The Mech Touch

Chapter 6780 The Star Caster

The battle turned into a different direction as soon as the Obsidian Orb opened fire.

The masterwork fortress-type superweapon was one of the sources of strength to the defenders in the Kayana System.

Its arrival was unquestioned proof that the higher ups had not forgotten about them. The Obsidian Orb may not be the most precious superweapon in the Red Ocean, but it was definitely one of few priceless war assets that the Rubarthan Pact had at its disposal!

Developed by the famous Plasma Shaper, the Obsidian Orb could easily be described as a black container for a massive hybrid energy weapon.

It was clearly designed and built to accommodate the 'Star Caster' Hyper Siege Plasma Cannon.

The Star Caster did not feature a long barrel, but its caliber was so immense that it could casily rival the famous spinal cannon of the Doom of Xenos!

While the Obsidian Orb did not possess the mobility and other handy features of the RF dreadnought, it possessed a huge range of support systems that were completely dedicated to enhancing the power and usability of the Star Caster.

In order to fend off smaller enemies and ones that have come closer, the Obsidian Orb was also protected by numerous 'Star Lancer' Hyper Plasma Cannons. Each of them were capable of obliterating warships, but their deployment required the super fortress to adopt a different configuration that disabled its Star Caster.

This effectively meant that the Obsidian Orb could only employ one type of weapon system at a time.

For now, the sole job of the super fortress was to repel the greater phase whale as best as possible!

Everyone carefully watched the results of the first direct impact. The power behind the plasma bolt was insane. Not only was immense and enhanced by numerous different exotic factors, was also infused with a high concentration of E energy.

The Plasma Shaper had somehow managed to upgrade the Obsidian Orb to incorporate a large amount of hyper materials taken from asteroids that had become infused with star-attributed E energy.

This 'stellar' energy had not only cast the plasma bolts in bright blue, but also enhanced their potency until they resembled miniature suns!

The average temperature of the massive plasma bolt exceeded 20,000 Kelvins!

The energy contained within this plasma bolt was so excessively great that the Divine Maw's spatial barrier struggled to withstand the extreme thermal energies released

upon impact.

Everyone froze or slowed down for a short amount of time.

They all wanted to know how effectively the Obsidian Orb had struck the greater phase whale.

As the seconds passed by, the spatial barrier eventually stabilized, but it clearly did not look as healthy as before!

"The Obsidian Orb... has inflicted an effective strike against the Divine Daw. Our readings suggest that the integrity of the latter's spatial barrier has dropped by as much as 17 percent!"

17 percent!

That was an enormous figure, especially considering how much conventional firepower it took to erode the spatial barrier of a greater phase whale.

Saint Stark personally believed that she would be lucky if her full-powered attack was able to reduce the integrity of the phase whale's spatial barrier by just 1 percent.

She might be able to achieve a much better result if she had access to the upgraded Instrument of Doom, but the Design Department was not able to complete this task within the current timeframe.

In short, the Amaranto Mark III had no chance of matching the firepower of the Star Caster anytime soon.

This was the case for an ace mech that embodied the concept of extreme firepower. It would be even more difficult for other ace mechs such as the Dark Zephyr Mark III to inflict a blow that was just as powerful!

All of this caused Saint Stark and many other mech pilots to become awed by the power of this singular super fortress.

"It deserves to be called a superweapon."

"The energy readings of that enormous plasma bolt doesn't make any sense!"

"The greater phase whale looks physically uncomfortable!"

The Divine Maw may be an alien of immense age, but he had probably never suffered a blow as damaging as the one he just received!

It hadn't been too long ago that the phase whales received a wakeup call when the god pilots of Red Humanity commenced a deep strike operation to destroy the Tide Stations.

So many ancient phase whales perished as the horrendous god mechs proved themselves to be unmatched by any alien opponent the natives could muster. Even now, the phase whales still feared the possibility of getting caught by the

While the Red Cabal was already working on solutions to close the unacceptable gap in power, it would not help the Divine Maw in his current situation. He was merely a greater phase whale that had yet to fully replace all of his blood with phasewater. The good news was that he was unlikely to encounter a god pilot. The native aliens had already recorded the last known positions of the Spacelock and the Destroyer of Worlds, and they were nowhere near the Kayana System for the foreseeable time.

The bad news was that the Obsidian Orb alone already posed a considerable threat against him. If his spatial barrier fell, his body would have to withstand all of the stellar-infused plasma bolts.

As a siege weapon, the Star Caster was originally designed to demolish the most. impenetrable land or orbital fortifications!

It was also capable of destroying entire subcontinents and cleansing the entire surface of a globe of life!

Such a superweapon could easily pose a credible threat to a greater phase whale as large as a small moon.

Despite the advantages of maintaining an enormous body, the Divine Maw quickly chose to shrink his true body!

It was a dramatic sight. The enormous biological monstrosity that previously loomed over everyone was shrinking out of fear of getting struck by the Star Caster a second

time.

Even though his formidable phasewater organs were already working hard to restore the integrity of his spatial barrier, the damage inflicted by the first shot was already enough to make the Divine Maw take the defenders more seriously.

Once the greater phase whale had shrunk to the size of a cruiser, the alien god ceased to diminish his presence further.

In this form, the Divine Maw became a lot more mobile, agile and lighter. While his ability to withstand damage had suffered a reduction, this was an acceptable tradeoff

as far as the alien menace was concerned.

It was much harder for the Obsidian Orb to land a hit on the greater phase whale a

second time!

The alien transmitted a silent command to the jureg greater phase lord.

Soon enough, the Divine Supplicant flew in front of the phase whale and provided strong cover in the form of his superdimensional shield.

The move readily cut off the Obsidian Orb from damaging the Divine Maw again. There was only one superweapon, and its main weapon could only fire along a linear

trajectory.

This was a huge shortcoming of the fortress-type superweapon!

The Obsidian Orb should ideally be used alongside another superweapon that was

positioned at a different location.

This way, the two superweapons could target an enemy even if he sought to take shelter behind other assets.

However, the Divine Maw's cowardly but intelligent move prevented the Star Caster from targeting this high priority enemy with the same case.

This prompted the Obsidian Orb's commander to alter the angle of the Star Caster. It went from trying to target the Divine Maw to attempting to target The Descent of

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This alarmed the nunser phase lord. He no longer tried to impale the annoying ace mechs with his Saint Piercer and sought to take shelter behind other warships. However, the ace mechs fought much harder in an attempt to drag down his forward

progress!

Just before the Star Caster had reached full charge, the native aliens made a sudden

move.

"INCOMING MISSILES!"

"Our systems are counting 600, 1300, 1900 no 2200 transphasic hyper missiles! Each of them are following winding trajectories that are highly likely to lead straight to the

Obsidian Orb!"

"Incoming transphasic hyper torpedoes! We have counted 78 so far. Each of them are taking advantage of the interference produced by the smaller missiles to increase the

difficulty of tracking and interception."

"Intercept the torpedoes!"

The Amaranto Mark III had already switched targets. Saint Stark went from trying to punch a hole through warships to intercepting as many torpedoes as possible.

The Instrument of Vengeance no longer fired at maximum power, but tried to squeeze out as many light beams as possible.

Even if they were launched at minimal power, the resonance-empowered light beams still possessed enough power and penetration to drill through the shielded and armored structure of the torpedoes and blow them up in advance!

One beam after another struck down the torpedoes. Stark did not miss a single time

even though she was trying to maximize her firing rate.

Many other first-class multipurpose mechs attempted to intercept the torpedoes as well, but the native aliens had stuffed so much technology into them that they were

not that easy to take down.

In the end, over 1200 transphasic missiles and 13 transphasic torpedoes struck the

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By this time, the Obsidian Orb had completely closed up, making it resemble a black

and shiny egg.

The bright blue energy field wobbled considerably as missiles and torpedoes

detonated against it in quick succession!

So much penetrating energies got loose that even the Amaranto Mark III got affected

by all of the interference!

By the time the missile onslaught had finally come to an end, many humans cheered when the Obsidian Orb had managed to make it through unscathed! The Divine Maw certainly did not look pleased at the results.

Nobody knew how many more missiles and torpedoes the enemy warships were able

to launch, but nobody believed that they had run out. It cost a fortune to produce these transphasic warheads, but the native aliens could afford the expense! "How much integrity has the plasma shield lost?" Saint Stark asked.

She found it difficult to form an estimate because plasma shields worked on different

principles from more conventional energy shields.

"That is classified information, Davia." Saint Alo responded. "Trust in the defenses of the Obsidian Orb. It was designed to withstand at least a couple of equivalent shots. It has to give its relatively immobile state. We cannot afford to let the native aliens. attack the Orb as they see fit. Continue to direct your firepower onto the alien warships. The more you disable them, the less missiles the enemy armada can launch.

You have already made a significant contribution by making the initial considerably lighter than it should have been."

Saint Stark understood the significance of whittling down the enemy ship numbers.

Each alien warship was capable of carrying a lot of missiles. It would be stupid to let them live long enough to exhaust their entire stockpile.

Her Amaranto Mark III began to shoot at the warships more enthusiastically than

before.

In order to down more hulls, the ace marksman mech had even begun to shoot down the sub-capital ships. Saint Stark carefully estimated the amount of charge needed to disable the smaller vessels in a single blow without wasting too much energy.

It was an interesting exercise, and the challenge of it kept her highly motivated.

The Amaranto Mark III continued to attract more and more attention as she glowed increasingly brighter.

Not even the Obsidian Orb looked as conspicuous!

After all, the superweapon had yet to down a single enemy, while the Amaranto Mark

III had caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of alien servicemen by this time!

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As such, the alien commanders devised a plan to get rid of this high-priority threat.