Ves truly started to experience the competitive pressure of this tournant at this ti.
There were no weak teams of Journeyn in the running anymore.
Even if a handful of them managed to luck out and face even weaker opponents on occasion, it was practically impossible for them to match up against three awful teams in a row!
The nine teams that managed to make it to the fourth round had all been tested in multiple ways and ca out on top. Few chs remained intact at this ti as there simply wasn't enough ti to repair every damaged section and component. This caused the surviving machines to look as if they had aged at different speeds.
Surprisingly enough, even Team Danilov that managed to perform fairly well in the first three rounds did not present any pristine chs.
The Killer Kitty looked pristine because the chs of Team Voiken did not bother to attack it at all during the previous round.
Only the Lancernaut ch looked as if it had gone through a beating!
"The ch pilots assigned to my team weren't able to keep up their chs for long, but they went down swinging." Dulo Voiken smirked. "When the Lancernaut charged our spearman ch, it got impaled by a spear in turn. Our javelin ch anwhile ignored the Killer Kitty and tried to launch as many javelins at the damaged centaur ch as possible. Quite a few managed to land on its large and formidable horse-like fra before it managed to run its lance through my baby."
The mass and volu of the centaur ch was considerable, so the penetrating attacks hadn't co close enough to take it down.
What the attacks did manage to accomplish was to inflict a lot of spread damage, so of which went a lot deeper than normal.
The large size of the Lancernaut ant that it took a lot more ti, resources and effort to repair its condition. Team Danilov obviously did not have the ti to fix up all of its holes, so it entered the arena in less than stellar condition.
anwhile, the Twin Souls returned to the arena in close to peak condition!
The previous match against the chs of Team Polter ended faster than usual. This not only gave Ves and Juliet less work, but also enabled them to address issues that were not critical but should still be handled sooner or later!
[Ah, Team Danilov has turned out to beco another favorite in this tournant, and for different reasons. The Lancernaut is an impressive lance-wielding centaur ch whose charges cannot be blocked. It is an impressive feat of ch engineering and I have always wondered how it will fare against the other top chs in the competition such as the Furia. Now we finally have an opportunity to find out and see which one can prevail over the other!]
[Don't forget about their light chs either. Even though many dismiss them as afterthoughts, they have played a crucial role in many matches ti and ti again. The Sensia has proven to be a deadly finisher if it is able to attack its targets from the rear, while the Killer Kitty has just as many lives as a real cat.]
Ves twitched at the ntion of this na. He sohow felt as if Team Danilov had stolen what should rightfully belong to the Larkinsons.
Cats symbolized his clan!
How dare others try to defeat the Larkinsons by fielding cats of their own on the battlefield?!
It took a surprising amount of effort for Ves to suppress this silly thought. Tiger chs were fairly common in the beast ch community. Just because they looked like big cats did not an they were specifically employed to taunt the Larkinson Clan!
[Mobility is key in this match. All four chs that are about to fight against each other are fairly maneuverable in different ways. The worst of the lot of the Furia, but it is clearly a hybrid ch that has traded armor for additional mobility. I wonder whether the hybrid ch is able to evade the infamous charges of the Lancernaut. A highly inflexible centaur ch is not difficult to defeat if it is forced to a standstill, but the challenge is to survive the initial attack runs.]
[Objectively speaking, Team Danilov has a greater chance of making it through than Team Larkinson. The Lancernaut is too suitable to fight in an arena that features flat and empty terrain. The area of the arena is also too small to give ranged chs much ti to cripple a lee ch from a comfortable distance.]
[I wouldn't dismiss the chs of Team Larkinson that quickly. The Killer Kitty deals negligible damage and cannot offer too much assistance. anwhile, the Furia has a diverse arsenal of weapons. If its pilot is skilled and lucky enough, one of its weapons might be able to deal crippling damage to the Lancernaut by exploiting the battle damage that Team Danilov has only hastily managed to patch over.]
As the comntators prattled on, the chs all got in position and started to go over their attack plans.
Both sides knew that they needed to take out the 'big brothers' of the opposing team first. The Sensia and the Killer Kitty were not as impressive as the Furia and the Lancernaut. The forr chs complinted the latter ones. It would therefore be up to the hybrid ch and the lancer ch to produce a breakthrough in this match!
[Start!]
"Go Larkinson!"
"Impale another ch, Lancernaut!"
"Here, kitty kitty. Go ow them all to death, little tiger!"
The voices of the crowd turned louder as the fans who did not really care about maintaining their image got caught up in the mont!
The fact that the chs did not delay at all and imdiately took action caused many people's blood to pump faster!
[The Lancernaut has directed its spear towards the Furia and burst into action! It seeks to end this confrontation in a single charge!]
[It is not as if it has any other choice. The longer the Furia remains in the field, the more damage it can pump out with its myriad weapons.]
Bobby Orwell knew that his ch would get targeted by the charging centaur ch from the beginning.
He had been ready to respond to this situation.
The first action he took was to command the Furia to detach its bandolier of throwing axes.
There was no point in throwing them out because the centaur ch was too tough to get taken down by a few axes.
It was not worth it to carry around all of that additional mass. The Furia needed all of the mobility it could get!
The second action taken by the Furia was to fire its full complent of missiles before detaching its cumberso missile launchers in a hurry!
What was strange was that they did not strike the Lancernaut or the imdiate area around it. The centaur ch moved around too much for the smoke to obscure its sight for longer than a second.
Instead, the Furia directed its smoke missiles to detonate almost as soon as they launched in front of the hybrid ch!
The imdiate area around the machine beca shrouded in smoke, making it a lot harder for the Lancernaut to pin down its target!
At the sa ti the smoke cloud broke the Lancernaut's line of sight, the EMP missiles continued to fly forward and detonated as soon as they ca into proximity of the beast ch!
The Lancernaut slowed down for a mont as the EMP discharges affected the machine more than usual.
If the ch was in peak condition, then the EMP attacks would have done nothing as it was fully isolated and shielded against such effects.
However, the holes poked into its armor during the previous matches had left a considerable amount of weak points and damaged sections that could not easily be repaired in a short amount of ti!
The pilot of the Lancernaut adjusted to the changes fairly quickly and the ch itself also possessed damage control functions that automatically prevented its condition from deteriorating even further.
Ultimately, a confused centaur ch plunged into the smoke cloud in the hopes that its sensors could detect the hiding Furia fast enough to impale it with a lance.
Boom!
Fizz!
The centaur ch suffered multiple attacks at an angle!
The shotgun slug along with the laser beams had damaged the armor on its flanks and created a few new weak points, but that was all. It was the next attacks that beca a lot more serious.
Two gouts of flas started to engulf the centaur ch as it continued to hone in on the source of the attacks.
The flas not only blinded a lot of sensors, but also applied a small but steady amount of damage to the centaur ch's front.
The massive injury it suffered on its front during its previous match beca aggravated as the hasty repairs conducted by Team Danilov proved insufficient to stop the flas from damaging the internals!
However, the activation of the flathrowers completely exposed the position of the Furia.
Even through all of the interference, the Lancernaut clearly identified where it needed to go in order to impale the hybrid ch!
It charged forward with renewed speed despite all of the damage it was taking. Its pilot trusted in the armor and the solid construction of the centaur ch and concentrated solely on making its lance hit the mark!
"There!"
The Furia cut short its flas and jumped to the side at the most critical timing!
Bobby Orwell had to pick his timing extrely well.
Too soon and the Lancernaut would rely change its course in ti.
Too late and the Lancernaut rely had to go straight forward to ensure a devastating hit!
What happened next caused many spectators to hold their breaths in excitent.
At first, the Lancernaut changed its direction, only to stumble for a minor mont as it briefly lost its balance and its smooth trajectory.
It turned out that its forelegs had inadvertently landed on the missile launchers that the Furia had just purged!
This caused the ch to slow down just a bit while its pilot lost his concentration.
Though the interruption was ultimately fairly minor, the delay bought the Furia enough ti to evade the charge entirely!
As the centaur ch passed through without producing any results, the hybrid ch it passed by imdiately opened fire with its shotgun and its integrated laser weapons!
The centaur ch incurred even more damage, this ti on its sizable horse body.
It was hard to miss such a large target, and the Lancernaut was capable of performing evasive maneuvers like a conventional humanoid ch.
This was why the centaur ch turned around and comnced another charge as soon as possible!
The Furia ca under threat once again. This ti it did not have the benefit of the smoke cloud anymore as its own flas had burned or blown away the majority of its concealnt.
As the Lancernaut closed in once again, the ch continually received hit after hit. The attacks targeting its main weak point were blocked by the shield held by the centaur ch's other humanoid arm.
However, this still left it unable to protect the hole that had been produced by previous attacks!
Since the centaur ch was unable to sway too much from side to side as it was building up montum, quite a few attacks managed to exacerbate this damage!
From laser beams to shotgun pellets, the Lancernaut endured abuse that would have caused a light ch to falter.
However, the centaur ch continued to go strong as its internals were far too robust to fall apart after getting hit by a few attacks!
By the ti Lancernaut had co close enough, the Furia failed to inflict enough damage!
"Evade!"
This ti, the hybrid ch jumped to the right!
Though the timing was good, the pilot of the Lancernaut activated the special feature of the machine.
The legs of the centaur ch stomped the floor at an angle and forcibly pushed itself to the right!
Its steps thundered loud while its chanical legs groaned under all of the powerful forces pressing onto their construction.
The centaur ch managed to turn by 53 degrees this ti!
While it was not as good as before, it was still enough for it to pierce its lance through the Furia, if only barely!
The sudden redirection had caused the Lancernaut to lose a considerable amount of speed and montum, but its remaining power was more than enough for its weapon to pierce through the fra!
[The Furia is struck!]
[Wait! The attack did not manage to take out the Larkinson hybrid completely. It only took out its arm!]
The arm of the Furia shattered from its shoulder, causing the hybrid ch to lose a flathrower but fortunately nothing more.
Bobby Orwell had commanded his ch to jump to the right for a purpose, because that would allow him to preserve the shotgun-wielding arm of his hybrid ch as best as possible!
Just as the centaur ch passed by, the hybrid ch took control of its spinning form and shot its weapon at the distancing beast ch!
This ti, the slug struck one of the Lancernaut's rear legs, causing it to slow down and falter!
The abuse it suffered from trying to forcibly change its direction along with the damage it incurred over several matches had caused a few important components to break!
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