The Mech Touch novel Chapter 1164

Waltz was not a herbivore who would let his opponent kill off his soldiers one by one!

"I have to admit your mech is tougher than I expected for its size! If my gauss rifles can’t penetrate your shell, then I’ll just have to employ something heavier!"

The War General retracted its gauss rifles and instead wielded a melee weapon that unfolded into a huge halberd with a very prominent spike!

"A true war general won’t hesitate to lead from the front!"

The heavy mech began to employ its flight system and additional flight modules to accelerate past the asteroid. It held out the tip of its halberd like a lance and slowly built up its momentum as it closed in on the immobilized Ouroboros.

Despite its heavy mass and lackluster acceleration, the generous charging distance allowed the War General to build up a considerable amount of momentum! By the time the mech reached the Ouroboros, the tip of its halberd would be able to pierce through even the hardiest of armor with unstoppable force!

While Ves paired up the Ouroboros with a very substantial armor system, even he began to shudder at the thought of getting hit by a charging mech whose momentum was comparable to that of a crashing starship!

"That’s a Destroyer Halberd!" Axelar yelled in panic! He spotted the tell-tell glow around the blade and spike of the War General’s weapon. "My mech won’t hold up against this move! I have to move my Ouroboros!"

When Axelar started to take down the War General’s soldiers, he focused first and foremost on the neutron beam turrets. They posed the most acute threat to his life as they could easily penetrate his cockpit!

Once he took down the turrets, he focused his aim towards the debilitating gravitic lockdown modules, but they were larger and tougher than the neutron beam turrets! Not only that, but they were protected by fairly powerful shielding! It took five shots with his positron rifle to take one of them out!

As dread continued to mount in Axelar’s mind, he started to freeze.

Ves became frustrated again. His host possessed too little battle experience! How could he freeze at such a critical moment!?

"You’ve already taken out four gravitic lockdown modules, Axelar!"

"There’s still eight more to go!"

"You don’t need to take out every single deployable! The Ouroboros is more powerful than you think! By my calculations, the forces exerted by the remaining eight modules will only slow it down at best! They can’t pin down your Ouroboros in place anymore!"

When the gravitic lockdown modules initially pinned down the Ouroboros, Axelar only tried to overpower it for a minute before giving up. There was no point wasting energy in a fruitless attempt to break free from an impenetrable prison.

Yet now that Ves reminded Axelar of the change in conditions, the Ouroboros alighted its flight system and flight modules anew!

Not only its main flight system, but also the smaller flight modules built into the arms, legs and other parts of the torso all engaged as well!

The black-and-white mech started to glow from multiple sections as it overpowered the forces exerted onto it through sheer brute force!

"Fly, Ouroboros, fly!"

Although the Ouroboros still suffered from some impairment, Axelar was able to build up just enough speed for it to move in an angle towards the asteroid in the center of the arena.

The asteroid was so big that it took up an eight of the volume of the entire arena space! While it wasn’t particularly strong against focused firepower, it posed enough of a hindrance that Waltz was forced to break off his attack run when it seemed he had to charge his mech through the middle of the asteroid to impale his opponent’s mech!

Coward!" Waltz yelled. "Is this the courage of a Streon clansman!?"

Axelar couldn’t help but patch into the communication channel. "What kind of idiot mech pilot would let his mech get run down by a charging enemy? For someone who pilots a mech called the War General, you sure are stupid!"

Half the audience laughed. They were glad that Axelar was at least able to put up a serious fight now! Perhaps his unusual hero mech might stand a chance against the War General!

The War General attempted to fly around the large asteroid to recover its line of sight against the Ouroboros, but Axelar made sure to keep circling around!

In the meantime, Axelar used this reprieve to shoot at the remaining deployables in the field. While firing his positron rifle in a cone-like spread put a massive strain on the weapon, it nonetheless held up. The Ouroboros also had plenty of energy to spare!

Once the number of ECM and gravitic lockdown modules decreased, Axelar shifted back to firing narrow, concentrated beams.

"Hahaha!" Axelar regained his confidence after taking out the last of the War General’s army. "Now that I’ve slaughtered your army, you’re a general without an army!"

"Do you think you’ve won, Axelar? You know nothing! My mech isn’t this big for nothing! A War General fights best with his army, but they are not afraid to enter into a duel with an enemy champion! Let me show you the true power of my machine!"

On the other wide of the asteroid, the War General’s huge rear module reconfigured itself. Previously, it served as a container and control system for its deployables. Now, it transformed into what appeared to be six powerful missiles!

"Fire!"

The missiles launched from the back of the War General and circled around the entire asteroid. Waltz immediately commanded his mech to turn around and fly as far away as possible to escape what was about to happen!

As for Axelar, while his sensors hadn’t given him an exact view of what was happening on the other side, the Ouroboros didn’t fail in detecting the missiles and their extremely potent payloads heading in its direction!

"Those missiles have enormous plasma payloads!" Axelar squeaked.

"Don’t panic!" Ves immediately reassured his host. It was getting rather tiring to hold Axelar’s hand all the time. "Those plasma missiles are configured for wide-area destruction! The damage will be dispersed over a huge area!"

"That just means I can’t avoid the missiles!"

"Don’t try to dodge the explosions! Just hug the surface of the asteroid and power up the shields of your mech to the maximum!"

Axelar almost forgot about the shields of his Ouroboros!

While pouring full power into the shield generator of his mech expended a huge amount of energy, the mech’s ability to withstand damage increased by a huge margin!

Just seconds after Axelar made his move, the plasma missiles exploded all around the asteroid and his mech!

A torrent of superheated plasma engulfed the entire arena space! Even the War General wasn’t exempt from getting hit as it employed its own shield generator to help fend off the damage that reached the periphery!

The War General only suffered a fraction of the energy and plasma unleashed from the simultaneous missile detonations!

Incredibly hot plasma matter burned through the nickel-iron asteroid and impacted against the oval shield encompassing the Ouroboros!

Axelar couldn’t help but scream at the thought of getting burned to a crisp!

Yet once a dozen seconds passed and the glowing plasma stopped impacting his mech, he realized his mech still remained intact!

The War General, now unburdened by its rear attachments, began to brandish its halberd before entering into another charge! _{freewēbnoveℓ.com}