If golems were robots with limited intelligence, then "Expertise" was a combat program installed inside them.
Most of the credit for deciphering this feat went to Alice, the legendary Puppeteer from the East, for she had completed the core analysis of the golems' commands. These commands could be mass-produced and, combined with the use of Soul Gems, essentially allowed every golem in Port Nyanzaru to leave the factory with Expertise built in. The combat benefits of this feat were obvious: under the Formians' assault, Port Nyanzaru's clay golem losses had fallen by nearly half.
"Stone golems, advance."
Soren seized the moment when the clay golems broke through the enemy lines and ordered the higher-tier stone golems forward.
Formian workers had only 6 Intelligence, meaning they were about as intelligent as beasts. They obeyed the Ant Queen absolutely and showed virtually no fear of death on the battlefield!
Any battle against insects would turn into a war of attrition.
Soren had expected this. Otherwise, so many demons would not have been driven from the deepest reaches of the Abyss into the upper layers by insects. Below the Abyss's 450th layer, insects occupied many small planes, and even the ancient obyriths could do nothing about it. There were simply too many insects, and even demonic armies had little advantage against them. As long as the insects had resources, they had endless cannon fodder to expend. The Formian city before him was a perfect example: given a month or two, it could produce a constant stream of troops.
The stone golems plunged into the Formian ranks like a sharp blade.
Meanwhile, larger Formian soldiers with tougher shells appeared at the rear of the Formian city. Formian myrmarchs capable of psionic spellcasting appeared alongside them, casting abjuration spells on the other Formians while establishing