Over 16,000 chs entered the battlefield.
Now, many of them were lost!
Many blew up into fragnts that flung in every direction. Others suffered fatal hits to their chests that caused them to lose power. A few of the luckier ones managed to retreat and return to their motherships before they completely collapsed.
No matter what, the survival rate of chs constantly plumted as if it was the Starlight galodon about to crash on the surface of Aeon Corona VII!
As Ves briefly took a pause from trying to analyze the flaws of individual enemy chs, he beca captivated by the imnse amount of violence taking place.
He had seen larger and grander battles, of course.
He could always access the battle footage sent by the Hexers if he ever wanted to forget about everything and just surround himself with as much chs as possible.
The scale of the Komodo War was imnse. The amount of chs that clashed against each other in a given star system numbered in the hundreds of thousands as entire ch army groups struggled for supremacy.
Yet Ves had little part in it other than designing so of the chs involved. These battles took place many light-years away from his current location. He did not personally feel awed when the Hexers moved entire ch divisions forward and he did not feel frightened down to his bones when the Fridayn launched an ambush involving more than 100,000 chs.
While he always felt gratified to see his products serve their use to his clients, he did not feel as excited as he was at this mont.
Yes, he felt excited.
Despite the threat of facing 11—, no 9 expert chs now, Ves felt alive in a way he never did when he was living a placid life on Cinach.
The greater the danger, the greater the risks, the more his life beca aningful to him. As a Larkinson, he lived for battle, so monts like these captivated him in a way that stimulated his design seed beyond reason!
As Ves observed his pri chs and Valkyrie chs in action, he gained many small but novel insights about his chs. He recognized what worked, what didn't work as well and what needed to be corrected right away.
The performance of his prototype chs were especially illuminating. One ch that stood out in particular was the prototype of the Ferocious Piranha Version B.
The incomplete second-class version of the best-selling Ferocious Piranha showcased why the light ch had beco such a popular seller on the market!
In the hands of Raella Larkinson, the Ferocious Piranha clearly showcased that she hadn't slacked off too much in her ch training despite her responsibilities.
The light skirmisher moved swiftly. Other friendly light chs surrounded the ch like a protective guard. The mont the Ferocious Piranha approached the edge of an enemy formation, the opponents tried to make as much distance as possible. They were deeply apprehensive towards the light chs.
There was a good reason for this. As soon as the Ferocious Piranha drew close, many of the enemy chs moved stiffer than usual. Their reaction speeds slowed and they made plenty more errors.
The light chs along with other nearby friendly Larkinson chs pounced on the weakened Fridayman chs and always managed to gain the upper hand in the ensuing clash!
The Ferocious Piranha achieved fantastic results the first couple of tis it employed its glow, but once the enemy recognized its threat, Raella was forced to beco a lot more constrained. She fought closer to existing friendlies and did not dare to make any attacks in person. Her ch received the sa treatnt as the Blessed Squire, being valued for nothing more than its glow.
"Ah, glows." He sighed.
This was a period of ti when the Larkinson Clan happened to employ a huge amount of third-party products. A lot of Larkinsons fought without experiencing the myriad of benefits of lding their minds with an LMC ch.
Fortunately, the nature of glows ant that Ves didn't need to employ too many LMC chs to spread his glows.
His ch forces cleverly employed the original Bright Warriors like Blessed Squires, bringing the warmth and light of the Golden Cat to the vast majority of Larkinsons who fought on behalf of the clan. Their morale remained strong and their willingness to fight with all never shook as they carried the hopes and dreams of every Larkinson!
Ves only dared to bring the obsolete Bright Warriors due to being clad in plenty of Breyer alloy. The Fridayn weren't blind or stupid. Glows were force multipliers that amplified the performance of entire formations and units. They were as threatening as artillery chs if not more, and that turned them into high-priority targets!
Even with space knights and other chs keeping them safe, the Fridayn chs did not hesitate to employ suicidal charges in order to destroy the seemingly-crucial Bright Warriors!
Yet once their weapons struck their targets, the Bright Warriors didn't crumble. At most, they received a few dents and bounced away due to the force behind the blows.
While Breyer alloy wasn't indestructible to the Fridayn, it was still challenging to pierce through their shells, as evidenced by the near-pristine prow of the Spirit of Bentheim!
As a symbol of the majesty of the Larkinson Clan, the majestic and overdramatized depiction of
The Golden Cat attracted plenty of attacks at first, especially when enemies attempted to take out the Bentheim's bunker chs.
Not even a hundred attacks managed to do more than lightly scar the huge and solid prow!
In fact, Ves felt as if the battle scars added character to his flagship. It showed that the Larkinson Clan was not afraid to confront powerful enemies.
The continued existence of the golden prow seed to instill the Larkinsons with even more confidence. Even though it didn't really possess a significant glow or anything due to his minimal involvent, Ves had an illusion that the totem was propping up the fighting spirit of the Larkinson Clan.
As long as it remained whole, the Larkinsons would never break in battle!
"The work that your ch designers are doing are all taking effect." Major Verle briefly pulled his attention away from his own responsibilities. "Look. Ever since your Valkyrie Pri started to relay a lot of data to us, the Fridayn are almost losing as much chs as ours. This is a significantly better ratio than before."
"It's not enough." Ves grimaced inside his helt. "We have already lost a lot more chs at the start on this side of the battlefield, so we are still fighting at a disadvantage."
Despite all of the setbacks they suffered, the elite Fridayman ch units still put up a lot of fight. The Holvein Grenadiers, the Bloody Herons and the Silent Swords each showcased why they were considered to be the best of what the Friday Coalition had to offer!
The Transcendent Punishers heavily suppressed the Holvein Grenadiers in the earlier stages of the battle. Plenty of grenade-carrying chs succumbed before they could even show their might. No matter how well they perford at close range, they were still as helpless as other chs when faced with relentless bombardnt!
Unfortunately, now that the Transcendent Punishers redirected their fire to suppress the Charlemagne, the Scarra and the other surviving Fridayman expert chs, the Holvein Grenadiers fought back with a vengeance!
A string of powerful high explosive grenades enriched with volatile exotics blew up near a cluster of Crosser chs, heavily damaging their sides and disrupting their rhythm enough for the Grenadier chs to make a quick breakthrough.
It took twice as much chs to stop the Grenadier chs in their tracks and prevent the lines from becoming more disordered.
A handful of rifleman chs safely floating at the rear of the formation fired a volley of grenades with their under-barrel grenade launchers. Once the grenades detonated, they spread out of a huge amount of dark foam that didn't do anything but dirty the chs in the vicinity.
However, when this foam touched the flight systems of chs, they suddenly fizzled out, causing the chs to lose a lot of maneuverability for a ti.
Without their flight systems, chs weren't able to fight anymore! They had lost too much mobility and not even the secondary boosters and thrusters built inside the other parts of their fra was enough to compensate for the loss.
They turned into sitting ducks against the prepared Holvein Grenadier chs at the front!
"These damn grenade-slinging chs are too outrageous!" A Larkinson ch pilot complained. "I bet that so of these grenades cost as much as one of our chs!"
The Holvein Grenadiers basically gained their advantages in battle by spending lots of money! The grenades they flung would never have as much potency against chs as now if they didn't incorporate a lot of expensive exotics with a myriad of powerful and unusual effects. This was the only way to make a deadly package that was also compact and able to be carried by chs.
Even though the Grenadiers had already expended most of their grenades by now, they still clung to at least one of them until the mont their chs succumbed.
Explosions rippled through the frontline as Grenadier ch after Grenadier ch did not hesitate to take down their opponents with them. Often tis, the diehard ch pilots actively overloaded the power reactors of their chs in order to give their enemies an even bigger surprise!
The Silent Swords of the Konsu Clan fought in a completely different approach. Every ch pilot was a swordmaster and their chs were completely tailored to the swordsmanship style that has been bestowed upon them. They all fought in the sa way, but because of the exquisiteness of their technique, hardly any other lee ch was able to get the better of them in a one-on-one duel!
In so cases, the ch officers and ch champions of the Silent Swords were even able to fight two opposing lee chs to a standstill!
As long as the circumstances were equal, the Silent Sword chs were always able to carve their way through the ranks of their opponents and lay waste to any ch that entered their reach.
If not for the fact that they had no effective solutions against ranged attacks, the Silent Swords would have been enough to fight at least four tis as many opponents!
The expeditionary forces had to reserve most of their rifleman chs to put pressure on the Silent Swords. If their tricky wandering squads weren't put under fire as soon as they approached a contentious area, the elite Konsu ch pilots would have easily been able to harvest the enemies locked in battle against other Fridayn chs!
Yet what gave Ves the most dread was the Bloody Herons.
Even though the Herons lost a lot of chs over the course of the engagent, the powerful chs still punched above their weight due the impeccable teamwork they showed.
Only the pri chs and the Valkyrie chs piloted by the Glory Seekers and the Penitent Sisters were able to constrain them to an extent.
While Ves was previously fine with letting the battle play out against the Bloody Herons, he began to feel more concerned about what happened on the other parts of the battlefield.
The enemies here needed to be cleaned up as quickly as possible in order to free up a lot of friendly chs that could be deployed to reinforce others.
Ves struggled a bit before he made a decision. He opened a private communication channel.
"Venerable Joshua."
"Yes, sir?" The expert pilot hurriedly spoke.
His Valkyrie Pri was currently in the heat of battle!
"Do it. Show them what the Superior Mother can truly do. Wipe out as many Fridayman chs as possible."
"Isn't it too soon?! If we do this, our ch pilots will be…"
"I'm aware, but there is little point in delaying." Ves replied. "The elite Fridayn chs are no longer as nurous and oppressive as before, and their ch pilots have exerted heavily to the point where they are far from their peak. The timing is right. Delaying any further will just result in needless casualties. Just do it before anything changes."
"..Very well, sir."
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