To be fair, the True Drone Dan Lei was facing now would probably have been no more than a subadult during the Great Cosmic Plague.
Compared to the one in the animated short Gramer's Embers, this one was less than a twentieth of its size.
And its insect guards were basically negligible.
But to Dan Lei, its sheer size already made him feel like an ant trying to shake a tree.
The one bit of good news was that in the Star Rail Universe, especially in battles between Pathstriders, being bigger didn't mean being stronger.
Just as Dan Heng could withstand a Great Beast from the stars and drive it back, Dan Lei felt no fear facing a bug this huge. Instead, he was eager to give it a try.
Dan Lei could deal with the True Drone's egg attacks using nothing more than wind blades and lightning.
Bugs still had to follow the basic rules of biology. A newly hatched larva's carapace couldn't harden instantly, so ordinary elemental attacks were enough to blast it apart.
The problem was that once he got close, the giant True Drone's carapace was so thick that Dan Lei's ordinary attacks couldn't pierce it, even with the Power of the Path of the Hunt bolstering them.
The Aeon of Propagation was gone, but the Propagation Destiny remained.
The nature of the Propagation Destiny was actually somewhat like that of Abundance.
The greatest effect Abundance had on living creatures was self-healing, while Propagation caused them to grow more.
For example, a creature bolstered by the Abundance Destiny would recover however much health you took from it.
But with the Propagation Destiny, a creature increased its resilience and attack power by growing extra parts of its body. If it originally had one layer of skin, it