The Mech Touch

6890  Saint Kingdom Suppression

As powerful as the First Sword Mark III had become, she was not a perfect ace mech.

Endurance was one of her greatest weaknesses. When she fought at full power, her energy reserves would not be able to sustain her output for a long time.

If Ketis had chosen to design the First Sword according to the Pure Version, then the ace mech would have benefited from Master Hijalt Mossclover's exclusive High-Density Energy Cells.

That would have significantly expanded the First Sword's energy reserves and enabled her to sustain herself for a much longer period of time.

Alas, Ketis opted to go for the Sword Fey Version instead, which meant that the First Sword had to forgo individual power in order to support the operation 33 sword fey.

Saint Dise was suffering from the consequences of this important choice.

If she continued to pilot a simple ace swordsman mech, then she would have remained confident in keeping the electro-reactant flight system active at full power.

However, the current configuration of the First Sword did not possess the energy buffer that she needed for her to sustain the current slugging match.

The Black Lord was much better positioned to fight at this range.

The Sirocco may have proven itself to be heavily disadvantaged when colliding directly against the Decapitator, but it turned out that it was a weapon that specialized in releasing destructive energy winds!

Combined with the firepower of the integrated ranged weapons, the First Sword Mark III's armor system continually sustained hits with very little chance of evasion.

Even if the individual attacks did not appear to be inflicting any noticeable damage onto the First Sword Mark III, that was only because the armor system was being energized as well as affected by true resonance.

Neither of these effects were permanent.

The armor-grade superdimensional alloy plating no longer functioned at their best if the ace mech exhausted her power reserves and the ace pilot wore out her willpower.