Just as red humanity feared, the native aliens expanded their exploitation of superdimensional matter. The Red Cabal previously had been stingy with handing over Saint Piercer arms to various martial greater phase lords. While they certainly made a difference and proved much more effective at repelling or even killing the human false gods, the superdimensional spears alone was not enough to create enough parity. Human ace mechs all maintained the same approximate size range. While their ability to inflict damage on a large scale remained a bit limited, their potent combination of speed, agility and power still allowed them to run rings around their much larger but clumsier adversaries. So long as the ace mechs managed to overcome the formidable spatial barriers that protected these phase lords and directly targeted the head or other weak points, these human false gods were able to slay mighty phase lords in a disturbingly effective manner! The Red Cabal understood this problem for a long time. The phase whales tried various different solutions. The Protector of Karnak clearly obtained the privilege to test one of them. A full superdimensional raiment that exposed no obvious weak points left Saint Dise with no easy openings to take down the enemy phase lord in a short amount of time! Though Saint Dise felt confident that her resonance-empowered blade could cut through the enemy’s superdimensional raiment by force, she knew that it would not be easy. This was precisely what the greater phase lords needed to put up a more equal fight against human ace pilots and ace mechs. Too many of their fellow gods had already perished at the hands of the humans because they arrogantly fought with their true bodies exposed. Armor existed for good reasons. The native aliens previously did not experience a threat that was serious enough to warrant full coverage with superdimensional alloy. Yet when confronting a human ace mech, the Protector of Karnak had delayed his arrival long enough to don his customized superdimensional raiment. As far as craftsmanship went, the raiment was designed and built to excellent standards. Not only that, but Saint Dise spotted plenty of design elements that looked right at home in high-end mechs. She sneered. "Those traitors are at it again. The cosmopolitans cannot limit themselves to leaking our tech to your side. They also have to lend the expertise of their own mech designers to improve and optimize your raiment. Pathetic. You aliens have obviously decided that since you cannot beat us by relying on your massive true bodies, you aliens have instead decided to imitate our human mechs." Though the Protector of Karnak hated the human false god’s slanderous words, even he could not deny the truth of her statement. Phase whales and phase lords previously pursued size at all costs. Skill and finesse became secondary to raw might and indomitable true bodies. The bigger phase leader almost always won a confrontation against their weaker peers. That was the way of life among the native aliens before the human invasion. This was why Saint Dise was surprised that the Red Cabal had already been willing to relent so much. She thought that the native aliens would have dug their heels. She had misjudged the shamelessness of the native aliens. However, the enemy had probably made the right choice. Saint Dise did not fear a battle against a greater phase lord that fought in a traditional manner. Her superdimensional ace mech gave her infinite confidence in her ability to deal with such clumsy brutes. Yet a greater phase lord that was willing to let down his pride and abandon his old way of fighting in order to imitate human mechs posed a much more serious threat. This feeling became more pronounced when the Protector of Karnak raised one of his sharp and metal-clad claws and began to perform a strange spatial technique, likely with the help of an unknown phasewater organ! The claw began to buzz and shimmer. The infusion of spatial power somehow made the implement more threatening! Saint Dise could instinctively sense that it would be a very bad idea for her ace mech to get pincered by this empowered claw. The strong spatial energies surging at the sharp edges somehow activated a hidden aspect of the superdimensional alloy to the point where it almost gained the power to cut through space itself! Although Dise did not expect to encounter such a threatening foe, she slowly began to grin. She could not have dreamed of a better opponent! Instead of butchering the phase lords that were stationed in this star system as if they were fat and stupid pigs, she could actually enjoy a proper duel against an adequately equipped opponent! Her Saint Kingdom grew more energetic. The illusion of blades grew stronger as her excitement rose. The ace pilot took the Protector of Karnak so seriously that she recalled her sword fey without hesitation. This time, she no longer let them wander around freely, but instead guided them to line up behind her electric-winged ace mech like an army of rigid soldiers. Her lips curled into a grin. "Before I can devote my full attention to you, let me clear out the trash. I don’t want our duel to be disturbed by spoilsports." Before the disturbingly well-equipped phase lord could issue a response, the massive electric wings of the ace mech made a powerful flap, causing the machine to launch upwards with formidable speed! It took a small moment for the greater phase lord to realize that his opponent had fled from his claws. "#$&&@%!" His angry alien roar thundered across the damaged base! His armored form rose shortly afterwards and flew straight in pursuit of the ace mech! The fabric of space warped around the Protector of Karnak as he tried his best to intercept the ace mech. The alien god was old and wise enough to understand exactly what Saint Dise intended! While the jureg greater phase lord proved to be impressively fast among his kind, he was not quite able to match the speed of the cutting-edge superdimensional ace mech. What was worse was that the First Sword had already built up a considerable lead. The Protector of Karnak could only helplessly transmit a warning to the two other greater phase lords and assorted lesser phase lords that were hovering protectively over their homeships. None of the lesser phase lords were foolish enough to ignore the magnitude of the incoming threat. They all understood the horror of particularly powerful ace mechs and had no interest in tangling against a human false god that felt confident enough to confront them alone! Of course, the lesser phase gods used to be a lot more courageous in the past. It was only after hundreds of them mercilessly got cut down by the human false gods that they curbed their arrogance and recognized reality. Nowadays, many alien phase lords had become a lot more familiar with human high-ranking mechs. Those among them whose eyesight had not improved after all of this time had already paid for their mistakes with their lives. This was the cruelty of the Red War! As the lesser phase lords completely disregarded their demeanor as ’gods’ and scattered from the flight trajectory of the superdimensional ace mech, the two greater phase lords did not move from their protective positions. Unlike their lesser counterparts, the greater phase lords could not let down their pride so easily. Despite the warning issued by the Protector of Karnak, the Fifth Lord of Bis’qet and the Endless Stomach possessed their own sources of confidence. The former was not only equipped with a thick raiment that did a good job of covering his head and most of his nunser body, but also wielded a Saint Piercer arm. The Endless Stomach looked forward to devouring the human ace mech and grinding the mech frame down with the help of its newly acquired superdimensional teeth. While both greater phase lords refused to back away from the incoming threat, they did not attempt to confront this enemy alone. They possessed enough sense to lean on each other for help. When it became clear that the First Sword Mark III had set her sights on the Fifth Lord of Bis’qet, the Endless Stomach distanced himself from his own fleet and moved to reinforce his fellow native god! Yet because the two fleets initially distrusted each other, they had positioned themselves too far away to reinforce each other quickly. The Endless Stomach was also not a particularly fast greater phase lord, so the First Sword Mark III’s fearless charge put all of the alien gods at a disadvantage! The First Sword Mark III’s Electro-Reactant Flight System proved their value many times over. They expended energy like nothing else, but the thrust power generated by the large electric wings was the real deal. Multiple alien warships tried to intercept the ace mech. Their secondary armaments opened fire along her rough trajectory with surprising coordination. Not only did they fire their guns all at once, they also covered many different angles and coordinates to the point they weaved a dense web of energy beams and projectiles! It was rare to see this level of coordination from the native aliens, but their better-trained soldiers needed to rely on advanced tactics in order to defeat the human mechs. While 90 to 95 percent of the attacks ended up missing their mark, they had already served their purpose because the remainder always managed to strike the mech frame with every salvo. The First Sword Mark III did not even bother to evade. She was not fast and agile enough to imitate the Dark Zephyr in trying to evade the dense net of firepower. Dise chose to put her faith in her Saint Kingdom and her superdimensional mech. They did not fail her. Energy beams, solid rounds, explosive shells and even more destructive transphasic missiles all tried and failed to slow down the ace mech. No matter whether the attacks arrived at the front or rear, the superdimensional machine no longer possessed any glaring weak points! Saint Dise could readily ignore attacks below a certain degree of power and intensity. As the First Sword Mark III closed in on the Fifth Lord of Bis’qet, the greater nunser phase lord prepared to meet the approaching machine. The Fifth Lord did not excel in spatial manipulation, but he tried to set up the battlefield by warping the space around him, turning it into a quagmire that often interfered with the movements of nearby enemies. It was not enough to truly entrap ace mechs, but they had to expend a lot more willpower and strength in order to maintain their trajectories. As the First Sword Mark III continued to charge forth, the nunser phase lord chose to make a stand by pointing his Saint Piercer arm straight ahead. His intention could not be more obvious. Recognizing that evading the charge attack was useless, the greater phase lord wanted to make the ace mech impale herself onto his own superdimensional weapon! Whether he was fast and accurate enough to nail the ace mech remained unclear, but the threat of it should be enough to make the human false god hesitant! The First Sword Mark III did not slow down. She continued to accelerate forward, seemingly disregarding the very real danger posed by the Saint Piercer arm. Her response was to command her sword fey to move slightly ahead of her machine. They gradually moved forward until they formed a wedge formation. This enabled them to resonate with each other in a specific way. Although weak, there was power in this sword formation that enabled the sword fey to concentrate their power in the blades at the front! The Fifth Lord of Bis’qet felt an unreasonable amount fear from this sword formation. His instincts may not be as sharp as that of an ace pilot, but they were not blind to the lethality radiating from the blades!