"Hmm—"
So that was it.
Gao Gong understood.
No wonder the golden-skinned little old man had gone all-out the moment he arrived. It turned out he had nearly been cornered by the Insect Queen.
Everyone knew that the Insect Civilization had two major trump cards. One was the "subatomic insect swarm"—subatomic-level troops that amounted to half a dimensionality strike among Level Three civilizations.
In fact, even after fighting this long, the "anti-insect weapons" they had developed were of limited use. Aside from a few mechanical units built from superalloys that could fight in close quarters, most of the insects were actually being eliminated through long-range attacks.
That effectively banned the nearly ten mechanical civilizations from using their most powerful ability to mass-produce troops. No matter how many troops you deployed, what use were they if they could not deal any damage?
The other was the Insect Queen's home-base assault.
The Insect Civilization was a typical hive civilization. The queen's will was the civilization's will. The Insect Queen was both the civilization's strongest biological weapon and its most powerful troop-producing machine.
Moreover, there was a mysterious connection between the Insect Queen and every level of the Insect Civilization. No matter where she was, they could share her location.
Combined with the Insect Civilization's powerful ability to transport troops through space, it formed a textbook center-blooming tactic.
The Galenites' military weapons were powerful, but their troop technology was nothing special. They could not possibly rely on indiscriminate long-range attacks to perish together with the Insect Queen, could they?
And that was still the best possible outcome.
Judging from the Black Machinery Civilization's cautionary example, the Insect Queen was not so easy to kill.
Even if they deployed their civilization's trump card, it would be difficult to perish together with her.
Gao Gong