This was a very strange scene.
For every ten battle bugs that charged forward, the Dauntless Fleet's overwhelming firepower wiped out a hundred.
Thus, despite not a single battle bug fleeing, it still looked like a crushing rout. Every front line was rapidly shifting toward the bugs.
With this level of firepower, the contact front would have to expand several hundredfold, while the bugs maintained this rate of reinforcements, before the battlefield could return to a balance.
Tens of thousands of light-years away, Emil watched this change on the battlefield through the bug mental network and could not help but sigh.
And this was only a small portion of the human fleet within the Galactic System.
As far as Emil knew, there were at least several billion such warships on the Vita Defense Line.
With such strength, even if Queen Aliya came herself, she would likely be no match for them. Indeed,
his choice had been correct!
Alba, who was also witnessing this scene from within the Bug Nest Channel and did not know what to do, finally understood.
Only now did he realize that the humans' previously insufficient firepower had been entirely meant to deceive him. Their purpose was probably to keep him from fleeing in fear.
"Aliya!"
After slightly steadying his enormous, trembling body, the surging Mental Power unique to a Queen Bug burst forth and connected to Aliya through the mental network.
"Hmm?"
"Alba, your condition is unusual. What happened?"
The instant their Mental Powers successfully linked, Aliya immediately sensed that something was wrong.
"It would take too long to explain, and I don't have that much time. See for yourself!"
Alba directly opened his mental domain to Aliya. There was an indescribable desolation in his voice, giving Aliya a very bad feeling.
Without any hesitation, she