The great enemy that was on the cusp of swinging down the Sword of Damocles had sustained a powerful injury that forced him to drop his weapon to the floor!
From the moment an unknown but exceedingly powerful projectile had punched through the spatial barrier and struck the unclean whale, the massive beast's concentration had shattered!
The alien creature could no longer pay any attention to completing his great displacement technique when a much more immediate threat was coursing through his massive body!
Unseen by all except for Ves who maintained an active and unbreakable connection to his divine artifact, a cyborg cat found that it had punched deep inside the body of its target!
Its passage had created a tunnel of wounded and torn flesh that only stopped when the cyborg cat had collided against an enormous whale bone.
Already, the unclean whale attempted to remedy his serious injuries by accelerating the regeneration of his injured body.
Dark and sickly flesh squirmed and expanded as the massive beast urgently tapped his prodigious fat reserves to provide the biomass to undo all of the damage.
At the same time, humongous flesh walls were about to press against the invading cyborg cat from all sides.
Already, the walls were beginning to grow tougher and more impenetrable in an attempt to stop the cat from escaping this organic cage!
The living divine artifact did not exhibit any concern.
This was strange as the cyborg cat was much smaller and much weaker than the unclean whale.
Regardless of their phasewater concentration, the stupendous volume and mass of the latter meant that the corrupted phase whale had a lot more power at his disposal!
Once the alien beast regained his wits, he gathered as much concentration as possible and began to launch a powerful spatial attack before his hard flesh walls pressed the intruder flat!
The spatial attack failed to land on its intended target!
The unclean whale grew confused. Where was the intruder? Why couldn't he sense the tiny metallic creature anymore?
A spike of pain soon altered the unclean whale to a hole in its bone membrane.
It turned out that the cyborg cat had dove to the side and somehow managed to drill through the hardening bone layer!
That was not necessarily a disaster.
Even though the unclean whale possessed much less control over his own body than a more proper phase whale, the powerful aquatic beast could still command the surrounding flesh to squeeze and crush any foreign elements that were hiding in their midst!
The gigantic flesh contracted several times, yet nothing had been crushed.
The unclean whale grew confused as he lost track of the intruder. How could the cyborg cat hide its presence when it should have been drilling through his body?
Did the intruder employ a phasing ability?
The giant creature grew suspicious enough to apply a wide area spatial technique in his body that inhibited phasing.
Nothing changed. The intruder did not reappear.
It wasn't until a few more seconds had passed that the unclean whale experienced another spike of pain.
One of its internal organs was sustaining damage!
When the unclean whale utilized his senses to detect the intruder, he still wasn't able to find anything that didn't belong inside his body.
This was clearly impossible because his organ was getting eaten by what appeared to be itself!
The unclean whale experienced more shock than it had in centuries!
The earlier attack that punched through his defenses was already strange enough. This follow-up attack that somehow caused his own flesh to rebel against itself was even more confounding.
What strange and unusual alien race had entered this region of space? How come their small and tiny war machines could perform so many strange and unusual feats?
Though the scale of the damage inflicted by the invisible threat was small, the fact that it was harming one of his many important phasewater organs was greatly distressing!
The unclean whale squeezed his flesh until they crushed half of the phasewater organ!
Though the damage was grievous, it was worth it as long as he managed to destroy the internal threat.
Yet moments later, the intact half of the phasewater organ was getting torn as if nothing changed!
The unclean whale grew mad! The intruder was like a virus that managed to avoid his internal detection methods.
None of his means of detecting the tiny threat was working. No matter how many times the unclean whale attacked his own body, the undetectable intruder always managed to slip away before resuming its attacks a short distance away!
Though it was impossible for the intruder to inflict massive damage to the unclean whale in a short amount of time, the most distressing fact about the ongoing intrusion was that the foreign element was moving closer to the brain cavity!
This was why the unclean whale doubled his efforts into trying to crush or drive out the tiny attacker!
Back on the Spirit of Bentheim, Ves smirked as he used his connection to his living divine artifact to supervise and direct the ongoing sabotage.
Compared to himself, his cyborg cat received much greater enhancements. His theory that the transformation process would upgrade the existing capabilities of his divine artifact was true!
This happened to be extremely relevant to what was happening inside the body of the unclean whale.
One of the greatest strengths of the cyborg cat was not its ability to harness Worclaw energy.
It was its camouflage and other anti-detection measures.
Despite the fact that the unclean whale should have easily been able to detect such a foreign element tunneling throughout his body, the cyborg cat's upgraded camouflage abilities were too much for the giant creature!
What the old and powerful corrupted whale didn't entirely realize was that the cyborg cat had actually transformed the exterior part of its body into a copy of the surrounding biomass!
This was one of the reasons why Ves had been eager to apply Permanent Mimic Arcutuleum Platinum to the cyborg cat's outer layer!
Its ability to mimic any matter it came in touch with was already impressive in its base form.
After the cyborg cat not only absorbed a lot of galactic energies, but lived through a lengthy lightning baptism that thoroughly transformed and elevated its camouflage abilities!
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