If Ves was drinking a cup of coffee right now, he would have spurted all of it out of his mouth at this ti!
"How the hell have these Avatars beco so good?!"
He always tried to keep up with the current state of his diverse and unique ch forces. He had a good grasp of the overall strengths and weaknesses of every ch force. He also possessed an overall judgent of their ranking.
The Swordmaidens were the strongest, followed closely by the Penitent Sisters. A substantial gap existed between the two and the remainder. The Avatars of Myth and Flagrant Vandals had fallen too far behind to catch up in a short amount of ti.
This was why Commander lkor was desperate to allow his Avatars to lead this operation. If he and his n ever wanted to surpass the powerful female ch pilots, they had to go above and beyond in order to regain the throne!
lkor and a lot of Avatar officers thought very hard about how they could close the gap. They realized that they had to acquire a unique advantage that they could depend upon to give them an edge in battle.
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One of the reasons why the Penitent Sisters and the Swordmaidens were so stupendously scary in battle was because Ves bestowed them their unique battle networks.
One of them used the extrely powerful Superior Mother as its nexus while the other centered around a living expert pilot!
Due to their notably high degree of unity and cohesion, the Penitent Sisters and Swordmaidens were able to activate extraordinary battle formations that could launch massive, battle-changing strikes that could harvest hundreds if not thousands of lives at once!
Every other ch force was insanely jealous at what the Penitent Sisters and Swordmaidens possessed. Yet other than the Battle Criers, Ves denied the request to fashion battle networks that were tailored to others.
Ves was actually quite willing to strengthen the combat prowess of his soldiers in this manner. It took relatively little effort on his part to provide powerful trump cards to his troops.
Yet the requirents to establish and activate a battle network were quite harsh. The ch pilots that channeled a battle formation had to be united by a common cause and beco as aligned and homogeneous as possible.
Theoretically, only twins and very close relatives should achieve close to perfect integration.
Short of that, the highly intensive training standards along with the strong martial cultures of the Penitent Sisters and Swordmaidens served as an adequate substitute.
The rest were too ssy to match this level of dedication according to Ves.
Was this really the case, though?
Commander lkor didn't think this was the case. Sure, the Avatars had grown so large and nurous that a lot of differences had erged.
The longer-serving Avatars were a lot more jaded and mature than the ones that joined in recent months.
The small number of trueblood Larkinsons always felt more privileged than the large number of adopted clansn who had only recently embraced their values.
The Avatars who originated from second-rate states always felt that they would eventually be able to supplant the ones who ca from third-rate states like the Bright Republic and the Sentinel Kingdom.
With so many contradictions within the Avatars, Commander lkor had already tried and failed to impose a greater degree of conformity among his n.
Nothing stuck and it would take far too much ti and much greater effort in order to mold his Avatars into identical fighting machines.
One day, the Avatars racking their minds over this problem ca up with an alternative solution.
"Trying to unite thousands if not tens of thousands of Avatars is undoable. What if we take a step back and try to gather like-minded ch pilots into smaller units? It is much easier to foster unity in a ch squad or a ch company!"
The Avatars experinted with this idea and achieved positive results during their initial attempts. Commander lkor was highly encouraged by the results and approved further attempts to convert more ch companies into highly homogenous units.
The easiest way to accomplish this was to gather people together of the sa backgrounds!
For example, the ch pilots who all clutched their Golden Cat pendants and invoked the ancestral spirit were either truebloods or forr citizens of the Bright Republic!
Of all of the people in the clan, only the original Larkinsons and those who knew of their reputation were able to develop the most intimate connections to the Golden Cat.
That turned them into a model which other Avatars were supposed to follow!
Now, this special experintal unit of Larkinsons were finally showing their worth on an actual battlefield!
Unlike before when they were confronting the black chs, this ti they were confronted by aerial enemies who wouldn't be able to shake off the Larkinson chs so easily.
This was the perfect stage to debut the new Avatar Invocation thod that Commander lkor and his officers had cooked by themselves.
What was remarkable about this was that the Avatars never involved Ves or asked for his assistance at any point. The Avatars were very prideful and they wanted to show the patriarch that they did not need anyone's help in order to expand their own thods.
Now, their hour had finally co, and the first ch companies that had successfully mastered their new exclusive technique were fighting harder than ever in order to vindicate all of the effort put into this initiative!
"Invoke the Golden Cat!"
"Invoke the Golden Cat!"
Two more ch companies experienced an invisible transformation that subsequently improved their effective performance by at least thirty percent!
This difference might not sound so drastic, but in a fast-moving clash where every difference mattered, this improvent was nothing less than a revolution.
The ranged ch company that had just invoked the Golden Cat aid and overlapped their fire to a much more effective degree. They not only took down enemy chs at a faster rate, but also suppressed any Diyast ch that was about to launch a fatal blow against a friendly machine.
The lee ch companies outfought the chs opposite them to such a devastating extent that the handful of MTA ch pilots fighting alongside them were filled with questions.
In truth, their skill and ability allowed them to perform even better on an individual basis, but the rising montum of so many Avatar chs affected the course of the battle to a much greater degree!
[What happened to these Larkinsons?!] Miss Petrov, who was piloting a lancer ch, expressed her befuddlent. [Did they simultaneously inject their bodies with stimulants or sothing?]
Miss Quentin shook her head as she did her best to keep up with the advancing Avatars and chop enemy chs with the sword of her own machine.
[They haven't lost control. Far from it. They exhibit even greater precision and coordination than before. That is not what typical stimulants can do. Whatever these Larkinsons have done, I can feel their montum rising!]
Commander lkor grinned with pride as the battle swung in the favor of the Larkinson Clan.
The Avatars were finally showing their worth under his leadership!
"Surround the Diyast chs! Don't let them fall back to their sea carriers!"
The Ferocious Piranhas began to harass and block the rear of the diminishing enemy ch troop. While the Diyast chs initially outnumbered the Avatars and Vandals in the field, the last few stratagems successfully whittled down this disparity.
Now that the Diyasts lost more than a hundred chs in a short amount of ti, their situation beca even less optimistic.
If the revenge force couldn't overco the Larkinsons when they held this advantage, how could they possibly reverse the situation now that the superior Larkinson chs faced less pressure?
Even though the Diyast ch pilots were very loyal to their cause, they were not immune to swings in morale. They could easily sense that the high tide that they were riding on had crashed straight into a dyke.
The Diyast ch force did not possess much advantages to begin with, but now that the orange-and-grey chs were falling left and right due to the heroic performance of a handful of enemy ch companies, the dream of the Diyast Family might never co to pass!
Surging morale boosted every Avatar ch pilot that fought against the Diyasts. Even if they weren't a part of the special ch companies that had invoked the Golden Cat, the 'regular' ch pilots still fight with more skill and confidence than even in their best training sessions.
How could the Diyast ch pilots possibly match this boost? Their fighting spirit constantly eroded as they lacked a pillar that could prop up their morale and rally their confidence. Ernesto Diyast was not an accomplished war leader and could do little to encourage his n to stand their ground.
"My revenge… my family…" The surviving Diyast hollowly uttered in the command center of one of the sea carriers. "No! I can't let my quest for vengeance fail! Not when I have worked so hard to get to this point! n, forget about fighting these Larkinsons! Just chase down those fleeing combat carriers and take them all down! As long as any of them plunge into the ocean, the Purnessers will enter our domain!"
It was a sound plan, and it might have actually worked if he had issued this order at the start.
However, their entanglent against the Larkinson chs had beco so devastating that the remaining Diyast chs were too few in number to succeed in this plan!
They tried anyway. The Diyast chs all split up and tried to circumvent the crazy Bright Warriors and the devious Ferocious Piranhas.
Yet this half-baked initiative that had started too late was destined to fail.
The Avatars did not allow their opponents to leave unopposed. The Bright Warriors stubbornly gnawed at the heels of the escaping Diyast chs and either forced them to stop and fight or simply defeated them straight away!
Any Diyast ch that succeeded in slipping through the net were quickly chased down by a pack of ravenous Ferocious Piranhas. The Vandal light chs were able to catch up to any dium ch without fail, so the attempts to get away by the latter seed very farcical.
As for the light chs that outraced the Ferocious Piranhas, their numbers were too few to threaten the combat carriers that had already distanced themselves from the hotspot.
The empowered ranged ch company might not have the blessing of Ylvaine, but their overall performance received a collective boost that was just enough for them to down the dodging enemy light chs by coordinating their fire.
From the mont the sea carriers subrged back into the water, the Larkinson Clan knew that it had accomplished its victory.
"The Avatars and Vandals have won!"
"Hail the Larkinson Clan!"
"Hail the Golden Cat!"
The operation to evacuate the Purnesse Family was settled even before the third wave of Larkinson chs arrived.
With the help of a new combat thod, the Avatars of Myth succeeded in pioneering a new battle approach!
Back on the Spirit of Bentheim, Ves was lost for words.
He had long thought that he was the only one who was qualified to invent new spirituality-based thods in the Larkinson Clan. No one ca close to matching his competence in spiritual engineering.
Though he was aware that he had a long way to go before he could catch up to his mother, in his clan he always considered himself to be the sole authority in this field!
Yet now, the Avatars of Myth encroached upon his domain despite possessing no expertise in spiritual engineering.
"How?" Ves asked.
He turned around and pinned his eyes towards the Larkinson Mandate. He could feel smugness radiating from the Golden Cat.
"Get over here!"
He did not bother to ask Nitaa to hand over the book. He activated a hidden command and commanded the antigrav brace to detach from Nitaa's combat armor and fly straight into Ves' outstretched hand!
Once he held the book in his grasp, he communicated directly with Goldie.
"What have you been up to these days?!"
Nyaaaaaaaaaa.
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