That thought sent a chill through the Bug Queen's entire body, filling her with intense fear.
Though she was immensely powerful, comparable to a human God Emperor, she could not afford blind confidence. She had to proceed cautiously.
Among the insectoids poisoned earlier, there had been no shortage of powerful ones. This showed just how potent and vicious the poison was.
The Bug Queen acted at once, ordering her brood nest sealed and layers of barriers erected. Every insectoid near her, without exception, had to leave the area and keep their distance from her.
Insectoids outside the nest faced even stricter restrictions when entering or leaving. They could only enter the outermost areas of the brood nest and were forbidden from going any deeper.
After these arrangements, the Bug Queen became a lone wolf, isolated in a vast area where no insectoid was permitted to approach without authorization, lest they carry some unknown deadly poison to her.
Even when enemy armies had pressed against the border in the past, the Bug Queen had never been forced into such a state. She had not been this wretched in many years.
The last time such an emergency had arisen was when two God Emperors had joined forces to attack her. Even under those extreme circumstances, they had failed to take her life.
Once the redeployment was complete, several more pieces of bad news arrived. New "Disaster Areas" had appeared throughout the Armor Whisker Bug Nest, and the spread was growing increasingly severe.
Most of the previous Disaster Areas had been concentrated in the same region, but the newly emerging ones were scattered across vastly different locations, blooming everywhere.
The Bug Queen felt utterly at a loss. With so many places poisoned, how was she supposed to deal with it?
This unknown deadly