Whenever the Penitent Sisters engaged their battle network while piloting a Valkyrie Redeer, they automatically defaulted to the battle formation associated with the death phase of existence.
It was the only battle formation that truly felt right for the Valkyrie product line.
During previous tests, Ves had gotten to know additional properties about this battle formation. The wave of energy it released was exceedingly deadly. While Ves had not dared to test it on any living humans, it was not that big of a deal to float so containers in space and fill them up with so inconsequential animals.
Suffice to say, none of the animals had a good ti after they were swept by the energy wave.
What interested Ves more was how it changed when a pri ch entered the equation.
More specifically, he beca very intrigued at what might happen if Venerable Joshua was the one that piloted the pri ch in question.
From a spiritual perspective, the Valkyrie Pri was a carrier of the Superior Mother's energy. The Unending alloy that made up its entire armor and much of its internal fra was all filled with the ancestral spirit's spiritual energy.
By itself, this 6300 Ves worth of spiritual energy was in its basic state. While the ch itself was slanted towards death, the Superior Mother was a spiritual entity that encompassed more than just the death phase of existence.
She was capable of embodying all six hexism phases.
It was just that she normally manifested just one of the phases at the sa ti. This was how Ves designed her and how she was ant to function.
He hadn't been imaginative enough to think whether he should give her the capability to channel multiple phases at the sa ti. That was an oversight that Ves slightly regretted. Creating new lifeforms wasn't easy. Any mistake he made could not be corrected as easily as he could do with chs.
In any case, when Venerable Joshua resonated with his latest ch, the pri resonance he evoked reflected his life domain.
According to his studies, Ves determined that resonance always manifested in a form that highly suited the ch pilot. It was more of a human phenonon than a ch phenonon.
Of course, the ch also affected the character of the manifested resonance to a degree, but this was probably dependent on the strength of a ch.
Compared to true expert chs, pri chs were much more trivial. They also worked on different principles.
While the ch was technically thed around the death phase of existence, its spiritual foundation only asured up to around 110 Ves in strength, though it could be a little more now that an expert pilot had used it for a while.
What truly affected the form of resonance evoked by the Valkyrie Pri was both the pilot and the source of all of the spiritual energy dumped into the pri materials.
When Venerable Joshua, who possessed a strong and pure life domain, ca into contact with the spiritual energy donated by the Superior Mother, what kind of resonance did they produce?
It was life. A ch designed to bring death beca surrounded by a glow that exuded pure vitality. Didn't that sound ridiculous?
Yet it worked out fine. The Valkyrie ch line was originally designed to be a carrier of the Superior Mother, and life just happened to be one of her six domains.
In fact, the mutation that happened during her creation may have even strengthened this aspect of hers!
Cynthia Larkinson also possessed a life domain. Even if it had a different orientation than that of Ves and Joshua, it was undeniable that they shared a common root!
Therefore, when Venerable Joshua induced resonance in the Valkyrie Pri, he was evoking the Superior Mother's extraordinary attainnts in life.
Ves found it rather coincidental that the life phase of existence also happened to be associated with boys. At least, that was what many Hexers thought.
While the Valkyrie Pri piloted by Joshua turned into a mass of contradictions, the ch in this state was anything but weak. The Valkyrie Pri was still able to channel the death-based abilities that it was ant to evoke.
Yet what happened if this sa resonance spread onto the battle formation composed of lots of Valkyrie chs?
Even Ves didn't know what might result from this combination.
He beca even more excited than before. He always derived a lot of satisfaction when he was watching his creations work the way he designed them to, but he gained even more pleasure when he saw them being utilized to a greater degree than he initially envisioned.
This was a true creation!
This was what a true maker pursued!
An invention that only perford to their creator's expectations was a boring and predictable product. The lack of subsequent evolution, improvent or evolution signified that the creation was essentially dead and static.
Only an invention that could endlessly be improved after it was made was truly worthy to be called a living product!
All of these sudden realizations stimulated his design seed to an even higher state than before. The insights he derived from this battle would definitely benefit his work as long as he survived.
"It's ti."
Ves and several other observers watched carefully as the sea of chs parted aside in order to give the Penitent Sister battle formation an ample corridor to their intended targets.
The approaching chs flew down the corridor as if they were akin to a kinetic shell being propelled forward by a railgun. The only difference was that the chs all activated their Marked For Death ability when they ca close, ensuring that the Bloody Herons would not be able escape the doom that was coming for them in the form of an extraordinary wave of energy!
To be honest, Ves had no idea what kind of energy the battle formation produced. The core of it seed to be associated with death. This pure and intense death energy largely ca from the Superior Mother, but was able to manifest into a coherent attack through the dium of a battle formation.
Yet what made this attack more remarkable than unusual was that it was surrounded by a glow of resonance that originated from the Valkyrie Pri!
It was as if a shell made of life enveloped a huge quantity of pure death energy. What amazed Ves was that the opposing energies didn't conflict or react adversely with each other.
Instead, they existed side by side, reflecting the fact that most of the energies ca from the Superior Mother in the first place. It also proved that Joshua had beco very compatible with the Hexer spirit.
When the V-shaped wave of death approached the Bloody Herons, the entire battlefield around this incident had slowed. The Holvein Grenadiers, the Silent Swords and the Corundian Giant chs all seed to pause in their attacks as their pilots beca compelled to watch the results of the powerful attack.
Even the Larkinsons, Glory Seekers and Crossers slowed down a bit. The Larkinson ch pilots knew a bit more than most, but none of them aside from the veterans of the Battle of the Abyss knew what they were about to witness.
The shape and size of the energy attack was proportionate to the dinsions of the battle formation that originally launched it. The larger the battle formation, the more space it covered.
With around 180 chs, the wave of energy just happened to encompass more than half of the Bloody Heron chs that remained functional.
This was enough.
When the Bloody Heron ch pilots had beco subjected to the suppressive glows of the Valkyrie Redeers, they felt more than ever that their doom had co!
"No!"
The wave of pale white energy surrounded by green resonance passed through all of the chs in its way without any obstruction.
It was as if so sort of ghost was rely passing through without taking the ti to make any detours.
In just a short amount of ti, the energy wave soundlessly passed through several hundred chs. Not just the Bloody Herons, but also the other Fridayman elite chs positioned behind them beca affected.
Unfortunately, due to the dispersed formation adopted by the Fridayn, only several chs were affected in total. The only consolation to Ves was that the previous losses sustained by the elite chs ant that this was definitely a high proportion!
The energy wave continued to fly forward past the formations of elite Fridayn chs, but no one was paying attention to it anymore.
Instead, every observer that was free enough to look was intently observing the chs affected by the attack.
Around 240 chs had been hit by the energy wave. Now, everyone waited to see what had happened to them. Had the chs sustained damage? The attack didn't seem to have done anything to the machines. Was this so sort of failed EMP attack?
It wasn't until the Fridayn attempted to contact the ch pilots residing in the chs that they realized that sothing had gone horribly wrong.
According to the teletry transmitted by the affected chs, the ch pilots were still alive, at least on a physical level.
Yet their brain activity had gone completely silent!
In the ships of the Friday Coalition, the battlefield monitors and analysts had beco completely stunned.
At one console in the command center of the Eager Condemnation, a certain Journeyman ch Designer beca increasingly more alard as she monitored the state of the neural network.
The neural network had beco a lot more quiet. It abruptly exhibited only a fraction of its previous activity. What few Bloody Heron ch pilots were left alive were so shocked by what had occurred that the network automatically collapsed!
Fear had swept their minds, causing their thoughts to beco too disordered to remain in sync with each other!
As realization spread throughout both friendly and enemy chs, the Penitent Sister chs did not bother to charge forward and impale their spears into the defenseless chs.
Instead, they curved their path away so that they would not be colliding with any enemy chs.
The battle formation quickly ended after the chs had unleashed the combined attack.
The energy silhouette of the Superior Mother also faded.
The Valkyrie Pri appeared a bit less energetic than before.
Every action had a price.
An attack as powerful as the one they just unleashed took out a lot from them. Even with the assistance of Venerable Joshua, the Penitent Sister ch pilots all felt as if they had fought for an entire day! They could no longer concentrate as well as before.
It was enough.
When it beca clear that the ch pilots affected by the attack were not about to recover anyti soon, the entire direction of the changed.
Commander lkor quickly fired his weapon! His Vima Sun unleashed a bright laser beam that struck an exposed portion of a Silent Sword ch, inflicting heavy damage on the machine.
"What are you waiting for? Finish them off while they are still caught off-balance! Drive straight through the center and split them apart!"
The Larkinsons, Glory Seekers and Crossers quickly pounced on the enemy! Even though the surviving elite Fridayman ch pilots recovered fairly quickly, they had firmly lost the initiative! The absence of more than 250 chs ant that they faced an insurmountable disparity in numbers.
There were too few of them left to fend off the remaining enemies, especially if the strange Valkyrie chs were able to unleash a second energy wave!
However, as the increasingly less confident Fridayman ch pilots worried about a second possible attack, the first one had still not run its course!
When lots of Fridayman officers and analysts were focused on the changes to their chs, a couple of officers aboard the Auralis suddenly sounded the alarm.
"INCOMING! The unknown attack is flying right in our direction!"
"Evade!"
"It's too late! Our fleet carrier won't be able to evade in ti!"
The energy attack persisted far longer than anyone expected from sothing so weird and powerful. In fact, a normal attack from the death formation should have dispersed after traversing so distance, but this was not a normal energy attack.
As the death wave of energy continued to soar deeper into space, the life resonance surrounding it was slowly being consud.
Life was sustaining death, allowing the energy wave to persist for a much longer ti while retaining most of its potency!
The attack run perford by the Penitent Sisters was angled just right. It did not hit the Bloody Herons straight on but was instead angled just enough to allow the energy attack to reach the coordinates where the Auralis should have reached.
The timing was impeccable. The calculations were all on point. The only factor that potentially spoiled this second surprise was that the Auralis was slowly moving out of the way.
However, the Larkinsons deliberately targeted this fleet carrier in particular. It was the largest, heaviest and least maneuverable deep strike fleet carrier out of the five that the Friday Coalition had sent.
Even though a portion of the vessel had succeeded in moving out of the way of the impending wave of death, sothing else happened that confounded everyone.
The energy wave seed to have gained so life of its own! Directed by a consciousness, the pale white wave surrounded by a dwindling corona of green resonance passed right through the length of the fleet carrier of the Gauge Dynasty.
Everyone had beco speechless yet again.
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