The Dark Zephyr had crossed an enormous distance in a short amount of ti. Its speed wasn't as blazing as other expert chs, but its skillful expert pilot and its emphasis on evasion allowed it to start its end run without suffering any crippling damage.
Many other expert chs would have been torn to pieces by the Gauss Baron by now! It was a massive accomplishnt for Venerable Tusa to get this close to a hostile expert heavy artillery ch by relying mostly on itself.
However, the hardest part ca last. Not only did the Dark Zephyr have to bypass or fight through a horde of dwarven escort chs, but it also had to find a way to get past the heavily-armored bunker that had taken an enormous beating but still remained fully intact.
Then, Venerable Tusa had to attack the Gauss Baron itself, and he seriously doubted that the expert heavy artillery ch would just roll over and allow itself to get butchered by a human expert ch.
Dozens of different scenarios swept through the expert pilot's mind as he still tried his best to evade as many attacks as possible. While Tusa could readily ignore the impacts from ordinary artillery chs especially because most of them missed anyway, the Gauss Baron's firepower took an increasingly greater toll on his expert ch.
"Hang on, buddy! We're almost there!"
Nurous internal systems and components have already started transmitting error ssages. Though chs were large and robust enough to be able to function despite suffering from malfunctions, it was a bad sign that the Dark Zephyr had reached this condition.
The line that separated a slightly damaged ch and a heavily damaged ch was quite blurred! This was because even a single malfunction or misaligned elent created a vulnerability that could easily be exploited if the system in question received another substantial blow.
All of this ant that Venerable Tusa could not afford to delay his high-risk assault. The longer his expert ch was out in open space, the more opportunities the Gauss Baron and the Slug Rangers obtained to thwart his attack.
When he studied the enemy escort chs getting pressured by distant artillery bombardnt, he did not see many openings that his expert ch could squeeze through in order to reach the target bunker. The bombardnt from the Eye of Ylvaine could only yield so many results.
"Then I don't have any choice but to resort to that trick…"
Compared to the Piranha Pri, the Dark Zephyr was a much more capable machine. He would have never had the guts to overco these barriers when he was still piloting his previous ch.
Throughout this battle, Venerable Tusa had continued to increase his resonance with his own ch. The Dark Zephyr ca more and more to life as Tusa depended on it to a greater degree while he was desperate to overco the attacks launched by the dwarves.
With an entire expert heavy artillery ch doing its utmost to shoot down his expert light skirmisher, Tusa felt more free and untouchable than ever!
"We are untouchable!"
As the end run proceeded, the distance between the Dark Zephyr and the Lemogo Distat had shrunken down to less than fifty kiloters. In space combat terms, this was a tiny distance for a light ch!
A shimring light blue form rapidly soared towards the flagship of the Slug Ranger. At this point, Venerable Tusa finally decided to activate his expert ch's resonance shield.
He did not activate it because he wanted to preserve the integrity of his ch. The thin layer of Unending alloy had done an admirable job at keeping everything critical in working condition.
Instead, Tusa wanted to borrow the special damage mitigating properties of resonance shields.
A silent impact struck the resonance shield of his Dark Zephyr as the Gauss Baron managed to land another powerful hit despite Tusa's best effort to dodge the attack.
However, unlike before, the Dark Zephyr hardly staggered this ti. The resonance shield successfully absorbed a huge proportion of damaging kinetic energy and transferred it… elsewhere instead of transmitting the force to the expert ch fra.
If that happened, then the Dark Zephyr would have staggered just like before and disrupt Venerable Tusa's rhythm during these crucial monts.
"I'm not going to let you stop ! Hit if you can, dwarf, but I shall always be free to move how I wish!" Tusa roared as he fully beca invested in completing his mission!
As the sight of the Lemogo Distat rapidly grew in the Dark Zephyr's optical sensor readings, Venerable Tusa felt as if he had beco incredibly in tune with his expert ch.
He not only utilized the Dark Zephyr in the ways it perford the best, but also conford to the original design intent of this expert ch.
What Venerable Tusa was doing was exactly what Ves and the other designers had in mind when they spent months developing its design!
This not only made Venerable Tusa happy, but also evoked a lot of joy in the ch itself!
The forr's deep investnt in his difficult task and the latter's eagerness to fulfill its battle partner's demands caused the two to combine their forces in a wonderful way.
At the final stretch, the resonance shield of the Dark Zephyr had already turned ragged after blocking a couple of powerful resonance-enhanced blows. It was not a space knight or a heavy ch after all, so it did not contain a lot of defensive resonance materials that could add more durability to its resonance shield.
"It's enough!"
Tusa didn't need anymore as by this ti his swift and elusive Dark Zephyr had finally reached the last couple of kiloters to the bunker of his primary target!
"Shoot it down! Block its way! Dogpile on it if you must! Don't let it get any closer to the Gauss Baron!"
Alard by the lone expert light skirmisher's successful approach, the commanders of the Slug Rangers ordered more ranged chs to forget about their current assignnts and direct their fire towards the Dark Zephyr, but even now the ch's evasive maneuvers were far too difficult for average ch pilots to track and predict.
"This light ch is too confounding!"
"I can't predict his movents!"
"Even if we get lucky, our shots aren't doing anything to this ch!"
The Dark Zephyr turned into a nightmare for the Slug Rangers. It was ridiculous how a single expert light ch managed to make the dwarves feel this way, but there was nothing funny about letting a deadly expert ch get close to a fleet.
During the Battle of Reckoning, the Larkinson Clan almost ca to an end when Venerable Kelvin Praetor and his Trost had closed in on the Spirit of Bentheim.
If not for the sudden breakthroughs of both Taon lin and Vincent Ricklin, the battle could have ended in a radically different way.
"A dwarf isn't going to break through right now, right?" Venerable Tusa montarily thought before throwing this consideration away.
Even if a desperate dwarven ch pilot had reached the pit of desperation and managed to break through, so what? Tusa and his expert ch were in their elent right now! The Dark Zephyr's blade was already starting to glow in anticipation of cutting apart an enemy expert ch!
"FORM UP! FORM UP!" A dwarven officer commanded the escort chs! "Ignore the bombardnt and form a wall! Even if your ch gets wrecked, it is still of use even if it only blocks the enemy expert ch for half a second."
The escort chs did not just physically block the way to the bunker, but an increasing number of regular artillery chs were frantically trying to flood the zone in front of it with as much ordinance as possible.
As long as the Dark Zephyr got caught in this zone for an extended amount of ti, then the sheer weight of fire would definitely put it in a bad condition.
Venerable Tusa only had one shot!
"Stark! Are you ready?!"
"Go for it." The woman calmly replied.
The Dark Zephyr was ordinarily supposed to be a subtle ch, but now it glowed in bright blue as Tusa resonated with it as much as possible!
Just as his expert ch reached the wall of escort chs, he employed a trick that he had recently managed to perform but wasn't in any of the manuals of the design.
"ENDLESS PATHS!"
Over a dozen different Dark Zephyrs sprung from the original ch as it almost reached the side of the Lemogo Distat!
The Slug Ranger capital ship lood large as the extra Dark Zephyrs each followed an independent trajectory as they tried their best to pass or circumvent the blockade of chs.
The opposing ch pilots all thought that the enemy light skirmisher had deployed yet another decoy ability.
Yet these successive expert chs were not illusions or projections that barely held any substance. When they bulled through dwarven chs or sliced their blades onto solid matter, each and every one of the Dark Zephyrs inflicted real damage!
In fact, even their resonance and will domains were real!
"Ahh! Isn't this supposed to be a decoy?!"
""The real one is here!"
"No, it's here!"
"They're all real!" A dwarf ch pilot reacted with horror.
Monts later, an incredibly sharp ch knife stabbed straight through the chest plating of his ch and instantly penetrated the cockpit!
"Triggering Alpha 5!" Venerable Leiva shouted as she pulled a special trigger!
In an instant, a massive explosion erupted from the sides of her bunker. The directional explosives were so powerful that many closer dwarven chs shattered to pieces as they were included in the blast range.
Many of the Dark Zephyrs that looked like illusions but actually perford as if they were fully authentic disappeared as they got swept in the explosion!
As the blast wave slowly faded away, the integrity of the bunker was hardly affected. Instead, the sides looked torn and blackened as the explosives buried in those sections had torn an ugly rectangle in the hull sections around the bunker.
Venerable Leiva Hinder didn't care about the ruined aesthetics. She still remained on guard as she tried to spot where the actual Dark Zephyr had disappeared. From the durability it had shown a mont earlier, the explosive trap shouldn't have been strong enough to shatter it to pieces.
Still, the force of the explosion was so large that even sturdier and more durable expert chs should have suffered a lot of malfunctions if they ca close enough!
"Where are you?"
As Venerable Leiva fully concentrated her attention on her imdiate surroundings in order to catch any hint of movent that suggested a lurking enemy expert ch, she almost beca surprised when a distant but extrely powerful beam suddenly struck her bunker!
She sensed an extre threat from this attack!
"MAXIMUM DEFENSE!"
The gun ports of her bunker slid shut and extra layers of armor continued to slide into place.
The resonance shield of her Gauss Baron also flared to life at its strongest setting just in case the earlier asures weren't enough!
Just as her ch began to get surrounded by a dark orange resonance shield, Venerable Leiva looked on with horror as the ultra-powerful beam sliced a wide hole right through multiple layers of expert ch-grade alloy plating as if it was butter!
Though the extrely strange and anomalous attack had expended much of its energy and dealt negligible damage to her ch's resonance shield, the danger had not yet passed.
A smaller but still relatively powerful resonance-enhanced beam shot right through the hole that had just been sliced open.
This ti, the modest white beam impacted the powerful resonance shield of the Gauss Baron and destabilized it to such a degree that it was as if the expert artillery ch got struck by a hundred chs at once!
The resonance shield soon fizzled out as Venerable Leiva was no longer able to resonate effectively with her ch. The powerful blow had inflicted a surprisingly large amount of strain to her will and mind!
"No!"
A third and different beam struck right afterwards! This one was even weaker but splashed onto the energy shield that the Gauss Baron automatically activated with extrely minimal delay.
The energy shield acted as if the expert ch had been struck by an EMP attack and lost a lot of stability.
Now, the only defenses the Gauss Baron had left was its armor, but it was also the most difficult defensive asure to overco. The high quality of its armor system and its frontal plating was so thick that even the earlier powerful attack wouldn't be able to penetrate through all of this high-quality material!
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