The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7590

Chapter 7590: Tentative Conclusion

The exhausting Battle of Hypeh-Tekas II had come to an end.

Sure, combat still raged across the orbit of the alien-occupied planet, but the outcome of this engagement had already been set.

The native aliens suffered massive losses, much of them strategic in nature.

The orbital defense network was ruined. It held out longer than expected and inflicted way more damage to the combined fleet than any human wished, but once the remnants of the native alien soldiers knew they had failed, enemy resistance collapsed like falling dominoes.

There was nothing more for the minions of the Red Cabal left to defend. The mysterious planetary temple complex was the key objective on both sides. The entire battle essentially revolved around this singularly important site.

The Red Ocean aliens apparently needed to defend it in order to facilitate their nascent aliens with the Messier 87 aliens.

This very much became evident when the humans what had happened after the temple complex became utterly ruined by the Riot Mark III.

"The deathborn... have disappeared!"

"They are no longer crowding around the edges of the Minerva’s Saint Kingdom anymore!"

"The remaining deathborn lords are gone! They all abandoned their physical vessels and withdrew at a speed too fast for us to intercept!"

"What?!"

That last part took everyone by surprise. The Larkinsons and other soldiers had developed quite a grudge against the deathborn and their high-ranked leaders.

In order to defend the Red Ocean against the foul and undesirable influence of these extra-galactic invaders, it became vital to squash their projected manifestations!

Their cowardly and desperate flight prevented the humans from finishing this job!

This upset a lot of people, particularly the ones who tangled directly against them such as Saint Tusa Billingsley-Larkinson and Saint Davia Stark.

They had been harried by these exotic adversaries for a long time without being able to gain the upper hand. The current victory tasted like ashes in their mouth due to their inability to achieve any personal successes.

"The deathborn have suffered a serious blow today." Saint Commander Casella Ingvar concluded based on her own observations. "We have destroyed a major engine of reproduction. It couldn’t have been easy for either groups of aliens to construct that enormous temple complex. The massive green crystal alone was a priceless treasure that should be extremely difficult and costly to reproduce. It was a strategic asset that could have been responsible for overwhelming the entire Terran frontlines with trillions of deathborn. It would have been more ideal for us to capture it intact, but its total ruination has led to a much swifter end of hostilities."

Casella based her thoughts on a number of vague and uncertain assumptions. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

It was very clear that the temple complex and its mysterious power source boosted the deathborn in multiple ways.

However, much of it remained undefined.

The best guess that Ves and others could make was that it not only served as a reproduction center, but also functioned as a signal node that was powerful enough to allow weaker deathborn who currently resided in M87 to project their consciousness all the way into this dwarf galaxy!

This explained the rapid collapse and loss of organization among all of the controlled deathborn armies.

Their deathborn officers did not disappear right after the destruction of the temple complex, but they became noticeably less active.

The temple complex also shared a strong relation with the dark miasma.

While it was unfortunate that this negative influence remained active due to the fact that it was generated by an entirely different source, everyone close by somehow felt that it had lost some of its teeth.

Much of its interference effects remained just as strong as before, but many soldiers reported that they no longer felt threatened by this debilitating energy field.

Part of this response could be explained by simple acclimation. Compared to the early days, everyone had gradually grown familiar with the properties of the dark miasma. A known source of danger was ultimately much less scary than an unfamiliar source.

Experience also mattered. Many soldiers faced life-threatening situations earlier that tested their grit and courage in many ways. Those who survived this ordeal had proven their strength and resilience. Even the most brittle among them experienced some form of mental growth.

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