"$#&"
"REJECTION."
"What do you mean?"
"#@#@&@!"
"THERE IS NO CAUSE FOR NEGOTIATION. YOU ARE THE HUMAN CALLED THE DEVIL TONGUE. YOUR SPEECH IS A WEAPON. THE BEST WAY TO DENY YOU THIS WEAPON IS TO AVOID ENGAGING YOU AT ALL. THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE RESPONSE IS TO FIGHT!"
Damn, the Distance Shaper was unwilling to play into Ves' plans!
If they started to talk, then Ves could distract and stall the orven phase lord to the point where the powerful orven phase lord no longer rendered any assistance to his fellow peer.
Obviously, the Distance Shaper saw through this scheme and denied Ves at the first step.
In the next second, a fairly strong spatial storm erupted all around Ves!
Many of the nanomachine plagues that formed his raiment started to get torn apart from all of the violent spatial activity!
What alarmed Ves the most was that the nanomachines could not offer any significant resistance against the raging storm!
Their lack of transphasic properties made them a lot more vulnerable to extraordinary attack than was normally the case!
"Goddamn fleeters! Why are they still fooling around with outdated, dead-end
technologies! Why can't they replace their stock of nanomachine plagues with more modern transphasic variants?!"
He was being unfair towards the Red Fleet. The fleeters were well aware that numerous weapons of mass destruction have fallen behind the times. They were already in the process of replacing or upgrading their older stock.
The problem was that their production capacity was limited. It took time to renew all of their expansive stockpiles. Their main warfleets enjoyed the highest priority and received the latest toys first.
A less important reconnaissance cruiser that had been diverted to a protection mission had fallen so low on the priority list that it would probably take a year or more before the Babylon Excavator received a newer batch of strategic goods.
In any case, the sudden elimination of a lot of nanomachines caused Ves to become directly exposed against the storm.
What alarmed Ves quite a lot was that this area attack was so effective that it even managed to bypass his spatial barrier!
"Sure enough, a greater phase lord always has tricks up his sleeve!"
While
spatial storm did not inflict too much damage on Ves' true body, but that did not mean he enjoyed it either! He quickly withdrew in order to escape the range of the greater phase lord's attack.
"Cover the professor!" Major Jankowski roared. "Overload your space supressors if you
must!"
The surrounding mechs all converged upon Ves and used their space suppressors to weaken the effect of the storm on Ves.
Although the Distance Shaper's attack did not fade entirely, the assistance of all of the mechs at least reduced the damage to a more tolerable level.
Ves merely felt as if he was being subjected to a severe electrical massage treatment rather than getting torn apart in every direction.
The orven greater phase lord began to form a ball of violent warp energies in his hands. "#$&#@$."
"YOUR RELIANCE ON YOUR TECHNOLOGIES WILL BE YOUR UNDOING. ONLY GODS CAN DEFEAT GODS. AS SOON AS THE ARENA LORD OF YA'GWASA ELIMINATES THE GREATEST INHIBITING SOURCE, I WILL SUBJECT YOU TO TRUE TORMENT!"
Ves and the others had no choice but to take the Distance Shaper's threat seriously! Fort Rock had indeed played an indispensable role in stacking the deck in their favor. The aliens originally wanted to rely on the 5 arche lesser phase lords to demolish this space fortress, but now that they had been defeated, the Arena Lord simply decided to do the job himself!
"Tusa!" Ves transmitted to the Dark Zephyr! "You need to make your move quickly! It will be too late once he destroys Fort Rock!"
"What do you think I am doing?!" Tusa spat back as his Dark Zephyr swooped in and disintegrated another chunk of phase lord flesh with the Destroyer weapon. "This damn Arena Lord is just too large! If I try to attack a more important organ, he is always ready to push me back with his Saint Piercer. If I try to attack something less important, he will just take the wound without slowing down."
Everyone had expended a lot of resources by now. However, the greater phase lords had much greater endurance and staying power, which meant that they would definitely be able to take advantage of the moment that Fort Rock went down!
As the Arena Lord closed in on Fort Rock while fending off a storm of attacks coming from multiple directions, the greater phase lord remained undaunted even if his body started to shed phasewater-infused blood at an increasing rate.
Ves felt pressured by this situation. He had used up a lot of cards, but still had a few left that he could employ.
For example, he could attempt to test the spacetime bubble's isolation capabilities by trying to call in the Destroyer of Worlds with the help of Emma's spiritual fragment.
He could also use up the Worclaw energy that he had managed to accumulate in his true
body.
A lot of time had passed since he last expended it, which meant that there was enough energy to fuel a powerful attack.
Then there was the radiant lottery ticket that he had yet to expend.
Ves was very reluctant to use up these resources, though. They were trump cards that he might need to withstand greater dangers during his visit to Yernstall. Sure, the Red Two implemented the highest security measures in this critical central star node, but Ves would be a fool if he took all of this security for granted.
He had made a lot of enemies in the last half-year. Wading into politics meant that he had displeased a large amount of interests. This ambush was just one of the consequences of stirring up a lot of trouble.
As long as his enemies wanted to eliminate him badly enough, it was not unthinkable to prepare another ambush for him. Perhaps this time his next attackers would learn from the mistakes made from this attempt!
"You need to believe in your ability. You can't stop the Arena Lord without taking a risk. You have been saving up your Ultimate Ability, am I right?"
Saint Tusa nodded. "You are right. I have already warmed up the Ultimate Module in preparation for activating my ability at any time. What target do you suggest? I am thinking about attempting to sever one of his upper limbs. As long as his grip on his Saint Piercer has weakened, I can take much greater risks in my attacks."
Ves had paid attention to the Arena Lord's physique and combat footage. He did not
have much hope for his plans.
"Dark wind passage!" Before the collision was supposed to occur, the Dark Zephyr pointed the eager tier 3
Destroyer spear forward and turned into an incredibly fast black streak that actually
punched right through the Arena Lord's body!
The Arena Lord instantly convulsed in pain! The injury he received this time was much
more serious than the previous attacks!
"$#@!"
"HOW?!"
"It's because I am fast!" Saint Tusa laughed!
The harebrained scheme devised by Ves actually worked!
The charge attack worked out a lot better than the ace pilot expected!
Even if the results were successful, Tusa instinctively judged that his Dark Zephyr would
only get past a few sturdy flesh layers before being forced to a standstill. What actually happened was that the tier 3 Destroyer weapon pierced through many organic obstacles, thereby enabling the Dark Zephyr to sink much deeper before the Dark Wind Module expended its charge.
This happened to deliver the Dark Zephyr into a more ideal location. There were dozens of strange phasewater organs located in every direction, and while a pair of them had squished the ace light skirmisher, the tier 3 Destroyer spear was already starting to break them apart!
The Dark Zephyr concentrated his Saint Kingdom and exploded with power!
The Arena Lord appeared to have no measures inside his body that could repel an enemy
as powerful as an ace mech!
Since that was the case, the Dark Zephyr could go on a complete rampage, though only
long enough before the greater phase lord devised a quick solution.
"Let's wreck this place up, partner!"
"I LOVE THIS SPEAR. CAN WE KEEP IT, TUSA?"
"We should bring it up with Ves after this battle. We need to win first, though!"
"HAHAHAHA! NOW THAT WE ARE INSIDE, THE ARENA LORD IS TOAST!" Diving inside the body of a greater phase lord was the most ridiculous feat that Saint
Tusa and the Dark Zephyr had pulled off so far! The two intended to make the most of this situation!
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