The Rubarthans had already predicted that the enemy would make a teleportation strike. They had the technology to accomplish it. They also pulled it off in the past. The price was great. Not anyone could teleport past so much interference. The warp interdiction fields generated by the Obsidian Orb and many nearby supporting structures made it as difficult as possible for anything to teleport in the vicinity. While these measures proved effective at repelling anything that was too big and massive like the alien phase lords, smaller objects could still make it through so long as they were equipped with the right technologies! The Rubarthans only discovered up to now that many of the first-class multipurpose mechs fielded by the cosmopolitans were all equipped with strange technologies that enabled them to jump forward in space! It may be the main reason why they had been added to the enemy lineup. Their advanced human and alien tech granted them capabilities that the aliens could not match at this time. Scans and other observation methods had already confirmed that the cosmopolitan mechs were all highly saturated with phasewater. While they may lack the obvious empowerment of design philosophies, their utilization of standard human as well as alien technologies allowed them to bring out the most of phasewater technology! Right now, these mechs had just managed to teleport at a fairly close range from both the Amaranto and the Obsidian Orb. The swarm of traitor mechs instantly split in half. Around 30 percent converged upon the Amaranto while the remaining 70 percent charged straight towards the super fortress! The sudden teleport assault triggered an immediate response from the Obsidian Orb. It immediately launched the plasma bolts building up in its 24 Star Lancers, causing them to strike numerous warships but failing to sink them outright due to their underpowered charges. The super fortress then proceeded to channel a lot of power to its plasma shield, enabling it to withstand the first barrage of ranged attacks launched by the cosmopolitan mechs. Underneath its bright blue glowing plasma shield, the Obsidian Orb was steadily changing its configuration. Its Star Lancers moved away from sight while many smaller weapon turrets came into view. The Obsidian Orb was bringing out thousands of smaller but still extremely potent Star Webber Hyper Plasma Cannons! Before the super fortress completed its transformation, the cosmopolitan mechs all launched a huge amount of miniature but still very deadly salvo of transphasic hyper missiles! Tens of thousands of small explosions battered the plasma shield at a handful of concentrated points. The cosmopolitan mechs clearly sought to create a breakthrough by force through the application of a huge amount of transphasic explosions! Yet as the missiles had done their jobs, the powerful plasma shield practically looked as pristine as before! That did not deter the cosmopolitan mechs from launching their other armaments at the plasma shield! They even moved close in an attempt to dampen any transphasic energy shielding, but their measures did practically nothing! The technological principles of the Obsidian Orb’s plasma shield had nothing to do with phasewater technology. The Plasma Shaper had recognized the Obsidian Orb’s strength against the native aliens, and had upgraded it with this kind of scenario in mind. The powerful plasma shield that was empowered by stellar energy continued to provide supreme protection to the Obsidian Orb despite the huge amount of cosmopolitan mechs trying to tear it down. While the plasma shield was slowly beginning to diminish, the firepower of the cosmopolitan mechs were less impactful than the cannon fire from distant alien warships! The Obsidian Orb soon completed its transformation. Once its Star Webbers were in place, they began to launch thousands of weaker stellar plasma bolts in every direction! These bolts did not maintain cohesion nearly as well as the much larger plasma bolts launched by the Star Caster or the Star Lancers. What made the output of the Star Webbers so unique was that the bolts rapidly dispersed. The bolts were falling apart and spreading plasma in an expanding cone! While they did not really look like webs, the diverging plasma still grew wide enough to catch multiple circling mechs at a time! The azure energy shields of the traitor mechs flared brightly as they tried their best to resist the attacks. Unfortunately, even when they were struck by only a fraction of the plasma bolt, the immense heat and power still strained their energy defenses! While the mechs could survive getting hit once or twice, the problem was that the Star Webbers possessed a much higher firing rate! The small multi barreled turrets kept spitting out dispersing plasma bolts at a fast staccato pattern. The bolts weren’t too effective against hostiles maintaining their distance, but they were very effective at catching fast-moving mechs and groups of mechs circling just outside of the plasma shield! The repeated hits quickly burned away the azure energy shields despite all of the phasewater integrated in the shield generators. The plasma bolts then went on to burn and melt the highly saturated transphasic armor plating. The first cosmopolitan mechs soon began to break as the plasma burned their way through vital components. The most gruesome outcomes occurred when the cockpits became engulfed by superhot plasma! The Obsidian Orb did not know any rest. Its stellar plasma bolts kept damaging and wiping out so many mechs that the amount of molten wreckage surrounding it was growing at a prodigious rate. None of the weapons employed by the cosmopolitan mechs could get through the plasma shield! They severely underestimated the defenses of the Rubarthan superweapon. Without a lot of reinforcements or fire support, it seemed unlikely for any of the traitor mechs to get past the plasma shield! There was no point in retreating. The cosmopolitan mechs had paid a heavy price to teleport so far forward, but they were unable to make their way out now that they had plunged deep into multiple warp interdiction fields. Many human mechs had also begun to converge at their location. Thousands of them had already begun to open fire from a distance! While the Obsidian Orb was rapidly burning away the enemies that utterly failed to compromise its impressive defenses, the Amaranto Mark III endured a lot more pressure! Read the latest on freewebnovel Thousands of first-class multipurpose mechs of the Cosmopolitan Movement had turned towards the ace marksman mech for the sole purpose of taking her out of action by any means necessary! What first greeted the Amaranto Mark III was a huge torrent of miniature transphasic missiles! There was no way in hell that the Amaranto could shoot them all down. The instrument of Vengeance was not supposed to function as a point defense turret. Saint Stark instead relied on her other advantages. She first commanded the Amaranto move away. Her mobility might not be the best among ace mechs, but her cutting-edge tech and resonance empowerment enabled her to move significantly faster than any standard mechs. This included first-class multipurpose mechs! While that was enough for the Amaranto to outpace the cosmopolitan mechs, it did not help her maintain her distance from the much faster transphasic missiles! However, it was already enough for her to delay the moment of impact. As the missiles crossed into the range of her Saint Kingdom, Saint Stark immediately employed a rudimentary measure that she had developed in her training a few days prior. The Stewards Siamesia had already anticipated a scenario like this. They insisted that Saint Stark develop a way to defend herself against missile overloads. It was not difficult for most ace pilots to neutralize such attacks. Missiles were material objects that did not possess a lot of extraordinary traits. This made them exceptionally vulnerable to subversion, suppression or even subordination! As long as the missiles were not launched by high-ranking mechs that were able to impart true resonance onto them, the missiles were pretty much ownerless from the moment they left their mechs! Saint Stark concentrated hard and imagined spears of light emerging in her Saint Kingdom. Thousands of tiny white light blades manifested as she commanded! She then proceeded to compel these light needles to fly and bounce around his Saint Kingdom at high speeds. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚 The Amaranto Mark III’s Saint Kingdom turned into a hazardous region. Every place within her Saint Kingdom became bombarded by random light needles that could come from every direction! This flood of light needles mostly struck empty vacuum, but they were quickly begging to strike at the transphasic missiles. It usually took a few hits for the explosive warheads to detonate, causing them to unleash their destructive power without ever getting close to the Amaranto Mark III! Saint Stark began to grin when she looked at the advancing cosmopolitan mechs. She could feel the fanaticism shining from their minds. Though the mech pilots were utterly misguided, they fought with clear minds and genuine skill. However, they were only mortals! "Traitors! You dare conspire with the aliens! You shall have no mercy, because the innocents who have died from the tech that you have supplied to our inhuman foes has stained your souls with sin! Let my light cleanse you of your misbegotten lives!" A thousand or so cosmopolitan mechs charged close. Many of them maintained a respectful distance and solely sought to wear down the Amaranto’s defenses from afar. The rest charged forward even if their pilots knew how dangerous it was to enter an ace pilot’s Saint Kingdom. The approaching mechs continued to fire with their ranged weapons. Their combined damage output could shred any mech, but the Saint Kingdom was able to suppress and reduce the power of all of these attacks at once that they only inflicted minor to moderate damage onto the Amaranto. Not that it was easy for the weapons to hit the ace mech. The ace marksman mech was far from matching the speed and agility of the Dark Zephyr Mark III, but she was still able to evade more than half of the attacks! The fact that so many attacks managed to hit the ace mech anyway was a testament of the skill of the traitor pilots and the tech of the cosmopolitan mechs. The Amaranto Mark III began to suffer real damage to her mech frame. It couldn’t be helped. Too many transphasic hyper attacks struck the exterior of the mech to allow the Amaranto to make it out unscathed. There was only so much her Saint Kingdom could help. Fortunately, the power of a hyper material known as Solarium showed its value. Its defensive properties could increase by up to 300 percent when it was affected by bright lumination. Right now, the Amaranto was shining like a lighthouse in the dark. This had massively amplified the toughness of the Solarium that was applied to the outer sections of the archemech. Many attacks that should have created holes in the armor instead generated shallow depressions. With the Amaranto’s Saint Kingdom constantly weakening every incoming attack, the ace mech was comfortably able to hold. The Amaranto even began to launch a counterattack! When the cosmopolitan mechs ceased to launch any further missiles, the ace mech dove in the direction of the traitor mechs and engulfed hundreds of them in her Saint Kingdom! Many mechs were not only being subjected to light needle attacks, but also found their mechs weakening to a certain extent! "This is my Kingdom! Trespassers shall suffer!" The defenses of the cosmopolitan mechs within the range of the Saint Kingdom received a battering from all sides. Their azure energy shields were not able to withstand repeated hits from resonance-empowered light attacks. Soon enough, the cosmopolitan mechs that were unable to escape turned into pincushions. So many of them had begun to falter that the remaining traitor mechs wisely chose to distance themselves from the Saint Kingdom and attack the Amaranto from a healthy distance. None of it was effective! As more traitor mechs and traitor mech pilots succumbed to the light needles, Saint Stark felt more and more satisfied with the results! "The sinful must be punished!" The Amaranto Mark III did not fight like an ace marksman mech at all, but that was okay! Saint Stark had received more than enough training for the Amaranto Mark III to be able to hold her own against enemies at closer ranges.