Chapter 6358 Explosions Galore Explosion after explosion engulfed the five arche lesser phase lords! The antimatter missiles predominantly launched by the Tarrasque and the Babylon Excavator arrived first. Filled with high technology, the missiles were so advanced that the native aliens had little luck with intercepting them, especially when they only had to traverse a relatively short distance before they struck their targets. Their recently upgraded azure energy shields resisted a bevy of point defense attacks, their ECM systems managed to fool the tracking systems of intercepting missiles and their powerful rocket engines had recently been tweaked to provide a much more potent boost at the cost of drastically reducing their range. If there was one downside to the antimatter missiles, it was that their warheads tended to be on the small side. The two heavy cruisers that carried the most weapons of mass destruction lacked the internal volume and the capacity to safely store much larger and more potent destructive payloads. Much of the structure of the delivery vehicles were already taken up by propulsion systems, shield generators, ECM systems, sensor systems, communication systems, advanced processing systems and other tech that Ves could not even begin to know. The point was that the missiles were primarily designed to prevent the enemy from stopping them from reaching their target coordinates. They placed so much emphasis on achieving a successful hit rate that there was not that much space left to safely contain a lot of volatile antimatter. Still, even a tiny amount of antimatter was enough to unleash astronomical amounts of energy, and having dozens of them explode against the spatial barriers of the 5 lesser phase lords at once produced a cataclysmic spectacle! While the near-simultaneous detonations failed to destroy any phase fighters of warships as they maintained a healthy distance from the native gods, both friendly and enemy units did not get away without suffering at least some form of difficulties. The explosive release of heat and radiation was so exaggerated that the energy shields and sensor systems of many strike craft and warships became a lot more stressed! The sensor systems of the mechs and warships of the Bluejay Fleet generally fared better as the humans had prepared additional precautions ahead of time. Their enemies were a little less fortunate as they had not expected the battle to escalate to this level right away. The Doomspreader featured 4 giant launch tubes, and had therefore launched 4 Antimatter Torpedoes at the same time. These hardy munitions arrived at the right time. They were tough enough to resist the remaining energies unleashed from the previous wave of weapons of mass destruction and exploded just after the first layer of defenses of their targets had taken a beating. Before everyone and everything could recover to get a clear view of the damage, the much larger Antimatter Torpedoes launched from the Doomspreader had pierced through the expanding energies and struck whatever was located in the center! The Doomspreader featured 4 giant launch tubes, and had therefore launched 4 Antimatter Torpedoes at the same time. These hardy munitions arrived at the right time. They were tough enough to resist the remaining energies unleashed from the previous wave of weapons of mass destruction and exploded just after the first layer of defenses of their targets had taken a beating. All of the sensor systems became blinded once again! Heat, radiation and other intense sources of interference swept through the battlefield and prevented anyone and anything from doing anything productive. The warships that had just begun to slug at each other with their primary gun batteries had been forced to suspend their fire! As the optical sensors of most craft gradually recovered from the first and second bursts of intense release of high-energy radiation, both humans and aliens beheld the damage that all of those antimatter warheads had wrought. "No way…" "The archeshells are still intact. The phase lords hardly look hurt!" Ves grimaced as he gripped his upsized Oceancaller. He knew that phase lords were unusually resilient, but the 5 arche phase lords were much tougher than the norm! The 5 lesser phase lords had lost their azure energy shields as intended, but their large and thick transphasic archeshells did a marvelous job of resisting the remainder of the energies unleashed by all of the explosions. The archeshells at least showed signs of being fallible by showing at least a bit of surface damage. The arche phase lords had invested so much into growing their archeshells, so Ves knew that even minor damage represented the loss of a lot of phasewater and high-grade exotics. "It's not enough, though." Ves sighed. Although the antimatter missiles did not possess any phasewater enhancement due to conflicting properties, the magnitude of energies they released upon detonation was still immense. Perhaps the antimatter missiles and torpedoes would have been able to generate greater cracks in the archeshells if they were able to unleash their explosive might in a single direction, but that was beyond red humanity's technological capabilities. The human defenders had already used up a huge amount of firepower, but more was needed to eliminate the lesser phase lords before they could get close enough to use their immense bulk and physical might to their advantage. "Load the remaining two Antimatter Torpedoes in tubes 1 and 2." Ves instructed. He would have liked to load more Antimatter Torpedoes, but he knew that there were not enough of them left to use. "Load two Hyper Spatial Crusher Torpedoes in tubes 3 and 4." It took a relatively long time to load in the torpedoes because they were large, heavy and makeshift creations. Ves lacked the time and resources to construct a proper automated loading system, so he had to rely on bots and gravitic manipulators to do the job. Meanwhile, the Bluejay Fleet was also in the process of preparing their next salvo of WMDs. "Load and arm the next volley of antimatter missiles." Admiral Tensen ordered. "Calculate firing solutions for both the arche lesser phase lords and the greater phase lord known as the Distance Shaper. The latter is beginning to assist the other phase lords!" The Distance Shaper may encounter a lot of hindrances in his attempts to manipulate the space around his well-prepared enemies, but he was still able to provide help to his unresisting allies. His first action was to stretch and unbalance the space in front and around the arche phase lords, making it more difficult for missiles to successfully reach the recovering alien champions. The arche phase lords also began to take matters into their own hands. Their spatial barriers blew up due to being subjected to overwhelming forces, but their archeshells still remained most intact! Now, the arche phase lords began to work together in a way that was unique to their race. They began to press together until the sides of their shells pressed against each other. This caused the arche phase lords to interface each other in a way that made them a lot more coordinated! "Their shells! They are beginning to regenerate! Their cracks are already starting to close!" "Hahaha! Our phase lords are immortal!" A radical cosmopolitan leader boasted. "I have to become one at all costs! Only by claiming the head of the Devil Tongue will I be able to obtain the Red Cabal's aid in becoming a greater phase lord. Press the attack! Let us show these misguided human supremacists the power of alien mass destruction!" Soon enough, both sides began to fire large amounts of nuclear, antimatter and more exotic weapons of mass destruction! The Bluejay Fleet neglected to target the enemy warships, dismissing them as the lesser threat, in favor of targeting both the arche phase lords as well as the Distance Shaper. Admiral Tensen trusted the Dark Zephyr armed with the tier 3 Destroyer spear to keep the Arena Lord of Ya'gwasa occupied and focused on containing the other phase lords. A multitude of explosions engulfed the enemy positions, but when the optical sensors managed to get a good look at them again, the 5 arche lesser phase lords and the single orven greater phase lord only incurred moderate damage after withstanding all of that firepower! The enemy phase lords were hardly ideal targets for relatively powerful but dispersed weapons of mass destruction. It was almost useless to employ these mundane means towards the Distance Shaper. The Bluejay Fleet had no choice because they needed to keep the powerful orven phase lord occupied and distracted to reduce his manipulations. Even so, the antimatter missiles sapping the integrity of his spatial barrier did not stop him from helping the arche phase lords cope with the powerful explosions and help them limit the damage to their precious archeshells. In the meantime, the weapons of mass destruction launched by the enemy had begun to strike Fort Rock and the larger ships of the Bluejay Fleet! Ves braced his giant true body as he could almost feel the space fortress rumbling. The absurdly strong latest generation titan shields tried their best to do their jobs and withstand the explosive might of the weapons of mass destruction employed by the enemy. The arche had invested a lot to develop better missiles with absurdly strong payloads. It was never safe to transport them without taking a huge amount of precautions, but all of the investment was worth it as the arche somehow relied upon an alternate means of target guidance to keep the missiles on target. None of the sophisticated ECM systems employed by the Bluejay Fleet could divert the course of those dangerous missiles. "What the?! There is life in those alien missiles! I think… an arche has actually interfaced in those missiles. They are guided by sacrificial aliens!" The arche prioritized the downfall of Fort Rock the most. The space station had quickly turned into a huge annoyance due to its strong facilities, such as their constant active scanning and data processing capabilities. However, Fort Rock was designed to take a beating even if the mechers and the fleeters erected it in a hurry. One of two Titan Shields got overloaded, but there was just enough redundancy to allow other Titan Shields to resist the remainder of the explosive forces. The fact that Ves continued to remain on standby in Fort Rock was a strong show of confidence in the facility's defenses! "It's my turn now." Even though the Bluejay Fleet still needed to prepare for the third volley of weapons of mass destruction, it was time For Ves to employ his own solutions. "Wait for the Bluejay Fleet to launch their own WMDs. Fire tubes 1 and 2 two seconds after the initial explosions." Both sides slugged each other with highly destructive warheads again! So many of them had already detonated on the battlefield that it had produced far greater interference than before! Hyper technology started to behave wonky due to the unforeseen changes in the environment. Transphasic technologies and spatial abilities worked less well as the dimensional environment had turned into a temporary mess. Ves chose to add to the chaos by making his own contributions! "Fire the torpedoes loaded in tubes 1 and 2! Wait 15 seconds before launching the torpedoes loaded in tubes 3 and 4. Do not launch the latter any second sooner. The timing is crucial!" Although the 5 interfacing arche phase lords were doing an admirable job at withstanding so much firepower, the third series of explosions began to produce even greater cracks to their shells. However, their thickness and resilience was beyond unreal. Their physical toughness easily exceeded that of the flesh and bone of a typical greater phase lord! Though the latest series of antimatter warheads failed to make a good impression, the latter two torpedoes that had been launched after a brief delay arrived in front of the lesser phase lords and unleashed their power as well! This time, the warheads were much different than before. Instead of producing insanely powerful direct explosions, the warheads of the Hyper Spatial Crusher Torpedoes began to produce violent spatial fluctuations! The strong anomalous spatial activity did not hit the arche phase lords like a hammer, but instead seemed to shake and destabilize their resisting shells as if they were being subjected to a powerful earthquake! The massive phase lords began to look pained as the pair of Hyper Spatial Crusher Torpedoes did exactly what Ves intended, and that was to completely mess up the spatial abilities of the enemy phase lords! Not even the Distance Shaper was able to suppress the strong activity generated from the last two torpedoes! Thank you for reading my work. If you wish to support The Mech Touch, please vote with your golden tickets! Purchase Privilege for The Mech Touch! Read a varying amount of chapters ahead of regular readers while enjoying a 99% discount on unlocking new chapters! Join The Mech Touch's unofficial Discord server: https://discord.gg/APB5KCU The massive phase lords began to look pained as the pair of Hyper Spatial Crusher Torpedoes did exactly what Ves intended, and that was to completely mess up the spatial abilities of the enemy phase lords! Not even the Distance Shaper was able to suppress the strong activity generated from the last two torpedoes!