The Mutants participating in this war were mainly Alpha-level and Omega-level individuals. Their abilities had almost no flaws; the only difference was the scale of their destructive power.
Of course, Mutants were not perpetual-motion machines. Even Mutants like Iceman, who had almost no weaknesses, could grow tired. Using them to mow down fodder would be far too wasteful. In the original strategy, Mutants were meant to break through fortified positions.
Simply put, Mystique's thinking was the same as the Zerg's. Although both the Skrull Empire and the Shi'ar Empire followed a swarm-based approach, if Mutants were mixed into their forces, they could also employ an all-out strategy.
That was, using enormous numbers of rapidly replenishable troops to hold the front line, then using powerful individuals to achieve breakthroughs.
But unexpectedly, the Zerg had used this tactic first. The powerful Mutants thus became countermeasures, and now they had to stop the Zerg's super individuals assigned to break through defenses.
When Magneto descended onto the battlefield, the stars dimmed and the universe fell silent. Within several light-years around him, everything seemed to have been pressed onto slow motion.
Slime slowly dripped from the insects' fangs, while faint light slowly gathered at the muzzles of Skrull soldiers' cannons. When the magnetic field froze, even the mangled limbs and scattered fragments that held no beauty amid the fierce exchange of fire became like suddenly blossoming fireworks, possessing a fleeting beauty condensed into Eternity.
Just as every night of disaster nature brought upon a planet's species, amid the faint hum of the magnetic field, the storm ground everything into fine dust. Under the blazing radiance of the star, it rose upward like a drizzling rain falling through weightless cosmic space.
When Magneto's cape fell, the magnetic storm arose, and all things died.
Within that endless