Chapter 6118 Reaching their Peaks

Chapter 6118 Reaching their Peaks

Under the influence of the transcendence glow, three different expert pilots opened themselves up to Lufa's mind-altering influence.

Through numerous twists and turns, each of these powerful and ambitious expert pilots sought to break their limits and attain the strength they needed to defeat an enemy as terrible as the Emperor Tree.

As the First Sword, the Everchanger and the Promethea continued to hover high above the massive layer of Solus Gas that obscured the lands beneath, the true resonances that affected their mech frame grew stronger than ever.

As each of their pilots pushed against their limits and faintly began to surpass their old peaks, it seemed as if the three machines were on the verge of exploding like volcanos!

Inside the cockpit of the Everchanger, Venerable Joshua had become obsessed with the assumption that in order to appreciate the fullness of life, he needed to master the opposite as well!

Death was the final destination of every life!

Death made life so much shorter but also so much more fulfilling!

Death was the condition that Joshua intended to inflict on all of his enemies!

Before Joshua became qualified to wield the power of death alongside life, he became convinced that he needed to experience it for himself!

As he decisively unholstered his high-quality service pistol and pushed the end of its barrel straight into his mouth, Joshua truly experienced the intense thrill that could only come from being a single step away from death!

This was it! This was the feeling of death that Joshua craved so much at the moment! The weight and fullness of death was so intoxicating to the expert pilot in his overactive state that his eyes almost rolled over in ultimate ecstasy.

"Pull the trigger."

"Pull the trigger."

"Pull the trigger."

Constant whispers bombarded his mind. He may have come close to embracing death, but he fell short of experiencing it in truth!

Only by taking that final crucial step would he be able to master the richness of death in all of its terrible glory!

"Pull the trigger." A voice encouragingly whispered in his ear yet again. UppTodated from

Though his arm was bent at an awkward angle in order to hold his laser pistol in its current position, he was still able to squeeze the trigger with his gloved finger.

As the tension in the cockpit rapidly rose, the energies emanating from Joshua actually changed!

His willpower no longer exuded the power of life in all of its overflowing bounty anymore.

Instead, a touch of death began to infect his willpower. It started out as a seed, but quickly began to bloom as it fed off Joshua's abundant power of life!

Just as the power of death threatened to engulf all of the life that made up the core of Joshua' willpower, Venerable Joshua excitement reached an absolute peak as he fully pulled the trigger!

Click.

Only a very faint and underwhelming trigger sound spread across the cockpit.

"What...?"

The spread of death halted as Joshua somehow failed to make the final and most crucial step that was supposed to lead to his ascension.

Click. Click. Click.

"WE ARE A TEAM, DISE. YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS. YOU ARE NEVER ALONE IN THIS. IN ALL YOUR EAGERNESS TO BREAK THROUGH, YOU COMPLETELY OVERLOOKED MY EXISTENCE. THAT WAS A MISTAKE. THE TWO OF US ARE MADE FOR EACH OTHER. IF WE ARE LUCKY ENOUGH TO SURVIVE THE CHALLENGES TO COME, WE WILL EVENTUALLY BECOME ONE AND THE SAME. BEFORE THAT HAPPENS, YOU STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO BEFORE YOU HAVE EARNED YOUR ASCENSION."

Venerable Dise lowered her head in contrition. She knew she screwed up big time. She did not deny the possibility that the Emperor Tree had somehow twisted her mind as she became immersed by the influence of the transcendence glow.

Looking back at her radical thoughts and behavior, only the calamity plant could drive her to sabotage the foundation of her piloting career!

While Venerable Dise continued to process her abject failure, the temperature in the cockpit of the Promethea had reached a new height!

If not for the high-quality protective piloting suit issued by the Larkinson Army, Venerable Isobel would have already started to become afflicted by burn wounds!

As the flames started up by Kiroshi approached the piloting chair and threatened to engulf it entirely, the Promethea fell into a difficult dilemma.

She too received secret instructions from the commander of Task Force Solus.

The expert mech had been ordered to ignore the transcendence glow and maintain full vigilance towards their battle partners.

Due to the active man-machine connections, the Promethea was able to gain a very clear idea of the twisted logic and thinking that eventually drove Isobel to light herself on fire.

Although it was difficult for the Promethea to maintain a clear mind under the current circumstances, the third order living mech knew that her battle partner was most definitely deceived by the Emperor Tree.

The issue was that the Promethea was not quite certain whether Venerable Isobel's current thinking was necessarily wrong.

Just like Isobel, the Promethea had long become frustrated by the constant orders to show restraint and limit her firepower.

She was an expert mech that had been explicitly designed to spread flames onto her enemies.

Though the Promethea did not necessarily object to restraining her flames, she at least wanted to become better at burning the enemies that truly needed to be defeated.

Her inability to burn more than a large amount of completely disposable tree leaves rankled her just as much as her battle partner!

This was why the Promethea did not necessarily believe that her expert pilot was wrong in her thinking.

Only by letting go and allowing her King Killer Flames to burn without restraint would they be able to attain their true potential!

The Promethea tried her best to argue against this logic, but she found herself unable or unwilling to do so. She was quite sure that she was not being affected by the Emperor Tree, but still failed to turn away from this dangerous idea!

The Emperor Tree continually taunted Isobel and the Promethea by staying alive and well.

The mere sight of the tree in a completely healthy and undamaged condition seemed to mock the pair for their inability to burn down its wood!

This was why the Promethea thought about doing nothing and letting Isobel burn herself.

What if Isobel's idea had merit?

What if Isobel truly needed to expose herself to her own King Killer Flames in order to transform her willpower?

So long as she succeeded, she would become stronger than ever!

As the purple flames finally burned the underside of the cockpit chair and started to spread their way upwards, the Promethea continually struggled to choose between caution and recklessness.

Choosing caution guaranteed Isobel's survival, but ruled out any further benefits.

Choosing recklessness put Isobel's life in imminent danger, but it might just be enough to produce the second ace pilot of the Larkinson Clan!

The Promethea considered many possible arguments, though only a fraction of a second passed in real-time.

The expert rifleman mech eventually made a choice.