What exactly had happened to the Insect Swarm? Let us turn back time to the moment Belial descended.
Ever since his last attempt to call upon the Mother of All Things had been interrupted, Ding Yuyi had remained in a daze. Had his faith not been so steadfast, even he would not have known whether he could hold on to his sanity.
To keep himself from affecting the Insect Swarm, Ding Yuyi had completely sealed himself away after returning to the Lost Kingdom and delegated his authority. He trusted the Brain Bugs to make the right decisions.
Yet things never went as hoped. When Ding Yuyi finally regained enough clarity to think for himself, the first news he received was that the Insect Swarm was fighting a horde of unknown monsters.
These monsters had invaded the Insect Swarm's territory through rifts in space-time. Even the swarm's spatial specialists, the Space-Time Worms, could not stop their invasion.
And the metal lumps fighting the Insect Swarm seemed to be battling these monsters as well.
For a time, the smoke of war filled the entire Star Sea. An unprecedented free-for-all had erupted!
But what terrified Ding Yuyi was the staggering number of Legendary monsters among them!
Neither the Insect Swarm nor those metal lumps held out for long before they began losing ground.
Every species had the will to survive against impossible odds, and the Insect Swarm was no exception. By sacrificing almost a hundred of their own for every enemy killed, they temporarily stabilized their defensive lines.
But then even more Legendary monsters appeared!
The Insect Swarm retreated again and again, until those metal lumps vanished.
Whatever those metal lumps had done, their disappearance was accompanied by a sharp decline in both the numbers and strength of the monsters. Naturally, the Insect