6891 The End of the Chase
Of course the Black Lord was armed with missiles.
The ace mech was not armed with generic missiles either.
The ones that exploded against the First Sword Mark III happened to produce more forceful explosions, making them good at pushing enemies away.
The first-class ace multipurpose mech also appeared to possess a sizable reserve of missiles. It continued to fire a salvo of missiles at clever intervals, thereby repeatedly interrupting the First Sword's momentum and causing her attempt to fail.
Since the First Sword Mark III lacked any form of point defense, the missiles quickly converged on the Larkinson ace mech and exploded!
The concussive forces unleashed by these simultaneous blasts were already powerful to shatter regular first-class multipurpose mechs. Even expert mechs could not avoid damage due to the resonance empowerment.
However, the physical damage inflicted by the missiles was not too strong. The First Sword Mark III remained effectively undamaged by the missile salvo.
That was all the Wind of Destruction sought to accomplish. Since his ace mech lacked superdimensional armaments, he needed to fight with his brains and keep his adversary on her toes.
Not only had the explosions thrown the First Sword Mark III out of her focused state, but her attempts to build up momentum failed at the most inopportune moments!
Saint Dise wondered how many times the Black Lord could reload its missile launchers.
She soon deduced that the Black Lord would not run out of missiles anytime soon. It was likely equipped with dimensional magazines, thereby allowing it to carry at least 5 times as many missiles in his speciation!
Her mind churned as she rapidly sought to devise a solution.
While her First Sword kept throwing herself in the direction of the enemy, only to get stymied by the missiles and the fine manipulation of a tier 2 Destroyer sword, she suddenly recalled that she had another way of dealing with incoming missile attacks aside from chopping them up with her own blade.
She sword fey that she previously dismissed made a return!
They swept forward and turned into makeshift shields. When the next salvo of missiles sought to interrupt and displace the First Sword Mark III, the sword fey all homed in on the incoming warheads and eliminated them in advance!
"I am coming for you!" She roared over the communication channel.
The Black Lord continued to back off while opening fire with its integrated weapons. It also swung the Sirocco at a faster frequency, thereby unleashing more destructive wind energy waves at the cost of making them weaker.
The First Sword Mark III's flight faltered for a bit. It was as if the ace mech and its accompanying sword fey was flying straight into a hurricane.
Yet Dise already employed a familiar solution that allowed her ace mech to temporarily ignore the exotic effects that were pressing her ace mech back.
"One Sword Breaks Ten-Thousand Laws."
The First Sword Mark III glowed in metallic silver before thrusting her greatsword straight forward.
Once again, the Decapitator opened a sizable gap in front that created a temporary tunnel where normal space reigned once again.
The Black Lord fired repeated salvos of missiles, yet the sword fey accurately intercepted each of them. The fey all got blown backwards, but they incurred no damage despite getting struck by resonance-empowered blasts. The hull-grade superdimensional alloys used in their construction along with Dise's resonance empowerment proved sufficient in keeping the blades sharp and straight.
This response successfully enabled the electric winged ace swordsman mech to come close enough to launch a proper attack.
The First Sword Mark III swung back her extended greatsword and resonated with the blade.
While this had the unfortunate effect of weakening the resonance empowerment of her flight system, Saint Dise only gathered her power for a brief amount of time.
When she decided that she had accumulated enough energy, the Decapitator swung forward in a broad sweep that unleashed a wave of silvery metallic resonance-empowered blades!
"Bladestorm!"
The attack vaguely resembled the destructive wind waves unleashed by the Black Lord, but worked quite differently.
The Bladestorm sword technique unleashed thousands of small sword energy attacks that spread across the space in and around the Black Lord.
No matter where the ace mech sought to evade, it could never avoid getting struck by at least a dozen of the blades!
Moments before the Bladestorm swept across the Terran ace mech, the machine activated its azure energy shield and also unfolded a thin but broad layer of armor plating from its arms.
The azure energy shield immediately got pummeled by numerous sword energy attacks.
It should normally be a lot more resistant against these strikes, but the superdimensional properties of the Decapitator had imparted them with greater effectiveness against transphasic shielding.
In the end, the azure energy shield just managed to remain intact due to the dispersed nature of the Bladestorm technique.
The downside was that its integrity had dropped so much that the Black Lord was forced to switch its azure shield generator off in order to avoid any damage and allow its systems to recover.
The First Sword Mark III already prepared her second power move.
The superdimensional ace mech adopted a stance that was similar to one of her previous ones.
However, when she thrust her greatsword outward, her forward acceleration mysteriously amplified, causing the entire ace mech to charge forward at an unmatched speed!
"Sword of Lydia!"
The powerful charge caught the Wind of Destruction off-guard, but the veteran ace pilot still managed to perform the correct response.
The Black Lord activated hidden boosters that gave the machine a powerful push to the side.
This enabled the Terran ace mech to barely avoid getting impaled by the superdimensional greatsword!
Saint Dise took this failure in stride and responded to the successful evasion attempt. The First Sword Mark III's electro reactant wings flapped and gave the machine a powerful impulse that abruptly changed her course.
The First Sword resumed her pursuit of the Black Lord!
In response to the incoming threat, the Black Lord launched another salvo of missiles, but this time programmed them to detonate shortly after they had left the missile tubes.
This caused the missiles to explode right between the Black Lord and the incoming First Sword Mark III!
The concussive forces generated by these explosions caused both ace mechs to get blasted away from each other.
The Black Lord keenly took advantage of this push to distance itself from its deadly adversary.