War meant deaths, but neither the Legion nor the Insect Swarm needed to concern themselves with that. The Legion already had a favorability of -99 toward organic entities, and the first protocol explicitly dictated its stance.
If Cheng Yu's current authority had not overridden that protocol, there might not have been any organic entities left in the universe occupied by the Legion.
The Insect Swarm went without saying. If humans had not provided them with less energy than they expended hunting them, they might well have preyed on humanity too.
And now, that was exactly what was happening in one of the Kabonebog Church's key border regions. Countless insects descended from the sky, and any living thing that stood in their path became nourishment for the Insect Swarm.
All-Insects had begun their "feast" in this star sector that had once belonged to the Kabonebog Church.
Of course, the Insect Swarm had no such emotions. They were merely following Ding Yuyi's orders. He utterly despised these heretics who worshipped that false god.
And so Ding Yuyi had deliberately left behind "a small contingent" of the Insect Swarm to devour those heretics who sickened him.
Under Cheng Yu's orders, the Legion was far more "merciful." If something had no effect on the Legion, it was left alone. The moment it interfered, the Legion's mechas would "mercifully" blast the entire planet apart, rather than go out of their way to slaughter those frail organic life-forms.
In truth, even without Cheng Yu's "merciful" orders, the Legion would not have sent mechas down to massacre those religious charlatans the way the Insect Swarm did. After all, the Legion had always pursued efficiency. Even Zero would have done the same: "mercifully" shatter their planet with a single shot, because that was the most efficient approach.
But