Colonel Lin Su chewed on the number twenty-two, and her heart sank.
Quantitative changes could also trigger qualitative changes. In previous battles, eight shell beasts had taken only a few hours to tear an entire Leviathan Beast to shreds. What if there were twenty-two? A few days might not even be enough.
More crucially, the Zerg used bio-energy as weapons, and they could also combine to release even more powerful bio-energy.
While humans might categorize things into planet ships and star ships, with numerous sub-classifications for every rank of warship, the Zerg only distinguished between star body level and combat body level.
The latter were conventional combat units divided into space and land, relatively small in size, whereas the former were super combat units such as fortresses and hives. The biggest difference between them and the latter lay in the energy level of the biological field. Combat body levels merely possessed a biological field, with very poor actual combat effectiveness.
It was slightly better than nothing, but a star body level with a 0.3 biological field possessed practical utility. In other words, the primary combat method of Zerg of this size had already shifted from acid, fangs, and sharp claws to the biological field.
Kerrigan introduced the existence form of the Zerg race to the Gods:
There was a special aspect to the biological field: it consumed very little during close-range conduction and could be uniformly invoked with simple frequency tuning. This meant that multiple star body level Zerg could exert multiplied combat power!
Wu Tianyi furrowed his brow tightly. He understood this; much like light-energy weapons, the threat of a single one was limited, but if they were stacked, the threat multiplied exponentially.
Twenty-two Leviathan Beasts combined brought about a qualitative change in both offense and defense, and no