The Mech Touch novel Chapter 818

Teaming up with Pairixan to kill Pailanon so that the aggressive sacred god gained control over the ancient city of Samar?

It sounded preposterous! Captain Byrd immediately shook her head. "Good work, now get back to the fast transport."

"Are we going to do what is promised, ma’am?"

"No." Byrd immediately replied while pressing her lips together. "We’ll just give Pairixan a show, but we need to kill this overgrown lizard as soon as the power generators are ready to blow. I don’t trust this fellow anymore than a Vesian. At least we know enough about Pailanon for him to ignore us as long as we don’t threaten his power base."

Captain Byrd ordered a company of mechs to walk in to visual range of the sacred gods, but come no closer if they could help it. As the mechs halted within visual range but well outside of hearing range, Pairixan and the other sacred gods started to become befuddled.

The delay irritated the god and the earth started to shake.

"Pull back!"

The mechs immediately turned around and caused the surrounding earth to shake more violently! Pairixan expended a great amount of energy that completely devastated a wide area around him. The earthquake even affected the mechs, but because they stayed far enough away from the epicenter, the mechs all managed to get away in time.

With their gravitic backpacks active, they moved a lot faster and nimbler than Pairixan expected!

In fact, none of the sacred gods could explain how the outsiders managed to make the machines move so fast. Pairixan gazed at the mechs as they ran with a hungry and greedy expression.

Perhaps it wanted to find out how the mechs moved so fast!

As the mechs finally moved out of sight, leaving the sacred gods alone, Pairixan began to exert his considerable might yet against and smoothed out the terrain in front of him. A straight avenue amidst the broken soil led straight into the direction of the camp.

They resumed their march too fast!

"Where are we on the power generators?!"

"Chief Dakkon reports that he needs fifteen more minutes to bring them to the cargo hold of the flying transport, ma’am! He’s prepared three separate power generators!"

Detonating three power generators at the same time should be enough to overwhelm any form of defenses if they blew up at the same time and the same place. The only problem was that if the sacred gods came any closer, the camp would fall within the destructive range!

The Vandals tried a few other tricks. For example, a fast transport deposited a giant candy bar made out of thousands of nutrient packs. Once the sacred gods came across the poisonous gift, the sacred gods looked at it with suspicion.

Despite its appealing smell, the sacred gods weren’t following their instincts! In fact, the beast riders pointed at the candy bar and expressed a lot of suspicion towards this strange piece of food that came out of the blue.

Though Pairixan looked as if it grew tempted enough to take a bite, his beast rider always pulled him back at the last second.

"Pairixan’s beast rider is sharp enough to know that it’s a trap!"

Watching the interaction between the beast riders and the sacred gods indicated that the beasts listened to their riders. However, their instincts still reigned strong as the beasts all showed signs of succumbing to their baser needs.

However, their human partners played vital roles into adding some brains to the equation.

If not for the beast riders, the Vandals could have fooled the sacred gods!

"They’re bypassing the candy bar."

"It was worth a try. At least it bought us two minutes of time."

"Resume the attack! If we can’t slow them down by using tricks, we can still shell them so hard that they have no choice but to slow down!"

The artillery cannons barked, while hundreds of laser rifles unleashed their hot fury. The brief respite the Vandals bought through their tricks managed to give the cannons and lasers time to cool down while replenishing some of their ammunition or batteries. This didn’t sound significant, but the pause allowed them to fire their weapons without worrying about breaking them or running out of ammunition!

The heavy bombardment slowed down the progress of the sacred gods, especially since some of them landed in their path. On the advice of a tactical officer, the heavy cannons began to deform the ground up ahead, causing Pairixan to waste valuable time and energy smoothing out the ground and reinforcing it to withstand the repeated impacts.

All of this only slowed down the sacred gods just a fraction, but that already helped them out a lot!

"The engineers have finished loading the power generators in the transport!"

"Lift off immediately!"

Engineers continued to babysit the power generators as they became increasingly less stable inside the flying transport.

If nothing happened, they would eventually melt down or blow up, causing the entire camp to be engulfed with an instantaneous release of energy!

Therefore, the transport immediately climbed into the air with no hesitation. Though the heavy gravity did its best to pull it down to the ground, the transport had been modified to endure the increased strain. As one of the rare transports modified to deal with the heavy pull of the soil, the transport climbed higher and higher in the air with great diffculty.

The transport moved fast. Faster than any of the legged transports or mechs. The only reason why the Flagrant Swordmaidens relied on landbound transports instead for their ground forces was because the flying transports wouldn’t be able to operate as they came within a certain range of the Starlight Megalodon.

For now though, the Flagrant Swordmaidens were only at the start of their journey. They could still receive aid from the fleet. _{fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com}

Everyone held their breaths as the flying transports slowly climbed higher and higher while approaching the location of the sacred gods. The transport slowed down once it hovered over the sacred gods.

It flew high enough in the sky that the sacred gods hadn’t noticed the object in the air. The space barrier projected over the exobeasts also blocked their view from what was lurking from above.

As far as any of the natives and sacred gods were concerned, nothing could fly! Their limited worldview didn’t incorporate flying objects. In fact, not a single bird made up part of the planet’s artificial ecosystem.

"The transport is prepared to drop the power generators onto the projected path of the sacred gods, ma’am. The engineers aboard the transport are awaiting your orders."