The Mech Touch

Chapter 6549 Rise of the Swords

This was the final attack run of the First Sword.

The expert mech was still able to keep fighting, but the same could not be said for the newest ace pilot of the Larkinson Clan.

Dise was already beginning to flag at this point. If she was not able to complete this attack, then her forced resonance state would quickly disappear!

As such, she invested all of her remaining power and concentration in a sword technique that she should by all rights not be able to execute so soon after her breakthrough!

The Muscular Swordsman was not content to act as her target dummy.

The energy manifestation responded to the First Sword's predictable attack run by raising his massive Collapsing Peak blade above his head.

The simulated swordsman then proceeded to swing down his massive weapon with such thunderous force and momentum that it seemed that it could shatter an entire mountain range!

The space around the massive rock-covered blade already started to ripple in the passing of this enormous weapon, thereby causing the surroundings to become destabilized!

It was as if the collapse of this mountain precipitated an apocalyptic end to the universe! This was the illusion and sentiment conveyed by the Muscular Swordsman's artistic conception! Even if it was an immense exaggeration of what he was able to accomplish in reality, the artistic conception still boosted the power of his attack while generating other effects that inflicted widespread area damage!

This was the ancient sword cultivator's ultimate sword attack, one that was designed to not only crush through the hardest of defenses through overwhelming brute force, but also pulverize anything that was caught in the surrounding area, thereby solving the problem of highly mobile threats as well as large quantities of swarm-like enemies.

It was an attack that was incredibly powerful and difficult to control, yet the Muscular Swordsman possessed such an excellent grasp on the earth element that he was able to execute this technique with an amazing degree of control!

His attack even went as far as to conjure up a visual manifestation of his artistic conception!

The illusion that Saint Dise perceived a moment earlier actually became a more visible and tangible manifestation!

This was already a sign that the Muscular Swordsman was partially able to wield the power of a god by reproducing a scene that did not originally exist in reality!

All of these factors powered up his ultimate attack even further. Even a tough and resilient ace mech such as the Amphis Extremis would not be able to escape unscathed when struck by such a heavy blow!

Yet the First Sword continued to advance without fear, because Saint Dise invested all of her newfound confidence in the power of metal into this final piercing attack!

Just as the tip of the Decapitator was about to collide against the cataclysmic earth sword swinging down from above, Saint Dise concentrated almost all of her frustrations, all of her hopes, all of her love and all of her willpower into the mech sword that resonated with her heart like nothing else! She began to execute a deceptively simple but incredibly promising new extraordinary sword technique that fully brought out the strength of the metal element!

The new ace pilot thought about nothing else but to shatter every obstacle in her way!

"ONE SWORD BREAKS TEN-THOUSAND LAWS!"

A shining line of silver sheared through space.

In one moment, a cataclysmic collapse of earth had threatened to crash through an entire section of space.

In the next moment, all of the momentum gathered by the Muscular Swordsman dissipated in every direction.

The threat disappeared and the destructive forces melted away as if they had lost all of their backbone.

Every observer became gobsmacked. Even Ketis could not fully register the move that the First Sword performed at the end.

All she could see was the First Sword on the other side of her adversary. The expert mech continued to coast along while slowly releasing the power that had forcefully elevated her performance to the level of an ace mech.

The Muscular Swordsman had been defeated.

The empowered Decapitator had shattered the rocks that made up the Collapsing Peak sword, pierced through the rock armor conjured by the Son of the Earth and directly blasted part of the reinforced energy manifestation that should have been a match against an ace mech!

Ketis had high hopes for Saint Dise after her breakthrough, but she did not dare to imagine that she became strong enough to eliminate this opponent right away!

Would the First Sword be able to annihilate the Muscular Swordsman so quickly if he wielded the real Heavensword as opposed to an inferior copy made out of heavenly energy?

Nobody could say for sure. Such speculation was pointless because only the actual outcome mattered.

Venerable Dise was no more.

Saint Disc had risen.

She, along with her companion spirit. Respa, had taken another major step towards godhood, and became powerful enough to represent the Larkinson Clan on the galactic scene!

A small part of Ketis felt jealous that her fellow Swordmaiden got to break through first, but the mech designer quickly squashed this impulse and genuinely welcomed this outcome.

Ketis would have preferred to praise Dise for her massive success and gush all over her newfound power and abilities, but this was not the time to celebrate the emergence of another Larkinson ace

pilot..

The Heavensword still remained a problem.

Saint Dise had unambiguously passed the test and went above and beyond to prove she had the strength to protect Ketis' rights and wellbeing.

However, now that she had overloaded herself in a massive way, she had lost much of her power and concentration. The First Sword no longer exhibited any kind of resonance at all, and had reached her more vulnerable state in many months.

Ace pilot or not, Dise needed to return to the fleet and head over to an infirmary to check whether she had not suffered any physical or mental sequelae after breaking through.

This effectively meant that she was no longer able to remain on the battlefield and resist the

Heavensword if she insisted on converting Ketis into the next Heavensword Saint! Therefore, this positive outcome did not bring as many advantages to Ketis as she wished.

She could have dearly benefited from the protection of another ace pilot, but oh well.

Fortunately, there was at least one other dependable champions by her side.

While the First Sword had successfully vanquished the Muscular Swordsman by utterly shattering all of his earth-based techniques, the Amphis Extremis had managed to gain the upper hand against the Elegant Swordsman in a different way.

Unlike Dise, Linda Cross had broken through a bit earlier and had a bit more accumulation as an ace

pilot.

The Amphis Extremis was also a genuine ace mech that did not rely on temporary enhancements to punch above its weight.

The only issue that Saint Linda struggled with for a time was the fact that her Wrecker Skull was not particularly effective against the Elegant Swordsman.

If the Muscular Swordsman embodied the raw strength of the earth element, then the Elegant Swordsman reproduced the smooth and flowing nature of the water element.

That made it very difficult for a straightforward mech like the Amphis Extremis to land a direct hit on the tricky bastard!

In the few times that Saint Linda managed to successfully slam the ball of her ace mech's extended flail into her enemy, the Elegant Swordsman conjured up an energy barrier that bizarrely took the form of a nighttime lake covered in lotuses to easily disperse the heavy kinetic force! Saint Linda reached an impasse as soon as she realized that the Elegant Swordsman was able to do this as many times as needed without having to worry about running out of energy anytime soon. The female ace pilot of the Cross Clan could find a way to improve the way she wielded the Wrecker Skull to forcibly break her adversary's exquisite defensive technique.

She could also attempt to break apart the elegant and beautiful defensive barrier by wielding a bladed weapon instead.

After all, Ketis had already deduced that this weird water element energy barrier possessed the properties of a non-Newtonian fluid.

If Saint Linda Cross was a genuine weapon enthusiast like her new colleague Dise and seriously wanted to develop her ability to wield an extendable flail to the fullest, then she would definitely

choose the first approach.

However, Linda was not the kind of soldier who cared about such attitudes. She was a practical ace pilot who not only agreed to switch from wielding a sword to wielding a flail as her ace mech's primary weapon, but also broke from the archetype of a pure offensive space knight by agreeing to mount a pair of shoulder-mounted machine guns!

Though the Crosser ace pilot was not as crass to open fire with the machine guns, she was not above switching her melee weapon in order to gain an advantage!

She did not ask to borrow the sword of one of the Larkinson expert mechs, or request the blade of any other machine for that matter.

Instead, the Amphis Extremis patiently entered into a stalemate with the Elegant Swordsman until a light skirmisher dispatched from the Hemmington Cross hastily approached the ace mech! "Saint Linda Cross! I have brought what you have requested! How would you like to receive your

arms?"

"Toss it over."

"By your command, ma'am!"

The light skirmisher possessed weak throwing arms, but its forward momentum was already enough to toss the old but still functional mech weapon forward!

The Amphis Extremis quickly extended the chain of its flail and swung it in a wide sweep in front that forced the Elegant Swordsman to move further backwards than usual.

The ace mech took advantage of this brief window to turn around and race towards the new weapon

as soon as possible!

The machine even went as far as tossing aside its battle-scarred tower shield!

This surprising action made the Amphis Extremis a lot more vulnerable than before, but Saint Linda

did not care because her machine finally grasped the hilt of a familiar weapon!

It was the old chainsword wielded by her previous machine!

The Cross Clan did not handle its high-ranking mechs like the Larkinson Clan. Master Benedict may have used a lot of expensive resources to fabricate the Amphis Extremis from scratch, but he did not. destroy the original Amphis or strip it for parts!

The old expert mech remained in deep storage in case Saint Linda lost her ace mech and urgently needed a somewhat powerful machine to get back in the fight.

This also included the expert space knight's original weapon, a sword that was attached to a long

chain!

Once the Amphis Extremis grabbed hold of the chainsword, it was as if Linda returned to the old

days.

She had lost none of the skills and deep familiarity with her main weapon for multiple decades. Even though it was a little awkward for her to wield the chainsword with the arm that was usually dedicated to holding a tower shield, an ace pilot was able to overcome these difficulties with superhuman speed.

What was important was that the Amphis Extremis still wielded its original weapon.

This meant that the space knight became a much more formidable threat by wielding two chained

weapons! After a few near-accidents where Saint Linda's inexperience with this unconventional weapon combination almost caused the chains of the two weapons to tie themselves into a knot, the ace pilot rapidly learned how to keep the chains separate and under her control.

The Elegant Swordsman had little chance to gain an advantage anymore at his current level of strength and skill.

Sure, the Amphis Extremis had tossed aside its protective tower shield, but with two extendable weapons in its arms, Saint Linda was able to control the space around her to a much better degree and eventually allowed her chainsword to cut straight through the Elegant Swordsman's energy

barrier!