The enormous Star Gate stood with its back to the towering snow-capped mountains and faced the insect horde covering the mountains and plains.
The Medium Star Gate was two hundred meters wide, while each Colossal Titan was ten meters across.
That meant twenty Colossal Titans could stand side by side in a single row.
As they stepped over the Insect Beasts and entered Arnus Hill,
they immediately split into two groups and spread out to the left and right, making more room for the troops behind them.
During this process,
ground units among the insect horde, such as Warrior Bugs, Tank Bugs, and Pulse War Scorpions, launched wave after wave of attacks against the Colossal Titans.
They frantically bit with their sharp feelers, spat highly corrosive flammable liquid, and fired equally scorching ion energy.
The emerald-green Jumpers and dark-yellow Rippers flying through the air swooped down in swarms at the Colossal Titans' heads at speeds of at least two hundred kilometers per hour.
At the same time,
powerful Plasma beams glowing with brilliant light streaked across more than a hundred kilometers of sky like a dense meteor shower, relentlessly bombarding the Colossal Titans' chests.
Yet among these seemingly varied attacks, only the Plasma Bugs truly had any effect.
Warrior Bugs, Spider Bugs, Jumpers, and Rippers were blown away by the steam gushing from the Colossal Titans' bodies before they could even touch them, then instantly crushed beneath descending giant feet.
Tank Bugs and Pulse War Scorpions, meanwhile, could corrode or burn through the skin on the Colossal Titans' feet from afar.
But the overwhelming disparity in size, coupled with the latter's regenerative ability, caused these "injuries" to heal in the blink of an eye.
Only the Plasma beams falling from the sky, relying on their immense kinetic force and high