Neither the Geneforger nor the Radiant utilized any heavy armaments that could inflict massive damage onto the even more massive bodies of their alien adversaries.
Their pilots did not mind this at all. In this battle between the gods, the comparatively tiny mechs maintained the upper hand from beginning to end!
None of the attacks or maneuvers of the ancient phase whales worked out the way they wanted.
No matter how many strange and diverse spatial manipulation abilities the two alien leaders had mastered, when the powerful God Kingdoms combined with strong space suppression fields worked against their efforts, their vaunted mastery of space turned into a joke!
Could a phase whale still be called this way if they had lost their ability to manipulate space?
The only variable that the ancient phase whales could rely upon to resist the god mechs was their strong and resilient physical bodies, but even that wasn't enough for them to gain any advantages!
The Space Tearer's body was absolutely massive and was only outmatched by that of his older whale, but all of that worked against him as his response speed was terrible!
Let alone biting the Radiant, the Space Tearer couldn't even land a single hit by generating a fast spatial tear onto the flighty god mech!
This left the ancient phase whale in an awkward position. Regardless of the strength of his attacks, none of them were fast enough to outpace one of the fastest mechs ever built by humanity!
The fastest move he could make was to create a rapid space tear in the vicinity of his massive body.
Yet no matter how quickly the Space Tearer tried to rip space apart, he always produced fluctuations that the Light of Sol could easily detect at the start.
In fact, even if the Light of Sol was not able to detect these fluctuations, his intuition that was honed through centuries of combat was already capable enough to warn him of any impending danger well in advance!
The Space Tearer even suspected that if he managed to catch the Radiant in a spatial tear, the god mech would find a way to resist the attack with its God Kingdom and come away without suffering a visible scratch!
While it was true that light mechs couldn't take hits as well as their larger brethren, the rules didn't entirely apply at the god mech level anymore!
Another bright and powerful flash of light impacted the Space Tearer's head!
This time, the Radiant deliberately struck one of the ancient phase whale's eyes, causing it to pop and splatter enough phasewater to drench an entire city!
The ancient phase whale jerked in pain even as his conventional vision became compromised!
Even though a highly evolved and modified being like him possessed many other sensory organs besides his massive eyes, this loss was a significant psychological and symbolic blow!
The Space Tearer's flesh squirmed and slowly began to grow an entirely new eyeball in a different position, but another powerful flash of light arrived and demolished it before it could come into effect again!
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In order to emphasize his arrogant declaration, the Radiant continually circled around and crashed into the other eyeballs of the Space Tearer!
No matter how many of them the ancient phase whale regrew, his regeneration speed could not outpace the frequency of the Radiant's charging attacks!
Soon enough, the alien leader had lost all of his eyeballs!
The Space Tearer eventually gave up on forming them and decided to stick to other sensory organs that weren't as obvious.
This was yet another admission of defeat, but the alien leader couldn't care about this anymore.
He already understood that the Light of Sol was too powerful for him to solve with his current means.
If the Space Tearer had known how this tiny mech was this strong and difficult to deal with, he could have altered his massive body and developed specific countermeasures against this infuriating opponent!
Unfortunately, none of the leaders of the Red Cabal thought that these tiny machines could actually put up such a good fight.
The phase whales had become so complacent and comfortable in their own positions of superiority that they had lost their vigilance a long time ago!
This was a fatal misstep to the Singularity Lord and the Space Tearer.
If they had a year to prepare for this bout, they would have definitely been able to reduce the vulnerabilities that caused them to become so helpless.
The ancient phase whales were also confident in their ability to come up with more effective attack methods that were fast and concentrated enough to pose a serious threat against these god mechs!
Alas, it was not to be. The clever Space Tearer knew that since he had entered this battle without all of this necessary preparation, defeat was already certain!
His thoughts no longer obsessed over winning, but instead shifted towards mitigating the losses on their side.
If he could, the Space Tearer would have turned around and fled this cursed star system with great haste.
"DO NOT THINK ABOUT GETTING AWAY, ALIEN. NO MATTER HOW FAST YOU MOVE, MY SPEED SHALL ALWAYS OVERTAKE YOURS."
The Space Tearer suffered another bout of pain as the Radiant crashed into a crater that had yet to heal from an earlier impact!
As much as the alien leader hated it, the god pilot was right.
There was no way that the Space Tearer could get rid of the pursuit of the Radiant!
The only way for the Space Tearer to live was to follow his initial plan and to reunite with the Singularity Lord.
So long as they converged on each other, they should be able to break through every space suppression effect!
This resulted in the continuation of a painful journey where the Space Tearer slowly moved closer to the older and larger phase whale.
Each time the alien made a little more progress, the Radiant charged into his body at a significant fraction of the speed of light and damaged another large chunk of flesh!
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