During the initial test of the Instrunt of Doom, its full-powered blast managed to pierce through sixteen or so asteroids before it could penetrate no further.
Though the test was anything but rigorous due to the considerable variations between asteroids, it was still a clear sign that the penetration power of this weapon was unreal!
However, nothing ca for free.
The Phase King had to cooperate with Venerable Stark and the Amaranto to channel a considerable part of his energy to the attack.
Doing it once or twice was not a big deal, but the more the design spirit had to exert his power, the more strain everyone incurred.
Design spirits existed in a different realm and were not ant to affect the material realm to such an exaggerated degree.
Though the Instrunt of Doom had beco an interface that allowed the Phase King to exert his powers in different ways, it did not change the fact that he was operating out of the confines of his own reality.
The Amaranto anwhile had to struggle to control and withstand the additional power provided by the Phase King. The expert ch had not been designed to wield the enormous power of the Instrunt of Doom and already incurred a small amount of internal damage as a consequence.
As for Venerable Stark, she constantly had to exercise her mind and will to control and direct all of the forces at her disposal. Each ti she called upon the Phase King, she had to leverage her force of will and true resonance to give the design spirit greater room to operate in the material realm.
When Ves studied the operation of blessed weapons such as the Instrunt of Doom and the Gray Lotus, he concluded that they weren't actually that powerful when utilized by mundane ch pilots.
The two guns were first-generation products that possessed significant flaws and shortcomings.
The greatest deficiency was that they lacked a fully functional channel that bridged the gap between the imaginary realm and the material realm. The design spirits that resided in the forr could not channel their energies freely to the latter.
For now, true resonance generated between expert pilots and expert chs provided a barely functional bridge between the two realms, but this was not an optimal solution.
Ves needed to invent a more permanent channel in a similar vein to Master Benedict's signature Endex System. This was the only way to allow his blessed weapons to operate without requiring the cheating power of a high-ranking ch pilot!
This was an avenue of future research that Ves was more than willing to embark upon if ti permitted.
However, that was a matter for the future.
At this ti, Venerable Stark had no choice but to help the Phase King bridge the gap between the imaginary realm and the material realm by leveraging her formidable willpower.
She did so with considerable effectiveness. When Ves glanced at the resonance ter for the Amaranto, he could see that the expert rifleman ch's true resonance peaked at 39.1 laveres!
That was deep in the territory of a mid-tier expert pilot. Venerable Stark's growth had always been stellar due to her strong conviction and her incredible fortune for being paired with a masterwork expert ch.
As long as Davia Stark's resonance strength reached 40 laveres, then the Larkinson Clan would gain its first official high-tier expert pilot!
However, this was an artificial distinction. The lavere scale was mostly arbitrary and the thresholds that defined low-tier, dium-tier and high-tier expert pilots were also arbitrary for the most part.
For all intents and purposes, Venerable Stark damage output had already reached the standard of a high-tier expert pilot, especially when her expert ch had access to powerful firearms such as the Instrunt of Vengeance and the Instrunt of Doom.
This was why Ves had high expectations for the powerful shot that the Amaranto just unleashed against the phase lord.
Yet as the explosion of energies settled down so that many different sensors could observe the aftermath of the blessed attack, Ves and many others grew disappointed at the result.
"Is… that it? That… is not what I expected."
The good news was that the Instrunt of Doom was capable of punching through the phase lord's unreasonably strong spatial barrier.
Unlike the battleship he launched from, the alien powerhouse was only capable of maintaining a single layer at a ti.
As long as any attack managed to get through, it was free to inflict damage onto a more solid target!
That was what the Amaranto's latest attack had managed to do. The assistance of the Phase King played a crucial role in helping the powerful energy beam attack drill through the powerful spatial barrier through a combination of skill and power.
Yet despite all of this effort, the exceptional suit of armor worn by the phase lord managed to fend off what little managed to squeeze through!
Although the armor incurred enough damage to weaken its ability to fend off another attack, it was not quite the result that Ves desired.
"Even if this attack managed to punch through the armor, the nunser's physical body is comparable to a bioch in terms of size and resilience."
The phase lord reacted as if he was taken aback by the effectiveness of the attack.
The powerful alien had previously sparred against the Unrelenting for a brief amount of ti.
Venerable Neville Magrin had just co off his best state at that ti, but even he failed to overco the phase lord's armor.
Patriarch Reginald and the Mars probably wouldn't have been able to do any better.
The reason why a weaker ch managed to outperform the two ace chs in this aspect was due to the interference of the Phase King!
Different from every other variable, the Phase King was technically a native.
Not only was he derived from an artificial species that had lived with phasewater for over a million years, but the formidable design spirit recently absorbed the vast majority of the unclean whale's remnant spirituality!
The Phase King couldn't be more familiar with native phasewater manipulation thods. Even if his formidable knowledge and instinctual understanding weren't entirely systematic, the design spirit's phasewater affinity was so great that he was by far the best at overcoming powerful spatial defenses!
Venerable Stark clearly recognized this advantage and already readied her Amaranto for another shot!
The expert ch along with its oversized energy cannon began to glow again. The manifestation of the Phase King seed to dance around the formidable weapon as if he was caressing it like a lover.
However, the hostile alien god was anything but pleased with the sight. After getting struck by an astonishingly penetrating attack, the enemy made his displeasure known in a much clearer manner than before!
"Sir! We're picking up another transmission from the enemy phase lord! This ti, the alien has translated his words in human standard language!"
That certainly caught the attention of Ves and Master Benedict.
The two ch designers curiously listened to what the alien wanted to say.
[I AM THE TRAMPLER OF STARS, THE HOUSEMASTER OF THE FRACTURED HOUSE OF THE COLLAPSING STAR, THE VANQUISHER-COMMANDER OF THE RED CABAL. WHO IS THE HUMAN THAT HAS SUBVERTED THE POWER OF ONE OF OUR GODS?]
Master Benedict along with several other people imdiately turned to Ves.
"Ehhh… should I respond?"
"Well, you do have a way with words, especially when it cos to toying with people's beliefs." Benedict quickly responded. "You may as well give it a try, Ves. It would be best if you can negotiate a deal with the enemy, but that is unlikely to succeed. Therefore, try to unbalance the phase lord as much as possible. The more irrational he becos, the more he is prone to making a mistake."
"Okay."
Ves transmitted his response on the sa open channels utilized by his adversary.
"This is Patriarch Ves Larkinson, Journeyman ch Designer and leader of the Larkinson Clan." Ves spoke in his official tone though he doubted that the powerful nunser could appreciate this nuance. "I am the human you are referring to. The 'phase whale' that you are witnessing is our friend and ally. Do you have a problem with that, Mr. Trampler?"
The phase lord had resud his struggle by now as he wasn't stupid enough to suspend hostilities while he was in the middle of the battlefield.
The powerful alien no longer bothered to chase after the fleeing Minerva. Compared to taking down the command ch, the nunser much preferred to confront the Amaranto, as it was the only expert ch that had managed to breach his defenses!
That wasn't the only reason why the phase lord wanted to chase after the Amaranto.
The angry alien strongly expressed his dissatisfaction with another translated ssage!
[BLASPHER! YOU INVADERS HAVE GONE TOO FAR NOW. IT IS NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU TO TAKE OUR STARS. CAPTURING A GOD AND ENSLAVING HIM FOR YOUR OWN PURPOSES IS ONE OF THE MOST UNFORGIVABLE CRIS YOU CAN COMMIT! I SHALL NOT PERMIT THIS GRIEVOUS ERROR AND CORRECT THIS TRAGEDY. GODS MUST NEVER SUBMIT TO HUMANS! THIS GALAXY IS NOT YOUR HO!]
Ves blinked when he heard the reason why the phase lord beca so aggressive all of a sudden.
"Did you enslave a phase whale, Ves?"
"No! This is a misunderstanding!" Ves defended himself. "The Phase King is not an enslaved phase whale! He's not really a mber of this species to begin with. I have ford a mutually beneficial agreent with the design spirit. If he wasn't willing to cooperate with us, then he would have never empowered the Instrunt of Doom."
Sure, the Larkinsons originally killed him to begin with, but the Phase King eventually got over it. The design spirit enjoyed his new life a lot better now that he beca exposed to the wider cosmos. He also occupied himself by building his own private kingdom in his own corner in the imaginary realm.
In short, Ves did not coerce the Phase King into using his powers to the benefit of the Larkinson Clan.
Such deals tended to be rather suboptimal to Ves as the collaborator rarely did his best under these circumstances.
It was too bad that the phase lord didn't see it that way. In the powerful nunser's mindset, no phase whale willingly lent his power to the destructive human invaders that were in the process of devouring their ho galaxy. This was such an inconceivable idea that the only viable explanation was that the evil humans were exploiting an unwilling phase whale!
[FREE OUR GOD!]
The Amaranto fired another fully-charged shot as a response!
This ti, the phase lord made sure to turn his body around so that the incoming shot did not target the sa damaged section of his suit of armor.
It was a pity that the Instrunt of Doom did not contain any Opticonium. This was the resonating exotic that was responsible for allowing the Instrunt of Vengeance to bend its energy beams.
Even so, the second ultra-penetrating shot managed to punch through the phase lord's spatial barrier a bit better. The phase lord's armor incurred significantly greater damage this ti. Parts of the alien powerhouse's body had beco exposed!
"Damn it, he's rearing up again!"
The phase lord perford this classic movent again, but nobody blindly assud that he was about to unleash an omnidirectional spatial shockwave.
Ves closely observed the sensor readings and saw that the phase lord did not repeat his previous techniques.
"Careful! The phase lord is attempting to pull off another technique this ti."
"What is he doing, sir?!"
"I don't know, but we'll find out in the coming seconds!"
Once the phase lord accumulated enough energy, the nunser's armored forehoofs struck the space in front, producing a terrifying spatial fissure that rapidly cracked forward as if it was creating a tear in the fabric of space!
It turned out that the phase lord did possessed a ans to attack at range because the spatial fissure followed an irregular path that led straight towards the Amaranto!
Venerable Stark aborted her next attack attempt and tried to push the Amaranto away from the path of the growing fissure, but the unusual attack thod continued to track towards the retreating expert ch!
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