The Mech Touch novel Chapter 1771

Hidden beneath the bunker installed on the surface of the Scarlet Rose, the Kravon and the Selzer unleashed a lot more firepower than their opponents anticipated!

The Kravon fired rounds that splintered off into deadly shards. The Terrinac did not expect to encounter this type of ammunition!

What surprised the six mech pilots from the Friday Coalition the most was that these shards were not as trivial as they thought!

The shield of the space knight and the exterior of the other mechs bore various scars. In the worst cases, the shards managed to dig deep enough to remain embedded in the material!

Suffice to say, the Terrinac quickly figured out that these shards actually consisted of high-quality materials!

"Where did this come from?! Did Lady Curver withhold any information?!"

The crew of the Terrinac formed all kinds of guesses.

Perhaps the Scarlet Rose picked up a shipping container during her flight.

Perhaps Ves managed to make a black market transaction back in the Great Zona Republic.

Perhaps Lady Curver secretly used her mission to smuggle a batch of high-value materials.

Whatever the case, the Kravon posed a lot more threat than before! Obscuring their formation in a particle cloud didn’t help much at all, since the spread of the shards was already beyond the Kravon’s control!

Though getting hit by a shard did not immediately spell disaster, the frequency of hits would soon take a toll on the mechs if they got hit!

The light skirmishers that ordinarily would have tried to avoid getting hit by taking advantage of their superior mobility had to take care the most!

Ves estimated that their defensive prowess was similar to that of the Fliskin. While this granted them superior mobility, there was no meaningful way to cheat the random spread pattern of continuous bursts of shards!

Therefore, hidden inside the particle cloud, the light skirmishers all converged behind the space knight. The mechs hid their slim profiles behind the larger and thicker space knight and its prominent shield!

Even though the shield featured numerous shards, it was resilient enough to hold out for a long time against this dispersed bombardment of shards!

However, the space knight and the other exposed mechs did not just have to contend against this rain of shards.

The Selzer also outputted a considerable amount of firepower! Though its expanding laser blasts only transferred a minute amount of damage to the stricken mechs, its large area of effect basically guaranteed that all of the mechs barring the hiding light skirmisher endured some heat and energy damage!

This was not that much of a problem at the start, but the continuous absorption of heat began to burden their own heat management systems while beginning to melt some of their surface layers!

The damage dealt by the Kravon and the Selzer was considerable when taken in isolation, but not enough to threaten the integrity of the Coalition mechs!

However, when the damage dealt by the two mechs overlapped, the enemy mech pilots started to feel some discomfort!

The constant heat and energy damage applied to the exterior of the mechs softened up the surface layers of their armor coverage.

This allowed the sporadic shards that hit the mechs to dig in deeper and deal more serious damage!

As Ves observed the approaching particle cloud while two of his battle bots bombarded it with their weapons with abandon, he became a little frustrated at the lack of information.

He could only guess what was going on inside this obscuring cloud! As long as the two rifleman mechs kept releasing particles, Ves had no way of confirming the results of his tactics.

Fighting against the forces of a second-rate state was much more challenging than he expected!

None of the people on the enemy’s side was incompentent! Their mechs, mech pilots and commanders all represented the might of the Friday Coalition!

The mechs of the Terrinac didn’t allow the ranged battle bots to beat them up with impunity.

As soon as the particle cloud entered within effective range, the ranged mechs finally started firing their weapons!

Unlike the Selzer, the rifleman mechs opted to fire particle beams!

Since the mechs had been designed to release the obscuring particle clouds, their sensors and targeting systems had been specifically tuned to overcome their interference.

The Coalition rifleman mechs accurately managed to hit the bunker atop the Scarlet Rose with their particle beams!

A pair of bright blue beams impacted the top of the bunker in an instant, causing its upper sheets to endure a considerable amount of physical and energy damage!

However, as the beams sputtered out, only a few surface layers exhibited some damage!

Breyer alloy was just as tough as the high-quality compressed armor plating of a second-class mech!

While the Friday Coalition used better alloys, they were incredibly expensive!

The advantage held by Ves was that he was not short on Breyer alloy! Even though the particle beams managed to penetrate some of the sheets after repeating, the bunker consisted of five layers of alloy sheets, which basically made the bunker as thick as a defensive mech shield!

Though it was not impossible for the bunker to get breached, it would take a long time before the two enemy rifleman mechs got through all of the layers!

Even then, his enemies still had to defeat the Kravon and the Selzer as well!

"It’s all moot if those melee mechs manage to close the distance, though." Ves replaced his grin with a frown. _{frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓}

The enemy rifleman mechs were just meant to soften up his battle bots, which Ves managed to forestall by installing a bunker.

The true threat still lay in the space knight, striker mech and light skirmishers!

The interception continued. Because the Coalition mechs were chasing a fleeing target, it took quite some time for the former to catch up to latter.

Ves made the most out of this window of time by ordering the Kravon and the Selzer to fire their weapons with abandon!