The match between the Valkyrie Redeer and the Frokyn was close!
Both chs circled around in the air and clashed against each other, attempting to slam their weapons into each other’s fras.
Each ti they closed in, the audience clenched their fists and gritted their teeth. They cheered whenever the Valkyrie Redeer incurred a serious blow. They g.r.o.a.n.e.d or shouted their dismay any ti the Frokyn received a serious wound.
Overall, the energy of the crowd see-sawed so frequently that it was as if they were all affected by the Ferocious Piranha’s glow!
Even Ves felt a bit nervous about the outco of this battle. The Valkyrie Redeer was one of his great successes and the ch that best represented his mother. It lost a bit unjustly in the first phase, so he hoped it would be able to make a coback in the second phase.
"It’s close." Vincent comnted as he beca engaged at how the chs were fighting each other. "I don’t know too much about the chs, but I can tell the ch pilots are treating this like a high-stakes match. They don’t want to lose, so they don’t dare to pull off any daring moves. They just want to grind each other down. It won’t end until one of the chs falters."
This was an approach that removed many variables from play. Instead of using their wits and the special capabilities of their chs to outmaneuver each other, Mireilla Linschoten and Carter Day both chose to fight each other in one of the simplest and most straightforward thods.
The only variables that mattered was their skill along with the resilience of their chs!
Their skill was roughly even. Both of them were experienced rcenary ch pilots. While neither Mireilla nor Carter received any elite training, they invested decades into polishing their fundantal skills, allowing them to perform quite well even if they piloted relatively unfamiliar chs.
That left the chs. This was where the real differences lay.
The Valkyrie Redeer lost badly the last ti and still suffered the consequences for it. Its reduced performance and patched armor left it in a relatively dire state. Mireilla constantly had to employ caution in order to prevent a single strike from damaging a critical component!
Yet the ch was still putting up a good fight regardless. Its spear granted the ch a longer reach than its opponent, thereby granting the tallic ch an inherent advantage in performing its attack runs.
Second, Mireilla constantly beca more in tune with her ch.
Unlike Carter Day who only ford a shallow relationship with the Valkyrie Redeer, Mireilla beca increasingly more in tune with the ch.
She was not a Hexer. Far from it. She was loyal to the Life Research Association and had no intentions of changing that. Yet that did not prevent her from getting chard by the ch she piloted.
"No ch has made feel as strong as this one!"
Even in a damaged condition, the Valkyrie Redeer could still beat the chs she utilized before!
She never piloted a ch this good outside simulations. The power she wielded and the additional systems at her disposal caused her to beco more and more enamoured with piloting the Valkyrie Redeer.
What was even more fascinating to her was how the ch responded so well to her. The Valkyrie Redeer seed to possess a mind of its own. In fact, she felt as if there were two minds. One of them allowed her to forge a closer connection to her ch while the other one was vastly more profound than anything she had felt before.
When she tentatively deepened her bond with the latter, she beca more and more in awe. The more she reached out, the more she ca in touch with. There was an endless depth to this indescribable bond that completely fascinated her but miraculously did not distract her from the battle.
"Is this what it is like to be a Hexer?" She asked herself.
She felt as if she was caught up by an enormous wave of Hexer-ness for a lack of a better description. Whenever she reached out with her mind, she felt as if she beca more inured with values associated with strong and assertive won.
"Won are better."
"Won must take the lead."
"Won cannot lose."
Why should she lose this battle?
She won with the Frokyn before! Was she destined to lose because she hit the Valkyrie Redeer a little too hard the previous match?
"It’s not fair!"
She was a winner! She refused to concede against Carter Day. Even though he respected her opponent, it did not change the fact that she thought she was better.
"If my Valkyrie Redeer was in the sa condition as the Frokyn, then I would have won by now!"
This was not an idle boast. The performance of her current ch fell below that of the Frokyn, yet she was holding her ground just fine so far. Her skill expression slowly rose over ti as she beca increasingly more familiar with the Valkryrie Redeer in multiple ways.
Clang!
The Frokyn managed to chop apart the shield held by the Valkyrie Redeer! Axes were highly suited to destroy shields to begin with and Carter Day already knew that he had to get rid of this obstacle in order to launch a fatal blow against the Valkyrie Redeer.
However, Mireilla Linschoten wasn’t stupid. She always knew that the shield wouldn’t be able to last the fight. It was not a thick and sturdy tower shield that was designed to withstand imnse bombardnt. It was more of a delaying tool that could be utilized to make favorable trades.
A spout of purple blood sprayed from the wound as the spear retracted from the flesh. Scabs hastily ford over the nasty wound, preventing the organic machine from leaking out more blood, but the damage was already done!
The Frokyn beca a bit less responsive. Although the wound hadn’t struck anything critical, it still interfered with the functioning of the bioch. Dr. Navarro began to look quite concerned as he observed the match!
The successful blow inflated Mireilla Linschoten’s confidence. Her montum increased and her fit with her ch increased even further!
This allowed the Superior Mother to exert even more influence over the ch. When Ves prepared this specific machine, he already tweaked its spiritual design and warned the design spirit that the ch pilot deserved extra care.
As a maternal spirit, the Superior Mother excelled at giving care, especially towards those that helped out her son!
Ves could see what she was doing. His spiritual senses noticed the increased activity from the Valkyrie Redeer.
His face grew a little grave when he noticed what was happening.
He hadn’t prompted the Superior Mother to do anything throughout the entire match, but his helpful ’mother’ took the initiative to intervene on her own accord!
The difference beca increasingly more telling. The strength of the Valkyrie Redeer’s glow grew stronger. Even with its ruined head, the Hexer ch was still radiating a sharp glow onto the Frokyn, which exerted more and more psychological pressure on its ch pilot.
"No wonder the Fridayn all hate this ch! The Valkyrie Redeer is truly difficult to fight against!"
His responses beca less tight and his ch began to incur more stab wounds. Even though the difference was relatively minor, he felt increasingly more pressed to keep up his performance.
"Get down already!" Linschoten shouted as her spear seed to possess a touch of brilliance as it whipped past the Frokyn’s axe and punctured a shoulder!
Though the wound inflicted by the Valkyrie Redeer was fairly shallow, it was nonetheless a concerning attack because a follow-up strike might very well be able to knock out one of the Frokyn’s arms!
The bioch was not harmless, however. Even as Carter Day ca under increasing pressure, he beca more determined to end the match before his ch reached the point of failure!
"I can’t let you grow any further!"
The match suddenly heated up as Carter recognized that ti would only make the Valkyrie Redeer stronger instead of the opposite. He had to cut this strange growth process short by attempting to chop down the Valkyrie Redeer sooner!
The Frokyn no longer made any sparing attack runs. Instead, it flew forward and attempted to stick close to the Valkyrie Redeer!
Its weapon might have a shorter reach, but that ant it would definitely be able to savage the Valkyrie Redeer up close!
More puncture wounds adorned the Frokyn’s surface as it tried and failed to get past the guard of the spear-wielding ch!
The spear held in the Valkyrie Redeer’s hand was like a wall that blocked the bioch’s path. The Frokyn had no choice but to face the spear attacks head-on in an attempt to get closer, and that made it extrely difficult for it to get past this challenge.
Eventually, Carter Day decided to throw caution to the wind.
"I’ll accept any blow as long as I can get close enough to hack at you with my axe!"
The Frokyn fearlessly dashed forward! It held its axe in a blocking manner in an attempt to guard its c.h.e.s.t, but the spear that sn.a.k.e.d forward keenly avoided every obstacle and stabbed deep in the already-wounded abdon of the bioch!
Yet no matter how serious this injury appeared, the Frokyn succeeded in getting close!
Its biotal axe is already chopped down like a descending moon. The air whipped as the sharp and resilient axe blade hungered to split apart the c.h.e.s.t plating of the Valkyrie Redeer!
Yet just before the axe was close to doing so, the Valkyrie Redeer abruptly detonated its last Starburst grenade while simultaneously activating its strongest Shock and Awe Pulse yet! More raw power had been pumped into the latter than ever before, causing Carter Day to be blanked for a small mont before he regained his wits.
The Valkyrie Redeer’s spear was still thrust into the abdon of the Frokyn, but the ch that previously held the weapon was gone from its place!
"Where!?" Carter beca alard. The Frokyn’s axe cut through empty air, signalling that its opponent was truly gone. "Wait a second..."
The sense of doom that was directed towards him no longer ca from the front.
Instead, it ca from below!
It turned out that the Valkyrie Redeer cut off its propulsion at the sa ti it activated its close-ranged counter-asures!
This caused the ch to lose altitude for just a mont until its flight system ca online again. Mireilala Linschoten pumped more power into the flight system than ever before, causing it to rise up just enough to empower her next blow!
"This is the end!" She yelled as her will seed to echo with her ch and the spirit that was supporting her from behind!
The Valkyrie Redeer’s backup knife rapidly rose up from between the legs of the Frokyn before sinking straight into the crotch of the bioch!
More purple blood leaked out from the ch than ever before as the spear dug deep into the flesh and internals in its way!
The Frokyn suffered a terrible blow!
Carter scread, and so did much of the audience!
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