Compared to the God Kingdom of an actual god pilot, the control of space of a greater phase lord seemed like a joke.
In any other situation, the Darkstar King possessed the power to dominate an entire battle.
If for whatever reason a group of inferior mortal life forms did not surrender to his obvious divinity, then the Darkstar King could punish them by generating many different gravity wells at their locations.
So long as the offenders fell within the range of his control, the renowned and respected orven leader could impose his absolute authority over them, no matter whether they were orvens, nunsers or even the bad-tempered puelmers.
His active management of the Tenth Tide Station was one of several reasons why the puelmers reluctantly worked together with the orvens without coming to blows!
It had been a long time since the Darkstar King suffered a setback. Ever since he submitted himself to the Red Cabal and earned the trust of the Singularity Lord, he became one of the top leaders of the native alien community.
Though his decision caused him to become an outcast among the more traditional and nationalist orven upper caste members, the Darkstar King firmly believed that following the true descendents of the Elder Gods was the best possible decision that he could make!
He learned so much from the most ancient and wisest phase whales. The more he proved himself, the more he became rewarded for his service.
The invasion of the abominable humans from another galaxy actually served him pretty well!
Not only did the Red Cabal step out of the darkness and entered the light, but it had also gained a firm leadership position over a diverse alien community that had never shown such unity in the past!
The Darkstar King thought that his ascension was all but assured due to all of these favorable developments.
The humans may have brought superior and other nasty surprises with them, but now that the Red Cabal had completed the Great Refuge Plan, these extra-galactic invaders should have lost their capital to fight against the true rulers of the Red Ocean Dwarf Galaxy.
He had entered the battlefield with so much confidence that the sudden loss of control over his own body completely came as a shock!
There had never been a time when a foreign god deprived him of his sovereignty over his own body in this matter!
The Darkstar King had heard many claims related to the incidents where the native aliens clashed against the god mechs of humanity.
The stories always sounded so dramatic and completely different from what the native aliens were accustomed to that it was difficult to assume that they were all true.
As far the Darkstar King was concerned, many of these exaggerated claims were merely used to excuse the failures of incompetent leaders.
It was only now that the orven greater phase lord realized that these human god mechs were truly capable of performing so many powerful feats!
It should have been impossible for other creatures or gods to tamper with his divine flesh!
The more his body evolved into that of an actual god, the less it became affected by ordinary ailments.
His flesh grew so strong that disease, aging and ordinary attacks no longer became threats anymore!
It was well-known among the phase leaders of the Red Ocean that as long as they grew strong enough, their bodies gradually evolved into their most sacred temples, able to resist any outside influence no matter what kind of weirdness they encountered.
God mechs seemed to break this rule, at least to an extent.
Even though the Darkstar King tried to exert his strength to reinforce his body and infuse it with the power of space, none of his measures prevented the overwhelmingly hostile God Kingdom from desecrating the outskirts of his sacred temple!
Perhaps the only consolidation was that the human god known was the Evolution Witch failed to push her corrupting influence any further.
This was because the phasewater concentration in his 350-kilometer long body wasn't actually uniform.
His most vital and essential phasewater organs possessed a much higher concentration than average.
His outer body tissue was the opposite in that regard. There was not much point in infusing so much phasewater in his fur and the outer layers of his hide.
It was precisely due to the lower concentration of phasewater in the exterior parts of his body that he was unable to defend them against foreign contamination!
The Darkstar King had to make a move. Even if the hostile God Kingdom was unable to violate his inner body, it was blasphemy to ruin his appearance in front of his own subjects!
The greater phase lord uttered a silent scream that shook the surrounding space!
Though the overpowering God Kingdom suppressed much of its effects, it at least prevented the Evolution Witch from tampering with his own body cells for the time being.
The Darkstar King uttered a silent roar of rage that destabilized the space in front of him just enough for him to envelop the position occupied by the Geneforger with multiple strong gravity wells!
Each of these gravity wells surrounded the god mech in every direction and attempted to tear the biomachine apart!
Even if the Geneforger tried to evade this area attack by moving away, it would just get caught in the closest gravity well, causing it to become trapped.
That did not happen this time!
No matter how many gravitational forces acted upon the Geneforger, the powerful machine remained completely unaffected.
This caused the Darkstar King to become so enraged that he began to summon a much greater fraction of his power and engulf the entire area occupied by the god biomech with the strongest possible singularities that he could summon in his true form!
The darkstars hardly appeared for a single moment before they broke against the unshakeable form of the Geneforger!
If the Evolution Witch did not want her god biomech to come to harm, then that was what happened. Her supreme willpower alone was already strong enough to guarantee this outcome!
As the Darkstar King thoroughly demonstrated how outclassed he was against an actual god mech to the masses, the human god no longer felt the need to act as a stationary target.
The powerful sensors of the Geneforger had already swept across the entire battlefield. The god pilot felt relieved that all of the surviving mechs and warships of the First Armada had already moved away from her Geneforger.
Even the powerful and elusive Throne of Lies had evacuated from this site as quickly as possible with no regard to doing anything else!
Humanity had learned many lessons about fighting alongside their own modern deities.
"When the gods fight, the mortals suffer."
This age-old adage rang true to this day.
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