The blue, yellow, and green motherships went mad as they rushed back.
To accelerate their return, they made the same choice Wei had before. At such terrifying speed, unbelievable heat formed around them. Even with protective shields, the dreadful heat burned through them and set their own hulls ablaze.
A journey that should have taken several hours was forcibly compressed to less than two. Compared to their speed when they left, they were twice as fast.
Yet clearly, although they were fast enough, they had still spent far, far too much time.
At this moment, outside the Metal Royal City on the Central Planet.
The smiling figure stared fixedly toward the center of the royal city, in the direction of the Alchemist Tower.
He could already feel it.
His control rune had taken shape. The princess's core, which possessed the same supreme mother metal as the Metal Queen, had been brought under his control and connected to him.
Without the slightest hesitation, he gave the order.
Merge into the royal city. Fuse with the Metal Queen's core.
This was the final step of his entire plan, and also the method by which he would seize the Metal Life race.
For the sake of her race's ascension, the Metal Queen had used her own core as the carrier for a high-level rune structure.
After countless years, that core had long been on the verge of collapse. Its interior was like a hollow void, with barely any consciousness remaining.
Back then, after learning of this by chance, he had begun laying out this plan in full.
At first, his target had not been the princess. He had intended to slowly usurp control through contamination.
But with the princess's birth, he immediately changed his original plan and set his sights on her, since