The shattered ruins of skyscrapers, which had stood for hundreds of years, began to crumble and collapse the moment they were touched by the spreading silver tide. Like ice under a flame, they melted away silently, transforming into a new silver tide that surged outward.
With the Red Fortress Base at its center, the silver tide spread rapidly outward, like an avalanche or a tsunami.
Although this strange spectacle on the seabed was taking place in utter, sunless darkness, the silver tide carried a faint fluorescence, illuminating the ruins of the undersea city that had remained unchanged for hundreds of years.
Old, rusted cars, shops buried in sand, skeletons slumbering in corners, plastics that hadn’t degraded in centuries, museums, office buildings, pedestrian streets—everything, absolutely everything in the city, transformed into the silver tide and surged outward.
Surging, surging, it was as if the city, long a ruin, had been resurrected, transformed into a raging beast waiting to take revenge on its enemies.
Inside the Red Fortress Base, Jingwei sensed the brand-new changes in the Nanomechanical Cluster and couldn’t help but say with delight:
"Awesome, Xiaofeng! With this, we’re invincible, right? There aren’t many people left on Earth anyway, so why not turn the whole planet into a Nanomechanical Cluster? Total nanite conversion! What are those World Beasts then? They’ll be a complete joke!"
Shen Feng gave a small smile and shook his head.
"That won’t work. The new Nanomechanical Insects have their weaknesses, too..."
"What weakness?" Jingwei asked curiously.
Shen Feng gave a wry smile and said, "Its weakness is that it has no weakness... After absorbing Beast Gold and undergoing a complete transformation, this stuff has become a bit too powerful. It can’t self-degrade at all. Even when it breaks, it remains in its original nanomechanical form..."
After a pause, Shen Feng continued:
"Because it now possesses elements of Beast Gold, it has undergone a fundamental change. It’s even difficult to recycle. You could say it has become a completely new life form... Earth’s mass is finite. Every bit devoured by the Nanomechanical Cluster is a bit that’s gone forever. By my estimation, consuming some city ruins is about the limit. If we really let it devour all of Earth, it wouldn’t matter if we defeated the World Beasts. The rest of humanity would just starve to death."
The inability to self-degrade, which in itself was a testament to the Nanomechanical Insect’s power, had now become a drawback.
But Jingwei instantly picked up on the other meaning in Shen Feng’s words. Her face lit up with joy as she said:
"Alright, kid, so you’re saying we *have* to go to Shield UY..."
Shen Feng nodded.
"That’s right. Only in a meteorite belt in outer space can we devour everything without restraint! Otherwise, if we were to fight all the World Beasts on Earth at once, the aftershocks of the battle alone would be enough to cause heavy casualties among the surviving humans."
As they spoke, the silver tide on the seabed had already reached the Super Giant War Armor, Golden Mad King. Like mercury flowing in reverse, it surged up the Golden Mad King’s frame, completely enveloping the entire Super Giant War Armor.
Meanwhile, a wall of the Red Fortress Base seemed to turn into a pool of water, shimmering with a rippling light.
The entire shell and foundation of the Red Fortress Base had now been completely replaced by the Nanomechanical Cluster.
Shen Feng strode into the wall. Outside, a metal tunnel formed by the Nanomechanical Cluster already led directly to the Golden Mad King’s cockpit. The surging tunnel then carried Shen Feng into the cockpit.
The Super Giant War Armor, Golden Mad King, immediately stood bolt upright. All its radar systems activated, locking onto the seven World Beasts that were thundering toward them.
These seven World Beasts clearly possessed a degree of intelligence. Despite their enormous size, their underwater advance only stirred up a few small tsunami-like waves.
One of the World Beasts was currently carrying the destroyed Mad Beast Horn in its mouth, its eyes seemingly burning with rage.
The World Beasts had realized they had been tricked.
And now, the gleaming golden thing before them was about to bear their merciless wrath.
Shen Feng had once again put on the Sacrificial Metal Helmet. His Thought Field connected with the entire Super Giant War Armor, while he also controlled the silver tide of the Nanomechanical Cluster that now saturated the sea. A smile appeared on his face.
He flexed his wrist but didn’t rush to engage the approaching World Beasts. Instead, with a flick of his fingers, hundreds of long-dormant missiles shot out from the back of the Super Giant War Armor Golden Mad King. They soared into the sky, punching straight through to the stratosphere, then streaked in all directions with long trails of fire.
Each of these was an intercontinental ballistic missile, now guided by a temporary satellite network in space as they flew toward every corner of the world.
After this was done, the silver Nanomechanical Insects clinging to the Golden Mad King’s surface began to flow down like mercury, peeling away again to reveal the shell of the Super Giant War Armor Golden Mad King beneath.
Under the sunlight, the Golden Mad King’s entire body blazed with golden light, glittering brilliantly.
Repaired by the Nanomechanical Cluster, the originally pitted and dented surface of its frame was now perfectly smooth. Even the old, caked-on bloodstains and oil grime had vanished completely. The entire Super Giant War Armor looked as if it had just rolled off the factory line.
At the same time, the seven World Beasts had closed to less than a kilometer from the Golden Mad King.
Suddenly, the sea before them erupted into a colossal wave hundreds of meters high. Then, the seven World Beasts, rapidly thrashing their tentacles, leaped directly out of the water and lunged toward the Golden Mad King, brandishing their sharp limbs!
The smallest of these World Beasts was about five thousand meters long, while the largest reached a size of eight thousand meters. It was as if seven massive mountains were hurtling toward the Golden Mad King!
If it let the World Beasts pounce, the Golden Mad King would have no chance of dodging and would simply be crushed to pieces!
Shen Feng snorted coldly. He controlled the Golden Mad King to abruptly raise its four arms and extend four middle fingers.
In the next instant, the sea surface erupted with another giant wave, and tens of thousands of sharp metal spikes shot up from the seabed, impaling the seven World Beasts and riddling their bodies with holes!
"ROAR—"
"GURGLE—"
The World Beasts’ tentacles continued to flail forward wildly, but they could only graze the surface of the Golden Mad King’s armor, completely unable to inflict any substantial damage.
The seven massive World Beasts were impaled by enormous metal spikes formed from the Nanomechanical Cluster, left suspended in mid-air. They looked just like skewered squid.
The Golden Mad King took a step forward, suddenly drawing a sharp dagger from its leg and stabbing toward the neural center of one of the World Beasts.
A one-hit kill!
Just then, the seven World Beasts roared in unison. A violent electromagnetic pulse erupted from their bodies, forming a visible sphere of white electrical arcs that expanded in all directions!