Damage Accumulation

After giving up the chase, the Echo Spears no longer had any chance of completing their primary objective. The distance to their mission target constantly increased until it was far too late for the mechs to catch up no matter how much power they dumped into their flight systems!

The fleeing ship's FTL drive calmly continued its cycling process as if nothing special happened.

Without any engineers to optimize this process, Ves had no way to hurry up this highly-regulated process.

After a total of five agonizing hours had passed, the FTL drive finally became available.

Ves instantly instructed the ship to punch in the coordinates of his next step. The ship's navigation system took care of the rest, automatically calculating and forming the right configuration to reach his intended destination!

As soon as the Scarlet Rose transitioned into FTL, Ves could finally relax.

"Finally!"