Avatar Commander lkor no longer thought about failure.
He needed to win.
He had to win.
As a Larkinson, lkor bore the responsibility of upholding the honor and prestige of the clan.
No alien was going to kill his n and get away with it. So what if the puelrs were known as the smartest and most technologically advanced race in the Red Ocean?
lkor was not about to let them defeat his ch force!
His brain began to heat up as he started to make a lot more calculations.
He used the processing power of his advanced Fey Fianna to help him simulate the movents of different chs and phasefighters. He used his intuition and gut feeling to issue orders that would hopefully nudge the different elents to the locations he wanted.
The placents of every piece on the chessboard needed to close to perfect in order to produce the effect that lkor wanted.
The most important variables that he needed to control were the three puelr gunships.
They were in the wrong locations at the mont.
If he wanted his new plan to produce the best possible effect, then they needed to move forward and take a small turn in order to enter the range of the spell array.
In order to lure them forward, the Larkinson chs under his command began to perform dangerous maneuvers.
As the dogfights intensified, the battle lines began to blur, causing many chs to move back and forth around the asteroids.
The puelr combination gunships were the exception. They only flew at a relatively low pace as they did not need to engage in any maneuvering. The surrounding phasefighter escorts blocked the vast majority of chs trying to attack the key assets. Any ranged attacks that did manage to get past simply crashed against their powerful azure energy shields.
lkor was not looking to defeat the combination gunships at the mont. He only wanted them to advance, and that was what they did.
The battlefield was not a static box that remained completely fixed until the battle had run its course.
battlespace constantly shifted back and forth.
lkor had to make sure the fight drifted to the area that was most favorable to his plan. At the sa ti, he had to make sure that specific friendly and enemy units ended up in the right place at the right ti.
It was extrely difficult to make this all happen by issuing orders alone. There were many occasions where ch units suffered losses and had to flee backwards, thereby ssing up one of his arrangents. He would be forced to issue another series of orders in order to compensate for the disruptions.
The old lkor could have never kept track of so many different units and knew what to do in order to advance his demanding plan.
This ti was different. Cultivating the Commanding Controller Auxiliary Qi Cultivation thod for a number of months had vastly increased his raw cognitive capabilities. Now that he had gained more confidence in his abilities, he beca more efficient and adept at ordering his subordinates around.
It also helped to have more confidence in himself. He regularly beat himself up in the past, causing him to place himself at a lower position relative to other prominent Larkinsons.
This was not a healthy mindset. lkor was much better off if he recognized his current strengths and relied on them to work his way towards victory.
It did not take long for the situation to move towards his ideal state. If he wanted to trap a portion of the enemy phasefighters without thinking any further, then he could have activated the spell array a lot sooner.
Instead, he purposely delayed this step and waited for his ch forces to subtly position the enemy phasefighters without making the native aliens suspicious about his true intentions.
All of these demands added to the delay, causing dozens of chs to get destroyed and more to sustain serious damage.
The longer he waited, the greater the balance of power would shift towards the enemy.
Wait too long, and the battle beca unsalvageable.
Though lkor wanted to wait longer in order to improve the variables even further, ti was running out. He could not let the current situation drag on for too long.
"It's ti."
Commander lkor took a deep breath before he retrieved a special artifact. The small disc looked like a strange black dining plate, but it was actually the standard shape of a formation control artifact.
not only activated the artifact, but also allowed it to sync up with the formation anchors and trigger them online!
At the sa ti, he began to close his eyes and began to repeat a mantra whose aning he did not fully understand.
The surroundings began to change as lots of E energy began to alter their behavior due to external stimuli.
The space that encompassed a part of the current battlefield imdiately began to
change.
Much of the space had already beco less visible due to the spread of debris, the discharge of energy beams and all of the dust and pebbles that exploded from the nearby asteroids whenever they got struck.
However, as soon as the spell array went to work, visibility dropped even further as a strange white mist began to develop nurous chs and phasefighters.
They were all pulled into the confinent array, which had taken on the shape of a giant cube!
Everything that happened to fall inside this giant cube of white mist had lost complete contact with friends that had been left outside of the confinent spell array.
With just a single move and a lot of preparations, lkor successfully sowed confusion while also splitting the enemy force in half!
The alien fighter pilots did not understand what they were dealing with! The ones caught outside of the mysterious spell array quickly disengaged from the human chs and tried to make sense of the area that had beco engulfed in white mists.
They soon found out that the mists was a byproduct generated by especially high concentrations of E energy!
What was also interesting was the units that beca engulfed by the mysteriously impenetrate white mists.
Over two-thirds of the standard alien phasefighters had disappeared!
That was not all. A more serious consequence was that one of the combination
gunships had also been swallowed up by the mists!
As for the humans, only a quarter of the chs in the field had disappeared into the strange white mist, and nearly all of them consisted of Avatar and Swordmaiden
chs!
They were the strongest and most formidable chs when fighting at close range.
The Redaxes, Second Swords, Storm Swords and Stormblade Samurais and so on would clearly fare a lot better in a tighter and more confined space than any ranged
ch!
This suggested that the white mists was not a natural phenonon, but was instead generated by the humans!
The aliens began to open fire on the mists. They made sure to shoot the edges and the far sides of their targets for fear of causing friendly fire, but these disruptions were beginning to make it a lot more difficult for lkot to control and sustain the spell
array!
"Intercept the phasefighters that have remained behind!" lkor barked. "You don't have to go for the kill, but just keep them occupied so that they don't shoot at the spell array from the outside. The one that is currently deployed is not that great and is known to be vulnerable to external shocks. Do not let the puelr combination gunships fire all of their guns at this active array!"
It would be hard to force the deadly alien gunships from focusing their multitude of
weapon barrels at the obvious target. The only way to force them to aim their guns in another direction was for the remaining chs to fly forward and threaten to hack their way past the azure energy shields.
That was what the Larkinsons were doing. The Penitent Sisters jumped at this opportunity to 'serve their penance'. Their origins and traditions compelled them to do the jobs that required the greatest sacrifice.
Their Valkyrie Redeers and Maidens of Adversity were no longer in the best conditions anymore, but they still tried to force their way past the phasefighter screen and threaten the two remaining puelr combination warships!
Although their assignnts were extrely risky, they managed to pressure the alien phasefighters without suffering too many losses at this ti.
The alien phasefighters that were left outside of the confinent array were unable to
repl their opponents with as much ease as before!
This profoundly changed the dynamic of the battlefield.
The remaining two combination gunships had lost a significant portion of firepower.
It no longer beca as unbearable for human chs to approach their positions as
before!
What was also impactful was that many of the escort phasefighters disappeared as
well!
By locking away two-thirds of the enemy phasefighters, the remaining third were much less nurous than before.
Since their numbers had dropped by such a large extent, they were unable to provide effective screening for the two remaining gunships as before.
The ranged chs of the Larkinson Army were able to focus their fire onto the
priority targets much easier this ti!
and tried to occupy the enemy screening elents as much as possible! While the battle outside of the confinent spell array had yet to swing decisively
towards the Larkinsons, they had definitely gained an advantage this ti!
"It's working! There's not as much cannon fodder in the way this ti." "We need to take out a combination gunship as soon as possible. Even if two of them
are left, their damage output is still too great!"
More and more chs tried to bypass the diminished number of phasefighters and
attack the clite puelr craft directly!
Now that the Larkinson lee chs were finally able to get close, they were able to
subject the alien gunships to space suppressors.
This had a very noticeable effect on the layered azure energy shields of the two
combination craft!
Their defenses weakened significantly, causing every sword strike and energy beam attack to inflict much more effective damage than before.
Even though the lee chs ca under heavy attack as they circled around the two
alien gunships, their ch pilots chose to persist as long as possible in order to make the greatest possible contributions.
Even if their living chs shattered into pieces and their lives ca under threat, the
Larkinson ch pilots gritted their teeth and drew out all of their potential just to keep them active for a few seconds longer!
The desperate and costly asures were taking effect.
Since the chs focused all of their efforts on just one of the gunships, its defenses.
deteriorated at an alarming speed to the puelrs.
Eventually, its energy defenses broke, causing the high-tech fras to beco
exposed!
The puelr fighter pilots apparently panicked, because they hastily split up from each other and fled in different directions!
"Hunt them down! Do not let a single of those craft escape!" Although the high-quality materials used by the puelrs caused their phasefighters
to resist attacks a lot better than usual, their relatively thin armor ultimately dood
them to a quick demise!
"We did it! Our pressure has instantly dropped by half! We need to finish off the other
one as well."
The Larkinsons outside of the spell array finally felt relief now that they had tilted the balance further in their favor.
revenge on the remaining combination gunship that was left outside!
lkor no longer paid much attention to what was taking place around the spell array. This was because he beca much more concerned about the conditions inside.
The lee chs that had been trapped alongside the alien phasefighters initially gained an advantage, but the confined aliens quickly made adjustnts and had begun to fight back with all of their power!
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