The Burza Fens only got struck by a score of light beams for a brief instant, but the integrity of its resonance shield already dropped by 8 percent.
What did that an? His expert ch only needed to get struck continuously for just a dozen seconds or so before he lost his greatest and most efficient barrier against regular attacks!
"This… I need to kill them right away!"
Yet when the axeman ch blasted off towards another Battle Crier ch before subsequently chopping it to pieces, the dwarven expert ch finally realized that he had fallen into a trap of the enemy's design.
The abnormally effective Bright Warrior chs had co close enough to ensure a decent hit rate against a fast-moving axeman ch, but also made sure to spread out from each other so that they did not make it easy to get eliminated in quick succession.
Though the Burza Fens only needed a few seconds or longer to hop from Bright Warrior to Bright Warrior, the efficiency is too low! In the anti, the Battle Criers persistently peppered the enemy expert ch's resonance shield with light beams.
Though many beams missed due to the clever maneuvering of the Burza Fens, its evasion characteristics weren't as exaggerated as that of the Dark Zephyr. The dwarven expert pilot also originated from the Molten Hamrs who mostly preferred to fight head-on rather than dance around the battlefield.
Compared to Venerable Tusa, the pilot of the larger and stronger Burza Fens did not train his evasive skills. Sure, he was better at dodging attacks than an ordinary ch pilot due to his inherent strength, but he spent most of his training ti honing and refining his offensive skills!
"Damnit! Do you think I can't hit you from afar?!"
Seeing that he needed to increase his killing efficiency, the expert pilot of the Burza Fens put all thoughts of slaying all of his opponents with his axe aside and commanded his ch to pull out a carbine resting on its back.
The small and compact laser carbine took up minimal space when it was dormant, but quickly unfolded so that it beca thrice as long. Additional modules expanded to make room for additional expanded subcomponents.
Soon enough, the Burza Fens turned from a pure expert axeman ch into a reasonable approximation of an expert hero ch!
Although the dwarven expert pilot didn't excel in ranged combat, he was more than good enough to land consistent hits on average chs!
"Your efforts are futile! Your chs are too weak!"
The laser carbine was just a secondary weapon for the Burza Fens, but its design incorporated so many expensive exotics that its damage output actually exceeded that of the luminar crystal rifle utilized by the Battle Criers!
Of course, the cost of fabricating the weapons couldn't compare. The sa amount of money needed to fund the production of this foldable carbine could easily be spent on fabricating hundreds of luminar crystal rifles!
Not only was the carbine significantly more powerful as a result, it also incorporated a small amount of resonating materials. This allowed the expert pilot to resonate just enough with the weapon to empower its laser discharges, thereby amplifying the weapon's damage output by a huge margin!
Though a single shot from the laser carbine was not powerful enough to disable a Bright Warrior ch in an instant, a couple of repeated hits quickly rendered the victim inoperative.
In fact, the dwarven expert pilot attempted to shoot the strange, glowing crystal rifles a few tis. This was much harder to accomplish as he wasn't good enough as a marksman to land a hit on those slim weapons under real battle conditions.
Even if his laser carbine managed to strike one of those crystal rifles, the latter didn't blow up as anticipated. Instead, much to the dwarf's surprise, the crystal weapons soaked up the incoming laser beam as if they were sponges that had just encountered water. In the end, the rifles only exhibited a minute amount of damage to their exterior that did not fundantally affect their performance.
"What is up with these ridiculous weapons?!"
"Venerable! The weapons carried by the human chs are based on luminar crystal technology." A weapons engineer patched into the communication channel and provided the expert pilot with crucial information. "Although we haven't discovered why the luminar crystals of our opponents are so strong and resilient, attacking it with energy weapons is ineffective. We suggest you target the chs instead."
"Fine." The dwarven expert pilot grunted.
That was bad news because the Bright Warriors he was fighting against were just sturdy enough that it took two to three hits in the sa areas to penetrate their armor and inflict critical damage to their internals.
While this was still doable to an expert pilot, each and every extra shot needed to take down a Bright Warrior was seriously hampering his efficiency!
The fighting continued. The Burza Fens did not beco deterred and fought to slay as many Battle Crier chs as possible with the help of both its axe and laser carbine.
Though the Bright Warriors wielding their luminar crystal rifles did indeed fall at a faster rate than before, the Battle Criers remained undeterred!
They could clearly see that their new weapons were having a devastating effect on the enemy expert ch's resonance shield. Only a minute had passed and it was already starting to look as if it was on its last legs!
No matter how many chs fell, the Battle Criers beca more and more invested in this struggle. They even managed to grasp the timing of their enemy's attacks and ejected from their dood Bright Warriors just before they succumbed.
Though it was painful to many to see the precious luminar crystal rifles floating away into space while they still had a lot of use left in them, neither the humans nor the dwarves could afford to pay attention to them. After a relentless and painful struggle, the Battle Criers finally pushed the resonance shield of the enemy expert ch to the brink!
"EVEN GODS AREN'T INVIOLABLE!" Dietrich roared as he aid his favorite new ch rifle at a location that he anticipated the expert ch would move towards.
A shower of light beams joined the one discharged by his Bright Warrior. They all ford a cage of white beams around the visibly more discomfited Burza Fens.
When Dietrich's light beam happened to strike true, the wobbling corona around the Burza Fens fell apart, exposing the naked tal of the dwarven expert ch's exterior to the enemy!
"We did it, Battle Criers! Switch the firing mode of your rifle to slicer beams! Let's cut through its armor!"
All of the Battle Crier chs ard with luminar crystal rifles switched the firing mode in an instant.
The light beam was still an effective ans to deal damage, but according to previous weapon testing sessions it was mostly effective against resonance manifestations.
It was much more efficient to use the right tool for the right job, and at this mont that ant employing an energy attack asure that was much more effective against the high-quality armor systems that expert chs typically boasted. Even a low-tier expert ch such as the Burza Fens was still clad in extrely resilient armor that allowed the machine to have enough confidence to trade blow for blow against other powerful expert chs!
Without the firepower of a high-quality, high-budget expert ch with true resonance, it was still a great challenge for mundane chs to penetrate their armor.
Faster expert chs might not boast thick layers of armor, but their high mobility made it extrely difficult to concentrate attacks on the sa sections. As long as the machine perford evasive maneuvers, it could evade or redirect attacks towards lesser-damaged portions of its fra.
This was undoubtedly the case again this ti. The dwarven expert pilot still sensed a latent threat from the Bright Warrior chs. His suspicions were confird when Captain Dietrich and his fellow Battle Criers all commanded their machines to fire a different beam type at the Burza Fens!
Though the expert axeman ch made a greater effort to evade the attacks of the mundane chs that the dwarf had underestimated, the Battle Criers were trained enough to direct their fire in different zones.
Just like before, a large and expansive cage of slicer beams ford around the Burza Fens. Though the majority of the deceptively thin and weak beams missed their mark, there were still half-a-dozen or so attacks that the dwarven expert ch failed to evade!
At first glance, the damage appeared negligible. The surface armor of the Burza Fens still looked intact. However, the dwarven expert pilot quickly noticed his machine transmitting alarm signals at him. Upon closer look, the thin knife-like beams had managed to cut remarkably deep into the surface armor of his expert ch!
"What in Vulcan's na is going on?! Energy weapons aren't supposed to be so effective!"
The dwarven engineers and analysts responsible for advising their expert pilots were all clueless. Aside from gleaning the basic properties of this new form of attack, they couldn't supply any acceptable explanations! All they could figure out was that the new type of attack beam did not inflict much heat damage but was instead abnormally effective at cleaving through solid matter.
"Venerable, you can't allow the enemy ranged chs to concentrate their fire on expert ch. Its armor system won't hold against this kind of massed firepower. We highly suggest you retreat to our rear."
"I can't! These humans are cutting off my retreat path!"
It was at this ti that the dwarves knew that the Burza Fens was in deep trouble. The Larkinsons may not have been able to field enough expert chs, but they compensated for it by equipping a portion of their chs with innovative new weapons that were abnormally effective against the various proactive asures that made expert chs so hard to destroy.
With the Battle Crier chs spread out far apart from each other, they continually fired their weapons at the Burza Fens with no regard to controlling their firing rate or conserving their energy.
Holding back was always a bad idea when fighting an expert ch! Even if the continuous firing were starting to stress the crystals that made up their weapons, the Battle Criers still put their all in this fight because eliminating this enemy expert ch as soon as possible was their greatest and only mission!
"Keep up the pressure!" Captain Dietrich excitedly cried as he tried his best to keep up with the erratic movents of the Burza Fens. "Spread out more and move away from it. Its killing efficiency isn't actually that high!"
In truth, only a few minutes had passed since the start of this intensive clash and already the Burza Fens demolished two ch companies worth of Bright Warriors!
This was a painful loss because the removal of 80 Battle Crier chs ant that there were eighty less luminar crystal rifles wearing down the defenses of the Burza Fens. This effectively prolonged the ti it took to take down the expert ch.
If the Battle Criers took too long to finish the job, then there was a great possibility that the expert axeman ch would chop them all to pieces before it reached its limit!
Captain Dietrich was determined not to let that happen!
"Heh, so you are only just that." The dwarven expert pilot smirked as he realized that he had gained the upper hand. "You fellows are good, but you're no match to a Vulcan-blessed dwarf! Let's finish this farce!"
The dwarven expert pilot was sick and tired of getting led around the nose. He should have converged with his fellow peers and sought to use the advantage of numbers to bully the outnumbered enemy expert chs.
He was planning to do just that, but first he needed to take out the trash!
"Vulcan's children are not to be trifled with!"
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