The Brain Bugs' first reaction was:
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! We stationed enough troops in that universe!! The Insect Swarm could drown them if every bug spat just once! How could they possibly break through the defensive line we set up!!"
Then they looked at the footage sent back by the Insect Swarm below and compared it!
All right, it was possible. The enemy was a Legendary!
But the Brain Bugs quickly contacted their deranged leader. The Insect Swarm now had only one Mother Queen left, yet the enemy's advance force already included a Legendary! This was absolutely not good news for the Insect Swarm.
Still, the Insect Swarm had other options. Using their home-field advantage, the nodes of the Insect Swarm Hive Mind's network could pull the enemy into the hive mind. Then, whether through the Overlord's (Ding Yuyi's) assimilation of its will or through sheer numbers, they had to kill this unidentified Legendary.
But unease followed. If the enemy's first wave already included a Legendary, what would come next?
The Insect Swarm had no idea what sort of civilization lay beyond the pitch-black portal. Ideally, it was one that played its strongest hand right at the start. That would mean Legendaries were considered high-level combatants within the enemy's forces.
But if Legendaries were merely expendable troops sent to the front...
The Brain Bugs hardly dared to imagine it.
Their thinking was actually sound. In the Abyss, Legendaries did indeed count as high-level combatants. After all, an entire universe might not produce even one being capable of becoming a Legendary.
Unfortunately, the Abyss was too vast. So vast that even these rare Legendaries were counted in batches. Combined with the abyssal will's method of breeding strength through brutal competition and the unimaginably enormous population of demon worms, this meant that