Chapter 6365 Extra Risky Smart Metal Raiment

Chapter 6365 Extra Risky Smart Metal Raiment

Though Ves had fallen back into his bad habits and became completely fascinated by discovering his wonderful compatibility with the living nanomachine plagues, he did not lose the entirety of his mind.

The threat posed by the five arche phase lords were relatively low as they lacked a strong means of attack. The laser beams emitted by their archeshells were relatively potent, but not entirely unbeatable.

When Ves hijacked the living nanomachine plagues and used them to subsume his makeshift raiment, he effectively gained a suit of armor that looked as if it was darkness come to life!

He could completely pass off as a villain in a children's action drama at this time!

Not only did his true body exude a lot of darkness and malevolence, but he had clad himself in his own suit of morphing dark armor!

Ves was still experimenting with his newfound control over the nanomachine plagues. While their driving instinct was to consume and destroy everything they touched aside from each other, now that they had been given life, they willingly submitted themselves to their progenitor!

Despite how scary it was to remain in extended contact with these all-consuming nanomachines, Ves did not fear them at all. He was absolutely confident he could maintain control over these products.

He fully leveraged his abilities and his expertise as a mech designer and a spiritual engineer to maintain solid control over this weapon of mass destruction!

The original nanomachines sought to fulfill their programming without paying any attention to the context, but the living nanomachines were more sophisticated than that. They understood the principles of delayed gratification. Ves merely had to promise them that they could break down the enemy archeshells a lot more effectively so long as they accepted his leadership!

This meant that Ves remained confident that the nanomachines would do whatever he wanted as long as he continued to attack the arche phase lords!

The story might be different if he tried to retreat and avoid confrontation. The nanomachine plagues had their orders, and even if they possessed the power to resist the intentions of others, they were not willing to deviate from their purpose!

"Professor Larkinson!" Major Jankowski spoke with a bit of alarm in his voice. "You lost your awareness for a time. That is extremely dangerous and a good way to die in the field! You need to keep paying attention to what is going on around you. Also, you aren't supposed to take direct control over the nanomachine plagues. They are serious weapons meant to depopulate entire planets. If it wasn't clear that you seem to be able to keep their programmed attack routines at bay for the time being, the captain of the Babylon Excavator should have already activated their killswitch by now. His finger is still hovering above the button. Do you insist on carrying them around your person?"

"Yes." Ves replied as he and the surrounding mechs had already separated from the damaged archeshell ball and backed off to take stock of the situation. "Don't worry. I have taken control over them due to my previous work on them. I did not expect to be able to take control over the nanomachine plagues to this extent, but it is working fine for the time being. Just trust me. I think I can make good use of them to strengthen my attacks."

He was already working on it. By working together with the nanomachine plagues, he was able to attract a lot more darkness energy than before.

An astronomical amount of living nanomachines was cooperating with him in the effort to draw more darkness energy!

Even if the individual lives of all of those tiny machines were not that impressive, quantity became a quality of their own after surpassing a high threshold.

Not only that, but the nanomachines were accustomed to banding together and combining their forces. They were able to produce more dramatic effects as they united to achieve a common purpose!

The result of all of this was that the smart metal raiment began to produce an energy vortex that pulled in much more darkness energy from the surrounding environment than before!

The tiny hyper materials integrated in the original batch of nanomachines helped a lot. They happened to be neutral and compatible with every attribute in order to be able to adapt and reproduce in every situation.

Even though the efficiency of attracting darkness energy dropped when the nanomachines devoured other hyper materials, their excellent cooperation reduced the impact of this consequence.

Ves and the mechs around him briefly observed the state of the arche phase lords.

The first-class multipurpose mechs managed to inflict more serious damage to the archeshells after relying on him to get close for a time. The progress felt gratifying, but the problem was that it was not enough to halt their forward progress.

Most of the damage remained confined to the archeshells as opposed to the softer and more vulnerable flesh!

In order to confirm the effect, Ves smacked his augmented staff at the same spot again.

It cracked!

Not only that, but the fresh injection of darkness energy seemed to combine with the previous injection that had not yet dispersed.

The weakening effect grew stronger!

Ves could feel the concentrated darkness energy express its corrosive and weakening aspect, causing the piece of archeshell to dull and lose its shine as if it became afflicted by a curse.

This was not too far from the truth, as Ves also applied his insights on the withering curse on this particular technique!

Although the withering curse was traditionally associated with the wood element, it also possessed a dark side that allowed Ves to transplant parts of it to his current techniques.

Ves was constantly thinking as he repeatedly bashed the archeshell underneath him. The rapid accumulation of darkness energy successfully weakened the entire section of archeshell and allowed him to dig deeper at a surprisingly fast pace!

His progress became so impressive that a pair of first-class multipurpose mechs joined him and used their own weapons to crumble the weakened portions of archeshell even faster.

"Whatever you are doing, keep it up, Professor Larkinson! We are making rapid progress!"

The mechers placed so much hope in Ves that they stuck around even as the laser beam emissions from the archeshell grew more desperate!

More and more first-class multipurpose mechs lost their azure energy shields and incurred severe damage. A few unlucky machines were even forced to eject their cockpits for fear of losing a precious human life!

The arche phase lords definitely took notice of Ves. They put more effort into trying to push him away from the expanding weak point, but the human phase lord refused to budge!

The ominous energies surrounding Ves grew more intense as he relied on both his spatial abilities and his cloak of darkness to keep him in place!

The effort exerted a lot of strain on his mind, body and Spirituality, but he felt more exhilerated than ever!

"Hahaha! With the protection of darkness, you can't do anything to me! You will have to resort to much stronger attacks if you want to push me away!"

That provoked the arche phase lord into shooting transphasic laser beams at his true body.

Ves no longer smacked his Oceancaller onto the weakening archeshell, but began to spin it around with his hands in a familiar fashion.

This time, he managed to produce a much larger and stronger darkness barrier!

Even if half-a-dozen laser beams struck Ves in quick succession, the barrier still held on, though it became a lot more exhausted.

Though Ves was no longer able to slam his staff at the archeshell surface, Ves simply raised one of his enlarged legs and slammed his nanomachine-covered heel right onto the same spot he had previously targeted!

Just as he expected, he was smoothly able to inject another dose of darkness energy within the compromised section. It crumbled apart even faster due to this move.

Ves grinned wider as he made a lot of interesting observations on what a difference the nanomachine plagues had made up to this point.

"This should only be the tip of the iceberg! I feel I can do more!"