Chapter 49: The Power of the Super Metarium Ray, Tearing Apart the Hive Mother Ship

Following the completion of the reinforcement, Mechanical Ace's energy was once again fully replenished. At Rhodes's command, it resumed its assault on the Tyranid bio-ships hovering in the sky.

Zzzt! Zzzt!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The rainbow-colored Metallium Ray dealt a nearly devastating blow to the hive bio-ships.

Countless Tyranid bio-ships that had just entered the atmosphere barely had time to react before they were struck by the rainbow-colored Metallium Ray, triggering violent explosions.

Rhodes had never experienced such a satisfying battle before. In the span of just over ten minutes, six full-power Metallium Rays had been unleashed.

The Tyranid hive bio-ships within the atmosphere were completely wiped out once again, and the planet's skies instantly cleared up.

Mechanical Ace had eliminated hundreds of hive bio-ships, earning Rhodes a reward of nearly one hundred thousand system gold coins.

That was a hundred thousand system gold coins! It was equivalent to destroying five Tyranid hive mother ships.

If he had tried to hunker down and farm resources the slow way, it would have taken him ages to accumulate this many system gold coins. Coming out here to directly crush the Tyranids made it so much faster.

Rhodes immediately spent ten thousand system gold coins to grant the great contributor, Mechanical Ace, the ultimate metal armor reinforcement.

A flash of golden light swept past, and Mechanical Ace's height increased to 52 meters, with a weight of 58,000 tons.

The metallic luster on its body became even more pronounced, and its physical agility reached the level of a normal Ultra Warrior.

Its defense had evolved to an unimaginably monstrous degree.

One must know that when newly born, Mechanical Ace could already withstand several Spacium and Metallium rays head-on. Now it was even more terrifying, able to completely ignore such ray attacks.

It could now stand directly with arms akimbo, mimicking Ultraman Ace's classic pose of catching enemy rays on the chest!

Following the ultimate reinforcement, the number of full-power Metallium Ray discharges reached ten times. At this point, Rhodes could spend another ten thousand points to further upgrade the Metallium Ray into the Super Metallium Ray, enabling it to strike enemies beyond the planet.

Since he was going to face the Tyranids head-on, he had to keep enough hidden cards in reserve. He would keep fighting until they learned to submit.

At this moment, the radar of the Pedan spaceship indicated that about a hundred more Tyranid bio-ships were plunging toward the surface.

This time, Rhodes did not have Mechanical Ace fire the Metallium Ray from the ground. Instead, it flew straight up into the sky to take the initiative.

Mechanical Ace was capable of flight, and reinforced to this extent, its flight speed had reached the level of the true Ultraman Ace.

"Schu!" Mechanical Ace struck a classic pose as it soared into the sky, formed an L-shape in mid-air, and unleashed the Metallium Ray, instantly blasting apart two Tyranid hive bio-ships.

Flying through the air made Mechanical Ace even more agile. Only now did the true might of Mechanical Ace manifest itself.

Although its size was merely that of a normal imperial Titan, making it perhaps the smallest among all of Rhodes's monsters, its terrifying offensive power left Rhodes utterly speechless.

In just a few minutes, all the bio-gigantic ships in the sky were cleanly swept away by Mechanical Ace.

Having repeatedly suffered the annihilation of multiple waves of bio-warships by Ace, the cluster of hive mother ships in the sky finally grew quiet, seemingly analyzing how to deal with this seemingly infinitely powerful mechanical lifeform.

The Tyranid hive mind generally disliked using tactics, but that did not mean it could not use them. When faced with enemies that could not be overcome sheerly by numbers, the Tyranids would indeed resort to tactics.

However, Rhodes was not about to give the Tyranids time to ponder. He spent ten thousand system gold coins to upgrade Ultraman Ace with the Super Metallium Ray—a super ray skill capable of directly attacking enemies outside the planet.

The destructive power of this Super Metallium Ray surpassed even the full-power Metallium Ray.

Mechanical Ace hovered in the air and began its charging sequence. Its arms moved slowly, and its entire body emitted a dazzling radiance.

Once the charge was complete, its hands locked into an L-shape. An incomparably terrifying golden Metallium Ray shot forth.

This Super Metallium Ray pierced straight through the clouds like a golden sword, blasting out beyond the planet's surface.

It struck a Tyranid hive mother ship in outer space dead-on. The mother ship's psionic field shield proved completely useless and was instantly torn apart.

The hive mother ship erupted in a violent explosion. After destroying this Tyranid hive mother ship, the Super Metallium Ray maintained its unstoppable momentum and destroyed yet another hive mother ship before finally stopping.

Mechanical Ace's energy reserves had hit rock bottom. Despite its immense destructive power, even with a body reinforced to the absolute peak, Mechanical Ace could only fire this Super Metallium Ray once.

No matter, though—he still had more upgrades left!

All remaining reinforcement opportunities were now dedicated to a single purpose: providing Mechanical Ace with sufficient energy to spam its ultimate moves indefinitely.

Rhodes spent five thousand gold coins to reinforce the Rhombic Beam. While the power of this ray was weaker than the standard version of the Metallium Ray, it could now be fired rapidly in succession with extremely low energy consumption.

Having its energy replenished once more, Mechanical Ace fired another Super Metallium Ray, instantly blasting apart two hive mother ships in outer space.

Next came the five-thousand system gold coin Ultra Guillotine reinforcement—continuing the attack!

Ten thousand system gold coins to derive the Spatial Slash, further enhancing skill power while fully restoring energy.

Continue firing the Super Metallium Ray!

Boom! Boom!

In the vastness of space, hive mother ships were continuously destroyed by the Super Metallium Ray.

With a twenty-thousand system gold coin upgrade, it mastered all Ultra Guillotine skills, and its energy was fully restored.

Keep attacking, target the hive mother ship—Super Metallium Ray, fire!!

Massive fireworks bloomed in the universe once again!

In the span of just over ten minutes, successive Super Metallium Rays destroyed dozens of Tyranid hive mother ships.

Rhodes's system gold coin count had soared to a staggering two hundred and sixty thousand, and Mechanical Ace was now fully maxed out in its upgrades.

At this very moment, the Tyranids finally realized something was amiss: the metal monster on the ground possessed a truly terrifying killing capacity!

Every single hive mother ship contained a Norn Queen, and these Norn Queens were the true core of the swarm.

Every Queen was an extension of the hive mind, and they could not sustain such a reckless drain of forces.

Under the successive strikes of Mechanical Ace's Super Metallium Ray, the swarm executed a rare and total retreat!

Nearly all hive mother ships in the planet's outer space began to slowly pull back, abandoning the swarm forces on the planet's surface entirely.

They retreated all the way to a safe distance of one astronomical unit before finally halting—a distance beyond the reach of the Super Metallium Ray.