The Mech Touch novel Chapter 815

The artillery battery boomed at the same time as the Akkara mechs fired their ballistic cannons loaded with long-ranged shells!

Multiple deep booms thrummed throughout the camp at the same time, causing the very ground to shake and deafening sounds to assault everyone’s ears! If everyone hadn’t already unfolded their helmets in order to protect their ears, they would have turned half-deaf already!

A short time later, the pin-point targeted artillery shells landed in the midst of the sacred gods, with multiple shells impacting directly against Pairixan’s considerable bulk!

As the artillery cannons reloaded, the dust and smoke that obscured the sacred gods slowly blew away.

"Energy levels are spiking among the sacred gods! Multiple energy tornadoes are forming!"

As the effects of the initial salvo stopped blocking the vision of their long-ranged sensors, the Flagrant Swordmaidens saw to their astonishment that the sacred gods and beast riders survived the bombardment with nary a scratch!

When Captain Byrd rewinded the footage to an instant just before the artillery shells hit, a huge energy barrier extended over the tightly-grouped sacred gods!

"Qilanxo’s energy barrier blocked the artillery shells!"

"Damnit, they fooled us!"

Pairixan’s mate Qilanxo already activated her power the moment the sacred gods left the city! As the second god of the Eastern Samar Pantheon, she earned a very high position solely due to the fact that she excelled in defensive barriers.

Qilanxo’s defensive specialisation made up for Pairixan’s deficiency in this area. While he could manipulate the earth to shield himself from enemy attacks, his powers took far too long to take effect.

In contrast, Qilanxo could call up shaped barriers with just an instant of thought!

Captain Byrd placed a lot of importance on the Vandal artillery mechs and cannons. Their ability to fire at the sacred gods beyond viewing distance gave them the chance to inflict serious damage on Pairixan before the enemy put up their guard.

They had hoped to kill or inflict serious damage on the ambitious younger son of the Great Father before Qilanxo thought to active her renowned defensive barriers!

"There are limits to their protective energy fields and barriers! Artillery, proceed to coordinate your fire on Pairixan! Laser rifleman mechs, open fire! Don’t let them accumulate energy in peace!"

As the sacred gods each called down energy tornados on their forms with the help of their god crystals, shells and lasers started to bombard their position with unrelenting fury! Continuous booms and impacts sounded out at both the camp and the battlefield.

The destructive firepower of the artillery mechs and cannons should have been enough to sweep away half a city, yet after four intensive salvos Qilanxo’s energy barrier still held strong!

"What does it take to crack open Qilanxo’s shell?!"

The beast riders sitting in their saddles on top of the beasts yelled in fury at the explosions rocking the giant energy barrier. Rather than weakening, the barrier grew stronger as the energy tornado called down by Qilanxo started to infuse her god crystal’s energy resevoir with an abundance of energy.

She possessed sixteen god crystals, which was one less than Hokaz. Although Qilanxo was a lot younger than the Tyrant of the Wastes, her raw energy capacity didn’t lose out too much!

Her powers and energy capacity firmly propelled the female sacred god in the ranks of ace mechs!

Ves looked over the shoulders of the sensor operators and read the energy readings of Qilanxo’s energy barrier.

The level of protection it offered for a given amount of energy far surpassed the efficiency of energy screens employed by most of humanity!

Even the hundreds of laser beams that struck specific points in the energy barrier failed to penetrate its defenses!

Reading through the data, Ves quickly figured out why the energy barrier remained so impervious. "Qilanxo’s barriers aren’t purely based on converting energy into a barrier that can block damage. They’re manipulating space!"

The intelligence gathered by the spy drones failed to ferret out this important detail! This was the problem of relying on hearsay from the local city dwellers. Their own ignorance and lack of understanding towards the powers of the god had misled the Vandal analysts!

In any case, an energy barrier based on energy differed remarkably from a barrier formed out of solidified space!

Captain Byrd gritted her teeth. "Stick to the plan. Maintain a coordinated rate of fire and keep up the pressure! I don’t believe Qilanxo can maintain her energy barrier forever!"

Nonetheless, after being struck by ten more artillery salvos and thousands of laser beams, the energy barrier held strong!

During this time, the sacred gods all supplemented their god crystals with the help of the energy tornados. None of the shelling and laser bombardment managed to halt their charging process.

The sacred gods and their beast riders roared their defiance at the attackers in the distance as they continued to proceed forward!

After they slowly crawled three kilometers forward, Pairixan abruptly halted. The beast roared towards the ground as his god crystals glowed a little brighter.

Suddenly, a vast stretch of ground before him began to explode as the soil beneath started to shift under his influence.

"All of our mines in the vicinity prematurely detonated or got crushed by abnormal soil movements!"

"Damn, this exobeast is a sharp one! He’s able to detect our mines underneath the soil."

The raft of explosions from the extensive minefield covertly placed beforehand threw the entire terrain into a crater-filled wasteland! The Vandals dug huge amounts of ordnance underneath the soil. Even if the sacred gods wouldn’t sustain significant damage from the explosions, at least it should have slowed them down by destabilizing their footing.

However, Pairixan showed his control over the earth by forcibly exerting his efforts towards the ground, flattening out the uneven terrain and hardening its surface so that it could bear the sacred gods within causing their limbs to sink.

It barely took two minutes to straighten out a couple of square kilometers of affected terrain!