The Mech Touch novel Chapter 486

It became evident that the upturned terrain played to House Eneqqin’s advantage. The abundant amount of obstacles and cover played to their advantage. While their elite ranged mechs couldn’t shoot at the Vandal mechs, neither would the Vandals be able to use their weight of numbers in melee and ranged mechs to bear.

The choke points that Lord Javier and his honor guard held for seconds at a time before squirreling away always forced the Vandals to fight the Vesian mechs in one-to-one duels.

A knight piloted by a seasoned Vandal clashed violently against the Vesian tiger mech. While most felinid mechs emphasized speed and agility, the honor guard bestial mechs carried a lot more armor than usual, allowing it to not lose out too much when it pitted its physical weight against the knight.

"You’re outnumbered! Surrender now or be ground into dust!" The knight broadcasted.

The tiger mech wrenched up a claw to parry the incoming sword slash. "The only ones who will turn into dust are invaders like you!"

The two mechs pushed against each other, trying to bully their opponents with their weight. The Vandal burgundy and black provided a stark contrast against House Eneqqin’s astral blue and silver.

The clashes grew more violently, but neither side got the upper edge. The knight mech possessed more throwing weight, but the tiger mech possessed a firmer footing. The differences in mech shapes led to a lot of complexities.

Unfortunately, the Vandal pilots lacked experience dealing with bestial mechs. Though they often trained against them in simulations, they never got to fight against them a lot in the real universe.

That proved devastating as an another tiger mech jumped from behind the tiger mech locked in combat. The second bestial mech jumped against a wall of debris with its four limbs and used it as a platform to change its trajectory and swoop at the knight mech from its flank!

"What?!"

The second tiger mech’s jump happened too fast for the knight mech to respond. In addition, the front tiger mech tied the knight mech down by doubling up its aggression.

The Vandal mechs at the rear tried to move forward to help, but the bottleneck hindered their approach.

A massive crunching sound emerged as the second tiger mech chomped the knight mech’s sword arm. Its forward momentum also caused it to slam against the knight, which completely destabilized its footing. Another hard wrench caused the tiger mech to savage the sword arm as it tried to pull it out of its socket.

While the tiger mech eventually failed to do so, the other tiger mech pounced on the knight mech which was in no shape to defend and tore apart its chest armor with repeated claw strikes.

The Vandal pilot finally had enough. His cockpit ejected from his mech before the claws could go past the chest armor and do more damage.

Further ahead, the Loquacious Raphael clashed against a Vandal swordsman mech. Though the latter mech’s quality couldn’t measure up against the Raphael, its mech pilot excelled at defense. Lord Javier’s habit of broadcasting his special moves even allowed him to move in advance.

"Twin Star Meteor Storm!"

The Raphael’s sword glowed like a comet as it hacked down onto the Vandal swordsman mech in quick succession. The flurry of blows contained little elegance, and the glow was just a cosmetic addition to the sword instead of an indicator of resonance.

Nevertheless, the swordsman mech struggled to defend against the might and frequency of attacks. Even though the Raphael only wielded its sword in one arm, the sheer strength in them was enough to push back the Vandal mech despite wielding its broadsword with both hands.

"I need some help here!"

A Vandal rifleman mech approached from behind the swordsman mech and tried to lean to the side in order to unleash a volley of explosive shells.

Lord Javier noticed the maneuvering and grinned. "Villains! Fight me one-on-one if you dare!"

"This isn’t an arena! Ignore his words and pile up on him!"

"Take this then! Combo attack: Twin Rainbow Helix!"

The Raphael charged up its resonating rifle arm, channeling an ungodly amount of energy in the rifle. The swordsman mech desperately surged forward in order to interrupt Lord Javier’s so-called combo attack, but the Rapheal’s sword deftly slowed down its progress.

The rifle unleashed a spinning rainbow shell that impacted the swordsman mech’s chest and blew up in a directional fashion. Most of the energies unleashed by the explosion was directed further into the mech, causing the swordsman mech to stagger.

Immediately after the explosion wracked the chest armor, a spinning sword entered the opening in the chest armor and churned past the weakened armor layers without effort. The sword kept spinning as it entered deep inside the chest until it rammed through the cockpit and blended the pilot inside into hashed meat.

"NO!" The mech pilot of the rifleman mech yelled. The ranged mech fired a barrage of shells at close range. Most of them hit the Raphael head on but its frontal armor consisted of high-quality compressed armor that easily endured the rifle shells.

"Hahahaha! Villains like you are unqualified to sully my Raphael!" Lord Javier taunted as he jerked his mech’s sword from its latest kill while bringing up his ballistic rifle.

The Raphael quickly unleashed a salvo of unenhanced shells. Unlike the Raphael, the rifleman mech was a lot more fragile. The three shells all landed on its chest, causing the frontal armor to be crumpled into pieces.

Just as the rifleman mech wanted to retreat, the Raphael jumped over the wreck of the swordsman mech and chopped down with its sword, which sliced through the weakened chest in a single blow.

The rifleman mech tipped over as the internal damage caused it to lose all power. Before the pilot could eject, the Raphael stomped its open chest with its foot, causing the cockpit and its occupant to be fattened into a pancake.

Lord Javier lost some of his joviality as the hovertanks entered the battle. He couldn’t pull back and shoot down the floating vehicles as his presence was very integral in stopping the Vandal mechs in their tracks. His tiger mechs wouldn’t be able to halt all of the Vandal mechs by themselves. _{fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm}