In the face of an incoming plasma sword attack, Venerable Jannzi felt much more confident than others in her expert ch's ability to resist this powerful strike.
Just like how the Amaranto embodied the concept of extre firepower, the Bastion embodied the concept of extre defense.
The reborn expert ch passed up a lot of attractive options just to elevate her defenses further.
Her ch fra was by far the largest and most massive out of all of the other Larkinson expert chs. Her offensive ability was limited to just the Gravity Sword alone.
Yet in exchange for allocating all of her remaining capacity towards defense, the Bastion's ability to resist powerful attacks was unparalleled among other expert chs!
"I am a knight! I fight by protecting my people!"
There was no other way for Jannzi to aningfully contribute to this battle than to buy ti for other units to evacuate Venerable Orfan.
The longer her Bastion blocked the attacks from the incoming phase lord, the greater the chance of saving her friend and fellow clansman!
Jannzi had a lot of confidence in her ability to fulfill her objective. Heavy space knight. possessed the lowest amount of agency among all other ch archetypes.
They were awfully slow, they lacked the ans to attack at range unless they deviated from their standard configurations and they were not as good in attacking at close range as more offensive machines.
Jannzi was willing to sacrifice all of these advantages just so that she could do better than anyone else at fending off critical enemy attacks.
"We shall not break from this plasma sword!"
People often speculated that the Bastion's defenses were so strong that her defensive capabilities could rival that of so ace chs!
Now, Venerable Jannzi decisively put this assumption to the test by making her Bastion serve as a physical obstacle between the incoming plasma sword and the crippled ch fra of the Riot!
She knew that she had to pull out all of the stops in order to withstand the might of the plasma sword.
Though she had personally witnessed how the Riot succumbed so quickly when receiving a direct hit from the energy weapon, Jannzi never hesitated in her resolve to save Venerable Orfan and what remained of her broken expert ch
She held nothing back.
Maximum Defense was not a special technique or ability. It was just a shorthand for activating every defensive asure that Jannzi and her battle partner could activate at the sa ti.
The first line of defense was her resonance shield. One of the advantages of the Bastion was that she was so big and massive that she was able to accommodate a lot more resonating exotics than smaller machines. Jannzi was able to strengthen the resonance shield of her Bastion to a much greater extent!
Considering the Bastion's awful mobility relative to other expert ch, she certainly needed this advantage.
The next line of defense was the iconic Rainbow Shield. Made up of a lot of Unending alloy, the reason why it carried an unusual na was because its hyper materials were split up and segnted into blocks.
Each block was infused with the spiritual energies donated by Ves and many different design spirits!
That turned the Rainbow Shield into a unique blessed weapon that was able to rely on the help of multiple different design spirits to better defend against different attack types.
Right now, Jannzi called upon the power of Qilanxo, the design spirit she knew best! "Qilanxo, fortify my shield!"
The design spirit answered her call. The Rainbow Shield lit up as the Unending alloy containing Qilanxo's spiritual energy started to burn.
The Rainbow Shield's structure grew stronger and tougher while a small spatial barrier ford just above the surface of the exterior!
While the spatial barrier was not as large and strong as that of a lesser phase lord, it was still a welco addition!
This was not enough for Jannzi.
The Bastion's Battle Skirt System engaged as well. The modular armor plating that previously hung from the waist down ca to life and dynamically stacked behind the Rainbow Shield, causing it to beco larger, thicker and more able to defend from wider angles.
While the Battle Skirt System defined the Maiden of Adversity model that was loved by female ch pilots, the Bastion possessed the best implentation by far.
The modular armor plates had been updated to much more modern and resilient transphasic hyper plating.
Their linking chanisms had been strengthened as well, allowing the plates to stay
together and combine their strengthe much better than before
The deploynt of the modular armor plating caused the Bastion to look as if she was holding up a large tal umbrella as opposed to a tower shield!
The additional coverage gave Jannzi greater confidence that no part of the plasma sword would be able to bypass her defense and inflict further harm onto the Riot.
Jannzi had another trick up her sleeve to fortify the defenses of her modular armor plating even further.
"Callisto!"
"Yawl!"
A lizard-like beast that shared a passing resemblance to Qilanxo erged from her head and dove into the armor plates that had been reconfigured to improve the depth and coverage of the Rainbow Shield.
The companion spirit helped Jannzi lighten her burden and micromanage her
defenses a lot beter than usual.
With the help of Callisto's spatial talent, the blessing that Qilanxo bestowed upon the Rainbow Shield partially spread to the adjacent modular armor plating, thereby significantly increasing their toughness and damage resistance!
All of this already sounded amazing enough, but there was still more.
If the previous defensive asures failed to block the plasma sword, then the next recourse that Jannzi and her battle partner had left was to withstand the potent weapon directly by relying on the azure shield generator.
The Bastion always reserved a lot of room for a larger-than-usual transphasic shield generator.
This had since been replaced by a more powerful and advanced azure shield generator that relied on water-attributed E-energy to amplify the performance of phasewater
technology.
Even so, the biggest factor that made the Bastion's azure shield generator better than anything else was due to size.
The greater capacity of the expert ch not only provided more room for heavy-duty shield generators, but was also able to accommodate more heatsinks, energy cells, internal repair systems and other components that could make the azure energy shield last a lot longer than typical!
The azure energy shield did not form a wide bubble around the machine, but instead stuck very close just above the exterior of the Bastion.
This was a high-tech application of energy shields that was difficult to design and implent, but yielded improved efficiency as the energy shields were not blocking any attacks that would have passed harmlessly over or around the ch in question.
Thera uma ona mora mancure that the Restion could ralu: unon to fand off nowerful
strikes.
This was the Bolton Armor that clad the ch fra.
Integrated with over 8.6 kilograms of phasewater, the Bolton Armor excelled at
repelling transphasic attacks but also perford fairly well in repelling plasma
weapon attacks.
The thick application of armor plating in every direction made it so that the Bastion had few true weak points.
Even her rear sections were well-covered by thick slabs of armor in order to deny
light skirmishers the opportunity to easily disable the expert heavy space knight from
behind!
The Bolton Armor was the primary ans of defense for the Bastion when her Rainbow Shield and Battle Skirt System failed for whatever reason.
Jannzi was not afraid of relying upon it as it was just as tough if not tougher than her
Rainbow Shield.
While the Bastion was not the most modern Larkinson expert ch anymore, her
Bolton Armor was still recent enough that was casy enough to apply a light amount of hyper materials to make the Bolton Armor more effective.
The addition of hyper materials also happened to make it easier for the living ch to channel the passive enhancents granted by the Ascension Runes that the Bastion had accumulated over ti and growth!
Jannzi and her battle partner both agreed to stick to the extre defense concept, so all of the Ascension Runes were ford from the Path of the Guardian derived from
Qilanxo!
The Bastion had never been able to test the full effectiveness of all 25 Ascension Runes
she had accumulated so far until today.
The Runes were already in effect, though they didn't leave any visible traces. The Bastion's armor plating grew stronger and tougher. They also increased the Bastion's resistance to phasewater technology and spatial effects.
All of these asures were fairly impressive on their own, so more than others.
Only the Bastion was able to agglorate each of them into a single heavy ch
fra.
No other expert ch could co close to matching her combined defensive prowess.
Even then, there were many observers who believed that the Bastion could only withstand the incredible power of the phase lord's plasma sword for a little while longer than the Riot Mark II.
This was because the Bastion was still an expert ch!
As long as Venerable Jannzi remained a high-tier expert pilot, her true resonance was
not able to amplify the defenses of her Bastion to the point where she could properly block the attacks of an ace ch-grade opponent.
That did not deter her in the slightest, though. As the extrely hot edge of the
plasma sword was already falling onto her prepared expert ch, Jannzi's heart swelled with courage.
Venerable Orfan was still alive. She could feel it due to her link to the other female
expert pilot.
Since Rosa Orfan could still be saved, Jannzi did not think about retreating until rescue chs had arrived to pull the broken ch fra of the Riot to safety!
"I AM A KNIGHT!" She roared even as the plasma sword ruthlessly crashed against the resonance shield of the Bastion!
Her willpower directly fueled the true resonance manifestation that served as the first
line of defense!
The blue corona magically held the plasma sword back, largely due to Jannzi's sheer stubbornness in fulfilling her mission!
Unfortunately, despite the advantages granted by the Bastion's greater quantity of
resonating exotics, the resonance shield of an expert ch ultimately did not defy reality to the point of completely neutralizing the power of the plasma sword. A few tense seconds passed before the resonance shield broke! The plasma sword exhibited faint signs of instability after it had been used to
overco a lot of resistance, but it still had plenty of energy left to assault the Rainbow Shield next!
The giant translucent silhouette of Qilanxo erged from the Rainbow Shield. The
design spirit took offense at the plasma sword and did her best to reinforce the tower shield's valiant resistance against the alien weapon!
Amazingly enough, the Rainbow Shield held for an awfully long ti!
Seconds passed as it seed to be able to fend off the plasma sword forever, but it
had ultimately reached its limit when it started to heat up far too much to the point where the Unending alloy and transphasic alloys began to lt or vaporize! The once-beautiful Rainbow Shield got partially split in half!
The only reason why it hadn't been destroyed any further was because the modular
armor plating from the Battle Skirt System stepped up and took over the burden!
Reinforced by Callisto, the modular armor plating glowed brighter as they did all they could to hold back the hot plasma sword. However, direct contact with a plasma sword was extrely damaging to the systems
of the armor plates. That broka hefore the allou platina had basin to malt
This caused the components of the Battle Skirt System to separate and fall away as all
of the electronics responsible for keeping them in place succumbed first to the overwhelming heat!
The plasma sword, which began to look as if it was growing increasingly more unstable after forcing its way to cut through several layers of strong defenses, continued to pass through the remnants of the Battle Skirt System until it collided
against the Bastion's azure energy shield!
The azure energy shield held the deadly weapon at bay remarkably well!
"Venerable Jannzi is doing it! Her Bastion is holding up really well so far!" Zren-Divar uttered another roar of frustration as he continued to press his plasma
sword forward despite all of the strain he was being subjected to at the mont. How co it was so difficult for him to finish off a single ch?! Why was this other ch so damn tough and stuffed with defenses!? The more the lesser phase lord grew frustrated at his inability to finish off a single
expert ch, the more Venerable Jannzi felt as if she was fulfilling her greatest purpose!
As a space knight pilot, Venerable Jannzi derived no greater pleasure than to save the
life of a precious Larkinson.
Though only a relatively short period of ti had passed, her Bastion had succeeded
in buying a short amount of ti.
She could already see that the nearest available chs allocated to rescue duty had
almost reached the broken Riot.
This was not enough to save Venerable Orfan's life. The rescue chs needed to
remain undisturbed by powerful enemies as they attempted to bring back the Riot.
This ant that Venerable Jannzi needed to fend off the angry lesser phase lord even
longer! "Co on, you misbegotten alien! Is this all you got?!" She roared even as her resonance strength grew with her rising mood! "Your plasma sword shall burn out against my defenses! Your teeth shall be broken by my Gravity Sword! As long as I am here, you can forget about taking away anyone else's life!"
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