Warhammer: Lord of the Endless Monster Horde [25]

The overall performance and combat power of King Joe were simply perfect to the extreme. More importantly, there were a total of six monster fragments.

If I draw one more time, I might be able to get the remaining three. Of course, the Giant Iron Block wouldn't be bad either.

Rhodes looked at his system gold coins—there were still more than four thousand left. At this moment, Red King was already closing in on another Tyranid Hive Fleet's tentacle.

"Come on, Red King! Whether I can draw King Joe or get the Giant Iron Block of the Space Robot depends on you!"

Right now, the only things that could survive in the space environment were these two. If things didn't work out, he would just do another ten draws.

Under Rhodes' command, Red King quickly took action, swinging its massive arms and slapping down on one of the Hive Fleet's tentacles.

It opened its bloody maw and bit down on the Hive Fleet's tentacle with its giant fangs, then began tearing at it relentlessly.

As soon as Red King started biting, Rhodes' system gold coins shot up rapidly, plundering the biomass that the Hive Fleet had painstakingly gathered.

The Hive Mothership in the sky also noticed what was happening and had no choice but to urgently sever the connection to that tentacle.

From the perspective of the Hive Fleet, this terrifying Titan-like monster had suddenly launched an attack on their biomass-extracting tentacles and was now absorbing their biomass instead.

Left with no choice, the Hive Fleet dispatched its army to engage, though they only sent cannon fodder troops, merely hoping to stall Red King.

A few hours later, that afternoon, Red King had completely severed the remaining Hive Fleet tentacles in front of it, biting them off entirely. Meanwhile, Rhodes' system gold coins skyrocketed to 15,000.

At this moment, while checking Red King's status in monster mode, Rhodes saw that its bodily functions were all normal, but its mental state was extremely exhausted.

This giant monster had its physical stamina restored by Rhodes before, but its mental state was not invincible. Red King had now been fighting for a full two days and nights—over fifty hours straight.

"Go rest, Red King. Get a good sleep," Rhodes commanded in the system space.

He lets Red King find a valley and immediately collapses onto the ground to sleep.

Rhodes could have chosen to recall Red King into the system space for recovery. If it was only minor injuries, small wounds, or stamina recovery, it would take only 24 hours and wouldn't cost any system gold coins.

However, if the injuries were severe or life-threatening, it would still require system gold coins for recovery. The healing cost would vary depending on the severity of the injuries, and it would also take time to recover.

At this moment, though, he needed to continue intimidating the Swarm, so he couldn't recall Red King. Besides, the Red King could restore itself by sleeping.

Red King's previous actions had already completely terrified the Tyranids. Rhodes estimated that as long as Red King didn't actively provoke them, the Tyranid forces definitely wouldn't dare to attack in the short term.

And as Rhodes expected, after Red King collapsed into sleep, the Hive Fleet merely sent some units to monitor it.

Several Hive Motherships quickly moved to the other side of the planet, settling on the far side to begin extracting the planet's biomass.

The entire Tyranid army also rapidly withdrew to the far side of the planet, completely avoiding Red King's activity zone.

After such a prolonged battle, the Hive Fleet had already determined that Red King couldn't fly.

It could only run around on foot. Since that was the case, they would simply stay far away.

With Red King's stubby legs, running to the other side of the planet on foot would take at least ten days, possibly even a month.

And in that time, the Hive Fleet would have extracted enough biomass to hatch new Hive Motherships.

The mission of the Hive Fleet was to continuously extract biomass, hatch more Motherships, produce more units, and launch the next wave of invasions.

Whenever the Empire discovered a Hive Fleet within its galactic territory, it never hesitated.

It would immediately launch a devastating strike against the Hive Fleet. If the Hive Fleet wasn't destroyed in time,

it would continue to devastate the Empire's worlds, expand its forces, and launch a new offensive.

Sometimes, an invasion would start with only four or five Hive Motherships. But after fully extracting a planet's biomass, their numbers could swell to dozens or even hundreds. This was the terrifying nature of the Hive Fleet.

After confirming that the area around Red King was safe, Rhodes immediately opened the system store and did another ten draws, selecting mechanical monsters.

[Underground Monster Gudon Fragment ×1]

[Two-Headed Monster Pandon Fragment ×1]

[Space Great Monster Bemstar Fragment ×1]

[Space Robot King Joe Fragment ×1]

[Space Robot Giant Iron Block Fragment ×1]

[Interdimensional Ace Killer Fragment ×1]

[Mechanical Ace Fragment ×1]

[Space Robot King Joe Fragment ×2]

[Snow Mountain Monster Chikasu Fragment ×1]

[Ancient Monster Gomora Fragment ×1]

[Ancient Monster Gomez Fragment ×1]

This time, drawing the Giant Iron Block, Mechanical Ace, and a Bemstar fragment was a pleasant surprise.

The King Joe fragments appeared three times, leaving only one more needed to reach the ten required for synthesis. Rhodes sighed helplessly—this system was truly pay-to-win!

"Thirty thousand gold coins… That's enough to fully strengthen a monster, and yet I didn't even draw a complete one. Damn it!"

However, since he was only one fragment short, there was a way to solve it. The monster synthesis system had a decomposition and fusion method.

If a monster had at least eight fragments, a special synthesis method could be activated.

By consuming ten fragments of other monsters, he could synthesize one fragment of the desired monster at a 10:1 ratio.

Rhodes currently had nine King Joe fragments, so he could easily use ten spare monster fragments to complete the set.

He opened the store, keeping the other mechanical monsters, as well as Space Great Monster Bemstar, Monster Prince Gomora, Super Ancient Monster Golza, and Super Ancient Vanguard Zoga—all-powerful monster fragments.

Then, he used fragments from weaker monsters like Gomez, Chikasu, Lagoras, Muruchi, Gudon, and Bemular to gather ten spare fragments, choosing to decompose them and synthesize one King Joe fragment.

Finally, he had ten King Joe fragments and clicked on the synthesis button.

In the monster interface, the ten King Joe fragments quickly fused, giving birth to a massive golden robotic monster:

[Space Robot King Joe]

[Height: 55 meters]

[Weight: 48,000 tons]

Upon synthesizing King Joe, he also received several of its accessories, including the massive Pendanium Rocket Launcher, which could be mounted on its arms.

Additionally, there was even a Pedanian spaceship!