This is not mechanical ascension.

It takes nine million to upgrade the Tank Guard from B-level to A-level, but now it takes 100 million metal energy to upgrade to S-level.

The metal energy that allowed him to absorb the black gold source stone was directly cut in half, and after removing the 90 million reserved for Dark Night, there were only more than 20 million left.

It was not even enough metal energy to control the Sublimator Source Crystal.

This calculation made Li Ming a little confused. Just like that... it was gone?

But it was only a moment of hesitation. Metal energy was originally used to improve strength, and it would not grow by itself if left alone.

There was no rush to control the Sublimator Source Crystal. This thing was more important for auxiliary purposes, and it was very powerful in the long run.

But for now, let's improve our strength first.

His mind moved slightly, and the Tank Guard mecha that had been following him for a long time and had been on the battlefield appeared in front of him. The heavy metal armor reflected a faint luster.

He was a little emotional. This was not only a mecha, but also his second body.

This upgrade will take it to the next level, and as Qinglong, his boasts are also being realized step by step.

While thinking in his heart, his hand has already covered the surface of the Tanwei mecha, and the surging metal energy flows out along his fingers and pours into the Tanwei body.

The golden arc suddenly exploded, and its surface metal structure began to disintegrate, like drifting catkins, and surrounded its body like a star ring.

The ion fluctuations surged, and the metal skeleton and energy pipelines were re-laid, transforming into a brand-new metal material and structure.

The newly obtained Titan Stone was consumed silently, perhaps because the upgrade route has been chosen, and this time it only needs to be continuously strengthened, so there is no special prompt during the upgrade process.

Li Ming now has a very good understanding of the difference in upgrade routes. The strengthening route of the Tanwei is materialization, so it will not have any data blessing, but the material strength will be correspondingly improved.

Vice versa, internal control and use will weaken the material strength and increase the data blessing.

Of course, this weakening and strengthening are compared with items of the same level.

The upgrade took quite a while. After more than ten minutes, the brilliant light gradually faded away, and a completely different and luxurious machine appeared in the original place.

The appearance has changed significantly. The height is close to three meters. The overall color is the most blazing golden color, and there are also complicated black lines.

But it does not look bloated. The streamlined machine body and the joints of the armor are tightly connected, which looks more concise. There is a hexagonal crystal structure on the chest, which is flashing with light. Finally, the energy engine has been upgraded.

The edges and corners are clear, and the details of each piece of armor are extremely delicate, revealing the beauty of top-level mechanical craftsmanship, like a work of art.

[Tank Guard--S-class: cutting-edge combat mecha, focusing on the defense level.

...

Features--Stone Skin: Gain 30% damage reduction.

Features--Thorns: Any form of attack will rebound 30% to the sender itself. 】

Li Ming's eyes widened slightly, the second feature?

He thought that this Titan Stone had no special function, but it did something big without making any noise, and actually brought a second characteristic.

The characteristic of [Thorns] is to counter-injury. When combined with the tank guard that has already strengthened its defense to the extreme, it can achieve the effect of one plus one greater than two.

Hitting me is equal to hitting yourself.

However, the enhancement of the characteristic is much more difficult than he imagined, and the defense damage reduction is only increased by 5%.

"Could it be because of the route problem? After all, the metal energy is used to strengthen the material of the tank guard itself. If it is another route, the data improvement should be obvious." He pondered, but he was already very satisfied.

He entered the cockpit with great expectations and then possessed it.

In an instant, the field of vision was enlarged, and a very clear sense of power expansion came from everywhere. Li Ming raised the metal arm and slowly closed his palm, feeling that his palm was holding enough power to blow up the starry sky.

Even if it is used specifically for defense, its own strength is terrifying. No A-level life form can block it with one punch.

He tried to raise his hand, which immediately caused a gust of wind and the air exploded. He hadn't even used any strength yet.

But he soon withdrew from the possession, his face pale.

"The loss of physical strength is too terrible." Li Ming's heart was beating wildly. He was almost drained of energy with just a little movement, which also made his teeth ache. "Don't we have an energy engine?"

He looked at the energy engine on the chest of the tank guard, and tried it carefully. He found that even with the assistance provided by the energy engine, it still required a lot of physical strength.

"This is consumed by the possession of the S-level control object. It is not essentially needed for the tank guard's activities. It's just that the tank guard didn't have an energy engine before, so I mixed them up." Li Ming figured it out.

But if it weren't for this energy engine, he probably wouldn't even have the ability to move.

After all, the fuel for the energy engine didn't appear out of thin air. Either it was filled externally in advance, or it was still drained of his physical strength.

Li Ming only felt a toothache, and then activated [Heart of Talos], adding all the blessings to the physical strength. This time, he suddenly had the illusion of straightening his back.

It was indeed an illusion. Although it would not stop after a single move, it would not last long.

"I guess, if I get a Class A life form, combined with the Heart of Talos, I can probably play freely."

Li Ming could not help but feel helpless. There was nothing he could do about it. He was only a Class B life form, and the gap was too big.

"And this Titan Stone..." Li Ming pondered. The name of the sublimator was different from the name given by the control system.

Although there is only one piece, the name has been given. Regardless of whether it is Titan or Terrax, clues should be found in the Land of Chaos.

Coming out of the cockpit, he couldn't help but touch the brand new Tank Guard. The cool and delicate metal touch made Li Ming love it.

Finally, he reluctantly put it away. After dealing with these metal materials, he had time to look at other things.

Among these special materials, the largest one was as tall as a person. An irregular oval jade-white stone was placed on it. Various strange symbols were all over it, flashing with fluorescence.

"This is a psychic rune stone, from the Yongyao Federation. Its special radiation force field can make the mental power highly active, so as to better develop superpowers." The control core explained.

Li Ming's eyes moved slightly. Except for physical superpowers, the control of most superpowers is driven by mental power.

This thing must be a good thing for developing superpowers.

"There seem to be a lot of superpowers in the Yongyao Federation..." Li Ming muttered, and looked at other things again. There were also some bottles and jars with various liquids.

According to the explanation of the control core, most of these are precious supernatural catalysts.

"All related to supernatural powers..." Li Ming's value of these things must be high, but he can't use them himself.

It's not disappointing, after all, even if these things can't be used, they can be sold.

But looking at the things on the ground, he was a little worried, "How can I take them out quietly?"

Even though he has upgraded to a tank guard now, he doesn't think he can openly admit that he has looted the core ruins.

He didn't forget that there were two S-level life forms staring at him.

But his folding space was already stretched to the limit, and it was stuffed with all kinds of things, almost full.

"Oh, and Gabriel's hand..." Li Ming's eyes moved slightly, and he suddenly remembered that he took out the silver pendant from his arms. It was a triangle with a blood-stained dagger logo in the center.

There was also some kind of verification, which was a mental fluctuation that was almost impossible to disguise, and he couldn't open it.

Li Ming was already familiar with this, and directly consumed 9 million metal energies to control it.

After putting it into the control column, he could feel a folding space. Li Ming raised his eyebrows, and it was right as he expected.

All the data and abilities were the same. The only reason why the metal energy required for control was three times different from that of Isius's ring was because of the size of the folding space.

Isius's folding space was only five cubic meters, while this one was twenty-five cubic meters.

The five-fold space difference only required three times more control.

Every little bit of folding space requires a higher level of technical requirements.

It seems that the gap is five times the space, but the actual value gap is too big.

"This thing is probably worth a lot." Li Ming suddenly thought, but he couldn't sell it.

After opening it and searching it a little, Gabriel put a lot of things in it.

Some development potions, a few USB flash drives, and some clothes, but there were no too precious things.

Or, for Li Ming now, there are no too precious items.

But he was already satisfied. With such a large space, there would be no problem taking these things out.

………

"Can you still bear it?" Asmara put away the smart terminal, frowned, and stared at the battle line in the distance.

She had already let it go like this. More than 30 hours after the dark tide of the star stream passed, the joint shield had not been reorganized, and the fleet of the Judge had been hesitant.

"I have transferred Mr. Albert away..."

Antonio was reluctant to attack. If they didn't attack, how could the S-class lifeforms...

As soon as this thought came to mind, Asmara's face changed slightly, and a black and red meteor suddenly broke into the field of vision, approaching at an incredible speed!

An inexplicable sense of crisis suddenly rose in Asmara's heart.

But she breathed a sigh of relief again, and the last fire was ignited.

This sudden black and red meteor exuded a powerful momentum that made people tremble, and the speed was extremely fast, far beyond the comparison of A-class lifeforms.

From the moment he appeared, all the warships of the joint fleet issued a piercing alarm, without stopping for a moment.

The black-red meteor struck, obviously without good intentions.

The faces of the A-level life forms along the way changed drastically, and they launched a series of elemental attacks towards the black-red meteor.

However, this black-red meteor was not only fast, but also flexible. It passed through a large number of warships, causing a series of explosions and flames, and headed straight for the Ring Star Crown Guard.

"Stop him!" A purple light suddenly rushed over, seemingly an A-level life form of the Itlan civilization, but compared to the light of the black-red meteor, it was like the difference between the sun and the moon.

Reina just grinned, without dodging, and two streams of light, one large and one small, with different colors, quickly approached each other, and the next moment, they suddenly collided.

The purple flames seemed to be a stone hit hard by a hammer, and they exploded immediately.

The A-level life form was like a gyroscope, spinning and shooting out, and the splattered blood was directly evaporated by the energy aftermath of the collision.

But he didn't die, just seriously injured.

Reina controlled his strength and smacked his lips.

His speed did not slow down. In the blink of an eye, he crossed most of the battle zone and rushed straight to the Ring Star Crown Guard.

"Hey..." Reina, who was wrapped in the black and red energy light, suddenly grinned, as if he had noticed something.

On the other side, a silver stream of light also shot into the battlefield at a very fast speed, but it was obviously slower than him.

"Alarm..."

The red light flashed in the command room, and all the commanders were pale, but Asmara breathed a sigh of relief.

The next moment, the black-red meteor suddenly broke through the surface shield of the Ring Star Crown Guard, and shot straight in from the bottom with an unstoppable force, which was the location of the energy cabin, and then penetrated the entire hull.

Immediately afterwards, a violent green flame spread from the energy cabin, and then exploded, like a line of fire, igniting the entire Ring Star Crown Guard.

The blazing flame exploded.

In the black-red flame, Reina looked down and saw the core ruins standing still in the flames, and then looked in another direction.

However, just when he turned his head, the silver meteor was approaching. Reina did not dodge this time, but rushed straight up, and the veins on his four arms bulged.

The streams collided, and all the warships in the field issued harsh energy level warnings.

At the point where the two collided, a dazzling light suddenly lit up, as if a flashing halo bloomed out of thin air, and violent energy fluctuations rolled out, black, red and silver intertwined, sweeping around.

Some warships that were relatively close were even blown away, and the surface shields flickered.

Reina laughed silently, as if mocking the other party, and his mental fluctuations surged: "Albert, why haven't you made any progress?"

Evolving to this level, even if there is no awakening of superpowers, the highly developed brain will automatically generate mental power, but the effect is definitely not stronger than that of a special superpower.

At most, it can shock ordinary life forms and pass messages in the desolate universe.

The silver light faded, and it was a humanoid life form with an indifferent look, with silver-white hair and even pupils.

Wearing simple combat armor, it was obviously only for auxiliary purposes, and the metal shell of the fist was twisted.

Albert looked back at the gradually extinguished fireworks, and figures gradually flew out of the wreckage of the Ring Star Crown Guard.

He looked at the Judge warships that had rejoined the battlefield, and the plunderers who were taking advantage of the situation, his eyes gradually became cold.

"Ha..." Reina also retracted his gaze from the battle line, and said with a smile: "You are beating the drowning dog. I don't know if the rest of your fleet can still withstand it."

Asmara flew out of the flames, looking quite embarrassed, with scars all over the surface of her skin.

Ford was wearing armor, and he looked okay.

He looked around and saw the headless charred corpse floating in the starry sky, with deformed limbs and gradually covered with a layer of ice crystals, and swallowed his saliva.