The Mech Touch Chapter 2421: Glow Crusher

The Glow Crusher was very effective at its job!

As a lancer ch, the ch was already good in regular combat. It didn't require a lot of ti to build up speed, allowing it to exert its strength in many different situations. It could even function in cramped environnts!

Though the ch was too cheap and barebones to incorporate other functions, it didn't need to incorporate any additional bells and whistles.

This was a ch with a very narrow scope. Against enemies that lacked glows, the Glow Crusher didn't function any differently from comparable lancer chs.

It was only when the Glow Crusher was employed against an LMC ch that it showcased its true value.

When Gloriana showed him other footage of the Glow Crusher at work, Ves began to understand the most important aspect of its operation.

"The Glow Crusher isn't attacking the Blessed Squire. It's attacking the glow."

Ves equated glows to auras. They were spherical fields that influenced anyone that entered its effective range. Glows were most effective up close but weakened considerably further away.

At a certain distance, glows weakened to the point where humans no longer ca under their effect.

When Ves carefully studied how close to the Blessed Squires the Glow Crushers needed to be in order to pop the glows, he noted that the exact distance varied considerably.

All of them had to get very close, but those that had to get dangerously close were either outnumbered by Blessed Squires or hadn't gained the opportunity to build up a lot of montum.

"I see now." He said and closed his eyes.

Gloriana curiously looked up at him as her physical projection leaned on his shoulder. She knew that the footage had dealt a considerable blow to his confidence in his work. He needed ti to process this new developnt.

The footage she displayed to Ves showcased the performance of the Glow Crusher in many different situations.

What Ves paid attention to the most was the distances, the speeds and the quantities. He sensed that these three variables played a key role in determining the effectiveness of the Glow Crusher's main function.

If the footage of the early usage of the Glow Crusher model was representative enough, then he pretty much figured out its conditions.

"The closer the Glow Crusher gets to the Blessed Squire, the more likely the latter's glow will collapse."

"The greater the montum of the Glow Crusher, the easier it becos to collapse a glow."

"The more the Glow Crushers outnumber the Blessed Squires, the further away they can disable all of the glows."

These were the three characteristics that both the Fridayn and Hexers needed to take into account when Glow Crushers fought against Blessed Squires.

It didn't matter whether the Glow Crushers were able to physically down the Blessed Squires. That wasn't necessary when they only had to get within a certain distance to accomplish their main job. This was the part about the new ch model that Ves really couldn't accept for so ti!

"How many Masters participated in this design project?" He asked.

"Just two. Master Carmin Olson partnered up with Master redith Katzenberg to design this ch. That's why the Glow Crusher's design is fairly basic. I'm still amazed it is so effective, though. I thought it would take more Masters to defeat your glows."

Both Masters taught at the Leemar Institute of Technology, though Ves wasn't sure whether that was still the cause. With the fall of the Crestfallen Stars, the Leemar System should be vulnerable to Hexer attacks. The LIT should have certainly evacuated its students and personnel so ti ago. This must have given the two Masters a very powerful motivation to design an effective counter against his chs!

Ves already knew plenty about Master Olson. He also knew a fair bit about Master Katzenberg because she took in Tristan Wesseling as one of her direct disciples.

Whereas Master Olson specialized in enhancing a ch's mobility, Master Katzenberg specialized in developing better materials. More specifically, Ves heard that she was fad for developing new formulas that substituted the effects of more expensive exotics.

He couldn't quite see how these two Masters were able to grant such a ridiculous ability to the Glow Crusher design.

"Tell how these two Masters managed to find a solution against my glows." He requested.

Gloriana did not string him along this ti. She pointed at the ch engine of the Glow Crusher in the projected design schematic.

"There is sothing about the locomotion systems that causes it to transform so of its montum into another form of energy. So far, the Hexer ch designers who have studied the design are temporarily calling it 'motion energy'. Generating this motion energy causes the lancer chs to slow down to so extent because it isn't free."

"Why does motion energy have to be generated on the spot?"

"It disappears quickly if the Glow Crusher slows or stops. It's very fleeting and perishable and can't be stored in so kind of battery." Gloriana shrugged. "You'll have to ask Master Olson to learn more. I think this is one of the most advanced applications of her design philosophy. It involves so many advanced concepts that not even the Hexer Masters understand how it's made."

This wasn't actually rare. Many different kinds of energy existed in reality. Master Olson managed to touch upon one of the higher-level ones over the course of her career. Perhaps it was sothing that she could have only developed once she reached the rank of Master.

Whatever the case, this 'motion energy' ought to be the principal reason why the Glow Crusher was able to overwhelm a glow, for a lack of better word.

This wasn't the complete story, though. "What role does Master Katzenberg play?"

"Master Katzenberg has developed a new alloy that is able to contain motion energy." Gloriana answered. "If the Glow Crusher simply charges forward without incorporating any of the new alloy, then the motion energy will just drift away from the ch. The machine has to have sothing that can keep this motion energy together until it is ready to unleash it against the Blessed Squire's glow."

"Ah, I see. So that is what this odd material is for. It's built into the ch engine and the lance, among other parts."

The ch engine generated motion energy and also kept it around for a limited amount of ti. If the Glow Crusher didn't expend this motion energy on an attack, then it would evaporate on its own after a ti.

This ant that there wouldn't be any ridiculous situations where a Glow Crusher ran forward for several hundred kiloters, building up more and more montum and motion energy along the way, enough to shatter the collective glows of a hundred Blessed Squires!

Nonetheless, despite the many limitations, Ves could already foresee that Master Katzenberg's latest invention might beco a persistent thorn in his side!

Gloriana continued her explanation. "The special new material she developed for the Glow Crusher design is called Olson-Katzenberg alloy, or O-K alloy in short. It's an alloy made out of two valuable dium-grade exotics along with so other lesser materials."

"What are the key materials?"

"They're both tallic exotics with fairly mild effects by themselves. The first important material is Virma steel. It is notable for its ability to inhibit so higher-dinsional energies. The second important material is Fahae-33. It's also a dium-grade exotic and possesses a very weak ability to inhibit all kinds of energy. I don't know how Master Katzenberg managed to combine the two together to develop a vessel for motion energy, but so of my colleagues back ho are very impressed."

"How widely available are the two exotics?"

"Not that much. The Fridayn never specifically focused on mining these two exotics. While the Coalition has accumulated a sizable stockpile of both key materials, once that runs out, it will have to look elsewhere to obtain more. Trade will beco the Friday Coalition's main source of Virma steel and Fahae-33 in the future."

It sounded as if the Friday Coalition truly couldn't pump out Glow Crushers as if they cost nothing. Certainly, the ch was already relatively cheap to the Friday Coalition. It was just that adding the crucial O-K alloy to the machine that would limit its production.

Still, for a first-generation counter to an LMC ch, the Glow Crusher should already be considered a success!

"Have the Fridayn started using these Glow Crushers en masse?"

Gloriana nodded. "For months, We Hexers lorded it over to the Fridayn. The constant losses must have truly infuriated our enemies to the point where they eagerly embraced any solution that worked! Already, hundreds of thousands of Glow Crushers have appeared on the battlefield. Its first variant has already debuted in space."

She waved her hand, causing hundreds of different footage to play at once.

He beca fascinated by all of the sights. While most of the battles involving the Glow Crushers took place on land, a small but growing number of clashes happened in space!

Unlike the inelegant solutions the Hex Army resorted to in order to make the Blessed Squire fly, the two Masters designed a proper spaceborn variant of their Glow Crusher.

"The Glow Crusher OGC-1000 is the base model, and one that is intentionally designed to be adapted by different ch designers or organizations. The Glow Crusher OGC-1050 is a spaceborn variant that can serve the sa purpose."

In other words, the basic incarnations of the works of the two Masters were just the start. In the future, the Fridayn ch regints and ch divisions that adopted the designs would develop their own variants of the Glow Crusher that excelled in certain aspects!

For example, an elite ch regint might want to develop a higher-quality version of the lancer ch. Another ch regint that specialized in aerial combat might take the OGC-1050 and turn it into a machine that was suited to fight in the skies.

The possibilities were endless!

Ves was a bit put off by this, but not too much. No matter how many variants the Fridayn developed, they all abided by the sa principles. Figuring out how to negate one Glow Crusher model ant that his solution should be equally as effective in negating the other models!

He already began to think how he could counteract the Glow Crusher with his designs. Though the work of Master Olson and Master Katzenberg was subject to many limitations, it nonetheless offered the Fridayn a targeted ans to negate one of the Hex Army's significant advantages in a fairly simple package.

"This cannot stand!"

Should he try to develop a ans of reinforcing the glows of his ch designs? What if he focused on dispersing motion energy instead?

Many different ideas flitted through his mind. As long as there was a will, there was a way. Ves did not intend for his forr Master to have the last laugh!

"Ahem." Gloriana gently interrupted his musings. "The Glow Crusher isn't the only ch the Fridayn have designed to counteract our Blessed Squire. There are also several other ch designs that interfere with glows in different ways."

She began to exhibit another projection. An enemy spaceborn swordsman ch pushed through so Hexer chs and managed to strike a Blessed Squire standing on top of a floater module!

Though the Blessed Squire easily managed to block the attack by putting up its shield, sothing happened that caused the glow to grow unstable!

The Hexer chs surrounding the Blessed Squire exhibited the now-familiar reaction that signified that the glow was experiencing technical difficulties!

The more the swordsman ch struck the Blessed Squire, the greater this disturbance grew!

Unlike the Glow Crusher, the new model did not collapse the glow. Instead, it just disturbed it to the point it beca a ss!

Ves could see from the reactions of both Fridayman and Hexer chs that this chaos affected both sides without distinction. While the Fridayn did not have it easy, the Hexers weren't feeling better either!

In this way, this unknown lee ch model managed to level the playing field!