The Mech Touch Chapter 3270: Unstable Riot

The Riot's abnormally hardy state could hardly escape the sharp eyes of Ves and Gloriana.

There was no way that the Riot could perform so much better for no reason. Before the battle comnced, Gloriana had especially spent ti to tune up and perform last-minute checks on Venerable Orfan's expert ch.

Gloriana still rembered the Riot's condition back then. It wasn't much different from its base state.

"Then how can its resonance shield be so much more effective all of a sudden?"

Though expert chs didn't always make sense, they still abided by a number of general rules. The effective performance of an expert ch was heavily dependent on the strength and mood of the expert pilot.

"Had Venerable Orfan experienced a minor breakthrough of sorts?"

When Gloriana called up the pilot teletry of the Riot, she quickly dispelled this notion. According to all of the data, Venerable Orfan was excited, stressed and pumped up, but not to an abnormal degree.

The resonance strength ters also showed that Venerable Orfan hadn't progressed much since her last live practise session. The slight increase in resonance strength that she exhibited could be chalked up to the heat of the mont. Battle had always been an extra motivator to any ch pilot, not just expert pilots!

"There's sothing suspicious at work." Gloriana narrowed her eyes.

BSN-17A was supposed to provide an expert ch with an abnormally strong resonance barrier, but this was starting to get ridiculous! As she poured over the data and analyzed the Riot's defensive performance in greater detail, she also began to notice that many resonance-empowered attacks seed to lose strength and cohesion all of a sudden.

To Gloriana, it looked like a signal passing through an interference field. Even if the signal strength was strong enough to transmit at least so data to the recipient, the quality of the ssage must have degraded by a significant degree!

This was a quality that the Riot absolutely shouldn't have! It also didn't conform with Venerable Orfan's resonance properties.

When Gloriana ruled out many different possible explanations why the Riot perford so much more effectively than before, she ended up with a single answer.

Her body shook as she realized a horrifying possibility.

She turned around her chair and activated a direct communication channel to her husband!

"VES! WHAT DID YOU DO?!"

"Uh, what is it, dear?"

"Don't you 'dear' . Tell straight. Did you upgrade the Riot recently with a scarce and precious resource?!"

The man on the other side of the communication channel abruptly coughed.

"Erkm… uhm… we're in the middle of a battle now! If you have anything to say, leave it for later. There's no point in talking if we're all dead because we were too inattentive to attend to our duties. Talk to you later!"

The communication channel cut off from the other side, leaving Gloriana frustrated as she essentially confird her suspicions.

"VESSSSS!"

"Miaow!"

Clixie, who was wearing a customized protective suit printed with a decorative pattern, jumped from the table as Gloriana expressed her current feelings!

As for the person responsible for making his wife feel upset, he was doing his best to shove aside his eventual reckoning. He still had a battle to win first. Compared to getting yelled at by his pregnant wife, death was so much worse!

His wife was still pretty sharp for catching on to the fact that the Riot perford a lot better at its current role due to a gem that he had installed on the expert ch.

To be honest, Ves didn't have much expectations for it. The so-called Unstable Chaos Essence as nad by the System sounded so iffy to him that he hadn't dared to integrate it to any ch up until it beca clear that battle against the Ferril Provincial Army was inevitable.

He had even used it as an improvised spiritual explosive during the Battle against the Abyss because of this suspicion!

Ves didn't know what ca over him when he took a risk and integrated it with the Riot, but so far it was working out. The Riot's defense was so unexpectedly difficult to crack by a team of three dwarven expert chs that he wanted to cheer and clap at Venerable Orfan's excellent performance!

He didn't even care if the Riot blew up or fell apart at the end of the battle due to the repercussions of employing this shady-sounding gem. As long as Venerable Orfan was still alive and intact, he could just recycle whatever salvageable materials remained and fabricate another copy of the Riot design. Expert chs may be precious, but Ves was more than happy to use them up if the extra power boost increased his chances of winning a crucial battle.

"I hope that doesn't happen, though." He muttered.

Fabricating an expert ch was not only a ti-consuming ordeal, but also difficult to accomplish if the Larkinson Clan didn't have the right materials on hand. A lot of volatile exotics and resonating materials were non-recyclable. Once they were processed in a finished product, they were permanently set and could not be restored because their material makeup had already undergone a non-reversible transformation.

Still, if Ves had the choice, he would not reject this necessity when the alternatives were worse.

"Is the ch truly falling apart, though?"

When Ves accessed the Riot's teletry, he noticed a faint trend of stress buildup. Delicate parts were being worn out faster than usual, but that might just co from the fact that it was getting beat up on all sides by three different expert chs!

Once the dwarven expert pilots understood that their current approach wasn't achieving much progress, they switched tactics.

As an experienced ch pilot and combatant, Venerable Orfan had been paying close attention to the approach of her opponents. Up until now, they employed a basic approach that just sought to surround her expert ch from three sides and deal as much damage as possible, hoping to overwhelm their opponent's defenses by sheer volu.

Now, they were doing sothing else. The Bashravar beca the focal point of their new formation and tactics. While the heavy hamrman ch was still awfully slow, it suddenly beca a lot harder for the Riot to stay away from the dwarven ch's huge hamr!

"Get off my back, you dirty dwarf!" Venerable Orfan shouted as she swung her spear back, causing its flat end to bash against the chest of the Trentine just as it sought to crash its axe onto the rear of the Riot.

The Firemason swept in from behind and above shortly afterwards and fired an extrely hot and large bed of empowered flas that practically turned the entire area behind the Riot afla!

The sea of fire not only exuded a lot of heat, but also the dwarven expert pilot's will and determination to lt the human expert ch!

"Damn that's hot!"

Though Venerable Orfan wasn't necessarily afraid of this fla sea, the annoying part about swimming in it was that it partially blinded the Riot's sensors. She wouldn't be able to track her opponents as well if many of her sensors beca invalid due to the excess readings they registered.

That, and getting cooked was unpleasant to begin with. The Riot's resonance shield already took a lot of beatings so far. Venerable Orfan still needed it intact in order to continue stalling these angry dwarves.

"Hey! Fight one-on-one if you're man enough! Oh wait, you can't, because you guys are all shorties. You're far from a real man! Are you just as short in your pants as you are in your body length? Because if that is the case, then it's no wonder you dwarves are mad at regular humans all the ti."

That seed to trigger the expert pilot of the expert hamrman ch. In a single outburst, the heavy ch's flight system blasted to life, giving it a temporary but extrely powerful push that accelerated it right into the Riot!

The explosion of speed surprised Venerable Orfan, but not too much. She already anticipated that such a painfully sluggish expert ch would incorporate a solution to its greatest weakness.

"I'm outta here!"

The Riot jerked to the side as much as its mobility could carry it, which wasn't much. The spearman expert ch wasn't exactly known for its speed or agility.

Due to the powerful explosive start of the Bashravar, the Riot failed to dodge the huge and heavy hamr this ti. The heavy weapon struck the human expert ch's unstable resonance shield at an angle and finally inflicted enough damage to cause it to collapse.

The only anomaly was that when the shield finally succumbed, it exploded, releasing excess energy in every direction!

The Bashravar which had just succeeded in breaking the Riot's first layer of defense only slightly got shoved backwards. The Trentine which had just attempted to co around the flank in order to hack the exposed Riot with its hefty axe got blown away a little further due to its lighter mass.

THe Firemason was entirely unaffected due to its greater distance. When Venerable Orfan acted quickly to move her Riot out of its predicant, the pilot of the expert striker ch eagerly sprayed it with a jet of concentrated flas!

"Haha, burn now human, burn!"

This ti, the flas had a lot more effect on the Riot than before. Now that Venerable Orfan's expert ch had lost its powerful resonance shield, it had also lost the property that allowed the machine to destabilize resonance attacks. The flas stuck onto the Breyer alloy layer of the Riot and imdiately began to work away on the material!

The orange expert ch looked as if it had fallen right into hell as the Firemason continued to pour highly flammable substances onto the relatively soft armor layer!

"Burn! Burn! Burn!"

"Shut up, you dwarf!"

Even as the exterior of the Riot was visibly lting apart, Venerable Orfan's eyes turned ruthless as she accelerated her expert ch towards the Firemason, causing the expert striker ch to jerk back and increase the output of its flathrower.

"Block it before it gets close!"

The Bashravar didn't possess the mobility to intercept the speeding Riot and the Trentine was still too far behind to catch up.

In an instant, the powerful Riot just managed to catch up to the Firemason and struck just as it pulled out a foldable shield from sowhere and ford a hasty defense!

"GET OUT OF HERE!"

With the montum of the Riot driving its spear forward, Venerable Orfan also resonated with the speartip, causing it to glow as she had finally activated her expert ch's second resonance ability!

With a soundless ding, the spear shattered the Firemason's resonance shield and punched through its thin but still hardy physical shield before finally sinking halfway into the chest plating of the expert striker ch!

The power of this blow was surprisingly powerful!

The Firemason's pilot knew that it was extrely dangerous to stay in close range to the enemy expert ch. He imdiately dislodged the pierced shield from the arm of the Firemason and commanded the ch to back off at full speed.

"Do you think you can get away?! I'm not done yet with you, shorty!"

Venerable Orfan slled dwarven blood and she relentlessly advanced on the Firemason even as her expert ch continued to take hits from all sides.

Even as the Riot managed to poke multiple holes in the Firemason, it was still burning as the expert striker ch wasn't going down without a fight!

anwhile, the Trentine managed to catch up several tis and chop apart entire sections of the Riot's weakened surface armor.

The Bashravar failed to get close enough to get another attack in, but its slow and steady advance exerted a lot of pressure onto Venerable Orfan.

Even so, she grinned as she controlled her machine to direct relentless aggression towards the Firemason. She ignored all of the attacks that began to scar and burn the exterior of her expert ch.

"Why isn't it as damaged as it looks?"

"There's a second armor layer underneath the surface layer! It's a lot harder and denser!"

"Vulcan's beard! We've been fooled! This is not an offensive ch. It's a defense ch!"