Carbon-Based Wall
The unexpected departure of the battlefield's 'protagonist' did not mean the end of the war.
In fact, the losses suffered by several mechanical legions meant little in the vast interstellar battlefield.
After all, the forces both sides had deployed in this war alone amounted to as many as 10,000 corps, covering more than a hundred star systems, nebulae, and asteroid belts.
Moreover, several senior leaders of the Anti-Insect Alliance were at the front lines directing this battle.
That was not because they were eager to appear on the front lines at the risk of being beheaded. Rather, within the enormous viral mechanical army on the other side, there were specialized hacker mechanical corps. The moment they attempted long-distance communication, there was always a chance of being hacked into, altered, or sabotaged.
After suffering considerable losses, the Anti-Insect Alliance had finally made it an explicit rule that its senior leaders had to personally campaign on the front-line interstellar battlefields.
However, some civilizations' leaders were more than willing to personally take part in the fighting even without such an explicit rule. For example, the two senior leaders of the Iron Expeditionary Force—namely—
'Destruction' and 'Assault.'
Not only had the two appeared on the battlefield in person, they were even in its very center.
The appearances of these two Iron Marshals were also extremely ferocious.
'Destruction' was a towering steel colossus. Its pitch-black armor was covered in cracked patterns, as though it had been scorched by raging flames, and dark-red energy seeped through the gaps. Its head was sharply wedge-shaped, with no facial features—only a horizontal crimson band of light that constantly flickered like a gaping wound. Its two arms were as thick as industrial hydraulic pistons. The end of its right arm was a massive three-clawed hook blade, while its