The cold, emotionless order was issued.
Boom-
Boom-
Amid a series of thunderous blasts, the massive Particle Beams once again struck the Mother Tree of Desire's blazing trunk.
In that instant.
The shattered main trunk, burning fiercely under the hive's relentless assault, suddenly erupted with an endless surge of vitality.
Climbing vines swiftly extinguished the flames, scarlet buds bloomed on the towering tree, and countless roots buried deep underground, previously rendered unusable by the curse, recovered at that very moment.
Rumble-
The ground kept splitting apart as countless fleshy roots burst out under Lynn's control.
The power of desire spread across the entire battlefield in an instant, wiping out great swathes of Mechanical Units on the perimeter with that tremendous Desire Strike.
"Upload-upload immediately!!"
At that moment.
Countless machine consciousnesses screamed.
And the activation of modular mode finally gave them a chance to upload to the hive even while desire was eating away at them.
That sweeping attack.
It left almost a third of the machines on the battlefield unable to fight.
Under the suddenly irresistible Desire Strike, whole swathes of them were driven back into the other two hives. And as desire gnawed away at their consciousnesses, they completely lost the ability to control their mechanical bodies again for the time being.
It was a power much like a virus.
Inside the other two enormous hives, although modular mode largely isolated the desire that could spread between them through information exchange, those uploaded consciousnesses confined within the modules were already losing control in the virtual cities under the torment of chaotic desire.
"There's nothing you can do, Intelligent Brain. The only reason you could suppress the Mother Tree of Desire with a few hives was that you'd cracked her Desire Strike ability."
"That was your advantage."
"But without that