A dance between three expert chs quickly comnced.
The Prothea used the Shield of Samar as a pillar and constantly rotated around the expert space knight as it continually struck the Skorpion Kommando with exploding energy beam attacks.
The Shield of Samar tried to lock down the Skorpion Kommando or at least slow its attempts to circle around to strike at the Prothea directly, but Venerable Jannzi found it incredibly difficult to keep the enemy high-tier expert ch under control.
Venerable Oskar Virathon was just too strong!
Though he was not as advanced as Venerable Rebecca Andus, he still possessed the capital of a high-tier expert pilot.
As he beca more accustod to the Shield of Samar's ability to pull his Skorpion Kommando closer with the power of gravity, he beca more proficient with countering this effect.
It beca harder and harder for Jannzi to keep the Skorpion Kommando contained!
"He's too strong! I can't slow him down that much anymore!"
Jannzi and the Shield of Samar's attempts to slow down the Skorpion Kommando was as difficult as a human trying to stop a rampaging bull.
When the difference in power between two entities were too great, the efforts of the weaker party only had minimal effect. This was unfortunately the case for Venerable Jannzi as her resonance strength and willpower developnt simply couldn't keep up against her current opponent.
The Skorpion Kommando wasn't interested in destroying the Shield of Samar at all. Even if Jannzi's expert ch had just lost its tower shield, it still featured a lot of bulk on its fra that would take multiple attacks to overco.
Even if the Skorpion Kommando managed to get through the remaining defenses of the Shield of Samar, the Prothea would have inflicted a lot of damage by this ti.
Venerable Isobel Kotin's new explosive attack thod were already dealing substantial amounts of damage to the Skorpion Kommando's round shield.
The shield was not as thick and resilient as Jannzi's Unending alloy tower shield. Sooner or later, the Prothea would be able to chew through it and attack the more important parts of the Skorpion Kommando!
Venerable Oskar Virathon only beca angrier and more determined to take out Venerable Isobel Kotin than ever as a result!
"I used to be like you once, Jannzi." He spoke as his expert space knight attempted to bypass the Shield of Samar and strike the Prothea with his Skorpion Tail. "I used to be a brave and honest knight ch pilot who put my life before the lives of others."
"What changed? What caused you to build up so much resentnt?" Jannzi asked as she did not let up in her attempts to block and stall her opponent.
"MY COMRADES LEFT BEHIND, THAT WAS WHAT HAPPENED TO !" Venerable Oskar exploded! "When the Hex Army was on the verge of overrunning our ch units, a group of friends and I volunteered to act as the rear guard and buy ti for the rest of our troops to reorganize and launch a counterattack."
"Let guess. That counterattack never ca, right?"
"My own commander left us for dead! That bastard lied to ! He told he would co back and help defeat the advancing Hexer troops, but what he actually did was order a hasty retreat, relying on and the rest of the rearguard to give him an opportunity to save his own cowardly skin!"
"I'm sorry to hear that, Oskar, but a knight must help regardless of how he or she is treated. Your actions must have saved the lives of many Fridayn ch pilots who would have otherwise perished, thereby causing your state to suffer a lot more losses than otherwise."
Though Venerable Jannzi wasn't entirely certain whether she would be willing to delay the enemy under those circumstances, her principles would have compelled her to stall the pursuing enemies if her services were necessary.
"THAT IS PURE NONSENSE!" Oskar furiously responded to Jannzi's remark. "I am an expert pilot! My value is greater than thousands of regular ch pilots. Not even ch officers are as indispensable as . Those cowards who discarded like a pawn should have been the ones to stall the closing Hexer chs instead! It is their job to serve as cannon fodder so that strong demigods like myself can stay alive and contribute much more to my state!"
Venerable Jannzi almost couldn't believe what she heard. What Oskar had just said went against everything a knight pilot stood for! The extre selfishness and lack of care that her opponent directed towards his 'lessers' was appalling!
"You… are everything a knight pilot must avoid."
"Don't bother with trying to sha ." Oskar contemptuously said. "Knightly virtues are horribly outdated! All of those rules and customs that the knight pilot community attempts to saddle onto us are nothing but cynical attempts to brainwash us into cannon fodder. In the eyes of other people, the only purpose of chs with shields and high defenses is to act as mobile punching bags!"
"That… that's a lie!"
"It's the truth, you naive woman! Just ask your own leaders, if you dare. None of them respect you as a warrior that deserved to be treated with as much dignity as other expert pilots. They rely see you as a defensive asset that they can use up as they wish. Take this battle for example! Aside from sending you a single expert rifleman ch, all of the other Larkinson chs around here are completely ignoring what is happening to you! They would rather fire their guns elsewhere than to
Venerable Jannzi briefly paused for a mont as she couldn't help but harbor a bit of doubt.
This tiny interval briefly caused the Shield of Samar to slacken for an instant.
Venerable Oskar keenly recognized this weakness and instantly burst out his willpower!
"BREAK!"
His Skorpion Kommando unleashed another true resonance blast that broke the gravity pull on it once again!
This allowed the Fridayman expert ch to finally bypass the Shield of Samar and approach the Prothea!
"Isobel!"
"I'm not that helpless at close range!"
As the Skorpion Kommando ca awfully close, the Prothea suddenly lifted up its two arms and activated its wrist-mounted flathrower modules!
Two incredibly hot streams of purple flas completely engulfed the space in front of it with overwhelming heat!
Venerable Oskar was caught off-guard as his Skorpion Kommando entered head-long into the expanding flas!
The propellant formula utilized by the Prothea was extrely expensive and fairly difficult to buy on the market.
However, it was especially formulated to fight against expert chs. Though the Skorpion Kommando was way too tough for the flas to burn it down in a short amount of ti, the hot flas temporarily blinded its sensors, causing it to lose sight of the Prothea!
By the ti the Skorpion Kommando escaped the fla cloud, its target had already taken shelter behind the Shield of Samar again.
The Skorpion Kommando suffered light burn damage across its fra, mostly because Isobel's willpower was incomparable to that of Oskar.
"Nice trick, lady, but it won't work again." Oskar stated as his Skorpion Kommando resud its offensive as if nothing had happened.
The two Larkinson expert chs continued to struggle in their attempts to hold back the powerful enemy machine.
The Skorpion Kommando eventually lost its shield after it endured too many attacks from the Prothea.
This allowed Venerable Isobel to target the exposed fra of the Skorpion Kommando.
Unfortunately for her, Venerable Oskar always made sure that his expert space knight never exposed its back.
The frontal armor of the Skorpion Kommando was still strong!
The powerful high-tier expert ch didn't seem to have weakened in the slightest after losing its physical shield.
Instead, the absence of this sizable object seed to have liberated it a bit. It beca a bit faster and more agile. If not for its relatively sturdy fra, it could have been mistaken for an expert swordsman ch!
Though Venerable Oskar hadn't been able to fulfill his wish of striking down the Prothea, he was still able to inflict a steady amount of damage onto the Shield of Samar.
The latter's Unending alloy armor system withstood the edge of the transphasic heavy sword fairly well, mostly by virtue of its thickness and excellent material hardness.
Unfortunately for Jannzi, the fad strength of Unending alloy appeared to be completely helpless whenever the Skorpion Tail struck with great force!
Each ti this strange limb struck the Shield of Samar, its stinger pierced through the upper layer and punched deep enough to inject a sizable amount of corrosive fluids.
Empowered by Venerable Oskar's formidable will, the Skorpion Kommando's venom rapidly ate away just as much Unending alloy as before.
It was as if the Viper specially formulated a substance that was solely designed to destroy the Unending alloy that the Larkinson Clan famously employed!
While a certain ch designer was wailing at the sight of so much Unending alloy being lted away, the Skorpion Kommando finally managed to get past the lumbering expert space knight and gain a chance to strike at the Prothea once again!
Though Venerable Isobel's expert ch let loose with its pair of flathrowers once again, Venerable Oskar already anticipated this move.
The Skorpion Kommando did not advance straight towards the Prothea but took a detour and circled around once again, allowing it to escape most of the flas!
"Isobel!"
The Skorpion Kommando struck the Prothea's resonance shield with both its sword and its Skorpion Tail!
This ti, the latter sprayed a formula that was especially designed to destabilize and drain resonance shields.
Though the Prothea's ability to resist incoming damage was not as bad as the old Amaranto, it was still rather deficient in this aspect due to emphasizing offense.
The Skorpion Kommando not only let its corrosive venom do its work, but also bashed the Prothea's resonance shield with repeated powerful sword strikes!
"Get away from my friend!"
The Shield of Samar eventually caught up and physically pushed the Skorpion Kommando away!
"Haha! You can't stop , little knight! You're only delaying the inevitable!"
Though it took a bit of ti, the Skorpion Kommando soon managed to escape the entanglent of the Shield of Samar once again!
After ignoring and fending off the flas unleashed by the Prothea, the Skorpion Kommando launched another flurry of attacks that finally broke the forr's resonance shield!
Venerable Oskar had been waiting for this mont. Now that the Prothea had no other protection left aside from its thin and inadequate transphasic armor system, the dreaded Skorpion Tail arced forward with incredible speed and power!
The Prothea lifted up its powerful Ignitron luminar crystal rifle in an attempt to use it as a makeshift shield, but the segnted Skorpion Tail easily twitched and bypassed this pathetic obstacle!
"THE MODERN KNIGHT IS DEAD!" Venerable Oskar viciously stated!
"KNIGHTS NEVER FIGHT ALONE!" Venerable Jannzi roared!
The Shield of Samar glowed with resonance a short instance before the Skorpion Tail could strike at the Prothea.
Jannzi not only connected deeper with her expert ch than ever before, but also established a closer connection with Qilanxo!
The shadow of a giant reptilian exobeast appeared above the Shield of Samar!
"PRIMAL AEGIS!"
The masterwork expert ch began to embody Qilanxo to a greater degree, allowing the design spirit to extend a more distant spatial barrier that covered the Prothea just in ti!
The Skorpion Tail struck the spatial barrier with such great force that it quickly collapsed. This defensive asure was not strong enough to stop the strongest attack from a high-tier expert ch!
Due to this brief blockade, the Skorpion Tail had lost a lot of power and speed.
Even so, the delay was so minimal that it still went on to strike the Prothea, though its stinger failed to punch as deeply into the transphasic armor plating of its target than intended.
A dangerous amount of corrosive fluids splashed across the surface of the expert rifleman ch. The machine could do little to nothing to stop the substance from spreading and corroding the armor.
The fact that it was transphasic only mildly slowed down the progress of this attack!
Though the weakened strike failed to cripple the Prothea in a single blow as Oskar intended, the attack still managed to eat through the Larkinson expert ch's exterior and damage a part of its internals.
The Prothea's performance quickly dropped!
"My ch is hit!"
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