The Hex Army welcod a new ch model!
Since the main military branch of the Hexers only employed around 600 ch models, this was big news!
For a very long ti, the Friday Coalition’s intelligence services kept a very close eye on the Hexadric Hegemony’s ch industry.
One of the disadvantages of the high amount of control and restrictions the Hexers imposed on their ch designers was the ease in which their efforts could be tracked.
The Hegemony only possessed so many Masters and Seniors, and the Fridayn developed a great understanding of their work and design style.
Many of the ch models currently in use in the Hex Army were continuations of existing lines. The sa team of ch designers constantly iterated on them and released new revisions every decade or every few years.
As a mature ch military, the Hex Army’s ch doctrines and customs were highly developed! They already developed almost every possible ch they predicted that they would need in order to defeat the Friday Coalition.
These days, it was extrely difficult for Masters to propose an entirely new line of chs to the Hex Army. At the very least, the Masters had to engage in years of lobbying in order to build up support among every important stakeholder such as the ch industry, the matriarchs and the ch pilots themselves.
To build up such a comprehensive amount of support was not sothing that could be done in a month! The Coalition’s spies and observers were very proficient at observing any major influencing activities in the Hegemony’s ruling society.
Oftentis, even before the Hex Army finally rolled out a new line of chs, the Friday Coalition already developed a detailed breakdown of its weaknesses!
Yet this ti the Hexers caught the Fridayn by surprise!
For once, the Hex Army unveiled sothing new without causing any alarm.
The lack of forewarning combined with the widespread deploynt of the new model caused the situation on Marrakath III to change incredibly quickly.
Prior to the change, the Opal Tridents and the other elents of the Fortune Legion put up a lot of resistance against the Wrathful Doves. The aggressive Hexers constantly had to commit considerably more chs and assets in order to overco the prepared defenses and fortifications occupied by the Fridayn.
Even though the Hexers eventually pushed the Fridayn back, the female supremacists lost considerably more chs and ch pilots than their foes. Every fortification they took was littered with the blood of hundreds, if not thousands of pri, valuable ch pilots!
Though the Hexers were able to salvage the wreckage and debris from the battlefields they wrestled from the Fridayn, in the Komodo War, losing resources was no issue. With centuries of accumulation, neither states would run out of exotics anyti soon!
What truly mattered were the ch pilots. Every state could only foster so many potentates and ch pilots, and taking them off the board was the best way to win the Komodo War!
Therefore, the Friday Coalition considered everything else such as planets and star systems to be expendable resources. It hurt to lose territory, but as long as they could exchange it for enough enemy blood, it was worth it to make this trade!
So far, the Fridayn’s battle plan for Marrakath III largely went according to plan. Even if the Hexers constantly nibbled at the territory occupied by the original owners, they suffered way too much casualties for every victory.
The endless reinforcents pouring into the star system helped mask the incredible losses the Hexers sustained. The fact that much of the deaths consisted of unimportant boys who piloted less resilient and less important chs also caused the female commanders to turn a blind eye to the losses.
Obviously, the higher ups of the Wrathful Doves ch Army Group largely belonged to the militant camp! To them, sacrificing the lives of their male ch pilots was hardly any loss at all! They believed that the Komodo War would instantly swing in their favor if they managed to conquer the Marrakath System and the Crestfallen Stars as quickly as possible.
The Hexers disdained the attrition warfare that their enemies were fond of! As the superior and more enlightened state, the Hegemony ought to be able to defeat an inferior state head-on without dragging conflict for too many years!
Even so, the losses suffered by the Wrathful Doves and other elents of the Hex Army was still unsustainable. If the fighting on Marrakath III stretched on for months, then it was doubtful whether the ch army group would still be able to fight without undergoing an extensive, ti-consuming reorganization!
All of this changed after the Hexers unveiled their surprise!
"What is this new ch model?! Why can it affect so many people at the sa ti?!"
"Reporting, sir! The new knight ch is called the Blessed Squire! It’s a supportive knight ch that possesses ordinary defenses, below average mobility, low offensive power but considerable utility. Its energy transferring abilities allow it to provide fantastic support to offensive Hexers, thereby significantly allowing them to prolong their peak output in battle! As for the mind-altering field they are surrounded with, this so-called glow is capable of elevating the morale of Hexers while exerting minor pressure on our own ch pilots!"
"What?! A glow? That ch isn’t glowing at all!"
"It’s a figurative term for a specialty developed by a fad ch designer called Ves Larkinson..."
A lot of Fridayn who never paid attention to the news of lesser states suddenly beca familiar with a rising star in the ch industry. Known as the Devil Tongue, his products had already taken the third-class ch market by storm!
Now that he extended his hand to second-class chs, this forgettable figure to most Fridayn suddenly turned into an incredibly powerful enemy!
"Why didn’t we eliminate him before he could affect Marrakath III with his work?!"
"We did try, but our attempts have failed!"
"Idiots! The CRC is led by a bunch of bureaucrats who have no idea what war is truly like!"
The Fridayn weren’t the only people who beca astonished. The Wrathful Doves and the other Hexers on Marrakath III beca fascinated by the Blessed Squires as well!
Technically, the Blessed Squires wasn’t deployed by the Hex Army. Instead, an obscure, forgettable auxiliary force silently worked to gain permission to ship the new chs to a single destination in order to serve as a trial.
DIVA prepared a very careful plan to introduce the Blessed Squire model to the Hex Army. The intelligence agency had tested the ch internally for a lengthy period in order to understand its true value. The information provided by Calabast also assisted DIVA in understanding how to maximize the use of the new chs.
The fact that the ch was inescapably tied to a male ch designer presented a huge hurdle for its adoption. Therefore, DIVA remained patient and waited for the best opportunity to showcase its use.
In the anti, the agency secretly reached out to a small number of matriarchs and important Hexer stakeholders to lay the groundwork for the Blessed Squire.
With the help of the Little Angel, the sole masterwork copy of this innovative Hexer ch, DIVA finally received permission to field the Blessed Squire on Marrakath III!
As expected, the manner in which DIVA abruptly slipped the Blessed Squires into the main combat units of the Wrathful Doves went well!
Even if the Hexer ch pilots initially showed distrust and hesitation at fighting alongside a completely new ch model, they soon accepted the Blessed Squires once they felt the glows!
Many Wrathful Doves did not have it easy on Marrakath III. The hard fighting and the grueling attrition warfare affected both males and females alike.
Therefore, these stressed ch pilots beca unusually receptive to the Blessed Squire. The ch’s glow, which reminded every Hexer of the Superior Mother, seed to be able to soothe their nerves and grant them confidence.
"It’s as if my mother is cheering from behind!"
"The Superior Mother has blessed the Wrathful Doves!"
The change in mood and the easing of worries affected the Wrathful Doves on a wide scale. With the large amount of Blessed Squires deployed on the surface, hundreds of thousands of Hexer combatants suddenly regained the confidence and illusion of superiority they initially possessed at the start of the Battle of the Marrakath System!
The ch divisions and ch regints of the Wrathful Doves assaulted the Opal Trident positions with twice as much ferocity!
Even though the Hexers chs hadn’t grown stronger and even if the energy transfer abilities of the Blessed Squires was not omnipotent, the improvent in mindsets alone resulted in a lot more breakthroughs!
Hardfought sieges that usually lasted for weeks suddenly ended in a decisive Hexer victory in a matter of days!
The defensive lines of the Opal Tridents that were usually capable of repelling multiple waves of Hexer offensives began to fall apart after just a single determined attack!
The Fridayn soon beca familiar with another insidious aspect about the strange new ch model.
Any enemy of the Hexers experienced so form of ntal suppression!
The influence wasn’t very strong. Fridayn researchers who began to study LMC chs noticed that the Doom Guard model was considerably more impactful in this regard.
However, as long as anyone who did not agree with Hexer ideology ca within range of a Blessed Squire, they experienced a very specific form of discomfort.
It was as if their mothers disapproved of their hostility towards Hexers!
The negative effects of this sensation wasn’t very strong, but it couldn’t be blocked or ignored. Anyone who ca under the influence of a Blessed Squire felt as if their mother was observing all of their actions.
No one liked to be watched all the ti. Who enjoyed being stared at by their own mothers when they ate a al, used a toilet or slept in bed?
It was quite unnerving!
The ch pilots of the Fortune Legion were highly trained and very disciplined. None of them were weak-minded in the slightest as every second-rate state knew the importance of training ch pilots who could endure many difficulties.
The problem was that ch pilots were still human in the end! The highly emotional component of the Blessed Squire’s glow evoked their own thoughts, feelings and mories towards mothers!
Only expert candidates and expert pilots remained unaffected by the Blessed Squire’s glow. Everyone else, even the elite crack troops of the Fortune Legion, still possessed chinks in their armor which the so-called Superior Mother exploited!
As long as the ordinary ch pilots of the Friday Coalition beca affected, they no longer found their ntal balance. They were unable to enter into their most optimal battle moods where they felt as if they fought as one with their comrades. They could no longer reach the states which allowed them to fight without conscious thought and display their battle skills at their best.
Since battles between chs were actually fought between ch pilots, the widening differences in morale completely accelerated the takeover of Marrakath III.
"The first of the Crestfallen Stars shall fall to the hexagon!"
"The Superior Mother wants us to crush the Coalition!"
"We shall liberate the unjustly oppressed won of the Friday Coalition!"
Even though a short amount of ti had passed, the drastic shift in balance completely dominated the news in the two states!
This was just as DIVA and the supporters of the Blessed Squire intended. Instead of introducing the Blessed Squire cautiously across many battlefields, it was best to make one explosive good impression!
Already, other army groups in the Hex Army cast jealous eyes at the Wrathful Doves.
They clamored to obtain this new wonder ch as well! The other Hexer commanders heard so many stories about the Blessed Squire that they began to bombard high command with requests to ship the Blessed Squire to their respective ch forces.
All of these urgent requests put high command and the matriarchs in charge in a difficult position. Normally, it shouldn’t be a problem to approve of the use of a fantastic new Hexer ch, but this ti they faced a very big problem.
"The Blessed Squire is mainly designed by a boy! Not only that, he’s also a foreigner!"
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