Battle of Vilsert (14)

(This is actually Chapter 723; the chapter number was wrong!)

In the Phased State, the Stealth Blade Bugs concealed both their forms and their energy as they slowly approached the Fifth Attack Group.

They could neither launch energy attacks nor attack from range, relying solely on their scythe-like forelimbs.

They did not merely look like great blades. Like blades, they possessed sharp edges, though their sharpness differed somewhat from what most people understood.

Judging from the shape of their edges alone, they did not look sharp at all. If anything, they appeared rather blunt.

However, when a Stealth Blade Bug attacked, its pair of blade-like forelimbs could be coated in a special form of energy, allowing them to cut through even space itself, much like the Federation's Spatial Attack technique, Space Cut.

Even a massive interstellar warship would be cleaved in two by a single sweep of those forelimbs unless it possessed shields above the spatial class.

It was precisely because of these formidable traits that this advanced Stealth Blade Bug, improved and cultivated by Aliya only a little over a decade ago, had become one of the Zerg's three war bug types that could be considered part of their deep reserves.

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"Commander Elio, I think there's something wrong with the Zerg's tactics!"

"How so?"

Lin Yu had been here for three minutes. After observing the battlefield for a while, he could not shake the feeling that something was off.

He immediately contacted Elio.

In fact, Lin Yu was not the only one. Elio felt the same way, but he could not figure out why the Zerg would do this, which gave him quite a headache.

"From what I know, the Zerg's Royal Guard Bugs are among the strongest war bug types beneath the Bug Kings. Their numbers are