Events indeed unfolded as Orsaga had expected.
Faced with the Magic Beasts that were devoured clean in an instant, along with the rapidly expanding losses,
the Wizarding World noticed the situation below in less than half a minute.
By then, the number of fallen Magic Beasts had already reached several million.
An amount that would normally have taken an entire day to expend had vanished in less than a minute, while the number of mechanical insects had multiplied several hundredfold.
This immediately set off alarm bells in their minds. They felt that this likely signaled the beginning of an all-out assault.
After Orsaga vanished, the dozens of Stars of Alsop floating above the battlefield held a brief exchange and promptly made their response.
As several Stars of Alsop began gathering energy, a thick, dark-green corrosive mist appeared out of thin air upon the battlefield. Like a tidal wave, it pounced directly at the silver mist formed by the mechanical insects. Every machine it touched along the way was instantly broken down, utterly unable to resist.
Facing its fierce advance, whether under control or acting on their own, the mechanical insects showed no weakness either. They formed a silver-white tide and charged toward it.
The instant the two collided, intense sizzling rang out, and plumes of white smoke blossomed where they met!
Countless microscopic mechanical insects were corroded by the acid tide created through sorcery, yet they also forcibly absorbed vast amounts of energy in the process, using it as fuel to rapidly multiply through division!
In less than a few seconds, that green acid tide was defeated by the silver mist!
Not only did it fail to destroy them, it instead became energy that strengthened them.
Seated within one of the Stars of Alsop and watching the scene below, Hewlett