As the Everchanger's Scarlet Ember burned halfway down the decapitated torso of its wooden twin, the three expert pilots hoped that it might be enough to destroy or at least disable one of their adversaries.
"Did we kill it, Joshua?!"
"No. It's not fatal. This ebony mech has no weak point!"
Venerable Joshua could already see and feel it as his Scarlet Ember continued to burn and separate the Ebony Everchanger.
The powerful wooden mech just incurred a huge amount of damage, enough to outright disable other mechs.
Unfortunately, the Ebony Everchanger immediately leveraged its abundant vitality and attempted to heal all of the damage even when the Scarlet Ember was still embedded into the center of its torso.
The huge influx of wood energy from the Emperor Tree supercharged the regeneration process.
Burnt parts were being pushed away to make room for new growths.
Split pieces of wood fused back together.
The Ebony Everchanger even began to grow a new head from its empty neck!
Venerable Joshua and his battle partner did not remain idle while their opponent recovered.
The Scarlet Ember's powerful plasma edge continued to burn through the torso. The other arm of the Everchanger awkwardly pointed the muzzle of the Vitalus rifle at another section of the ebony mech and began to fire a low-powered but continuous fire beam.
"On it." Venerable Dise spoke as her First Sword attempted to dive in and chop one of the seed cannons from the large ebony construct.
The Ebony Everchanger on its part tried to counterattack by whacking the original's resonance shield with its wooden sword and firing seeds at it from its ebony seed cannon.
Neither Everchangers were able to get rid of each other in a short amount of time. They both remained entangled with each other for the time being.
Venerable Joshua snarled in frustration. "Forget about the Ebony Everchanger. Do your best to burn the Ebony Zeal!"
"On it." Venerable Dise spoke as her First Sword attempted to dive in and chop one of the seed cannons from the large ebony construct.
However, the ebony copy of her own expert mech immediately got in the way and attempted to land a powerful hit.
Venerable Dise already anticipated this response. The authentic First Sword did not slow down. Instead, the living mech sped up even as she thrust her Decapitator outward!
"Sword of Lydia."
The First Sword surged forward like a sharp spear!
The ebony version of her mech attempted to block the incoming strike, but it was unable to resist the sheer force and momentum behind the blow.
Ebony wood cracked and splintered as the imitation mech lost an entire arm from this collision!
What was worse was that the Ebony First Sword failed to stop the real expert mech in her tracks.
Venerable Dise's battle partner may have lost a lot of momentum from this attempted interception, but the expert mech continued to surge toward the Ebony Zeal with undaunted momentum.
It looked as if the First Sword truly had a chance of chopping the Ebony Zeal apart!
"Nothing shall stand in my way!"
However, her declaration was met by 5 seed cannons. Four of them blasted out fragmentation seeds that exploded shortly after they were launched into the air.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Hundreds of ebony shards flung out in every direction! Many of them even flew back and struck the Zeal's wood energy shield!
However, a lot of fragments ended up striking the First Sword as well, causing her resonance shield to deplete by a huge margin right away.
What was even worse was that the Ebony Zeal's much larger kinetic cannon fired straight into the path of the First Sword!
The ebony mech opened fire at the right time. The First Sword had to force her way past the blockade of the Ebony First Sword, which meant that it had slowed down to the point where it was barely able to make an evasion attempt.
BANG!
The powerful kinetic ebony seed launched from a very poor attempt at copying the Devora Cannon blasted apart the resonance shield of the First Sword and grazed one of the thighs of the expert swordsman mech!
The First Sword's leg malfunctioned!
While it looked as if the limb could still support the expert mech, it had lost a lot of responsiveness.
Venerable Dise winced, but she did not take the hit too seriously. Damage to the legs was irrelevant so long as her expert mech remained in the air.
All that mattered at the moment was to finish off the Zeal!
The Promethea assisted from behind by launching one purple fire beam after another at the Ebony Zeal. Kiroshi was already in the process of burning the surprisingly thick and powerful wood energy shield that protected the ebony mech.
As the First Sword came close enough to view the salvaged pieces of mech armor in greater detail, Venerable Dise became more and more indignant.
The Emperor Tree had no right to desecrate the memory of the Zeal!
The existence of this strange ebony monster was an affront to the Larkinson Clan!
"My blade shall chop you into pieces!"
As the First Sword was about to land a blow that would doubtlessly overwhelm the Ebony Zeal's energy defenses and strike a solid blow against its enormous ebony frame, the largest of the three wooden champions made a surprising response.
The ebony version of the Devora Cannon rapidly morphed into a segmented tail with three fang-like spikes protruding from the end.
The kinetic cannon had turned into a powerful melee combat implement that roughly resembled a scorpion tail!