While Ves became distracted by the ideas sprung from observing the wooden constructs, the battle on Reticula Corein V resumed.
The First Sword was a fast machine and did not take too long to deposit the captured and preserved 'wooden mech' outside of the red line.
Once the expert swordsman mech rejoined the other three living mechs, the mech pilots all prepared for a much tougher confrontation ahead.
There was no need for too much discussion as they already held an extensive briefing before the start of the mission.
They only needed to take into account the possibility that they might get swarmed by a lot of wooden mechs in the process of collecting the samples.
"The good news is that we have tentatively secured at least one sample, and it is probably the most valuable one of all as far as our clan is concerned." Venerable Joshua spoke. "If we fail to gather any other samples for the remainder of this mission, we won't return empty-handed."
