This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 304 Upgrade completed, two features

It takes nine million metal energies to upgrade a tank from B-level to A-level, but now it requires 100 million metal energies to upgrade to S-level.

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

It’s not even enough to control the metal energy of the Sublimator Source Crystal.

This calculation made Li Ming a little confused. Just like that... it’s gone?
But it was only a slight loss for a moment. Metal energy is used to improve strength, and it will not grow on its own if left alone.

There is no rush to gain control of the Sublimator Source Crystal. The more important function of this thing is its auxiliary function, which will be very powerful in the long run.

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

With a slight movement of his mind, the battle-hardened tank guard mecha that had followed him for a long time appeared in front of him, its thick metal armor reflecting a faint luster.

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

This upgrade will take him to the next level, and his boasting as the Azure Dragon is also being realized step by step.

As he thought about it, his hands had already covered the surface of the Tank Guard mecha, and surging metal energy flowed out from his fingers and poured into the Tank Guard's body.

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

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

The newly acquired Titan Stone was consumed silently. Perhaps it was because the upgrade route had already been chosen and this time it only needed to be continuously strengthened, so there were no special prompts during the upgrade process.

Li Ming now has a very good understanding of the differences in upgrade routes. The tank's strengthening route is materialization, so it will not have any digital blessing, but the material strength will be improved accordingly.

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

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

The upgrade took a long time. After more than ten minutes, the dazzling light gradually faded away, and what appeared in its place was a completely different and luxurious machine.

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

But it does not look bloated. It has a streamlined body and the armor is tightly joined, which makes it look simpler. There is a hexagonal crystal structure on the chest, which is flashing with light. It has finally been upgraded with an energy engine.

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

[Tank Guard--S Class: cutting-edge combat mecha, focusing on defense.

……

Trait - Stoneskin: Gain 30% damage reduction.

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

Li Ming's eyes widened slightly. The second characteristic?
He thought that this Titan Stone had no special function, but it turned out to have caused a big event without anyone noticing, and actually brought about a second characteristic.

The characteristic of [Thorns] is to counterattack. When combined with a tank guard whose defense has been strengthened to the extreme, it can produce an effect where one plus one is greater than two.

Hitting me is the same as hitting yourself.

However, enhancing the characteristics was much more difficult than he had imagined, and the defense and damage reduction only increased by 5%.

"Could it be because of the route? After all, the metal energy is used to strengthen the tank's own materials. If it is another route, the data improvement should be obvious." He pondered, but was already very satisfied.

Full of anticipation, he immediately entered the cockpit and possessed himself.

In an instant, his vision expanded, and an extremely clear sense of expanding power came from everywhere. Li Ming raised his metal arm, slowly closed his palms, and felt that he was holding enough power to blow up the starry sky.

Even if it is used specifically for defense, its strength is terrifyingly powerful. 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 made an explosion, and he hadn't even used any strength yet.

But he soon withdrew from the possession and his face turned pale.

"The loss of physical strength is too scary." Li Ming's heart was pounding. He was almost drained of energy with just this movement. This also made his teeth ache. "Don't we have an energy engine?"

He looked at the energy engine on the tank guard's chest 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 possessed S-level control object. It is not essentially necessary for the tank guard's activities. It's just that the tank guards didn't have energy engines 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 be able to move.

After all, the fuel for the energy engine does not appear out of thin air. It must either be filled externally in advance or drawn from his physical strength.

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

It was indeed an illusion. Although it wasn't so severe that I couldn't move at all, it wouldn't last long either.

"I guess if I get a Class A life form and combine it with the Heart of Talos, I'll probably be able to use it freely."

Li Ming couldn't help but feel helpless. There was nothing he could do about it. He himself was only a Class B life form and the gap was simply too huge.

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

Although there is only one piece, the name has been given. 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 new tank. The cool and delicate metal touch made Li Ming love it.

Finally, he put them away reluctantly. After processing these metal materials, he had time to look at other things.

Among these special materials, the largest one was as tall as a person and contained an irregular oval jade-white stone covered with various strange symbols that flashed with fluorescence.

"This is a psychic rune from the Yongyao Federation. Its special radiation field can make mental power highly active, thereby better developing superpowers." The control core explained.

Li Ming's eyes moved slightly. Except for physical abilities, the control of most abilities depends on mental power.

This thing is definitely good for developing superpowers.

"There seem to be a lot of people with special abilities in the Yongyao Federation..." Li Ming muttered, and then looked at other things, including some bottles and jars containing various liquids.

According to the control core's explanation, most of these are precious supernatural catalytic potions.

"They are all related to superpowers..." Li Ming believed that these things were definitely valuable, but he couldn't use them himself.

It’s not that I’m disappointed. After all, even if these things are not used, they can still be sold.

But looking at the things all over the floor, he was a little worried, "How can I get them out quietly?"

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

He did not forget that there were still two S-level life forms eyeing him covetously.

But his folding space was already stretched to its limit, and it was almost full with all kinds of things stuffed in it. "Oh, and there's the one in Gabriel's hand..." Li Ming's eyes moved slightly, and he suddenly remembered, and 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 in the control bar, he could feel a folded space. Li Ming raised his eyebrows, and it was just as he expected.

All the data and capabilities are exactly the same. The only reason why the metal energy required to be controlled by Isius's ring is three times different is because of the size of the folded space.

The folding space of Isius was only five cubic meters, but this one was twenty-five cubic meters.

The space gap is five times, but the control required is only three times more.

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

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

"This thing must be worth a lot of money." Li Ming suddenly thought of it, but he couldn't sell it.

After opening it and looking through it briefly, I found that Gabriel had put a lot of things in it.

Some development medicines, a few USB flash drives, some clothes and the like, but nothing too precious.

In other words, 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 in taking these things out.

.........

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

She had already let it go to such an extent that more than thirty hours after the dark tide passed, the joint shield had not been reorganized, and the Judge's fleet was still 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 his mind, Asmara's face changed slightly, and he saw a black and red meteor suddenly break into his field of vision, approaching rapidly at an incredible speed!

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

But she breathed a sigh of relief, and finally lit the fire with the last flick of the trigger.

This sudden black and red meteor exudes a powerful aura that makes people tremble. Its speed is extremely fast, far beyond the reach of A-level life forms.

As soon as he appeared, all the warships of the Combined Fleet began to sound shrill alarms without stopping for a moment.

The black and red meteors were approaching, clearly with no good intentions.

The A-level life forms along the way changed their expressions drastically, and launched elemental attacks towards the black and red meteor.

However, this black-red meteor was not only fast but also agile. 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, it seemed to be a Class A life form of the Itlan civilization, but compared to the light of the black and red meteor, it was like the difference between the sun and the moon.

Reina just grinned grimly, without dodging or evading. Two streams of light, one big and one small, of different colors, approached each other rapidly, and the next moment, they suddenly collided.

The purple flames exploded instantly like a stone hit by a hammer.

The A-level life form spun out like a gyroscope, and the splattered blood was directly evaporated by the energy aftermath generated by 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 towards the Ring Star Crown Guard.

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

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

"alarm…"

Red lights flashed in the command room, all the commanders looked pale, but Asmara breathed a sigh of relief.

The next moment, a black-red meteor suddenly broke through the surface shield of the Ring Star Crown Guard and shot straight in from below with an unstoppable force. That 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.

A blazing flame exploded.

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

However, just as he turned his head, the silver meteor was already approaching. Reina did not dodge this time, but rushed straight up, with veins bulging on his four arms.

Streams of light collided, and all the warships in the field issued piercing energy level warnings.

At the point where the two collided, a blinding light suddenly lit up, as if a flickering halo appeared out of thin air. Violent energy fluctuations rolled out, and black, red and silver intertwined, sweeping around.

Some warships that were closer were even blown away, and their surface shields flickered.

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

After evolving to this level, even without awakening superpowers, the highly developed brain will generate mental power autonomously, but the effect is definitely not as strong as that of a specialized superpower user.

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

The silver light faded, revealing a humanoid lifeform with an indifferent expression, silver-white hair, and even pupils.

He was wearing simple combat armor, which was obviously only for auxiliary purpose, and the metal shell on his fist was already twisted.

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

He then looked at the Judge warship that had rejoined the battlefield, as well as those plunderers who were trying to take advantage of the situation, and his eyes gradually became cold.

"Ha..." Reina also withdrew his gaze from the battle line and said with a smile: "You are beating the drowning dog. I don't know if your remaining fleet can hold on."

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

Ford looked okay in his armor.

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

(End of this chapter)