Even when it was injured and almost dead, the Titania’s reaction against the Golden Skull Alliance was just too weak. Ves had not sensed any strong spiritual activity from the astral beast at that time, though that might be due to distance.
In any case, Ves became more convinced that only a part of the Titania might have been more spiritually active. It may have even functioned as the ‘queen bee’ of this alien collective!
The biggest question now was whether this creature was still alive. Ves looked hungrily at the ugly flesh nodes, but quickly saw that more than half of them were burned or scorched away!
“Damnit, couldn’t you have been more gentle, Patriarch Reginald?!”
The Bolvos Rage was capable of inflicting so much mass damage that much of the area that previously held the brain nodes had turned into an apocalyptic flesh ruin. Though the Lifer exobiologists still found plenty of intact ones that possessed lot of research value, Ves was afraid that the key organ he was looking for may have already passed away!
He quickly rushed through the ruined flesh forest and tuned his spiritual senses as much as possible in order to search for any signs of spiritual life.
“C’mon.”
He suddenly stopped and turned his orientation. During his search, he sensed a faint sign of life that was distinct from all of the background noise generated by nearby glows and true resonance from expert mechs.
He quickly approached a ruined brain node that had almost completely charred and faded from existence.
The spiritual echoes were strongest at this site. Ves knew beyond any doubt that this was where the spiritual king of this little flesh empire once reigned!
Ves didn’t need to rerun the footage of the battle inside this cavity to figure out that the Titania likely died when the Bolvos Rage coincidentally destroyed this key brain node.
“The question is whether there is anything left.”
He failed to sense anything valuable. Though the echoes here were strong, they were like footsteps in the dirt. Just because there were far more footsteps here than in the other parts of the Titania didn’t mean they were valuable!
Ves frowned deeper as he tried to make sense of all of the echoes. They hardly told him anything useful.
“Wait…”
When Ves focused on the most recent echo, he found that it actually left a trail that led to another direction.
He curiously followed this trail. He only flew around 5OO meters ahead before he came to another ruined section of flesh.
This time, he came across a lot of gray biomatter that had been cut to pieces. Blood and other disgusting biomatter littered this site as Ves tried his best not to throw up his lunch.
When the trail ended at a small pile of cut and discarded flesh, Ves came close and reached out with his spiritual senses.
He sensed life.
“What?”
The life that he discovered within this ruined flesh was weak.
Not only that, it was suffering.
When Ves commanded a mech to come close and carefully lift up the heavy cuts of flesh that resembled giant pieces of ham, he finally spotted a small brain node that had been cut from its stem due to one of Venerable Dise’s destructive swings.
Ves vaguely figured out what had happened. When the Bolvos Rage was just about to kill the main brain, the alien spirituality must have moved to this backup brain. Yet before it could do anything meaningful, Venerable Dise cut off the backup brain from the rest of the body, thereby removing any chance for the alien intelligence to control the rest of the Titania!
He suddenly released a chuckle. “It turned out that the First Sword managed to decapitate the Titania after all!”
While that was funny, Ves knew that time was of the essence. From what he could observe, the alien spirituality was in an awful condition due to suffering from multiple attacks that each weakened its integrity.
“I need to move quickly!”