"Brace for impact!" Nairhana barked through the wide-area communications system, ordering the soldiers in all the landing craft to prepare themselves.
Once the spatial tremors began to dissipate, the next thing to come was naturally the abnormal, high-speed flow of air, which would inevitably produce gale-force winds. Although the Empire's armored landing craft, capable of launching assault drops from beyond the atmosphere, would not be blown away by the gale, they would at least be shaken around.
Yu Lian, however, rose directly to his feet and walked to the landing craft's terminal. He climbed up to the observation platform and stared with his naked eyes at the distorted ball of light in the distance.
He tried to extend his spiritual perception in that direction, but after it had traveled only a short distance, he already sensed a trace of emotions mixed with shock and fury. Those emotions were simply too intense—so intense that Yu Lian could feel them from more than a hundred kilometers away.
That could only mean that the other party had powerful psychic energy but did not know how to control it. It was more like the spiritual reaction of some gigantic illusionary beast.
Leviathans? Yu Lian frowned slightly, then shook his head. As he had said before, if they were really Leviathans, Shali would have taken them and fled long ago. There was no reason for her to leave them on this planet to be beaten up.
So, they were lord bugs.
The swarm had no emotions. They were merely weapons in the biological sense. However, even Shali in her fully mature future form would never be able to control hundreds of billions of swarm units by herself. Thus, the swarm had various mid-level commanders, the so-called lord bugs.
Lord bugs possessed different levels of intelligence