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The firing ports of the underground fortress all closed, and a layer of force-field protection rose around it. As for the defense outside, it was entirely handed over to mechanical soldiers and automated defense systems. However, the Epoch Clan soldiers had been the primary source of firepower, and their ceasefire greatly reduced the density of the barrage.

With at least half its firepower gone, the Epoch Clan's defensive line was simply incapable of stopping the surging Insect Nest. Not long after the Epoch Clan soldiers ceased fire, the bugs used the corpses of their allies as cover and charged up to the fortress.

The immobile automated defense systems were the first to be torn apart. Though the mechanical soldiers possessed considerable mobility, they had received no order to retreat. Forced to hold their ground, they soon followed the automated defense systems into destruction.

Immediately afterward, dense masses of bugs quickly crawled over and engulfed the metal fortress. Yet the purpose of the metal fortress was defense. Although its primary materials could not completely withstand the bugs' biting and slashing, they could hold out for quite some time.

But before an Insect Nest of this magnitude, especially when the rare Wolf Strikers had also revealed themselves among it, it was foreseeable that the metal fortress would soon be breached.

At the same time, beneath this area, nearly two hundred Tunneling Worms had crossed the minefield and were already approaching the battlefield. A passage sufficient to help the Zerg Queen escape was taking shape.

But just then, a strangely shaped bomb detonated within the underground passage. There was no earthshaking blast, only the release of endless light and heat, accompanied by intense radiation.

A special radioactive element began to spread through the passage as the bomb exploded. The Zerg army swept by