The Montebra GHCMQ-3 clearly wasn't ready for priti.
The ch appeared to be well-designed and polished from the outside, but now that it had completed an incredibly intensive charge attack, it had exposed a lot of flaws and shortcomings.
Whatever electromagnetic wizardry enabled it to form an unbreakable lock onto a target ch, the extre asure clearly hadn't been designed for a ch of this caliber!
The fried components, the obvious reduction in fluency, the shaking limbs and many other indicators showed that the two Montebras had paid a heavy price to deliver their most powerful killing blows at their targets.
It worked, more or less.
Though one of the Fey Fiannas managed to blunt the force of the incoming lance by making use of the sum total of all of the modular armor plating attached to all of the fey, the powerful electromagnetic pull had been at its strongest when the distance between the two chs had shrunk.
This enabled the Montebra in question to muster up enough force to deliver a crippling blow to the Fey Fianna!
Now, the main body in question was barely holding on to its remaining functions. The torso was a critical elent to any ch. So many energy cells and other important components had been ripped away from the machine.
Many of the adjacent components beca affected by all of the damage as well. The Fey Fianna's degree of compartntalization was not high due to its slim build, and its redundancy was not that impressive either.
The fact that it could remain standing after missing an entire chunk out of its side was already a technical accomplishnt!
Unfortunately, few people paid attention to the Fey Fianna at this mont. They had witnessed this ch model plenty of tis now, so the novelty had started to wear off already.
The Montebras had beco the latest highlight of the mont!
Even in their damaged and diminished state, the spear-wielding machines still looked amazingly handso and deadly.
Electrical sparks continued to crackle off their dented ch fras. The loss of all of their prior excess armor caused the machines to look a lot less bloated and a lot more proportionate.
Combined with the strong electrical energies that continued to surge from the insides of the machines, the tallic machines gave the illusion that they were godly warriors that had been bestowed with the gift of lightning!
"Amazing! These lancer chs can run down any agile ch with their electromagnetic power!"
"These Montebras have subverted one of the fundantal adages of lancer chs."
"Who is Master Hubert-Colmain? How co I have never heard of her? Is she a famous ch designer over at the Greenwich Middle Zone?"
In contrast to the people who didn't know any better and beca affected by the dashing sight of the lightning-blessed chs, the ch designers among the viewers did not unilaterally praise the Montebras.
The chs had certainly demonstrated great strength, but it did not pull off their amazing charge attacks without suffering great damage in return.
"The real reason why the Montebras are able to purge their heavy frontal armor is not because they need to gain a lot of mobility to improve their brawling capabilities. The chs have no choice but to shed all of their excess mass because they cannot adequately fight anymore after they have overexerted themselves. Without this essential function, it is doubtful whether the Montebras could pull off a second charge attack!"
It beca clear that the lee ch model in its current state was not ant to go on sale right away.
No one looked forward to buying and using a ch that fried itself to a semi-crippled state after pulling off just a single big move.
The logistical burden imposed by such a powerful and inefficient ch was more trouble than it was worth in most practical cases.
It was only in specific situations such as an important match that such an investnt could be justified!
Ves directed a pointed glance towards Master Ginevra Hubert-Colmain.
He had the feeling that his Fey Fianna had beco the foil this ti. The Montebra model attracted so much admiration and interest that hardly anyone was thinking about how amazing it was that one of the two drone chs had managed to escape certain death.
Many other chs would have never been able to get away if they were put in the sa position a mont ago! How co no one appreciated that the Fey Fianna was surprisingly hardy and difficult to take down for a machine of its kind?
"As you can see, the Turbo ElectroMagnetic Pairing chanism is not yet complete." Master Ginevra calmly explained to Ves. "The E-energy to electrical energy conversion process is too rough and inefficient. The short-circuiting that took place is an inevitable consequence of trying to produce more electrical power than a standard ch of this construction can handle. It would have been much better to implent this chanism in an expert ch or a first-class multipurpose ch. Their materials and components are able to endure much greater loads."
"Maybe you should dial down the power level." Ves made an obvious suggestion..
"I have tried that before, but the results were not satisfactory. My newly developed TEMP chanism can achieve the greatest effect when it cannot be shaken off by the target machine. I have found that lower power settings not only reduces the activation range by a large extent, but also enables the opposing ch to break the lock. For better or worse, the TEMP chanism can only be produced at an unsustainable level to the Montebra design."
"I see."
The chs in the field had begun to make their next moves.
As the Montebras shook off the consequences of their brutal charge attacks and started to descend towards their final remaining target, the surviving Fey Fianna in the field took action as well.
The machine took control of all 6 offensive fey regardless of whether they were occupied by a subordinate spirit.
The fey did not have to be inhabited by an actual living spirit in order to be used!
Every Fey Fianna possessed the capacity to commandeer orphaned fey by relying on more conventional spur control chanisms.
The ch pilot just had to take more direct control over the fey that did not contain any living spirit.
This was not a significant challenge to a trained drone ch pilot that had already piloted a more traditional drone ch like the Sparrow Storm in the past.
Once the Fey Fianna took charge of all of the offensive fey, the armor-less machines imdiately opened fire with their luminar crystal cannons!
A salvo of 6 fire energy beams struck the Montebra that had incurred the greatest damage!
This just happened to be the ch that the Fey Fiannas targeted with their ranged attacks in an earlier sequence.
The Montebra in question already lost its energy shield. This enabled the fiery energy beams to rake across the diminished armor plating of the newly converted spearman ch without any obstacles!
Getting hit by a single energy beam was hardly threatening to a typical ch. Even a light skirmisher could shrug off a typical beam attack, especially when the attack was unable to concentrate all of its power onto a single point.
However, getting attacked by 6 fire laser beams at the sa ti was another story!
If the targeted Montebra had still been equipped with their full armor loadout, then it would have been able to endure a lot of salvos before anything serious happened.
Yet now was exactly the ti where the spearman ch was at its most vulnerable!
The fey were relentless. They did not remain static, but obeyed the direction of a furious Larkinson ch pilot and began to circle around the spearman ch's rear!
Compared to its remaining frontal armor, the rear of the Montebra was considerably thinner and less protected!
The luminar crystal cannon fey did not attack the Montebra blindly, but purposefully tried to target its flight system, which not only happened to be particularly vulnerable, but had already incurred a considerable amount of internal damage due to the harm caused by the TEMP chanism.
"How co the Fey Fianna is able to control 6 fey all of a sudden? Wasn't its limit supposed to be 4 fey?"
"The Sparrow Storms can control up to 64 spurs. What the Fey Fianna is doing is hardly a challenge."
"Two of the fey aren't as accurate and responsive as the rest. It is clear that there are shortcomings to controlling more fey than the recomnded limit." Regardless of how the two additional offensive fey missed their shots more often than the other four fey, the continuous attacks from 6 fey already caused the targeted Montebra a lot of grief!
Without the benefit of an energy shield, the Montebra had no ans to block the incoming shots from lting and vaporizing the crucial components that were responsible for granting flight capabilities to the spearman ch.
At a certain point, the rapid buildup of damage ultimately triggered a small explosion that completely disabled an important subsystem of the spearman ch!
The machine descended at a much faster rate than before because of the sudden loss of lift capacity.
Crunch!
Though the machine did not outright crash onto the ground, its damaged legs groaned and cracked in a few places as it clearly made a rough landing.
The offensive fey did not relent in their attacks. They were like sharks who slled blood. Now that the Montebra had lost much of its mobility, it practically turned into a sitting duck!
The fire laser beam attacks continued to heat up the ch. None of the electrical energies sparking from the Montebra offered any protection against the barrage of energy beams.
The ch's mobility had beco so compromised at this ti that it was completely unable to evade the attacks!
Eventually, the fire laser beams managed to burn past the weak points at the rear and inflict enough crippling damage to the poor machine's internals that the Montebra ultimately shut down.
"What a quick takedown!"
"The Montebra was already half-dead after it had completed its charge. The fey only needed to finish the job."
Though the 6 offensive fey had done a great job at saving a bit of face for the Fey Fianna, by the ti they redirected their attacks to the other Montebra, it appeared that they were already too late!
The other Montebra was in a much better condition. Its energy shield remained at half-strength due to internal damage, but that was more than enough to withstand the firepower of the Fey Fianna's luminar crystal rifle.
The additional firepower of the 6 offensive fey caused the energy shield to wear down much faster, particularly as the fire elent possessed a strong advantage against tal-based defenses.
Yet the spearman ch easily managed to weather the storm long enough to land in front of the sole remaining Fey Fianna.
Even as its weakened energy shield finally lost cohesion, the spearman ch did not take notice of the fire beams raking its rear armor as it began to thrust its spear at the semi-crippled Fey Fianna!
The drone ch was in no shape to run or fly away. The only way for it to survive was to fend off the spearman ch at close range.
The Fey Fianna had shakingly attached its bayonet to the front of its rifle.
As the first spear thrust threatened to poke through the gaping hole on the Fey Fianna's side, the drone ch hastily attempted to deflect the attack.
Crackle!
When the spear made contact with the bayoneted rifle, the Montebra's remaining electrical charge suddenly spilled over to the Fey Fianna!
This caused the latter ch to endure unexpected shocks that induced multiple glitches and breakdowns of its damaged and vulnerable internals!
The Fey Fianna briefly lost the ability to move.
Though the ch's ergency asures worked hard to restore its functionality, the Montebra took full advantage of the opening and made a sharp thrust that poked straight into the exposed internals of the drone ch!
Boom boom boom!
Nurous secondary explosions erupted from the Fey Fianna's interior!
The ch finally couldn't take it any longer and completely collapsed as it was unable to recover from all of the excessive damage!
The arena's defensive asures made sure to protect the life of the Larkinson ch pilot, but they did nothing to save the Fey Fianna itself from ruination! "The Fey Fiannas... have lost the second challenge match!"
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