The Mech Touch

inflict any serious damage onto Zeigra while most of his hide was still intact!

Even though Zeigra ’s mineral and exotic-infused hide largely looked intact, all of the damage it withstood during the battle had taken a toll on its integrity.
Zeigra ’s hindquarters and flanks leaked out blood from several nasty cuts as the Kinslayer ’s claws and a few errant spear and axe strikes managed to pierce through the hide or expand its existing wounds.

These wounds now presented the only hope of defeating Zeigra! This seemingly unstoppable Crown Cat no longer seemed invincible now that his hide presented several tantalizing openings which exposed the creature ’s softer flesh!

A rush of excitement and battle mania swirled her mind.
The fight she had been waiting for had finally arrived! The prospect of fighting a one-on-one duel between her Kinslayer and Zeigra did not frighten her at all.
Instead, she embraced the moment, betting the entirety of her life and her future on this battle!

She never entertained any thoughts of retreating at all!

”Either you die, or I die! If I can ’t return with your head as my trophy, I might as well be buried within your stomach! For the hunt! ”

”For the hunt! ”

”For the hunt! ”

The Kinslayer circled around Zeigra, as if trying to get an angle at the Crown Cat ’s wounded parts.

Despite her battle euphoria, Lady Miralix knew very well that attacking Zeigra from the front was a bad idea!

Just like most cat-like species, Zeigra was at his most dangerous when oriented towards his front! The Crown Cat could easily bring most of his offensive power such as his forelimbs and his devastating maw to bear upon any opponent opting to face it in a head-on collision!

As much as Lady Miralix put her trust in her Kinslayer, this fight was still very much uneven!

As a result, she decided to maneuver her Kinslayer in a circle around Zeigra, hoping to obtain an opportunity to savage the huge cat ’s open and bleeding wounds!

Zeigra released a frustrated roar at the tiger mech.
All of the circling by the mech forced the tiring cat to awkwardly spin around in place in order to maintain his facing towards the mech shaped like his own species.

Meanwhile, his discomfort during the battle deepened as a part of him that he might not be aware of endured its own suffering!

Back in the imaginary realm, Ves had spent quite some time trying to buzz around Zeigra ’s spiritual presence.
While he faintly believed he was making a difference considering the pressure on Vescas lessened, Ves believed he wasn ’t doing enough to tip the battle in his favor!

A part of his consciousness briefly directed his attention towards the footage and the telemetry projected in front of his physical body.
He rapidly took in the state and the battle and realized the pivotal confrontation between Zeigra and the Kinslayer had commenced!

Ves realized that to win, he not only had to prevent Zeigra from employing his strange ability onto the Kinslayer.

He also had to make sure that Vescas still held up against the pressure exerted by the Crown Cat!

When Ves studied the condition of his spiritual product, he found out that Vescas ’ spiritual presence in the imaginary realm started showing cracks.

Vescas was a flawed and rudimentary creation to begin with.
Ves created him out of a combination of his spiritual energy and the Dragon Cat ’s remnant energy.
Now that it was starting to take on damage, its structure that glued the two types of spiritual energies together began to unravel!

”Damnit! My creation is too fragile! ”

If Vescas had more time to grow up, then it might have been able to patch up its flawed and makeshift structure and refine it into a more coherent whole.

However, Ves only created it recently.
Throwing it in battle after merely a week of maturing and exposure to Lady Miralix ’s mind was way too soon!

”The difference in development is too large! ”

Ves decided to cease his paltry efforts and began to direct his spiritual projection to Vescas ’ spiritual presence.

After a moment ’s thought, Ves decided to approach the damaged spiritual entity and feed it some of his spiritual energy.

The infusion, though small, made a substantial contribution! It was as if Ves had added some fuel to Vescas ’ nearly-empty tanks!

Ves carefully fed more of his spiritual energy to his spiritual product, knowing that the latter could absorb it without too much effort.

”You ’re my creation, after all! Even if you ’ve become an independent existence, you still carry a part of me in your spiritual DNA! ”

Ves slightly winced at the losses he suffered.
His spiritual energy expenditure had reached the point where he would have exhausted his remaining reserve of excess spiritual energy.

Now he was suffering from a real deficit! The longer this went on, the more time he needed to replenish his losses!

”I have to make this quick! I don ’t want to spend another couple of months without the drive to design a mech! I ’ll go crazy at that rate! ”

If a mech designer no longer enjoyed the process of designing a mech, then what was the point of continuing with his profession?

Fortunately, Vescas did not require too much milk from its mother in order to become sated.
The spiritual product was still a weaker spiritual entity than Ves, so its capacity to absorb additional energy was limited.

Ves had merely supplied Vescas with enough spiritual energy to restore its defenses against the pressure exerted by Zeigra ’s spiritual presence.

”That ’s enough to keep you intact for a couple of minutes! ”

Considering the raging battle taking place in the material realm, Ves estimated that the battle would soon be coming to a close! As long as Vescas managed to stand its ground, then Zeigra would not be able to employ his spiritual superiority with impunity!

”There ’s still one more thing I can do, I think! ”

His spiritual projection regarded Vescas in a different light.
The brief contact he made with his spiritual product opened up his eyes to another possible way he could tip the balance in his favor!

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