Chapter 2666: Precise Attack (2/2)
The Shield of Samar was considerably bigger than a typical medium space knight. Even if it wasn't able to cover the prime rifleman mech fully, it was still capable of projecting both a resonance shield and an energy shield to cover any gaps in its coverage.
From the start of the battle, the Shield of Samar did nothing but hold position and block the handful of incidental attacks that were aimed in its direction.
While Venerable Jannzi Larkinson wanted to advance her mech forward, her mech was too slow to keep up with all of the maneuvers.
The only way she could contribute to the battle at this point was to lend as much cover to the Bright Beam Prime as possible. This way, Venerable Davia Stark would be able to launch her attacks without any other concerns.
The older woman never did anything, though.
The Bright Beam Prime remained still as its mech pilot constantly kept a vigilant eye on the battle.
”Why aren't you doing anything?” Jannzi eventually lost her patience with her current partner.
”I am biding my time.” Venerable Davia calmly replied. ”My prime mech can only fire three full-powered attacks according to its maker. I cannot waste these opportunities.”
”That.. sounds ridiculous. Who would cobble together a rifleman mech that can only fire three times in total?”
”Hehehe.. don't underestimate the Bright Beam Prime, young woman.” Davia smirked even as she kept observing both the left and right sides of the unfolding engagement. ”To be honest, my new mech can also fire regular laser beams, but they're not that powerful and wont make that much of a difference. I would rather lay low and avoid drawing attention to us. A battle of this scale never ends quickly, so don't be concerned.”
Her time had eventually come. She had kept track of the Star Dancer all this time. Even though she harbored no good thoughts for the Hexers, Venerable Brutus had sincerely taken care of her for many months.
Even though she despised his pathetic Hexer personality and pathological deference towards women, he was not an awful human being.
The time she spent under his care and attention may not have changed her awful impression towards the Hexer people, but it at least caused her to develop a soft spot for the young and horribly misguided Hexer expert pilot.
Davia briefly shook her head. ”You're a brainwashed fool of an expert pilot, Brutus, but you're probably one of the better humans in the galaxy. I will try and save you this one to repay all you have done for me. Decency must always be rewarded.”
Once she realized that Venerable Brutus was in trouble, Venerable Davia became serious and resonated with her new mech.
The P-stones embedded in the mech reacted to her aggressive force of will. The entire mech became surrounded by a dark red glow that stood in stark contrast to the Shield of Samar's gold-coated frame.
The rifle of the prime mech began to glow brighter than the rest of the mech when Venerable Davia pooled as much power as possible into her weapon.
She held her fire when Venerable Ghanso unleashed a salvo that resulted in the elimination of the Star Dancer!
Davia intuitively judged that the Bright Beam Prime was too weak to affect Venerable Ghanso's fully-charged attack.
Besides, as a bystander and a rifleman mech specialist herself, she already guessed that Brutus was able to save himself.
He did not disappoint her expectations. His cockpit managed to escape intact.
It was unfortunate that Venerable Ghanso did not leave it at that! As soon as the Charlemagne adjusted its aim, Venerable Davia already deduced what the enemy expert pilot had in mind!
A lot of calculations went through her mind and her mech as her fully-charged rifle minutely turned.
The Bright Beam Prime unleashed its beam just before the Charlemagne executed Venerable Ghanso's command.
A powerful dark red beam that made anyone who observed its passage feel threatened down to their souls traversed all the way from the rear of the expeditionary forces to the front!
The prime mech's attack was just powerful enough to do its job. Venerable Davia and her new mech managed to precisely cancel out an attack that was incredibly challenging to intercept by any normal human mech pilot!
Venerable Davia had done her utmost to accomplish this nigh-impossible feat!
If her aim was even a centimeter off, then a part of the Charlemagne's attack might still go on to strike the vulnerable cockpit!
If her timing was off by a second, then much of the power of her attack would go to waste, thereby giving the Charlemagne's strike enough uninterrupted time to end Venerable Brutus' life!
”He's safe now.” Venerable Davia wearily said as she tried to recover from her arduous exertion.
On the other side of the battlefield, Venerable Ghanso was furious! His attempt to finish off the opponent who annoyed him so much had been ruined by some random marksman mech who fired an odd attack!
His Charlemagne was about to fire again, only for him to widen his eyes before attempting to dodge his mech to the side!
A rain of beams and explosions impacted the Charlemagne's resonance shield!
Ves had personally commanded the surviving Transcendent Punishers to set aside their current actions and hinder Venerable Ghanso's mech as best as possible!
Even though none of the attacks launched by the artillery mechs posed a serious threat to the Charlemagne in the short term, they still caused Venerable Ghanso enough trouble to force him to abandon his earlier intentions.
The Scarra mechs also came under bombardment!
”Blast you, Ves!”