The lightning birds actually inflicted considerably more damage to the components of the Elental Lord while the machine was in flight.
The lack of grounding caused the golden current to bounce around inside the ch fra a lot longer, thereby disrupting the internals to a considerably greater extent!
If not for the fact that every lightning bird not only carried the power of destruction but also the power of creation, the repeated strikes would have caused the vulnerable internal systems to fail a lot sooner!
Even so, the restorative effects of the tribulation lightning only provided the greatest benefits when the ch components only sustained light to moderate damage.
Any part that had either broken down completely or sustained serious damage could not be magically restored to full functionality again!
All of this ant that in order for the Elental Lord to strengthen its capabilities and survive to the very end, it had to repeatedly expose its ch fra to a relatively controlled amount of tribulation lightning.
Blocking everything might be good in the short run, but it would doom the drone ch at the later stages of this lightning tribulation!
Allowing the Elental Lord to get struck by powerful current in every wave would definitely boost its strength at the highest possible rate, but its parts would collapse too quickly before it could get past the first three or four rounds.
The living ch that aspired to dominate the elents had to strike a careful balance in order to et both its short term and long term needs!
Ves, Major Jankowski and the Elental Lord quickly shared their own conclusions with each other.
"You need to land the Elental Lord to the ground when the birds are just about to hit." Ves quickly advised.
"Good idea. The earth fey's ammunition reserves are too limited. It is best to save the remaining rounds for later."
"You are right about your concerns, but I have made sure to stock up on a lot of additional rounds back in Diandi Base. I originally procured them in order to provide enough ammunition to conduct extensive tests, but they can provide handy reloads for us. I can instruct my assistant to ship them over. The earth fey should be able to load the magazines by itself. I purposefully designed it this way to prolong its usefulness on the battlefield."
That relieved a major concern for Major Jankowski. He was afraid that the small earth fey would only be able to make use of its weapon system for a short amount of ti.
Chirp! Chirp! Chirp! Chirp!
"The next wave is coming!"
Ves used his access to the Elental Lord's systems to study the properties of the noticeably larger swarm of lightning birds.
Not only had every energy bird grown a little more powerful than before, but their quantity had also increased by 30 percent from the last wave!
This was a significant finding because the 20th wave had also been 30 percent more nurous than the 19th wave.
If this compounding pattern continued all the way to the 27th wave, then the storm clouds would spit out so many lightning birds that they would blanket the skies!
Ves couldn't imagine how the current state of the Elental Lord could possibly resist such a wave of attacks!
He felt a much greater sense of urgency. The Elental Lord needed to utilize its power of the elents in an offensive capacity a lot better in order to deal with the next waves!
At this ti, the Elental Lord followed the sa strategy as before and sought to kite the incoming lightning birds while launching repeated ranged attacks.
That was not all. Both Major Jankowski and the Elental Lord knew they had to do better in order to stay ahead of the curve.
The fire fey was working hard to control more fire-attributed E energy, but it beca a lot harder to do so while it was on the move!
"Use the wood fey to assist the fire fey." Ves quickly advised.
The wood fey was a little odd compared to the rest. Ves had not been able to figure out a spur configuration that corresponded with its elent.
After all, who would be crazy enough to use wood in a tallic ch?
There were only a few variations of tree species that could produce wood that was strong enough to be utilized in high-end chs, but their rarity was too high.
Ves had decided to pair the wood fey with a space suppressor in order to play a constricting role on the battlefield.
The space suppressor served no particular use at this ti. The lightning tribulation did not rely on any notable spatial effects, so there was nothing for the wood fey to suppress.
However, that also left the wood fey free to utilize its power over wood-attributed energy to a greater degree.
It just so happened that the lands surrounding Diandi Base happened to be filled with grassy plains and patches of forests.
Most of the flora consisted of fast-growing, genetically modified plant species.
That did not change the fact that all of this greenery attracted a lot of nature energy.
In fact, certain species of plants had even started to mutate into more extraordinary species due to continuous exposure to E energy radiation, causing them to release significantly more wood energy as a result!
All of this provided an environnt where the wood fey felt a lot more at ho. There was a significantly greater quantity of wood energy for it to manipulate, and right now the living fey tried to channel as much of it as possible to the fire fey with the intent to add more fuel to the fire.
It took a while, but once enough wood fey got fed to the fire fey, the latter finally managed to produce a small purple conflagration as soon as it fired another purple fire beam!
"We succeeded!"
The fire energies attracted by the fire fey successfully ignited and started to burn a quarter of the lightning birds that had co close to reaching their target.
While the strange tribulation lightning manifestations were able to withstand light hits, the purple flas happened to be damaging enough to pop the birds in just a short mont of contact.
In the end, the surviving lightning birds of the 21th wave had dwindled to a smaller quantity than before, which was just enough to give the Elental Lord another dose of creative destruction!
Ves' hair turned more and more frazzled as over a dozen small golden currents ran through his body.
"ow-ow-ow!"
Lucky looked a little rattled as well as his archetech body began to absorb part of the power of the tribulation lightning!
Though Ves did not spot any obvious changes to his gem cat, he was sure that Lucky was benefiting from this exposure.
"The next wave is already coming." Major Jankowski warned.
The 22nd tribulation attack looked a lot more intimidating than before. Just as expected, there were 30 percent more lightning birds from the last wave, and each individual manifestation also happened to be a little stronger as well!
The sheer quantity of lightning birds started to form an oppressive aura that pressed down on the Elental Lord.
However, the newly born ch seed to know no fear. It clung to its identity as a master of the five elents and sought to take down even more birds this ti!
The drone ch and its spurs had begun to kite the lightning birds like before. Energy beams along with the occasional physical round slamd against nurous birds at once as they seed to squeeze into a line in their efforts to intercept their target.
The intelligence of these birds was not high, and their speed remained relatively constant as well.
This made it easier for Major Jankowski and the Elental Lord to exploit the lightning birds.
Many birds fell from the repeated attacks, but many more were still in the process of closing the distance.
Ves already calculated that the Elental Lord was bound to surfer more serious damage if it could not eliminate most of these birds!
"You need to produce a fla this ti! It is best if you can turn it into a living form that can actively move around and burn more lightning birds."
"We are already working on it, sir!" Major Jankowski responded. "It is far more difficult to accomplish this than we thought. I do not think we will be able to present our new solution in ti to defend against this wave!"
The birds eventually arrived so quickly that the fire fey was forced to fall back on producing simple flas that were fueled by wood energy.
Though the purple fire that exploded to life in front of the Elental Lord was bigger this ti, the lightning birds annoyingly did not maintain their impromptu column formation but actively spread out in a hemisphere pattern!
This ant that the purple fla only took down 40 percent of the lightning birds, leaving the remainder to strike against the main ch!
"Use the fey to block a part of the birds!"
The Elental Lord had abruptly landed on the ground this ti. The fey hurriedly converged and blocked the direct paths to the most important and vulnerable exterior modules.
The fey did their jobs. Though their relatively small silhouettes ant that they could only block a small amount of lightning birds, that was good because their damage tolerance was a lot lower.
"ow-ow-ow-eeooow!"
The quantity of birds that made it through was still a bit worriso, and their small increase in power also had a stronger adverse effect on the ch fra.
Ves shook his head to clear the noise in his head.
"We cannot use the sa response to resist the next wave of attacks. Too many birds will get through if that is the case. The fire fey needs to have a better solution available right away!"
"We are still working on it, sir, but the fire fey is confident he will be ready this ti."
When the 23nd wave of attacks launched from the storm clouds, the quantity of lightning birds generated a significantly greater aura of oppression.
Ordinary individuals would have beco paralyzed with fear if they beca subjected to this effect!
Ves grew a lot more concerned, but when the lightning birds finally ca close enough, the fire fey harnessed more fire energy than ever while the wood fey provided as much support as possible!
Their combined efforts finally produced a more notable result than before because a relatively small but concentrated purple phoenix erged in front of the incoming birds!
Although it was not a real phoenix, the fire construct was just realistic enough to fly and actively hunt down every lightning bird within reach!
A lot more of the birds fell prey to the purple phoenix as the latter moved under the fire fey's direction.
With a constant supply of wood energy feeding the flas, the purple phoenix did not have to worry about burning out for a short while!
However, the strain of keeping this aggressive phoenix active and under control was taking a severe toll on the young and weak fire fey.
The phoenix abruptly dissipated after it had flown a bit too far away, but by now the quantity of lightning birds was just a fraction as much as before.
"ow-ow-ow-ow!"
Ves grinned through the pain. He beca jubilant when he saw that his Elental Lord had successfully harnessed the power of the elents in a more effective way.
While there was still a long way to go to make it to the end, his new ch at least showed that it was capable of improving quickly!
At the sa ti, his jolts of tribulation lightning was actively strengthening his body, mind and spirit in small incrents. Ves could clearly sense that his body was sohow growing larger and more massive without actually looking any different.
This was a sign that he was slowly making progress in his phase lord cultivation, all without needing to absorb any additional phasewater or biomass!
Perhaps normal phase whales and phase lords needed to supplent their physical growth with a huge amount of resources, but sohow Ves was exempt from this rule.
He did not have the ti to figure out why this was the case.
He was much more concerned about whether the Elental Lord could produce an even larger phoenix next ti.
"It's coming again! Get ready!"
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