Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 362 Power
The appearance of the Phase Beast Chief was beyond Chen Ming's expectations.

But its emergence is indeed reasonable.

Originally, Chen Ming had some ideas about the clan leader and wanted to use him to do something in the mechanical clan's territory.

So a few days ago he tried to seduce the patriarch again.

But after several attempts, he discovered that the patriarch who had stayed in the scarlet dimension for a long time possessed extremely terrifying power.

None of the warships that dared to test it could return intact, and even after provoking the patriarch, not a single warship could successfully leave the galaxy before its own structure was destroyed.

This made Chen Ming temporarily put aside his thoughts about the patriarch.

It just so happened that he also discovered that the power of the Mechanical Race had been almost exhausted by his repeated attacks on the Zerg, and was no longer enough.

He doesn't need any other external force, he can defeat the entire mechanical clan by himself.

Therefore, Chen Ming's attitude towards the Phase Beast Patriarch is to leave it there first and deal with it if there is a chance. If there is no chance, let the Empire worry about it.

That thing is too troublesome to deal with. It is as difficult as defeating a dozen mechanical motherships at the same time, or even more troublesome.

Anyway, the patriarch doesn't seem to have a strong desire for large-scale destruction. He has been staying in the galaxy where the mechanical clan last came into contact with him, and has not left at will.

As long as it doesn't affect him, he won't do anything to cause trouble.

But Chen Ming never expected that he would no longer care about the patriarch later.

As a result, the patriarch came over by himself in a short while.

What is it for?

Chen Ming just thought of this problem.

He looked at his consciousness body, where more and more wounds appeared on his right arm, and the speed of recovery was getting faster and faster.

In the palm of his right hand is the Core of Destruction, which is also the gap opened by the Core of Destruction leading to the phase space and the scarlet dimension.

Although the patriarch has gone crazy because of the scarlet dimension, his biological instinct is still driving him here to fill the gap.

Phase behemoths exist to plug dimensional gaps.

Even a patriarch who has fallen into madness can normally maintain the barrier between the phase space and the scarlet dimension.

But if the patriarch comes here at this time, it might cause trouble.

Because this will most likely cause Chen Ming to face the impact of destruction, the pressure of the scarlet dimension, and the indiscriminate attacks of the phase behemoth patriarch at the same time.

Although this gap leading to the three dimensions also allowed a part of the phase force to actively resist the influence of destruction and come over to help Chen Ming.

But faced with the destruction and the real invasion of the Scarlet Dimension that also resisted the destruction, this help was still too thin.

Just when Chen Ming was considering what to do.

The Phase Beast Leader outside the planet did not come to the planet to cause trouble for him immediately, but instead went to the mechanical motherships that were clearing out the Zerg fleet.

From the beginning, the Zerg fleet was gradually falling into a disadvantage.

Because the Mechanical Clan has gathered all the main-level forces in this galaxy, and the force Chen Ming has gathered is not even one-eighth of the previous total force.

Although the Zerg warships relied on the coordination of the normal universe and phase space during the raid and achieved good results, it helped Chen Ming enter the planet.

But the Zerg's power gradually weakened.

After clearing out the Mechanical Clan's auxiliary fleet and a considerable number of orbital defense facilities, they were no longer able to cause effective damage to the Mechanical Clan's mothership cluster.

The Zerg fleet in the normal universe can only be easily destroyed by the mothership.

Besides, the mechanical race at least has the means to enter the phase space.

Even if they force the unmodified motherships into phase space, they still have to clear out the Zerg.

Therefore, when the Zerg in the normal universe were cleared out, no spaceships could be seen in the galaxy.

All the motherships were sent into phase space by the mechanical clan.

An unobservable battle continues to break out in phase space.

The effect of the Zerg's power has obviously reached its limit.

However, since Chen Ming's target was underground, he did not care about the progress in space.

It was the Phase Behemoth Chief's actions at this time that allowed the Zerg to breathe a sigh of relief.

Even though the clan leader has fallen into madness, his first priority target is still the mechanical clan.

When a creature's body has grown to tens of thousands of meters, its physical strength will only be stronger than a warship of the same size.

Because organisms need to make more and more dexterous movements.

And it's not just the physical strength, what's even more terrifying about the Phase Beast Patriarch is the phase and scarlet power that he controls.

In the phase space, purple and red light patterns were seen flowing on the patriarch's body.

This allows it to travel from one end of the galaxy to the other in phase space completely unconstrained.

All it takes is a brief phase transition.

It only takes a few tenths of a second to reach the back from the front of a mothership.

A giant beast that can perform almost instant teleportation over distances on the scale of galaxies can destroy the mechanical race's mothership in the blink of an eye.

The Mechanical Clan also used the Destroyer to plot against Chen Ming, resulting in them now not even having any effective means to counterattack the Phase Beast Chief.

The remaining few motherships could only gather together and huddle in a tight formation.

Normally, if the mechanical race encounters the clan leader and cannot defeat him, the worst that can happen is that they abandon the galaxy and let the mothership and the mechanical units that can be evacuated retreat.

Just like they did before.

But now this place is considered the capital of the mechanical race.

This time is also the critical point for the mechanical clan to target Chen Ming.

If the mothership chooses to escape, there is a certain probability that the patriarch will catch up.

It is better to stay. Even if the patriarch really dismantles all the spaceships of the mechanical clan, he will definitely target Chen Ming later.

Therefore, the mechanical race cannot retreat, and the mothership can only hold on in this galaxy.

And taking advantage of the moment when the mothership was attacked by the patriarch.

Chen Ming was also able to quickly continue the previous process.

Continue to rely on the ship spirit and thoroughly master the complex and diverse external forces that Chen Ming possesses.

The ship spirit accompanying Chen Ming's consciousness quickly integrated the power after the spiritual stone was shattered.

It was like a dark ball of light, floating next to the ship spirit.

The spiritual stones that resonate with Chen Ming all have extremely strong negative effects.

The product of fusion is simply the ultimate collection of negative forces.

It would not be out of place to say that it was something taken out from the Scarlet Dimension.
But this power is extremely familiar to Chen Ming.

The familiar feeling that brought a severe impact on his consciousness even made him feel that this was actually the strengthening of the Words of Madness Spirit Stone.

Chen Ming relied on this power combined with his own strength, as well as the influence of more external forces, and began to forcibly control the power of destruction.

Whether it was the shattered destruction core itself, or the power that erupted with the shattering of the destruction core, all of them were curled up because of the power of Chen Ming's spiritual stone.

The fused power of the spiritual stone is integrating the power of destruction into it, swallowing up the destruction as well.

The knowledge Chen Ming gained in the Scarlet Dimension came into play several times.

He could easily analyze the nature of this force and understand its essence.

Gradually, the boat spirit began to feel overwhelmed.

Crushing spirit stones, especially those of the strength of Whisper of Madness and those with the word "spirit" in their names like Spirit Eater, consumes a lot of energy.

It also needs to regain control of these forces to control destruction.

Even Chen Ming is now unable to control the core of destruction in his palm, let alone the ship spirit.

However, although Chen Ming's condition was gradually getting worse, he could feel that his strength was gradually getting stronger.

So he took over the progress of the boat spirit.

Relying on the shared consciousness of the ship spirit and the previous experience of sorting out the chaos core through An Wuping, the destructive power that had been integrated by the ship spirit and the power of the spirit stone were completely integrated together.

But Chen Ming made a little change at this time.

He knew that the ship spirit's idea was to fuse the power of destruction with the power of the spirit stone and transform it into a completely new system of power that he could control.

It became a fundamental ability of his.

But Chen Ming didn't think so.

He wants to try a new approach.

He already has enough power. What he needs is not a new power system, but to continue to better exert the power he already possesses.

and so.

Under Chen Ming's control, this new force was drawn into his consciousness.

And gradually spread throughout the entire consciousness.

Chen Ming had previously corrected the appearance of his consciousness in front of his boss, but he had not corrected the power he possessed.

His body was in chaos.

And when the power of spiritual stone and destruction penetrated into his body.

This force immediately stimulated his own power resistance reaction.

Of course, this reaction was immediately stopped by Chen Ming.

He continued to control this force and came into contact with his condensed spiritual energy source.

Relying on the nature of condensing the origin of spiritual energy, it became a power close to Chen Ming himself, but different from a power that he could fully control.

He relied on the repulsiveness of this extremely negative destructive force to gather together the scattered forces in his consciousness.

Just like the catalyst produced by the catalytic core that he had just used on himself, it catalyzed Chen Ming's process of gathering the power he already possessed.

Integrate all the complex powers that had been previously modified by Chen Ming within his own consciousness.

Based on Chen Ming's own cognition, the various organs that constitute his consciousness.

Only the heart did not look like a normal organ. Instead, it was a black, empty sphere emitting fluctuating energy that was created after the condensed source of his spiritual energy was influenced by his own power and external forces. It manifested his own power.

This is the final product of the fusion of Chen Ming's power, and it is purer than the chaotic core in An Wuping's heart.

Because there are only three forces that make it up.

The power of machinery, the power of biology, the power of dimension.

The rest, whether it is the power overflowing from the destroyed or damaged spiritual stones, or the ship spirit that controls and gathers these forces together, are only auxiliary to this core.

The name of the product after fusion is [Natural Disaster Core]. Chen Ming doesn't know why it is called this name, but it does not affect him to rely on the power of destruction to destroy the redundant parts of his own power system, purify the nature of his own power, and integrate all the power.

Although this was an idea he came up with on the spur of the moment through the Scarlet Knowledge, the final result was so good that it exceeded his expectations.

He had never felt his power so concise and powerful.

However, one problem still troubled Chen Ming.

That is, he is still restricted by that bottleneck. Obviously, he must control a battleship to completely break through the limitation of the power level.

However, although his strength level has not changed, the intensity of his strength now is much different than before.

Even if it was the destructive core in front of him that had been used by Chen Ming and whose destructive psychic energy had not yet completely dissipated, he could still...

Chen Ming was just about to rely on the strength of his own power to suppress the core of destruction.

Suddenly, a huge mouth of the abyss swallowed him and the core of destruction in his hand into its belly.

It was the leader of the Phase Beast. It had destroyed all the motherships of the mechanical race in the galaxy, so it turned around and swallowed Chen Ming in one gulp.

The phase force and scarlet force were constantly squeezing Chen Ming's consciousness, trying to smash and digest it.

Chen Ming no longer tolerated the Phase Beast Chief and simply used the psychic's last resort.

A clash of consciousnesses.

Chen Ming's consciousness directly and forcibly dragged the patriarch's consciousness into the consciousness space within the patriarch's body.

In the competition of control over dimensional power, Chen Ming might still be a little worried that he might not be able to defeat the patriarch, but when the patriarch's consciousness was dragged into his consciousness space.

Chen Ming knew he had won.

The Phase Beast Patriarch is neither a psychic creature nor a psychic. Its consciousness space is empty except for a lonely consciousness.

The patriarch's consciousness is indeed powerful, but that is its power against the phase beasts.

For Chen Ming, the consciousness of non-psychic creatures is ultimately too weak.

And the more important reason is that the appearance of its consciousness is very different from itself, and it is covered with injuries and rotten flesh that can never be recovered.

The clan leader had been tortured by Scarlet to such an extent that his consciousness had long been on the brink of collapse, and he was only hanging on by a breath.

It has lost its original gentle personality and has become a complete monster influenced by Scarlet.

Chen Ming no longer needs to hold back.

There is no need even for a collision of consciousnesses in the consciousness space.

Chen Ming could easily suppress such a broken consciousness.

But just when Chen Ming came into contact with the consciousness body.

A part of the phase power he controlled was suddenly triggered.

He suddenly felt something in his heart and pulled the patriarch's consciousness out of the consciousness space and also pulled out its body.

The patriarch's consciousness is gradually collapsing, and these collapsing forces are filling the space barriers destroyed by the destruction.

This is the power that the Phase Beast has possessed since its birth.

Chen Ming immediately continued his previous action and completely controlled the destruction core whose power had dissipated a lot in his hands. He also activated his maintenance ability and completely repaired the destruction core that was damaged by the power of the star.

At the same time, continue to let the patriarch's consciousness fill the space barrier.

And when the patriarch's consciousness was completely shattered, the barrier that was destroyed was finally repaired.

But Chen Ming frowned again.

Because he discovered that the patriarch's consciousness did not repair the gap completely, but instead created an isolation membrane between the three spaces.

In other words, the repair is only temporary, and the isolation membrane will be damaged sooner or later.

And when the isolation membrane is broken, the power of the scarlet dimension will once again spread out from here.

The mechanical race really put "destruction" in front of everyone in the empire.

Chen Ming thought about it and tried to release some dimensional power to reinforce it, but his power was just a drop in the bucket compared to the gap.

Construction is much more difficult than destruction. His power is not enough to completely block the gap. He can only block it temporarily like the patriarch's consciousness.

If you want to completely repair the crack, the difficulty...

However, this kind of thing is not a problem that only Chen Ming has, so after recording the situation here, he did not get anxious. There is no point in getting anxious anyway.

Anyway, the gap is there, and the repaired isolation membrane will not be damaged in a short time.

Chen Ming walked back in the direction where he had just been swallowed by the patriarch.

He walked out of the tribe leader's mouth and stood in the ruins of a mechanical tribe building.

The patriarch's body lay quietly beside him.

He looked up.

The power of phase allowed him to see directly through the membrane of space and saw that the mechanical motherships in the orbit of the planet had all been destroyed.

Of course, all of his Zerg also died here.

The mechanical race’s manpower has really been completely wiped out.

Even if the military forces fighting on the front line with the Empire were called back, it would be meaningless.

ended.

The war between Chen Ming and the mechanical clan was completely over in less than a month.

The war between the Empire and the Machines had only been going on for a few months, but the Empire's victory could already be declared.

Of course, it will take several years for the Empire to truly occupy an entire mechanical star field.

After all, the difficulty of occupying a colony is not on the same level as the difficulty of destroying a colony.

Chen Ming let out a long sigh with some emotion.

it is finally over.

But he wasn't done yet.

Now that you are here, take some things away with you.

After all, this is the capital planet of the mechanical race.

Although the mechanical race just guided the stellar matter to the planet, causing destruction, resulting in large areas of damage.

But at this time there are still intact areas on the planet.

Chen Ming's consciousness strolled leisurely to another colony on the mechanical clan's capital planet.

Invaded the mechanical family database here and obtained all the data of the mechanical family.

After picking up the colony and placing it in the one controlled by Chen Ming's mechanical race near the border of the empire.

Chen Ming took a quick look at the information he obtained from the mechanical clan database.

The database contains blueprints for all Mechanoid units, as well as blueprints for various Mechanoid warships.

From motherships to carrier-based aircraft, we have blueprints for everything.

There is also a map of the deployment of the mechanical race's star domain defense forces in the database.

This control map is different from the previous one. When the previous control map was leaked, the mechanical clan still had the energy to modify it.

But now, let alone changing it, it’s even questionable whether the mechanical race can survive a few weeks.

It can only be said that as long as he masters this thing, even if Chen Ming has lost all his combat power at this time, he can still control the mechanical race in this star field in the palm of his hand.

Chen Ming also found the mechanical race’s action plan against the empire in the database.

The original plan of the Mechanical Clan was to use all production lines in the war, and then maintain a defensive attitude towards the Empire.

When resources are exhausted and warships can no longer be produced, all remaining forces will be dispersed and leapfrogged into the territory of the empire, killing as many as possible.

Not to win, just to create carnage.

However, Chen Ming's actions behind the Mechanical Clan caused them to change their minds and concentrate their forces against Chen Ming.

In the end, even destruction itself was used as part of the trap.

It’s a pity that the mechanical clan’s actions still failed.

After all, he is more skilled.

Chen Ming continued to search the database and found the log of the mechanical race's expansion across the entire star field.

It can help him avoid problems on the road of colonial development.

In addition, there are many valuable documents.

But when he was casually looking through the records of the mechanical race, he found that there was something missing, something that was very crucial to humans.

history.

Chen Ming can understand the operating principles of the entire mechanical family through the data in the database.

But he had no idea about the history of the mechanical race, and he could not find any records related to the mechanical race and history.

He had no idea how the mechanical race came into being, or how they survived after the destruction of the Shining Civilization.

Chen Ming is still very curious about the past of the mechanical race.

After all, the mechanical race is a relic of the Shining Civilization no matter what. It is part of the scope that his power can cover, and Chen Ming still can't understand why they seem to have a deep hatred with the Zerg.

Chen Ming also visited the Shining Civilization Research Institute, and it seemed that their exploration of history was only ongoing.

搞不明白了.

Chen Ming always felt that there might be something hidden in the history of the mechanical race, but now it seems that there is no chance to find out.

He had nothing to say, and after taking a final look at the documents, he prepared to continue doing what he was supposed to do.

But in the end, he suddenly found a huge file.

This document is in the form of a star map file.

The size of this file is much larger than the star map files Chen Ming usually sees.

The difference is not just a few times or dozens of times, but thousands of times... or even more.

Chen Ming immediately took some time to open the star map file.

When Chen Ming opened the star map, he didn't understand the contents of the document at first.

But after he looked at it carefully for a while, he suddenly realized the problem.

He kept the star map with a serious expression and even copied it into several storage units as a duplicate.

I felt a bit of pressure in my heart.

(End of this chapter)