Max stood among the ruins of the most recent armoured column that had faced off against him and Nico, checking the battle reports and trying to make sense of what he was seeing.
The Mecha Companies were dug into trenches to hold their positions, and the number of casualties among the Cathedral Fleet was staggering, hundreds of thousands dead along with nearly a dozen armoured regiments.
The Cutter had sent out nine replacement Mecha Companies since the Cruiser had been destroyed, and still the number of enemies was not decreasing. That shouldn't be correct, it meant that they had killed three times as many as the ship should hold, and they still weren't running low on support.
Something was very wrong with this picture, and if they didn't sort it out quickly, the cities wouldn't be able to hold, even with the Mecha and drones backing them up.
lightsΝοvεl ƈοm The Cutter was reporting another Company of Mecha sent out to reinforce the defence lines around the ship itself, and Max knew that it was time that he did something more than just killing everything he saw.
[Nico, we need to find the source of these reinforcements. Check the wrecked vehicles and every hidden terrain feature that we come across for anything out of the ordinary. If I'm right, they have a way to keep bringing their troops in.] Max ordered.
[Do you think that was why they used the drop pods? If they weren't just a transport, but a miniature portal generator, they could keep dumping troops into the battlefield, and we wouldn't think twice about them.]
Normally, such a device would be run from a safe spot on the far side of a planet or in orbit, not within artillery range of the replicator itself.
Unless they thought that this was a suitable spot to restock and resupply, even though there were hundreds of Mecha on the prowl.
It didn't make much sense, but as they had dropped everything in a panic once the two Titan Class Mecha started firing, there was a good chance that nothing was where it was intended to be, and wherever they were getting reinforcements from, that leadership group was planning to reorganize.
[Nico, I have found a replicator in a drop pod. It is sending a signal to a nearby location. I have sent you the frequency and encryption codes. See if you can find more and if they're all communicating with the same spot.] Max informed her as soon as he finished the analysis.
[Good find. I think I found something strange as well, vehicles that seem to have taken fresh damage from a collapsing portal, but there hasn't been a new portal here in hours. I have the closest Mecha team guarding the site.] Nico replied.
That was two points of information, and another step closer to finding the reinforcements. If they really were using portals to another layer to bring them in, then all Max and Nico had to do was isolate how, and they could send themselves on their way as soon as the situation was stable.
Sometimes, it was the small things that really helped the day seem brighter, and Max was in a much better mood as he started to head to the second location.
Then he froze, realizing his mistake.
There was no way that they would just sit and keep their operations online while he ran at them in a fifty-metre tall Mecha for four kilometres. The fact that they hadn't shut them down when he reached the pod was already surprising.
[Nico, I'm sending the Command Mecha back to the Cutter and infiltrating in a Mobile Suit. I will contact you again once I have additional information.]
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