The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7600

Chapter 7600: Ves the Incorrigible

A travesty like this should never happen.

Ves watched the archival footage with dismay. The Tortuous Scream directed her formidable collection of primary gun batteries to fire upon 20 biomechs that should have remained on humanity’s side.

Yet due to their wild and uncontrolled mutation, they had not only become completely unresponsive to orders, but also turned their aggression against their own side!

The crew of the Tortuous Scream had no choice but to comply with the Saint Commander’s latest instruction and target the out-of-control Poison Willows with deadly finality.

At least the battleship-grade guns managed to keep it clean.

Their firepower was on another level. All of the attacks launched by the mechs in the field looked like nothing in comparison.

Even the proud ace mechs of the Larkinson Clan struggled to match the raw power output of even a single massive naval gun!

Although none of the attack salvos launched by the Tortuous Scream received anything but the faintest resonance empowerment from the Minerva Mark II, they never needed to rely on such fancy tricks in order to inflict a great amount of damage.

The Poison Willows targeted by the converted alien battleship likewise lacked the reality-defying protection of a resonance shield or a Shield Kingdom.

They completely derived their durability from their special material composition and their impossibly quick regeneration!

Small-scale attacks from other mechs and strike crafts may as well be pinpricks to these endlessly regenerating abominations.

Even if they got struck in the center of their chests by a particularly dense concentration of attacks, the supposed loss of their cockpits of power reactors failed to quell their regenerating properties!

They had become so monstrous that they no longer played by the rules of ordinary biomechs!

Yet no matter how much power these outraged organic machines managed to derive from the poisonous environment, even they could not overcome the firepower of a genuine battleship.

Although the Poison Willows did their best to evade the incoming attack salvos, their awkward and inhuman controllers proved inadequate for the task.

Not that human pilots could fare much better in the same situation. There was only so much they could do to prevent their biomech frames from getting hit by the formidable barrages.

Plasma bolts, energy beams and kinetic projectiles that were powerful enough to demolish entire unshielded city districts struck the enlarged biomechs with merciless intention.

Many Poison Willows shattered or disappeared outright!

Their fabled regeneration failed to gain any chance to undo any damage when the entire organic mech frames pretty much got destroyed in totality!

In the rare instance where a Poison Willows received heavy damage yet managed to cling to a semblance of life, they rarely managed to celebrate their survival before a second salvo of battleship-grade attacks finished the job!

In the end, the depressing sequence ended relatively quickly.

The Tortuous Scream’s primary gun batteries were much slower to reload than other armaments, but at least she had enough of them. Her large hull had been practically built to accommodate these large and costly guns. She had merely fulfilled her purpose in this incident.

Nonetheless, her crew and many other people still felt despondent about turning their guns against their own side.

Even if it was clear to Ves and anyone knowledgeable enough that the original test pilots of the Poison Willows had already ’died’ from the moment they went out of control, it still did not make this situation any easier.

"This failure will leave a black mark on their record." Gloriana calmly explained to her silent husband. "The good news is that this did not happen in the presence of third parties. None of our friends and allies who have fought alongside us have any reason to publicize this incident and turn it into a scandal. You have earned at least that much trust and goodwill."

"Ah."

Ves hadn’t thought that far yet. He agreed with her analysis. There wasn’t much of a reason for his allies and collaborators to make use of this failure to launch an attack on him. They needed him and inventions far too much to risk a break in relations.

"That does not mean they are willing to forget about what happened." Gloriana continued. "I have no doubt that each and every ally has quietly preserved their data logs and put them into confidential dossiers. They will probably choose to do nothing for the moment, but if a moment ever arises where they need to attack your credibility, you can bet that they will unveil your stain to the masses."

In other words, Ves did not have to pay a price for this dismal outcome at this time, but it may eventually come back to haunt him in the future.

Every ace mech needed a bit of work. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

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