Venerable Joshua and the Everchanger had broken new ground.
No longer were they relegated to channeling the power of other design spirits to gain an edge in combat.
They had taken a step forward and had begun to experint with combining and transforming multiple different E energy attributes!
None of this should be possible, but the true resonance generated by the two forcefully combined the different energies together into a 'fusion spirit' that took on the form of a dark crow!
Nobody had a clear understanding or explanation of where this crow ca from and how it beca so powerful.
That did not stop them from appreciating how much faster the Everchanger was tearing down his adversary's defensive layers!
Though the Eight Lord of Takansha had made strides to reach the side of one of the greater phase lords, the interference from the Greenaxe and Bloodripper slowed him down just enough!
As soon as the combined efforts of the Everchanger and assisting units broke the last spatial barrier, the Eight Lord of Takansha beca vulnerable to attacks!
The azure energy shield generator mounted on his raint was able to delay the aggressive human chs for a mont, but it didn't last very long against the onslaught.
His raint imdiately began to incur a lot of damage. The lesser phase lord quickly whipped out a giant scepter that could function as a mace. The scepter was infused with a lot of phasewater which he used to bend the fabric of space around him. He managed to divert so of the ranged attacks that struck and dented his raint, but he was not able to block all of them, especially if they ca from different directions! The Eight Lord Takansha had grown a lot more desperate scepter back and forth, which not only disturbed the surrounding space and diverted a bunch of attacks, but also forced the Greenaxe and the Bloodripper to evade. Their pilots did not reduce their aggression. After spending so much ti and effort to break down the phase lord's spatial barriers, they finally managed to get past!
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The Bloodripper's luminar crystal submachine gun began to fire a rapid sequence of copper-colored energy beams.
The transphasic hyper positron beams inflicted significantly greater damage against solid armor!
The expert harasser ch did not utilize his firepower to get past the armor and
damage the lesser phase lord's flesh. His attacks weren't strong enough to make this a worthwhile endeavor against this kind of opponent.
Venerable Pedro Rodrigo instead focused on crippling and debilitating the lesser phase lord.
The luminar crystal submachine gun targeted all of the functional components of the enemy's raint.
Different from a ch, a battle bot or a starship, a raint functioned much more as a suit of armor, so it was not able to place any important parts and systems deep inside its structure.
That ant that crucial parts such as the power reactor, the azure shield generator, the sensor modules and so much more were all mounted close or on the exterior surface of the raint.
The Bloodripper took it upon himself to target and destroy all of these modules so that he could quickly render the raint useless!
anwhile, the Greenaxe did his best to coordinate with the Everchanger by facing the vulnerable phase the opposite side at tis!
This added to the Eight Lord's stress.
If the native god tried to fend off the Everchanger, the Greenaxe would just approach his rear and hack into his raint's rear armor with his giant weapon!
If the Eight Lord turned around to force the Greenaxe to back off, then the Everchanger would repeatedly slash his Bitter Scimitar onto the phase lord's rear.
This was especially devastating to the beleaguered phase lord as the dark crow echoed every scimitar strike that landed onto the phase lord.
anwhile, the Barons under the control of Saint Commander Casella Ingvar were also providing an indispensable contribution!
Although the firepower of 39 brand-new Karma Cutters weren't dealing particularly effective damage against the armored lesser phase lord, the torrent of resonance-empowered Null Rounds striking the increasingly more damaged raint actually produced a more useful effect.
The new rifleman chs were gradually cutting off the Eight Lord of Takansha's bonds of karma with others!
While their progress was fairly slow as the lesser phase lord possessed so many more bonds of karma than any mortal, the fact that the Karma Cutters were able to attain this much progress was already fairly amazing!
It was impossible for the Null Rounds to have any significant effect on a lesser phase lord under normal circumstances. The difference in power was just too big.
However, once these new machines beca affected by Saint Commander Casella's true resonance, their effectiveness drastically rose!
The stronger bonds of karma that the Eight Lord of Takansha maintained with his orven subjects and worshippers were surprisingly difficult to sever.
The sa did not apply to the weaker bonds of karma!
The more the Eight Lord got struck by a multitude of Null Rounds, the more difficult it
beca for others to rember his existence and spot him on the battlefield.
The nunsers, the puelrs, the jureg and mbers of other minor races unconsciously began to overlook the plight of the lesser orven phase lord.
It was as if he literally did not exist to these aliens anymore!
What particularly worked in the favor of the Karma Cutters was that the bonds of karma that the Eight Lord of Takansha shared with the other surviving phase lords also happened to be shallow!
If they wanted to, the Herald of the Void, the Lower Herdmaster or the Fatedriver could have noticed the Eight Lord's plight and alter their course in order to save his
life.
Yet because the three phase lords weren't familiar with their orven counterparts and only t each other a short ti ago, there was no way for them to possess any deep friendship or camaraderie with their fellow native god!
If Khaso Leiyen or Zren-Divar were still alive, then they would most certainly be able to rember that the Eight Lord existed, but it was too bad that they had already
died!
"What is funny is that the Eight Lord probably doesn't realize that the Karma Cutters are making him less noticeable among the other aliens." Ves grinned as he observed
his latest chs at work.
How could the orven phase lord possibly know any better? Karma was an extrely nebulous concept. The native aliens probably did not know about its existence at all. They had even less reason to develop senses that could specifically asure this phenonon.
While the panicking lesser phase lord clearly felt that sothing bad was happening to him, it was extrely difficult for him to focus on these subtle changes when he was getting assaulted by three different expert chs, of which one of them possessed enough power to take his life!
The Eight Lord swiped his transphasic scepter in a wide sweep in front of him that forced the Everchanger to back off for a mont.
The phase lord took advantage of this small opening to advance straight in the direction of the Lower Herdmaster.
Of the two greater phase lords, the Herald of the Void had already advanced far ahead.
The Lower Herdmaster maintained a more controlled pace and was therefore closer
to the Eight Lord.
Since the orven phase lord was not able to ask the considerably more powerful nunser
god to co to his rescue, the Eight Lord of Takansha simply decided to move directly
in front of the greater phase lord!
The Eight Lord refused to believe that the Lower Herdmaster would continue to
ignore him and his plight!
This posed a problem to the human attackers. The three chs were making good progress in damaging the phase lord's raint and had already begun to cut into his flesh, but they were not able to slow him down too much!
The Eight Lord even took the initiative to absorb serious blows in order to avoid
slowing down his flight!
"We need more ti!" Venerable Joshua urged!
"Ask, and you shall receive. A new voice sounded.
After a long period of waiting, Avatar Commander lkor finally moved into action!
His custom Fey Fianna looked much different from before. Not only was his machine glowing with the power of the Saint Commander's Enfeoffnt, but the drone ch was also accompanied by 25 recently made formation anchor fey!
lkor had carefully put them out of harm's way in order to avoid attracting any
enemy fire.
Now, the 25 fey closed in on the fleeing lesser phase lord and began to surround him at seemingly random distances and angles.
The fey soon went active as lkor held the formation artifact and imdiately activated his bonded basic confinent spell array!
The formation anchors drew in a huge amount of E energy from the environnt.
Enhanced by the power of Casella's true resonance, the formation anchor fey worked a lot more effectively than they should. Not only did they attract F. energy in a wider
radius, but they also enhanced the strength and other performance paraters of the spell array that just ca into existence!
The Everchanger, the Greenaxe and the Bloodripper imdiately disappeared inside
the mysterious mist that had engulfed their area.
Thankfully, the phenonon did not really attract that much attention as the native aliens were not familiar with sealing spell arrays.
Besides, they were already preoccupied with much more urgent concerns. The only
aliens that worried about the lesser phase lord that had disappeared from their sights were the orvens, and they grew more confused than anything.
What if this was a ans for their phase lord to disappear from everyone's sights and escape from the battlefield?
Unfortunately for all of them, this was most definitely not the case.
Inside the active spell array, the Eight Lord of Takansha initially beca befuddled,
but he hadn't lived so many years for nothing. He only flew around for a short amount of ti before he figured out that he had been trapped in a warped space region.
The phase lord tried his best to channel whatever spatial abilities he had left and forcefully break open this invisible cage, but the spell array proved to be far too resilient for him to open up a breach with this thod!
The Eight Lord uttered a silent roar in frustration but still did not give up! His spatial
senses were still developed enough for him to determine the direction where the spell array was the weakest.
He flew forward and soon began to swing his scepter in front of him, hitting nothing
but empty white
mist. Although the Eight Lord did not appear to be striking anything, he was actually damaging the boundary that kept him trapped in this space! "Hurry up, guys!" lkor gritted his teeth and communicated to the expert pilots inside his confinent spell array. "This phase lord is recklessly using his transphasic weapon to tear a hole in my spell array. My formation anchors were only partially repaired by the patriarch, so they are still quite fragile. Don't let him destroy my fey!"
The three expert chs were racing against ti. They could not afford to let the Eight Lord get loose, or else he would quickly rendezvous with the Lower Herdmaster! The Greenaxe attacked so aggressively that the expert axeman ch got smacked multiple tis by the panicking phase lord's scepter. The machine's resonance shield drained significantly with every impact, but Venerable Glendale remained fearless! The Bloodripper no longer spread out his attacks and concentrated solely on burning
a hole through the phase lord's head!
The Eight Lord responded to this assault by overexerting the phasewater organs that
were still capable of producing spatial barriers and forcefully projected them around
his head! This still left his chest vulnerable. The Everchanger eagerly took advantage of this vulnerability and continually maneuvered around the taller and clumsier phase lord to slash his Bitter Scimitar at the crumbling chest plating!
Each successful hit was quickly followed up by an attack from the dark crow. The
sealing spell array did not weaken the fusion spirit in the slightest.
In fact, the changing environnt seed to make it more ominous and in its
elent!
When the Everchanger finally managed to break open enough of the chest plating, the machine briefly paused and fed another 100 grams to the D-arm in order to renew its phasewater-charged condition!
The curved blade of the scimitar glowed brighter and more nacing than ever as the
dark crow flapped its wings at the right ti, allowing the Everchanger to evade the incoming scepter strike and gain a clear shot at his target's chest! When the Bitter Scimitar's unnaturally sharp and empowered edge finally dug into the hide, bone and flesh of the orven phase lord's chest, a runaway reaction occurred!
Before the dark crow could peck into the Eight Lord's vulnerable flesh, the Bitter Scimitar went into a frenzy as it greedily sucked all of the alien phasewater-infused blood from the open wound!
The D-arm went crazy and automatically started to cut deeper on its own accord!
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