From the moment Shen Feng began fighting the World Beasts on Earth, he had continually inflicted damage upon them. Every shell and kinetic round had long since been loaded with Nanomachine Swarms.
Even every slash of his war blade left Nanomachine Swarms behind in the World Beasts' wounds, constantly devouring the giant creatures' flesh while spreading throughout their bodies via their circulatory systems.
At first, this erosion was slow and subtle. The nervous system was the first target, and before the World Beasts could even feel pain, their nervous systems had been completely destroyed.
Then, using that as a foundation, the swarms gradually eroded and devoured them.
Because of the intense electromagnetic environment within the World Beasts, this process required a long time—until the number of nanomachines crossed a certain critical threshold.
That was why Shen Feng had waited until now to unleash the Grey Tide.
He had been waiting for the right moment.
Within the surrounding asteroid belt, countless massive asteroids had long since become nests for nanomachines. Their numbers reached into the millions upon millions, far exceeding the number of World Beasts.
The violent Grey Tide writhed and roiled through space, gradually joining into one mass and enveloping the surrounding region before descending upon the Beast Ancestor.
Even the Beast Ancestor's body, thousands of kilometers long, became a trapped beast in a cage before the boundless Grey Tide.
More than half of the World Beasts near the Beast Ancestor were devoured by the surging Grey Tide erupting from within their bodies, turning into silver World Beasts. Some grappled and rolled through space as they slaughtered the healthy World Beasts around them, while others charged directly at the Beast Ancestor and attacked it!
At the same time, silver spots began emerging across the Beast Ancestor's surface, spreading gradually to