resonance!
Even if the space element was not Saint Dise's forte, she was still able to weaken and dampen a part of the greater phase lord's comprehensive spatial capabilities with her space suppression field and Saint Kingdom.
Once the Lower Herdmaster recognized the threat and inconvenience posed by the First Sword and tried to eliminate the expert mech in earnest, Saint Dise's situation became a lot more precarious.
The greater phase lord was too strong, and possessed just enough skill with polearms
to be able to bring the tip of the Saint Piercer closer and closer towards the First
Sword.
She needed help in order to stay in the fight!
The remote fire support from the Knights and Barons of the Saint Commander
provided a bit of relief.
The additional firepower provided by the orbital defense ring helped as well, but not enough as most of it was needed to pummel the advancing alien warships.
This was where the Lionheart initially made itself useful.
General Ark Larkinson bravely but foolishly tried to intervene in the fight against the
Lower Herdmaster.
Though the then-expert pilot had made the resolve to become the shining knight in armor that he had always envisioned himself as, when he finally began to help Saint. Dise in holding back the Lower Herdmaster, he found that he had severely overestimated his capabilities!
The integrated luminar crystal cannons spat out light beam after light beam, but but the effects were fairly minimal due to the greater phase lord's formidable strength. The Lionheart's space suppressor was having a bit of an effect, but it was miniscule compared to the effects of the First Sword's own space suppressor due to the disparity in resonance strength!
As for direct attacks, General Ark had made one attempt to attack the Lower Herdmaster with the Lionheart's Cleansing Light, and almost got pierced through the
cockmit for his troublast
The striking range of the hyper plasma sword in its regular active state was too short!
If not for the fact that the Lower Herdmaster took the First Sword a lot more seriously
than the Lionheart, it was doubtful whether General Ark would have survived at that
time.
After he learned his lesson, General Ark had withdrawn much of his arrogance and took on a more cautious approach. His Lionheart shut off and put away the Cleansing Light and wielded its transphasic hyper spear instead.
The Lionheart subsequently tried to serve as another distraction by performing charge attacks whenever the Lower Herdmaster had overcommitted in his attempts to impale the First Sword!
The charge attacks did not inflict that much damage on the greater phase lord's spatial barrier, but they were enough to relieve a bit of pressure for Saint Dise.
General Ark was not satisfied with this contribution, though. He was not fulfilling his objective by being the brightest star on the battlefield.
The three ace pilots that were currently active on the battlefield rightfully earned
most of the glory from this battle due to being the main reasons why the greater phase lords weren't able to advance and kill everyone else!
As for General Ark, his Lionheart was unable to outshine the mechs of the three. His
contribution to the fight was so low that he felt he was being relegated to a side character!
This was intolerable to an expert pilot that was determined to become the object of admiration and worship by his subordinates and other soldiers on the battlefield! Ark had already been thinking about suspending his attempts to steal the show by
attacking the Lower Herdmaster.
There had to be another way for him to find his calling and make a much more meaningful impact on the battlefield.
It was only when he saw the Riot and subsequently the Bastion getting overwhelmed
by the much larger plasma sword wielded by the orven lesser phase lord that General
Ark suddenly made an important realization!
"I am not just a mech pilot."
He was a mech commander. He was responsible for the safety and wellbeing of all of
the soldiers of the 77th Warborn Mech Division.
This included Venerable Rosa Orfan, who had decided to transfer to his mech division
along with a couple of other Larkinson expert pilots.
Though General Ark never maintained a close relationship with Venerable Orfan, he still considered her to be one of his key assets and subordinates.
As long as cha wae in trouble, Ark had an obligation to bail her out so long so doing on
did not compromise his other objectives!
After he made this critical realization, General Ark suddenly felt as if he had fit the final piece of the puzzle that prevented him from rising above his current limitations.
As long as he remained the strongest combatant in the 77th Warborn Mech Division, he had an obligation to step up and bear the greatest burden! The main reason why he had always been so desperate to pursue greater strength was
so that he could deal with the strongest enemies and prevent them from directing their lethality towards his subordinates!
To allow an enemy champion to kill one of his subordinates in front of him was not only an affront, but also a failure to a responsible mech commander like himself! "I have already failed Imon Ingvar once. I will not fail Rosa Orfan if it is the last thing I
do!"
The Lionheart abandoned the effort to assist and reinforce the First Sword without warning and instantly flew towards Zren-Divar for the purpose of relieving the Riot and the Bastion!
"Wait for me! Your savior is coming!"