The Mech Touch novel Chapter 546

Chapter 546

When the Parallax Star's lance hit the forward prow of the combat carrier, common sense went out the window .

In any other situation, the mech should have yielded . Yet this was an expert mech driven forward by an expert pilot . Advanced in age he might be, but every expert pilot possessed the power to defy logic .

Even as the thick layers of the combat carrier's hull plating began to buckle, the Parallax Star's energy field rapidly began to dim as it struggled to protect the expert mech it enveloped against crushing itself apart . Yet no matter how dim it grew, it never winked out .

Like an everlasting sun, the Parallax Star shredded through the prow of the ship and punched into the much less durable interior of the ship! Compartment after compartment parted into as the mech and its indomitable charge brought it deeper into the heart of the vessel!

However, everything came to an end . The ship's interior might not have been as durable as the outer hull, it still formed a substantial obstacle to the Parallax Star because there was so much of it the mech had to bore through . Its momentum rapidly bled off until it barely reached the inner half of the combat carrier .

Secondary explosions quickly started to rattle the combat carrier as the sudden cavity set off a chain reaction of catastrophic effects!

Over a hundred crew members lost their lives instantly as the mech bore through their compartments, and a hundred more became at risk as their bodies floated away into vacuum! If they didn't wear their hazard suits as a precaution, they would have suffocated in an instant!

The combat carrier was as good as crippled . The Parallax Star punched its lance into the compartments beyond . From his extensive experience, O'Callahan knew that he had reached deep enough inside the combat carrier to approach its highly fortified bridge, command center or combat information center . No matter which lay beyond, all of them served a key purpose for the Frosty Meteors .

Though the Venerable's instincts screamed at him to depart from this ship, he persevered and forced his mech through one more compartment! He ignored the flailing figures his lance had breached and mercilessly raked the tip back and forth until he blended every human into unrecognizable meat .

No human could withstand the force of a mech weapon!

"Serves you right for belittling me!"

Though O'Callahan's fury abated a little after finishing his first charge in years, he still needed to teach the rest a lesson they would never forget!

The Parallax Star quickly climbed out of the hole it had made and left the crippled combat carrier behind . With a flaring of its powerful flight system, the expert mech propelled itself to the sides, away from any enemy ships or mechs .

The expert mech wasn't fleeing . It was arcing around for another charging pass!

The impact of the charge and its devastating result against a Kenas Oliphant, Caca Similas and a combat carrier knocked the Frosty Meteors out of their sense of complacency . This was no aged fossil they faced! The threat of death and the excitement of facing a formidable challenge invigorated the Meteors into taking this battle seriously .

A highly regarded mech regiment such as the Frosty Meteors never lost heart after suffering a setback! If the Vandals suffered something similar, then they would have immediately fallen apart as a cohesive unit .

The smarter Meteors also knew that their opponent wouldn't be able to replicate that devastating charge . All kinds of factors fell into place to make that initial charge so destructive .

First, the Meteors didn't think much of Venerable O'Callahan . The thirty laveres that measured from his resonance during the approach hadn't reached a level that would be a cause for concern .

However, in the final seconds before the Parallax Star crashed through the Kenas Oliphant, the Parallax Star's resonance readings spiked in the forties all of a sudden! Such a significant boost in resonance strength had qualitatively transformed the strength of the expert mech's charge!

The second factor that played a role was that both sides had been approaching each other . A shuttle crashing against an immobile wall unleashed a lot less energy than two shuttles flying straight against each other . The impact of two converging forces resulted in much more damage than anticipated when combined with the spike in resonance .

Now that he Parallax Star matched velocities with the Frosty Meteor formation, it would take at least thirty minutes of circling in order to build up an equivalent amount of momentum . The Frosty Meteors would never give the Parallax Star that much time! Even if the Venidse didn't bother chasing after the much-faster Parallax Star, they could still vent their aggression on the immobilized ships of the Vandals!

Though Venerable O'Callahan didn't particularly care about the Flagrant Vandals, they were his only ticket out of here . For better or worse, he needed to attack immediately . It wasn't enough to apply some pressure . The Flagrant Vandals would only prevail if the Frost Meteors was beaten back!

Back inside the Shield of Hispania's command center, Ves still had to catch up with what had happened . Others didn't think so much and cheered as if their favorite mech athlete downed an enemy mech within the opening minute of the duel . Though the Vandals quickly got back to work, the joy and faith engendered by Venerable O'Callahan fantastic performance still lifted their moods .

Ves rewinded the moment where the Parallax Star bore straight through a heavy mech, a medium mech and the front half of a combat carrier of all things . He didn't pay attention to the flashy energy field or the unwaveringly straight lance . Instead, he drew his eyes to the telemetry .

Much of the Parallax Star's parameters spiked to unheard of levels .

"Is this the power of resonance?"

He noted with great interest that the Venerable's resonance spiked in proportion with the rise in parameters . There was a definite relation between the two . "Still, forty-four laveres at its height? Isn't that O'Callahan's record when he was at his best?"