The sight of the Amaranto Mark III impaling hundreds of cosmopolitan chs with light. needles was a glorious sight.
The display of martial superiority was practically sacred as the righteous ace ch smote down the wicked cosmopolitan chs.
It was monts like these that showed why saints deserved to be called this way.
Their willpower transcended the physical barriers. Their ability to resonate with their well-designed chs was unparalleled. Few mortal enemies and weapons could withstand the might of a saint who channeled her power and skills in combat.
The dramatic sight of the Amaranto Mark III wiping out traitor chs like they were flies inspired many soldiers.
While the Amaranto was hardly the only ace ch that perford well on the battlefield, few people expected the living ch to endure her current difficulties so well.
Even saints could be felled by mortals so long as the latter were nurous enough! Such incidents were rare, but it had happened in the past. First-class multipurpose chs possessed a lot of firepower, and so long as they were able to repeatedly land hits on an ace ch, the damage would eventually accumulate. This was the key to destroying these powerful machines.
The huge number of cosmopolitan chs were producing results. Even as their chs struggled to withstand the zipping light needles, their firepower was prodigious enough to cause the Amaranto to get struck from all sides.
The well-trained and fanatical ch pilots did not allow the damage inflicted by the Saint Kingdom distract them from their mission.
The weapon modules of their chs specifically targeted the rear, front or sides of the lower torso whenever possible. The cosmopolitans deed this to be the most.
vulnerable section of the ch that still played an essential role.
While the exterior plating did indeed suffer a great amount of damage, the Solarium hyper material was incredibly effective at resisting the massed firepower, True resonance only further enhanced its already exaggerated performance, enabling the exterior plating to hold up under far greater pressure than they should.
The rare Solarium finally vindicated all of the cost and effort that the Larkinson Clan had put into procuring it. The hyper material perford at its best in the situation where the Amaranto needed to rely on its protection the most.
The Amaranto Mark III was also able to keep fighting due to the use of archetech. Her archetal fra was able to prevent exterior impacts and shocks from damaging the more vulnerable internals. The seemingly organic maze of components and structural
elents blended together in such a way that eliminated many weak points!
This massively increased the reliability of the ace ch and was a large contributor to allowing it to withstand the current storm!
Combined with the Amaranto Mark III's relatively fast and instinct-driven maneuvers, the cosmopolitan chs barely produced any results aside from drilling a few shallow holes into the Solarium armor plating.
While the traitor chs tried their best to capitalize on these small holes, Saint Stark did not let them get their way as her Saint Kingdom continued to pepper the remaining chs with light needles!
As for the hostile chs that were hovering outside of the range of her Saint Kingdom, the Amaranto continually shot them with the Instrunt of Vengeance.
While the firing rate of this oversized luminar crystal rifle was anything but impressive, Saint Stark already figured out the exact amount charge needed to pierce the azure energy shields and transphasic hyper armor plating of every enemy ch.
At first, Saint Stark simply tried to shoot them down one at a ti. The rate of kills was slow, but her accuracy was so impeccable that the targeted cosmopolitan chs could do nothing but accept their fate.
As Stark began to get used to the pressure and the multitasking, she figured out a way to increase her killing efficiency.
She began to line up her targets.
By maneuvering her Amaranto Mark III in specific ways and charging her Instrunt of Vengeance a bit more, she could launch powerful light beams that not only pierced straight through one enemy ch, but impaled another that just happened to be straight in its path!
Two cosmopolitan chs started to blow up in exchange for slightly lowering the firing
rate.
The process of charging up the luminar crystal rifle from zero always ca with a delay. This ant that it was more efficient to allow the weapon to build up its charge rather than firing it more frequently.
As Saint Stark beca more adept at lining up her targets, she began to challenge herself further by trying to find angles where she was able to eliminate three hostile chs at a ti!
This was exponentially more difficult to accomplish. She had to track and predict the movents of three chs at once. Her Amaranto also had to maneuver her ch in the right place at the right ti. Then she had to pull the trigger during an exceedingly small window of opportunity.
She failed more than she succeeded. It was a bit difficult for her to keep track of everything while also trying to line up three targets that were moving wildly in different
directions.
Many tis, her timing was just a bit off. Other tis, her predictions were wrong.
Just one misjudgent was enough to cause a targeted ch to be in a completely different location than what she had anticipated!
Saint Stark did not let that ruin her enjoynt of this challenge. The volu of firepower striking her ace ch had distinctly decreased now that she had eliminated so
many hostile chs.
She was rather surprised that the cosmopolitan chs hadn't broken yet despite their apparent futility in their mission.
However, the traitor ch pilots were all fanatical to the point where they greatly valued their cause over their lives.
The cosmopolitan ch pilots also understood that they would just get intercepted and torn to pieces by Rubarthan chs if they attempted to withdraw.
Since that was the case, the traitors tried their best to produce as much results as
possible before they inevitably went down!
"MY DEMISE SHALL BE THE TINDER THAT SHALL TURN HUMAN SUPREMACY
ABLAZE!"
"OUR PLURALISTIC AGE SHALL CO!"
"PEACE BETWEEN OUR RACES IS INEVITABLE!"
Saint Stark ignored the garbled open transmissions that recorded the last words of all of the brainwashed ch pilots. She culled their chs and harvest their lives without any asure of sympathy and compassion.
By the ti she had eliminated all but a few stragglers, the wreckage floating away from her brightly glowing ace ch showed the aftermath of her fury-fuelled frenzy.
The ace pilot let out a deep breath as she made an effort to regain her composure. She studied the battlefield and tried to see whether anyone or anything important needed to
be saved.
The battle in orbit of Kayana VIII-E had reached a late stage.
The large amounts of chs and phasefighters had whittled each other down by a huge extent. Pilots from both sides had died in droves.
The alien phasefighters had suffered many more losses, but the chs had expended a lot of energy and ammunition to hold their own on the battlefield. The human machines were not able to capitalize on its advantages and had little choice but to allow the surviving phasefighters to back off and withdraw in good order.
The alien assault fleets sustained heavy damage.
Even if the cosmopolitan chs had generated enough of a distraction to force the Obsidian Orb and the Amaranto from firing at them, the losses previously incurred by
the enemy fleets significantly reduced their firepower and ability to withstand attacks.
The orbital defense network eagerly took advantage of this weakness. A large amount of guns brutalized the surviving enemy warships within their range, causing them to break up and reduce the enemy's advantages even further!
As for the enemy phase whale and phase lords, they had failed to overco the resistance generated by the high-ranking chs fighting on the side of the Rubarthans. Stalling a phase lord was different from killing one. The latter demanded a lot of risk taking that could easily backfire if anything went wrong. The right move could cause a phase lord to lose his life, but the wrong move could easily cause an ace ch to get crippled or destroyed!
All of the ace pilots fighting on the battlefield possessed the resolve to die if that was what it took to kill the enemy champions.
However, this was no ti for them to make the ultimate sacrifice. The orbit of Kayana VIII-E was just one of several battlefields where the native aliens had to be stopped.
Since the Rubarthan commanders and the renowned Stewards Siasia chose to priotize holding Kayana VIII-E over permanently retiring the enemy phase lords, the ace chs all fought in the most annoying way possible.
They engaged in hit-and-run tactics. They never allowed themselves to get close enough for the phase lords to land their attacks. They concentrated on breaking the spatial barriers of the weakest phase lords, but left them alone as long as they chose to back away.
Seeing as the ace chs started to fight a lot more aggressively if a phase lord chose to persist and continue to fight, the native gods were eventually conditioned to withdraw whenever they lost their spatial barriers!
There were many tis that ace pilots spotted many opportunities to close in and land a
killing blow.
They refrained from taking the bait. The phase lords should be as vulnerable as they
appeared.
It also took a lot of effort to be able to secure a kill against these enemies, especially when other phase lords made an effort to cover for their vulnerable peer. Therefore, nothing much of consequence had occurred. The phase lords had gotten battered despite outnumbering the enemy ace chs, but the latter also expended a lot of energy and effort to blockade their enemies. The Lamia Kailamassu and its main adversaries appeared to be the exception.
The peak ace ch looked as if it could still keep going for many hours. It had fought at
high intensity. Its twin Saint Kingdoms had worked miracles in order to keep itself intact while enduring the attacks launched by the Divine Maw and the Descent of Hushae'Rhua.
The latter no longer tried to duel against his enemies on his own, but wisely tead up
with the Divine Maw and the Divine Supplicant to face the enemy ace chs together and attempt to cripple one of the annoying machines.
They failed. The Divine Maw's massive prowess, the Divine Supplicant's superdinsional shield and the Descent's Saint Piercer all failed to produce a satisfying
result!
While the greater phase whale and the
phase lord did not wish to back off from
the battlefield without making at least a few achievents, the changed that took place around them made their situation more precarious.
The gradual withdrawal of alien phasefighters and warships caused many guns to turn
against the enemy phase leaders!
Their spatial barriers had already endured enough attacks to reach their breaking points
if that hadn't happened already.
Now, the added firepower caused their defenses to deplete increasingly faster than
usual!
This was already bad enough, but when the Obsidian Orb was changing its configuration to expose the massive Star Caster Siege Hyper Plasma Cannon that was installed in its center, the phase lords would clearly co under much greater threat very soon! Seeing that their own offensive maneuvers completely failed to shake the defenses of the Lamia Kailamassu and the senior ace chs under its protection, the Divine Maw
did not choose to be stubborn.
The Divine Maw ordered a retreat. The phase lords all disengaged in unison. They withdrew without covering each other's backs. Instead, they all behaved as if they had been given a lifeline and sought to retreat as fast as their phasewater organs could
accomplish!
"We... we won...!"
The Rubarthan defenders successfully protected Kayana VIII-E and secured their possession of the enormous debris field.
Unfortunately, this was just the first of several fights in the Kayana System.
The native aliens would be back as soon as they replenished their losses. They may have
lost a lot of expensive phasefighters and warships, but they could easily replenish them over ti.
The struggle of the defenders was far from over, but the heroism demonstrated on the battlefield inspired them to fight harder next ti!
Among the ace pilots that perford well this ti, Saint Stark had made an incredible
impression to them all. Even if she failed to repeat her feat of killing a lesser phase lord,
she still managed to cull so many enemy warships with her energy rifle that she had beco famous for this feat!
"Saint Davia Stark, the Executioner of Light!"
The proposed title instantly caught on. The Rubarthan soldiers adopted it with gusto!
"Executioner of Light!"
"Executioner of Light!" "Executioner of Light!"
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