The fourth match featured one of Ves’ most iconic chs.
The Valkyrie Redeer had captured the imagination of many people in the Komodo Star Sector. Even foreigners who paid attention to foreign affairs envied the Hexers for being able to make use of a ch with so many capabilities.
The ch had already played a starring role in the Komodo War. Many female Hexer ch pilots dread of piloting the spear-wielding machine in combat. Those that did always felt blessed as their minds directly ca in touch with the presence of the Superior Mother.
Not a single unit that deployed Valkyrie Redeers suffered from morale problems!
In fact, the commanders frequently had to rein in their subordinates because they had grown too enthused with charging their chs forward.
The Valkyrie Redeer and its variants always performanced at their best when on the attack!
Aside from the Hex Army, the Golden Skull Alliance also adopted the sa ch model.
Both the Glory Seekers and the Penitent Sisters used the Valkyrie chs to good effect during the last battle. The Penitent Sisters together with Venerable Joshua even used this ch to pull of the most extraordinary feat of the Battle of Reckoning.
Now, the Valkryie Redeer made another appearance outside of the raging battlefields of the Komodo War.
The mont this ch showed in the dueling ring, many won beca captivated by the feminine ch. The Valkyrie Redeer exuded a sense of feminine strength that felt strangely empowering to those who identified with its gender.
Many female ch pilots felt the irrational urge to pilot it in battle!
"So this is the highly-regarded Valkyrie Redeer." A visiting ch designer spoke. "I can see why it has managed to conquer the hearts of those bigoted won. A ch like this appeals to so of their greatest d.e.s.i.r.es and aspirations. Mr. Larkinson is an excellent marketer."
Indeed, a lot of people regretted that the LMC didn’t sell the Valkyrie Redeer to the public. Not even stealing or copying helped. Its anti-theft systems were so good that any non-Hexer would have a very hard ti interfacing with a living ch that was unwilling!
Yet that was what made the current sight so odd to those who were familiar with the remarkable ch model.
For the first ti, the Valkyrie Redeer was being piloted by a ch pilot who wasn’t a Hexer or a Larkinson.
Not only that, but the ch pilot in question was very obviously a man instead of woman!
"Hehehe. If you think that this little trick can fool , then think again." Ves grinned.
The ch pilot selected to fight with the Valkyrie Redeer was a Lifer ch pilot called Carter Day. Compared to the military ch pilots of the last two matches, Carter appeared to be a bit.. underwhelming.
He was just an average employee of a local security company. Since Prosperous Hill VI was so strictly regulated, the security companies based in Veoline didn’t get to do much. Only a couple of chs were allowed to escort or guard certain facilities at a ti so there wasn’t much work available.
The lack of chs also ant that there were remarkably few ch-related incidents. Carter Day could count on one hand how many tis he fought an actual battle throughout his 20 year career!
A male ch pilot who pursued a steady job and didn’t have much actual battle experience should have been a poor fit with the Valkyrie Redeer.
However, as the battle comnced, Carter had little difficulty with adjusting to the quirks of his new ch and quickly began to utilize it in a proficient manner!
His battle experience might be lacking, but his basic skills were highly-polished. He was still a second-class ch pilot, and that counted for sothing. By practicing and keeping up his skills over a long period of ti, his fundantals were pretty solid.
At the start of the battle, the Valkyrie Redeer perford a little too rigidly. It was as if the ch was fighting while covered in rust. Yet as Carter began to ease into the peculiarities of the ch, he slowly beca more fluid in controlling the fad ch.
He even learned how to utilize one of its distinctive features! When the third eye of the Valkyrie Redeer ca to life, it shone a beam of light straight onto the opposing bioch!
The mont the beam struck the ch designed by Dr. Navarro, its flight hitched for a mont.
The infamous glow of the Valkyrie Redeer had reached out several hundred ters in order to pin the ch pilot of the opposing ch with an unsettling sensation of doom!
Even though this glow was not as debilitating as the glow of the Ferocious Piranha at close range, it definitely unbalanced the target!
This caused the current match to play out similarly to the last one.
There were differences, though.
Mobility-wise, the Frokyn was roughly just as fast and agile as the Valkyrie Redeer. Its defenses may be a little worse due to its inherent organic properties.
This was why the ch was able to hit back hard even when it was trying to maintain its distance. Mireilla may not be a stellar ch pilot either, but she was a lot better at marksmanship than wielding axes.
As long as the Frokyn remained distant, the focused glow of the Valkyrie Redeer couldn’t do more than plague her with illusions!
"I won’t fold!" She gritted her teeth.
Though she admiringly maintained her courage despite constantly being subjected to the sensation of being stared at by a monstrous presence, her performance definitely suffered.
As the two chs chaotically danced in the air, many of the Frokyn’s shots went wide. While its positron rifle was capable of inflicting serious damage, it took a lot of ti to achieve a result if only a handful of beams was able to strike the Valkyrie Redeer for more than an instant!
In fact, the beams that did train on the Valkyrie Redeer were usually blocked by its hexagonal shield.
Yet when the beam managed to score a hit, the Valkyrie Redeer gained a serious-looking scar. Even though its armor was rated to withstand the rigors of all-out warfare, the rifle that Dr. Navarro added to the Frokyn design a quality weapon that was notable for hitting hard!
Even though the energy consumption of the positron rifle was just as impressive, that didn’t matter too much in a duel environnt!
"I’ll burn through your shield eventually!" Mireilla Linschoten declared.
The Valkyrie Redeer possessed comparably less firepower. It was ard with a relatively weak pulse submachine gun that was inaccurate at longer ranges. The ch fared best when it was fighting up close.
Even so, being able to fire at the flight system of the Frokyn was a massive advantage. If this went on, even a weaker weapon was able to knock out the flight capabilities of a powerful ch!
Linschoten obviously knew this. The last match already ill.u.s.trated that chs never seed to run out of energy to maintain their glows. Outlasting them was unfeasible.
"Should I get close or should I maintain my distance?"
Many people could see her dilemma. They didn’t know how much pressure it took to fight against the Valkyrie Redeer up close, but it seed that it wasn’t easy to confront it at range either.
Gloriana looked confused from the mont the match began. She stared at the Valkyrie Redeer that Ves had especially prepared for the design duel.
It was one thing for Venerable Joshua to be able to pilot the Valkyrie Redeer. He was not only an expert pilot, but soone who possessed a great affinity with living chs.
This was different. She was pretty sure that Pilot Day was a male ch pilot, and not an exceptional one at that. Yet this man didn’t even have to exert a lot of effort to be able to pilot the Valkyrie Redeer fluently!
"How did you do it?" She asked.
"It’s complicated." Ves curtly replied. "My chs aren’t as inflexible as you think. Even the chs I’ve designed for the Hexers can be open-minded if I wanted them to be. You overlooked the fact that my Hexers chs are designed by us, not the Hexers."
What Ves believed was different from what the Hexers believed!
The Superior Mother who exerted a huge influence on the chs was also different from a traditional Hexer!
It was therefore relatively easy to tweak so aspects of his Valkyrie Redeer and alter its scope to welco male ch pilots as long as they served a greater cause.
Since Carter Day was fighting on behalf of Ves in a significant design duel, why should the Superior Mother hinder his efforts?
She should be supporting the Lifer ch pilot instead, and that was exactly what she was doing!
It took a personal request from Ves to alter her treatnt, but he could see the results. The Valkyrie Redeer was flush with energy and seed to have beco alive!
One of the consequences of this was that the Valkyrie Redeer was remarkably accurate in its fire. Its pulse submachine gun might not fire any powerful energy particles, but a lot of them managed to hit the flight system of the Frokyn.
The incessant hits wore away the protective layers surrounding the flight components. Even though the Frokyn’s powerful positron beam attacks had almost worn away the Valkyrie Redeer’s shield, the Hexer ch itself was still in decent shape!
It was at this ti that Mireilla Linschoten decided to alter the situation before the flight system of her ch incurred real damage.
After activating a special command, the Frokyn’s fleshy body suddenly rippled. Thick hair follicles started to erge from its entire fra!
The black hair grew so rapidly that the ch quickly went past the level of a gorilla and turned directly into so kind of bushy monster!
"What the hell is that?!" Ves sputtered in shock!
The inexplicable sight completely dumbfounded the Larkinsons. Even the Lifers looked a little confused, but they were less shocked by the sight than others.
Biochs were often known for being able to activate strange abilities!
As soon as all of the hair had ford around the ch, It turned around and attempted to close into lee range!
Though Carter Day was a bit reluctant to confront a very bushy ch, he did not have any choice. His Valkyrie Redeer kept firing its submachine gun but also drew out a spear in order to get ready to fight up close.
As the transford Frokyn flew close, it chopped with its axe!
The Valkyrie Redeer dodged the telegraphed blow and attempted to thrust its spear into the bioch, only for the hair to react and entangle the weapon!
"Let go!"
The hair stubbornly prevented the Valkyrie Redeer from pulling back its weapon. Even though it couldn’t hold onto the spear forever, the Frokyn gained enough of an opening to launch a counterattack!
Yet before its axe could strike a telling blow, the Valkyrie Redeer ejected a Starburst grenade which exploded in their midst.
At the sa ti, the ch also unleashed its Shock and Awe Pulse that caused an intense enough reaction from the bioch to allow the Valkyrie Redeer to disengage.
The two chs separated for a bit, but the Frokyn did not remain deterred for long. As soon as Mireilla Linschoten recovered from the disorientation, she drove her hairy ch forward once again!
"Why are you running? Is my ch that scary? It’s just a little bit of hair!"
For a mont, the match turned into an odd spectacle. The Valkyrie Redeer, which was normally known for its aggressive charges, was trying its best to stay out of the range of a hairy ch!
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