The Mech Touch

to pacify the panicking crowd of Ylvainans!

To their credit, none of the security guards turned traitor.
However, they all had their hands full when random crazies popped out among the crowds and began to fire their weapons at the guards regardless of how many innocents were in the way!

Bodies dropped to the floor by the hundreds as a surprising amount of True Believers opened fire!

While most of the fanatics wielded basic weapons that barely dented the armor of the church guard, a small number of them employed heavier weapons that posed a serious threat!

The preoccupation of the church guard meant that they didn ’t have the manpower to spare to protect the bystanders caught up in the fighting.
The reluctance of the guards to hurt the innocent hampered their attempts to take out the terrorists quickly!

During this time, Ves, Ketis and Lucky all entered battle mode.
As the previous outbursts had already suggested, the main target of this large-scale attack happened to be them! Shortly after they found out that the emergency exits had been collapsed, a large mob of fanatics wielding an assortment of weapons barged in and began to fire their weapons wildly at Ves!

The Protectors of the Faith dispatched by Madame Cecily did their jobs and protected Ves and his companions from the attacks.
They surrounded them and deployed mobile cover on the ground which unfolded thin, protective alloy barriers.

While they couldn ’t withstand a lot of heavy firepower, they nonetheless resisted the majority of the light caliber weapons wielded by the mob.
For the moment, Gavin and Leon should be safe despite their lack of armor.
Both of them huddled down to the floor and covered their ears against the noise of weapon discharges.

As for Ves and Ketis, both of them stood confidently in their respective combat armor.

”Just like old times, eh? ” Ketis remarked in their private comm channel.

” ”Trouble always seems to find a way to haunt me. ” He sighed.
”Don ’t move for now.
There ’s nowhere else to go and our guard detail is doing a good job in repelling the mob. ”

Just as he said that, a large number of frantic fanatics pulled out grenades from their coats and threw them at his guard detail!

The combat armor worn by the Protectors of the Faith all activated their interception systems.
Small laser mounts embedded into their armor bombarded the grenades with lasers.

While this function destroyed the vast majority of grenades before they arrived close to the defenders, a handful still slipped through and managed to detonate against the mobile barriers!

The ferocious explosions not only cracked some mobile barriers, but also injured the Protectors of the Faith huddling behind them! The grenades succeeded in creating some openings in the defensive envelope!

The crazy fanatics quickly fired their weapons through the gaps.
Some of the shots even impacted the surface of the Sparous Vize and the Rising Red Dragon!

”Mr.
Larkinson, get down! ”

Ves casually waved his armored hand.
”Weapons of this caliber won ’t pose a threat to me.
You should worry about your own lives. ”

”Shall we test out our weapons? ” Ketis asked with bloodthirsty eagerness.
”I haven ’t killed someone in more than a year.
I ’ve missed this sensation! ”

He glanced at her imposing armored form.
”Don ’t shoot unless something dangerous comes up.
I don ’t think this is the extent of the attack.
The mob is barely even capable of killing heavily-armored Protectors of the Guard.
If the True Believers truly wanted to kill me, they should know better than to throw some worthless bodies in my direction. ”

The True Believers sacrificed a lot of manpower and assets to launch a large-scale attack.
Perhaps they spent a decade ’s worth of accumulation on Kesseling VIII to gather so many mechs and fearless fanatics!

Therefore, Ves, Ketis and Lucky each remained alert as they waited for the next shoe to drop.

They didn ’t wait long.
As the mob of fanatics ran closer to makeshift defensive position, the thick and solid wall behind them suddenly collapsed!

A breach had been formed in a direction that every Protectors of the Faith assumed was safe!

As the dust and debris began to settle, a large group of fanatics armed with better weapons began to fire through the newly-opened gap!

A lot of Protectors of the Faith instantly fell into trouble as they became caught in a crossfire of attacks from multiple directions!

What was worse was that Ves and Ketis both became exposed to the attacks from the rear!

Ves and Ketis both came to the same decision and knelt to the ground.
”Fight! ”

Ves took careful aim and fired his Peaceful Repose through the gap.
Currently, he loaded his custom ballistic pistol with a magazine filled with inferior Exil rounds.
Each pull of the trigger expended 100,000 credits.

The expensive rounds left a blazing trail in their near-instant passage through the air.
The powerful Exil rounds punched through the combat armor worn by the better armed and better equipped True Believers like butter!

Five True Believers fell from the first round alone as it passed through multiple bodies at once! As the Exil round lost almost all of its kinetic energy, it exploded in the body of its fifth victim, blasting the deluded fanatic ’s body into chunks of meat that were barely contained in his suit of combat armor!

While Ves carefully paced his shots in order to conserve his ammunition, Ketis shot her Udor with abandon!

The large, oversized laser pistol that looked like it belonged to a space barbarian barked out powerful laser beams that sliced through armored fanatics with ease! Ketis patched in her Udor into her Rising Red Dragon ’s targeting system, causing her to exhibit perfect accuracy!

Just as the attackers on the other side of the breach were almost wiped out, the stone ceiling above their heads suddenly collapsed!

”Ketis, cover Leon! ” Ves yelled.
”I ’ll cover Benny! ”

Both of them threw their armored forms over their unarmored companions just as the rocks crushed down upon them all!

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