After weighing his options again and again, Lin Yu had no choice but to abandon the plan of waiting for the next Minor Universe Channel to open.
After all, he had no time to deal with this matter now.
Still, although he had temporarily given up on it, he left behind a contingency measure.--
Before he knew it, time sped by once more, and another month quickly passed.
During that month, the bug race and the Purgatory Second Legion led by Hypnos fought two more fierce battles.
Even though the entire bug army had arrived, giving them an absolute numerical advantage.
Even though Hypnos had not shown himself for the entire month after suffering grievous injuries.
Even though the bug race possessed a trump card like the Void Predators.
After two battles, however, they had been at a disadvantage in both.
Without the favorable timing and terrain of the first battle, the fighting had become truly difficult. They were practically being crushed by the Purgatory Legion, and their numerical advantage was almost impossible to bring into play.
Unable to form the bug race's preferred sea-of-bugs encirclement tactic, they could only struggle forward as they had when attacking the Vita Defense Line.
Still, it was not as though Aliya had gained nothing. Although the losses in both battles had been severe, and Ao had successfully destroyed several Void Predators Aliya sent out again during the second battle.
In the third battle, Aliya sacrificed more than a dozen Tier 1 Queen Bugs and hundreds of Queen Bugs of other ranks, creating an opportunity for the Void Predators to successfully control another Seventh Order Leader-class creature!
At that point, both sides entered a standoff. Aliya feared the Purgatory Legion's overwhelming combat strength, while Ao feared the bug race's Void Predators. Neither side was