If the Red Collective wanted to make a dramatic first or second impression, then it had most definitely succeeded!
It was not just the remarkable nature of human phase lords that captivated observers.
As pairs of human phase lords wearing identical blue-coated raiments with purple accents continued to pass through the enormous entrance, more of them kept approaching from behind.
Their quantity already impressed a lot of people.
As pairs of human phase lords wearing identical blue-coated raiments with purple accents continued to pass through the enormous entrance, more of them kept approaching from behind.
The synchronized footsteps they made on the surface of the crystal floor caused the entire shrine to vibrate and echo at increasing amplitudes.
It was not until a whopping 60 human phase lords managed to get past the opened double doors that the procession finally reached its limit!
A lot of people grew relieved, but there were also viewers who grew disappointed.
Was that it? Did red humanity spend so much time and resources to figure out how to raise human phase lords, only to produce 60 of them in the end?
Their scale also seemed lacking. It was quite impressive for humans to be able to grow to the scale of mechs, but that was trivial in the eyes of a true alien phase lord or phase whale!
Still, not everyone dismissed the combat power of these human phase lords.
What they lacked in size, they made up for it in quantity.
Depending on how difficult it was to cultivate human phase lords, it may be possible for red humanity to counter the threat of alien phase lords by throwing lots of human ones on the battlefield!
Second, human phase lords were still a new phenomenon. There was still room for growth for each of these giant human soldiers. They just needed more time and phasewater to double or triple the height of their true bodies and become as powerful as Ves at his current level of cultivation!
Third, their raiments were much more advanced than the more rudimentary ones utilized by the native aliens.
Red humanity had access to over four centuries of mech development. Even if phase lord raiments needed to be completely hollow, that still left a lot of external space to mount armor plating, external power sources, flight systems and other modules!
There were also swords, spears, rifles, cannons and other handheld equipment!
Each of these phase lord-adapted products were originally derived from highly optimized and developed mech systems!
Merging mech technology with human phase lord thereby resulted in a much greater synergy between technology and body cultivation!
As such, the gathering of 60 human phase lords equipped with purpose-built raiments exuded a much stronger sense of oppression than 60 first-class multipurpose mechs!
Part of it was because of red humanity's unfamiliarity with the human variant of phase lords, but another part of it was because each of them generated a remarkably consistent spatial energy field that charged the surrounding air in a very subtle manner.
Ves' expression changed a little. As the first human phase lord, he could roughly figure out what these giant soldiers were doing. They were just employing a trick to increase their intimidation factor.
However, the implications were much greater than that. When 60 human phase lords vibrated the fabric of space at nearly the same frequency, they generated a form of spatial resonance that could produce much more devastating consequences if they were being serious!
His head immediately thought about the possible combat applications of this method.
If the Red Collective ever sent out this elite human phase lord unit at an enemy force, the 60 giants could assume a formation and use their Maracos organs to shake the fabric of space at the same frequency but with much greater power than before!
As long as the quantity and power was enough, then they could potentially generate a cataclysmic space quake that could sunder entire alien assault fleets and tear apart the spatial barriers of formidable alien phase lords!
Ves immediately realized the difference between the human and alien approach towards phase lords.
The native aliens all the way to the Red Cabal considered phase lords and phase whales to be literal gods.
No god was the same. Each of them possessed their own legendary stories that propelled them to godhood. Every phase leader sought to create his own divine myth and did all they could to differentiate themselves from their rival gods.
The very notion of gathering a bunch of alien phase lords together and forcing them to develop the same powers and integrate the same phasewater organs sounded heretical to the native aliens!
A god was not supposed to be a faceless grunt!
Red humanity clearly though differently. The Red Collective's Phase Lord Department had no qualms about cultivating multiple human phase lords in the same way.
This was because humans did not regard phase lords as gods, not even their human variants!
Since humans just regarded them as overgrown people with magical spatial abilities, they did not have any taboos about training them into gigantic elite troopers that fully leveraged the advantage of teamwork and coordination!
Impressive.
Creative.
This was the sort of imagination and planning that red humanity depended upon to overcome their numerically superior foes.
Ves could easily foresee that once the RC started to send out squads or companies of human phase lords in the field, entire war theaters might turn around due to the amazing combat effectiveness of these superhuman assets!