But they immediately came to their senses and realized this was the perfect opportunity to strike back. After a pause of barely two seconds, the flesh creatures in the city roared and launched a counterattack.
At the sight, even the Mother Tree of Desire's consciousness reeled. Having watched Lynn all along, she understood almost immediately what had happened.
Because hundreds of years ago...
Before the Mechanical Church had found a way to counter her attacks, she had often used this very method to deal it crushing blows in one large-scale battle after another.
But ever since the Mechanical Church had found a defense against her interference, she had no longer been able to launch such wide-ranging attacks.
At that moment, her consciousness stirred with urgency.
"He actually..."
The way she looked at Lynn changed, too.
If she had merely been curious before, she was now deeply interested.
"Warning-warning-Hive intelligence has suffered an anomalous attack-emergency countermeasures activated-information synchronization disabled-" "Emergency isolation measures activated-information synchronization with Silver Fantasy forcibly disabled-radio signal link enabled-"
As the Hive's emergency response mechanisms activated and information synchronization shut down, the terrifying impact that had nearly thrown the entire city into chaos was immediately cut off from its shared links with the other machine clusters.
This prevented even greater losses.
It also demonstrated the Mechanical Church's efficiency and rapid response.
It was like taking one vicious thrust, then decisively drawing a sword and severing the source to prevent the relentless impacts that might follow.
Even so, caught completely off guard with no countermeasures against the surge of desire, the Hive Intelligent Brain still suffered a massive blow.
Most of its processing power was currently devoted to fighting the Flesh God Cult.
For the Hive's self-awareness, the damage was enormous.
This sudden, tremendous upheaval also