"So these creatures similar to us, and those powerful superhumans, were your trump card?"
The Hive Mind swept its gaze across the Tyranid swarm being suppressed on all fronts and driven back step by step. Its tone did not fluctuate in the slightest, as though such a "minor matter" were utterly insignificant.
Raymond smiled and shook his head. "No, they are merely a little surprise I prepared for you.
"I want you to understand that the numbers and scale you take such pride in, along with the biotechnology evolved through wars against civilizations different from this universe, mean nothing to me.
"Because to Phyrexian Oil and New Phyrexia, which had long since ascended to the level of the Multiverse, pure matter and pure energy were no different.
"Perhaps your swarm possesses tremendous potential for growth.
"But your horizons, and the lifeforms and civilizations you can come into contact with, severely limit the upper bounds of what you can achieve.
"In other words, you are merely frogs at the bottom of a well. You have never witnessed just how vast the Multiverse truly is, nor how many terrifying gods and super civilizations exist within it."
"You think you have already won?"
The Hive Mind was clearly unmoved.
Because several powerful super-carriers and Node Organisms had successfully used Psionics to beat individual Sons of Superman until they spat blood.
Countless bugs were now surging forward like a tide, using specialized organs to draw blood and transmit the genes directly through the Warp into its incomparably enormous body.
In merely a few seconds, the shell containing the Hive Mind became brimming with power beneath the star's rays.
It was not the only one. Many Node Organisms had also begun displaying the Kryptonians' trait of absorbing solar energy to strengthen themselves.
This was one