Advance

When it came to dealing with minefields, the Zerg had not been around for long, but they had considerable experience. Ever since the earliest days of the Riken Civilization, throughout battles large and small, the Zerg's enemies had always chosen to lay minefields to keep the insect swarm from approaching.

With the weapon specifications provided by the Inner Circle Alliance, the Zerg knew exactly what they were doing. Countless Space Octopus Larval Forms swayed as they charged into the minefield ahead. All of them were less than ten meters long, making them relatively small even among Larval Forms.

Although Epoch Clan weapons possessed highly sensitive detection systems, they had been designed for massive targets over a thousand meters long. Using them to blow up these little creatures was hardly worth the cost.

Taking advantage of this, the Larval Forms pushed deeper and deeper, continuously releasing space-adapted scouting flying bugs and spider war-bugs along the way. As they spread across the area in great numbers, even Epoch Clan weapons with excellent stealth systems were uncovered one after another.

At times like this, the Epoch Clan faced a choice. Although these weapons were trigger-based, they could also be remotely detonated. In truth, the Epoch Clan did not have much of a choice, because if they refused to detonate them, the Zerg's spider war-bugs would destroy the weapons.

Fortunately, these things were cheap to produce. With the Epoch Clan's industrial system, mass-producing them was no trouble. Once they discovered the alliance's line of attack, the Epoch Clan had already filled a region several light-years wide with these weapons. Even now, they had not stopped, but were continuing to expand the area.

With artificial intelligence assisting them, no one could match the Epoch Clan's control of timing. They could always detonate their weapons in