The team members had barely taken their captain's words to heart when the ground around them seemed to collapse. Their heels struck the surface with the clang of iron armor; yet before the Zerg's innate ability to burrow underground, even land harder than steel offered no obstruction whatsoever!
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..." Zerglings—an enormous number of Zerglings. The four-legged anti-air beast had only just been rescued when at least a hundred Zerglings surrounded this fifty-man squad!
The squad captain's eyes narrowed. He raised both hands into the air, and two lightning spheres instantly appeared in his palms, rapidly expanding. "All warriors, heed my command! Circular defense formation!"
The moment the captain finished speaking, the fifty Alien Dust warriors moved like they had drilled this maneuver millions of times. They became streaks of lightning, forming two circles in the blink of an eye. The outer circle had thirty men, while the inner circle had twenty. Each of the thirty Alien Dust warriors in the outer circle condensed a lightning sphere in their hands, while the twenty warriors in the inner circle held their hands in a circle and condensed an even larger lightning sphere!
Alien Dust warriors were already stronger than Zerglings in individual combat, and their combined lightning spells possessed even more devastating power. The Zerglings had barely burrowed out of the ground before charging madly at the circular defensive formation!
"Lightning Barrier!" the squad captain roared, hurling the two lightning spheres in his hands ten meters into the air. At the same time, the thirty Alien Dust warriors on the perimeter made the same motion!
"Crackle, crackle..." How fast was lightning? The instant the lightning spheres left their hands, they exploded. The sixty lightning spheres on the outer ring fused with the captain's skill, instantly forming a blue shield that