The battle turned into a different direction as soon as the Obsidian Orb opened fire.
The masterwork fortress-type superweapon was one of the sources of strength to the defenders in the Kayana System.
Its arrival was unquestioned proof that the higher ups had not forgotten about them. The Obsidian Orb may not be the most precious superweapon in the Red Ocean, but it was definitely one of few priceless war assets that the Rubarthan Pact had at its disposal!
Developed by the famous Plasma Shaper, the Obsidian Orb could easily be described as a black container for a massive hybrid energy weapon.
It was clearly designed and built to accommodate the 'Star Caster' Hyper Siege Plasma Cannon.
The Star Caster did not feature a long barrel, but its caliber was so immense that it could casily rival the famous spinal cannon of the Doom of Xenos!
While the Obsidian Orb did not possess the mobility and other handy features of the RF dreadnought, it possessed a huge range of support systems that were completely dedicated to enhancing the power and usability of the Star Caster.
In order to fend off smaller enemies and ones that have come closer, the Obsidian Orb was also protected by numerous 'Star Lancer' Hyper Plasma Cannons. Each of them were capable of obliterating warships, but their deployment required the super fortress to adopt a different configuration that disabled its Star Caster.
This effectively meant that the Obsidian Orb could only employ one type of weapon system at a time.
For now, the sole job of the super fortress was to repel the greater phase whale as best as possible!
Everyone carefully watched the results of the first direct impact. The power behind the plasma bolt was insane. Not only was immense and enhanced by numerous different exotic factors, was also infused with a high concentration of E energy.
The Plasma Shaper had somehow managed to upgrade the Obsidian Orb to incorporate a large amount of hyper materials taken from asteroids that had become infused with star-attributed E energy.
This 'stellar' energy had not only cast the plasma bolts in bright blue, but also enhanced their potency until they resembled miniature suns!
The average temperature of the massive plasma bolt exceeded 20,000 Kelvins!
The energy contained within this plasma bolt was so excessively great that the Divine Maw's spatial barrier struggled to withstand the extreme thermal energies released
upon impact.
Everyone froze or slowed down for a short amount of time.
They all wanted to know how effectively the Obsidian Orb had struck the greater phase whale.
As the seconds passed by, the spatial barrier eventually stabilized, but it clearly did not look as healthy as before!
"The Obsidian Orb... has inflicted an effective strike against the Divine Daw. Our readings suggest that the integrity of the latter's spatial barrier has dropped by as much as 17 percent!"
17 percent!
That was an enormous figure, especially considering how much conventional firepower it took to erode the spatial barrier of a greater phase whale.
Saint Stark personally believed that she would be lucky if her full-powered attack was able to reduce the integrity of the phase whale's spatial barrier by just 1 percent.
She might be able to achieve a much better result if she had access to the upgraded Instrument of Doom, but the Design Department was not able to complete this task within the current timeframe.
In short, the Amaranto Mark III had no chance of matching the firepower of the Star Caster anytime soon.
This was the case for an ace mech that embodied the concept of extreme firepower. It would be even more difficult for other ace mechs such as the Dark Zephyr Mark III to inflict a blow that was just as powerful!
All of this caused Saint Stark and many other mech pilots to become awed by the power of this singular super fortress.
"It deserves to be called a superweapon."
"The energy readings of that enormous plasma bolt doesn't make any sense!"
"The greater phase whale looks physically uncomfortable!"
The Divine Maw may be an alien of immense age, but he had probably never suffered a blow as damaging as the one he just received!
It hadn't been too long ago that the phase whales received a wakeup call when the god pilots of Red Humanity commenced a deep strike operation to destroy the Tide Stations.
So many ancient phase whales perished as the horrendous god mechs proved themselves to be unmatched by any alien opponent the natives could muster. Even now, the phase whales still feared the possibility of getting caught by the
While the Red Cabal was already working on solutions to close the unacceptable gap in power, it would not help the Divine Maw in his current situation. He was merely a greater phase whale that had yet to fully replace all of his blood with phasewater. The good news was that he was unlikely to encounter a god pilot. The native aliens had already recorded the last known positions of the Spacelock and the Destroyer of Worlds, and they were nowhere near the Kayana System for the foreseeable time.
The bad news was that the Obsidian Orb alone already posed a considerable threat against him. If his spatial barrier fell, his body would have to withstand all of the stellar-infused plasma bolts.
As a siege weapon, the Star Caster was originally designed to demolish the most. impenetrable land or orbital fortifications!
It was also capable of destroying entire subcontinents and cleansing the entire surface of a globe of life!
Such a superweapon could easily pose a credible threat to a greater phase whale as large as a small moon.
Despite the advantages of maintaining an enormous body, the Divine Maw quickly chose to shrink his true body!
It was a dramatic sight. The enormous biological monstrosity that previously loomed over everyone was shrinking out of fear of getting struck by the Star Caster a second
time.
Even though his formidable phasewater organs were already working hard to restore the integrity of his spatial barrier, the damage inflicted by the first shot was already enough to make the Divine Maw take the defenders more seriously.
Once the greater phase whale had shrunk to the size of a cruiser, the alien god ceased to diminish his presence further.
In this form, the Divine Maw became a lot more mobile, agile and lighter. While his ability to withstand damage had suffered a reduction, this was an acceptable tradeoff
as far as the alien menace was concerned.
It was much harder for the Obsidian Orb to land a hit on the greater phase whale a
second time!
The alien transmitted a silent command to the jureg greater phase lord.
Soon enough, the Divine Supplicant flew in front of the phase whale and provided strong cover in the form of his superdimensional shield.
The move readily cut off the Obsidian Orb from damaging the Divine Maw again. There was only one superweapon, and its main weapon could only fire along a linear