While the Ur-Titan immediately managed to gain the upper-hand through skill and superior equipment, time was not on his side.
The true challenge in fighting the Goliaths never lay in defeating them. So long as the voribugs did not pull off any fancy tricks, they were not that difficult to defeat.
What truly hindered people from eliminating Goliaths quickly were the incredible vitality of the megavoribugs in question and the constant interference of the surrounding cannon fodder bugs.
The Ur-Titan clearly gained the upper hand from the beginning and continued to press the advantage like there was no tomorrow.
However, now that it became clear that the Ekstrom Goliath was in trouble, the surrounding swarms immediately converged on their position and began to get in the way!
A quarter of the converging bugs flowed into the Ekstrom Goliath’s mouth so that they could be turned into biomass and energy to fuel the enormous creature’s regeneration.
The remainder of the swarm mobbed the Ur-Titan and turned into a massive ball of alien insects!
Even if the Ur-Titan was strong enough to overcome the resistance of all of those bugs, he had completely lost his vision!
"Filthy bugs! Your disgusting tactics are useless! The radiance of the sun shall cleanse you from my divine body!"
A burst of heat instantly burned and seared away the surrounding bugs!
The Rubarthan plasma halberd had already incorporated a number of quick and easy solutions in response to the novel challenges introduced by the mutated voribugs.
One of them happened to be a setting that allowed the wielder to briefly loosen the containment of the plasma energies concentrated at the blade.
Though it only generated a brief pulse of heat, the sheer magnitude of thermal energy released from this move directly burned or vaporized the bugs within a range of dozens of meters in each direction!
While the heat pulse did not clear out all of the bugs that crowded around the Ur-Titan, the insects that were positioned a little further away were not doing so well at the moment.
The burn damage suffered by these bugs impaired their effectiveness and caused them to turn into deadweight.
Only the bugs that previously hadn’t been able to press closely onto the Ur-Titan’s armored form managed to get away without suffering significant damage.
Despite what just happened to their alien siblings, these healthier bugs did not hesitate to fill the void and mob the Ur-Titan yet again.
The Ascended Giants sneered and activated the same setting again, causing the surrounding bugs to suffer the same fate as the ones from before!
This time he was not content to let the swarm continually converge on his armored form. He switched the setting to a lower intensity before starting to swing his polearm in every direction!
The soldier executed a sweeping technique that caused the leaking plasma blade to swing in every direction in the shortest amount of time.
Plasma and heat energies did not concentrate in place, but began to flow outwards and damage much greater portions of the bug swarm!
Over a million cannon fodder bugs failed to resist the dance of thermal energy and burned like candles in the cold void of space!
Of course, these powerful effects came with an equally severe price.
Ordinary plasma weapons were never designed to output so much energy in a sloppy manner.
The plasma halberd’s power consumption skyrocketed while its emitters and other components experienced much greater strain than before!
The weapon’s lifespan was deteriorating at a rapid rate!
Ordinarily, the plasma halberd should have been able to function normally without requiring any maintenance for at least several lengthy engagements.
However, if the Ur-Titan kept up this performance, it would be questionable whether the plasma halberd would last more than half an hour.
Yet what did it matter? So long as the weapon held up, it should easily last long enough for the giant to defeat the Ekstrom Goliath!
He already received instructions to pass the plasma halberd to a specialized support mech so that it could undergo field repair. While these hasty fixes could not address every problem, it should still be enough to restore the high-tech weapon to a more functional condition.
The Ascended Giants cared little about preserving the long-term health of the plasma halberd.
This was the decisive battle. Let alone sacrificing their new weapons, they were even willing to sacrifice their superdimensional raiments in order to earn glory and blood in battle!
After the Ur-Titan affirmed his current strength, his confidence and aura soared.
Amidst all of the dead and burned bugs, the giant stared straight at the Ekstrom Goliath that was struggling to heal all of the burn wounds on its exoskeleton.
"Your end has come!"
The Goliath Hive was taken aback by the elite Ascended Giant’s effective countermeasure.
While there were still many weak bugs in the vicinity, they temporarily lacked the numbers to pose any significant hindrance to the human phase lord!
Technology made all of the difference!
The advanced sensor systems integrated into the raiment were able to overcome the visual obstruction and keep track of powerful opponents at relatively close range.
The superdimensional raiment was sufficiently strong enough to resist the attacks of Level 7 Goliaths, which meant that ordinary cannon fodder bugs were completely unqualified to leave any mark!
Together with a plasma weapon adapted to the Voribug War, the Ascended Giants were much better equipped to fight against the mutated voribugs than before!
However, just as the Ur-Titan was burning his way past the Ekstrom Goliath’s thick shell, other Goliaths were moving in to reinforce their troubled insect brother!
These Goliaths may just be Level 4 or Level 5, but they were still large and strong enough to hinder an Ascended Giant.
Numbers had always been the greatest advantage of the voribug race!
The Goliath Hive prepared well enough to field 200 Goliaths. Even if many of them had split up to assault different quadrants, they still outnumbered their human counterparts!
At this time, 6 of them received an overriding instruction that caused them to drop their immediate goals and move directly towards the duel between the Ur-Titan and the Level 7 Ekstrom Goliath!



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