Red humanity had won a great victory today!
Four different battles ended in four decisive victories. The Red Two's formidable strike forces managed to execute their well-prepared battle plans without encountering too many accidents!
Everyone who watched the four simultaneous live streams rejoiced at the domineering performance of the four armadas.
Many cities and states had spontaneously announced holidays so that their people could take the day off and celebrate this great pushback against alien aggression!
The First Armada had accomplished the greatest feat of all. Despite failing to secure the Tenth Tide Station before the aliens blew it up, the only organic god mech in the Red Ocean arguably committed the most shocking action imaginable.
The Geneforger successfully merged with the body of the Singularity Lord!
A god mech that was so small that it could barely be seen if it rested on the surface of the moon-sized phase whale had actually swallowed one of the largest organisms in the dwarf galaxy!
Such a feat was impossible to accomplish through any other means available to the Red Two. The bodies of ancient phase whales were highly evolved. Each part of their body tissue had been perfected to a degree where they could virtually last forever.
Perhaps it might be possible for a top team of scientists led by a Star Designer to accomplish a similar result, but it would definitely turn into a grand project that could possibly take years or decades of careful research in order to produce a satisfying result.
The right god pilot could skip over all of that complicated stuff and directly subvert the flesh of another ascended being by overwriting reality!
Unfortunately, the Singularity Lord's body sustained heavy damage over the course of the takeover.
When it became clear that the Geneforger sought to deliver the ultimate humiliation to the phase whale race by taking over the body of one of the eldest of native gods, the Space Tearer had gone crazy!
Although the Light of Sol did his best to hold the younger whale back, the Space Tearer had given up on trying to escape.
The phase whales could afford to be defeated, but what they could not accept was for the invading humans to get away with stealing such a precious body!
This was why the Space Tearer charged towards the sickened body of the Singularity Lord and began to bite into the compromised flesh with no abandon!
The Light of Sol did his best to stop this maddened rampage by resorting to more powerful attacks, but by the time the Space Tearer collapsed under all of the attacks, the Singularity Lord sustained serious damage!
A quarter of the older phase whale's flesh had been torn away. Numerous phasewater organs had been crushed to the point where they were unrecoverable.
Fortunately, an ancient phase whale contained way more biomass than that. The Geneforger still had plenty of intact alien body tissue left to pose as an ancient phase whale. It was not impossible for the god mech to regenerate or substitute the missing organic parts.
So long as the Geneforger and its assimilated biomass safely returned to human-occupied space without getting intercepted by rapid phase whales, the Evolution Witch had plenty of ways to make massive contributions to red humanity!
From extracting lots of intelligence about the native aliens from the brain to mapping out the complete power system of the phase whale race, lots of intelligence analysts and biotech researchers would do anything to get involved in the projects centered around studying the hijacked body!
Even Ves wanted to take a look at the body as well!
"It is not that easy, Phase King." He whispered in the air. "The Red Two put a lot of effort and lost a lot of expensive assets in their attempts to pull off this joint operation. The body of the Singularity Lord is one of their greatest rewards, and they will try to keep all of the good stuff for themselves. It is not easy for an uninvolved mech designer like me to gain permission to participate in one of the many confidential research projects."
Space started to wobble above his head.
Ves let out a tired breath. "The difference is in the word 'honorary'. I am not entirely an insider to the Red Association. I am someone who they brought in from the outside. I have already been making various moves that signal my intent to keep my distance from the mechers. Actions have consequences, and 1 am sure that they have plenty of trusted insiders of their own that can facilitate their research a lot better."
He clearly recognized that it was not his turn to examine the body of the Singularity Lord.
Perhaps he might be able to gain access if he traded another major contribution for this privilege, but Ves did not have much left to trade at this point.
Compared to the First Armada, the Second Armada did not yield as much as recovering ancient phase whale bodies were concerned.
The First Flame may have raised the confidence of red humanity by single-handedly burning two ancient phase whales with his overpowering Phoenix flames, but only carbonized remains were left of the enormous carcasses!
Even the remaining ancient phase whale that got beat up by the Fist of Defiance was hardly in a good shape. It took a lot of heavy punches to subdue the native god, and many of the alien's phasewater organs got ruptured or pulverized in the process.
The only saving grace of the Second Armada was that the Dread Marines dispatched by the Dominion of Man had captured the Twenty-Fourth Tide Station mostly intact!
Although it was impossible to maintain possession of the massive alien space station for long, the army of experts dispatched by the Red Two managed to extract a huge amount of intelligence and tech from the captured installation.
The Third Armada arguably attained the most boring and predictable results.
The joint forces had little chance to capture the Seventeenth Tide Station before the aliens blew it up, but there was little hope of doing so in the first place.
What was much more interesting was that the Army of One and the Huntsman managed to fell the sister whales without accident from beginning to end.
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