But conversely, these remaining Lords all have their own special skills, not at all weaker than those Lords trained in White Poplar City.
And unlike those in White Poplar City who were cultivated, those Lords fought their way out among themselves, making them more aggressive.
Even if their raw strength is not as good as the Mechanical Brain Worms, they still serve as excellent whetstones for the Mechanical Brain Worms.
As long as the combat power is estimated well for each Lord attack, ensuring it is evenly matched, each Lord can present enough of a challenge to them.
Thus stimulating them for targeted enhancements.
And now, they happen to have a place where they are preparing to launch a raid during the laxed defenses of the night, which should be quite the spectacle.
Immediately, they cast their gaze through the underground Insect Swarm network.
"Haven’t seen them in a few days, can’t believe they’ve changed so much, it’s almost unrecognizable from the No. 1 machine..."
Bai Yi had just cast his sight to area 43 where the battle was taking place when the humanoid war armors, evolved after several days of transformation, caught his attention.
In terms of appearance, the changes are not significant.
It remains roughly a four-meter-tall humanoid armored body, with no flashy protrusions on the exterior armor.
At least, not like the Gundams in Bai Yi’s impression, which always have many purposelessly sharp protrusions on them.
After all, external armor prioritizes defensive power, being too flashy serves no practical purpose other than looking cool.
Instead, it might become a noticeable weakness during battles, even hindering movement.
However, it seems they have also absorbed Bai Yi’s last suggestion, creating some very apparent "weaknesses" for themselves.
For instance, a big light bulb disguised as an energy core situated at the humanoid’s chest.
If someone naively believes it’s the vulnerable core and attacks with full force, they’ll only find that it’s just a light bulb, encased within thick metal defensive armor.
Similar situations can be found in many corners of these evolved armors, placing some seemingly high-tech, impressive-looking decorations in the areas with the strongest defensive power.
Honestly, even at first glance, Bai Yi thought the armor became much cooler with such adjustments.
But in reality, when Bai Yi checked with his authority, he found that these external armors purely serve defensive functions, and the exterior is just some kind of tangible version of "coating."
And the real enhancements are all hidden inside by the Mechanical Brain Worms, or more precisely, in their brains.
Possessing metalization capabilities, they can manipulate metals to construct machinery at any time, not needing to constantly house those powerful but somewhat fragile and cumbersome weapons within their bodies.
Now, what’s constructed within are components that provide constant benefits and become ineffective once dismantled.
Such as the hidden energy core, and the various magic runes etched internally.
— Yes, this armor is even an enchanted version.
Even though they are "mechanical" brain worms, they have embraced the technology fusion within the territory proposed by her.
Since there are more convenient and powerful Magic Runes available, why insist on using fragile and troublesome mechanical equipment?
Relatively speaking, their capabilities seem more inclined towards mechanics.
But in fact, the majority of their combat power weapons now are magical firearms created by combining magic.
Besides, who said mechanical can’t be Magical Side mechanical?
Even their magic power core is a similar Magical Side "mechanical."
The magic power core essentially is an external energy core, mainly used to endure most of the magic power consumption during battles for those magic weapons.
At the same time, they also serve as a large magic power extraction unit, constructed on the latest knowledge of magic power extraction arrays from the current research institute.
Achieving a magic power extraction speed far exceeding that of the Mechanical Brain Worms themselves.
Otherwise, relying on the magic power of the Mechanical Brain Worms themselves, even with Bai Yi’s gene entry enhancements, it would still be impossible to support the entire armor’s operation and weapon consumption.
Moreover, these energy cores are the core of the mechanical.
Or rather, relying on this additional energy and constructible weapons with sufficient knowledge to unleash combat power far beyond the current rank, is the core of "mechanical."
Additionally, even the enchantment runes inside the current armor are powered by this magic power core.
Providing thereby a dozen or more different permanent buffs.
Among them are the most commonly used defense-type runes for reducing various elemental damage, which can bring about a set of all-element magic resistance when fully activated.
Furthermore, it can convert this part of the damage into magic power and use it as a defense against the next round of attacks.
In terms of panel display, these runes can grant the armor a 15% damage reduction, while converting each reduced damage into a corresponding attribute’s elemental shield.
Similarly, there are enchantment runes for the machine’s resilience, which increase pure physical defense without the "damage-to-shield" effect of magic resistance, but in return, the enhanced defense is much higher.
Combined with the unique armor design and the strength of the magic alloy, its defensive power has reached a level unbreakable by attacks below rank 5.