Chapter 6153 Profligate Energy Spending

Chapter 6153 Profligate Energy Spending

As the thorns spread across the forest environment sucked the energies of all of the surrounding trees to the point where they had nothing left to donate, the Elegant Rage became drunk with stolen power!

Aside from repairing her broken tonfa, the Elegant Rage also expended a lot of wood energy to spontaneously grow a lot of new thorns across her mech frame.

The ones made of improved ebony wood grew the fastest, while the ones that were meant to be made out of second-class alloys took a lot more time to take on their final shapes.Upstodatee from n(0)/ve/lbIn/.(co/m

Regardless, as soon as the Elegant Rage managed to regrow most of her thorns, she immediately launched them out with far greater force than previously!

Even though a lot of thorns ended up crashing into areas that had already been drained of life, there were still a lot more thorns that managed to traverse much longer trajectories before they landed on the ground.

Once these distant thorns took root, they began to drain all of the trees and plants of all of their energies, causing the entire terrain to look as if the area had become affected by an apocalypse.

The Elegant Rage already regrew her third set of thorns, though she was not in a hurry to launch them anymore. She already gained access to far more wood energy than she could reasonably harness.

She had so much energy in her reach that her control over it all had rapidly degraded!

It couldn't be helped. The Elegant Rage was not that strong, and she did not possess the support of true resonance that she could only gain when being piloted by Venerable Lanie Larkinson.

Even so, the Woodsap mech was still capable enough to perform a number of crude operations.

For example, her tonfas along with her entire mech frame became fully rejuvenated!

Just like the Emperor Tree when it was at its height, the Elegant Rage inherited the same insanely effective regeneration factor. As long as she had access to enough wood energy, there was no limit to her ability to restore from battle damage!

One of the reasons why the Elegant Rage fell behind during the start of this bout was because she already accumulated a lot of damage across her mech frame from previous exposures to tribulation lightning.

Now that the Elegant Rage managed to repair all of the damage that the living mech previously did not have time to remedy through the normal process, the machine practically returned to her peak condition!

Major Jankowski almost moaned as he experienced this reversal. He truly felt as if he could defeat any opponent so long as the wood energy remained abundant!

Though Ves was glad to see that his efforts successfully allowed his creation to finally live up to her potential as a Woodsap mech, he did not miss the sequelae of utilizing demonic means to gain more power.

The regenerated components of the Elegant Rage looked darker and less perfect than the other parts of the mech.

It was as if the wood energy plundered from the trees was tainted.

From the moment the Woodsap mech utilized the energy that was stained with the lives of so many plants, it absorbed all of the taint and negative karma that came with it! Guilt literally stained her mech frame!

Ves was already able to figure out a few consequences to this mutation. The Elegant Rage had started to sink into darkness, making her less compatible with positive energy.

Nature also started to repel her more actively. She was no longer a mech that could peacefully get along with plants anymore. She had proven herself to be a predator who did not hesitate to destroy ecosystems in order to gain a combat advantage.

Fortunately, the stain was not too great this time. The forest that she destroyed was still very young and artificial to boot.

The heavens did not really think much about unmaking trees that were just a few years old at most.

Perhaps there might be ways for the Elegant Rage to gradually get rid of the stain in the future.

It all depended on what Venerable Lanie used the Woodsap mech for and whether she took the initiative to drain another forest of power.

For now, the Elegant Rage still had a bout to win!

Major Jankowski did not want to let all of the overflowing wood energy to go to waste, so he quickly boosted his mech back into the fray!

Crack!

Crack!

Crack!

The Elegant Rage began to assail the alien swordsman with so much force and fervor that she immediately gained the upper hand!

lot of incoming tonfas. Unfortunately, the alien swordsman's skills and physical strength alone was not enough to fend off the Elegant Rage's reckless assault!

Major Jankowski was forcing the Woodsap mech to overstrain her mechanical

parts and pull off moves that would have torn or damaged her internals, just to

be able to hit the enemy faster and harder! Normally, it was completely counterproductive to perform these self-destructive moves, but Major Jankowski clearly realized that he could get away with his actions because the mech would regenerate all of the

self-inflicted damage anyway.

Faced with such an unreasonable mech, the increasingly more exhausted alien

swordsman could not avoid instances where the tonfas managed to strike his body with hard and punishing blows.

There was no particular elemental reinforcement to these blows.

Ves could have taught the Elegant Rage how to expend wood energy in order

to produce a withering effect that could promote the decay of any enemy struck by a tonfa.

He declined to do so because it wouldn't be effective against all but the weakest tribulation manifestations. He also did not want to overwhelm the Elegant Rage by forcing her to perform multiple techniques at the same time. The current results were already satisfactory enough!

Even if Ves' solution had only increased the Elegant Rage's effective energy level and did nothing to improve her energy utilization, it did not matter so long as the Woodsap mech could get by with simply smashing enemies by

relying on brute force!

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

Major Jankowski may be mad with power, but he was still professional enough

to focus on how to negate the threat posed by his adversary as quickly as

possible. Any tonfa strike that broke past the alien swordsman's increasingly feeble guard went on to strike the limbs of the creature.

All four arms suffered repeated impacts!

Soon enough, the arms began to snap, causing them to lose the strength to

wield a sword!

Though the alien swordsman managed to prolong his resistance by relying on the fact that he had four arms to hold a sword, the Elegant Rage repeatedly bashed her tonfas like clubs until her adversary had no arms to spare anymore!

Before the Elegant Rage rushed up in order to deliver the coup de grâce against a swordsman who had lost the ability to hold his weapons, the tribulation manifestation made a surprising move.

The crippled swordsman bent his knees and made a formal alien gesture that

conveyed respect towards his adversary.

"This... is an honorable swordsman... or at least the simulation of one." Simon

Jankowski calmed down from his adrenaline rush. "As one soldier to another, this alien fought honorably and sincerely. I like his species."

Ves didn't care about martial sentiments. He patted the side of the wooden

piloting chair with his hand.

"Finish this bastard off and prepare for the next and final bout. Make sure to fly to a different forest. The one underneath the Elegant Rage has already been depleted and can no longer serve as an energy reservoir."

The end of the lightning tribulation was in sight. The Elegant Rage only needed to overcome one more challenge.