Engineer Gao proved it with results.
There was a qualitative difference between a Level III Undying leader and an ordinary civilization's leader.
Even if the other party could wield the power of a civilization, using it was like unleashing a powerful move with complicated prerequisites, resulting in an extremely long delay.
It was nothing like the smooth, effortless way Engineer Gao had demonstrated, wielding it as easily as lifting a finger.
Moreover, after this "myriad beings as one" advanced another step, even if Great Speaker Mirta had been standing right in front of her, she still would not have recognized it as the deep-level evolution of the Mecha Swarm.
When he arrived, Engineer Gao had come alone.
But when he left, Engineer Gao was not alone. He was also carrying his spoils of war.
"The Shadow Bug Queen Under Seal"
At that moment, aboard a Level IV metal spaceship suspected to have been produced by the Mechanical Overlord, the eyes of the civilization leaders still swept over the heavily sealed "queen's body" floating in midair from time to time, despite having seen it many times already.
There was no helping it. It was simply too rare!
Or rather, after fighting until now, this was also the first time the civilization leaders present had seen this person's true form—
Her body seemed to be formed from condensed, flowing darkness, its surface covered in constantly writhing chitinous armor. Each plate gleamed with a glossy purple-black sheen, as though it could absorb the light around it. The outline of her body shifted between reality and illusion, sometimes taking on an insect-like segmented structure, sometimes transforming into a blurred mass of shadow.
Her head showed no trace of facial features, only a smooth, curved surface resembling polished obsidian. Whenever she needed to sense