Chapter 5870 Cultivation Deficiency

Chapter 5870 Cultivation Deficiency

The battle intensified as familiar soldiers returned on the battlefield yet again.

Though the fleeters were unwilling to field more than 50,000 soldiers at a time, it was no problem to swap out one unit with another.

The 34th Assault Regiment and the 88th Bombardment Regiment had already made their contributions. The 6th Giant Trapper Division had fought much more arduous battle and suffered considerable losses that could not easily be replaced. No one would begrudge them if they sat out the remainder of this event.

There were many other fresh units of Dread Marines that eagerly wanted to earn glory in battle. They also learned about the rewards for defeating the lightning soldiers and eagerly wanted to gain strength through defeating their opponents.

However, the needs of the Dominion of Man surpassed the individual needs of the troopers.

As much as the current selection of Dread Marines deserved a chance to baptize their Dread Armors in tribulation lightning, their lacking results forced their superiors to make the switch.

With the return of a lot of familiar Dread Marines, the fight intensified, but not by much.

Even though the newly arrived Dread Marines had absorbed varying amounts of tribulation energies, it was not quite clear how they improved.

None of the Dread Marines exhibited any significant differences in performances. They did not suddenly move twice as fast or launched attacks that inflicted ten times as much damage.

While the humans who fought with the evolved Dread Armors clearly sensed that they had reached a new level of strength, their improved conditions did not come with a manual that taught them how to leverage their new boons effectively!

This was not the result that Ves and Dread Captain Volkert Argile wanted to see. They expected the lightning baptism to provide more concrete results.

"I think the evolved Dread Armors need to be fueled with energy in order to display greater strength." Ves suggested as he continued to observe the fighting from his position behind a dormant turret. "When is the Spark Reactor ready to channel fire energy to our locations? It has already been several minutes."

"Your request is unprecedented, professor. It takes time to make the required adjustments. Do not forget that the Spark Reactor is located kilometers away from your position. Our engineers have informed me that they must manually override the safeguards built into the Spark Reactor in order to further redirect its output of fire energy. In addition to that, they must manually open up waystations and other safety valves in order to channel so much fire energy to the right destinations. We have teleported all of the relevant engineers to the right coordinates. It should not take long for them to complete the necessary modifications."

Trying to modify and alter the functioning of so many elements of the ship's energy transmission system was like playing with fire. It was exceedingly dangerous to tinker with the power lines and other relevant components without cutting off the power supply. n0ve(l)bi(n.)co/m

Nonetheless, the engineers bravely did what was necessary in order to support the soldiers who were struggling to fight for the Dominion of Man's survival.

Ves could feel it. A surging firestorm welled up from below and began to pump out a lot more fire energy across the entire hull section!

The effects were immediate. Everyone felt a bit hotter than before. The raw power of the living spark also reinforced the transphasic hyper plating, slowing down the progress of the metal-eating insects.

However, it was the Dread Marines who benefited most from this change. Each and every one of them fought a little harder than before.

This was not a surprise as every Dread Armor had already been brought up to the current generation by incorporating high-quality hyper materials.

Each attack hit harder than before. Energy weapons and explosive weapons received the greatest benefit as they were much more likely to incorporate fire hyper materials.

The energy barriers that shielded the formations of metallic ants rippled to a greater extent than before.

It was not enough.

The added pressure was great, but the Dread Marines still did not gain enough of a firepower boost to break the equilibrium.

The effect of the increase in fire energy was noticeably greater on the Dread Armors that had undergone lightning baptisms.

The metallic suits began to glow in a fiery corona as they did a considerably better job at absorbing and channeling the fire energies.

Their attacks hit even harder than the Dread Marines who had not fought in the previous waves.

The plasma swords wielded by the Dread Marines of the 34th Assault Regiment burned hotter and struck more punishing blows against the metallic energy barrier.

"Do your job, Blinky!"

"Mrow mrow!"

Blinky felt apprehensive at the thought of directly absorbing or coming into contact with the fiery energy.

When the Star Cat utilized his devouring ability to gather a large quantity of potent fire energy that was emanating from the hull, the companion spirit immediately experienced a lot of pain and discomfort!

"Mrooow! Mroooow!"

Blinky was only able to absorb a minute amount of fire energy produced by the Spark Reactor.

However, the Blinkyverse instantly destabilized as the foreign energy immediately started to go berserk!

It started to destabilize the first star, heat up planets beyond their acceptable range and start fires that could not easily be extinguished!

The energy was untameable. Blinky was far too weak to control E energy generated by a True God-like entity. The fire energy was not only exceedingly high in quality, it also carried a relatively weak but still valid imprint of its originator. This meant that Blinky would have to overpower the living spark in a contest of some sort in order for the companion spirit to tame the newly gained energy!

Perhaps that might be acceptable if Ves and Blinky were free to experiment, but they were operating on an active battlefield at this time!

"Spit it out, Blinky."

"Mrooow! Mroo..oooow...! Mrow-mrow!"

"Don't be greedy! You can try to digest some later! Right now, we have a battle to fight!"

"Mrowww..."

It took a lot of effort, but Blinky finally spat out the fire energy that proved to be uncontrollable.

Ves began to grimace. This was not good news. It became increasingly more obvious to him that the Dread Marines and especially the ones baptized by lightning had little clue how to channel E energy more effectively.

Even though Ves was not a proper qi cultivator, he still recognized many instances of waste and inefficiency. If the Dread Marines had a proper cultivator in their midst, they could channel the fire energy a lot more effectively, thereby achieving much better results on the battlefield!

Ves originally thought that Blinky could play this role, but the incompatibility between him and the power of the Spark Reactor hindered his plan.

He switched his gaze between Blinky and the Dread Marines.

Why was Blinky unable to properly harness the fire energy generated by the Spark Reactor while the Dread Armors showed no rejection reactions?

Ves quickly realized one of the possible answers.

"The Dread Armors are already being treated as an extension of the Dominion of Man. I... am not. Blinky and I may have contributed to her evolution, but we haven't formed a Bloodfire Pact with the dreadnought."

He had no intention of doing that. He would pretty much have to bid farewell to his current life if he made this commitment. He would also be at risk of literally going down with the ship if the Dominion of Man failed to survive this lightning tribulation.

In any case, now that he identified the current problem, he quickly tried to come up with a solution.

"Wait, I may not be a part of this sacred brotherhood, but I happen to know an entity that does!"

Caramond!

The ancestral spirit that was still in the process of coming into power was deeply rooted into the Dominion of Man!

All Blinky needed to do was to borrow Caramond's power to manipulate the fire energy generated by the Spark Reactor as if it was his own possession!