AU phase whales that managed to live for at least tens of thousands of years valued their lives a lot.
They rarely engaged in battles and avoided unnecessary confrontations as much as possible.
Even though they had grown their bodies to such a stupendous size that it had become exponentially more difficult to kill them, they still did not want to leave anything to chance.
This was why all long-lived phase whales invested a lot of time, resources and effort into developing strong escape abilities.
In any case, their mastery in spatial manipulation constantly expanded over time. It would be a waste not to put all of that power to good use!
The Singularity Lord excelled at creating black holes, but he was also fairly proficient at generating wormholes.
This was the basis of his strongest and most foolproof escape ability!
As long as he exerted enough phasewater and energy, he could form a wormhole that connected to any location that he had prepared in advance!
The Singularity Lord had lived for so many years that he had created a lot of different dimensional boltholes.
He installed special wormhole anchors in each of those secret locations that he could flee towards if his life ever came under threat!
Yet even as he dialed in his location and triggered his ability, the wormhole that was supposed to form around his body failed to take shape!
The stability of space at his location had abruptly strengthened by many times, thereby preventing the old alien from deforming the surroundings into a wormhole.
The whale realized to his dismay that the humans had made the fabric of space a lot more solid shortly before he activated his emergency ability!
It wasn't just the Geneforger that utilized its oppressive God Kingdom to increase the stability of the surrounding space.
When the First Armada backed away from the duel between the gods, its starships had deployed all kinds of strange pylons in a circle around the battlefield.
These pylons happened to be newly developed space suppressors that utilized hyper technology to suppress spatial activity at a much greater effectiveness than before!
The pylons were deployed much further away from the more central regions of the battlefield.
When combined with the starships that were equipped with their own space suppression modules, the overall effect was that the battlefield had turned into a spatial cage that made it harder for anyone to escape through different measures!
The space suppressing effect was at its strongest in the periphery.
Theoretically, the human pylons and starships were too distant to exert a strong suppression effect on the Singularity Lord.
There were several additional factors that caused his escape attempt to fail.
The first ones were the dreadnoughts!
The Throne of Lies and the Guns of Armaggeddon were stronger, tougher and more difficult to deal with than any other human starship. Their space suppressors were also much stronger as their Spark Reactors were able to feed them with much more E energy.
When these dreadnoughts had maneuvered themselves on opposite ends around the Singularity Lord's current position, their combined suppression effect could not be underestimated!
Even then, the efforts of the dreadnought paled in comparison to that of the Evolution Witch!
Not only did she command all of the compromised body cells to work against the spatial ability, her Geneforger also came equipped with a space suppressor module that became ridiculously strong when it was amplified by her willpower!
In order to ruin the Singularity Lord's chances of escaping as much as possible, the god biomech had deliberately attempted to close the distance so that its space suppression effect affected the cowardly whale as much as possible!
At this time, the infected Singularity Lord understood that the humans had beaten him at his strongest game!
Ancient phase whales prided themselves on their unsurpassed mastery and control over space.
Not even the other alien races who desperately tried to imitate the authentic descendants of the Elder Gods could rival the darlings of space.
Yet in this pivotal moment, the humans not only dared to challenge his domain, but also succeeded in their attempt!
"DECEIVER!"
The hateful humans kept the space suppressors hidden up to this point, preventing the Singularity Lord from adapting to their existence.
Now, all of the space suppressors acting on the surrounding space hampered his ability to manipulate space.
When the Singularity Lord tested out his power by generating a singularity close to the Geneforger, the god mech did not even slow down in the slightest.
The singularity had weakened by a considerable extent!
Though it was still stronger than the ones generated by the Darkstar King, they had fallen well below the level where they had any chance of harming or controlling the Geneforger!
The long-lived alien understood extremely well that it was not a good idea to fight in a hostile environment.
The whale needed to get away or at least fall back to the inner defensive sphere. There, he could rely on backup to prevent too many space suppressors from dominating the entire battlefield.
Yet as the Singularity Lord turned around and tried to retreat from this dangerous position, his acceleration and traversal speed had become a lot slower than before!
His enormous moon-sized bulk no longer swam as fluidly through space like before. It was as if everything around him had turned into a pool of mud.
The space suppressors weakened the warping effect that the Singularity Lord relied upon to quickly move across stellar and interstellar distances!
This not only prevented the ancient phase whale from escaping the battlefield in another way, but also prevented him from repositioning himself across shorter distances!
The infected alien leader was trapped!
"YOU DARE GO AGAINST YOUR WORD? THIS DUEL WILL NOT END UNTIL ONE OF DIES! YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO ESCAPE!"
Though his situation had grown a lot direr than before, the Singularity Lord did not lose hope.
He reared his enormous body and lifted up his body in a specific manner. frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓
This was a signal for help!
Another spatial pulse originated from the inner defensive sphere.
Soon enough, the true body of another ancient phase whale appeared!
Though his body measured at only 3200 kilometers, it already generated so much gravity that the surrounding alien warships and defensive installations already started to go off-course.
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