At that same moment, Lynn used Scythe's Warp ability to appear instantly on the third floor of the Aberration Fortress.
The repeated Warps had also consumed a great deal of his blood.
Scythe in his hand had now turned as scarlet as fresh blood.
Even with the extraordinary regeneration and blood production granted by Flesh Cataclysm, those repeated Warps had still exacted a heavy toll.
"No good. The Nanite Swarm has changed controllers. They've brought in nine thousand mechanical consciousnesses to share the pressure from my M Fist. If I keep using M Fist now, I'm afraid it'll be hard to suppress their movements anymore!"
And most importantly...
The new controllers were uploaded consciousnesses.
In other words, perhaps most of them had been actual flesh-and-blood creatures before uploading their consciousnesses.
Most flesh-and-blood creatures already had desires of that kind. An excessive surge of desire might break them, but if that surge was weakened to a tolerable level, its effects might even become a positive buff.
"Then what do we do now?" Zuo Zuo asked.
"We have to find a way to sever the connection between the Nanite Swarm and that signal source," Lynn said warily. "Otherwise, we still won't have any chance of winning."
And the instant Lynn finished speaking...
He suddenly felt the ground beneath his feet shake violently again, and this time, the tremors were clearly far stronger than before.
"Have they caught up with us?" Lynn abruptly raised his head.
Black String Moon lightly touched her temple. Purple light swirled in her eyes as her senses linked with the threads she had scattered throughout the Aberration Fortress.
A rare trace of gravity appeared on Black String Moon's normally placid face.
"No. It's worse."
Meanwhile...
The commander, who was doing everything he could within the Link Chamber