The Mech Touch

Chapter 6779 The Divine Supplicant of the Great Ones

The ace mechs defending the Kayana System played a crucial role.

Including the most powerful Lamia Kailamassu, they numbered an impressive 9 in total.

However, 5 of them consisted of junior ace mechs like the Amaranto while 4 of them were senior ace mechs.

The ace mechs were clearly outnumbered by the alien phase lords.

Over half of them were imports from the Middle Zones. They had just received their upgraded first-class ace mechs and had not had the chance to test their capabilities on the battlefield.

That did not hinder them too much. They were halfgods whose skills and capabilities vastly exceeded the human norm.

Even if they were unaccustomed to the power of their new machines, it only took ten minutes of hearty fighting for them to understand how to leverage the base capabilities of their ace mechs.

Even so, they struggled to contain the advancing phase lords, who were considerably stronger and better equipped than the ones fighting in the Middle and Lower Zones. Powerful resonance-empowered gauss rifles, transphasic missiles, positron weapons struck the defenses of the phase lords, but did nothing aside from draining their spatial barriers.

While the more powerful armaments of the ace mechs allowed them to drain the defenses of the phase lords faster, the fact that they were outnumbered made it difficult for them to concentrate their attacks and achieve effective results in a short amount of time.

The presence of the looming phase whale alone forced all of the ace pilots to fight more cautiously!

The only ace mech that was qualified to confront such a terrible being head-on was the Lamia Kailamassu, but it was questionable whether this non-lethal mech had what. it took to halt this formidable opponent for long!

The combination of being outnumbered and overpowered was not good news to the ace pilots.

There were 4 senior ace mechs, but it was questionable whether they could hold back the Divine Maw, the Descent of Hushae'Rhua and the The Divine Supplicant of the Great Ones.

Each of them were extremely well-equipped for their kind.

The Divine Sunplicant mainly focused on defense, but he was almost unkillable. Many of his phasewater organs served to reinforce his spatial barrier and his exoskeleton. He also enjoyed the protection of a luxurious superdimensional shield, which he did not have to use yet because his energy defenses were not that easy to exhaust. For the time being, the Divine Supplicant hovered close to the Divine Maw, enabling the two to work together and divide responsibilities.

This made the Divine Maw a lot trickier to attack. The Lamia Kailamassu had attempted to drag the greater phase whale into a stalemate, but many of its tricks were only partially effective on the massive alien monstrosity due to size and other limitations!

The most effective measure that the Lamia Kailamassu could take was to build up momentum and crash against the Divine Maw's spatial barrier with the force of a weapon of mass destruction.

These repeated crashing attacks produced modest results, but when the greater jureg phase lord came to the rescue of his liege lord and sought to withstand the incoming attacks, the Lamia Kailamassu began to encounter greater hindrances!

The Stewards Siamesia stimulated their Saint Kingdoms and attempted to interfere with the mentality of the Divine Supplicant, but the alien phase lord easily resisted the mental invasion!

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"MY FAITH IS UNSHAKABLE! YOUR EVIL HUMAN TRICKS WILL NEVER WORK!"

The Stewards Siamesia had never fought against phase lords as strong as the Divine Supplicant.

Even though he was already regarded as a god by the aliens of the Red Ocean, the Divine Supplicant had only ever considered himself the servant of the phase whales!

The Divine Supplicant's apparent immunity to the Saint Kingdoms of the Lamia Kailamassu turned him into a disruptive nuisance.

The jureg greater phase lord did not bother to attack, but invested all of his power and attention on defense and interference.

His sole job was to get in the way of the Lamia Kailamassu and prevent the peak ace mech from threatening the Divine Maw!

"It is as we feared." Saint Aloretzi Chevor spoke over a high-level communication channel. "The native aliens have studied what I can do to them and specifically assigned the most fanatical greater phase lord they could find to hinder my actions. I fear that even if I turn away from the Divine Maw, the Divine Supplicant will still bite at my heels."

The Divine Supplicant gained more and more courage. He took advantage of his shrunken but still fairly large proportions to put his body and his spatial barrier in the

wer of Attaruthing the Iamia Kailamaceu tried to do Llic defences wara inconalt

strong, but his mobility was just good enough to fend off most direct assaults.

And this was without the Divine Maw taking action yet!

With the most powerful ace mech locked in a struggle, the other ace mechs shrugged to perform their responsibilities.

They not only had to hold back 16 lesser phase lords, but also another greater phase lord.

The Descent of Hushae'Rhua was extremely dangerous to confront. The nunser phase lord wielded his Saint Piercer with great skill and purpose and always made the senior ace mechs circling around his true body wary.

None of the ace pilots wanted to make a mistake that would get their machines

impaled!

Those that dismiss this thought as cowardice and sought to prove their strength by challenging phase lords armed with Saint Piercers usually met abrupt ends to their long and storied careers!

The losses of so many overconfident ace pilots in the past few months had taught the remaining ones a hard lesson.

Never underestimate a greater phase lord armed with a Saint Piercer!

The Red Cabal only awarded their precious superdimensional arms to gods that not only earned earned enough merit, but also possessed the martial skill to wield them

with great skill.

This was why the senior ace mechs assigned to fight the Descent of Hushae'Rhua maintained a moderate distance and sought to disrupt rather than kill.

The downside to this was that this approach only slowed down the advance of the nunser phase lord. He was still moving closer to the orbital defense network!

"We need more assistance! These lesser phase lords are too difficult to harm!"

"We are coming, but our firepower is limited."

"Stick to the plan and do not come close. Your resonance shields won't last long when

struck directly by a lesser phase whale."

Assisting the ace mechs were scores of expert mechs.

They were much more numerous, and they were also more powerful than their

second-class counterparts due to their much more expensive designs.

However, aside from the high-tier expert pilots, the resonance strength of the

low-tier and medium-tier expert pilots were too low to inflict that much more damage

to the spatial barriers of the lesser phase lords.

They attacked at the lesser phase lords anyway because they could still make a difference, however small.

In this early stage, neither side lost any champions.

The Lamia Kailamassu had just begun to team up with other friendly ace mechs and sought to empower them with their unique non-threatening Saint Kingdoms. The enemy phase whale and phase lords were enduring the initial barrage of attacks

well. Their spatial barriers were too good at absorbing punishment and were not about to break anytime soon.

While all of this was happening, there was only one ace mech that had yet to open fire

against the phase lords.

The Amaranto Mark III very deliberately did not turn her Instrument of Vengeance towards any of the lesser phase lords!

Saint Stark felt frustrated about it. She itched to participate in the effort to strip the spatial barrier off a lesser phase lord and open the alien up for all kinds of attacks! Yet Saint Aloretzi Chevor denied this request and assigned a different task to her after the arrival of the Divine Maw forced everyone to readjust their plans. "Your firepower is not as valuable when used to break down the defenses of the lesser phase lords. That is not to say that you are useless in this endeavor. I know you can significantly speed up the process of making them vulnerable. The problem is that you

are too bright."

"I am too... bright?" Stark puzzlingly asked.

"If you begin to launch attacks on a lesser phase lord, everyone will take notice. Nobody can ignore what you are doing. This will make it more difficult to land a killing

blow onto your target because the phase lords will put more effort into saving one of their own from a potential kill."

That actually made sense. If the native alien gods had any form of sympathy towards

their injured comrades, then the former would definitely work hard to rescue the

latter.

Saint Stark smiled. "I... see what you mean. Is this why you want me to remain on ship-killing duty?"

"Partially. Your firepower is highly potent against most warships. You should be capable of piercing through the defenses of most warships and crippling them in one or two powerful attacks. You should use this strength of yours to destroy them as much as possible. The less the aliens have left by the time the battle has come to an end, the more difficult it is for them to sustain their assault on this star system." Seeing how the Amaranto already managed to core a bunch of warships, Saint Stark felt happy for being able to save more humans from extinction due to the removal of

the warships.

"At the same time, attacking the lesser phase lords is a brave choice, but one that puts

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"So you do not want me to attack any lesser phase lord." "Only while they remain shielded." Alo responded. "Keep an eye on the lesser phase

lords. If any of them lose their spatial barriers, you have my permission to freely open fire on the exposed targets. Let the others do the job of wearing down the spatial barriers of the enemy lesser phase lords. You shall be the mech that will claim their

lives.." Saint Stark grinned. "That sounds good."

It looked as if it would take a while for the weakest lesser phase lord's spatial barriers

to crumble.

Until then, her Amaranto remained highly productive and continued to launch one precision strike after another.

No alien warship lasted more than two full-powered shots.

The azure energy shields employed by the native aliens simply weren't designed to

guard against such potent penetration strikes.

Although the alien commanders tried to mitigate the damage by withdrawing the

largest and more formidable hulls to the rear of their naval formations, this unexpected retreat exposed a lot of other ships to attacks!

Saint Stark had harvested the lives of many people aboard more than a dozen

warships by this time.

If she kept up her current progress, she could easily wipe out a fifth of the alien

armada and still keep going so long as there were targets in range.

Even as Saint Stark continued to land killing blows onto alien warships, the Obisidian

Orb finally began to move.

Its first act was to unfold the reflective obsidian-like structure and reveal an

enormous plasma cannon in its center.

The diameter of this gun was big enough to fit a moderately sized warship in the

barrel! "Be careful! The Obsidian Orb has just completed its preparations and warmup. It will soon open fire according to multiple possible trajectories uploaded to the command net. Do not find yourself in any of these corridors, or else you will get blasted away by the largest plasma attack that you have ever seen."

As the Obsidian Orb's main gun accumulated energy, it looked ready to unleash its

first serious attack.

The main cannon continually absorbed more and more E energy until it became hard

to contain so much energy!

"Target: The Divine Maw. Attack in 3, 2, 1, launch!"

A humongous plasma bolt streaked across space and struck the Divine Maw's

enormous spatial barrier!

From the moment the two came into contact with each other, the explosion of heat and light was so great that some of the more sensitive instruments got scrambled by the powerful and chaotic release of radiation and unpleasantries!