The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7575

Chapter 7575: Divergence of Courage

The Dark Apostle suffered a major wound in the latest exchange of blows!

His superdimensional raiment gained a giant hole, leaving him completely open to follow-up attacks!

If that was not bad enough, a considerable amount of blackwater had melted through his shoulder, causing him to effectively lose strength in left arm!

The Dark Apostle, and by extension Ves, had become crippled!

This was a serious injury to a phase lord. Ves did not even know for certain whether it was even possible to make a full restoration. He already blamed his other self for being so reckless and self-sacrificing in battle!

"You idiot! You didn’t have to take so many risks! You are not piloting a mech! A machine can easily lose an entire limb without serious consequences as long as there is enough money and materials to reconstruct the broken parts. The same cannot be said for our true bodies!"

Ves grew both alarmed and afraid!

He became alarmed when he saw his own body suffer serious damage for the first time since the start of this battle!

He had invested so much strategic resources into constructing the Superdimensional Giant Regalia precisely because he wanted to shield his true body from harm.

This was not supposed to happen!

He also started to experience genuine fear for his life. This was because he realized that the Dark Apostle possessed a fundamentally different attitude towards combat and risk-taking than himself.

While Ves did not consider himself a coward, he saw no shame in retreating when the conditions on the battlefield became too adverse. He never considered himself to be a warrior. That also meant that he never felt obligated to follow the rules of honorable combat.

The Dark Apostle had a different mindset. Perhaps he was born from Ves’ unmet longing to be a soldier or warrior from the Larkinson Family. The Ascended Giant held himself to the standards of the champions of the human race, who overwhelmingly consisted of high-ranking mech pilots who were much more willing to go to extremes in order to trigger their breakthroughs!

It did not matter that the Dark Apostle was not a willpower cultivator. He became thoroughly infected by the notion that a true warrior and champion had to be willing to risk his very life in order to attain victory!

"Damnit!"

This was a fundamental contradiction between the two personalities!

Normally, Ves did not mind it if others possessed such admirable courage.

The premise to that was that if the soldier in question did not recklessly put his true body at risk!

Ves should have held a serious conversation with the Dark Apostle on this subject. This kind of behavior was absolutely unacceptable as far as he was concerned!

Unfortunately, they had neglected to hold such a talk, so Ves had no choice but to witness the Dark Apostle use and abuse their shared true body as if it was a disposable punching bag!

Wait.

Perhaps Ves may not be as powerless as he thought.

His Chosen Envoy must have registered his sudden spike in fear and his rapidly growing desire to extract his true body from this predicament.

At the same time, the Saint Commander could not have missed the ramifications of allowing the true pillar of the Larkinson Clan to perish on the battlefield at this time.

The Victrix glowed brighter as both of the Ingvar siblings no longer held anything back and invested all of their willpower and effort into their next attack run!

The metallic owl seemed to turn into a burning orange sun right before she crashed into the vulnerable flank of the Blackwater Summoner!

The Ingvar siblings did not waste the fantastic opening created by the Dark Apostle’s sacrificial play and thrust the Murder Knife Mark III deeper into the already-damaged and exposed flesh of the greater phase whale!

As the Blackwater Summoner reared back in pain yet again, the suffering alien leader had already begun to mobilize multiple jets of blackwater to repel the source of the latest attack.

Normally, the Victrix would have pulled out the Murder Knife Mark III and beat a retreat before she got struck by a counterattack.

Both Casella and Imon chose a different approach this time!

They formed a silent consensus to end this confrontation as soon as possible. The longer it dragged on, the greater the chance that their leader and patron would suffer unimaginable consequences!

As such, they forcibly overloaded the Super-Destroyer System, causing the Destroyer particles to recklessly convert as much weapon-grade superdimensional matter as possible!

At the same time, the Minor Demon inhabiting the weapon went absolutely berserk!

The combination of these factors and more caused the tattered Murder Knife to exceed a limit.

It erupted!

Though the scale of the explosion was limited, the damage it inflicted was not light!

Not only did it annihilate several of the closest phasewater organs, it also propelled dozens of small but incredibly sharp weapon shards in every direction!

Given that the blast happened inside the greater phase whale’s body, at least a dozen more phasewater organs suffered severe cuts and injuries!

This time, the Blackwater Summoner experienced true agony!

"$#&@!"

"MY BLACKWATER ORGAN!"

"...%@$&#%!"

"...RETREAT! WE ARE NOT MEANT TO PERISH ON THIS DAY. I HAVE ALREADY OBTAINED WHAT I NEEDED FROM OUR NEW ALLIES. LET THEM DRAG THESE HUMAN INVADERS INTO DARKNESS."

"Stop."

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