The battle between the First Sword Mark III and the greater phase lords resumed again!
Saint Dise clearly felt confident enough to confront her enemies despite being surrounded by enemies on all sides.
With her new superdimensional ace mech, she no longer took the threat posed by the phasefighters and warships seriously anymore.
Her sword fey alone could chop them into pieces so long as they got close enough!
After the two sides had completed their little exchange, the Protector of Karnak made the first move.
The Protector of Karnak ultimately made the first move. Without warning, he disappeared from sight!
If not for Saint Dise's sharp intuition, she would have responded too late by the time her ace mech detected a strong presence had appeared just a few hundred meters away!
It turned out that the jureg greater phase lord utilized a phasewater organ that granted him the capacity to perform short-ranged teleportation with no delay.
Although the Protector of Karnak found himself unable to get closer than the edge of the First Sword's Saint Kingdom, this also brought him close enough to unleash his killer move!
Instead of activating another phasewater ability or charging forward so that he could attempt to snap the First Sword Mark III in half with his empowered claw, the Protector of Karnak instead made a surprising move.
Several banks of back-mounted missile launchers began to launch a spread of short-ranged high-yield transphasic missiles straight at the First Sword!
These missiles were not as small and compact as the ones typically launched from mechs.
The Protector of Karnak maintained a size that was several times larger than a typical mech.
This granted him enough of a scale advantage to mount larger weapon systems on his fully-enclosed raiment.
Just like a juggernaut, more or less.
Dise did not know how much phasewater the native aliens had stuffed into the warheads of the incoming missiles, but she instinctively felt that they possessed the power to crack or heavily damage her First Sword Mark III upon direct impact!
Her sharp intuition automatically prompted her to make a move before she consciously thought about her response.
8 of her sword fey already jumped forward and split up in order to intercept all 8 threatening missiles.
Meanwhile, the enemy warheads encountered a strange form of resistance as they plunged deeper into the ace mech's Saint Kingdom.
While Dise's domain field was almost entirely offensive in orientation, it was still able to weaken and slow down the missiles just enough to give the sword fey enough time for interception.
Just as the Saint Kingdom weakened the enemy missiles, they also amplified the sword fey, making them a lot faster and tougher.
Everything happened in an instant.
Unlike lower-end missiles, the premium munitions issued by the Red Cabal did not let themselves get cut into half with a whimper.
Their potent warheads exploded as soon they encountered significant resistance.
Multiple detonations occurred at the same time as soon as the sword fey were about to cut through the missiles!
By the time the interference settled, Saint Dise's eyes widened when she noticed that all of her sword fey suffered heavy damage!
Each of their tips were just gone. The back half of the spurs were still intact, but also showed significant signs of damage.
3 of the crippled sword fey had become entirely unresponsive. The remaining 5 moved so slowly and shakely that there was no point in controlling them anymore.
In just a single exchange, the Protector of Karnak had removed 8 mid-grade superdimensional sword fey off the board!
Although Saint Dise was a little more confident that her ace mech's armor-grade superdimensional alloy plating could resist these missiles, the First Sword would never be able to get away unscathed!
A single high-yield transphasic missile might not be able to punch through all of the armor layers, but what about 8?
What about 16?
What about 32?
There was no way the enemy phase lord's missile launchers could only unleash a single salvo.
Even now, she strongly suspected that the greater phase lord was waiting for his launchers to load another set of transphasic missiles into the tubes.
There was no guarantee that these missiles would possess the same yield as the ones that exploded just before.
What if their yield had doubled or tripled? The First Sword would definitely suffer a more serious blow, up to and including an armor breach!
The Protector of Karnak did not continue to linger beyond her Saint Kingdom.
The greater phase lord demonstrated considerable courage by diving straight inside.
The results of the initial missile salvo encouraged the alien leader.
It had thoroughly broken the myth that a superdimensional ace mech was invincible!
Saint Dise scowled and chose to meet the enemy's challenge.
So long as she was close enough, she believed the Protector of Karnak would not be so quick to launch his destructive missiles for fear of harming himself.
As the First Sword Mark III executed a moderately empowered sword slash at the larger and more formidably armored phase lord, the Protector of Karnak fearlessly extended one of his armored crustacean-like claws.
The blade glowed and glinted with metal energy and true resonance.
The claw glowed with in a mysterious dark blue tint that strongly exuded the power of space.
Two different superdimensional arms clashed against each other.
The moment the two collided against each other, the fabric of space rippled like a stone dropped in a lake!
Both sides bounced backwards as if they had just struck a solid wall.
The results of this exchange became clear.