Once Ves thoroughly demonstrated the Doom Guard's glow and expounded on its main uses, he ceded the stage to Gloriana.
She smiled as she stepped to the center. "Hello, everyone. I am Gloriana Wodin and I am proud to present the specifications of our new Doom Guard design!"
A projection depicting a simplified schematic of the Doom Guard ca into view. Gloriana soon proceeded to highlight and boast about the various performance paraters of specific components.
Though she did her best to make her speech understandable to layn, her narration failed to attract as much interest from the crowd as before.
This was fine. A product reveal wasn't a theater show. Entertainnt wasn't the objective. The overriding goal of this day was to generate as much demand for the Doom Guard as possible.
The main reason why Ves resorted to so much drama was because he needed to introduce the glow of his new design in a morable way.
Simply providing a description of its effects was not even close as effective as making his audience experience its bone-freezing terror in person!
ch buyers weren't as impulsive as regular consurs. Though he hadn't revealed the price of the Doom Guard, it was bound to cost a fortune to many people!
Getting soone to cough up so much money for a ch was far from easy. Though there were plenty of people who bought chs impulsively, most potential buyers tended to be more critical and discerning!
This was because the choice of chs literally affected the lives of those who depended upon them! Adding a good ch to the roster would increase an outfit's chances of completing a mission, while a bad ch could easily cost precious lives!
This was why Ves let Gloriana handle the rest. She was a lot more passionate about the technical design of the ch and eagerly wanted to show off her latest innovations!
Most of the layn only vaguely followed her explanations or simply tuned her out entirely.
It didn't matter. Gloriana mainly addressed her words to the groups of people who could truly make use of the Doom Guard. ch buyers, ch commanders, ch procurent offers and more people with the power to purchase the new product keenly paid attention to the detailed strengths of the striker ch design.
Naturally, Gloriana's pleasant voice did not ntion any of the less flattering aspect about their design. Its limited capacity, its relatively ordinary strengths, its lackluster mobility and so on never ca up once during her entire spiel.
It didn't matter. This was a day of celebration as far as the LMC was concerned.
Despite the generous amount of ch designers seated in the hall, none of them was in the mood to heckle this ti.
A greater ch designer lood over their heads? Who would possibly have the courage to criticize the work of a pair of ch designers that the Master obviously favored?
They would just be making fools of themselves!
Of course, it also helped that the Doom Guard didn't present a threat to their interests.
Striker chs was one of the less common ch types on the market. The most popular models tended to fall in the budget and midrange market category. The Doom Guard obviously looked a lot more expensive than the norm, so despite its various features, it was simply too expensive to capture the lion's share of the market.
No matter how good a ch perford, price was still a heavy limitation to many wallet-conscious custors!
While there were so ch designers who published a premium spaceborn striker ch design of their own, that was still not a reason to speak out and defend their work.
No matter the special features and properties of their work, how could it equal the fantastic glow that Ves demonstrated earlier?
From an area denial standpoint, the Doom Guard was truly revolutionary in its design! Its glow clearly disregarded the quantity and quality of chs, and instead tested the resolve of the ch pilots directly!
The demonstration that ensued after Gloriana finished her presentation couldn't make this any clearer.
"Let us proceed with showing our new product in action!"
The walls of Trillion Hall turned transparent. The occupants of the hall suddenly gained the illusion that they were sitting in the middle of space!
The squad of Doom Guards that had stood on the podium had already withdrawn a mont earlier.
Now, they spread their wings and flew into space. The identical Doom Guards ford an echelon formation as they flew out until they stopped at a healthy distance away from the hall.
The transparent walls began to project so feeds that allowed every spectator to observe several magnified feeds of the chs in question.
In the distance, a huge number of chs approached. The surprised attendants began to count the number of chs that approached the Doom Guards.
They soon gave up! There were simply too many chs for any baseline human to keep track of!
"There are more than a thousand chs in that massive group! It's as if an entire ch regint is approaching!" Soone with an ocular implant yelled!
The shock in the crowd grew greater. What kind of demonstration demanded a thousand chs?
Usually, it was sufficient to utilize half-a-dozen chs as sparring partners for the new design! There was no practical reason to involve such an imnse number of chs for a simple demonstration!
Ves walked back up to the center of the podium again.
"What you are witnessing are the chs of nurous fad and reputable outfits. Both rcenary corps and security companies have agreed to take part in this exhibition. Just like the previous challenge, each of them have been inford that they are entitled to a progressively greater bonus should they last long enough!"
The crowd suddenly realized that a good show was about to ensue!
After the attendants personally experienced the terror of the Doom Guard, most of them developed an eager anticipation of inflicting this pain on others!
Noticing this reaction, Ves grinned wider.
Devils weren't feared for their power!
Instead, it was their ability to twist people's hearts that truly made them notorious!
Nurous potential custors had already started to imagine employing the Doom Guards to terrorize their opponents. Nothing made them feel better than to spread the suffering that had thoroughly shad them earlier!
This was human nature. Ves knew what dwelled inside their hearts, so he prepared sothing that would allow them to bring it to the surface!
Out in space, almost two-dozen outfits worth of chs flew to their assigned coordinates. Despite the sheer variety of ch models, it was still possible to distinguish who they belonged to by matching their coating and markings.
The Doom Guards didn't stick together. Instead, they all began to separate and spread out in a long line. They finally stopped after several kiloters of distance stood between each ch!
The reason for that soon beca evident. The huge amount of hired chs began to envelop the individual Doom Guards.
Ten spheres consisting of at least a hundred chs surrounded a Doom Guard from each direction!
The spheres slowly contracted. The chs began to crowd a little closer to each other as the ball of chs shrank in size. They eventually stopped their contraction when it beca too dangerous to reduce the distance any further!
The audience patiently waited for sothing to happen.
Ves spoke up again.
"As I have stated previously, our Doom Guards excel at fending off assaults and denying an entire area. Due to the special properties of the characteristic glows of our chs, they are effective no matter how many opponents they affect! This ans that no matter how outnumbered you are, the Doom Guard is one of the effective equalizers as long as you make good use of its strengths! Behold what you can do as long as the monsters are on your side!"
The third eyes of the Doom Guards flickered back to life. Their crimson glows looked extraordinarily compelling between the gaps of all of the chs.
As their recently-activated glows ramped up, the spherical formation of chs already started to exhibited so changes.
Despite the orders the ch pilots received, they couldn't help but feel increasingly more unnerved as they remain in formation!
Those with frailer nerves and weaker hearts soon began to have second thoughts all of a sudden.
Though the Doom Guards they surrounded never lifted their weapons or made any offensive moves, the onset of terror and the threat of death still word their way into their minds!
"What is this?"
"Why is this ch so strange?"
None of the rcenaries had been inford about the nature of the ch. They had strictly been instructed to close off all communications, so they shouldn't have witnessed the initial demonstration of the Doom Guard!
Even if they disobeyed orders and sneakily watched a feed of the product reveal, it didn't matter.
The fearso glow of the Doom Guard worked best against unprepared opponents, but it remained effective regardless if its opponents were aware!
When the glow reached its full strength, the spheres visibly shook!
The weaker rcenaries already started to lose their confidence, while the older and more experienced ch pilots managed to hang on to an extent.
It was too bad that the Doom Guard didn't carry its na for nothing. The sense of doom it heralded was so pernicious and multifaceted that hardly anyone could remain immune for long!
"They're breaking!"
The spheres of ch suddenly lost its aesthetically round shapes as so of the rcenaries couldn't take it any longer! Their courage was too shallow for them to persist! The cowards seed to have succumbed to their baser instincts and mindlessly commanded their chs to turn around and fly away as fast as possible!
Impressively, over half of the rcenary chs exhibited this shaful behavior! No matter how much their bosses shouted at the ch pilots, the irrational fear that tipped them over was not so easy to resist!
It took at least half a minute and a generous distance for these frightened ch pilots to regain their wits.
"That.. that was scary!"
"I can't believe what has happened to just now!"
"Did soone drug my coffee?!"
The five-hundred or so chs that remained didn't reform the broken spheres. The majority of the ch pilots were too busy trying to resist the pressure radiating from the Doom Guards!
The tenuous movents of the chs were in full display to the audience. While it was admirable that this group of ch pilots managed to hang on this far, it was obvious that the ntalities of these ch pilots had obviously dropped!
The capability to induce this state of mind was already valuable in itself! Shaking, hesitant ch pilots were much more easy to break than high-spirited ch pilots!
Soon enough, the remaining ch pilots received orders to close in and reform the spheres. They reluctantly obeyed this order and tried to fly closer.
This was difficult! The chs hesitantly flew closer to the Doom Guards while doing their best to form more compact spheres.
They failed. The closer they ca, the more their ch pilots experienced the glows of the chs!
It beca drastically more difficult for these regular ch pilots to maintain their nerves!
Over two-hundred chs dropped out.
Just a fifth of the original group of chs remained! The spheres of chs that surrounded the Dooom Guard seed so thin and fragile that it looked as if a single punch could break them into pieces!
Ves waited for the right mont to pass on his next command to the ch pilots of the Doom Guards.
"Show them a taste of hell."
The ten striker chs simultaneously cocked their massive flathrowers and began to spew a sea of flas all of a sudden!
The Doom Guards rapidly spun around its axis in order to spew flas in practically every direction!
Though the eruption of omni-directional hellfire looked frightening up close, they didn't traverse very far! The billowing flas only traversed a modest distance of fifty ters before losing montum.
There was plenty of distance between these flas and the surrounding chs!
Yet despite the lack of threat, the intimidating sight triggered the build-up of fear that mounted in every rcenary's imagination!
The spheres disintegrated as a considerable number of remaining chs broke formation!
As the Doom Guards ceased to spew their flas, they suddenly beca a lot more visible.
There weren't enough chs in the way anymore to block the views of the feeds!
Ves wrapped up the demonstration.
"No matter how powerful the ch, the pilot is always the weakest link!"
"No matter how many opponents show up, a single Doom Guard can topple them all!"
"No matter how bad your ch pilots are, a Doom Guard can turn any of them into elites!"
"Order a Doom Guard today to be the first to have a monster at your side!"
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