Besides their unparalleled ability to infiltrate, microscopic species actually possessed another major advantage: their ability to lie in wait.
A large meteorite drifting somewhere in the universe might have an army of millions hidden inside it.
Even now, the Anti-Insect Alliance still had no particularly effective way to deal with this kind of concealment and infiltration. Aside from mass-producing all kinds of "detectors" like they were churning out troops, few other methods were of much use.
The reason the Faceless One felt that something was wrong was that this situation rarely occurred.
That was, discovering them while they were lying in wait.
However, this time, something seemed to have gone awry.
A fine crack began to split open in the void—like an invisible blade slicing across a sheet of ice, the fissure spreading silently and leaking a ghostly blue chill; then, the crack suddenly widened, like the vertical pupil of a giant beast opening. Unstable energy turbulence rolled along its edges, while violet-white arcs of electricity leaped through the rift, tearing the darkness into fragments.
Yet these escaping energies merely flickered faintly before vanishing without a trace, not the slightest fluctuation leaking out.
While the enemy was troubled by them, they were likewise troubled by the enemy.
By the enemy's powerful and concealed ability to transport troops!
And it was right before this Faceless One's eyes.
The bow of the first starship pierced through the dimension, like a blade splitting flesh. Quantum foam left behind by the spatial jump still clung to its streamlined armor, those silver-blue specks rapidly evaporating and leaving behind fleeting wisps in the vacuum; then came the second, the third—hundreds and thousands of ship silhouettes streamed out of the breach one after another, their engine thrust dragging blazing-white trails through the void like a meteor swarm