The Drone Unit's self-destruction instantly raised several enormous spheres amid the BETA swarm—black and white. The black ones were MDE warheads, while the white ones were Reaction Missiles. They detonated in different locations throughout the BETA masses, all within the densest concentrations.
The black spheres swallowed countless nearby BETA, while the white spheres incinerated countless BETA into ash in an instant. Then, massive shock waves spread outward, blasting even more BETA helplessly into the air. Those shock waves were then absorbed by the black holes, dragging in the BETA affected by the white spheres as well. The result was a strange case where one plus one was greater than two.
Even Mwu, who had planned this attack, had not expected the combination of Reaction Missiles and MDE warheads to produce such extraordinary results at a certain scale. The Reaction Missiles not only wiped out every enemy within their effective range, but the shock waves they generated also pushed BETA that had originally been outside the MDE warheads' range straight into the black holes. This wave of attacks was practically a miracle cure for anyone with trypophobia—the BETA between several spheres had simply vanished.
The Reaction Missiles and MDE warheads deployed in the densest areas had directly wiped out two-thirds of this BETA swarm under circumstances even Mwu had not anticipated. Only the BETA at the outer edges of the swarm, including those farther behind, remained unaffected. The sight left quite a few people, Xiao Ran included, momentarily stunned.
With the BETA numbers drastically reduced, the pressure on the defensive lines naturally fell as well. Combined with Xiao Ran and the others joining Naza in clearing out the most dangerous Beam Types, the battle was more or less over within half an hour of the Reaction Missiles and MDE warheads detonating.