Chapter 6529 The Blood-Soaked Castrator
Due to the mental changes induced by the Deep Research State, Ves had become
hyperfocused on completing the Amaranto Mark III Project.
While he kept himself informed of other developments, his emotional attachment and interest in them had dropped to a precipitously low level.
When phase whales and phase lords became engrossed in their own research and practice, they needed to be able to tune out every external distraction for extremely long periods of time.
They also needed to be able to endure the passing of entire ages. Few mortal organisms were able to withstand the mental impact of seeing thousands if not hundreds of thousands of years pass before their eyes without growing mentally unstable or unhinged.
Phase leaders therefore gained the capacity to deal with their changed relationship of time in different ways.
From being able to hibernate for eons without causing their mental and physical state to deteriorate all that much, to the ability to dedicate entire centuries worth of time to excessively engage in a single grand research project, these body cultivators proved to be anything but mindless brutes.
True phase leaders spent far more time developing their true bodies and knowledge base behind closed doors than on waging active campaigns against their enemies!
The Phase Lord Department actually gained a huge amount of insights into the true nature of the phase whale race by studying how Ves largely became disconnected to society.
A lot of phase whales must still be caught up in their own research or hibernation. Not even the Red War that would decide the fate of their own dwarf galaxy had succeeded in pulling them away from their own timeless perception of reality!
The analysts feared that the speculation that a majority of powerful phase leaders were actually still isolated and in hiding may be a lot more probable than before.
Red humanity was lucky that the current iteration of the Red Cabal only represented a fraction of all of the powerful phase whales that were still alive in the new frontier today!
If the phase whales were truly able to wake up all of the 'native gods' in isolation, then they would have probably been able to crush red humanity at the start!n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om
That was not the case, fortunately.
The ability to perceive the passage of time like a distant god rather than a vulnerable mortal defined the phase whale race.
It turned the phase whales into excellent researchers as well as long-lived organisms. It was the secret to their success. The phase whale race was able to establish a solid foothold in the Red Ocean despite their relatively small population base because this crucial advantage enabled almost every individual to become a genius through hard work and lengthy accumulation.
No phase whale could remain ignorant and stupid after spending a million years on study and research!
Phase lords were probably less able to treat time in this manner because their cultivation was not a perfect fit to their racial circumstances.
Unlike phase whales who never really found any value in demanding worship from their fellow phase whales, the other major races
However, for all of the advantages brought by their ability to treat the passage of thousands of years as an afternoon nap, the disadvantage of becoming detached from current events was too big of a flaw.
It may even be the key to winning the Red War and vanquishing the phase whales.
Whatever the case, by entering into a Deep Research State, Ves became so fixated on completing the Amaranto Mark III Project that he accidentally missed several major developments!
One of them was the reappearance of the Heavensword!
The other was the completion of the promising upgrade cycle of the Mech Designer System!
The third was the gradual collapse of the 4th defensive band!
Each of these were massive developments that had great implications for Ves, but because his mentality had become a lot more inhuman, he uncharacteristically ignored these major events as if they were inconsequential to his life!
Still, just because Ves was unable to bring himself to care about the events unfolding in the Red Ocean did not mean that other humans felt the same.
Ketis Larkinson had been waiting for the arrival of arguably the most powerful sword artifact crafted and wielded by humans that had survived up to the present time.
Perhaps other powerful swords had managed to survive the crisis that engulfed the Milky Way a long time ago, but none of them made an appearance in public, so Ketis did not know of anything else that could surpass the splendor of the Heavensword.
It was not a strange sight to see the Hessex Impaler fly in the middle of a formation of enemy small craft, only for hundreds of alien phasefighters to spin out of control! Their alien pilots had become frozen in fear or got overtaken by the pain originating
from their lower bodies!
Due to Saint Chisholm's inhumane Saint Kingdom, the Hessex Impaler actually became one of the best ace mechs to assist with capturing enemy warships intact.
So long as the accompanying boarding troops consisted entirely of Hexer or female soldiers, it became trivially easy to neutralize the disabled alien crew members and
take control over the alien hulls!
While the Blood-Soaked Castrator along with the other ace pilots accepted the invitation from Ketis, most of them offered bad news.
"We will not be available to help you defend against this ancient sword." Saint Kalasandra Boojay spoke. "We have received a directive from the Red Association that compels us to upgrade the Royal Jeem to a first-class ace mech before deploying to a more strategic location. The Red Three has begun to make more extensive use of the expanded rights afforded to them after instituting martial law. The strategists above our heads are of the opinion that the most decisive battles will be waged in the upper zones. There is a deficit of first-class ace mechs, and we have been called to fill this
gap."
Saint Marissa Lewandowski also spoke of the same. "The Adelaide Mercenary Company has received an identical request. My Jedda Sandivar is long overdue for an
undrade animau. All of the fighting in the Torald Middle Zone has allowed us to acome
a huge amount of MTA credits and war merits. I have been saving up for an even more
dramatic upgrade in the future, but it is not bad to transform my Jedda Sandivar into a first-class ace light skirmisher now rather than later. I want my mech to be able to fight at its very best in time for the rumored final push to arrive."
Not everyone believed in the rumors of a possible final push by the native aliens, but it did not hurt to take precautions in advance.
Perhaps the Red Three got spooked by news of this possible alien attack as well, which
was why they insisted on turning so many second-class ace mechs into first-class ace
mechs!
"Saint Chisholm?" Ketis inquired.
The Blood-Soaked Castrator eagerly nodded. "I am also being reassigned. The Red Association has promised additional material and technical support to upgrade my Hessex Impaler. The mechers even promised that all of the helpers they send my way
will be women. They have high hopes that my ace mech can significantly weaken and disrupt the concentration of male phase lords."
Most of the native alien civilizations in the Red Ocean tended to be patriarchal. It was
not necessarily the case that female aliens were being oppressed, but they had less opportunities to transcend their mortality and take an active role in the Red War.
Most of the female phase whales and phase lords remained in the rear of alien space for the time being.
This was good news for Saint Chisholm. The fewer female phase lords on the battlefield, the more she was able to gain a massive advantage when fighting against the male native gods!
Ketis briefly wondered whether the Heavensword regarded itself as a 'male' artifact.
During the times she was able to wield it, she gained the distinct impression that its original owner and user had definitely been a man!
Sadly, it appeared that Ketis would not be able to learn the answer, because the Blood-Soaked Castrator would soon depart from the expeditionary fleet! She turned to the champion of her own clan.
"Casella?"
"I will be available, at least for the next couple of months." The ace command pilot
responded with a reassuring smile. "The only issue is that my Minerva is still an expert mech, so it is constraining my performance. My approach to combat is also not as suited to suppress a sword that is at least as powerful as an ace mech by itself." "Thank you regardless, Casella. Any help is appreciated."