was built according to the highest specifications of human civilization, which meant that they were shielded and hardened against a variety of different attacks!

However, this also meant that every human unceasingly attracted ghosts to themselves. Their souls and vitality seemed like the most delectable nectar to these weak and starved ghosts. They completely gave into their feral instincts and converged upon the living beings like moths to a flame!

If not for the fact that it was mostly the soldiers stationed closer to the exterior of the hulls that attracted most of the deathborn in the first place, the service members working deeper inside the starships would have faced endless harassment as well!

Though the former were able to hold out quite well so far, the tide of deathborn remained unending.

"They are coming from all around us! I suspect that this entire star system may be riddled with deathborn!"

"That is impossible! It would take much more slaughter to produce so many of them! A large concentration of deathborn must have been stationed here in order to intercept new arrivals. That means that they are not unending."

"Well, it sure looks like it, because we have been killing them for over 10 minutes non-stop and the tide has yet to taper off! If this surge of attacks does not subside, we will begin to suffer losses!"

As well-trained as these soldiers may be, they had never been trained to fight such a massive horde of intangible life forms.

Their hyper laser weapons and other hyper armaments may have given them the capital to fend the ghosts off, but none of these weapons had been designed for this specific purpose.

It was quite inefficient for them to clear out the deathborn with weapons that packed a much greater punch in the material realm than the ethereal realm!

"We need to employ solutions on a large scale if we want to keep everyone safe!"

It was at this time that the mechs attempted to disperse the ghosts.

The Omega Threshers resting inside the bunkers came to life and began to fire their diverse weapon systems at the ghosts and dark miasma surrounding their positions.

Each powerful Omega Laser Cannon managed to sear through at least thousands of ghosts in a straight line!

The Larkinsons had procured the latest generation of Omega Threshers, which meant that they were all models that incorporated hyper technology from a previous small generation.

Even if the application of hyper technology was already outdated by the standards of the present, they still channeled enough E energy to inflict effective damage to the deathborn, especially when they were already vulnerable to infantry-scale hyper attacks!

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