Klaist's face immediately darkened. "Cut the crap. If you've got what it takes, then come at us!"
With a thought from Ye Luo, countless Energy-Devouring Locusts gathered over the Hive Battleship like dark clouds. At the same time, on the occupied Zerg nests behind them, the planets closest to the battlefield began mass-hatching Brood Lords.
Ye Luo did not rush to attack. Instead, he waited for the Energy-Devouring Locusts to gather. Ten minutes later, two hundred thousand Brood Lords had hatched. The new Larvae turned into giant eggs once more, and another ten minutes later, an additional three hundred thousand Brood Lords emerged...
After an hour, the number of Brood Lords had reached two million. Including the vast number already carried by the Hive Battleship, they had gathered a full three million Brood Lords in just one hour.
Under a level-twenty Zerg nest, the Brood Lords had already reached level twenty-two. Each could spew out more than ten thousand Energy-Devouring Locusts at once. Three million Brood Lords meant thirty billion Energy-Devouring Locusts.
Once numbers reached a certain scale, it was really just a matter of adding or subtracting a few zeros. Only by facing thirty billion Zerg head-on could one understand what that number truly represented...
Take Klaist, for example. In the span of an hour, his state of mind had plummeted straight from heaven into hell. They were densely packed, blanketed the sky, and stretched beyond all sight.
The thirty billion Energy-Devouring Locusts had completely obscured the Zerg fleet. No—not only the Zerg fleet. Even the space around the entire home planet had been sealed off without a single gap.
The light cast by the distant star was utterly blocked, plunging the entire Saint Masente homeworld system into darkness. The thunderous buzzing of thirty billion Energy-Devouring Locust wings traveled