Chapter 5957 Chimera Base

Chapter 5957 Chimera Base

Ketis continued to contemplate the information provided by Vice Director Maria Abselon.

Task Force Solus wouldn't be able to complete its objectives as quickly as she previously anticipated.

This was bad because it would keep her and the Larkinsons assigned for his mission away from the expeditionary fleet for a longer period of time.

However, Reticula Corein V was a nice change of pace for the soldiers who fought against the alien raiding fleets.

The abundance of hostile exobeasts gave every mech pilot plenty of chances to polish their skills, spill more blood and temper themselves in actual combat.

The fact that the Emperor Tree kept sending over beast wave after beast wave provided the defenders with much more opportunities to accrue combat experience than if they stayed with the expeditionary fleet!

Even if most battles took place on land, the exobeasts and mutated beasts that displayed unrelenting aggression towards the humans possessed a lot of diverse strengths and abilities!

Each mutated beast was unique. Their strength may be weaker than expert mechs on average, but their abilities were often strange and confounding.

One mutated beast possessed the ability to speed up its movement as well as the movement of nearby beasts by a factor of 5.

That creature was responsible for breaking multiple azure energy shields as well as a physical wall the other day!

Another mutated beast spewed out firebombs at a very long range. Each time a firebomb struck a target, it exploded with enough power to cripple a Monster Slayer in close proximity!

The fact that there were always at least a couple of mutated beasts with highly unpredictable abilities in every beast wave made it difficult for the defenders to avoid losses.

Plenty of mechs had already incurred significant damage. If not for the fact that Task Force Solus was accompanied by support ships that were able to fabricate or repair mechs at a modest scale, Ketis would have been forced to request reinforcements from the expeditionary fleet. Find new updates at novelhall.com

That did not help much when the mutated beasts managed to inflict enough damage to breach a cockpit and kill a mech pilot in an instant.

Her heart weighed heavier when she thought about the clansmen who died on an unimportant battlefield.

There was much greater honor in making the ultimate sacrifice in a battle against the native aliens.

Ketis could not afford to be softhearted in her first true independent command. She knew this was not an opportunity, but also a test. She needed to prove The situation was not sustainable, though. Until Chimera Base managed to construct enough defensive works, the beast waves would continue to inflict material damage onto the mechs.

As Ketis continued to talk with Vice Director Abselon in her capacity as the commanding officer, she inquired about the studies conducted on the carcasses of all of the defeated beasts.

"We have far too many beast carcasses than we know what to do with, ma'am. We have decided that it is best to throw many of them back onto distant forests and plains. This will help to preserve the ecosystem and divert many living exobeasts away from the domination range of the Emperor Tree."

Ketis nodded in understanding. "That is a clever response. What of the mutated beasts?"

The two women talked a bit further about the affairs related to their current mission. Reticula Corein V had thoroughly captured their imagination. Just the mysteries surrounding Solus Gas compelled them to persist in their investigation.

Once the meeting came to an end, Ketis stood alone in her design lab. She reviewed the information she learned and went over her decisions to determine whether she had made any mistakes.

"Is it too soon for me to pit my husband against the Emperor Tree?" She questioned herself. "He has grown so much, but the Everchanger continues to hold him back. It will be difficult for his living mech to pose a threat to the Emperor Sword without the Scarlet Ember."

It was difficult to make a proper strength comparison because calamity beasts worked differently from other enemy types. They showed a huge amount of variation in strength and abilities.

Most calamity beasts possessed advantages that matched or in certain cases exceeded that of ace mechs.

However, they also possessed weaknesses and shortcomings that caused them to be no better than expert mechs, especially when they had evolved relatively recently.

The good news was that the Age of Dawn had only just begun. Less than two years had passed, so most calamity beasts did not benefit from a lot of accumulation.

The story would definitely be much different a decade or a century later, but for now these outrageously talented and lucky beasts were still in a relatively controllable range.

Despite all of the uncertainty, Ketis did not allow herself to coddle her husband.

Venerable Joshua Larkinson was an expert pilot in his own right. His resonance strength may have grown rapidly through shifty means, but he fought and worked hard to make sure he lived up to his newfound power!

"It is just..."

As a mech designer who was familiar with Joshua's machine, she understood quite clearly how extensively the Everchanger fell behind the times.

Third order living mech or not, Ves originally designed and fabricated him in a time when the Phasewater Generation was still a stranger to the Larkinson Clan.

While the use of Unending alloy unintentionally turned the Everchanger into a hyper mech before such a classification even existed, the lack of transphasic components severely hampered his combat effectiveness against the alien raiding fleets!

Aside from that, the overall specifications and hardware limitations of the Everchanger were mostly optimized for a low-tier expert pilot.

Ketis had tried her best to raise the hero expert mech's upper limits, but there was only so much she could do to uplift a masterwork mech that was not of her own design.

Ketis had tried her best to raise the hero expert mech's upper limits, but there was only so much she could do to uplift a masterwork mech that was not of her own design.

Only Ves and Gloriana could do the Everchanger justice.

Just as she was about to return to her design work, she received a call from a familiar friend.

Her lips curled upwards.

"I wonder what he wants from me this time. Do you have any idea, Sharpie?"

"Sharpie! Sharpie! Heaven! Heaven!"