I Am the Swarm
Chapter 723

The Giant Net

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Reality was not a game; friendly fire could not be turned off. Sarah's fighting style made the Epoch Clan soldiers extremely uncomfortable.

In the war between the Star Sea Alliance and the Zerg, the space-based main combat species they encountered most often were the Space Octopuses. Next were the various types of spider war-bugs active in ground battles, boarding actions, and even space combat.

Sarah's fighting style was very similar to that of the spider war-bugs, relying on astonishing speed to attack. Using an enemy's body as a shield was merely a basic maneuver.

Although the Epoch Clan had not directly participated in the war against the Zerg before, given how often spider war-bugs appeared, they should have been a key target for precautions. Coming up with a hundred or so countermeasures and conducting targeted drills would not have been excessive at all.

In fact, they had done exactly that. Though this was the Epoch Clan soldiers' first real combat against the Zerg, their performance had been quite commendable.

As the main force in ground combat, spider war-bugs had been deployed in the greatest numbers in this war. When facing these agile assassins, the Epoch Clan soldiers fought with measured precision. With the targeted algorithms of their support systems, the spider war-bugs had not caused them much trouble.

By that logic, they should have found Sarah—who used the same fighting style and was alone—easy to capture. Yet the situation on the battlefield was the exact opposite. The Epoch Clan formation was in utter disarray.

The reason was that spider war-bugs were merely ambush-oriented assassin units. They had high attack power and agility but frail defenses. Once an opponent could lock onto their movements and calculate the lead, eliminating them was easy.

Sarah, however, was not merely strong and fast. Compared

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