Even the colow of its resonance glow had darkened from sky blue to a darkish gray that blended well into the surrounding smoke.
The mech also changed its dagger stance and gripped its weapons in a slightly different fashion.
Instead of getting ready to stab, it instead adopted a stance that was more suitable for slashing.
It only took an instant for the Dark Zephyr to circle around and approach the rear of the Quadknife.
If Venerable Tusa was still an ordinary expert pilot, then even he would have trouble tracking his opponent so precisely through all of this interference.
However, ever since he integrated the mysterious Shadow Dance Dagger Style Fruit, shadow and darkness were no longer foreign to him! It was as if he had gained at least a century worth of focused training and familiarization of a specific fighting style in his head.
Though Tusa was not arrogant enough to claim that he was the best at fighting in the dark, he believed his blind fighting ability should definitely surpass all of the expert pilots of the Sundered Phalanx!
“You’re mine.” He grinned as the Quadknife was just beginning to respond.
Venerable Dukes strangely did not detect the approach of the Dark Zephyr until the Larkinson expert mech had almost sneaked onto the Quadknife’s rear!
This was an uncharacteristic failure because his intuition should have been strong enough to detect this approach in advance!
“What is going on?! Why can’t I sense this mech anymore?!”
There was barely any time for him to think. Venerable Tusa was just about to launch his assault!
“Let the dance begin!”
The Dark Zephyr’s flight system began to thrust in a radically different way, causing the expert mech to acquire a lot of rotational momentum.
This caused the expert mech to spin around like a top!
Since the Larkinson expert mech also stretched out its daggers, this caused Tusa’s mech to turn into the equivalent of a giant resonance-empowered ring saw!
A lot of silent impacts took place in a short interval of time as the spinning Dark Zephyr kept chipping away at the back of the Quadknife’s resonance shield!
Though the repetitive attacks didn’t deal too much damage because Tusa had to make sure his Dark Zephyr could keep spinning, the frequency of blows was just as high if not more than the flurry of attacks that the Quadknife had unleashed just a moment earlier.
It was as if the tables had turned!
“Break for me!” Tusa roared as the Quadknife was almost able to repel the attack.
The Nidin Verger expert mech was actually capable of bending its arms the other way around!
After all, the Quadknife already diverged from the human physique by possessing an extra set of arms. It was not that difficult for the Multi-Armed Designer to configure the arms of the Quadknife in a way that allowed it to fight against opponents that were targeting its back!
However, in order to make sure the Dark Zephyr achieved a solid result, Tusa now only spun his Dark Zephyr around as fast as it could manage, but also resonated with the Bissonat integrated in the Unending alloy daggers.
The damage and penetration power of his blades had reached a higher level, but this still wasn’t enough for the expert light skirmisher to overcome the Quadknife’s formidable defenses.
Even though it was a light mech, Venerable Dukes was a genuine mid-tier expert pilot who had polished his willpower over many battles!
His extraordinary mental resilience carried through in his expert mech in the form of greater resonance strength and more substantial true resonance.
Nothing was invincible, however!
When it came to high-level mech duels, the key to enabling the weak to defeat the strong was to find the right element, attribute or conceptual restraint!
The greatest value that the Shadow Dance Dagger Style brought to Venerable Tusa was imparting him with special theories and methods that were expressly designed to kill!
Armed with these extraordinary assassination moves, Tusa employed one of them right now that seemed to blacken the daggers of the Dark Zephyr until they were as dark as night!
Then they struck at one of the arms of the Quadknife, not heeding the fact that the target still maintained its resonance shield!
The previous spinning attacks had destabilized the Quadknife’s resonance shield considerably, but not to the point of overloading it entirely.
However, this was enough for Venerable Tusa to work with for the time being!
Now that this powerful defensive barrier had been weakened to a point, the strange properties that had overtaken the Dark Zephyr’s weapons somehow caused them to slip through the Quadknife’s intact resonance shield as if it was just an empty projection!
“What?!”
The daggers seemed to slide right through the upper arm of one of the limbs of the Quadknife.
By the time the Dark Zephyr quickly pulled away before a multi-limbed mech could launch a possible counterattack, a severed mech limb was already floating away!