The Mech Touch

ic impact and the corrosively hot energy field burned through the heavy space knight ’s more vulnerable internals.
No matter how hardened the internals had been built, all of it had been friend, including its heavily fortified cockpit!

Its highly-trained mech pilot never had the chance to eject! Even before she recognized the imminent crisis, the lance ’s energy field already burned through the cockpit ’s protective cover and seared the pilot ’s body into carbon and ash!

The entire miracle seemed to take forever, but in actuality the Parallax Star had punched through the Kenas Oliphant without any halt.
While the impact slowed its momentum, it only lost twenty percent of its peak! Venerale O ’Callahan still had enough juice to continue the charge!

”No matter how many mechs I have to knock down, my mech will never falter! ”

The Parallax Star might have slowed down a bit, but the glowing lancer mech was still a blur to others.
Even Ves couldn ’t distinguish between the Parallax Star and an asteroid dropping from orbit.

Only the most highly-trained mech pilots among them possessed the cognitive perception to follow the Parallax Star ’s incredible progress.
This was why the second mech in the line fired its rifle straight at the approaching expert mech.

The rifleman mech was a copy of the Caca Similas, an important ballistic rifleman mech of the Frosty Meteors.
It wielded a heavy ballistic rifle which could fire both shells and kinetic projectiles of incredible force.
The rifleman mech opted for a solid kinetic projectile, as the Parallax Star ’s incredibly fast approach would only make the impact worse.

It was the right choice to make, but it didn ’t make any difference this time.
Just as the projectile spun into the Parallax Star ’s chest, the projectile made out of sharp and dense alloys splintered apart like fragile wood before the energy field!

The pilot of the Caca Similas barely had enough time to panic, let alone command his mech to dodge.
Even with his brain revolving faster than ever before in his life, his mech simply didn ’t possess enough reaction speed to make any further moves! Even though the Vesian pilot mentally commanded his mech to eject, it still took at least five-hundred milliseconds for the cockpit to begin its blastoff!

That delay might as well be an eternity in this situation! The force of nature that was the Parallax Star eventually punched through the Caca Similas with even greater ease than before! After all, a rifleman mech could never match the toughness of a heavy space knight!

Even if the Frosty Meteors prioritized the durability of the Caca Similas, which was unusual for rifleman mech, it didn ’t make any difference before the Parallax Star!

O ’Callahan ’s mech lost a further five percent of its forward momentum, which was fairly neglibile to him.
Sadly for him, no other mech floated in its way!

The Frosty Meteors utilized a broad and shallow half-sphere formation that held very little depth.
Their original intention was to trap and contain the Parallax Star after it ran out of steam.
However, they miscalculated the charging power of the Parallax Star!

While the expert mech inevitably lost some momentum, it was still substantial enough to make it difficult for O ’Callahan to steer.
It couldn ’t make any sharp turns to charge down the enemy mechs positioned at the sides.
Like a meteor descending upon an innocent planet, nothing could alter its path that was destined to wipe of all forms of life on the globe!

However, O ’Callahan didn ’t feel to disappointed about the lack of targets.
The Venerable deliberately chose this angle to charge because there was one more enemy asset in the way.

”The Parallax Star is charging towards an enemy combat carrier! ”

What guts! Before the Frosty Meteors could turn around and pelt the enemy expert mechs with their ranged weapons, the Parallax Star already left the sluggish Frosty Meteors in the dust! Instead, it continued to aim its lance point at the closest combat carrier in alignment!

In their initial decision to charge the stranded Vandal task force, the Frosty Meteors decided to keep their ships close.
Besides the water-carrying transports that had already departed via FTL, the combat carriers were still needed for command and control as well as to retrieve their mechs if they needed to escape into FTL for whatever reason.

The Meteors gathered a substantial amount of intelligence on the Flagrant Vandals, so they knew that they faced a slippery opponent.
If the mechs of the Meteors separated from the combat carriers, then Major Verle would certainly order his light mechs to circle around and sabotage the combat carriers.

The only way to prevent a sneak attack on their carriers was to leave behind some guards or to bring them alone.
The Meteors couldn ’t afford to take too many mechs out of their battle lines so they opted to keep their combat carriers close with their main force of mechs.

This kept the combat carriers safe from harassment, but also exposed them to the ravages of battle.
This time, the Frosty Meteors had made a grave miscalculation as the Parallax Star only shifted a few degrees to bring it on a direct collision course against the enemy combat carrier.

”I-Impossible! How can a lancer mech be reckless enough to charge a heavily armored combat carrier! ”

The proper way to fight combat carriers was to bombard them from range or to sneak inside their hangar bays and wreak havoc from within.

Venerable O ’Callahan directly ignored those roles and brought his Parallax Star into an inexorable collision against the hapless enemy ship! Everyone who thought fast enough to keep up with the action cried madness in their hearts! A lancer mech charging straight against the armored bow of a combat carrier was sheer madness!

Yet the expert pilot would hear nothing of it.
His maddened fury drove him to utter hatred against these arrogant Venidse mechs! They probably called him a fossil or the like! Before his charge arrived, none of the mechs of the Frosty Meteors showed any caution to him.
No way could O ’Callahan tolerate such callous disregard!

”Combat carrier? It ’s all the same to me! ” O ’Callahan laughed.
”Yield to me! ”