Rage

Although some Epoch Clan generals resisted the Council of Elders' decision, faced with emotionless mechanical soldiers, they could only obediently relinquish their military duties in the end.

Perhaps Ying simply did not want to expend too much raw material, but Rowan strongly supported this decision. Thus, for some time afterward, the Zerg merely maintained the war at this level of intensity rather than escalating it further.

With the Zerg secretly cooperating, the Epoch Clan spent several years completing this transformation. The entire battlefield had thoroughly become a contest between cold metal and Biological Weapons.

Yet it was precisely these few years that allowed the Epoch Clan to establish a new manufacturing system.

The Epoch Clan—or rather, the Epoch Clan centered around Ying—were truly very similar to the Zerg in certain respects.

Perhaps the Epoch Clan had realized this as well. They enhanced their nanotechnology and came up with a kind of super mechanical nano-bug.

These nano-bugs could devour nearly all Positive Energy matter, then replicate themselves in various materials depending on what they had consumed. Iron bugs, copper bugs, gold bugs—they essentially activated all kinds of minerals. Then they absorbed more, replicated more, and continued the cycle endlessly.

Once they accumulated to a certain number, the Epoch Clan would retrieve them and combine them according to specific ratios. Relying on immense computing power, they allowed the bugs to assemble themselves into various alloy types, then further assemble into finished warships or other weapons.

This method boosted the Epoch Clan's mining and manufacturing efficiency by an unknown number of levels. They even abandoned their original space factories, making it possible to mine a universe warship directly from the ground.

The Zerg had originally deployed nearly three thousand Star Gates, opening a passage between Zerg territory and the Epoch Clan's domain. If