The reason the enemy seemed unafraid of a war of attrition with the Legion had finally become clear.
A war between two civilizations with an overwhelming disparity in strength might end very quickly. But even a war between two evenly matched powers could not actually last very long, because there were simply too many factors to consider.
First, one thing had to be understood: war was a continuation of politics, and a prolonged war was meaningless. Whether for the aggressor or the victim, a drawn-out war would only drag both sides' decision-makers into a quagmire, until internal problems brought down the rulers in power.
But neither the Legion nor the Insect Swarm had any such concerns. For the Legion, the Supreme Intelligence's will was everything.
Likewise, for the Insect Swarm, the Overlord's will was everything.
As long as those two wished it, both the Legion and the Insect Swarm would gladly fight to the last "person" for their respective supreme leaders.
At the same time, since the Legion had no absolute advantage over the Insect Swarm, never mind two hundred years-even two thousand or twenty thousand years was possible.
Of course, the Legion had a final trump card: the Supremacy Series, with its Epic combat power.
But anything that could serve as the Legion's trump card would inevitably consume a staggering amount of resources. And this was already the result after Miss Puppet had completed the most crucial technology behind the Supremacy Series.
In the previous era, manufacturing the Supremacy Series' cores required extremely rare materials. Aside from finding those materials in nature, the Legion of that time could only produce semifinished versions at best. Every activation of a Supremacy Series unit made with those materials then required an immense amount of energy just to barely sustain the semifinished core's