Just as red humanity feared, the native aliens expanded their exploitation of superdimensional matter.
The Red Cabal previously had been stingy with handing over Saint Piercer arms to various martial greater phase lords.
While they certainly made a difference and proved much more effective at repelling or even killing the human false gods, the superdimensional spears alone was not enough to create enough parity.
Human ace mechs all maintained the same approximate size range. While their ability to inflict damage on a large scale remained a bit limited, their potent combination of speed, agility and power still allowed them to run rings around their much larger but clumsier adversaries.
So long as the ace mechs managed to overcome the formidable spatial barriers that protected these phase lords and directly targeted the head or other weak points, these human false gods were able to slay mighty phase lords in a disturbingly effective manner!
The Red Cabal understood this problem for a long time.
The phase whales tried various different solutions. The Protector of Karnak clearly obtained the privilege to test one of them.
A full superdimensional raiment that exposed no obvious weak points left Saint Dise with no easy openings to take down the enemy phase lord in a short amount of time!
Though Saint Dise felt confident that her resonance-empowered blade could cut through the enemy's superdimensional raiment by force, she knew that it would not be easy.
This was precisely what the greater phase lords needed to put up a more equal fight against human ace pilots and ace mechs.
Too many of their fellow gods had already perished at the hands of the humans because they arrogantly fought with their true bodies exposed.
Armor existed for good reasons. The native aliens previously did not experience a threat that was serious enough to warrant full coverage with superdimensional alloy.
Yet when confronting a human ace mech, the Protector of Karnak had delayed his arrival long enough to don his customized superdimensional raiment.
As far as craftsmanship went, the raiment was designed and built to excellent standards.
Not only that, but Saint Dise spotted plenty of design elements that looked right at home in high-end mechs.
She sneered. "Those traitors are at it again. The cosmopolitans cannot limit themselves to leaking our tech to your side. They also have to lend the expertise of their own mech designers to improve and optimize your raiment. Pathetic. You aliens have obviously decided that since you cannot beat us by relying on your massive true bodies, you aliens have instead decided to imitate our human mechs."
Though the Protector of Karnak hated the human false god's slanderous words, even he could not deny the truth of her statement.
Phase whales and phase lords previously pursued size at all costs.
Skill and finesse became secondary to raw might and indomitable true bodies.
The bigger phase leader almost always won a confrontation against their weaker peers. That was the way of life among the native aliens before the human invasion.
This was why Saint Dise was surprised that the Red Cabal had already been willing to relent so much. She thought that the native aliens would have dug their heels.
She had misjudged the shamelessness of the native aliens.
However, the enemy had probably made the right choice.
Saint Dise did not fear a battle against a greater phase lord that fought in a traditional manner.
Her superdimensional ace mech gave her infinite confidence in her ability to deal with such clumsy brutes.
Yet a greater phase lord that was willing to let down his pride and abandon his old way of fighting in order to imitate human mechs posed a much more serious threat.
This feeling became more pronounced when the Protector of Karnak raised one of his sharp and metal-clad claws and began to perform a strange spatial technique, likely with the help of an unknown phasewater organ!
The claw began to buzz and shimmer. The infusion of spatial power somehow made the implement more threatening!
Saint Dise could instinctively sense that it would be a very bad idea for her ace mech to get pincered by this empowered claw.
The strong spatial energies surging at the sharp edges somehow activated a hidden aspect of the superdimensional alloy to the point where it almost gained the power to cut through space itself!
Although Dise did not expect to encounter such a threatening foe, she slowly began to grin.
She could not have dreamed of a better opponent!
Instead of butchering the phase lords that were stationed in this star system as if they were fat and stupid pigs, she could actually enjoy a proper duel against an adequately equipped opponent!
Her Saint Kingdom grew more energetic. The illusion of blades grew stronger as her excitement rose.
The ace pilot took the Protector of Karnak so seriously that she recalled her sword fey without hesitation.
This time, she no longer let them wander around freely, but instead guided them to line up behind her electric-winged ace mech like an army of rigid soldiers.
Her lips curled into a grin.
"Before I can devote my full attention to you, let me clear out the trash. I don't want our duel to be disturbed by spoilsports."
Before the disturbingly well-equipped phase lord could issue a response, the massive electric wings of the ace mech made a powerful flap, causing the machine to launch upwards with formidable speed!
It took a small moment for the greater phase lord to realize that his opponent had fled from his claws.
"#$&&@%!"
His angry alien roar thundered across the damaged base!
His armored form rose shortly afterwards and flew straight in pursuit of the ace mech!
The fabric of space warped around the Protector of Karnak as he tried his best to intercept the ace mech.
The alien god was old and wise enough to understand exactly what Saint Dise intended!
While the jureg greater phase lord proved to be impressively fast among his kind, he was not quite able to match the speed of the cutting-edge superdimensional ace mech.
What was worse was that the First Sword had already built up a considerable lead.
The Protector of Karnak could only helplessly transmit a warning to the two other greater phase lords and assorted lesser phase lords that were hovering protectively over their homeships.
None of the lesser phase lords were foolish enough to ignore the magnitude of the incoming threat.
They all understood the horror of particularly powerful ace mechs and had no interest in tangling against a human false god that felt confident enough to confront them alone!