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A tentacle attempts to latch onto your mech.
It was a feint for another tentacle that tried to take advantage of a potential blind spot. You could sense that this monster wanted to pull apart this strange, metallic foreign creature. Though you knew any attack by even the most powerful monster would be a challenge; the BoatMech's submarine form was designed to withstand deep ocean pressure and its hull enchanted with reinforcing spells to this end, with the side effect of making it sustain wrapping and piercing attacks. Despite these precautions Ruby suggested some contingency plans to you, which you happily implemented just in case the BoatMech went out of commission for whatever reason and you needed to get out of there quickly.
You'd never find out how powerful a tentacle attacks was, since they all fell short. When fighting you seemed pointless, another tentacle was swung at a clank with surprising speed— yet this one also misses, unable to keep up with your machines.
"Alright," You smile "Time to fry some calamari."
You're hardly thinking as you speak that corny one-liner. Maybe this world's logic might be getting to you more than you thought.
A mix of adrenaline meshed with your own perception and piloting skills consciously forced your senses to sharpen in a way you'd rarely felt before.
In the end it was Lunacy Savantae that won you the day. You felt the familiar madness flow through your very soul, though at a much more pronounced effect: Minutes worth of thoughts passed by in the span of a second, letting you you formulate and discard strategy after strategy in this underwater battlefield. You could somehow feel the ocean pressure and currents' movements around you.
These new sensations, combined with your sensitivity to mana, almost overwhelm you. But you manage to control all these errant thoughts and senses.
You visualize every potential underwater maneuver, placing in the finishing pieces of this metaphorical jigsaw puzzle. You can't help but crack a smile as it dawns on you that this fight would now become a trivial thing.
Immediately you and your clankers overwhelm the tentacles surrounding you, with the robots pinning them while you paralyzed every last one of the appendages with large pulses of energy.
A part of you wasn't even sure how you were managing to effectively shoot small pulses of electricity from the Lightning Rail. But that didn't matter now as you took advantage of the oddly calm waters to go from place to place, helping your clankers when they needed it. A part of you intended to have them be used as bait to distract the giant squid while you looked for its actual body, and another part wanted you to take care of the tentacles alongside the clankers.
As impressive as your attacks were, the clankers didn't need the help. If anything, they seemed to help you more on your intervention.
Instead of being a distraction while you attacked the main body, the clankers became the center of the fight.
