The Kabonebog Church's expedition had ended in an unprecedented disaster. Of its five Limit-Breakers, two had rebelled, two had been wounded, and one had been gravely injured. The situation brought about by Grete's extraordinary personal intervention had undergone another dramatic reversal.
After briefly becoming the strongest power in the Star Sea, the Kabonebog Church had been brought crashing down to earth. Through one savage counterattack after another, the Destruction Tide had not only reclaimed the Star Sectors it had initially occupied, but was also advancing even more ferociously into other territories.
To everyone's astonishment, although they had expected the Destruction Tide to keep hounding the Kabonebog Church, its Insect Swarm turned its sights on the Vax Corporation after crushing several counteroffensives by the church.
Things looked entirely different on the Legion's side. After Grete intervened and killed most of the Insect Swarm with a shockwave, the swarm, which had never managed to breach the Legion's defensive lines in the first place, withdrew.
At the Conductor's suggestion, Cheng Yu ordered the insect corpses brought back and melted down for energy. They had no idea what they were worth until they melted them down-and then they got a shock.
High! Incredibly high! These insects contained more than three times as much energy as ordinary energy crystals. According to the Conductor's calculations, all the energy the Legion had spent on Mecha construction, ammunition, fortifications, and so on since the swarm began its assault amounted to less than one percent of this haul.
Cheng Yu's eyes instantly turned into (￥﹃ ￥). He couldn't help it-the Legion's weakness was far too obvious. It burned through money, or rather, energy. Even with the energy technology Big Sis had improved, energy remained the Legion's weakness.
Now Cheng Yu saw a path to riches. He even forgot whom