"HHUURHGHGUUUGGGGG…"
The phase whale did not so much speak as convey a dreamy concept.
Ketis had no idea what the whale conveyed to her. All she wanted was to get rid of this threat before he could break apart the entire prison and endanger everyone trapped inside!
"I am not interested in your mewling, filthy alien." She sneered.
Conscious or not, the phase whale's emotional reaction to her and everyone else was marked with clear contempt and hostility.
Phase whales had a well-deserved reputation for being arrogant, and this captive monstrosity was no exception to this rule!
It was hard for giant organisms to treat smaller ones as their equals. Ketis was but one of many ants in the enormous eyes of the old and half-dormant whale.
Even though Ketis wielded a relic weapon that surpassed any technology that the phase whale had ever had ever seen, it was a pity that his perspective was too narrow.
The whale was unable to sense the full magnitude of what he was challenging! He was only able to observe a small portion of the incredible power that the weapon contained within its sacred vessel
The Heavensword took affront to the phase whale's dismissal. The weapon vibrated harder in Ketis' grip, causing it to generate a louder and more ominous buzzing sound that echoed across the large chamber.
Seeing that the phase whale continued to wake his slumbering organs and muster up more power, Ketis did not delay any longer!
Her entire body blazed with light and heavenly energy before it propelled forward like a rocket!
Though she was not able to execute any of her regular techniques with the Heavensword, she exerted the power of vibration in the strongest possible form.
As she charged forward, she thrust out the Heavensword and focused all of her will into punching through whatever obstacle she might encounter!
BANG!
It was as if she had collided against a planet!
A spatial barrier had flared to life as the tip of the Heavensword abruptly failed to press forward!
Ketis' body would have been squashed into pieces if not for the weapon reinforcing her body against the recoil of this collision!
Even though the potent heavenly energy and the vibration effect acting upon it allowed the Heavensword to slowly squeeze through the spatial barrier, its progress had slowed down enormously.
Ketis and the Heavensword had to exert a huge amount of effort to progress centimeter by centimeter.
It was already remarkable that they could get any further!
The vast majority of enemies never had a chance of breaking the spatial barrier, let alone cut through its higher-dimensional reinforcement at such a consistent pace!
"PUSH!"
Ketis could do little to help the Heavensword pierce through the phase whale's main line of defense, but she tried her best to conceptualize how the ancient weapon could punch through these defenses more effectively.
The Heavensword did not need her help. Its abilities and measures were far superior to anything that she could ever muster by herself!
As the Heavensword penetrated deeper and deeper through the spatial barrier, the phase whale began to experience more strain.
The half-dormant monster's phasewater organs were far from their prime!
If the captive whale had been in his prime condition, then it would have been able to leverage a lot more power against Ketis and the Heavensword!
However, his capture and extremely lengthy imprisonment had clearly taken a toll on the phase whale.
The quantity of phasewater contained in his body had been severely depleted as well, which left the creature with much less power at his disposal than normal.
This ultimately allowed the Heavensword to break through the spatial barrier that many others could never break!
The shattering of the spatial barrier did not produce any noises as it was not a physical object to begin with. However, its passing granted Ketis and the Heavensword a clear path towards the enormous body of the phase whale!
A part of Ketis briefly wondered whether it was possible for a human-sized weapon as small as the Heavensword could inflict effective damage against a phase whale whose body had grown as large as a starship, but she did not hold these thoughts much further.
Since the Heavensword exuded an enormous degree of confidence and certainty, Ketis put her entire faith in the artifact and eventually managed to stab it into the dry folds of skin and fat on the top of the creature's head!
The sword sank into the ancient flesh to the hilt before stopping.
Again, Ketis had been forced to stop once again.
She did not expect this to happen. She was certain that the Heavensword would cut through all of the skin, blubber, flesh and bone until it had drilled straight into the brains and cut the life of the most dangerous organism in the Davute System.
Instead, the sword had abruptly shaken off the desire to cut through the whale's organic matter and instead leveraged its considerable heavenly energy in a different manner.
The divergent fluctuations threw Ketis so off-guard that they broke her concentration.
"Wait… what are you doing, Heavensword?!"
The willful actions of the ancient relic weapon reminded Ketis once again that she never truly controlled the weapon in the first place.
It had only played along with her when it suited its needs!
Now that it had come into contact with an old, powerful but incredibly weakened phase whale, it suddenly unveiled a different set of motives!
The sword leveraged more heavenly energy than ever and began to pour it into the phase whale through the contact it had just made!
The sword no longer functioned as a weapon, but instead turned into a tiny needle that injected foreign energy into the phase whale!
"GHHHUURRAAAAAAAAA!"
The intrusion jolted the phase whale to such a degree that he woke up at a faster pace!
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