Predicted Solution

The second Bright Warrior put up a stiffer fight than the first one. Having discarded its cumbersome shield, the defensive mech was able to maneuver more freely, allowing it to evade many attacks while launching more sophisticated counterattacks in return!

Yet all was not well with the metallic mech. The scaled biomech that pushed it back was faster and retained more of its original performance!

While it didn't display any drastic tricks like turning its legs into creepy tentacles, the Dragonscale Warrior's base performance was already good enough to suppress the Bright Warrior!

The performance disparity was too great. Even when Ves switched the Bright Warrior's design spirit from Goldie to Qilanxo, there was only so much Bavros could do to keep his mech together!

Venerable Jannzi reacted with surprise at this change.

"Can you do this with every mech?"