Chapter 1511: Battle Eight
A devastating trump card was being nurtured in the rear, but the front lines hadn't been idle either.
More precisely, the players hadn't been idle.
Especially on the forums, where all kinds of posts were flying by—
"How can I farm the Nanomites of the Faceless most efficiently? Recommendations for builds!"
"The Faceless's minions evolve? Why do they suddenly become stronger after I've been farming them for a while? What's the mechanic?"
"Anti-Traitor Squad recruiting! Investigation skill must be above Lv10. Cyber Killers preferred."
"Testing the Faceless-exclusive weapon 'Nanoblade.' Is it worth grinding until my liver gives out?"
"How can I investigate the entire planet as quickly as possible? Speedrun guide."
"After mechanical bodies, ship girls, mechanical architecture, and computing modules, the Faceless's fifth transformation form—nanotech screws."
"Beware the new infiltration method—partial nanization."
The number of players participating in the battle was large—fifty to sixty million.
But spread across a hundred star systems, that averaged only five to six hundred thousand players per star system.
And assuming each star system had ten planets on average, that came down to only fifty to sixty thousand players per planet.
Scattering that many people across a planet would normally be like sprinkling water, especially since most players had entered the third tier and possessed countless clones, mechanical armies, and cloned bodies.
Even so, the players were still unbearably busy.
They couldn't catch them all! They really couldn't catch them all!!
Besides, these weren't true assassins with fragile health bars. They were fake assassins transformed by the Insect Queen.
As mechanical lifeforms to begin with, their health bars were already exceptionally thick.
After being transformed by the Insect Queen, it was as if their health bars had grown another segment.
On top of that, they were nanotech lifeforms, naturally