Ves grew concerned at the changes to the right side of the battlefield. The expert pilots from Vicious Mountain abided by a different set of rules and customs. That made him feel uncomfortable because Patriarch Reginald Cross seed to act without regard to the bigger picture.
Now that the struggle between the expert chs shifted from single duels to a full three-on-three confrontation, the danger level of their confrontation had increased remarkably.
While there was a chance the three Crossers would quickly be able to defeat their opponents, the sa applied in reverse.
This was not good!
As long as one side gained a clear advantage, the entire course of the battle would instantly change. The power displayed by the Bolvos Rage and the Erin Tear far exceeded that of the Fridayman expert chs.
If the Bolvos Rage was unleashed, then that would be fantastic. The hybrid ch seed to possess an endless amount of energy which could be used to fuel massive area attacks that was able to wipe out dozens of enemy chs at a ti!
The Erin Tear was not as efficient at mopping up weaker chs, but it was virtually undefeatable and unstoppable without the Bolvos Rage constraining its actions. The Erin Tear could easily fly up to the Spirit of Bentheim and carve its way inside to inflict crippling damage from within!
If the Spirit of Bentheim didn't manage to escape before the Erin Tear reached her hull, then it would be too late to do anything! Even if the factory ship hastily transitioned into FTL, the Erin Tear would just travel with the escaping vessel because the hostile expert ch had entered her envelope.
"Well, that won't happen anyway because none of us are able to escape in this way."
The Friday Coalition went through all of this effort to ambush the expeditionary fleet in order to take out Ves. There was no way it was willing to let the Spirit of Bentheim slip away at the final mont.
Ves glanced at the periphery of the projected map of the local space. Various Fridayman light chs had stationed themselves all around the battlefield. These light chs did not do anything aside from maintaining an active gravitic module that slightly disturbed the local space.
Not only that, but a number of artillery chs stationed in the bunkers of the enemy deep strike fleet carriers fired special shells that inexplicably burst in the middle of the expeditionary fleet without hitting anything.
Anyti these shells exploded, they generated dispersed gravitic fluctuations that destabilized the local space. The disturbances were just enough to prevent any FTL drive from safely engaging!
With this asure, none of the ships of the Golden Skull Alliance was allowed to escape willy-nilly.
It was useless to try even if he transferred to a swift corvette like the Barracuda and attempted to flee at all costs. The Barracuda may be fast, but she was thinly-armored and not as agile as a light skirmisher.
The remnants of the Witch Slayers and the Destiny Hamrs would easily be able to cripple the Barracuda!
The only way to lift the blockade was to prevent the enemy from coming close and to take out the enemy elents that maintained it. This was very difficult and would certainly distract from the overall fight.
In certain rare circumstances, excellent engineers were able to force an FTL drive to make an unstable transition by compensating for the gravitic disturbances. This was an extrely complicated and data-intensive approach that was fraught with danger.
While it was not impossible to open up an escape route, Ves wasn't willing to do so until there was no other choice.
He had already decided to commit to the battle. The window of opportunity to run away was already closed. Since he chose to et his pursuers in battle, he had to live with the consequences.
He did not go into this battle with the expectation of losing, though. Once he turned his attention to the left side of the battlefield, the situation grew more hopeful.
At the start, the elite Fridayman ch units secured a considerable advantage. Their chs and ch pilots were better than the opposition. The Avatars of Myth and other Larkinson ch forces assigned to the left wing were wholly outclassed by the Bloody Herons, the Holvein Grenadiers and the other Fridayman elites!
Not even the backbone of the Glory Seekers and Cross Clan managed to hold their ground!
All of that changed once additional elents entered the fray.
The Bright Spear Pri piloted by Venerable Orfan invigorated the Flagrant Vandals! The ch was able to defeat even the toughest elite ch in single combat. Its absurdly thick glow suppressed any human ch pilot in the vicinity until they lost control.
Most ch pilots simply weren't capable of withstanding the spiritual pressure that reached thousands of Ves!
Not surprisingly, the Bright Spear Pri's cheat-like glow was even able to crack the fad ntal defenses of the Silent Swords.
The Konsu Clan's most disciplined and ntally-resilient ch pilots were all strong enough to withstand the suppressive glows of the Doom Guard, Ferocious Piranha and Valkyrie Redeer.
Yet against a brute force approach like stacking lots of spiritual energy in a single ch, only expert pilots were able to maintain their lucidity under so much ntal pressure!
Once the Bright Spear Pri was no longer suppressed by the Corundian Giants, Venerable Orfan drove her ch into continuous attack runs against the Silent Swords, seeking to constrain and block the Fridayman swordsman chs from carving their way through friendly lines!
The Valkyrie Interceptors and Valkyrie Hurricanes piloted by the Glory Seekers pitched in as well! While they did not commit to a charge, their constant harassnt from the side was very hard to deal with. The Silent Swords did not possess any powerful ranged solutions while the Valkyrie chs were all ard with at least a pulse submachine gun.
The marauder chs were much more flexible than the rigid Silent Swords who were only good up close. While the ranged attacks of the Valkyrie chs weren't all that strong, as long as hundreds of them focused their fire onto the rears or sides of the enemy swordsman chs, the damage they were able to inflict over ti was quite significant!
The Fridayn tried to adjust to the changing circumstances as best as possible. The enemy leader suddenly ordered the Silent Swords to break up into individual squads that all spread out across the battle line.
Breaking up the hundreds of Silent Swords deprived the Fridayn of a powerful shock formation, but also deprived the Flagrant Vandals and the Hexers of an easy target!
The Fridayn adjusted their formations so that the Bloody Herons, Holvein Grenadiers and Silent Swords all integrated into a combination that allowed them to cover for each other's weaknesses to a far better degree than before!
Whenever the Valkyrie chs attempted to make another firing run, the enemy space knights moved to shield any targets that were receiving the bulk of the enemy attacks.
Enemy ranged chs all retaliated against the Valkyrie chs, making it too costly for them to buzz around the sides.
Even Venerable Orfan endured great opposition again. After trying out various solutions to destroy or repel the Bright Spear Pri, the Fridayn eventually hit the jackpot when they discovered that the pri ch wasn't able to cope with excess heat!
Laser rifles fired unceasingly at the Bright Spear Pri. Whenever Venerable Orfan drove her ch close, the surviving Holvein Grenadier chs flung any grenades in its direction that unleashed a lot of heat. Incendiary grenades, plasma grenades, thermal grenades and a couple more exotic grenade types rapidly heated up the spear-wielding pri ch until Venerable Orfan helplessly withdrew.
Her actions were not in vain. The Bright Spear Pri had exerted so much pressure onto the Fridayn that they felt compelled to spend a considerable amount of battle resources to keep the pri ch at bay.
In fact, the Corundian Giants were supposed to suppress the Venerable Orfan's machine, yet their cannons had ceased firing at the pri ch a short ti earlier.
The problem was that a single nimble pri ch was disrupting everything!
If the thickened glow of the Bright Spear Pri was already bad enough to be around, then the Ferocious Piranha was even worse!
The entire area around the ch turned into a zone where any other human aside from expert pilots and maybe expert candidates were able to remain in control.
Every other human including the ch pilots hailing from the Coalition Reserve Corps were unable to think clearly as they ca under the suppression of two different effects.
First, like any Ferocious Piranha ch, the Piranha Pri embodied the conflicting glows of Lufa, Zeigra and Qilanxo.
Second, with thousands of Ves worth of spiritual energy pumped into its Unending alloy fra, just the pressure alone was unbearable to be around.
Venerable Tusa was actually surprised at how effectively his ch disabled nearby ch pilots to the point where he was always able to attack the weak points of the enemy chs without facing any opposition!
It was as if the enemies he targeted proactively lined up their chs in space to get stabbed!
"This is absurd! This ch is a monster!"
A vicious grin appeared on his face.
"But I like this ch."
Venerable Tusa initially intended to harass the enemy combination chs in order to distract them from bombarding his buddies. However, seeing how he was able to make the Corundian Giants so flustered, he imdiately switched to a more aggressive plan and openly dove into the middle of the enemy formation!
Even though it sounded incredibly dangerous, the pri ch enjoyed nurous advantages by doing so. It's incredibly perverse glow allowed it to discount most forms of retaliation against nearby chs.
The Corundian Giant chs that were a bit further away did not dare to go all out. They were more liable to hit their own comrades than a very elusive enemy light ch!
Of course, the Corundian Giants were not completely unable to defend against the Piranha Pri.
So of the combination chs broke up into separate space knights and cannoneer chs. The space knights ford together and projected a shared energy shield that ford a physical barrier against the Ferocious Pri that still remained active even if the ch pilots blacked out for a ti.
The cannoneer chs sheltering behind the energy shields all adjusted their weapons and began to fire dispersed laser beams that denied an entire area at close range or shot strange nets that Venerable Tusa avoided like the plague.
"These Corundian Giants are trickier than I thought!" Tusa cursed.
Even though he wasn't able to sink his daggers into the backs or joints of the enemy chs, his presence alone still exerted a significant threat to them. The high mobility of the Ferocious Pri along with the piloting skill and instincts of an expert pilot ant that Venerable Tusa was virtually untouchable!
The more ti and resources the Corundian Giants wasted on the lone pri ch, the less damage they were able to inflict onto the rest of the Larkinson chs.
It was a completely worthwhile exchange!
"Watch out Venerable Tusa!" A communications officer warned him. "The Fridayn are reinforcing the Corundian Giants with striker chs. We have confird that all of them are ard with flathrowers."
"Roger that." Tusa replied as his good mood faded. "I'll be pulling back."
"That won't be necessary."
When a ch company's worth of striker chs reached the halfway point, they ca under sudden bombardnt!
In a brief amount of the ti, the exposed striker chs were struck by thousands of heavy beams and rounds, peeling away their heavy armor and destroying their internals batch by batch!
The rest quickly huddled behind the space knights escorting the reinforcents. Their shields held out quite a long ti, but wore away eventually under sustained bombardnt.
While the number of intact Transcendent Punishers had dropped due to suffering from renewed counter battery fire, plenty of them were still left to put pressure on any enemy elent!
The Corundian Giants were already moving towards the striker chs. Venerable Tusa intuitively sensed they were able to link up in ti, thereby ending most of his opportunities to distract the powerful cannonneer chs.
"Damn. It looks like the party is over."
"Not yet!" Another young voice shouted.
Another unit charged the reinforcents! The Valkyrie Pri and the Valkyrie Redeers piloted by the Penitent Sisters had finally joined the fray!
Around 200 Valkyrie chs charged into the enemy reinforcents while activating their Marked For Death abilities. With multiple pale white beams shining onto each ch, the elite Fridayn chs abruptly froze before switching to AI operation.
It was useless!
The inflexible computer-operated chs could not fend off the spears of multiple Valkyrie chs at the sa ti!
Though flas and other weapons t the incoming charge, the armor of the Valkyrie Redeer were more than capable of enduring the damage for a ti.
None of the Fridayman space knights and striker chs survived the charge!
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