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The violent electromagnetic pulse let out a tremendous roar. The Battle Blade in the Golden Mad King’s hand shattered inch by inch; the giant blade, forged from a special alloy, was instantly vibrated into dust!
This electromagnetic pulse was so intense it had become a powerful energy pulse. It even shattered the metal spikes piercing the World Beasts, freeing their bodies. Instantly, their tentacles whipped out and coiled around the Golden Mad King!
Moreover, a layer resembling an Energy Field had now appeared on the surface of the World Beasts’ bodies. Although it didn’t disintegrate the Nanomechanical Cluster, it hindered its movements, preventing it from smoothly devouring and absorbing the World Beasts’ flesh!
The seven World Beasts flung out tens of thousands of massive tentacles, densely wrapping the body of the Super Giant War Armor, the Golden Mad King, as if cocooning it.
Immediately after, the World Beasts’ sharp appendages rose, preparing to dismember the Golden Mad King!
In the cockpit of the Golden Mad King, the corners of Shen Feng’s mouth lifted as he muttered to himself:
"A contest of tentacles, is it...?"
As he spoke, countless metal tentacles burst from the sea’s surface in a radius of dozens of kilometers. They bound the seven World Beasts’ tentacles and appendages tightly, then slithered and climbed over their bodies like snakes!
The World Beasts, which had been charging forward madly, suddenly found themselves caught in a swamp of tentacles, completely unable to advance.
The seven World Beasts roared in unison. Their mountain-like bodies were pinned to the sea’s surface, immobilized for the time being.
On the Golden Mad King’s control panel, an energy analysis model of the World Beasts was rapidly forming, displaying energy data from around and within their bodies.
The model showed a strange Energy Field on the surface of the World Beasts’ bodies, similar to a constant electromagnetic pulse field, that temporarily prevented the Nanomechanical Cluster from breaking through.
After all, although these Nanomechanical Insects were fused with Beast Gold, the Beast Gold itself was refined from the bodies of World Beasts.
Shen Feng snorted coldly. Countless thick nanomechanical tentacles extended from the Golden Mad King’s back. On the seabed below, the entire ruins of the Ancient Demon City had already been converted by the Nanomechanical Cluster, leaving only the Red Fortress Base and the Oriental Pearl Tower.
The Nanomechanical Cluster converted from a giant metropolis now surpassed the seven World Beasts before him in sheer volume.
These countless tentacles shot out like nail guns, pinning the heads of the World Beasts. A violent force erupted, prying open their massive maws, which were lined with spiraling teeth.
Immediately after, more of the silver tide swarmed up the World Beasts’ bodies to their mouths, then poured inside like mercury flowing upstream!
The World Beasts had never imagined they would one day be force-fed to bursting. Their eyes widened, and they let out muffled roars, struggling desperately to break free from the tentacles’ grip. But they were like octopuses trapped in a swamp, completely unable to move!
Sitting in the cockpit of the Golden Mad King, Shen Feng watched all of this unfold with a placid expression, his heart exceptionally calm.
’A master archer dies by an arrow. For a World Beast to be suffocated by tentacles... a fitting end, indeed.’
At first, the seven World Beasts struggled frantically, continuously releasing violent electromagnetic pulses while thrashing their tentacles and appendages, trying to sever the Nanomechanical Cluster that bound them.
But soon, their movements gradually slowed, until they struggled no more.
The Nanomechanical Cluster had filled their bodies!
A nanomechanical tentacle was connected to the back of Shen Feng’s Sacrificial Helmet. He was receiving information from the Nanomechanical Cluster through this tentacle. A slight smile touched his lips. He knew it was time.
’Just as I thought. Inside the World Beasts, there’s no protective Energy Field, just ordinary flesh and blood.’
’It’s exceptionally tough, but that’s nothing to the Nanomechanical Insects.’
He snapped his fingers lightly.
’It’s starting.’
The next instant, the World Beasts, still bound by the nanomechanical tentacles, all widened their eyes. They let out low, muffled roars and struggled desperately, twisting their bodies to escape their bonds.
But soon, the range of their movements grew smaller and smaller. In a short while, they stopped moving completely. Their massive tentacles went limp, hanging down and sinking deep into the sea.
Then, a large bulge suddenly appeared on the skin of the foremost World Beast. The bulge abruptly burst open, and a stream of silver, liquid-like Nanomechanical Cluster flowed out.
Then a second stream, and a third...
Large bulges formed all over the bodies of the seven World Beasts. Then, the Nanomechanical Cluster, having already devoured most of their insides, swarmed out to continue enveloping the remains from the outside, consuming them piece by piece.
From a distance, it looked as if seven silver mountains had risen from the sea, with the massive carcasses of the World Beasts embedded within them.
But the carcasses soon vanished. The silver mountains on the sea’s surface also collapsed, disintegrated, and disappeared into the water.
The once-violent sea was now calm and peaceful. Only the occasional aftershock of a massive wave remained, as if nothing had ever happened.
The World Beasts, once impossible to devour and convert, had finally been vanquished by the latest form of the Nanomechanical Insects.
Inside the Golden Mad King’s cockpit, Shen Feng stretched. A nanomechanical tentacle next to him opened a slit, brushed against his palm, and left a silver piece of metal the size of a grain of rice in his hand.
Shen Feng picked up the rice-grain-sized metal piece and examined it closely, feeling the surging energy it contained.
This was a newly refined piece of Beast Gold.
Shen Feng had also equipped the current Nanomechanical Cluster, the silver tide, with the technology to refine Beast Gold.
In a sense, the Nanomechanical Cluster was a boundless Beast Gold refinery, capable of producing a continuous supply for him.
Of course, that was on the condition that there were enough World Beast corpses.
On this point, Shen Feng wasn’t worried at all.
He used to get a headache just from seeing a World Beast, but now, a joy akin to that of a farmer at harvest time welled up from the bottom of his heart.
’The hunt is about to begin.’
’A whole new game.’
Shen Feng closed his eyes and released one of his Consciousness Antennae. It traveled along the Golden Mad King’s antenna, into the orbital satellite communication network, and then toward the dozens of intercontinental missiles he had recently launched.
Most of these intercontinental missiles had now reached their destinations. They fell from the sky and slammed into the ground near their targets.
These targets were the wrecks of Super Giant War Armors—some sacrificed, some forgotten, some submerged.
These Super Giant War Armors had lain dormant for hundreds of years, as if waiting for this very day.
"It is time... The hope of human civilization rests on this battle," Shen Feng’s Consciousness Antennae murmured, watching the long-dormant Super Giant War Armors through the optical feeds of the intercontinental missiles.
By now, most of the missiles were embedded in soil, city ruins, or the seabed, but they had not exploded.
Then, the top of the missiles, where the warheads should have been, began to rapidly decompose, turning into a silver tide that rushed toward the nearby Super Giant War Armors.
The silver Nanomechanical Cluster poured into the wrecks of the Super Giant War Armors and, under Shen Feng’s control, began checking circuits, rebooting reactors, and repairing the war machines.
In front of Shen Feng, on the palm-sized Super Giant War Armor signal receiver, one of the many red dots of light suddenly turned green.
Super Giant War Armor No. 10 from the former American Continent, "Suffocating Freud," rebooted!